Fibromyalgia, Doctor Heals With Systemic
Enzymes
 Gloria Gilbere, N.D., D.A.Hom., Ph.D.,
author of Invisible
Illnesses, healed her own Fibromyalgia and a
host of other "Invisible illnesses" by
taking oral systemic enzymes and other non-drug
therapies. Gilbere wants people to know, "We do
not need to continue to poison our bodies with high
potency painkillers and anti-inflammatory drugs when
we have something as effective as systemic enzymes
available to us-because that's how I almost
died."
Gilbere understands the pain,
isolation and challenges associated with fibromyalgia. "I
was on an anti-inflammatory, and it made a hole in my
gut and my whole life went down the tubes. I became
chemically sensitive and homebound and the whole bit,
just like my clients. So we don't need to do
that." Gilbere was also taking blood thinners.
"I had to, for a long time, because I had blood
clots-and with systemic enzymes I don't have to take
them. My blood stays at 'pro-time'-that's the time it
takes to coagulate your blood. I don't have to take
them anymore because systemic enzymes keeps my blood
at a natural thinness that is healthy." Gilbere
recommends systemic enzymes to many of her clients,
but insists they must take it correctly. "If
people are taking a strong anti-inflammatory
medication because they have arthritis," Gilbere
says, "they have to understand that they don't
just stop taking that and take systemic enzymes, and
then say, 'well it doesn't work.' People need to work
with a health professional to slowly start coming off
their medication, and in the meantime, interject the
systemic enzymes, because systemic enzymes doesn't
conflict with their prescription drugs. And that way,
by the time they're off the drugs, the systemic enzyme
has had time to get into their system and it starts
working."
She advises clients to do a gradual
reduction of their prescription drugs. That's how,
over time, Gilbere was able to go off her own
medication. She says every one of her clients that
goes off medication too quickly thinks the systemic
enzymes aren't working at first. "But you can't
do it that way," she explains. When they tell her
they went off their drugs, she reminds them they need
to "slowly do a graduated reduction of
prescription medication." Gilbere emphasizes the
importance of doing this under the guidance of a
healthcare professional.
The other thing Gilbere wants people
to know is that because systemic enzyme is not a drug,
it doesn't work like a drug. "It doesn't work
overnight and boom, my pain is going to be gone. You
have to build up to the higher dosages, so you can get
to the point where the pain and inflammation go
away."
Gilbere says you have to give your
body time to repair itself. "Because that's
what systemic enzymes do," she says.
"They assist the body in repairing itself. Once
you get to the point where you're pain free or symptom
free, you can start going to a lower dose and figure
out, with a health professional, what your maintenance
should be and whether you need to continue taking
them." Some of Gilbere's clients are athletes who
take systemic enzymes for injuries. When their
injuries are healed and their pain is gone, they don't
have to take it anymore. "I have to take it
because of the fibromyalgia," she says. "If you have
FM, you want to stay on a maintenance dose to keep
your quality of life. You won't need to continue to
take high doses."
Gilbere, has been taking systemic
enzymes and recommending it to clients for over 10
years for fibromyalgia. "For months, when I couldn't function at
all, I took 10 systemic enzymes three times a day. And
without those I don't know what I would have done. And
now, for maintenance, I take five in the morning and
five at night, because it keeps my blood the way I
want it, and I don't have any aches and pains. If I do
eat something or do something that causes a flare up,
I'm back on my 10 systemic enzymes three times a
day."
She takes them wherever she goes and
wouldn't want to be without them. "I just came
back from a business trip to Seattle, which is a
nine-hour drive from where I am-I usually fly but I
drove this time-and my systemic enzymes were packed in
my tote bag wherever I go. I don't want to be
somewhere without them. I'm chemically sensitive, so
if I get exposed to a chemical and I start getting a
headache, the first thing I do is pop some systemic
enzymes. So I think it's important. For me, it replaces
all the anti-inflammatory and other drugs that I found
toxic to my body."
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