This is a story that was told to me by Elena, the daughter of one of our patients,Tatyana. She told me how her mother’s life was saved through her own intervention, their ability to spot truth and the use of Michael’s technology in the fight to keep her mother alive.
This is a story of people who found the right path and then ran with it, a story about what survivors do to stay alive through extreme adversity and what a daughter is willing to do to save her mother’s life.
After Elena told me the story of her mother’s struggle with Candida, she also told me about a little about her mothers history. Tatyana survived a Nazi run concentration camp during the second world war.
She escaped by getting two people to hold open the wires on the fence that entrapped them with sticks. Tatyana was able to squeeze through the hole that was made and escape, but just barely.
Later she was spotted by one of the Nazi’s who knew who she was. Terrified, she thought “Do not look at him, do not show any fear”. Suddenly it began to down-pour with rain and the Nazi gave up and got out of the rain instead of pursuing her.
Elena told me that in January of 2010 her Mom started to cough. At that time there was an influenza outbreak and she thought her Mom just had the flu.
Tatyana told her daughter that her throat was sore and then after one week of continuous coughing she told her that her saliva felt like gum. She told her it made it very hard for her to breathe; the mucous in her lungs was incredibly thick.
Tatyana came down with a fever, and they thought it was possibly pneumonia. Elena took her to the E.R. and explained the situation. The doctors at the E.R. also thought it was pneumonia and treated her with antibiotics. It just seemed to make her worse. They took her to the E.R. a second time and had x-rays taken. They were still convinced it was pneumonia and gave her a second dose of antibiotics.
After this she felt like she was dying and could barely breathe or eat. They had a third trip to the E.R. and did a CT scan on her, as well as extensive blood testing. So now this was three weeks since she first started coughing. After checking all the test results they were told “We don’t know what it is…some problem with the lungs…probably cancer”.
She had two nights in the hospital and then her Mom told them “I don’t want any more blood tests…I am dying”. So then they put her on oxygen.
They wanted to go home and take oxygen with them but in order to get approval to do that the medical staff wanted to test her and the test was to make her walk. Well she hadn’t eaten and was being kept alive intravenously and by drinking water which Elena kept urging her Mom to drink.
Tatyana couldn’t walk on her own accord and they kept trying to force her to walk before they were willing to prescribe oxygen. They were then told “She needs to see a specialist” and they went to a lung specialist where she received x-rays and CT scans again. The doctor told them “It’s not cancer, but I don’t know what it is….I haven’t seen this before”.
The CT scan results were terrible. They saw them on the computer. The specialist wanted to take a biopsy of her lungs and suggested that she take some medication.
The problem with the medication was it had terrible side effects that would make her body swell, and there was no guarantee that it would help her. Her Mom said she didn’t want that and then said “Maybe it’s my time to die…just take me home”.
So they went home and she tried getting her Mom to eat chicken broth. She couldn’t bear to watch her Mom die like this. Neither of them could sleep. It was like she wasn’t dying but neither was she really living. Tatyana told her daughter “You know…I am dying” and then told her all the things she wanted done after she was gone, all the messages she wanted delivered after her death. They cried and prayed and wanted to know “What is this? What is wrong here?”
Elena went on the internet and started searching for answers. She found a website where people were giving advice and the advice was to take her to the hospital but they were too discouraged with doing that already. Then she found Michael Biamonte’s site where she saw a picture of micro-organisms that looked just like something she had seen in her mothers CT scans.
So she started reading all about this “creature”…it was Candida. Elena decided to pick up the phone and call the Biamonte Center in New York.
She wanted to be sure it was Candida before she would agree to do anything and so the staff at the Biamonte Center suggested that she do an extremely sensitive stool test that looks for the DNA of micro-organisms from another lab to confirm her problem before she started.
When Michael looked at the results he told her it was Candida. She then took the results to a couple of Doctors who didn’t see that in the test results at all, or so they said.
They decided to do Michaels program despite the opposition and contrary facts, trusting their own instincts and what they had read and seen on Michaels website.
While they were waiting for the test results to come back she had found some supplements to boost her Moms immune system. The instructions said to take 2 tablets a day but in severe cases to take up to 20.
Two didn’t work and so she started to give her Mom 20 divided up throughout the day. She said to her Mom “You are dying anyway….just let me just do this experiment on you”. Her Mom agreed. At the end of the day she didn’t feel much difference, but there was a tiny, tiny improvement and so she just kept giving her these supplements and they helped her enough that she was strong enough to do the program at the Biamonte Center.
She told me she put her onto Michael’s program even though they could not afford it, her husband had just lost his job and they were barely able to buy groceries but she had good credit and she just decided to put it on a credit card and to get her mother through the program. She said “I was willing to use credit to save my Mom”. As soon as she started taking the supplements they could see it helping a lot. The thick mucous that was stuck like glue in her lungs started to come lose and come out. In one week they got bags and bags and bags of mucous out of her lungs.
At the same time they were doing Michael’s program they were getting other tests done in case it didn’t work. None of those tests found anything.
After a month, she coughed less and her breathing became easier. It was happening slowly but was helping a lot. The supplements thinned the mucus so she was able to clear it out. Her Mom was put on a strict diet from the Biamonte Center. No sugar, gluten or fruit…just meat and vegetables and fish. She said “The first month was very difficult, but if you want to live….you will do it”.
Her Mom is only 4 foot 7 inches tall and was 148 lbs when she first got ill and went down to 92 lbs and is now back up to 102. She told me her Mom is still quite skinny but she can walk and breath without oxygen. Prior to that she was bedridden and not even able to get out of bed to go to the bathroom.
Because Tatyana has a pacemaker they have to take her in for an exam every six months. Since she was bedridden for so many months they were unable to go for their schedule appointments.
When Elena finally took her in and explained the story to the people at the office, the staff were amazed she had lived.
One of the staff there told them about a man who was 35 years old, who was engaged to be married and had the same Candida illness only he didn’t survive…he passed away and he was so young. No one surrounding this man was able to help him.
Elena then said to me that they were so glad they were on the right path despite having been told so many opinions from other Doctors about their decision to do Michaels program. They were told things like “This guy is not even a Doctor, he’s a nutritionist….he’s just trying to sell his products….don’t let him fool you”. She told me that despite hearing all this she read all the labels on all Michael’s supplements and saw that they weren’t chemicals. All the ingredients in the supplements were natural and had no terrible side effects.
She was so happy she had never listened to their advise, trying to get her not to go down this path. Elena is certain her mother is alive because they chose to trust themselves and their own perception of what was the right thing to do.
In January 2011, a year after her mother got so ill, she took her Mom to another institution for testing and afterward they took x-rays. She went into the room to see her Mother’s xrays and was told not to come in the room as she wasn’t a Doctor. She told the nurse “I want to see…I want to see her lungs again”. The nurse then let her see them and she saw the lungs were clear but full of scars.
Later the Doctor wouldn’t show her the X-rays and told her he wanted her Mom to have a biopsy. Her Mom refused it as she didn’t want surgery and she told the Doctor “See these bottles (she showed him the bottles of Michael’s supplements that she had with her), well what is in these bottles helped me a lot”. The Doctor got angry and told her they were just supplements. Her Mom looked him in the eye and told him “Well I don’t know what’s in them but I was sick and I was dying and now I am alive”. She picked up her bottles and went home.
Her Mom now tells her she doesn’t want to go to doctors any more.
Recently she got her Mom to do one of Michael Biamonte’s urine tests and he told them he was so happy her Mom did his program because the test results were all clear now and that her Mom had overcome her Candida. She is now on the last phase of the program and doing extremely well.
At the end of the story Elena then told me what a fighter her Mom was and told me the story of her mothers youth, escaping the concentration camp. Tatyana is a survivor and we are so happy we were able to help her!