Sunday, August 24, 2025

Fasting, Reliv, and the Race Back to Health: A Personal Journey in Functional Nutrition

 In a world awash with pharmaceutical solutions and dietary confusion, I’ve discovered—through trial, error, and personal discipline—that true health is rooted not in hype, but in cellular-level nourishment. This is my story: a journey through surgical recovery, fasting, nutritional experimentation, and ultimately, an enduring alliance with a product line that continues to defy my expectations—Reliv.

Rediscovering Health After Surgical Trauma

Years ago, I underwent a triple operation: a double hernia repair (above the solar plexus and at the umbilical cord) and hemorrhoid removal. The aftermath was as grueling as expected—pain, immobility, and the humiliating dependence on medical routines. The staff told me I could be discharged after I defecated. Simple. But I wasn’t interested in hospital food. I asked for Ensure, which I had used before with great benefit. The staff refused. Their reasoning? Ensure, they claimed, was reserved for the dying.

So, I sourced it myself. I didn’t eat food for a week. I felt strong. The hospital meals were discarded untouched. And yet, the staff were puzzled—how was I healthy without eating? When I finally felt my body was ready to defecate, I ate, passed a stool, and was discharged without pain. That’s when I knew: real nutrition is measurable by function, not appearances.

Reliv: The Nutritional Test It Passed

This wasn’t my first rodeo. Years earlier, I had tested another product—Reliv’s weight-loss formula—the same way I later tested Ensure: using it as my sole nutrition source while fasting. The result? I felt tremendous. So good, in fact, I extended the experiment for a week. My energy soared. That was enough for me to take it seriously.

Later, I upgraded to Reliv NOW and Arthaffect. The outcome was extraordinary:

  • My bone density, previously diagnosed at just 40%, climbed to 100% after five years on Arthaffect.

  • My joints stopped cracking.

  • I retained youthfulness well into my 70s—people often assume I’m in my 40s.

  • My children bounced back from post-camp sickness within a day after taking Reliv, despite resisting daily use.

I’ve tried other products—Ensure, Herbalife, Mannatech, USANA—but none matched the consistent, full-system effect of Reliv. Even distributors of rival products admitted Reliv’s potency. One pharmacist who consumed it after a major accident described his recovery as astonishing.

The Tragedy of Nutritional Illiteracy

What shocked me more than anything was how quickly people give up what works—because someone in a white coat scoffed at it. One man crippled by rheumatoid arthritis took Reliv, regained mobility, even ran down the street. Then a doctor offered him a free trial of steroids, and he stopped. A year later, he was almost back to square one. When I asked him if he thought that was a mistake, he looked at me and said, “You probably think I was a fool.”

Yes. And so would his joints.

Another woman threw away a full can of Reliv after a doctor said it just made “expensive urine.” That same doctor likely prescribes drugs daily with side effects worse than the disease.

Espresso, Hypertension, and Recovery by Fasting

There was also a time I got hooked on espresso. Twenty cups a day. One night I awoke with my heart pounding as if I’d sprinted a marathon. I thought I would die. The next day, my doctor found my blood pressure dangerously high. He insisted I start medication immediately. I declined.

Instead, I fasted for six weeks—taking nothing but Reliv NOW and Arthaffect—and walked an hour daily. My blood pressure normalized to 100/70. Lab tests followed. The doctor looked at the results and said, astonished: “You’re so healthy.”

And I was.

The Secret? A Nutritional Valuing Mindset

People need a nutritional valuing mindset. Not everything a doctor dismisses is worthless. Not every shake is a gimmick. And not every cure comes in a pill bottle. If people understood that every cell in the body requires optimal nutrition to function, they’d stop throwing away their health to chase short-term relief.

I don’t worship Reliv. I test it. And it continues to pass. It restores what poor diet, stress, surgery, and modern life deplete. It recalibrates what caffeine and inflammation destabilize. It heals when healing seems slow.

Some call that “expensive urine.” I call it the most economical investment I’ve ever made.

Final Word

This isn’t a sales pitch. It’s a testimony. I’ve measured these things with my own body and blood. When doctors say “remarkable,” but you feel normal, you know something rare has occurred.

If you value your health, ask not just what’s affordable—but what’s functional. And if you find it, don’t let it go.

—A Nutritional Witness

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