I have been on my own personal well-being journey for a while now. 6 years ago, I was completely unaware that I was poorly and on the edge of total collapse. I felt tired, a lot – but isn’t that something that happens to women in their mid/late 40s?
I pushed on through and somehow always found the energy to complete the task. My tried and tested approach to life… And so, with a compromised immune system and a traumatised nervous system; that spirally Lyme bacterium had a field day. Initially…
I wasn’t going to take this shit lying down – although TBH that is exactly what I did do. I had absolutely no energy left in the ‘push on through’ pot. & so, my journey began… If you want to read more about Lyme, there is a blog awaiting you but this isn’t about Lyme, this is about how my immune system became so weak that the Lyme could get in and reek the havoc in the first place…
This is about CALCIUM SHELL.
So, I was doing all the stuff. The diet, the movement, the good sleep protocol, the rest, the meditation. I had learnt so much that I was helping, successfully, lots of other people find wellness. And also, if I slipped up a bit, one late night, one glass of wine, I felt poorly. I didn’t recover like most of those I was supporting, I knew I wasn’t quite right.
I had lots of headaches, in fact most mornings I woke with one. Heart palpitations and arrythmia. I had a fatigue; a sluggishness that I could not shake. A stiffness and heaviness in my joints and sometimes the desire to shut myself away, curl into my shell and hide.
My symptoms weren’t too bad, thanks to all the stuff I was doing; meditation, lymphatic drainage, infrared. I eat organically, avoiding chemicals and pesticides etc. So, I was functioning remarkably well, considering…
AND I knew I wasn’t right. I thought it was my nervous system. Still having a bit of a paddy after all the trauma and despite the EMDR and all the other spiritual and emotional shenanigans I had embraced on this long, varied and ultimately fascinating health journey. I wasn’t sure what else I could do…
I found the incredible Sara Bayley, a shit hot, functional medicine practitioner. She recommended a hair test, she suspected calcium shell, of course. I did mention she was shit hot, didn’t I.
HTMA – HAIR TISSUE MINERAL ANALYSIS
I had to send off hair samples, taken from various places close to my scalp. As tests go, its both cheap and easy. The test clearly shows you any imbalances in minerals and metals in your system. Turns out I had both calcium shell and copper toxicity,
So, what is calcium shell? I wrote another blog…
