21/06/2021
This is a long post but well worth reading.
💥💥Nrf2 Activation💥💥
Bio-hacking Traumatic Brain Injury, PTSD, Depression and Pain‼️
🔶 This is an amazing testimony from Aaron who is brave and generous enough to share his experience on how his life was changed dramatically by NRF2 activation in order to help others 🥰
⚡️Brief medical history on me...
Neck surgery in '06
Right shoulder dislocation '01
In '98 a was in a car accident...
Crushed L-4 and L-5 vertebrae
Broken left humorous with titanium rod
All left ribs broken, two went into my lung
Exploratory surgery(damaged liver and spleen)
Broken scapula
Broken clavicle
Severe Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI)
I flat-lined 7 times and took 8 pints of blood.
One month chemically induced coma
While still in the ICU I got really severe Decompression Sickness. Similar to what happens to a SCUBA diver when they get the 'bends' All the nitrogen in my blood didn't dissipate so I blew up like a balloon, twice my size, I was unrecognizable to my wife and sister.
My left humorous broke in half at the midway point and caused a lot of trauma to that main arm nerve. The metal rod and screws running the length of it didn't help matters either. They used a titanium rod instead of a cast because they were afraid the weight of it would make it impossible for my spine and broken ribs to heal symmetrically. That much damage to my nerve reverted my whole hand and arm into a 'fetal position' against my chest. My hand automatically cramped and curled up into a 'default mode' which resulted in sustained tensed muscles. I spent a long time in a 'turtle shell' because my torso was so damaged, and even longer to rehabilitate my arm and hand to full functionality.
Worst of all was the severe head trauma. It's taken many years to recover from the complexities that is a Traumatic Brain Injury(TBI)
I spent a huge part of my twenties in recovery.
There is only one other person who knows the following...
I was on ten years of "end of life" narcotics and benzodiazepines(200mgs of OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax, and Valium)every single day.
Those drugs, in those amounts, for so long, eroded the enamel on my teeth, I have no real teeth now.
I was in such a deep chasm of internal pain and depression, my mind was broken, my body was broken, my spirit was hanging by a thread. I thought of taking my own life....more than once.
When you have no self-worth, you don't understand what an action like su***de would do to the people who love you. In my state I actually thought I'd be doing everyone a favor. If I removed myself from the equation, people wouldn't have to feel bad for me anymore and my wife could find love again and live a wonderful life without someone so broken.
I can't apologize for considering doing myself harm. It was the drugs I was prescribed and the ferocious pain I was in. Still, I will never be able to not have shame and guilt towards myself to everyone I would have hurt...and destroyed.
Unequivocally, Nrf2 is why I am still alive. It gave Kate her Aaron back, and my sister and brothers still have their little and big brother.
2 weeks after starting Nrf2 all the inflammation from my neck to my lower back was greatly reduced! Felt like it is pretty much gone. 2 months later I went to my spine doctor and asked to cut my medications in half. It was the first time in her 30 years of being a doctor that a patient requested to go down, not up, on narcotics. Six months later, we cut my meds in half again. Two months ago, we went down even more. Now I take a fraction of one previous dose for all day pain management.
To think of where I was 2 years ago, possessed by so much pain and self-loathing, I lost who I was, I lost the core me. Now I am a whole person again.
What Nrf2 and AXIO (Nrf2 for the brain) couldn't fix, my amazing LifeVantage family did. They healed my soul with so much love and compassion, I will be forever grateful to them. 🌹❤️