The Magnetic Diet

Chapter Eleven: Foods with Contaminating Magnetism

Only the initiated really understand pain. There is the pain of childbirth, which only a mother understands. There is the piercing pain of injury only understood by the wounded. And then there is the debilitating burden of chronic pain, which drives its sufferers to near-madness with its suffocating effect on the human spirit. We are brought up to “shake it off” or “deal with it,” but most of us cannot really deal with a pain that won’t go away. Hope that relief will come is what keeps us going, but when relief never comes, life loses meaning.

For 20 years my friend T.D. endured such a pain in the most sensitive areas of a man’s body. Before it overwhelmed him, he had been a force to be reckoned with. With black belts in karate and escrima and enough martial arts championship trophies to fill a room, T.D. was at the top of his game. One day he was fine and the next the pain from what seemed to be a sudden injury incapacitated him. He described it as the entire area of the perineum being on fire.

Doctors were at a loss to diagnose the cause of the pain or find a cure. X-rays, MRIs, and ultrasounds showed nothing. No doctor would perform exploratory surgery. Pain medication only gave temporary relief and unfortunately also led him to addiction. Alternative therapies including acupuncture were of no help. Slowly he became a shadow of his former powerful self. In place of the fun-loving practical joker who lived to work out there was a negative, hateful man who chain-smoked, slept all day, and barely moved from his place in front of the television. Over the years the pain spread to his joints and other areas of his body, making it difficult to walk and even stand for any length of time. Instead of

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