Thank you for your time and dedication regarding the rebuttal to the Canary Report article. I found your rebuttal to be balanced, logical, and written after careful consideration of each point. I plan to try Annie Hoppers system as soon as its available on DVDs.

Just to summarize what’s above, so you don’t have to go searching, I had disabling MCS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, anxiety symptoms like those of PTSD, and allergies so severe that my range of foods was extremely narrow—the full deal minus electrical sensitivities. I was unable to work; I was housebound for over 5 years; I had to wear a respirator if I went outside; and the house had air filters running continuously. AND, I was an emotional mess.

On day 2 of training programme, I did, as reported then, have NO reaction to perfumes that would, 2 days earlier, have left me spastic and weeping on the ground and horridly sick for days afterward. I have had no such bad reaction in the last year, and, without the MCS reaction, I am healing. All that I initially expected was that the MCS reaction would stop, and it did. I did NOT expect such things as allergies to go away, but they have.

Now, my gut works as it’s supposed to. I can eat wheat, potatoes, lettuce, carrots, broccoli, chicken, milk, nuts, peas, …. and I don’t get sick from them. This is both a surprise to me (allergies are forever, right?), and a delight. I had mourned the loss of these foods, believing that I would never again be able to eat them safely. Now, I can eat in restaurants. I can eat basically anything now, but I’m still cautious and avoid processed/junk food as much as possible, because it’s the sensible thing to do.

During the last year, I have not worn my respirator even once. For the first month or so after the training, I carried it with me when I traveled, just in case, but I’ve never felt the need to put it on. AND, I have shopped in all the stinky stores one can imagine (Canadian Tire, Costco, The Bay, …); I traveled by airplane to visit my sister in the boonies of Ontario (great time!); I rented a car at the Thunder Bay airport; I camped and had no problem with wood smoke or the smell of other people’s camp stoves; I had a good dental experience for the first time in a decade; …. I don’t even think about perfumes now, except to consider them mostly tacky and not in the best health interests of those who wear them or those who have to smell them.

My sister also had MCS and related illnesses. For 30 years. Like her doctors, we all thought she was nuts. She dutifully took her antidepressants, got addicted to them, and, by sheer strength of character, managed to get off them, but was unable to cope in normal social interactions, as we all know. So, since I had such good results with Annie’s training, I paid to have her attend a DNR bootcamp in Ontario. I got an email from her a few days after the session and she was ecstatic: “… I have my life back!” It was apparent even from her writing that she was thinking more clearly and expressing herself with greater confidence and skill than I had seen for decades. She immediately accepted a Thanksgiving dinner invitation from a neighbour and had a good time. She and her husband have renovated their house and are happily settling in. Like mine, her life is good.

The DNR system has worked for me and it has worked for my sister. I have also chanced upon others in my group and they too continue to be well. We no longer do the exercises but the benefits have continued.

In the last year, I have also been making my way through Annie’s reading list (from her website). The confusion we’re dealing with here, I think, results from our different understandings about the nature of the universe. We have all grown up with Western allopathic medicine as the gold standard, but this is based, ultimately, on old Western science, basically Newton’s mechanical universe. In the meantime, however, there have been scientific revolutions in physics that have yet to be felt in medicine, namely, quantum theory and relativity theory. We also have a new view of how cells function and how the brain functions. (We used to think that the nucleus was the brain of the cell and that brain damage was forever).

When we put together the new physics and the new biology that results from it, we have a new worldview and, in that worldview, both Hopper’s and Gupta’s theories make perfect sense. They fit with the rest of the new science. Eventually, medicine will catch up, but that might take several decades.

So, in the meantime, I urge you to think carefully about what the words we use actually convey. For instance, when MDs say, “It’s all in your head,” they are LITERALLY correct, even though that’s not what they actually mean when they say it and, of course, it doesn’t lead anywhere helpful to us. MCS symptoms are very real, but MDs think they’re delusions, and unreal things can’t harm you, so you’re not being harmed. They’re wrong, of course. If MDs understood the new science, they would understand that the MCS reaction is generated by a malfunctioning brain, malfunctioning because it has been poisoned. But, once MCS has been induced, you no longer need toxic levels of poisons to spark the reaction again. Even the tiny levels active MCSers react to get the whole reaction rolling, as we all know too painfully well. But, what neural retraining does is teach our brains a new reaction and, without use, the old circuits no longer fire and eventually wither, and, without that repeated serious MCS disruption, the body has a chance to heal itself: at least some allergies (maybe all) go away, proper digestion (and, therefore, nutrition) resumes, the blood supply to the frontal lobes continues (so no brain fog), and so on. It’s not spooky “mind over matter” or magical “positive thinking” detached from context, at least the way these phrases are usually understood in the context of Newtonian medicine.

There are no fMRI scans of MCS patients yet (that I am aware of), because, without a designated number under which to apply for research funding, MCS cannot be officially studied within the institutional structures we now live under. The rules governing research funding work to the advantage of pharmaceutical corporations, but against new ideas and, ultimately, against people like us. Nonetheless, there are fMRI scans showing actual changes in brain functioning after neural training exercises aimed at other conditions (see Annie’s reading list on her website), so there is growing parallel evidence that the theory underlying both Hopper’s and Gupta’s protocols is sound.

Other things I’ve noticed: I’ve had skin problems for decades, but my thick keloid scars are healing; my extensive wart collection is just about gone; and my fungal infections are much less frequent or severe. I’m now able to exercise and my muscle mass is returning while my accumulation of adipose tissue (I got fat) is reducing—I’ve lost about 2 inches off my waist judging from my pants. ALL of my former phobias (spiders, enclosed spaces, …) are gone; I’m calm, no longer jumpy; … I’m happy!

Some things have been resistant: I continue to have tinnitus; I still get migraines; and I still get inappropriately weeping during sentimental videos. I continue to be slow thinking and I have difficulties with memory and math. BUT, even these are showing gradual but continual improvement, and I view them as residual injuries from having been so sick for so long.

So, a year after my training session with Annie, I continue to be happy to recommend it enthusiastically to others.

Cheers,
Bil

Is anyone willing to post scans that demonstrate “new neuronal pathways?”

“On day 2 of Annie’s workshop, I was incidentally exposed to teenager perfumes and was astonished to have NO reaction.”

I’ve seen a number of comments like this. I’m sorry, but “on day 2″? This is an example of self-fulfilling expectations. You wouldn’t have reacted with or without Annie’s workshop. This is precisely the kind of fodder that skeptics successfully use to malign us and our illness. It plays right into the hands of Staudenmeyer and the rest of the “all in your heads” posse.

It isn’t hard to figure out why Annie took down the money-back guarantee: those folks who know their real physical conditions and the things they truly react to cannot be fooled into believing them away and Annie cannot afford to give back any more money. The same goes with the claim of a cure that she took down. Before wasting your time and money on these bogus wastes of time, try spending more time understanding the concept of masking and isolating your exposures.

I have suffered every day all day for over 10 years, and the chemical just make the pain worse. I struggle to work, but do not have a spouse to support me, and do not have an MD to support disability. I am not sure what to do, but it is truly ironic, that when one becomes too sick to work that he lose his health insurance (not that this has helped in the past, but it is quite ironic)… only the healthy are insurable I guess.

I have to concur with many of the statements here pertaining to western medicine and the MD’s. It is quite a sad affair. We are so mistreated, medically and emotionally. It is so disheatening to be treated like a neurotic cry-baby, when this disease has destroyed a life. Instead of giving credit and respect for the strength and determination to still be trying, we are demeaned and blamed like it is our fault, suggesting we only have to be more social or think happy thoughts and it will go away. Sure thing doc, but it’s not so, cause I know, I know cause I am the one living it.

Does anyone have an idea when Annie will have a DVD ready with the DNR program?

The homework is not journal writing – it is an exercise that you stand up to do and use your whole body and voice – speaking out loud. You need to be very present, in the moment, and feel the meaning of the words you are saying on a deep emotional level. As she writes on her website, the program includes guided visualization, neuro linguistic programming, and somatic exercises, among others.