HIV/AIDS

I was thinking today about all the clients I used to work with that had HIV/AIDS when I worked at a clinic in Southern CA.

If you've never watched or witnessed someone's condition with this disease, it is difficult.

They develop lypodystrophy, become progressively emaciated, their general overall functioning decreases in pretty much every way, and toward the end can develop significant neuropathy and very painful non healing skin lesions from skin breaking down, and cuts and cracks that won't heal.

One of the things that remained consistent out of all the people I came in contact with was health and nutrition.

In the sense that, for those clients that used to try to eat healthy, exercised, and those that especially made an effort to stay on fresh juices, the usually did very well, and kept thriving, with more often than not, low viral counts, if not completely undetectable.

For those who did not, and relied on just their every revolving combination of meds, standard foods, I usually saw them start to waste away, they would visit less regularly, and eventually not at all.

This was a powerful example and lesson again for me that those who incorporated healthy foods and fresh juices into their diet, always did very well, and the wide range of power that these represented in peoples lives, and also their significant challenges.

This was not theory, this was not conjecture, this was true, undeniable, LIFE AND DEATH PROOF that with powerful nutrition and again, the misery and compromises for a good quality of life that can be averted. The ones who did the best avoided fried food, animals products, and non organic compounds.

Not that I needed anymore encouragement, but that it was just reaffirming about the power of Nutrition and the true force for healing that is in the plants God provided, and that have been in play at the time man was introduced to this world. We could have been placed on a world that had no medicinal plants, in a hostile desert, as a twisted joke, been told good luck, and left to pass away in a matter of days.

Instead, for all the years that rolled by and all the development in the fauna and flora that took place before man was placed here, we had the array that would finally take form as the plants that we are most common to have as our pantheon of potential healing selections, and the list is always growing as we find more awesome things everyday.

I've never understood people who are so weird about adaptation within the species and God. It makes no sense to me. In fact they are very complimentary notions from what I can tell, in the very best way possible. How awesome is it that God gave us , deep in us, and in all the creatures, plants, and animals around us, the ability to keep progressing, developing, and most importantly for those who try, to grow and adapt to the ever changing challenges and world around us. To literally INFUSE US, with the ability to KEEP THE EDGE for the potential to have the most pleasant and decent chance at a good life as possible. For weather, or adversity, shelter, all of it.

When I think of or hear people discuss a loving God, this ability and aspect of life I find to be a wonderful gift to creation as a whole. It's totally awesome and fascinating. We could, and other plants or creatures could, have been withheld this ability and under a myriad of conditions be just incapable of handling even a weather shift, and completely be wiped out without a fair chance for survival. to me, that seems the most loveless thing possible.

For those who TRY TO DO THEIR BEST, they continue to move forward, and thrive. They amass an arsenal of ongoing drive, and rise up to conquer.

I think this is fantastic.

For people with significant challenges, REAL HEALTH CHALLENGES, items that are a cut above, packaged cleanly, nutrient dense, absorbed easily, and well rounded, are absolutely some of the most powerfully allies in peoples ability to thrive and excel. To do any less is not a point of reference, and a grotesque utterance or contemplation.

It is my hope, in my products of Jeff's Best Hemp!, and in my efforts as a Nutritionist that in good integrity and Love, Mercy, Compassion and as a Human Service that I have and will continue to provide you with these powerful tools along with accurate information for your success at thriving and keeping your edge, your highest quality of life possible, to show respect for my fellow man by being what I wish to see in the world by example, and treat others as I would wish to be treated.

Love Mercy Compassion
Jeffrey Von Stetten