Dearest Elaine,

I could not let this Labor Day weekend go by without thinking of you, particularly since this month marks the anniversary of my first full year in remission from Grave's Disease.

THANK YOU again Elaine from the bottom of my heart, it was because of your willingness to open up your heart and mind and share all of your knowledge on this educational website about GD, that I was able to learn about my disease and help myself recover, without depending on these western medical doctors (who didn't help me much other than to write my pharmaceutical precriptions for MMI, but who did threaten to steer me down the wrong path to RAI which I was able to turn down because of you.)

I still eat just about 100% RAW FOOD, very little cooked food anymore. I have become very creative in raw food preparation, everything from culturing my own vegetables to using a low-heat dehydrator, there's just so much info out there on the internet with raw food recipes to prevent one from every becoming bored with eating raw. But most importantly, because of eating this way I have NEVER felt better.

I continue to expand my knowledge on nutrition, and understand now the importance of avoiding cooked foods being over 40, (since we really begin to lose our digestive enzymes by about then), and cooking food kills the naturally present self-digesting enzymes, so it becomes much more difficult for the body to digest and assimilate cooked food.)

In addition, I have finally purchased my prized Greenstar Juicer and plan to fast one day per week on green juice made with alkalizine dark leafy greens.

Sorry to go on so much about food, but I guess when something changes your life you can't stop talking about it. Eating this way has surely changed my life and so have you Elaine Moore, so I want to thank you once again so much for this wonderful website.

I will keep in touch from time to time,
Very Sincerely,
JES

ps I plan to go to my endo in about a couple years time for a TSI antibody test to show my TSI levels are back to a PRE-disease state, as if I never had GD, and to prove to this doctor that GD patients do indeed RECOVER from Grave's Disease, not just achieve remission.