Welcome

I was born with spastic diplegia, a form of cerebral palsy, which affects everyone slightly differently. For me, it has restricted my mobility and muscle control and my eyesight and visual perception were severely limited, which made reading particularly difficult.

I grew up reassured by the knowledge that cerebral palsy was a stable condition, which would not degenerate. In common with many people with congenital (lifelong) disabilities, in the UK, I was put through a mix of special and mainstream education and I was treated by a succession of doctors, surgeons and therapists of all kinds, many of whom added to the toxic cocktail, usually called prescription medication, of which they all seem to be so fond. Therefore, once I accepted my limitations and overcame or managed some other difficulties, it should have been possible to live a life, which was not dominated by my health… or the lack of it.

By the late 1990s, cerebral palsy was ready to remind me that it often has a sting in its tail, about which very few people are told until it strikes. It is true that the underlying brain damage which caused it had not changed, but the cumulative effect of the wear and tear caused to every system of the body simply by living with it, combined with years of toxicity from prescription medication had begun to overpower me and to send my health into a relentless downward spiral. In December 2005, I had finally accepted that this would be my lot for as much time as I had left and that there might not be very much of it.

So much has changed since then; I am now seeing the world with fresh eyes. My return to naturally sustained good health, since January 2006, continues to amaze me every day, and it is my privilege to share it with you.

My Serrapeptase Adventure

The remarkable story of “The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme”, Serrapeptase, which gave me back my life in January 2006. It is a great, continuing, health adventure, enabled by the sharing of information on the internet, the airwaves and now in print. It is a story of personal determination, inspired by the kindness of people around the world.

Since I learnt about Serrapeptase, I have been able to move away from medically controlled symptoms, towards naturally sustained good health.

The search for good health has so much more to offer than freedom from illness. It is as much about new insight as new eyesight and as much about new hope as new health.

Mike Tawse

Just before Christmas, 2005, my life was about to change. One of my friends told me about “… an amazing food supplement called Serrapeptase.” As part of my research, at the time, I learnt about the work of the author, broadcaster and natural health advocate, Robert Redfern, The Serrapeptase Guy. Amongst the information, which I found were highlights from interviews, which Robert had given to The Power Hour Radio Show. These recordings were a true gift to me because reading was very difficult for me; they enabled me to find the information, which would change my life. In a very few weeks, the show was to become the integral part of my own story, which it still is today.

On January 3, 2006, with my sceptic’s hat firmly on my head, I took Serrapeptase for the first time, sat back and waited for the results. I did not have to wait for long. Within just 48 hours, my lungs began to clear and over the following few days my lung capacity improved and stabilised. In the following weeks, my heart rate returned to normal and stabilised and my digestive system returned to normal. Before the end of February 2006, I was able to stop taking all my prescription medications and my condition has been stable and continued to improve since then.

By November 2006, my eyesight and visual perception, which were damaged as a direct result, and integral part, of cerebral palsy, had also begun to improve. My eyesight is now within normal range and the improvement continues to this day. Does this mean that the remarkable enzyme, Serrapeptase, can overcome the impact of congenital brain damage? I do not have a complete medical answer to this, but I am enjoying the challenge of finding one. There is now some research, based upon studies of newborns, suggesting that inflammation may be amongst the underlying causes of cerebral palsy. One indicator for this was the elevated level of inflammatory cytokines. I am not yet sure that it is possible to extrapolate from this that reducing the level of inflammation in adulthood, could help to mediate the effect of congenital damage, but am sure that it is a question worth asking, and that the answer will be a fascinating one to find.

My health continues to improve and my enthusiasm for life continues to grow. I am looking forward to the opportunities, which lie ahead, and to the challenges through which I will continue to learn on my way towards reaching them.

The 2009 edition of The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme is Serrapeptase, by Robert Redfern, includes The Mike Tawse Story – From Wheelchair To wings.

My return to good health, and my improved eyesight mean that reading is becoming a useful pleasure. Although fluency is still a challenge, I am sure it is one which I will be able to meet. Being able to read, independently, has enabled me to return to the research and writing, which I started before I became preoccupied with my own health.

Newsroom

It is crucial to defend the right of people to know the difference between health care and medical care, and to be able to make an informed choice between them.

Health stories are a familiar part of news coverage, but the search for naturally sustained good health often means looking for the hidden background and detail that the media chooses not to focus upon. Still more important is finding, and understanding, the information that they do not cover at all. My own return to good health has only been possible because of the courage of a few people who are willing to share hidden health news.

My Serrapeptase Adventure, is my own remarkable story, which would have been impossible without the choice to explore a natural approach to sustainably good health. For me, freedom from the ‘toxic cocktail’ of prescription medication has been the freedom to live a life that is so much more vibrant than the mere existence, offered by allopathic medicine. Disease control, and even symptoms management both have their place, and I have benefited from both, but they must never be confused with health care.

Almost as soon as I started to focus upon a natural approach to health, I noticed how few of the stories, described by the mainstream media as health news, have anything to do with health. Most of them are about the medical and pharmaceutical industries. It is becoming more obvious, by the day, that the health system is, in fact, dominated by corporate greed and control. It is a system in which good health outcomes are much less of a priority than most people believe or would want them to be. The true goal is mass control. My own struggle to overcome the power of this system led me to call myself: The Health-Care Survivor and to be sure that life and health are far too precious to be abdicated to an industry.

If you thought the media reported health news… this site may make you think again. There can be no doubt that those who report the news, must decide which of a multitude of stories they will report, and the terms in which they do so. The problem is not that such choices are made, but who is able to influence them, without being held to account. When we watch, listen to, or read the news, we must remember that we are part of a target audience, but we must not be passive recipients of the news. Understanding requires more than information, it requires clear thinking.

If you do not question everything around you, your mind will be filled with multitudes of emptiness; without questions, no answers can exist and understanding is impossible.

Mike Tawse

The Health-Care Survivor’s Library

The Disability Maze Books

My hope is to encourage a holistic, positive, approach to the assessment of individual needs. There is much evidence to suggest that assessments carried out by professionals in the fields of education, social-care and health, often have a negative focus. In simple terms, the aim of many forms of assessment seems to be to highlight limitations and to focus on the things that someone finds difficult, or impossible. This approach is often referred to as ‘the deficit model’.

One reason for the popularity of deficit modelling is that it gives easily predictable and replicable results. There are obvious advantages for assessors with this approach. The assessor knows, in advance, that someone with a given condition is likely to respond in a particular way during the test.

The major difficulty with deficit modelling arises from this same predictability. It is far too easy to allow our familiarity with given conditions, and the test procedures, to guide us towards familiar responses. The danger is that conclusions and recommendations are not drawn from test results. Instead, recommendations are made from a predetermined stock.

A positively focused assessment will consider the impact of the individual’s needs as well as that of our recommendations. An impact model takes full account of the consequences of our recommendations on all aspects of a person’s life and includes consideration of the impact upon family members, friends and colleagues, whose lives may be changed when a person with a disability gains a new skill or level of autonomy.

The Health-Care Survivor Books website will track my progress in researching, writing and publishing, The Disability Maze Books.

My Serrapeptase Adventure: A Life-Saving Return To Naturally Sustained Good Health

I started working on this new book at the beginning of January, 2012. I am still at a very early stage of developing the ideas for the book, but I can say that it tells the full story of the four life-changing years of My Serrapeptase Adventure, and of “The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme”, Serrapeptase, which gave me back my life in January 2006. It is a great, continuing, health adventure, enabled by the sharing of information on the internet, the airwaves and in print. It is a story of personal determination, inspired by the kindness of people around the world.

Since I learnt about Serrapeptase, I have been able to move away from medically controlled symptoms, towards naturally sustained good health. The book will provide an overview of the research findings, which encouraged me to embark upon my adventure, together with my current, and continuing research.

Regular readers of My Serrapeptase Adventure will remember that just before Christmas, 2005, my life was about to change. One of my friends told me about “… an amazing food supplement called Serrapeptase.” As part of my research, at the time, I learnt about the work of the author, broadcaster and natural health advocate, Robert Redfern, The Serrapeptase Guy. Amongst the information, which I found were highlights from interviews, which Robert had given to The Power Hour Radio show. These recordings were a true gift to me because reading was very difficult for me; they enabled me to find the information, which would change my life.

On January 3, 2006, I took Serrapeptase for the first time, sat back and waited for the results. I did not have to wait for long. Within just 48 hours, my lungs began to clear and over the following few days my lung capacity improved and stabilised. In the following weeks, my heart rate returned to normal and stabilised and my digestive system returned to normal. Before the end of February 2006, I was able to stop taking all my prescription medications, under medical supervision, and my condition has been stable and continued to improve since then.

By November 2006, my eyesight and visual perception, which were damaged as a direct result, and integral part, of cerebral palsy, had also begun to improve. My eyesight is now within normal range and my visual perception has also significantly improved. Does this mean that the remarkable enzyme, Serrapeptase, can overcome the impact of congenital brain damage? I do not have a complete answer to this, but I am enjoying the challenge of finding one.

There is now some research, based upon studies of new-borns, suggesting that inflammation may be amongst the underlying causes of cerebral palsy. One indicator for this is an elevated level of inflammatory cytokines. I am not yet sure that it is possible to extrapolate from this that reducing the level of inflammation, in adulthood, mediates the effect of congenital damage, but I am sure that it is a question worth asking, and that the answer will be a fascinating one to find.

2007 was the year in which the smallest detail became a visual feast and the awe-inspiring beauty of open spaces was shown to me with crystal clarity for the first time in my life. My ability to see new things for the first time, and familiar things with new clarity is, perhaps, the most exciting and unexpected of all the gifts of My Serrapeptase Adventure… so far.

For the first time, I was able to recognise the faces of friends from a distance, which gave me a curious mixture of the familiarity of established friendships, combined with the excitement of seeing someone for the first time; because they have, literally, looked different each time my eyesight has improved.

I continue to be most excited by being able to find beauty in the most intricate detail and the magnificence of open space. It is inspiring to see that the glint in the eye of a smiling friend is as beautiful as the best-known natural wonders of the world.

2008 was my third year, free from the ‘toxic cocktail’, popularly known as prescription medication. I continue to be inspired by the fact that Serrapeptase began to free me from my symptoms within hours, and then, within weeks, from the medications. This was the year in which I discovered that many of the symptoms from which Serrapeptase has rescued me were, in fact, known, and even expected, side effects of all the prescription medications, which I had taken, for decades, and about which I was never warned. I began to learn as much as I could about cerebral palsy and also about all the medications I had been given. I also took the opportunity to begin learning about the natural approach to sustained good health, including the various supplements, which have enabled me to be a survivor of the health and social-care systems of The United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, and to think of myself as The Health-Care Survivor.

2009 was a year of stability and growing confidence. It has also convinced me that I am now ready to put my gift of naturally good health to good use.

The Health-Care Survivor Books website will track my progress in researching, writing and publishing, My Serrapeptase Adventure: A Life-Saving Return To Naturally Sustained Good Health.

Recommended Reading

Regular readers of My Serrapeptase Adventure will know that my improving ability to read is among its most precious and surprising gifts. My ability to read has improved, gradually, but consistently, since my eyesight and visual perception began becoming clearer in November 2006. I still need a lot of practice, and must make a considerable effort to improve my fluency, but reading is already a much more useful pleasure than it ever was, before my adventure started.

Recommended Reading, provides me with an opportunity to share reviews, and other information, about some of the books, articles and research papers, which I have found most interesting, informative and even inspiring.

Research

Disease control, and even symptoms management both have their place, and many people have benefited from both, but they must never be confused with health care. It is crucial to defend the right of people to know the difference between health care and medical care, and to be able to make an informed choice between them.

Mike Tawse

It is becoming more obvious, by the day, that the health system is, in fact, dominated by corporate greed and control. It is a system in which good health outcomes are much less of a priority than most people believe or would want them to be. The true goal is mass control. In February 2006, The ‘Miracle’ Enzyme, Serrapeptase, cleared my lungs and freed me from the tyranny of the ‘toxic cocktail’, known as prescription medication. My own struggle to overcome the power of this system led me to call myself: The Health-Care Survivor and to be sure that life and health are far too precious to be abdicated to an industry.

My research focuses upon some of the critical issues, which I believe that each one of us must be able to address at a personal level and also as responsible members of society, in order to regain and maintain naturally sustainable good health.

Thought For The Day

I started Thought For The Day, when two of the remarkable people who have enabled and inspired my return to good health, suggested that I should publish some of my own thoughts, and my favourite quotations from others, which I had taken to adding to the end of my e-mails to them. I share some of these posts with listeners to The Power Hour.

If I have the energy to complain, then I have something for which to be grateful, but if I have no reason to complain, I should, surely, be grateful for that. If, on the most difficult of days, I can appreciate my freedom to complain, then I find fewer reasons to do so.

Mike Tawse

It is a great gift to be able to learn from other people, but any lesson that is worth learning will be strengthened, not weakened, if you have the courage to question it. If you do not, you will form no opinions of your own and your choices will be controlled by whoever is allowed to fill your mind.

Mike Tawse

It is impossible for a man to be truly free if he will not think for himself, or to fully confine one who will.

Mike Tawse

Do not fear the past; you have already survived it, and its lessons may deepen your understanding. Do not fear the future; you have not reached it, but its potential may inspire your resolve. You may choose to change today, but choose with care; by tomorrow your choices will be the lessons of yesterday.

Mike Tawse

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