Why I take holvita™
by Dr John Molyneux BA, PhD
One evening in February 2007, after a couple weeks of feeling increasingly rough, I developed quite bad chest pains. I rang NHS Direct for advice and they told me I needed to go to hospital and they were sending an ambulance
It turned out, the doctors said, that I have had”a cardio-vascular incident” approaching a heart attack at some under timed point in the recent past. They kept me in for five days, the form and angiogram and numerous other tests then sent me home with strict instructions to stop smoking (which I have done) and a raft of pills to take every day for the force able future.
For me this was a pretty serious warning shot in 1997 I had suffered an aortic dissection “split in the main artery”, brought on by high blood pressure which had nearly killed me. I had made a good recovery but 10 years on, aged 58, I had put on a lot of weigh-I was big already- and was very unfit in many ways, yet I was still living a very busy and demanding life with a heavy work load and a fair amount of stress. Certainly I was a disaster waiting to happen.
At this point, a friend of mine urged me to start taking a liquid colostrum extract (holvita™) and I agreed, more because I had nothing to loose than any great expectations. Here I should say that I am in general a frailly hard headed sceptic about this sort of thing, not in the least inclined to homoeopathy or complementary medicine or so called “New Age” therapies. And although I trusted my friend that colostrum, as a natural product, was not going to do me any harm, I really didn't expect it to make a lot of difference.
However, after a few weeks, and even more so after a couple of months, much to my surprised I started to feel a lot better. The main things were 1) I had more energy, 2) my whole mood lifted, 3) I found it easier to limit my eating (without dieting) and so lost some weight. What is more, as the months have past these improvements have sustained themselves and seem to have become more or less permanent. Also there has been a distinct absence of colds, chest infections, and other minor aliments to which I used to be quite prone. The result has been that I have been able to sustain a high level of activity, which is what I wanted, and have enjoyed the most energetic and productive periods in my life since I was a young man.
In January this year there was a period of a few weeks when my supply of holvita™ was interrupted. At first I experienced no change (there is not kind of addiction or dependency) but after a couple of weeks I started to notice the sluggishness and lack of energy returning, only for these symptoms to disappear again once I resumed the holvita™
Of course it is possible that this is all the placebo affect. But in that case I would recommend this placebo to everyone. Besides I have been taking numerous medications for years without them having this effect. That is why I shall continue to take holvita™, it makes me feel a whole lot better. Simple as that.
Dr John Molyneux BA, PhD
March the 1rst, 2008