Roy Paid $11,000 for the Same Nine Days, Twice. The Only Thing I Had That He Did Not Was on a Tray.
Roy Paid $11,000 for the Same Nine Days, Twice. The Only Thing I Had That He Did Not Was on a Tray.
Same salt, same altitude, same nine days, and in Arizona he got nothing. Here is my fourteen-year list sorted by what each thing pulls, and the fifteen seconds that settles the bottle you wrote off.
I called my daughter from a parking lot and cried into the phone and told her the salt cave worked. Total confidence. I was wrong, and I am going to be exact about where, because if you are anything like me you have already started pricing the next mountain.
You do not arrive at a nine-day programme because you are gullible. You arrive by elimination. Roy is why the mountain is the wrong answer. Seventy, from Boise, thirty-one years of sawdust in a cabinet shop, the same mornings I have. On day seven we were both down to almost nothing. Then he told me he had done Arizona four years earlier. "Nothing happened. Not one minute of difference." One variable was different and it was never on his nightstand. Two amber softgels and a card reading, "Evening: wild oregano oil, cold-pressed black seed oil."
Four months home, at eleven feet above sea level in Florida, which is how I know it was not the mountain. Three to four minutes now instead of thirteen. What the good ones buy is what five days of prednisone showed me once: standing in my own bathroom in Sarasota holding a toothbrush with nothing to do.
The short version, if you are standing up
- Every purchase on my list pulled one of two levers, how wide the pipe is or how easily the material moves. None touched the irritation that rebuilds it overnight.
- If you ever had a short course of steroids, you already ran the only real experiment on your chest.
- The oregano in your cupboard did nothing because of one number missing from its label. Fifteen seconds at your counter, no trust required.
90-day money-back guarantee on every package, starting the day it lands on your porch.
Fourteen years of buying things, and every one pulled the same two levers
The programme director was a former respiratory therapist, not a doctor, and insistent on it. She drew two things on the back of that card. The tube, the width of the airway, and the layer, the coating inside it. Irritate an airway long enough and the mucus cells multiply, the glands enlarge, the film becomes a coating, and the cilia built to sweep it out while you sleep are overwhelmed. Once they stop carrying, one mechanism is left. Force is you, at the sink, eight minutes in 2012 and thirteen by last year.
The nine-day programme. $5,900, not including the flight.
Two halotherapy sessions a day, a nebulizer every morning, all of it thinning the layer.
Nothing in that building was aimed at why the layer is there, which is why Arizona gave Roy nothing.
Everything else, in the order I bought it.
The $290 air purifier plus filters twice a year. Two humidifiers, one warm and one cool. Guaifenesin at every strength they make, six years. The saline nebulizer twice a day, four years. Mullein, thyme, ginger, turmeric, oil of eucalyptus in a diffuser, honey by the pound. Antihistamines two years, fluticasone eighteen months, omeprazole eleven months. Dairy out two years, gluten out one, sugar out six months. A wedge pillow, then a recliner, then back to the wedge pillow. Pulmonary rehab, twelve weeks.
Every one honest about its own job, every one widening the pipe or loosening what is in it. Twelve weeks of rehab did not change the mornings by one minute. The mullein did not change them by ten seconds.
Rescue inhaler, 2013. Still have it, still use it.
The tube, and it does that faster than anything else I own. I am not telling anybody to stop using theirs. Keep every prescription exactly as prescribed.
Opening a pipe wider has never once cleaned the inside of a pipe.
You already ran the only real experiment. It is in your own file.
She asked whether anybody had ever put me on a short course of steroids. Twice, I said, and it is on the list up there, written down like a purchase. It worked wonderfully and briefly, both times. Four days in, thirteen minutes became about one. A month after the last tablet it came back exactly as before.
Women write that same shape on forums with nobody prompting them. On the steroids the phlegm is "next to nothing," two weeks after the medication it is "choking me." Nobody joined the dots for her either.
She said, "Then you already know what your chest does when the irritation is calmed down. Nobody had to tell you. You watched it happen twice."
Nobody keeps a 65-year-old woman on steroids, and my doctor was right. But when the only thing that ever worked is withdrawn, the enquiry goes with it.
I already tried oregano. Five months of it. You probably did too.
2018. Five months. Nothing happened, I decided the whole idea was nonsense, and went on to spend $5,900 on a mountain. Had those softgels not arrived on a tray I would never have touched oregano again. Your objection goes first, because it was mine first.
Carvacrol is the primary active in oregano oil, studied a long time as an anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial compound. Thymoquinone is the primary active in black seed oil. Carvacrol is fat soluble and only travels in a lipid, so what carries it is not a detail. Most of what is sold is 150mg to 500mg in sunflower or olive oil with no carvacrol printed anywhere.
Turn yours over. Fifteen seconds at your own counter, and you need not believe a word on this page to do it. There will not be a figure, and if it is not printed there is a reason. The five months you gave it was never a trial of anything.
What is actually printed on the one I take now
Rather than fill the softgel with cheap oil they fill it with the second compound. Two softgels at night with water. The one I take is called Veylor.
Neither compound is a drug. Neither is approved to treat a lung condition. Neither cures anything. Keep every prescription exactly as prescribed and tell your own doctor what you are taking.
What four months looked like, and it is not a fairy tale
Weeks 1 to 3, nothing
The sink is the sink. This is where people quit, and where the abandoned bottles in bathroom drawers come from.
Weeks 4 to 6, the first honest change
Not a miracle morning. A shorter one. Thirteen minutes becomes eight or nine, or thinner than it has been in years.
Weeks 7 to 12, the mornings stop matching
Some are three minutes. A few are close to nothing. You notice a week late that the day stopped starting in the bathroom.
Month 4, where I am now
Three to four minutes. Not cured. A woman on a forum put it better: still the phlegm, still the cough, "but it not as bad as it was."
The arithmetic that made me angry, and the three packages
Nine days cost $5,900 without the flight. Roy's two came to eleven thousand. What was on the tray retails at $90 and is currently $34.99.
Be clear about what you are buying. Not a cure, and not Utah. A Tuesday where you stand at your own sink holding a toothbrush with nothing left to do. Mine has a shape I have never said out loud. Ten past seven, a lockbox code in my pocket, a couple meeting me at a house at eight. That is the morning real estate takes, and you cannot do that job while stopping every ninety seconds to clear your chest, so I retired at 62 and let everybody believe it was my choice. In March I called my daughter again, from my own bathroom this time, to say I had been ready in four minutes. She cried. I did not, because I had already done that once in a parking lot about the wrong thing.
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Every package carries the same 90-day money-back guarantee, clock starting at delivery. Utah gave me thirty days before arrival and nothing after.
Three pouches. About 78 cents a day. Ninety days to send it back.
Why the price is where it is, and why waiting is not free
- Wild oregano is harvested, not manufactured. A batch is tested, the carvacrol figure is printed, and the run is the size of the run.
- Thirteen minutes a morning is ninety-one minutes a week, so a month of deciding is six more hours at that tap. The layer rebuilds tonight the way it did last night. Waiting has never once been free.
- The ninety days cannot begin until a pouch is in the house. Ordering starts the clock. Deciding does not.
The questions I asked her, in order
I have just been wrong about this in public. Why trust what I worked out now?
It does not rest on my judgement. It rests on Roy, and on your own bottle, which you settle in fifteen seconds without believing a word I wrote.
How is a thirty-five dollar bottle the answer when $290 of purifier and twelve weeks of rehab were not?
Price was never the variable. Direction was. The purifier, the salt room and a nine dollar expectorant pull the same two levers, and I spent fourteen years buying more expensive versions of the wrong lever. Not smarter than my doctors, aimed at a different side, and not a drug, and it cures nothing.
The prednisone worked and then a month later it came back. What stops this doing the same?
A steroid course is designed to end, so what it does ends with it. This is two softgels a night that you keep taking, which is why I buy three pouches and not one. It sits alongside the inhaler and replaces none of it.
How long before I know? I am not spending another five months finding out.
Nothing for the first three weeks, which is what happened and not me managing you. The first honest change falls in weeks four to six. Ninety days is the whole test and three pouches run it end to end. Quitting in week two is how the 2018 bottle ended up in a drawer.
One pouch $34.99. Three pouches $69.99. Five pouches $104.99. Money back within 90 days.
Bonnie Rausch, age 65, Sarasota, FL
P.S. I do not think the people in Utah are crooks. The breathing instruction was good and I still do it. But they sell an experience that photographs well, and decided it is better business to let you believe it was the salt.
P.P.S. Roy ordered it too. He emailed in April, subject line "eleven thousand dollars." The message said, "Should have read the card." So order the pouches, then read your own card tonight while they are on their way. Take the old oregano bottle out of the drawer and look for the word carvacrol with a number in milligrams beside it. Fifteen seconds. If that panel is silent, you have your answer before the post arrives.