Project Description
Keegan, WA, United States
“I came here more broken than I realized. I came here to quit smoking, and what I’m leaving with is a group of friends who have this shared experience, this very unique, very special shared experience, that I don’t know that I’m ever gonna be able to duplicate again in my life.”
Improvements with: Arthritis, Caregiver Burnout, Childhood Trauma, Cough, Inflammation, Insomnia/ Sleep Issues, Low Energy/ Chronic Fatigue, Muscle and Joint Issues, PTSD, Quit Smoking, Unhealthy Lifestyle Habits.
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Organ Screen Readings by ND: (points: 70+ - possible organ inflammation; 49 & below - organ sluggishness; drops 4+ after "/" - organ weakness) Lymph 72, Lung 73/2, Joint 68/ 10, Connective Tissue 40/5, Kidney 74, Bladder 77/4 | Organ Screen Readings by ND: (normal: 50-70 points, no drops of number, marked after”/”) Lymph 61, Lung 63, Joint 69, Connective Tissue 60/2, Kidney 60, Bladder 60 |
| Live Blood Analysis: A lot of Red Blood Cells Stuck Together (= poor circulation, poor nutrients exchange and detoxification, poor hydration). Abnormally Increased White Blood Cell Count  | Live Blood Analysis: Red Blood Cells More Freely Flowing. Normal Number of White Blood Cells (=inflammation decreased, hydration and nutrients exchange improved)  |
| Oxidation Test (=Dry Blood Analysis): Lymphatic Congestion Pattern (White Spaces on the outer layer), present in 5 out of 8 sample layers  | Oxidation Test (=Dry Blood Analysis): Excellent Lymph Pattern  |
| Blistering Pattern in at least 2 layers (Sign of Poor Circulation) and Red around PPP (sign of inflammation or bleeding)  | No Blistering in any of the layers![](https://www.healthretreat.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/keegal_after3.jpg") |
High Oxidation Level 3 (high # of White Spaces throughout the sample; sign of highly degenerative state) | Highest Level Oxidation in the Sample was 2 (still White Spaces smaller, in other parts it is even better) |
Lots of “Lakes” with Scialic Acid and Broken Crystals (signs of inflammation/kidney stress) and spicules (small black lines, present byt not visible at this magnification, sign of liver stress) | Very Small and Clean “Lake” (no crystals) |
Heinz Bodies in “Lakes” (Sign of High Toxicity) | No Heinz Bodies, Lakes are “Filling” (sign of successful healing process) |
Heinz Bodies in “Lakes” 2 (Sign of High Toxicity, if over 10 per lake - cancer risk) | No Lakes in Most Parts of Sample |
Skin Oxidation (=Grey Beads) – may be related to deficiency of Vitamin C and Sulphur-Based Aminoacids) | Absence of Skin Oxidation Pattern |
Weak Fribrin (No or poor network of black lines, sign of hormonal imbalance), in 7 out of 8 sample layers | Excellent Fibrin Network in all layers |
| Smoking : I smoked two packs a day for 6 years. I've tried pretty much everything to quit smoking. I've done the taper down a method. I've tried patches. I've tried gum. I've tried hypnosis. I've tried cold Turkey. I've tried mentally tricking myself. Everything that you can do to quit smoking, I have tried. Initially, I hoped to achieve complete cessation from smoking on day one. Unfortunately, it proved too powerful to just drop it. Initially did not have strong cravings. And then shortly into the program, I believe maybe it just took some time for the nicotine to start exiting my system because I was smoking so much. I did begin to have strong cravings. | I decreased smoking to 4 cigarettes a day and my plan is to leave smoke-free, to have my last cigarette tonight. I feel very prepared to enter back into the environment where smoking was the norm. Working with my life coach here, we’ve developed quite an extensive plan of specific tactics that I’m gonna be able to use. My cravings dwindled to the point where I wouldn’t even call them cravings anymore. At this point, I would call it a habit and maybe a little bit of fear of letting go of something that’s been my constant companion for the last six years. But I do feel ready to do that. That’s why I came here. I think that in the long run, because I was relying on my own strength and my own will to quit smoking, that this is really gonna stick. That's what I feel, and I've never had that before. I've always followed specific rules. The introduction that I was given when I first got here with breathing exercises and extra protocols and a whole bunch of really positive stuff, that really set me up for success here.” |
| Chronic Severe Cough: when I came here, my lungs were burning, and I had a chronic cough that stayed with me 24 7. It would wake me up in the middle of the night. It would prevent me from being in quiet environments because I would often have a coughing attack. My breath capacity was far diminished from what it used to be when I was younger and a non-smoker. I would've to stop about halfway walking here [from the hotel] to catch my breath and sit down for a few minutes. I had to sit down during the orientation tour several times to catch my breath. | Here, there were services available that really helped me build my lung strength back up and heal the damage that I had been doing to myself. And now I can walk without heaving, without heavy breathing. My cough is almost completely gone. And there was a congestion that came from the coughing, that is also completely gone, and I'm so grateful. I can walk all the way from my room without stopping and do the stairs up at the end. And I'm so tickled pink with that I don't have to take a break… I believe I could do that orientation right now without stopping, with no problem whatsoever. |
| Emotional Release of Traumas. I thought I came here pretty healthy from a mental health standpoint. | The surprising thing was that through somatic work and through craniosacral therapy, and speaking with a lot of the facilitators and the practitioners, I really had an emotional breakthrough over something in my past that I didn't realize I had, that I hadn't dealt with yet. And. Fresh start has really offered me a safe environment to process what I needed to process. And I feel like the people here really cared about what I was going through. During one of the yoga classes, they train you to kind of drop deep down into your body. And that's where I've been storing a traumatic memory from my past. And it kind of just popped into my head halfway through the yoga class, and I spent the remaining 30 minutes just crying in the back of the room, really letting out this huge emotional release that, again, I didn't know that I had left to process. And I was able to do that in such a safe and comfortable space with my fellow program participants around. And they were very supportive and respectful. It was just amazing. Really, really profound for me. Since that emotional release, I've been wondering what else is left in me, and if I could spend several more weeks here, I would to get to the bottom of some of the more emotional things that I really thought I'd already tackled. The experience was cathartic. The environment was very accepting and, while I didn't anticipate growing emotionally by coming here, it's been an amazing surprise to be able to do so. What I'm taking away from this is the ability to rephrase and change my perspective on a specific event or a happening. Walking away from the victim's stance and approaching it from a more mature and progressive and safe mentality, is what I'm gonna be walking away with. This is huge. |
| Sleep Issues: My sleep, when I first came here, it was, probably, about six hours a night. And that wasn't a consistent six hours. It would be three hours, and then I'd get up for an hour and go do stuff, and then go back to bed for three more hours before getting up with the kids to get them off to school. And then I would be tired throughout the day, and I would drink coffee to get myself revved up and going, and then I would crash, and sometimes have to take a nap. It was pretty brutal. | There was a night where I slept eight hours nonstop without waking up once, and it was heaven. It was heaven. Overall, my sleep has improved dramatically. I get between seven and nine hours of sleep here. I may wake up once or twice per night, um, but that's for extremely short intervals, maybe a minute or two each, and I'm able to, here's one, I'm able to fall back asleep very easily, which is not something that I was able to do before I came here. |
| Body Pain: Depending on the day, my body pain would range from anywhere from three to a seven [out of 10]. I have arthritis in my shoulder. I have a torn meniscus in my knee, and I have chronic lower back pain... Usually, the knee pain is on top of my mind. You know, I'm a larger person and so, making sure that I'm walking steady is a huge priority for me. If I go down, I'm not coming back up and I'm very likely gonna injure myself. | Through the treatments that I've received here, my shoulder pain is almost completely gone. And I haven't noticed my knee pain for the last three or four days, which is phenomenal. To be able to walk here without stopping and without worrying about whether my knee's going to give out is something that I'm really relieved about. |
| Low Stamina and Mobility Before coming here, the spikes in my energy would really disrupt my day. I would have to take the middle of the day and sleep for an hour or two just to be able to make it until nighttime, you know, the responsibilities of being a husband and a parent and a caretaker of others and trying to be involved in the community and take care of myself.And we have seven pets at home and it can be demanding at times. And I feel like taking the nutrition knowledge that I have now and keeping the caffeine to a bare minimum in my diet, if at all, is gonna help me with that quite a bit. | I found that over the weeks, my stamina has just skyrocketed… I am five times more active here than I am at home. I track my steps, so I can tell you that I'm five times more active, and that doesn't even include the Zumba and the fitness classes that I've been able to participate in. Uh, the facilitators have been amazing at creating accommodated moves, so that I can participate at a level that I'm able to. I walked about 1000 steps a day, which is not a lot at all. And I'm up over 5,000 a day. What I notice more than anything is how even it feels from morning until night. I don't have huge spikes of energy and low drops in energy anymore. |
| Low Energy: My energy levels were pretty much entirely dependent on how much caffeine I'd had that day. | Cutting the caffeine out and experiencing true pure nutrition through the food that's offered here has increased my energy by quite a bit. |
| Fear of vegan food and being hungry: I am not a vegan, and coming here, reading on the website that it was a raw vegan food program, that was the number one thing I was concerned about. Am I gonna be hungry? Am I gonna enjoy the food? Is it gonna be salad, salad, salad? I was afraid of being hungry. I am a larger person. I do consume a large amount of calories. And so I brought a whole bunch of snacks with me, to kind of supplement, If I did get hungry. Before my hunger cues were very erratic and all over the place. I did not have a consistent schedule of eating, which left me going a long number of hours with nothing, or eating a large amount of food in a short amount of time. | Coming here on day one and getting to experience the quality of food and the expertise of the chefs here at Fresh Start, I'm completely blown away by the food. Completely blown away. Today I had butternut squash lasagna and it was warm, and it was delicious, and it was exactly what I needed. The flavors are so intense. I don't know how they do it. I ended up giving all of those snacks [I brought with me] to the caretaker of the property because I have been hungry exactly three times. And it wasn't even that desperate hunger that I sometimes experienced in the past. It was simply like Oh, I'm ready to eat now. And that is so different from my life before coming here. The structure that's provided here around mealtime was great. There are times when I come and don't finish an entire meal because I'm simply not hungry. I really love the consistency of the food program here. |
| Caregiver Fatigue - Being the primary caretaker of my family, I didn't understand before coming here that the caretaker sometimes needs to be cared for. | I have been able to come here and relax and go from massage, to massage, to massage, and to be cared for. I don't have to worry about what meals are coming. I don't have to worry about cleaning up after the family. That kind of mental break. Has been so key to my experience here, my positive experience here.I didn't know that I needed that, but to get it was, an absolute gift. |
Experience Highlights:
- Yoga Classes
- Guided Group Meditation – I thought, well, I’m gonna fall asleep during the meditations. But I came here to participate, so I really threw myself into it. And the meditation, have just been as astounding, like the ability to drop into my body and connect with it. And the facilitators here are so good at what they do. The group meditation I found to be more profound, because there was a shared energy in the room.
- Practitioners and the staff
- Fellow Participants, who threw themselves into it and had challenging days, but also had amazing triumphs. And to be able to watch the strength of the human spirit grow in somebody, and to see them in the early days, tired and in recovery on these final days where their skin is glowing, their personality is effervescent. They’ve come out of their shells, and I think I have as well. And it’s been such a special experience.
- It’s been transformative!
The information above is based on the following resources:
- Unedited Video Testimonial Materials
- Before and After Self-Assessment
- Program Participation and Progress Sheet
- Before and After Emotional Wellness Tests
Disclaimer : Results of participants differ and the Fresh Start cannot guarantee that you will experience your improvements in the same way as in this testimonial. The Fresh Start is not an allopathic medical facility and does not claim to either diagnose or treat any disease. The Fresh Start does not guarantee a recovery from any specific disease or a health symptom.
