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Portrait ‘I’m an adviser, not a doctor’ It is now four years since Archie Bruinier first heard about Dr. Rath and cellular medicine. Today it is hard to imagine that at that point in 1998 this active, energetic man almost couldn’t go on. His story sounds familiar: a demanding job, studies on the side and a lot of stress in his private life. Archie Bruinier, a dutch adviser 14 Rath International . August / September . 2003
Then things started to go wrong. “In 1998 I fell seriously ill,” recalls Archie. “For two years I had suffered from vague complaints such as chest pains and the usual pain spreading into my arm.” He had just completed his Master of Business Administration when he suddenly got worse while on holiday in Spain. Archie, “I could not take any solid food, during conversations I would drop out completely and I couldn’t even walk short distances.” Back from his holiday, Archie Bruinier went straight to his GP. The GP referred him to a cardiologist who gave him an ultrasound scan, an ECG and a cycling test. The verdict: it’s all in your mind. But Bruinier was not satisfied with this and at the second opinion he was given a special examination. He was injected with a contrast medium and then an MRI was taken. He then underwent a cycling test and the MRI was repeated. Archie adds, “I deliberately ate a lot beforehand and went for a drive in the car - the kind of things that usu- ally gave me pains. I said to my wife: ‘If my heart gives me trouble it’ll happen in the hospital and they will be able to see it.’” After the tests the doctor called to say that ‘yes, there is something wrong’, and a whole chemist’s shop-full of medicine was delivered to Archie’s home. Meanwhile his condition continued to worsen and finally he was called in for a cardiac catheterisation. “I sat there at the specialist’s where we were being processed 4 or 5 people at a time. The doctor just thumbed through my records and decided to examine without even looking at me. At that moment I jumped to my feet. I wanted to know what was going to happen before I felt like agreeing to anything.” Coronary artery completely blocked Eventually the examination went ahead and it showed that his left coronary artery was completely ‘silted up’ and his heart had just 30 % of its pumping capacity. “Then my wife asked how it was possible for the specialists to say that there was nothing wrong 2 months previously. But this was denied of course. You can imagine that my confidence in ultrasound and all that sort of thing quickly vanished.” The only reason Archie Bruinier is sitting here today is that he has always been fit. “Because I play a lot of sport, my body made hairline vessels between the two coronary arteries. That’s what saved me. That just shows you what the body can do by itself.” Portrait The ‘Why Book’ Archie later heard about Dr. Rath from Netty Bosveld. “She gave me the book ‘Why animals don’t get heart attacks…’ and I read it in a single day. It was exactly the information I needed! The power of the book lies in its clear and simple language. It was immediately obvious to me that the answer lay in vitamins. I started right away with a selection of high dosage food supplements and my body responded very well. I felt a bit better again and eventually got some of my condition back. I could climb stairs again and ride a bike, but above all I felt relaxed once more.” More assertive Armed with this information and experience, Archie’s attitude to the medical profession changed. “I went from passively accepting things to being more assertive. I still kept taking all the medicines but with every prescription I wanted to know exactly why I was getting the medicines and what they did.” In the meantime Archie had consulted a different cardiologist, having lost faith in the first one after his various examinations. The reaction of this second cardiologist to vitamins was, ‘Their effect has not been proven. And if you don’t take my advice on this it will definitely affect your insurance.” Eventually Archie ended up with a third cardiologist who wanted him to take the drugs but had no problem with the vitamins Archie was taking as well. Because one of his coronary arteries was completely blocked, Rath International . August / September . 2003 15
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