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Die!

Eating Organically

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Agenda• Introduction

• My IT Career – Overview

• My Personal Challenges

• Health Challenges with MS

• Sipho’s non-scientific conclusions on MS causes

• My Options – High Road or Low Road

• Actively Fighting MS

• The High Road Journey

• Choosing the High Road – My Bucket List

• Life Lessons Learned


My IT Career – Overview (1)

• Sasol

• 13 years

• DBA

• Research

• Project Management

• Inter company Information Systems

• Business Development & Account Management



• Business Connexion (BCX)

• 8 years

• Business Development – Outsource

• Several large deals (> R940m)



• Gijima

• 4 years

• Manage ABSA Account

• 550 people

• 1400 sites

• 50,000 desktop PC environment

• R380m / annum account


My Personal Challenges

• Oldest son died in car accident in 2008

• Retrenchment early 2012

• Health challenge with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

mid 2012

• 2 Car accidents by youngest son mid 2014

Gijima ditches

staff


Health Challenge With MS (1)

What is Multiple Sclerosis

(MS)?

MS is when one’s own body

attacks your nervous system,

eating away the fat layer around

the nerves in your brain. The

nerve system then makes

"shorts" like an electrical

system, causing certain parts of

your body not to function well

Cause Unknown, Not-contagious, No Cure

- Got ill overnight

- Heavy headache

- Off my feet



• Types of MS

• Relapsing Remitting MS (my diagnosis)

• Secondary Progressive MS

• Primary Progressive MS



• My Main Symptoms

• Balance (mobility)

• Loss of hearing

• Weak bladder (retention)

• Loss of feeling / tingling in

feet

• Weaker right side


• Some Disease Modifying Therapies (Formal Treatment)

• Only minimize occurrence of relapses

• Avonex (interferon beta-1a)

• Betaseron (interferon beta-1b)

• Copaxone (glatiramer acetate)

–Use this since March 2018

• Extavia (interferon beta-1b)

• Gilenya (fingolimod)

• Novantrone (mitoxantrone)

• Rebif (interferon beta-1a)

– I used this initially

–Stopped using in 2014 due to negative side effects

• Tysabri (natalizumab)

• Cost R10,000 / month (cheap, can be R24,000 / m)

• Medical aid pays for this


Bastyr University MS Research


• Symptom Management Medication (Formal Treatment)

• mpyra (dalfampridine)

• Antidepressant (SSRI, TCA)

• Antispasmodics

• Bladder medications

• Constipation medication

• Fatigue medication

• Pain medication

• Medical aid pays for this




• Complementary & Alternative Medication (Informal Treatment)

• Alpha-Lipoic acid

• Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)

• Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)

• Vitamin B3 (Niacin)

• Vitamin B6 (Pyroxidine)

• Vitamin B9 (Folic Acid)

• Vitamin B12 (Cyanocobalamin)

• Vitamin B12(Methylcobalamin)

• Vitamin C

• Calcium

• Vitamin D

• CoQ10

• DHEA

• Estrogen


• Fish Oil

• Flax Oil

• Gingko biloba

• Glutathione

• Inosine

• Iron (Fe)

• Lithium

• Marijuana (oil,

edible, inhaled)

• Melatonin

• Probiotics

• Progesterone

• Quercetin

• ResveratrolBastyr University MS Research


• Complementary & Alternative Medication (Informal Treatment)

Health Challenge With MS (6 cont)

• Rubidium

• Testosterone replacement

• Tissue Salts

• Turmeric

• 5 methyltetrahydrofolate (5MTHF)

• Multivitamin/Mineral

• N-acetyl cysteine (NAC)

• Low dose naltrexone

• Zinc

• Coconut oil

• Swank Daily AM/PM Pack

• Medical aid does not pay for this



• MS friendly / healthy diets (Informal Treatment)

• MS Recovery Diet

• Swank Low-Fat Diet

• Wahls Diet

• Paleo Diet

• Vegan Diet (no dairy, eggs, or meat)

• Lacto-ovo Vegetarian Diet (dairy and eggs, no meat)

• Ovo Vegetarian Diet (eggs, no dairy or meat)

• Anti-inflammatory Diet

• Allergy Avoidance Diet (avoid foods you've been

shown to make antibodies to.)

• Detox Diet

• Weighless Diet




• Other MS Related Symptoms

• MS Hug (feeling of tight band constricting torso or limbs)

• Bowel Dysfunction (constipation, diarrhea, incontinence)

• Bladder Dysfunction (urinary urgency, inability to urinate, incomplete

emptying or incontinence)

• Sexual Dysfunction (reduced libido, erectile dysfunction, inability to orgasm,

etc.)

• Visual Disturbance (unclear vision, double vision, areas of blindness)

• Muscle weakness (decrease in muscle strength)

• Paresthesia (numbness and tingling)

• Muscle Cramps (spasticity)

• Tremors

• Walking difficulties

• Balance

• Dizziness (vertigo)




• Other MS Related Symptoms

• Lhermitte's Syndrome (electric sensation in neck that travels down spine

when chin touches chest)

• Pain (general pain, acute or chronic)

• Heat Sensitivity (affected or sensitive to heat, uncomfortable during

warmer temperatures)

• Speech

• Depression (sadness or hopelessness)

• Attention (difficulty focusing or completing daily tasks)

• Exercise Induced Weakness (increased muscle weakness or fatigue

after exercise or daily activity)

• Cognitive (memory problems, organizational problems, or difficulty multi-

tasking)

• Anxiety (fear, worry, panic)

• Fatigue (tired, drowsy, exhaustion)

• Sleep Disorders (insomnia, sleep disturbances, etc.)

Health Challenge With MS (8 cont.)



• Potential Diet and Lifestyle MS Causes? (Bastyr University MS Study)

• I eat most meals at home

• I cook most of my meals

• I routinely prepare meals for others

• It is difficult to afford groceries

• I purchase the least expensive food

• I buy from local organic farmers

• I am a vegetarian

• I avoid beef

• I avoid pork

• I avoid dairy

• I avoid soda

• I avoid artificial sweeteners (Aspartame)

• I avoid sugar





• I avoid artificial colors, flavors, etc.

• I go to church, synagogue, mosque, or other religious

services

• I pray

• I have lots of friends

• I am lonely

• I have carbs for breakfast

• I practice calorie restriction

• I use spices liberally

• I meditate

• I get acupuncture

• I get massages

• I see a chiropractor

• I see a physical therapist





• I take homeopathic remedies

• I see a therapist or counselor

• I smoke tobacco

• I get enough sleep most nights

• I have a lot of stress

• I can name 6 foods on the dirty dozen (Are You Eating the

Most Pesticide-Laden Produce?)

• I practice stress management

• I eat with respect

• I have amalgam (silver) fillings

• I have gold crowns

• I have had root canals

• I am a veteran





• I have pets

• I am in a support group

• I read a fictional book

• I read an educational book

• I've tested the radon level in my home

• There is water damage in my house

• There is mold in my house




• Wrong Food can cause MS

–Eat Organically Farmed Food

–Avoid Pesticide-Laden Produce

–Avoid artificial sweeteners (Aspartame)

• Wrong Lifestyle can cause MS

–Unhealthy relationship with God

–Not enough friends / friendship

–Too high stress levels

• Teeth can cause MS

–Amalgam (silver) fillings

–Gold crowns

–Root canals

• Mold / water damage in your house can cause MS

Sipho’s non-scientific

conclusions on MS causes



My Options – High Road or Low

RoadClem Sunter

• South Africa's most highly regarded

scenario planner

• Strategist

• Styled as the Foxy Futurist


My Options – High Road or Low

RoadLow Road

•Accept

Neurologist’s view

of MS

•Cause Unknown,

No Cure

•Use only formal

treatment

•Treatment

symptomatic,

Won’t get cured

High Road

•Believe I will be

cured, believe God

can cure me

•Believe alternative

treatment &

fighting MS Causes

would contribute

•Plan for life after MS

•Carry on - Life goes

on

•Don't let mobility

slow you down


Actively Fighting MS (1)

• Alternative Treatments (R150,000 in 2015 tax year)

• Gymnasium training with biokineticist

• Diet (MS Recovery Diet, Detox Diet, Weighless Diet)

• Hair sample analysis (mercury poisoning)

• Removed silver fillings

• Detox & Supplements (R8000 / m)

• Juicing & Fermented drinks

• Infrared sauna

• Removed root canals

• HBOT

• BEMER mat (microcirculation)

• Cell Quicken (Rife frequency, Einstein scalar energy)

• Cannabis Oil / CBD Hemp Oil

• Tissue salts

• Drinking steam distilled water

• Augment alternative treatments with formal treatment

• Joining the fight for organically produced food (Berakah)

• Focus on a God glorifying lifestyle






The High Road Journey (1)2 Car Accidents - Youngest Son Mid 2014


Low Road

• Blame him /

circumstances

• Focus on the negatives

• Not able to complete

massage course

• Not able to do any

physical work with arm

• Will never walk normally

again

High Road

• Believe God saved his life

for a specific purpose

• Thank God for the

opportunity due to my MS

and his accidents to spend

time together

• Opportunity to mentor him

and build relationship

The High Road Journey (2)2 Car Accidents - Youngest Son Mid 2014


• Fight MS – Do research on MS - causes and alternative treatments

–Bastyr study

– Internet - Dr Rudy Cartwright, SWANK MS Foundation, Dr Hal A.

Huggins, Various MS Foundation web sites

–Books - Johan Jacobs (http://www.gonatural.co.za/), MS Recovery

diet, Amalgam Illness

• If an engineer can become a natural / healthy living

guru an IT / Marketing / Management practitioner

can become an organic farming expert!

• Live a full life and career

The High Road Journey (3)

http://www.gonatural.co.za/


• Clarified my Life purpose (Find Your Voice Program)

–To be a potential un-locker for leaders and

organizations by teaching, motivating and

developing them and organizing optimal

structures.• Clarified my Core Values(Find Your Voice Program)

–Personal: Efficiency, Fairness, Integrity

–Spiritual: Faith, Truth, Meaning

–Relational: Trust, Leadership, Teaching

– Intellectual: Discipline, Learning, Knowledge

–Physical / Financial: Financial independence, Hygiene,

Relaxation

The FIND your

VOICE

Program



• Business

–MD of SMME initially

–Started own consulting business in Sep 2013

• Does Management & ICT Consulting

• Concluded various business alliances to market & sell their

services

• Joined Unashamedly Ethical

–Started Berakah – currently CEO (prime focus is organically farming)

• Municipality

–Emfuleni Ward 9 ward committee – Finance and Revenue rep &

secretary



• Academic

–Enrolled for PhD at UFS

–The topic of thesis is “An ICT framework for the sales and marketing

processes of South African SMMEs”

–Had to terminate due to bad health in 2017

• Church

–Church board

–Chair succession planning committee

–District financial committee

–District advisory board



• Community / Welfare

–Joined Vanderbijlpark Business Chamber

–VAAL MENTAL HEALTH – Coordinate the Fundraising & Donor

development team

–Jeugland old age home – member of advisory board & financial committee

Vaal Mental Health 2016

• 2 Offices

• 6 Employees:

• Expenses:R826 014 / a

Vaal Mental Health in 2020

• 6 offices

• 4 day-care centres

• 3 community centres

• 35 Employees

• Expenses: R25 m / a



• Run the Comrades

• Do an European Tour

• Buy a large Tour Bike

• Give away R20m to R30m

• Get the total South African farming community to farm

organically

• Retire around age 90 (Herman Kruger – died age 105 in 2017, Robert

Mugabe – retired 93 recently: my role models)

Choosing the High Road – My

Bucket List


• God is in control of my life, not

myself

• Don't appreciate your health only

once you lost it.

• Work and friends can disappear,

family not - appreciate them.

• Make time for your family

• You only have one life - make it

count

• Eat Organically Farmed

Food or you can die!

• The High Road option is not the

easiest option but rewarding

Conclusion - Life Lessons

Learned

Johan Sipho Coetzee (B.Sc., MBA)

Chief Executive Officer

Tel: +27 82 447 5950 (mobile)

Mail: [email protected]

Skype: sipho.coetzee

Web: www.berakahbizdev.co.za

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