Symptoms Gone After 1 Year on Hallelujah Diet
Dave Orcutt from Plant City, FL

The year was 2001. My life was changed forever! Most of you know who I am and what happened to me, but because it has been six years, I thought you’d enjoy reading an update on my condition and life.

In November 2001, I was working away from home and one day I was walking downstairs when my right leg just let go – it felt like it turned to jello. I lost my balance and grabbed the stair’s railing so I didn’t fall down the stairs. The next thing I noticed was when I sat down on the toilet, the left side was really warm – like someone had just got off of it, but I only noticed it on the left side. And, like someone turned on a light switch – my whole left side went numb and tingling from the shoulder blade down to my feet. The extreme fatigue I felt was sometimes overwhelming. I would hardly do anything and I would need to sit and rest. I felt really old! These “wobbly events became more frequent so Sherry and I went to the ER to see what was going on. When the Neurologist saw me, he noticed that my right eye was totally dilated – there was NO color, just pupil. At this point, I knew I was in serious trouble so I told Sherry, “if the Lord wants to take me home, it’s okay, I’m ready to go!” After $30,000 of testing, we left the hospital with the knowledge that I had one lesion on the C-7 portion of my spine. They told me to go home, wait eight weeks . . . if the lesion grew I had cancer, if it didn’t, I had MS. We decided not to wait in the torture of the unknown. We looked for an alternative method of finding truth. So one week later we knew I was dealing with MS, not cancer.

Sherry’s comment: When my husband told me he was ready to go home, all I could say was, “Ready to go??? What about me???” I knew he’d go to heaven, he knew Jesus personally, but I wasn’t ready to let him go! At this point, my husband was wheeled off for testing. Testing that I thought would take a couple hours. Eight hourslater, I was completely frantic with fears, confusion, and I was alone. It was me, my Bible and the Lord. We didn’t call any support friends, church or personal friends or family as we thought we’d go to the hospital, they’d tell us what was wrong, send us home with medicine and all would be well. That is the way the world works isn’t it? As the hours ticked by, I was frantically crying out to Jesus. Lord help us – we’re frightened, we’re in unfamiliar territory and we need your wisdom and discernment. I said to the Lord,“Lord, I know you are not zapping people with diseases, there has to be something causing these things in people. If there is anything I can do that will help my husband, you tell me what it is and I will do it!” The Lord gave me the verse Psalm 41:1-3 “I will raise him from his bed of illness.” That was the only Word I needed – it seemed all family, friends and co-workers thought we were crazy to not follow the medical route BUT, I knew that the Lord had spoken to me and gave me a promise. Nothing or no-one was going to make me waiver from that faith. Well, as you all know, He told us what to do, we did it and here we are today!

It took seven (hmmmm, God’s number) months before I noticed any difference in my MS symptoms. I refused the drugs (A, B or C choice) that the neurologist wanted me to take because a drug had put me in the hospital three years earlier – I could not eat or drink for three weeks – Sherry thought I was going to die. So because of that experience, I was very reluctant to take meds. We prayed and looked for an alternative. I went to church in my walker – my brain was no longer telling my right leg what to do. I had to drag it (drop leg syndrome) around and couldn’t support my weight on it. Suddenly, quite a few people called, emailed or came to us – all with the same message. Go on the Hallelujah Diet. We had never heard of it! But after reading God’s Way to Ultimate Health by Rev. Malkmus – IT JUST MADE SENSE! So we decided to give it 30 days. In just days we started to have energy, our acid reflux went away in two weeks (we had it for 5+ years) and little by little we saw all kinds of improvements. At seven months, we decided to go to Shelby, NC to get trained as Health Ministers. God is SO good. While at the training, after a hearty belly laugh – all my MS symptoms disappeared. This lasted for 24 hours. We were excited, this was the first sign that we were on the right path. One day would someday become two, and two would become a week, and a week a month, etc. It took one year on the Hallelujah Diet & Lifestyle for me to be able to claim that my MS symptoms were gone. I do not claim I am cured – I claim that I am managing my disease, without medication, and through diet and lifestyle. All I know, is that I feel better than I did when I was 30. I am now twice that age and have the stamina, energy and endurance to do just about anything I want to do.

Today, six years later, I have not had one MS episode. After 9 months on the diet I was able to RUN again – my legs worked again! All my symptoms are gone – it took about one year. I occasionally feel a little tingling on my left side when I overwork myself – it’s like a “Paul’s thorn” – a gentle reminder that I must stay faithful to God’s answer for my health. Today, I can do 12 to 16 hours of hard manual labor, out in the hot sun and still have the stamina to complete the task. People with MS, normally cannot withstand the work or the heat. God answered our prayers and has given me my health back. It saddens me to watch people suffer, unnecessarily in my mind, of illness, disease, poor health and to feel they are victims of a poor gene pool, having no choice but to live out a miserable sick, degenerating and debilitating life. That is not God’s plan for us, but we do have to do our part.

We receive so many telephone calls from people with all kinds of ailments, but I personally receive a lot of calls on people with MS. They have been given no hope by their doctors. They are told the disease’s nature is that it will continually progress until all body parts will stop functioning and they will end up in a wheelchair until they die. God somehow lets them find out about me – it is my greatest prayer that I can be an encouragement to them – if I could do it – then they can do it!

Is it worth it? Galatians 6:9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time, we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” If Sherry and I had given up at 6 ½ months, we would not have influenced as many people as we have over the past six years, we would not have started a monthly support meeting that we held for five years and we would not have opened the second Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle Center in Plant City – a place of learning and experiencing the correct way to follow the Hallelujah Lifestyle. If people could only realize that The Hallelujah Lifestyle is a lifestyle of Privilege – Not deprivation. The people coming through our Lifestyle Center come to realize this and they learn all the skills necessary to live this lifestyle and to learn how easy it really is. People make it hard because they don’t like change. God used Sherry and I and my affliction to give us a ministry that we could work together to help others achieve the optimal health that God has promised us. In the beginning this is so hard, seems so radical – but radical is having body parts removed, being poisoned, burned or cut up – eating veggies is not radical! We love our lifestyle, we love feeling good and we love helping others learn that God did not leave us here without a plan to help us achieve wellness. We do not feel deprived in this lifestyle, we feel privileged that God opened our eyes to "God's Way To Ultimate Health."