Jen De Alvarez developed severe chemical sensitivity in 2005 after workplace construction exposure and spent eight years with major limitations. She recovered through the Gupta Program, seeing 40% improvement in one month, 80% at five months, and full recovery within a year.
Hi, my name is Jen De Alvarez, and today I'm healthy and happy, thanks to the Gupta Program. To give you a little idea of my background and my story. In 2005, I had just completed graduate school and was slated to start a new job, which I was really excited about. Obviously a little nervous, but I was definitely up for the challenge. However, once I started that job, I was working in a building where there was a lot of construction going on, a lot of chemicals, and I started experiencing really severe brain fog. I had a hard time remembering things, thinking, concentrating, you name it. My tongue was swelling up every day. I had chronic sinus infections, horrible skin rashes, and the symptoms just kept getting worse. And I eventually figured out it was something in the building making me sick. I didn't know what it was. I had always been healthy, so this was a shock to me. And I started working from home for the next five months and only going into the office for meetings. But the symptoms persisted, and my employer basically talked me into quitting my job because I was too sick to work. And so for the next eight months, I was essentially homebound. I was just too sick to go anywhere. And I spent a ton of time and money on treatments, and nothing really helped. I was fortunate to be recruited by another employer eight months later who was willing to work with my needs and accommodate me. I had an office with access to fresh air. People didn't wear perfume around me. There was no air freshener in the building. I could wear my charcoal scarf whenever I needed to. But I did stay sick for eight years, and it was really tough. I couldn't go to movie theaters. I couldn't go to restaurants unless they hadn't sprayed pesticides in a while, couldn't go to the mall. Clothing stores were out of the question, shoe stores, all of that stuff. So it was a very, very tough life and very limiting. And I did spend a ton of money over those eight years, and I tried every treatment imaginable, and nothing really worked. And so I had essential resigned myself to being sick for the rest of my life, which was really sad because I was only 27 when I first got sick. However, a friend who also had multiple chemical sensitivity told me about this Gupta program that was working really well for her. And I was understandably, really skeptical at first because I had tried anything and everything and nothing worked. But I figured, why not give it a shot? And so I did what Gupta recommends, which is to give it 100% of your effort and your time and to really believe in the program, not talk to other people about it because you can't have their doubts instilled in your mind if you want it to work. I meditated every morning and every night. I watched one to two DVDs a week. I employed the stop technique probably hundreds of times a day at first until it became second nature. And within a month, I was about 40% better. Within five months, I would say about 80% better. And after a year, 100%. Well, that was the end of 2012. We are at the end of 2016. And so it's been four years that I had my life back and my health back. I'm really able to be present and healthy for my two young children, which is incredible. Again, it's something I never thought that I would have. And the fact that I have this back is amazing. It's such a gift. So I can promise you that if you give 100% of your effort to the program and just believe in it and really try your hardest, you will get well. I am living proof that you can get well and just give it a shot. You have nothing to lose. Thank you so much for letting me share.
