Hayo speaks
My passion for nutrition, fitness and health was ignited around the age of sixteen. I increasingly suffered from pimples and acne and that hindered my thinking and my actions so much that I became determined to find a natural solution – instead of ointments and pills. My instincts already told me that true health only comes from within. I went on a mega quest through websites, American books and all available scientific literature on Pubmed. By means of adjustments in, among other things, nutrition (Paleo diet by Dr. Loren Cordain and The Warrior Diet by Ori Hofmekler), intermittent fasting and sleeping pattern, I got my skin problems under control at the age of nineteen (2005).
However, this turned out to be just a warm-up, because the real health challenge came my way in 2019. I lived in the Netherlands again after having lived abroad for 5 years and that took some getting used to. I worked in international sales in an office and was not happy. I had also started as a Personal Trainer and that gave me energy: helping people become fitter and healthier.
CLL
In 2019, out of the blue, I was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Blood cancer. Incurable. I was 32 years old and one of the youngest with this condition. I sat there, sedated, at the doctor’s office and was told that I would not grow old. My girlfriend and I had just had the loving wish to conceive a child. The doctor told me that this would no longer be possible. It would be genetic. This affected me the most and after I had left the building, I burst into tears. Our whole world was turned upside down.
I could not believe that I had cancer. I had asked the doctor three times if it could definitely not be something else, but it was clear – I had the characteristic crushed lymphocytes. A reaction that I often got from friends was: “but you live healthier than everyone I know”. The world felt unfair, toxic and doomed..
We soon had the reassurance that we could conceive without increased risk – the GP should never have said a number of things.
Patients diagnosed with CLL do not receive immediate treatment because the disease develops more slowly. Patients are placed on Watch & Wait policy. “Incurable? Pure bad luck and I can’t do anything about it? Wait until I become terminally ill and then do something?” That did not fit my attitude and view of life at all. I was determined to go deep – looking for causes and studying and practicing everything that influences body, mind & spirit. Watch & Act!
I already knew a lot about nutrition and started studying orthomolecular therapy and then cPNI. I did my own research into the origins of cancer, the metabolic approach to cancer, radical remissions, biorhythm, microbiome, genomics, methylation, meditation, the healing effect of fresh fruit and learned about the effect of emotions on health.
Six months after the diagnosis I started to get more and more tired – the leukemia cells were increasing and started to crowd out my healthy blood cells. It was the hardest time of my life. I no longer had the energy to be myself – and the man my wife had fallen in love with.
I was lucky that there have been many developments in the field of CLL and “targeted therapy” in the past 5 years. In 2021 I was able to participate in a scientific study with this targeted therapy. It worked and has pushed back the leukemia cells, but the story with CLL is that in a few years you will need treatment again – until resistance occurs and a new treatment has to be found.
I am very grateful to conventional medicine, because the treatment has given me energy back – and time. Time to find and solve possible causes. Family constellations, coaching, clairvoyants, reincarnation therapy, plant medicine, breathwork gave me insights and important pieces of healing.
My goal is to keep the CLL under control so that I no longer need regular treatment.
Awakening
The COVID-19 period was a great teacher for me – and my wife – and since then we see the world very differently. We wanted to get out of the rat race that we are constantly in – in the sympathetic nervous system – and help everyone but ourselves. We wanted to live in the countryside, outside in nature, under the sun. And raise our children with attention, connection and being outside a lot. We realized all too well: “Life can be over so quickly, why should we wait?”.
I feel sincere gratitude for the CLL diagnosis, because it has put me (and us) on the right path in this life much faster. We found our dream life and lifestyle in Spain and we now spend almost half of the year there. In the rhythm of the sun and the moon – just as our Homo Sapiens genes expect of us.
I truly believe that a serious condition can even be a “gift” if you accept the message it wants to give you – and if you make the adjustments in your life that are asked for.
Now I know what it is to walk through fire and live with “a dark cloud over your head”. And what it is to go through life-changing transformations.
I also know the power of our mind and our beliefs. Everything is possible as long as you believe it – and feel it. “Every disease is doomed to be cured”, as my mentor Leo Pruimboom so beautifully puts it.
My Mission
The journey is not easy; we all have to walk through fire to make our dreams come true. It takes inspiration and focus. It is my mission to guide you on your personal journey to health and renewed balance.
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”, is a well-known saying from the Tao Te Ching. It is up to you to take that first step.
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