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Donald Flumerfelt; 

Jason, I am touched by your devotion to your father's selfless work. I myself am as guilty as anyone for not sharing my own IBT experiences in the form of a written post. I cannot even figure out why.

Yet take a poll of my co workers, customers, family, relatives, friends, enemies, neighbours, and ask them if they have ever heard me promoting inclined bed therapy and crediting a guy in the UK named Andrew Fletcher. After they finish venting about how my enthusiasm borders on lunacy, they will say "yes" and then immediately tell you they are in a hurry and haven't the time to hear how water REALLY gets to the tops trees taller than a hand pumped well without benefit of a foot valve.

They may however chuckle while relaying my wish that the parking lot where I work was located at the edge of a cliff so I demonstrate for Yale Researchers the concept behind my 80 year old mothers ability to sit and move her left foot onto her right knee without using her hands for the first time in five years.

They may also confide in you that they seriously considered blocking my number and email address for sending a link to a news-clip about a man who regained his ability to walk after ten years of paralysis.

But God forbid you accidentally start this conversation with my friend with MS who some days can barely walk at all. She only recently started speaking to me again after having stopped speaking to me for a year because I would not back off trying to persuade her to let me put blocks under the head end of her bed.

When she told me she did not want to sleep like a bat, I finally realized she had not read any of the links I sent, nor listened to a word I'd said. I am texting this message from my futon sofa which is tilted at 5 degrees.

Amazing I can hold phone above me this long without my fingers going numb like they would have just a year ago. I seriously believe I would have had a heart attack or stroke this past year had it not been for your fathers discovery of the real reasons sheep in a pasture or people on a beach, all lay down with their heads pointing in the same direction.

Meanwhile a guy I know who underwent 3 back surgeries this past year, enjoyed mocking my insistence that 5.5" was the minimum elevation required to realize therapeutic benefit. Three years ago I could not stand up straight without help after planting 200 flowers in squatting position.

Last year I planted 1100 flowers without a single episode of back pain. I wonder why? Life is good today. Thank you Andrew K Fletcher. I have no plans of going on medication for cholesterol, blood pressure, heart disease or a stronger set of corrective lenses anytime soon.

Click here for direct linkt to Video testimonial to Inclined Bed Therapy by Donald Fumerfelt

Transcript from Donald's Radio Testimony to IBT

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So Donald how has inclined bed therapy done
for you?

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Oh it's done really well Andrew and I am actually
lying on my inclined sofa watching my computer.

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I won't give this incline up for anything.
So Steve you would ask people how they have

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gotten on to this thing? Yeah I was trying
to do the exact opposite of what Andrew suggested,

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I had been to the doctor a couple of years
ago and she told me that I was, or she thought

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I was getting heart disease or atherosclerosis
and wanted to put me on the medications that

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are going around for that. I didn't want any
part of that.

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So I had remembered I had rented a home one
time where the bed was actually inclined at

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the foot end by a couple of inches and I thought
I was getting some relief from that, so I

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went on the internet to see if something like
that would help me. The unfortunate thing

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about doing research on the internet is that
I can find anything to corroborate any theory

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I can come up with
That's true

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So I tried to discipline myself to find anything
that corroborates the opposite, so I bumped

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into some of the stuff Andrew had written
up talking about how we are supposed to sleep

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the exact opposite way and I thought oh what
is this and I started to read into it and

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I was like oh my goodness this guy has really
gone into a lot of detail so I had read the

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recommendations to raise the head end of my
bed starting out with a few inches, well I

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couldn't wait, I think I inclined about 4
inches and before bed time I already had it

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up to six or 7"
Ha ha ha

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That's where you belong
Yeah

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ha ha ha Thanks
Well the Doctor had actually told me earlier

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that day that she wasn't getting any pulse
in my right foot and I had an eye stoke about

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six months earlier and she said oh my god,
your arteries are hardening and this is why

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she wanted to put me on the statins as well.
That night I could feel the blood flow tunnelling

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through whatever blockages i was experiencing
in my right foot.

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Then my eyesight started to get better during
the time I had actually managed to quit smoking

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for a little bit
I haven't managed to conquer that one yet.

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But boy I just felt so much better, probably
the thing that most people could identify

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with in my story are the unexpected benefits
as so many of us have had other benefits I

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had a garden where I worked that had about
700 petunia plants and I would squat every

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year to plant these in and I wouldn't get
done with the planting before I was having

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terrible lower back pains and sometimes I
would have to take a full minute just to stand

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up straight.
That winter, I started sleeping inclined with

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the bed head end up six inches and the feet
down. The following spring I planted 1300

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petunia plants not one episode of back pain
at all. Ha ha

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Its incredible
My mother who is now 81 this was a couple

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of years ago that I started this and I was
talking to her about it and oh I think anybody

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who has tried to become an inclined bed therapy
evangelist has run into this I mean, people

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think I am a cook it's almost like I got a
reputation

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Yeah
Like you know so anyway that's ok because

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the couple of people that have tried it and
benefited makes it all worth while and hearing

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from people on this show also is really great
and I told my mother about this and so she

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tried it and then as always all the benefits
are always preceded by a a little a little

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discomfort like going to the gym and working
out. And then all of a sudden there's a benefit.

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My mother was all set to put it back down
she was having pain in her back from this.

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After about 6 days and on the 7th day she
came out of the shower in the morning sat

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down to clip her toe nails and said oh my
goodness I was able to lift my left foot up

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onto my right knee without having to use my
hands.

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Ha ha ha
Wow

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I haven't been able to do that in five years.
he he he

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Now she is telling me that her balance is
increasing tremendously so now I am starting

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to do my own offshoot quasi enthusiast research
which I am looking up, you know how blood

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circulation affects the vestibular and there
is so many directions we can go in. Anyway,

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I tend to be long winded and that's my story.,
Brilliant, thank you very much Donald

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Sure
We didn't hear where does Donald live?

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Oh I'm in New Haven Connecticut Terri.
Yeah another Yankee here

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I'm in Ohio
Your in among friends, we have
a lot of American listeners and American hosts

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and some are especially first nations people
so yeah way we look at Awake is that all races

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cultures and religions we have all got to
come together and share this kinda knowledge

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because certainly the powers that be we call
them certainly don't want us to be healthy

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it would appear.
The government doesn't want us healthy.

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Yeah, what it is, is a sickness industry,
if we are all well, they are out of business.

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That's right
Did you say how long you had been doing the

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therapy Donald?
Let's see I, when did I first contact you

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Andrew about 2 years ago?
Yeah it's been about 2 years.

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As a matter of fact yeah I only discovered
it recently Terri I couldn't believe that

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when I discovered it about two and a half
years ago and Andrew had been working on it

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since like the 1990's It's like oh my god
where have I been?

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Yeah so anyway it's been about 2 and a half
years.

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I have been doing this since 1998 Don
Well it certainly seems that there is an initial

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effects that can be quite a positive, obviously
over the long term you know you have got to

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be patient with it I think.
Yes

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The first two weeks can be problematic for
some people as Donald said it feels like you

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have been working out in the gymnasium, your
muscles are aching, you can get a stiff neck,

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I remember getting a stiff neck =, but I also
remember one of the days we took the lads

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down to the beach and the lads had skate boards
and I had a bull terrier pulling them up and

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down the beach and I was running in front
shouting the dog and the dog was a big powerful

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dog pulling the lads at tremendous speed and
the dog was falling on the floor completely

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done in and when I got back I said oh the
poor dog.

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I remember Jude saying how come you are not
out of breath? Why have you done all of this

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and you are not out of breath?
And another thing that we noticed as that

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if we walked up the hill we would normally
ache and with bags filled with shopping we

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would pull over and stop, but now we were
able to carry on without stopping so you know

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that the benefits are quite remarkable.
Yeah

NY, USA

2015-07-29

WORKS WELL FOR MY HUSBAND AGE 70  
NOTHING BUT PRAISE, I NEED TO DO MY KING SIZE AND MY SONS DOUBLE.

NOTHING BUT PRAISE, I NEED TO DO MY KING SIZE AND MY SONS DOUBLE.

THANKS ANDREW FOR SHARING YOUR WONDERFUL DEEP LEARNING AND CREATIVE IDEA.  LINDA