I met Jim Strauss Sr. in person after almost 5 months taking Strauss Heart Drops, in Kamloops B.C.
I had talked to Jim on the phone several times before. The first time was months earlier when my Standard poodle dog became very ill, possibly poisoned.
After all medication failed to help the dog, if fact the Vet said they had given the dog too much of the last medication and likely destroyed his kidneys and liver. Jim sent me Strauss Kidney and Strauss Liver formulas, which I mixed with his food. To my amazement and joy, the dog was better and back to his old self in just a few days. When I called Jim to tell him the formula’s worked and my dog was well again, Jim said yes, they will fix your dog, your mother in law or a giraffe!
The second time was regarding my dad, who was in Cleveland Clinic Hospital in Fort Lauderdale Florida, with what he was told were gall bladder troubles. He had so much pain, he could not stand the discomfort of bed sheets on his stomach.
When I told Jim he said “ no they are wrong”. He asked me to call my father and ask him to get a mirror and see if his tongue was coated white, which it was. Jim said to ask him what vitamins, pharma’s and supplements dad was taking that hurt him by penetrating his stomach lining. Jim said dad should use European sauerkraut ( salt and cabbage only, no wine or vinegar which Jim said would hurt him), by taking 2-3 mouthfuls before every meal or snack. Jim said dad would have a new stomach lining within 10 days and ail no more. Well he was right. After only two doses of sauerkraut my dad felt better and checked himself out of the hospital the next day, pain gone.
A couple of years before Jim passed, he told me he had found 3 antibiotic herbs in the B.C. interior, but we had no use for them yet. When I asked Jim what he meant, he said there were no diseases or ailments requiring these herbs. When I asked what this meant to him, he replied, there are more diseases coming, since nature provides everything for a reason and provides everything our bodies will ever need.
Jim and I were riding the train back from Kamloops to Niagara after I first went to Kamloops to meet Jim for the first time and tell him I wanted to be involved with Strauss helping people. I was feeling so good myself and was excited to spread the word about Strauss Heart Drops. The train stopped in Jasper and we got off. Jim smoked cigarettes until his early eighties and was about to light one when we got off the train. The conductor, who had heard Jim speaking to people about health on the train said “ Mr Strauss you smoke?” Jim told him “if you go fishing today and catch two fish, you can have a fine lunch with one, but the second will spoil quickly, unless you smoke the fish. Therefore (he jokingly said with a straight face), smoke preserves the flesh”. The conductor said “but the fish is dead!”. Jim said “ oh you have all the answers” as he lit his cigarette.
Jim and I were driving after the first CHFA we attended together in Toronto when a news report said Dolly the Cloned sheep had died at age 3, earlier than sheep usually die. It went on to say, Dolly had developed arthritis in her legs at a young age and the report concluded saying Health Canada was reviewing several applications to clone animals for our food. Surprised myself, I asked Jim if he’d heard the radio report. He didn’t answer so I asked him again and he shouted “ they will create monsters”. Jim believed that if anything wasn’t natural, it wasn’t good. My Grandmother believed and preached the same to us as children and I believe it without question.
The day I first met Jim in Kamloops, I noticed an A & W hamburger restaurant across the street from Strauss. I always liked the A & W so I asked Jim if we could go there for lunch. We went across the street and I ordered, Jim declined, but the young lady serving me recognized Jim and said “ you’re Mr. Strauss, how are you?” Jim said “ always well because of people like you”J
Jim could be a little sarcastic at times as well. Jim was interviewed on television with Dr. Leo Roy, the Godfather of Natural Medicine in Canada and during their discussion Dr Roy asked Jim if Jim had seen Dr Roy’s “ Pyramid of Health” ( this was a pyramid shaped triangle, using blocks showed the various foods and other important things to maintain good health). Jim said yes that he had and when Dr Roy asked Jim what he thought of it, Jim said “ its good except for the honey” ( Dr Roy placed honey near the top of the pyramid to emphasize the importance). Dr Roy asked Jim “ what’s your issue with Honey?” Jim said “ the honey can turn from solid to liquid an infinite number of times and not spoil, therefore the bees put a natural preservative in it, its not for us, its for other creatures like bears and honey badgers”. Jim then said, “ the bees didn’t have refrigerators, nobody told them about them”. Dr Roy was somewhat shocked and said he hadn’t thought about the fact the honey had a preservative in it. In my experience Jim surprised many with things they hadn’t thought of before.
Jim always maintained the two things causing cancer and many other health issues are chemicals and genetically modified foods. We are surrounded with chemicals in the air, on our foods, in our foods, in our homes-we wash with them, clean with them and in our grocery chain stores today, 93% of all items are or contain genetically modified organisms. We have no parts to handle chemicals, no glass tanks or plastic or stainless in our bodies. Jim always felt GMO foods were harmful, not so much for what they did contain, but what they are missing, such as enzymes. He explained enzymes are the building blocks of life and if we have too few or none, we would perish. Everyone knows we cannot duplicate nature and in fact, nature doesn’t duplicate itself. No two identical humans, pine trees, snowflakes or anything else. It is natures diversity that gives us and natures trees and crops their strength. GMO foods have no immune systems of their own and therefore make our own immune systems ever weaker. Hence cancers and all other diseases, are on the rise.
Jim always said the big difference between pharma drugs and natural remedies was, pharma drugs dealt with our symptoms and not the root of our trouble, change our bodies functions by masking symptoms, whereas natural medicine support our own bodies systems to heal themselves.
Jim started each lecture with “ if you are not made from it, it cannot fix you and to expect chemical drugs to heal us is like taking your car to the lumber yard to fix with 2 x 4’s”.
God Bless Jim. He never once told me anything that didn’t prove to be true. My relationship with Jim and what he taught me had a profound effect on my life!