When My Cells Woke Up — How Nutritional Supplements Gave Me Something I'd Never Had Before: A Zest for Live
- evennow
- 18 hours ago
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If you read my post about the German adventure last summer, you may remember a brief mention of meeting Petra Nagel-Metzingen in a café in Stuttgart, talking about gut health for four hours, and starting a new supplement called Daily BioBasics shortly afterwards. What I didn't tell you then — because I hadn't yet fully understood it myself — is what happened next. This post is that story. And it is, without question, the most important thing I have written on this blog.
All my life, I have been THE most difficult person to wake up.
My mother would come to my room up to eight times on a school morning before I would finally, reluctantly, emerge from sleep. Even then I would walk to the bathroom blindly — es war mir schwarz vor Augen — my blood pressure so low that I could literally not see until I sat down on the toilet and slowly let my body remember that it was alive. I would sit there, squinting, rubbing my eyes — which always hurt when the light hit them — waiting for the world to come back into focus.
Later in life I worked night shifts for sixteen years. You might think that sleeping through the day would be different — easier, perhaps, or simply different in quality. It wasn't. No matter how long I had slept, no matter how well, waking up was always a fight. Several alarms, set long before I actually needed to rise, just so I had enough time to drag myself back into the land of the living. My partner would sometimes joke: "You're late for your flight!" — the only words guaranteed to make me leap out of bed immediately, because nothing else worked.
Everyone who has ever seen me in the morning can confirm this. It was simply who I was.
Looking back now, I can say that it honestly felt as though I had severe difficulties every single morning to incarnate into my body — to come back from the other side and be a functioning human again. I could see that other people woke up differently. I watched them — bright-eyed, present, ready — and somewhere deep inside I had simply accepted that this was not available to me. That I was different. That my body didn't work that way, and never would.
I was wrong.
In August 2025, during a road trip through Germany with my friend Claudia, I met Petra Nagel-Metzingen for the first time in person. We had only ever spoken online, and what started as a spontaneous coffee turned into a four-hour conversation about gut health that nearly made us late for a Chris de Burgh concert. Petra introduced me to Lifeplus — a company producing high-quality nutritional supplements — and I went home with a recommendation to try the Daily Plus (known in the UK as Daily BioBasics).
I wasn't expecting miracles. I was simply looking for something to support my gut health.
About two weeks after starting the Daily Plus, something shifted. It was so quiet at first that I almost missed it. I just... had more energy through the day. Ideas came, and I acted on them. My friend Claudia noticed before I did — she kept commenting on how much I was doing, how I kept going without getting tired. I wasn't consciously doing anything differently. My body was simply behaving in a new way.
And then one morning, something happened that I still find almost impossible to describe.
I became aware that I was awake. There was a moment of realisation — and then my eyes just opened. By themselves. Without a fight. Without the burning, the squinting, the darkness before my eyes. I looked towards the window. I saw the blue sky.
And I couldn't wait to get up.
I lay there for a moment, genuinely astonished. Because in my whole life, in fifty-four years of mornings, I had never once experienced that. I didn't know that a person could simply open their eyes and be there. Fully present. Fully themselves. From the very first moment of the day.
It felt as though my body, my cells, had an energy source of their own for the first time — and they were using it to cheer me on. Come on! DO something with this day! BE someone! Live this day, make it count!
I added Proanthenols 100 about a month later, and the energy increased again. These two — Daily BioBasics and Proanthenols 100 — are now my non-negotiables, every single day. I have since added MSM Plus as a regular supplement, which I believe is also helping with the underlying back pain I have carried since two protruded discs at the age of eighteen.
I also completed a sixteen-day gut cleanse using Cogelin, Parabalance and MSM Plus. The results were exactly what you might hope for — improved digestion, greater regularity, a feeling of lightness and even more energy. Others noticed that the bags under my eyes diminished noticeably. While dealing with my melanoma diagnosis, I also took Discovery, a supplement derived from the Astragalus root, which I found deeply supportive during that time. (I want to be very clear: I am sharing my own personal experience only, and I make no health or healing claims whatsoever. Please always consult your doctor.)
I have also seen beautiful results in the people closest to me. My partner takes MSM Plus, Proanthenols 100, TVM Plus and Joint Care, and his arthritic joint pain has noticeably reduced. My mother — who has been dealing with hip pain, high blood pressure, arteriosclerosis, lung emphysema, and a history of both breast and skin cancer — takes TVM Plus, Proanthenols 100, EPA Plus, MSM Plus, Discovery and X-Cell. For the first time in a long time, her blood values are almost normal. Her HbA1c has improved significantly. Her blood pressure is now normal to low, and she has been able to reduce her medication in consultation with her GP. Most remarkably, her kidney function — which had dropped dangerously due to years of painkiller overuse — has improved from 60% back to 70%. She is, as she puts it herself, very happy.
As the energy grew and the mornings became something to look forward to, something else began to happen — something I had never experienced before in my life.
I started to want things.
Real things. Goals. Dreams.
It began on the driving range. My coach told me early on that I had real talent — that I could easily become as good as the two best women in the club. I didn't believe him at first. But then I watched my own balls fly high and straight, and strangers began approaching me to ask whether I was heading out to play. And something stirred in me that I can only describe as ambition — a word that had genuinely never applied to me before.
How good am I, actually? How good could I become? Could I win a tournament? Why not? Let's find out just how good I can be.
That last sentence — let's find out just how good I can be — was completely new to me. All my life I had settled for less. As a teenager I played hockey, handball and tennis, all of them quite well, but I never aspired to be truly excellent. Why would I? I had already absorbed, somewhere deep in my subconscious, the belief that I was not good enough — a belief I have spent ten years working to release through hypnotherapy, PSYCH-K® and other modalities. It had stopped me from reaching for the top in every area of my life. It had kept me as a Night Manager for sixteen years, when everyone around me said I should aim higher.
Now, on the driving range, for the first time, I wanted to aim higher. And I still do. I want my handicap, I want to play competitions, I want to discover just how far I can go.
I need to share three moments with you, because each one taught me something I could not have learned any other way.
The first came with my melanoma diagnosis. My friend Claudia asked if I was OK after speaking with the dermatologist, and I said yes, sure — but I knew I wasn't, and I took a moment to understand why. When I had breast cancer, I faced it as a project, almost an adventure in alternative healing. I was not afraid of dying. If it had gone badly, that would have been acceptable to me. At that point in my life — and honestly, for most of my life before that — I was simply OK with dying. I had always seen it as going home. Something to look forward to, even.
This time was different.
This time, I was annoyed. Almost angry. Because I had other plans. I wanted to find out how good I could become at golf. Having my leg cut open was not part of that plan — it was an inconvenience, a delay, an interruption to something important. It sounds almost funny, and it felt somewhat surreal to me too. But in that moment I understood something profound: the difference between the two diagnoses was that this time, I had a goal. And cancer was standing in the way of it. For me as a therapist, this was also an extraordinary gift — because until that moment, I had not truly understood from the inside how a cancer diagnosis feels when you have things you want to live for.
The second moment came one ordinary day in my office, when I heard something on the radio about the possibility of a third World War. Now — my mother has been fascinated by prophecies and visions of a third World War since I was a small child. I have heard about every seer and mystic who has ever spoken on the topic. And my response, all my life, had been to wave it away: either I survive or I don't, and I'll deal with it when it happens. I genuinely could not be bothered with the subject.
This time, listening to the radio, I felt something completely different rise up in me.
We can't be having a World War now! I have things to do! I need to become as good at golf as I possibly can, and I need to share Lifeplus with as many people as possible so that they too can feel this alive!
The strength of that response astonished me. That I have other plans feeling — I had never felt it before. Not once in fifty-four years.
The third moment was the quiet one that came after — the deep realisation that the other two had been building towards. I understood, perhaps for the first time with full clarity, that I had been meandering through life for fifty-four years without ever truly having a goal or a dream of my own. Life had always simply happened to me. I had followed the current, never steered the boat. That was why I could never fill a dream collage. I had no dreams to put in it. And that realisation — though it was painful — was also one of the most liberating moments of my life. Because if it was beliefs and mindset, absorbed in early childhood, that had created this, then it could be changed. It was being changed. Right now, in real time.
What struck me most deeply was this: these insights did not arrive during years of PSYCH-K®, hypnotherapy, meditation, or breathwork — all of which I had been doing seriously for a long time. They arrived when I added high-quality nutrition to the equation. When my cells finally received what they had always needed. It was my body that woke up first — and then it woke me up.
I want to share one final reflection, because I think it may resonate with many of you.
When I was young, I believed that if I could only learn enough — accumulate enough wisdom, enough spiritual knowledge — I would eventually reach enlightenment. This hunger led me to study esoteric books since I was a teenager, then to a priest seminary, then into coaching and hypnotherapy and most recently PSYCH-K®.
Later, when my partner had cancer, I began to understand nutrition — but only as fuel. Bricks and mortar for the body to keep functioning.
When I had breast cancer myself, I learned the importance of emotions — of feeling them fully, moving through them, not blocking them out. I began to understand that suppressed emotion can manifest as illness.
And now, at what feels like the final piece of the puzzle: I understand that when the body — when the cells themselves — truly receive what they need, everything else follows. The spirit lifts. The soul expands. The lid comes off.
All my life up to the age of fifty-four, I never felt truly energised. It was more I must carry on than I can't wait to begin. My limiting beliefs had curtailed not just my dreams, but my entire experience of being alive. I had searched in the spirit world for what was, in the end, waiting for me in my own cells. It confirmed what I have always believed, that we have a universe in each one of our cells, even in each of our atoms that make up our cells, and they can obviously speak louder and clearer to me than the observable universe around me... why did I look so far, when the answer was always so close, within myself?
Now I feel like a rocket on the launchpad, ready to take off. And Lifeplus Daily BioBasics, Proanthenols 100 and MSM Plus are my daily rocket fuel. 🚀
(Daily BioBasics is sold in Germany as Daily Plus, it confused me at first!)
I am sharing this not to sell you something, but because I genuinely believe that many people are living a smaller version of their life than they are capable of — and they don't even know it. Just as I didn't know. You may have tried everything for your mindset and your mood and your energy. But if you haven't yet given your cells the nutrition they are crying out for, you may not yet have found the missing piece.
If you are curious about Lifeplus, I would love to have a conversation with you. There is no pressure and no obligation — just an open door.
And if this story has moved something in you, please share it. You never know whose cells might be waiting to wake up. 🌿
Love and light, Tanya 🤗
PS: And for any golfers reading — here is the swing itself. Four coaching lessons in. Judge for yourselves... 😄
And yes, I am aware that the truth will reveal itself on the course, I am just enjoying each little success along the way! ✨
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