JimLow

During the early 1990s, I marketed an outdoors product I invented and that I formed a small corporation to manufacture and sell called the "Rod Floater" (now a registered Trademark). I got the product into Wal-Mart, Bass Pro Shops, Cabela's and Academy Stores, all of which still carry it and I landed a national promotion for the product with Kerr-McGee Oil company who used the product to promote their outboard motor oil in 1992.

In 1996 I licensed the product to TTI-Blakemore, a fishing tackle conglomerate, from which I am still paid royalties today. I marketed five additional products, also getting these into Wal-Mart stores and afterward sold them outright to other companies. I was featured in the May/June 2001 issue of Inventors Digest.

I received a diploma from Liberty University for completion of theological studies in 1996.

In 2003 I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism; "Hashimoto's thyroiditis" being the cause. This autoimmune form of thyroid disease that causes destruction of the thyroid gland resulted in my also developing "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome", due to a compromised immune system with severe co-morbid "Adrenal Fatigue". I suffered severe anxiety symptoms, including panic attacks early into the onset of Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Hashitoxicosis). A common heart murmur I was diagnosed with in my teens called "Mitral Valve Prolapse", also worsened in severity of symptoms, with the development of these other health disorders.

My eventual receiving of a diagnosis was a difficult process with proper diagnostic testing not being ordered by the first doctors I sought treatment from. These types of issues were inspiration for me to become proactive in my own health care and to self-educate myself on these health disorders, which I have done extensively since 2003. I now enjoy sharing this information with other patients experiencing my same health disorders through online articles, books, e-book and audio health-title resources I have published.