Judging by the title I am obviously not a fan of Big Pharma. It's all business with the pharmaceutical companies. Drugs don't cure, they only treat, and all man made drugs are poisons to our bodies. The number one killer of the United States is heart disease. The best kept secret is the fact that the number one killer need not exist in the first place. We have literally dug our own graves with our forks.
Cholesterol is a great marker to check to measure your risk of heart disease. You should have a full lipid panel done several times a year to keep score. A full lipid panel consists of a few minutes and a finger prick. I get mine done at my local grocery store every three months for $29.99. The full lipid breaks out your cholesterol into three components HDL (Healthy),LDL (Lethal) and TRIGLYCERIDES. Any calories not used immediately are turned into fat (triglycerides) and stored in your fat cells to be burned as fuel later.
Before I went on The Vegan Fast experiment I had come to the conclusion my high cholesterol was just inevitable. I didn't know how to lower it. I was a distance runner. It was nothing for me to run 26 plus miles in a training run. Why was my cholesterol so high? All my doctor would tell me was continue to exercise and watch what you eat. What the hell does "watch what you eat" mean? So I switched from red meat to chicken and instead of all whole eggs I would use more egg whites. My cholesterol wouldn't go down! What the hell?!
Nothing drives a point home better than watching a loved one wither away and die. While I was half assed trying to figure out my cholesterol my dad had a heart attack and withered away into a frail version of the man he used to be. It wasn't long afterward he died. To this day I will never forget the sight I saw when I went to see him after his open heart surgery. I do not wish that pain and suffering on anyone. At that moment I decided I'm not going out like that.
Fast forward to today my research has gotten me to the mindset that we were meant to eat a plant based diet and we are over nourished. Before The Vegan Fast my total cholesterol was 298. Just plant based eating 3 plus times per day my total number was 202. At the beginning of the fasting process my number went to 166 and now 3 months into the fast my new number is 158. My goal is to get it under 150. There is virtually no risk of heart disease below 150. I am doing this without any big pharma poison such as statins.
Too many doctors are too quick to pick up the prescription pad. They only know what the pharmaceutical rep tells them in a lot of cases. It's a damn shame big broccoli doesn't have any reps. Statins are bad news. Yes they lower LDL, stabilize blood vessels, reduce the risk of narrowed arteries, help fight inflammation and reduces the risk of heart disease and stroke, But on the other side of the coin they also are linked to type 2 diabetes, confusion and memory loss, liver damage and kidney failure when mixed with grapefruit and muscle damage. The side effects of The Vegan Fast are lowering blood pressure, lowered cholesterol levels, stabilized blood glucose, stronger immune system, less need for medications, lower grocery bill and dropping of excess weight.
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