know anyone with cholesterol problems?

Dear Shaklee Friends,

The following is a letter I sent this week to a few people and after getting their response I felt I really should share this with more people.

Bob got his blood tests back and his total cholesterol has gone from 234 to132 in about a 3 month period. That’s a real miracle! And his LDL (the bad cholesterol) went from149 to 73. His ratio of good to bad cholesterol went from 5.1 to 2.9. Most of you were aware that Bob had 80% blockage in his carotid artery and had surgery April 6.

He changed his high carb, high fat, high pop diet (carbs is the major culprit in producing excess cholesterol more so than fatty foods much to everyone’s surprise), to eating more veggies, fruit and lean protein and a glass of wine most days and started taking higher amounts of the supplements especially the Fiber Plan and Soy (2-3 times a day), OmegaGuard (fish oil 6-9), Stress Relief (3) and Red Yeast Rice (4), GLA (6), CoQHeart (3), Lecithin (6) He also does the B, C, E, NutriFeron, Alfalfa, Garlic etc. Much to the Doctors dismay he opted not to go on the cholesterol lowering drugs or blood pressure medication and 2 or 3 other drugs!! Standard protocol. His cardiologist said that supplements were great but that it would be impossible to get his LDL down to 70 without drugs. I’m so anxious to wave the test results under his nose! Well maybe I won’t do exactly that! Ha

His blood pressure went from being in the 140 -160 + over 85-100 range to124 over 68. Bob is also paying more attention to exercise. And a great side benefit has been weight loss … he’s loving this.

All of this (diet, supplements, exercise) will help prevent the building up of more plaque etc. However it’s the chelation treatments (You can look this treatment up on the internet or check out books on the subject) that he is now taking that will be the biggest factor in hopefully removing some of the existing plaque and clean out his arteries. He’s on his 5^th treatment tomorrow …. Total of about 30 is what is recommended. (Insurance again will not cover this)

We are praising the Lord!

Lorri

PS: A couple things that I should add. Bob went for a yearly physical in January and everything checked out okay according to his internist … only comments that his blood pressure and cholesterol were on the high side. A couple weeks later we went to a “Life Line” screening at a local church where they do ultrasound checks for artery problems etc. This is how the blocked artery was discovered. >From there he had many more tests run. I would highly recommend the Life Line Screening as an inexpensive and beneficial way of detecting problems … go to : http://www.lifelinescreening.com/

Another thing that would be wise for most people to have done is to have the 64 Slice CT Scan (Generally not covered by insurance unless you are a heart patient), which takes pictures of your arteries and can show plaque buildup etc. … this was talked about at length on the Oprah Winfrey show about a month or so ago. Again you can “google” this and get more info. Make sure you ask for the “64 Slice CT Scan” as this is the latest version and much more powerful in it’s abilities to detect problems.

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