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Dennis your efforts are comendable if I might give a few suggestions, I have been working with nutrition in my practice for 20 years. The program you are following is very good. 3 years ago I found out I had a 90, 95, and many 20,30and 40% blockages in my heart the 90 and 95 were at a tee and a stent was not an option as opening one would block the other. Even if a stent could be used I would not have had it done as overall morbidity is not improved. I started a reversal diet total vegatarian no white flower or sugar no oil of any kind. I lost 80lbs and my cholesteral is 122 the goal should be <150. Sum suggestions: If it had a face or a mother don't eat it as the animal protiens play a big part in causing heartattacks, soy milk is a great replacment for cows milk, stay away from fruit juice too much sugar, a few nuts are ok but they are mostly all fat,you can get a sweet treat once in awhile by having a piece of dark chocolate the darker the better. of course the real challenge is eating out. You can almost always find a subway wherever you are they have salads and no fat dressing sweet onoin and honey mutard they also have a veggie sandwhich and alot have veggie patty sand. you can eat chinese, steamed veggie and brown rice, veggie pizza no cheese also around her there are several mexican chains that all have vegatarian food Baja Freash, qdoba, and California tortilla These diets are not easy but the fact is 95% of all degenerative disease could be avoided with diet. Also there is no problem eating carrots or potatoes unless thats all you eat and that would be the same for anything. thanks and keep with it
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kwschumm genetic predisposition is definitly important but good genetics can be overcome with poor diet and life style very easily. Also you say your cholesterol is as good as any, good in this case can be a relative term many physicians think a total cholesterol of 200 is good. It really should be < = to 150 to really lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. weight ,cholesterol levels and amount of excercise are also not always good indicators of health remember Jim Fix. Studies have shown at autopsy that the average american male has the beginings of cardiovascular disease by age 21. The only way you can truly know your situation is by having a heart cath done or some advanced imaging which is not offered everywhere. Bypasses alone are temporary at best because you have not stopped the reason for the blockage in the first place. Also you are trying to make a vien work like an artery and they have very different morphology. Not to mention what happens in your brain when they clamp off your aorta an all the sludge in it is pushed up into your brain.
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Dennis I have not had another heart cath done because of the risk involved. This is the test I would need to have a valid comparison. I am going to have a stress test in feb and am considering some imaging eventhough I don't have an original to compare to it would be a good baseline going into the future. I have seen before and after cath studies on other patients on the same program and there is reversal noted. You will not go from 90% to 10% but the important thing is the lesion does not progress. The vast majority of MIs come not from 80 and 90% blocks but from the 30,40 and 50s these are more dangerous since they are less mature and can rupture much more easily.
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Kwschumm you are correct cholesterol only plays apart in cv disease the # one component is animal protiens and enzymes that cause the plaques to rupture. In areas of the world like rural china and pre wwII japan where the diet is totally plant based there was and is no cv disease.
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Update on reversal diet. I had a stress test last week. It has now been 3 years on a plant based diet. results are as follows:
1. Uncontrolled BP of 225/156 on many meds now
124/80 on a few meds
2. lost 80lbs
3. cholesterol from 230 to 125, LDL from 143 to 56
4. no digestive problems and work like I did 25
years ago
5. Last but not least noted increase in perfusion
of heart in area effected before by plaques.
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Dennis good to hear from you. I am doing well, into this program about 6 1/2 years now. Gained back about 16 of the 80 pounds I lost. I also do not excecise as much as I should. Since we last spoke I bought a 40ft Motorhome and have been traveling alot. Just bought my 13 yr old a Cub Cadet 1872 super garden tractor. We have enjoyed puttering around with it this past month. Still have the Mustang he won't let me sell it and it will still keep up with traffic if need be. Thanks for the up date.
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Dennis sorry it took so long to get back to you I was traveling. I strongly recomend the motorhome. Yes I am still a vegan and would also strongly recommend you give up the meat and dairy very bad with HBP and cardio disease. switch to soy milk also need to watch total fruit intake due to high amount of sugar. I also watch salgt. My situation is different my wife is the food nazi in my house and won't let me eat bad foods.
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