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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I feel in my heart you mean well, but this kind of anecdotal information is not only terribly misleading but dangerous. You would never want to be the cause of someone's harming himself by accepting this story at face value, I just know you would not. We must be so careful in our giving advice like this. There are all kinds of degrees to everything. A cardiologist and only a cardiologist could make that call.
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Gracie, do you really think anyone would do that without consulting a Dr.?
A stent can put the fire out and saves lives that's a fact, but what Dr, Esseltyn, Campbel and Orish are advocating is the long term cure is a plant based diet. Now you need not take to level I take it but if you did eliminate certain foods there would be an improvement.
The goal in heart & stroke related illness is for the most part a reduction of plaque in the circulatory system.
This can be clearly achieved thru diet.
Two months ago a good friend of mine who was somewhat interested in trying it due his blood results at the same his dr recommended the popular statin drug Crestor wanting his cholesterol reading reduced.
They did drop to about 105 but shortly after that blood test he noticed bone & joint pain then he had a few beers and got a severe gout attack.
Went to all the doctors they found nothing.
He & I Googled Gout +crestor, wow it is known side effect along with bone pain.
He dropped the drug under his doctors care, pain is almost gone he tried having a beer no pain in big toe (gout), I told him more independent testing is required on how many beers he can have, he is researching happy hour locations
Drugs v diet????
No please don't go off on me, certain drugs are a necessity.
We did this under close supervision by our local Doctors, including blood work more often and I followed my BP at home on a CVS unit that could download Excel spreadsheets to my Dr. I also consulted with Dr. Esselsyn directly over the phone 3 times in the past year.
I'm only leading you to info, it's your choice.
