I'm just a lay person from Denmark, Europe. In September 2014 (54 years old) I ended up in the hospital, where doctors said they had never seen anything like it in my age. I had so extreme atherosclerosis all over the body that they would remove my left leg 4 days later and right leg 1 month later and otherwise give me statins, aspirin etc.
In addition, I was prediabetic, too high blood pressure, a smoker, tried every kind of diet included keto, low carb... you name it (in the bodybuilding world) and great pain in all joints and all my lumbar vertebrae are pancake thin (the only thing that keeps me upright, outside a wheelchair and the absence of disc prolapses is that I train bodybuilding and have a really nice portion of muscle mass that keep me together).
Total cholesterol was 290 mg / dl. Today 151mg / dl.
Prediabetic, high blood pressure and pain in all joints disappeared the first 10 days after I had changed my diet to the McDougall diet.
I asked the doctors when the medicine would cure me
They looked strange at me and said it will never cure you. So I asked why should I take it. They did not answer and I walk away with both my legs as a non-smoker and without any medication, because at some point I do not want to sit in a wheelchair, let alone be dependent on some others, if it stands to me, get muscular dystrophy and/or diabetes from the medication. But there should go 2 1/2 years ( April 2017) before I accidentally saw Earthlings on the web and 20 seconds inside the documentary I told myself, What The Health
...never, never again a single bite without knowing what I was supposed to do. In the same second, I had to admit that I had said all my life I love animals was a lie. The true was that I loved selected animals. Today I can truely say I love all animals. Shortly afterwards and again randomly McDougall appeared on the web and I immediately bought the book The Starch Solution and then just started 100% and not a single person has been allowed to cross the decision if it is Christmas, Easter, Birthdays ..... I wanted to be cured, I will never go back and I don't care about what others think and can't they accept it, I just go another way and leave them behind
Am I cured
I think so
I have only 1 thing left: I'm too bloated. I look like someone who is going to give birth to my baby food anytime. I am on the toilet and descending quickly and painlessly with a nice big half-soft mass every day. Maybe I just overeat because I love food and don't get fat from starch, vegetables and fruit and it's close that I overeat broccoli, well not quite, but potatoes are fine - but it hurts physically and also mentally. I have a fat percentage about 18-19% and it should be possible to see my six pack, but no it's just a big food bowl. I have (not 100%) tried to eliminate wheat, rye and barley, and also McDougall's elimination test, but none of them 100% completed. I have been to colonoscopy (and survived) and nothing to find and the doctor talked about the low fodmap and HUSK, but it is not a path I choose as it is too crazy about what I know today and I already get a lots of fibres. I am frustrated
I'm forever grateful to McDougall and hope to meet him and the team someday. I have helped several others along the same path and it warms my heart and I will continue - no matter how bad others take it up. My mission is not to tell others what to do, but my mission is just to tell the truth
From there, for my sake, they can do what suits them.
Thank you so much again. There are no words big enough to thank McDougall but one thing is surely you make the world for a better place to be
AHIMSA Marianne
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