Dave's Story

I want to let know Dr. Fuhrman how grateful I am for his videos and his tutelage. I’m recovering from a heart attack I had at the end of March. I’m 64 years old. I spent 2 1/2 days in the hospital and it cost $95,000. I had a diabetes diagnosis 2 1/2 years ago. The doctor phoned in a prescription for metformin and said good luck, without any lifestyle information or any recommendation beyond the medication. I decided to go on a low-carb diet. That diet consisted of a lot of animal protein. I absolutely love barbecue. I ate a lot of burnt meat on that diet. My A1c did in fact drop as did some weight. However, I felt absolutely awful. My sleep went to crap, I just didn’t feel good.

After 2 1/2 years on that diet. I had a heart attack. When I went to my cardiologist, I asked him did this low-carb diet have anything to do with my heart attack . He said absolutely not. It’s just genetics. He showed me videos of my echocardiogram and all the clogged vessels. I went home very depressed. I thought now I have diabetes and high blood pressure and heart disease and obesity. Why do I have four different things? And by the way, these are the four greatest indications of a short life. And I have literally all four of them. Then I started to wonder, maybe it’s not four different diseases. Maybe it’s all the same thing? That gave me a little bit of hope.

As fate would have it, I had breakfast with a friend. I hadn’t seen in 40 years. He was the best man at my wedding. He walked into the restaurant and I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. He’s my height he’s my age and I’ll bet he weighs 140 pounds. And he’s got muscle. I was astounded. I actually weighed 191 pounds at the time. I asked him if he was following any type of regiment. He said that he was on a “nutritarian” diet. And the doctor was Dr. Joel Fuhrman.

 So, I started looking at some of Dr.Fuhrman's videos and everything just clicked. I was already shopping mostly in the produce aisle. But here’s what happened in the first week. I had chronic indigestion. I was on three different medications, light, medium, and heavy. Indigestion went away in the second day. I had a rash behind my knees that would happen after eating. My doctor was going to send me to a dermatologist. That really frustrated me I knew it had nothing to do with my skin.So that rash went away. After about a week. Afternoon naps, which was every day, went away. Sometimes I’ll lie down and just think why am I doing this? I’m not tired. I started focusing on G bombs. It’s just such an easy acronym to understand and follow. I know I need to fine-tune my diet, but I am eating 90 percent nutritarin. I’m down to 163 pounds. My LDL went from 140 down to 38, dropped my statins by 50 percent. By the end of the year, I want to be off the statins and the blood pressure medicine. I’m also going through cardiac rehab. My days are filled with diets and dietitians. Sometimes I have to grit my teeth and hold my tongue. They’re not always in concert with what Dr. Fuhrman recommends. But I take what I can and I leave the rest. I’m not going to convince those dietitians or those doctors. They want me to eat fish they want me to eat animals, and they want me to eat lots of dairy. I just stick with my beans, nuts and seeds.

A smart person told me that information plus experience equals wisdom. That’s what’s happening in my life right now. I can’t say I’m grateful to have had a heart attack, but I don’t think anything short of that would’ve gotten me to wake up and see that I was not in a healthy place. I don’t know what the future is going be, but I feel like I could live a very long life. My hope is that I can be an inspiration to the people that I love, my children, my family members, and my friends. Again, I’ll never convince them that they need to do radical things to change their lives, but it’s interesting because eating a plant-based diet really isn’t very radical. It’s what we were designed and built to eat. I hope I can be an inspiration to some of your readers or some of your followers.

I went on vacation with my family and I just packed up my nuts and my hemp Chia and flaxseed. This diet is not hard to follow. And I can expand it with so many helpful recipes that you have available and many others too. I will say one thing that helped me more than anything. I am a recovering heroin addict. When Dr. Fuhrman talked about refined carbohydrates and oils entering your bloodstream at 50 calories a minute as opposed to whole plant-based foods at one calorie a minute it really clicked with me. The standard American diet with the process food industry has made food addicts out of hundreds of millions of people and they don’t even know it.

Cheers to Dr. Fuhrman Thank goodness you’re on the planet. Thank goodness I have a friend that pointed me in your direction. I can’t say I’m grateful for the heart attack, but I will say I am grateful for the way. I’m living now. I feel hopeful for the first time in a long, long time.

 

 

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