I thought that would get you curious, the C word is Cholesterol! I had my results earlier this week, from the previous blood tests, which I had done after the last fast I was on, and the results were... My fasting blood sugar was excellent according to the doctor, but his conversation went something like this, SOME really good results (me "Some!!!") so he continues to tell me that my diabetic control is excellent but my Cholesterol is high? and I have to say that I was rather confused at this point, but he pointed out that if it was his result and with him being non diabetic he would be happy with the result, so now i am thinking so it is not bad or high after all and I was right in my books 6 is a good reading for Cholesterol, given my age and the fact that I am a diabetic, I am extremely happy with a reading of 6, so why was my doctor not so happy? well for one I discovered that he was under the impression that I was still taking metformin for my diabetes (stopped 12 months ago) and apparently if you are taking diabetic medication this should also keep your cholesterol readings down, but I am still confused and feeling that I know where he is going with this conversation, I am starting to bite my tongue just a little, to stop myself from telling him where to put those statin tablets he is trying to push onto me. So he pulls out some of my past readings, the one from when my diabetic control was quite frankly "shit" and that was about 18 months ago, so back then my diabetic control was in the 10's and my cholesterol was in the high 7's almost 8 so I agree that even though at the time I was taking diabetic medication my diabetes was not controlled and I felt like crap to boot!, I also remember my doctor trying to give me some more medication at the time for the cholesterol, he even wrote me a script, but as my mother use to say "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink" and this was me, he could write all the scripts he liked but I didn't bother to get it filled. No instead, I did even more research into fixing my cholesterol and diabetes, that is about the time I found Joe Cross, watched his movie "Fat sick and Nearly dead" and turned my life around (go me!!!) so the doctor then pulls out the results from the blood tests done 12 months ago after the 28 days fasting on Vegetable juices and points out that my cholesterol was only 4.6! but even then he says that if you are a person of my age and having diabetes that ideally my cholesterol would be 4? has anyone got a reading of 4? I was ecstatic with the reading of 4.6 eighteen months ago, and like I said I am happy with my reading of 6 but to halt the script writing doctor from reaching for his pen (actually the scripts are just a push of the button on the computer now but that doesn't sound as good now does it ?) we tried to work out what was different this time, and the only thing I could put it down to was, that for the 28 days of the original fasting (and a little while before hand too) I was taking 1000mg of Krill oil in the form of a capsule, I am pretty sure that Dr Mercola actually recommended it when I was researching the lowering of Cholesterol 18 months ago. So I have made a pact with the doctor that I will continue to juice fast intermittently in the next 2 months and take a daily Krill oil capsule, and see if the next cholesterol readings are as low as they were when I first began fasting. I was really tempted to start talking about all these doctors that have had cases of patients having really high Cholesterol all their life (like 9 and 10) and living into their 90's, but my doctor gets a bit defensive about the whole thing and assures me that it is because he doesn't want to be visiting me at the Manning Base hospital after I have had a heart attack. Mind you he then did my blood pressure and no surprise it was up, and he even laughed and said it was probably up due to the conversation we had been having, and I have to agree, nothing like the mention of Statin drugs to get me started. So I have some home work to do for the doctor for the next two months and that is to get my Cholesterol down and my blood pressure down, and I am confident that I can do both those things. I like my doctor, he knows me and knows that I will try to do anything within my power to keep my health in check while trying my hardest not to take pills, so it makes his job easier, I have been going to this doctor since he started at the practice 22 years ago and he has moved from the dingy little corridor office at he back of the building to the front spacious office, and he is now the popular doctor to see as it takes over 2 weeks to get an appointment, but one thing that hasn't changed in 22 years, is his bloody scales, they are ancient and he says the same thing each and every time he weighs you, " hop on they are 2 kilos out" and they are too, exactly 2 kilos out, at first I use to think he was just saying that to make you feel better but I always weigh myself on the wii before going to the doctors, I have mentioned that he should get new scales, I am sure that the practice can afford it, anyway regardless of the age of the scales he was really happy that my weight this week was exactly the same as it was 12 months ago, and he is very happy with that, I am happy to know that I can actually loose more weight and have been lower in the last 12 months maybe I will surprise him in the next 2 months with not only lower blood pressure and lower cholesterol but lower weight as well, then I will be his gold star patient for sure! Something new the now computer savvy doctors have is a program or an app that gives the likely hood of a patient having a heart attack according to their blood tests, so given that my health at the present is about the best it has been in the last 16 years (time I have been diabetic) my doctor gives me the statistic that I have a 17% risk of having a heart attack he also reckons this is a 1 in 5 chance ( I don't think his numbers add up ) but it makes me think back to when my diabetic control was "Shit" and my weight was about 28 kilos heavier, what would my percentage been then? so if I said to him go back and punch in my results from 2007 and tell me what it says, would it say I was already dead? not everything works in statistics now does it? but I would be curious to see what my percentage was back then! Stay Calm and Juice!
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Kim Miller
20/8/2016 05:39:40
You are doing great to be in control of your health instead of letting it control you. I've been making vegetable smoothies for breakfast every two days for my husband with butternut squash, carrot, frozen spinach, sweet potato, berries, apple and whatever else is hanging around. It seems to help his health so I'm too scared to stop.
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Wendy MeersI am a mother of two grown daughters, 3 beautiful grand-babies. Retired freelance Web Designer and a Sugar Free - Juicing Crusader& Keto supporter Archives
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