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Debbie S.
All my life I’ve struggled with hereditary high cholesterol, and as a child and young adult, my total cholesterol has been as high as 375. I’m not your ‘typical’ high cholesterol person: I’m thin, eat healthy, exercise all the time. It’s just something my body produces and my dad is the same way.
At age 25, I went on a statin drug (Lipitor 40mg/day) which kept my total cholesterol around the 215-250 range. At age 33, my doctor conducted a C-reactive protein (CRP) and VAP test (specialized cholesterol test) that indicated I was at a high risk for heart disease and urged me to increase my Lipitor dose to 80 mg/day. I tried that for a while, but my cholesterol levels didn’t improve much.
I decided to take the ‘alternative’ approach and based on a friend’s recommendation, went to see Debbie at Whole Nourishment. She changed my diet to increase my daily intake of veggies and whole grains, reduce refined and total daily servings of all carbs and eliminate wheat/gluten and put me on five supplements. I gave this program 5 months and re-tested my cholesterol.
I couldn’t believe the results! My LDLs went down 21 points (from 127 to 106), my HDLs (good cholesterol) went up 10 points—which was already astoundingly good, now even better! (from 69 to 79), and my total cholesterol is now 198 and Triglycerides 51.
My CRP and VAP tests showed no more signs of increased heart disease risk!! This means that inflammation is down and my cholesterol composition has changed for the better. These results are truly amazing and I am going to get my dad on this program ASAP. My goal is to ultimately get off Lipitor (I still take 40 mg/day), and I think this is possible given how my body is responding to Debbie’s program so far. Debbie is a miracle-worker and if you are serious about improving your health – whatever your goals are – be diligent and follow her program.
So since I’ve been seeing Debbie – I have lost 5-7 pounds, reduced my need for thyroid meds and lowered my bad cholesterol and increased my good.
Becki W.
When the doctor informed me in December that I was pre-diabetic, I wasn't surprised. Diabetes runs in my family and my eating habits were out of control.
After three months, I've lowered both my bad cholesterol and blood sugar. I have totally changed my eating habits - I'm eating more leafy greens, more grains, and making better food choices. I now enjoy food shopping and have discovered a new world of eating. Healthy can taste really good!
Pam E.
I am enjoying my newfound energy, my settled digestive system, even moods (higher spirits). I have noticed, very strongly, that my blood sugar has seemed to have evened out—I don't "crash" anymore and I am actually human and able to interact with other humans far before noon, which is a huge change for me!
Sarah L.
For the last few years I’ve been compulsively eating sugar products: chocolate, cookies, chocolate, danishes, chocolate, junk food candy, chocolate etc! I’ve been working to try and control how much I eat. It was so difficult and so hard. I’d do well for a while, then see a pastry and want it, and that was usually the end of it. All this time I’d hear about the physical effects of sugar and it would go in one ear and out the other. I just didn’t believe it because I never felt any different.
Then Debbie, Goddess of the Healthy Meal, recommended that I try an experiment. She said that research indicates that when a food item is like an addiction, it takes two to three weeks to cycle it out of your system. I decided to try it. I was amazed; everything I’d ever heard about sugar was true. All of a sudden, I had control of my cravings. I would still see a chocolate bar and want it, but it lacked power. I could say no. The majority of the compulsion was gone. I also recognize the physical craving in my body. If I have a little too much fruit at breakfast and I crave sugar later, I know what that feels like, now. I can say “Just wait, it’ll go away.”
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