A Doctor's Point of View

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It was time to get my hair cut and so I visited with my "Hair Stylist" of over a quarter century. I know that in the "good old days" the barber and the bartender were the two sources for psychotherapy. Both had heard all the stories and had learned and given advice. Well, 25 years is a long time and you get to know a lot about people in that time span. Nino knows about my blog site, the book and the rest of my life and he is an artist when it comes to making a few hairs look like a full head of hair. But this is about Nino’s interest in eating healthy. He meets people from all walks of life. And so he walked directly to me with the latest information he had obtained on the subject matter I have been addressing.
The best part of this is that people are coming out of the woodwork and helping me in this quest for answers to this country’s most serious problems: health care and the improper dietary habits of the American culture. Now here is the result: I have a copy of a speech delivered to doctors by a doctor, on the subject regarding why we have a major problem in "medicine." How candid can a doctor get? He addresses the root cause of many problems--medicine--that is inappropriate treatment. Treating the symptoms without addressing the underlying cause is not adequate, if we are to become healers.
I am indebted to my readers for the help they give me in responding to my efforts to change the eating habits of Americans. In the beginning, it was just an attempt to live longer, and the good doctor addresses that. Now it is about understanding why these things work.
Dr. Rosedale believes that "Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects" are at the root of all the diseases we encounter and, "What we are finding is that we can use insulin to regulate lifespan too." He detailed accounts of two patients whose major problem was not the numbers in the lipid profile, but the medicine that they were given. One of his patients was near death and so appreciative of Dr. Rosedale’s efforts that he organized "Heart Support of America" to educate people about alternatives to by-pass surgery that have nothing to do with medicine or surgery. That organization, as the gentleman told him, had a mailing list of over a million people. The gentleman had experienced such a miserable experience from his first by-pass surgery that he said he would rather die than go through the second one.
There was another case in which the triglyceride level of a 42-year-old man was 2200, and the cholesterol level was 950 and this was a man on the maximum doses of all his medications. He was not fat, but fairly thin. Doctor Rosedale said that these people (who put him on all these medications) have no place in medicine. This man was taken off all his medications at the very first visit. They have no place in medication. In six weeks his lipid levels, both his triglycerides and his cholesterol, were hovering around 220. After six more weeks, they were both under 200, without the medications. My own experience was similar: With no medications and using my nutrition-based-regimen of eating healthy, I dropped triglycerides from 1374 to 76 and cholesterol from 274 to 133. The change in eating whole foods, while reducing medications, proved to have these results (documented in my book through blood work).
The good doctor then goes on to detail his own stepfather’s problem with severe claudication, (severe angina of the leg while walking). The man went to a neurologist who thought it might be neurological pain or back pain. He went to a vascular surgeon who thought it was vascular disease. They wanted to do by-pass surgery because the man was going on vacation to Europe and wanted to be able to walk around.
Ten years prior he’d had angioplasty for heart disease. At the time, I’d told him to change his diet, but of course he didn’t. This time, however, he listened. The doctor told him to do exactly as he was told and he could avoid the by-pass surgery and would be walking just fine in two weeks. Modulating this one aspect of his disease–I have never seen it fail–works very quickly to open up the artery.
The most important feature of the treatment is opening up the arteries through healthy eating. Lecithin is the "drano" of the arteries and is found in good "Old Fashioned Oat Meal." If you can’t stand oatmeal, there is the granular form of lecithin available at all health stores. One tablespoon in your soup or juice every morning will do the trick. Lecithin is also one of four major ingredients in "Ike’s Fountain of Youth Formula." This is the result of a formula given to a man who doctors had given up on and a German nurse said, "What do you have to lose? Try this." He is 90-years-old and continues to play competitive tennis with our Senior Tennis League. He doesn’t have an ounce of fat on him and is witty and smart. There is nothing wrong with his memory because he hasn’t filled his brain with plaque.
More and more doctors are realizing that we cannot remove healthy eating from the equation. You are what you eat and most Americans are eating "junk food." The Fat Food Chains are booming and most homes only require a "Take In Window" as their primary source for food. Medicine is not the answer to the problem -- it is often the cause of the problem.
There is much more on the subject. However, this will have to do for this article. The other subjects we will address have to do with "treating symptoms and not the problem," "Centenarians all have relatively low sugar for their age, and all have low triglycerides," "Caloric Restriction Research," "Aging is a Disease."
The best thing you can do if you want to live longer is to eat healthy and avoid the problems of sticky blood associated with sugar, fat, fried foods, and non-fiber carbohydrates.
Thank you for taking the time to learn more about how to "Make Eating A Lifestyle Change."