heart failure, high blood pressure... after a bypass...

Part I:"I was 69 years old and felt that I was near death when I began the Primal Diet . I was diagnosed with congestive heart failure, high blood pressure and two leaky heart valves by the cardiologist AFTER I had a three-way bypass in 1996. Doctors stressed that my heart lacked enough oxygen and prescribed drugs that weakened my heart. The reason I know that my heart was normal and was not the problem was when a nurse in Grossmont hospital gave me an echo-cardiogram, and told me privately that I had a beautiful heart with no problem there but the doctor in attendance wanted to give me a pacemaker! He had my family lined up at my bed in the hospital begging me to let him put in a pacemaker. I refused, and demanded to be released. After making all kinds of threats to me about how I would die if I left the hospital, they made me sign all kinds of releases for them for liability for anything happening to me, and let me go. The doctor told my husband that I was crazy and threatened to have me declared mentally incompetent! To top it all off, the hospital doubled m y bill a nd tried to collect the money from collectors for two years after my release. There is a very dark side to "medical treatment".

Part II: Aajonus, I can see that you are very busy with your workshops , but I looked at your web site today under "testimonials/anti aging" and saw that my anti aging story was first on your list. After six years on the Primal Diet, I am now 75 and going strong. I have an active, productive life, thanks to you and your diet. I must say sometimes I get bored with it and try to find ways to make it more palatable, but when I remind myself how good I feel when I keep on it, I keep going. I feared that my doctor would refuse to take me as a patient since I refuse all tests involving x rays or internal probing, and no cholesterol-lowering meds even though my cholesterol is nearly 300! However, he gamely said he is here to advise me, and whether or not I follow his advice is up to me. If I break a bone, or hit my head, I will go to him for treatment, as I told him that the outside is his, but the inside is mine!
Donna R. age 75