Subject: Marianne's Story - From the Heart

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Marianne's Story

JoAnn Guest

May 14, 2005 17:19 PDT

===================================================================== In 1999 I

managed at last to give up smoking and looked forward to

being able to do things that I hadn't been able to for many years,

like lots of walks with my husband. We joined the National Trust

and started our new regime of country walks as often as we could.

 

By January 2000, I was concerned that instead of having extra breath

and energy, I definitely had a lot less, unable to even climb the

stairs without stopping halfway to catch my breath.

 

After many trips to a very indifferent doctor, I was referred to the

hospital cardiac department and given a treadmill ECG, which showed a

problem of some sort but they were unsure what.

So booked me for an Angiogram.

 

If only I had the knowledge that I have now, they would never have

gotten me into that hospital, but back then I didn't have any idea that

I could actually heal all my health problems with the right diet and

supplements.

 

On May 31st 2000 I was diagnosed with narrowed arteries

(atheriosclerosis), and two blockages of 60% and 80% respectively.

 

This came as a great shock to me because I believed that other than the

cigarettes, I had led a pretty healthy life. I asked the consultant if I

would be able to treat this with 'alternative' therapies. He said, " Yes,

but when we have you stablised " , and promptly put me onto several meds.

 

As I was already on high BP and high cholesterol meds I started feeling

very down and sorry for myself. I lived in this stupid self indulgent

mood for almost 6 months and then suddenly got up one morning and

decided that I did not want to be on meds for the rest of my life. I did

not want to have secondary health problems from the meds that they gave

me, and I decided that there had to be something better out there.

 

I started to do a little checking on the Internet and around

November 2000, I found this group (then known as the Gettingwell

group). I joined and learned so much in such a short space of time,

I cannot believe that it is only 3 years now, it feels like a lifetime

has passed.

JoAnn was pretty much my saviour, she knew so much about Heart

health and would tell me all the supplements that I needed and what

I should look out for, what I should be avoiding food-wise

and what I should be bringing into my diet.

 

One of the most important for me was the Olive oil issue.

 

I had only ever used olive oil for medicinal purposes, you know those

very small bottles that you purchase at the chemist (drug store) and

threw out a few years later because it was cloudy and disgusting, having

used 2 or 3 teaspoons in the childrens ears when they had earache or

suspected wax build up.

 

I went out and purchased my very first bottle of organic extra

virgin Olive Oil - it lasted me about 3 months, today one bottle lasts

me just about 3 weeks.

 

I use only organic extra virgin, if possible unrefined oils, but 95% of

the oils that I use is my EVOO - I love it and it loves me, so much so

that due to abiding by the rules of good healthy food, reduced red meat

intake, EVOO, and organic foods (we went organic very slowly starting in

January 2001 and are now 99% organic, there is always that 1% that you

are unable to get organic no matter what)

 

I have been med free for almost 2 years now.

Not bad for someone who was told they would eventually need a by-pass

or angiopasty and that I would have to take drugs for the rest of my

life -

I took them here and there for approx 14 months and then weaned myself

off them for the next 2 - 4 months. This should be

done with the aid of a good practitioner but unfortunately I did not

have that privilege as my doctor was totally against anything

alternative or complimentary.

 

I did try other cooking oils as well but found that they had an adverse

affect on my health so have been known to throw many £'s of product out

with the trash without my dear husbands knowledge

I must say,

he would have a heart problem if he knew the half of it LOL.

 

I no longer have those awful butters and margarines in the house either,

after all I have learned about trans fats etc., it was a very easy

decision for me to make. We have an organic, trans fat free, non-dairy

spread for our very little needs and lovely EVOO for all cooking and

other needs.

 

So in summary, I stopped having trans-fats, I reduced my red meat

intake by at least half (I had not been a big red meat eater

anyway). I took on EVOO as if my life depended on it and you know what,

it probably did!

 

I take supplements every single day, ones that are good for my

particular health problems and too many to list here and I also went on

a very good diet to lose the excess weight.

 

I am still not quite where I would like to be with the weight but there

is time. I have lost in the region of 32 lbs so feeling very pleased

with myself. I would not however advocate the Atkins diet for anyone but

especially not for anyone who has heart problems, it would be the final

nail in the coffin in my humble opinion.

I cannot believe that people are still advocating this diet when there

has been so much in the media about the dangers of it.

There was a program on the UK TV about 200 people who did one of 5

different diets. A medical doctor actually did the Atkins diet himself

and after a few weeks his wife, also a doctor, actually told the viewers

she would prefer that he take up smoking than carry on with this diet.

At the end of the diet he had lost 28 lb I believe, but 14lb of that had

been lost in " muscle mass " - something that he would never be able to

recover.

 

He will find out just how unwise he was to do this diet in a very few

years time.

 

Yes, go on a good diet regime, sometimes it just needs to be eating a

smaller helping, for others it is that they need to remove certain foods

from their diet, but do something now that will ensure that your old age

is a a time to be enjoyed and not a time for regrets.

 

Thank you JoAnn and everyone else who gave me such good advice in the

early days. Without you I could be walking around with big scars and

less hope for a healthy old age.

 

Marianne Wilkins - UK

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Fwd: heart and diet - sorry this is a long reply

angelpri-

This was my response to Bonnie who has atherosclerosis and you put her

my way.

Marianne

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Hi Bonni, well I have done my days work so have a few minutes to answer

your questions.

 

Firstly, I know that any meds the dr's give me will do me so much more

harm that they will good. That was the main reason for my looking

elsewhere for alternative help when I was diagnosed with narrowed

arteries (60% & 80%), high blood pressure, thyroid disfunction, high

cholesterol, gallstones and I already knew that I had arthritis.

 

At 49 it was pretty scarey and I thought that I would be dead by the

age of 55 if I didn't do something to help myself. I had also been

going through the menopause for 10 years or so.

 

I started with the supplements that I had in the house as I had taken

some intermittently. Then I learned more and more from JoAnn and

started taking additional and different supplements.

 

It was almost 6 months before I had gleaned the information that made

me determined to get off all allopathic meds and I started by

immediately stopping the cholesterol (statins) meds, these are so bad

for us.

The remainder of my meds I I knew I had to be careful about stopping

suddenly so weaned myself off them gradually.

 

I had major symptoms prior to diagnosis although they kept telling me

that I had angina and could not understand why I kept telling them that

I had no pain and therefore no angina.

 

My symptoms were, fatty deposits around the eye depicting the

cholesterol, shortness of breath on slight exertion and raised

temperature several times a day, almost like a hot flash but not quite

the same.

 

I also had a rushing noise in my head when I lay down to sleep which was

due to the blood pressure problem.

 

They were threatening me with by-pass but I lied to them and told them

that the pills they gave me were doing the trick and that I was doing

great, that was in August 2000 - today it is true that I am doing great

but I do not take any of their rotten pills and never will again if I

have any say in it.

 

If you are in the US as I suspect, then you are luckier than us UK

people because you can ask your dr's to monitor you whilst you go

'alternative' - we are of the misfortune to not have to pay/have

insurance for our dr's and they have the upper hand in respect of what

they want to do and mine just was not interested in even talking about

alternative let alone monitoring me.

 

I honestly think that JoAnn, if she set up in business as a consultant

to heart patients, would make an absolute fortune - she knows her stuff

and has put me right, I can walk up the stairs many times without

getting breathless, I have taken my cholesterol and it has almost halved

(I was on the dangerous side of elevated LDL)

 

I just know in my heart (not meant as a pun) that I am improving on a

daily basis and I know that, if I continue to take the supplements and

avoid trans fats and eat organic foods, I will surely be cured and not

just 'controlled' as I would be if I took those meds.

 

The truth of the matter is that allopathic medicine does not make you

better it just controlls the problem whilst alternative supplements

actually cure the problem along with a healthy diet.

 

Cut out margarine, butter and all trans fats, up that EVOO (I get

through 1 1/2 ltrs a month), take hawthorn berry, garlic by the bucket

load, cayenne heart tincture, large amounts of magnesium, CoQ10, organic

blackstrap

molasses & Vit E, plus potassium (I am sure I have missed some but get the list

from

JoAnn) and you can start to look at good health again - do not let the

allopaths tell you that it is irresversible as they did me - that is a

blatant lie and you can unclog those arteries and you can do it in just

3 months if you listen to what JoAnn advises - I would not mislead you,

I promise.

 

I know by the major reduction of symptoms that I am very much better

than I was when diagnosed in May 2000.

 

You will know within just 1 month that you are doing your body a great

service and that it is slowly healing itself, remember it took me 49

years to abuse it to the lengths that I had, I do not expect to clear

all that in just a couple of months.

 

If you want to know anything else, just want to discuss things, whatever

it is, you are very welcome to email me privately and I will always

respond as soon as I can.

 

My very best wishes for your speedy recovery and to feel as healthy as I

do some 2 years later.

 

With love and light

Marianne - UK

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Natural Help for the Heart

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Tue Feb 11, 2003 2:48 pm

Natural Help for the Heart

 

Hi Marianne- I was given your address by JoAnn Guest. She said that you

were diagnosed with 80% blockage in your heart artery.

That you followed her advic and felt a remarkable improvement.

 

I am facing quadruple bypass surgery and am trying to figure out which

is the best way to go... Which for me is no surgery.

 

I would appreciate any thing you could tell me about the diet. How

do you feel with the fact you don't know if this has changed the

blockage at all????? I mean it sounds like the diet would make you feel

better even if you were still blocked. I guess that is my major worry if

I go diet,mineral etc. how do I know it is really working?

Please write back.

 

Sent with peace and love

Bonnie/Laughingbear

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