An example of rolling back the clock

This is Jimmy's story.

At that time he was turning 60 and had a check up scheduled. He was appalled to learn that he had several signs of heart disease, and diabetes. He hadn't a clue! His blood sugar was just one side or the other of 300.

Not knowing you have it is pretty typical with diabetes in the beginning, I hear.

He was put on oral diabetes meds right away, and given a list of forbidden foods - and it all left him depressed and miserable and feeling deprived.

His wife had been coming to little health meetings we were holding and he was upset enough to allow himself to be dragged along. After listening to everyone's stories, he decided he had nothing to lose to try what they were doing.*

The following month his blood sugar was 97, and the doctor, under pressure from Jimmy, took him back off the meds to see if his sugar would stabilize. It did, and stayed that way at least as long as the time we were still in touch, about a year more.

This is rolling back the clock. This is going back to the decision point, and even before that, to the point where health is still an option, where a life sentence of a medication can still be avoided.

*Here's what Jimmy did. He went on a basic nutrition program. Just that: a good brand of vitamins and a good source of protein.

These days Jimmy has a few other choices such as a natural glucose regulation product that's not a drug.

Pharmaceuticals are not the only way to roll back the clock. Other stories to come....