When we are young we can never imagine a day with pain, feeling tired all the time, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Sadly the older we all get, the harder it is to avoid some or all of these ailments.
As I have grown a little more mature, I have found that my genetics are quickly catching up to me. Each day it seems difficult for me to outrun the illnesses that my family is famous for. All of us have those health issues in our family tree that dog us until we succumb. There are those that try to outrun our family history and those who just roll over and succumb.
I am a runner. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol in my tree and I work very hard to overcome and outrun. Even though I have high blood pressure, I work hard at exercise and diet to overcome it and am pretty successful at keeping it under control. Then there is diabetes and with that comes high cholesterol. To combat that I have radically changed my diet to accommodate blood sugar spikes and I have added Mona Vie’s Pulse to my diet to lower cholesterol. I am conducting an experiment right now, to see if, like many of my clients I can bring my cholesterol to a normal range using Pulse. I am doing a three-month test, under my doctors supervision, to see if I can lower it enough to avoid the liver-damaging cholesterol drugs.
Whatever your genetics, the more you can do for yourself through diet, exercise and good supplements the longer you avoid drugs, that although effective and necessary, may have side-affects you don’t like. It takes discipline but it is worth the effort to affect positive change to your health. I will keep you posted regarding my cholesterol.
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