Cholesterol Levels Dropped from 6.2 to 5.1 in 8 Weeks!

Well the results are back!

Today I received my results from my blood test.

You may remember my post two weeks ago:-
Hashimotos and the Start of my Health Journey

Approximately 8 weeks ago I took my regular 3 monthly check up with the doctor to check my TSH levels and monitor my cholesterol levels. After the blood test that followed my TSH levels were as normal but my cholesterol levels were sky high.

I hit a crazy 6.2 and certainly was not expecting that at all. I'm 34 with a young family so the thought of having a high cholesterol level and putting myself at risk of heart disease was a shock. Ive had generally high levels for a while due to my thyroid and the medication but never 6.2.

My doctor gave me a script for cholesterol medication and told me that dieting and exercise wont make any significant difference to my levels and that I need to take the medication.

All this news came at about the time that I started using a new nutritional porduct and I had heard that people had reduced their cholesterol levels using this method so I thought, no, I wont take the medication and I'll give the product a try and see how I go.

Well I had hoped for a drop in my levels but not as low as this.

I dropped from 6.2 to 5.1. A full point!

I was on cloud nine and even the nurse who gave me the results said to me "what are you doing".

I cant wait to see my doctor next time to give her the full story. Its a great feeling when you can prove your doctor wrong and have the tests to prove it. Fantastic!

I shared my news with my father who is also using the same products and he mentioned that his doctor cut his cholesterol medication down as well due to his levels dropping significantly.

Great news all round.

Now im looking forward to seeing further improvements to my health, hopefully a posative change to my thyroid!

I wonder if it will make me commit to exercise lol.

Our Food! Toxic and Nutritionally Bankrupt!

Did you know that our current food has far less nutrient content as it did 50 or so years ago?

In some cases our foods, that being our fruits and vegetables, have nutrient levels 5, 10, 20 sometimes 50 times less nutritional value as food did back in the 50's.

As a result of large scale agriculture we have a problem called the "dilution effect". What this means is that our soils are fast becoming more and more nutrient deficient.

Combined with the hybridisation of many food crops for the benefit of production and profit we end up with more and more food that, although might look good, in fact is actually "nutritionally bankrupt!"

For instance, to compare the nutrient levels from 1 plate of spinach from the 1950s to today, you will need about 40+ plates.

What is concerning about this issue is that, it all starts in the soil and is working its way up the food chain and unfortunately ends up with us.

Our fruits and vegetables are grown with artificial fertilisers, sprayed with herbicides and pesticides and then we often pick some things green and unripened. To add to this concoction we rinse, spray, gas, wax them in more toxic chemicals so they last the journey half way around the world so we get them in perfect condition and to top it off, most countries fumigate their imported foods with methyl bromide which not only is toxic but has a severe effect on the ozone layer.

You can wash your veggies all you like but most chemical residues reside in the flesh and skins and they ain't coming out. They then enter the food cycle and into our bodies. Testing done reveals that the levels of these chemicals are safe for human consumption but if you combine that with everything else we are eating and exposed to, you end up with one giant chemical concoction.

Add years of consuption to this and you have one very overloaded system. Our bodies are well equipped to detoxify themselves however they cannot cope with the burden of these toxins at these levels, and an overloaded run down system will struggle even more . Enter disease, immune deficiency, and illness of every kind.

I don't care what anyone says, no chemicals are safe to eat.

When are we going to wake up and realise that this is killing us! and effecting our generations to follow.
 
So what can we do about it?

• Where and if possible grow your own!


• Buy local and ethically grown produce and/or organic!


• Get involved in a community garden!


• Boycott imported foods and those from questionable sources!


• Catch up on what you miss out on with good supplementation!


• and always, ash your fruit and veg

 
Remember "you are what you eat" so make it your aim to find out where your food comes from!

Hashimotos and the Start of my Health Journey

About 8 years ago I was diagnosed with an auto immune disease called Hashimotos Thyroiditis. I remember the time when I found out. I was concerned but I had no idea what it was nor what it did to my body, and it was this problem that sent me on my journey to better health.

I’ve always been an advocate for everything natural but I’ve also been anti medication, so when the doctor straight up prescribed me medication I was reluctant to use it. I initially started taking it until one day shortly after starting I decided to take a more natural approach.

I researched all kinds of diets and all kinds of methods for supposedly fixing my disease but with very little results. My antibodies did in fact rise from my dietary approach, but my TSH levels still increased.

After seeing several doctors and making plenty of excuses, nothing had changed in my health or my mind set until I got married. You see I didn’t think my thyroid issue could actually eventually be the death of me, I just thought it affected my hormones leaving me with low energy levels. Well, when I finally went to the specialist and he gave me my results, and I was shocked.

In Australia, normal healthy thyroid hormone levels are between 0.5 and 5.0, and my levels were so off the charts that my specialist said he was surprise to see me in front of him. My levels were over 500 and the symptoms I was experiencing at the time were called thyrotoxicosis. Basically he said to me if I don’t start taking medication now I won’t last another 10 years.

That was the result I needed to finally give into my all natural approach and start taking prescribed medication. After taking my dose of thyroxine my levels dropped very quickly and I began to lose weight (10kgs in total) and I began to have improved energy levels and feel better overall.

That was 3 years ago!

Now that I’ve been on it for a few years I do still find that my energy levels are low, but now I have a heap of other issues, including high cholesterol and low vitamin D levels. My aim is to still find something that will bring about change for me, something that will hopefully lead me to a place where I can wean off my medication and allow my body to function properly and effectively.

I started taking a new nutritional product that was very easy to use and since then I have had an incredible amount of energy, far more mental clarity. I have deep sleeps and require less than before and the most amazing thing still for me was also the curb in junk food cravings.

I literally cringe at the thought of eating a hamburger or something fatty where before I would have easily chomped into it. So it seems even after a very short time being on it that it has rewired the signals in my body so that I only want to eat good wholesome food.

I have stopped taking coffee regularly, I have zero added sugar to my foods and I’ve lost 4 kilos of that unhealthy toxic fat from around my waist line in 3 weeks, and hopefully my cholesterol levels will have lowered when I go see my doctor next week. 

As for my thyroid, I'm hoping to see some positive change and I’ve heard testimonials of people using this product having their TSH count level out, leaving them off their medication. Time will tell and I’ll keep up to date on this issue.

Anyone else have similar issues??