Faith in DC wrote:I guess there probably isn't any Brazilian doctor out there that has written a book or has a website such as this, is there? I forgot if you said you were in a large city or not, but Do you have a vegetarian Society? I'm thinking you could combine your efforts at those Farmer's Markets etc. Sounds like the wife wanted to get you fixed one way or another. Good thing you picked the easiest way.
Fith,
I am glad you answered my last post. I am happy.
Let me tell you how lucky I am. I live in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pop 6 million people and with very good medicine... But no books, nor Programs like McDougall and sites like this. When a doctor here suggested me to have an angiogram and asked if my health plan would pay for stents, I arrived home with these news and my wife said: no way you will do that. She showed me a Brazilian magazine, "Veja", with an article detailing the new procedures about CAD´s. She also got me an appointment with a doctor, whose PhD thesis was about the new pharma, exercise and diet treatment versus mechanical treatment. Tomography and PET tests confirmed that I just had a intermediate clogging disease and that clinic treatment could be enough.
Then I entered in the internet with Google and the words: Reversion, Remission, Cure of coronary disease. The rest you can imagine: sites of Mc Dougall, Esselstyn, Ornish, Gould, Whitaker, etc. (these doctors were a must. Nowadays three of them are even the doctors of Pres. Clinton!).
I bought all the books I liked, from Amazon and started my Vegan and VLF diet, with the support of 3 cardiologists that initially I went. I consulted to a nutritionist and my wife (even thinking I was too radical) made changes in our cooking at home. I was in charge of the Farmers Market... All of the doctors gave me an ok. I learned a lot. But I am from Minas Gerais, where people is considered unbelievers...
The only moment I relaxed it was when after almost 4 years the doctors said I had done something very hard: I had reversed a CAD ! One of them said that I was being promoted to Prevention from Reversion of the disease !
My prize was great. I decided to give back to society what all those people gave me, promoting my new gained knowledge on pharma and nutrition, to help others
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Your works of encouragement and ideas will help me in this new mission.
Today I went to the farmers market to start the job.
PS: No, we still do not have a Vegan society in Rio, but there are some nutritionist with offices and restaurants. I will visit them also.
Thank you again,
Ricardo