What Brought Me to Do A 90 Hour Water Fast
What brought me to do a 90 hour water fast? I went to the cardiologist sometime in August of last year and with the blood work my triglycerides were up. I told him that my mom and her two sisters have all had myocardial infarctions. In other words, heart attacks. With my cholesterol and triglycerides up, he immediately said that I should go on a "high" dose of statins. He didn't discuss diet, exercise, or weight loss, and, perhaps after about four months to come back and see him with a new set of blood work. He went straight to statins. I expected my glycerides to be up and I knew that I wasn't giving myself much self-care. At the same time, I was on guard about what the cardiologist would say and how I would react. Working as a student nurse and as a licenced RN in a LTC facility, there were so many women (especially) in the facility with dementia. Guess what they were taking? Statins. I kept asking myself, there's got to be a reason why so many women are in the ...
