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This was a very informative book--I loaned it to a friend who is lovng it. The service was quick, price very reasonable-thank you.
I read the first edition 18 years ago & just had to get the updated version. I was not disappointed.
Shortly after starting the niacin and other supplements, I could actually feel a difference in my heart and blood chemistry. I've been following it for almost four months now. I answered "nothing, not a single medication". I weigh less than I did 20 years ago.
LOL. I feel almost like a kid again. Even my eyesight has improved and I rarely have to wear my distance glasses anymore.But it was my heart that I was worried about four months ago. This book has changed my life, to put it mildly. My wife is thrilled. When I went in to the doctor's office, the nurse practitioner looked at my results and asked me for a list of the medications I'm taking.
She clearly didn't believe me, so I told her again, and she just looked kind of shocked and said "Well, that's a good thing.".All the heart doctor told me was that he would like me to take some fish oil to "improve my LDL pattern". Guess he was having trouble finding anything to advise me on.
I exercise more, I eat better, and I don't even have bad niacin flushes anymore. I'm 53 and have not felt this healthy in 20 years.
This was a far cry from my visit four months ago when he put heavy pressure on me to start using statins, et al. It is my belief that if there is such a thing as a miracle supplement, it's niacin.
Even my mental acuity has increased.Today I got the results of my most recent blood test. I'm grateful that I found this book instead.Here are my before and after blood test results:Total cholesterol: dropped from 252 to 196.LDL (bad) cholesterol: dropped from 164 to 100HDL (good) cholesterol: rose from 51 to 60Triglycerides: dropped from 185 to 96Blood pressure: dropped from 136/94 to 122/74I'm thrilled.
Kowalski was a genius.
Same old stuff. There wasn't much "new" in the "new cholesterol cure". It has some good points, but if you read the old one, you probably don't need this one.
It is curious that the regular physicals and special medical monitoring Kowalski describes in his book did not reveal this problem. This book is certainly well written which is to be expected since Kowalski was a medical journalist, and his program has helped some. Pulmonary aneurysms are rare, but not undetectable. I use the past tense because nowhere in these reviews do I find the information that Kowalski died suddenly in November 2007 of a pulmonary aneurysm at the relatively young age of 65. Kowalski's online newsletter has been discontinued. Kowalski cited the results of those tests as proof his program worked, and it appears the program addressed the most obvious of Kowalski's circulatory problems, but it is just as obvious that Kowalski's doctors missed the boat, with tragic results. Just goes to show that now matter how determined one is, no matter how disciplined one is, fate has a way of stepping in.
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