KIND CURE: Kevin Loses Weight & Goes Off Prescriptions with a Kind Diet
For our January Kind Diet giveaway, our winner Kim told us how she inspired her son to go kind. I was so excited about his story that I asked Kim if he would be willing to share. Here is her son Kevin’s "Kind Cure" story!
“Five years ago, I was suffering from moderate depression and very low energy. Finally I went to the doctor because it felt like I broke my toe—funny what extreme ends ultimately force men into the doctor. Blood work diagnosis was that I had gout, hypertension, my bad cholesterol was high and the good...well, it was alarmingly low. What should have been more alarming was the doctor labeling me pre-diabetic...what a wake up call (or should have been!). I was eating horribly - the typical American diet. And here I was—25 years old, given multiple prescription drugs, with a body screaming for help.
“My doctor gave me a 5-page packet filled with foods to avoid—I didn't follow it (the list didn't make too much sense either). My next two visits to the doctor showed worse and worse blood work. I began to research what causes gout. Turns out the Shelled-fish, red meat, white meat, fish, and nightshades (in that order) contain high levels of purines, which metabolize into uric acid in the blood. It's the uric arid that gets clogged in joints and crystallizes between cartilage causing sharp pain. More frightening is uric acid collects in organs and can eventually cause organ failure.
My mother suggested going vegetarian, but I shrugged it off. I really wasn't until I read The Kind Diet and gifted it to my mother when it start it started to click that it was possible healing all my ailments by eating the right foods!
“I gave up meat, and almost instantly started feeling better. My energy was up and I stopped taking my prescriptions within 3 month. It wasn't until I gave up dairy altogether to adopt a completely vegan diet did I see bigger changes.
“Today, I cook all the time and I love it—I used to NEVER cook. I am 55lbs lighter, I no longer take any prescriptions, hypertension is gone, cholesterol is where the it should be. Most importantly, I feel great!”
Thank you for sharing, Kevin! And congratulations on your new diet and your healthy body!!
If you’ve had a similar experience and are feeling amazing and you want to ditch your medications, it’s a good idea to get your blood tested to validate how great you’re feeling. Plus, your doctor will learn from you that a vegan diet can cure so many health issues! When your doctor sees your improvement, I have no doubt that he will advise you to wean yourself from your medications. If he asks you to stay on meds after great blood work, it might be time for a second opinion.
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Such a great story! I have been vegan now for 3 weeks with a few slips of dairy, but no meat. I have always had a "healthy" diet, which of course, consisted of meat & dairy. I always laughed at vegans and swore I'd never become a food hippy, but after high cholesterol showed up on my blood tests, I needed to make a change. After reading more about a vegan lifestyle & getting a plan much like Kevin's from my doctor (still had meat and dairy, but very limited quantities), I blew it off after 2 days, but decided to make positive changes gradually. I began by cutting out processed foods and would only eat things with 5 ingredients or less, all which I could pronounce. Then I cut out meat. Then dairy. The first 2 weeks vegan, I didn't notice a huge different in weight or anything, but felt better. The 2 times I slipped w/dairy, I got gnarly stomach pains and gas like a mofo. This last week, after NO dairy or meat, I had a significan 5.1 lb weight loss. Let me tell you, Weight Watchers, calorie counting, etc, have not given me a 5-lb in one week weight loss like this. Obviously something is good for me to see that kind of result with minimal effort, especially after trying so hard for the past 3+ years to lose weight by way of other "healthy" methods. Go Kevin!!! -
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Very inspiring! Part of the reason I adopted a vegan lifestyle is because I wanted to find a way to avoid having to take medications in the future (my family has a history breast and colon cancer, as well as endometriosis, and food allergies). I've never felt better and I'm only on day 11! -
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Congratulations, Kevin! It's such an empowering experience to take control of your health, happiness, and ultimately, your life! You really look amazing and so full of life! One more inspirational story from the Kind Diet...I love it! -
That's an amazing story. Congrats to Kevin for finding the truth in diet. he looks amazing in picture 2, like a movie star! ;) -
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