11 Months A Vegan - Blood Work

Blood work doesn't lie.  These are my results with my current numbers on the left and my old numbers from 8 months ago on the right.   Everything good got better!  I was already on a plant based diet for almost 3 months when the 1st lab work was done and the results were already really good. 

I used to take Zocor (Simvastin) 40 mg daily to keep my cholesterol under 200.

The problem was that after several years on Statins, my joints and muscles were hurting.  Going off the medicine and eating healthier dropped my total cholesterol from the the 190's to the 170's in 3 months. Now, after 11 months its 147!  No more aches.

MY BAD CHOLESTEROL (LDL) WENT DOWN AND MY GOOD CHOLESTEROL (HDL) WENT UP!
Note my Very Low Density Lipoprotein (VLDL), the really bad stuff that can lead to plaque formation, heart attack and stroke went from low at 18 to off the scale low at 13! That means my arteries are now virtually self cleaning.  In other words, any damage I did to my arteries during the 1st 58 years of my life is now capable of reversing itself WITH NO MEDICATION!
That bears repeating. My 58 years of an Omnivore diet with high cholesterol, high blood pressure and the associated damage to my circulatory system is being REVERSED in less than a year with no medication and no surgery.

More numbers:
Blood Pressure before without meds was 149/94.
With meds it went down to 124/84.  Not bad, but when I would bend down and stand up suddenly I would frequently get light headed.
Now with no meds its 112/72 and I don't get light headed.

My weight went from the embarrassing highest ever of 274 lbs down to 202 lbs.
My waist went from 44 to 36.
My neck was an 18.5 and now its 17.
Things keep getting better and better!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Eat, Drink and be Merry!
(Mostly plants and very little oil)