My Medical History

Recently, my wife Jacqui shared with me for the first time her true feelings about my health and My Medical History, or should I say the health I allowed to dominate my life.

Jacqui used just two words: Fear and Anger.

She told me that she had lived in fear of losing me and that she would not be able to cope with that loss.

Angry that I didn’t care enough about her to do something about my health, I was prepared to accept the doctor’s assessment of my medical conditions.

In September 2020, I decided to change my lifestyle habits, lose some weight and get healthy.

MUSCLE ATROPHY

Age-related muscle atrophy, also known as Sarcopenia, typically starts around age 50 but can begin as early as age 40 in some individuals. A gradual decrease in muscle mass, strength, and function characterizes it.

It is a common condition and can lead to difficulty performing everyday activities.

I am currently 40 kilograms lighter than when I started because I walk over 10 kilometres before breakfast seven days a week and do 80 pushups, 90 chin-ups, and two 3-minute planks.

As a result, I have cured my type-2 diabetes, reduced my blood pressure medication by 50%, reduced my pain medication by 100% and eliminated five of the six specialists I have been seeing.

Life is a Gift – Health is a Choice – Choices have Consequences.

On this website, I have shared with you the simple lifestyle changes I made that have allowed me to achieve these results while increasing my energy levels well above what my age usually permits.

Listed below, in chronological order, is my medical history and all the major health issues I have suffered since 1989.

While each event was significant, except for Leptospirosis, I can attribute them to being overweight and, by any measure other than my own, obese.

I refused to accept these conditions because I was ignorant and did not see the consequences of my failure to take corrective action.