If you do need antacid tablets...

You are probably taking a:

1. Statin
2. Antihypertensive (blood pressure med)
3. Reflux medicine (heartburn)
4. Enlarged prostate medicine
5. Allergy medicine
6. Medication for Type 2 Diabetes

Taking any of that?

You're also probably:

1. Overwieght
2. Exhausted most of the time
3. Anxious with a negative outlook
4. Have a worse temper than most people

Sound familiar?

Welcome to dis-ease and un-health of the Twenty-First Century.
…and the Twentieth Century, the Ninteenth Century, Eighteenth, Seventeenth, etc.

If you look back to the early lives of our earliest ancestors, Noah, or perhaps Fred Flintstone, whoever you believe lived in the dawn of human history, you will find something very different about life then than we are told is healthy today.

You will find lots of hunting and meat eating and fat eating. Very little vegetation eating.
Go ahead. Research it.
You will also find that heart disease, cancer, allergies, diabetes, and many other diseases of today did not exist.
Yes, go ahead. Research it.

People back then died mostly of infections and trauma. They had no antibiotics and animals and humans back then weren't really any different than they are today. Violent. Murderous.

So what's my point?

My husband has been gaining weight for over 30 years. Maybe 40 years. His fav is vanilla cookies with vanilla creme in between. But he'll eat any sugary treat. Root beer and Crush too. They're nostalgic favs.
He has gained almost 50 pounds. He also has gained:

1. Hypertension
2. Hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), hyper-trigyceridemia, hypo-HDL
3. All season allergies
4. Enlarged prostate
5. Exzema/psoriasis
6. Pre-diabetic blood sugar
7. Gastro-esophogeal reflux
8. An ever worsening temper
9. Horrible exhaustion
10. Obesity

I'm an RN and have been trying for years to get him to cut back on eating sugar. It's going to kill him.

Last October, he planned to have his cataracts removed. With his pre-diabetic blood sugars the last few years, I suggested he might want to cut out sugar, gluten, basically any high carb foods and get his blood sugar to a normal level so he wouldn't be predisposed to infection due to high glucose in his blood.
He agreed.

I had been reading Grain Brain by David Perlmutter, MD and his explanation of the physiology behind the use of fats, carbohydrates and proteins in our bodies was intriguing. It's been a while since I had studied nutrition and some of it was not new. But some of it was amazing. And he included the research behind the theory that saturated fat causes heart disease. Guess what? They've never been able to prove it.
Yeah, I know. That's startling.

So we started a keto diet. 90 grams protein, 50 grams of carbohydrate or less, fat to make us full or sated. From October to today (10 months) husband has lost 42 pounds. I have lost 20.

He no longer needs his blood pressure medicine; blood pressure is normal.

He is off of his statin. This was when his energy came back. He used to need a 2 hour nap when he attempted to do even a half hour of work around the house. Now he works all day without stopping; forgets the time and I find him still going at it in the barn or garage.

He is off his allergy medication. Still gets the sniffles and sneezes sometimes. But not as much.

He is off his heartburn medication. He hasn't had heartburn since he stopped eating carbohydrates.

He is also off his prostate medication. He seems to have less difficulty in that department than when he was taking the medications.

He's happy, energetic, 175 pounds, 6 feet tall, kinder and gentler with less horrible temper outbreaks.

His cardiologist saw him last month and wanted a copy of the book. Doc was amazed.  I had a copy of Dr. Perlmutter's book sent to him.

So, we've just started retirement.
I think we're going to live a long, long, long, long time.