agosto 28, 2018
This brings tears to my eyes... (see video click here now)
...as I can remember the moment when I asked for Dan's permission to marry his daughter many years ago. I recall standing on his driveway on a sunny afternoon and promising how I would take care of his little girl and keep her from harm.
At that time Dan was already showing signs of the health problems that would soon threaten his life. His stomach was sticking out and he was at least 20 pounds overweight. On top of that, he was tired all the time and had very sore joints that prevented him from taking a walk. Even the easiest exercises seem to result in cries of pain and he spent more and more time on the couch watching TV while life passed him by.
That's why it hit me like a ton of bricks when I learned of his terrifying heart attack in the airplane that day. Dan was flying back to his boyhood home in Europe when about ¾ of the way through the flight he began to feel nauseous and like a weight was squeezing his chest. He started sweating profusely and collapsed in the aisle when he stood up to go to the washroom. In a panic, his wife signaled the flight attendant for help.
As he lay in the aisle of the airplane in pain with his wife holding his hand his mind filled with emotion and worry- would he see his children again?
Would he live to see his grandkids or enjoy retirement?
The tears streamed down his cheeks as he struggled to catch each precious breath. The captain was notified and the plane was diverted to the nearest airport. Terrified and in unimaginable pain, Dan was transported to a hospital in Germany where he discovered that he was in fact having a heart attack.
As scary as this was for Dan and his wife it was the best thing that could have happened. That's because it was in Germany where he would find the doctor and the unusual ritual that would cause him to suddenly lose 39 pounds, reverse his heart disease and save his life.
Fortunately for Dan, the doctors were able to treat him in time and he survived that horrific event.
The very next day, the specialist stopped by to speak with Dan...and give him the program that would clean out his arteries, reverse his diabetes and cause him and his wife to lose more than 60 pounds of deadly belly fat.
In fact, it would be fair to say that this near tragic event saved their marriage. Leading up to this their lives were becoming more and more sedentary as neither had the energy or desire for activities or even for sex.
Prior to this happening neither of them realized how bad their health really was. They just brushed off their lack of energy and sex drive to getting older.
Subtle signs that something may be wrong like a crease in his earlobe that suddenly appeared, numbness and cold in their hands and feet and strange foot cramps when lying in bed were ignored. Not to mention their ever expanding belly, butt and thighs that seemed to keep growing no matter how many vegetables they ate or how often they tried to exercise.
To put it bluntly, this whole event was like one giant alarm bell going off for both of them.
If this had not happened, then they both would have kept on living life as usual while their stomachs continued to get bigger and bigger with each passing month.
They would keep walking around like ticking time bombs as their cardiovascular health deteriorated more and more while pretending not to notice how much their bellies had grown, how tight their clothes were fitting and how little energy and desire for life they had. They would brush it all off as simply "getting older" in an attempt to rationalize away the obvious decline of their health and fitness.
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