My journey sounds very similar. High cholesterol and A1C creeping toward T2D and aging joints. I’m a year into sobriety and 6 months low carb life. Cholesterol is down to 88, A1C down to 5.7, BMI now “overweight” v “obese.” My PCP has agreed on eliminating meds if my numbers hold. The statins have taken their sneaky toll on me.
It is really amazing looking back how much disinformation there is about food out there. Vast majority of it stemming from the FDA!
Food is medicine (or poison). Good health should be a joy, not a chore. I am glad that the proper food is working & ‘joy’ is coming back!
Pretty much when the ‘white coats’ start you on pharmaceuticals for pre-diabetes or T2D, they automatically add statins.
I am glad you have a doc who will consider taking you off meds as your health improves!!
The disinformation about food is out there because of Big Ag/Big Pharma. Look at the obesity rates in this country on the recommended ‘Standard American Diet’ (SAD) - cheap ingredients/high profit for Big Ag. Big Pharma (aka Harma) are not interested in “health”, but in “patients” for further pharmaceutical sales.
Our bodies are God’s Divine Design ... he has put what we need to take care of it on this earth for us ... nutraceuticals, natural remedies. A good example of this - what is working to help Long Vax & the vax injured is not the pharmaceuticals, but nutraceuticals and substances found in nature.