Well, it didn’t take long for my father’s cardiologist to tell him that “he had more work to do” when it came to his heart health.  The doctor recommended he travel to the California coast to stay at a very special cardiologist’s on-site clinic for a little while.  He was to learn a new lifestyle.  He was to attend lectures to learn what causes heart disease and how to make the necessary changes to get better and stay that way.  His diet was strictly controlled based on the new information he was learning.  No more fat and lots of grains was the way to go. 

At that age, I had no concept of time.  So I didn’t know if he was gone for 6 weeks or 3 months.  But when he returned he was walking for 45 minutes every day, much slimmer and had a very different diet.  Meal time was unique in that my mother and I had one meal while my father got to eat completely different things.  He stuck with it and followed “the rules.”  The family felt so much better now that the new lifestyle had him looking and feeling so much better.  So on we went with our lives, feeling safer in his longevity.

I chose to move to the Los Angeles area with a friend not long afterward.  I wasn’t there for even 2 months when I got a phone call at 6 am on a Monday morning from my sister.  “Dad’s had a heart attack.  He’s dead!”  I was only 19 years old.  How could that be?  He did EVERYTHING he was told.  He followed the rules and this is the result?  I wasn’t just sad in his death, but I felt cheated.

It was not long after his death that I also learned that the California cardiologist that he spent time with also passed away due to a heart attack.  That’s all it took for me to start down a very different road than the life  midwestern girls were groomed for.  That got me to Naturopathic medical school, where we were required to take classes covering subjects like Diet, Food Science, and Nutrition - all of which ended up on my medical board exam.  That is where I realized exactly why my father still died from a heart attack.  

And that is why I am here to help anyone who wants to achieve and maintain robust heart health.  I offer the Max Pulse test to reveal where you are currently and evidence-based advice on how to get where you want to go with your health.  Many are surprised to learn that it doesn’t have to be cost prohibitive to get the results you want.  To those who I feel truly need the help and who think they would like to take it, I offer a product I created based on Nobel prize-winning science.  Because when we think about it, our heart doesn’t just belong to us.  It belongs to all that love, need and depend on us.  So here is to great heart health.  I hope I can help on your journey.