By Heart Health Coach, Gay Rutherford
Healthy ageing, not diseased. Dying of contentment, not illness. Keeping active in my family to enjoy my grandchildren’s children.
By the time I got to my sixties I assumed, like my friends, that I was reasonably healthy. I was not.
I got interested in health when on leaving school I wanted to do medicine but didn’t. Then a yoga class ignited a passion to question health that’s never stopped.
Over decades I searched into different philosophies, including three years at the Christchurch College of Natural Medicine, but with no consistency as to what I wanted.
By the time I got to my sixties, I assumed, like my friends, that I was reasonably healthy. I was not. I ate and exercised well but didn’t acknowledge the signals of slowly developing disease, that of our biggest killer, the heart.
My arteries were clear so there was nothing for the doctors to fix, which I imagine thanks to diet and sport, but I needed a transplant that I was too old to get, so the prognosis was grim. Another baby boomer gone from the invincible to the commonly cracking up of older age.
I reversed my condition, cardiologists told me they’d never seen such a recovery, and I have my life back to live, rather than to just manage.
However, luckily, I already knew Lifestyle Medicine regarding kidneys and cancer, and so from my hospital bed, I started the research on my current big passion, our hearts. I reversed my condition, cardiologists told me they’d never seen such a recovery, and I have my life back to live, rather than to just manage.
PreKure covers all the essentials, including, in my opinion, the vital ingredient that the doctors don’t have time for. The coaching is so necessary to every aspect of human health.
PreKure has given me the confidence and Certification to now help others to avoid, or to deal with, the warning signals that I missed. No one wants a second bout of the same disease, which sadly so common, and certainly, no one wants one in the first place.
My ‘aha’ moments are the sheer physical exuberance and sparkly eyes of survivors who over year after year, have been managing their hearts with random fatigue or concerns, to then getting their lives back, quite quickly. And my own ‘aha’ – my own PreKure Coach who helping me continue the journey.
My advice to others is that PreKure covers all the essentials, including, in my opinion, the vital ingredient that the doctors don’t have time for. The coaching is so necessary to every aspect of human health.
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