| I found Dr. McDougall and Mary from your lectures on YouTube and went plant-based using your wisdom 10 years ago. I was in a wheelchair with arthritis when I found your starch-based eating lifestyle. I gave up dairy totally, began going vegan and within 3 weeks, I was able to walk. My hands are now useful again. I had arthritis in my fingers so much so, typing was difficult and signing my name looked like I fell off the turnip truck on my hands. But they were never broken. My mother suffered from gout arthritis and it was likely that this was true of me too. Without eating any more animal flesh, dairy products or seafood, the arthritis is in remission and there is no meal with animal products worth being in a wheelchair to me or not being able to use my hands. I’m so glad to be well. Only my pinky shows any effect of arthritis, it looks a bit quirky, and most would not even notice it is curved. I walk 4 miles a day now so long as it is not too hot or cold outside. And I can ride a bicycle, I got one for Mother’s Day this year. My husband would not follow my lead into being vegan even though he saw how much I thrived. The last year he worked while getting ready for retirement, he was having trouble with having to urinate frequently at night. He went to a urologist at Kaiser Permanente and was diagnosed with prostate cancer and it was stage 4! He had robotic-aided surgery and it was successful. It was terrible pain for him. I insisted he now try the food I was cooking for myself, it really does taste good and now there are two vegans who live more happily than ever before as we feel so well now all the time. We’ve both been losing weight and he’s finally gotten more serious and he has benefited from what I learned. The only thing he still needed was to lower his blood pressure. We got that down and he is finally seriously eating the diet and losing weight too. | 