Older riders that eat healthy and stay fit need to read my story

JB 19 wrote:

Cholesterol will kill anyone. It also makes you tired too early in the day. Don't eat baked goods, red meat, pizza, ice cream.....eat lots of salad...

Cholesterol will kill anyone. It also makes you tired too early in the day. Don't eat baked goods, red meat, pizza, ice cream.....eat lots of salad. Spinach is a super food for combating cholesterol. Even if high cholesterol runs in your family there are still things you can do about it.

I am 43 years old, 5'8 and weigh 140 pounds. Very low body fat. Very active and still secceptabl to high cholesterol. I don't even drink milk or eat eggs anymore. Replaced milk with oat milk. Also try to get at least 30 mins 3 days a week of high heart rate cardio.

I used to think that I ate healthy because I didn't eat fast food. Also thought I could eat what I want because I was skinny. Found out a couple years ago that it doesn't matter.

JB 19 wrote:

Cholesterol will kill anyone. It also makes you tired too early in the day. Don't eat baked goods, red meat, pizza, ice cream.....eat lots of salad...

Cholesterol will kill anyone. It also makes you tired too early in the day. Don't eat baked goods, red meat, pizza, ice cream.....eat lots of salad. Spinach is a super food for combating cholesterol. Even if high cholesterol runs in your family there are still things you can do about it.

I am 43 years old, 5'8 and weigh 140 pounds. Very low body fat. Very active and still secceptabl to high cholesterol. I don't even drink milk or eat eggs anymore. Replaced milk with oat milk. Also try to get at least 30 mins 3 days a week of high heart rate cardio.

I used to think that I ate healthy because I didn't eat fast food. Also thought I could eat what I want because I was skinny. Found out a couple years ago that it doesn't matter.

stone881 wrote:

Your cells need cholesterol to function and so it is necessary to eat it. There are also different types of it and the good can be...

Your cells need cholesterol to function and so it is necessary to eat it. There are also different types of it and the good can be found in things like eggs. Eggs are a super food and definitely should be part of your diet.

Regarding hereditary health conditions, science has proven that the mind is the important factor, and we live in a quantum world where thoughts influence the physical. So if you have conditioned your mind to think that my father had heart disease, his father had heart disease, I will have heart disease, then you probably will. But if you change your beliefs via changing your thoughts, then that gene is turned off. This is also the difference between the guys on the podium vs. the guys in the race. They have the belief system in place that gives them the edge.

See the work of Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden and others.

stone881 wrote:

Your cells need cholesterol to function and so it is necessary to eat it. There are also different types of it and the good can be...

Your cells need cholesterol to function and so it is necessary to eat it. There are also different types of it and the good can be found in things like eggs. Eggs are a super food and definitely should be part of your diet.

Regarding hereditary health conditions, science has proven that the mind is the important factor, and we live in a quantum world where thoughts influence the physical. So if you have conditioned your mind to think that my father had heart disease, his father had heart disease, I will have heart disease, then you probably will. But if you change your beliefs via changing your thoughts, then that gene is turned off. This is also the difference between the guys on the podium vs. the guys in the race. They have the belief system in place that gives them the edge.

See the work of Joe Dispenza, Bruce Lipton, Gregg Braden and others.

Bauer wrote:

Here's my near miss from two weeks ago, as I told it on my FB page. Sorry about the length...(Hey now!) On Tuesday night, the day...

Here's my near miss from two weeks ago, as I told it on my FB page. Sorry about the length...(Hey now!)

On Tuesday night, the day after Memorial Day, I was getting in my truck to head to work. As a consultant bridge and hwy inspector, my day begins at 9 PM and ends when all lanes are open to traffic, sometime before 5 AM. So, as I locked up the house and tossed my briefcase and backpack into the truck it just felt weird, like someone was kind of pressing down on my chest. It wasn't crazy painful, or piercing...it was kind of like indigestion, but not the same. I got in and started driving, waiting for it to go away, but thinking that this might be something different happening. As I kept driving, I realized I was sweating my ass off with both windows down and still feeling funky.

I've always been fairly proactive about my health, moreso since my older brother Doug's issues earlier this year. No one likes to go to the doctor, but when you are old as dirt it's not a bad idea. So I had recently had EKG's/stress test/echocardiogram, etc, all with a clean bill of health, other than high BP and being a fat bastard.

Even without all that, I assure you the last thing any guy wants to do is call 911, or drive to the ER because he's not feeling good. We're just not built that way. Besides, at work I had a shit ton of time critical responsibilities waiting on me. So, I'm driving down the 91 and my macho, tough guy, egocentric brain was saying, "Don't be a wimp, get your ass to work", while my body was trying to reason with the rest of my brain, saying "Don't be a fool, go to the nearest hospital".

I figured if I go to the hospital and it's nothing, then I'm a little late to work and a little embarrassed. If it is something serious, at least I have a shot at a decent outcome, whereas if I go to work and it is serious it could be disastrous. So I swerved off the freeway to the nearest hospital, (not wanting to risk croaking while driving another 15 minutes to my first choice). I ignored the security and nurses telling me to "check in over there" and pretty much barged into the ER, complaining of chest pain and telling them I thought I was having a cardiac incident. They ran a quick EKG and immediately called an ambulance to take me to the hospital that had been my first choice, Riverside Community, which is a top heart facility (and also where I was born).

I felt pretty calm and called my girlfriend Nancy and the guys at work and told them I was in the ER and what they needed to cover etc. Twenty minutes later the ambulance guys arrived and Nancy walked up as they were loading me. I remember her asking if she could follow...they said yeah, but don't try to follow them through the red light intersections. The next thing I knew, they rolled me into the ambulance and slapped defibrillator pads on both sides of my chest. I said, "WTF?", they said, "Just in case" and I said, "Thanks for the no-confidence vote, fellas!" They thought that was pretty funny and so did I.

Shit just got real.

Despite the seriously negative vibe the defibs were giving me, I tried to enjoy the ride as much as possible. I've always felt like I got gypped during my only other ambulance ride, which was from Carlsbad Raceway when I was around 20 years old. This one wasn't a whole lot better, but at least I was conscious and not concussed. When they wheeled me out of the ambulance at Riverside Community there were a bunch of people sitting on a concrete bench outside of the ER, quietly staring at me strapped on the gurney. As the AMR guys rolled me past them I jerked my head up and went, "Boo!" Scared the hell out of them and made the AMR guys laugh again, so we were all kind of chuckling as we entered the ER.

As soon as we entered they were on me like a swarm of bees. They had me hooked up to all kinds of shit, had me scribble my name on some docs and said they were taking me down to the catheter lab. Now, I've done enough time in hospitals that I now have a built-in, involuntary auto response mechanism that causes me to say, "No, thank you", followed by, "I'd prefer not", "No" and "You're not putting that in my dick" when I hear the word catheter. I calmed down when he explained that this catheter was probably going in through my wrist, but could possibly be inserted into my femoral artery, through my groin. They proceeded to put me buck naked on an operating table and shaved the right side of my crotch, just in case. Being a manscaped kind of guy, I told her I doubt they needed to shave it, but she did it anyway. I was gonna say something smartass about her just wanting to fondle my junk, but I think at that point I was more concerned with living.

The rest is pretty anticlimactic. I was awake during the entire procedure and could barely feel them inserting the catheter in my wrist, past the two month old plate and screws in my broken arm and up into my heart, where he placed two stents. I immediately felt better and back to normal. They monitored everything throughout the night and the next morning they did an echocardiogram and other stuff. When my doc came around the next night, he told me that when I came in I was in myocardial infarction and that my LAD (aka: Widowmaker) artery was 99% obstructed! He said that there was zero damage to my heart and that the stents had opened the artery to 100% function. Because I had no history of heart issues, angina or sign of blockage, he said that what had likely happened was that some plaque had been dislodged when I was getting ready for work and had tumbled and formed a roadblock in my LAD. If it had been a gradual build-up there would have been signs prior to the incident, such as chest pain or angina.

He also said that if I had kept driving and gone to work that the outcome would not have been quite as rosy...in fact I would probably be dead. He said that listening to my body and most importantly, acting on it, had probably saved my life. I was discharged less than 48 hours after being admitted to the hospital with a clean bill of health and a new lease on life. I was not able to make it up to Hangtown to bench race with all my old friends, but I appreciate everyone's concern and warm thoughts.

So I made it to my 64th birthday and my kids still have a dad, my friends still have someone to goof on, the moto world still has at least one liberal and my next Big Air Kid's Fair charity event at Loma Linda University Children's Hospital will be on September 14, 2022 and it is going to be spectacular.

My untold gratitude to the doctors and staff at Riverside Community Hospital, Parkview Hospital, AMR ambulance service and my girlfriend Nancy for keeping me alive.
And remember, listen to your body!