Lab Results

[Nurse in the Raw]

So many times you hear of health conditions improving with raw and you wonder if it is really true. Well, here is actual proof that the raw lifestyle works.

When liver cells are damaged or dying, ALT and AST leak into the bloodstream. The normal ranges are ALT 5-60 and AST 5-43. I know this is difficult to read but it all amounts to raw helping me go from high 200's (when cirrhosis of the liver can occur) to 89/94.

DATE, ALT, AST

HEMOCHROMATOSIS
DIAGNOSED
03/09/04 186 83

03/26/04 271 132

STARTED BLOOD
WITHDRAWALS
06/26/04 381 258

07/27/04 174 120

09/26/05 340 302

04/13/07 219 266

STARTED RAW DIET
05/08/07 213 183

01/08/08 89 94

[Raw Angel Mom]

This is great news, i am so happy for you. So the lower this amount the better?

[agumble]

Thank you for sharing this!! My AST and ALT are both elevated and the doctors can't figure out why. They've run about every blood test, done an ultrasound, and now they want to do a liver biopsy, which I desperately don't want done. I'm going to postpone it for awhile and see if raw helps first. I've been 100% for two months now, so hopefully this will work for me!

[maui_butterfly]

DANG... that is phenomenal. How EXCITING!!!

[c'estlaviebelle]

Wow- that is so great! It is so wonderful you health has improved so much! It just goes to prove- we are indeed what we eat. :)

[Frugal Raw]

WOW!!! Great numbers!!! Congrats!!!!

[Nurse in the Raw]

This is great news, i am so happy for you. So the lower this amount the better?

Yes, the lower the better. Ideally I would like them to be around 35-50. I will get there.....it takes time for the liver to regenerate.

[Nurse in the Raw]

Thank you for sharing this!! My AST and ALT are both elevated and the doctors can't figure out why. They've run about every blood test, done an ultrasound, and now they want to do a liver biopsy, which I desperately don't want done. I'm going to postpone it for awhile and see if raw helps first. I've been 100% for two months now, so hopefully this will work for me!

I have never had a biopsy done because it is too invasive and most of the time not necessary. In my case, with Hemochromatosis a biopsy is not needed to diagnose because they have blood tests and even CT scans now that show how much iron is in the liver.

I would give it a good six months to allow raw to do it's work. I would also google Liv. 52, buy it and take it. They have 300 documented studies that show that this natural product halts progression of many liver diseases.

If you want, email me your lab results and I will take a look at them.

[Eilene]

That is AWESOME! I'm so happy for you! Raw is the best!

[dalimeindacoconut]

The difference in those numbers is really staggering from not eating raw to eating raw. You are such a sweetie and you absolutely deserve to see those numbers go down as you've worked so hard for it. A huge congratulations! As you know so many people don't take care of their livers and I've never seen or heard of anyone making as much of a transformation as you. Your the first!

[agumble]

Thanks for the offer to look at my results, but unfortunately my doctor never gave me a copy of them. She just told me that my AST was 145, and the ALT was a little over 100. I'll look into the Liv. 52 though. Thanks for the help!

[Aleesha Sattva]

liv 52 is wonderful. it's ayurvedic medicine!

[veganman]

Good job NITR!

I have read that high ALT and AST can be caused by something called "fatty liver."

Milk thistle (silymarin) is also helpful.

[VeggieMel]

That gives me the chills! Fantastic! Congratulations!

[SuBu]

Thank you so much NITR. The drs are wanting to biopsy my son for this very condition. He's very supportive in my raw journey--not so much for himself. He's trying to figure out a genetic connection as his father had a fatty liver (but was overweight and SAD to the max). I just sent him this thread to read over and am suggesting he has Secondary rather than Hereditary. In either case, you prove raw is the answer--congratulations!

[shashibala]

Congratulations! You must feel a weight being lifted off your shoulders!

[jacsam]

Your results are soooo incredible....thanks for inspiring me and keep us posted on your next results.

[Barbie2]

HI Nurse in the Raw! I'm also a nurse. Sometimes I feel like a hypocrit being a nurse and eating Raw, while my patients all eat the awful nursing home food. How do you deal with these feelings? I work nightshift and it's so hard for me to eat at 1 am or 2 am. Food looks awful to me. Snacks look wonderful. Any ideas how I can eat healthy in the middle of the night?

Those numbers are fantastic! Right now I'm working on my high cholesterol. Also Cancer is in my family, so if I don't change my eating habits, it could become a part of my future, which I do not want.

[Nurse in the Raw]

HI Nurse in the Raw! I'm also a nurse. Sometimes I feel like a hypocrit being a nurse and eating Raw, while my patients all eat the awful nursing home food. How do you deal with these feelings? I work nightshift and it's so hard for me to eat at 1 am or 2 am. Food looks awful to me. Snacks look wonderful. Any ideas how I can eat healthy in the middle of the night?

I know how you feel about your patients eating SAD. I am just about everywhere in the hospital so I either encourage parents to feed their children more raw fruits and veges at home (parents are really open when their kids are sick) or I encourage patients themselves to eat more raw foods and those that come from the nursing homes and have "concerned" adult children, I ask them to bring raw fruits and veges from home. I talk about RAW to anyone that will listen.

As far as working goes, I bring raw food bars that I make myself or buy online and I take a cooler full of my favorite fruits and veges. Life is too short to eat what you don't like. While everyone else is eating their nasty pizza I just visualize their arteries hardening and I don't feel left out in the least.

Hope this helps.

[Barbie2]

I never thought of visualizing their arteries hardening, but that's a good idea. I like to nibble at night, also sometimes it's hard for me just to sit down for a meal, my nights can be crazy! Besides patient care, I pass meds to 40+ patients, do treatments, there is tons of paper work and more all the time, because there is this belief that nightshift doesn't have enough work to keep busy.

The nurses on nightshift get so overwhelmed sometimes. Then if there is a UA to obtain, the night nurses have to obtain that too, and that is always a straight cath. I seldom see the family members, so teaching them about fresh fruit and veggies would be a rare event. I think I'm a frustrated nurse!

I have thought about going into homehealth, eventually. My husband is retiring soon, so I'll have to wait and see. We do need my benefits, so making a job change may be something I have to take slowly. But I can imagine home health would be great for teaching good eating habits, even if they would just eat more fruit and veggies it would be a plus for them.

Sorry about whining, but I know as a nurse you may understand how I feel.

[sfdreams]

Thanks for the offer to look at my results, but unfortunately my doctor never gave me a copy of them. She just told me that my AST was 145, and the ALT was a little over 100. I'll look into the Liv. 52 though. Thanks for the help!

Agumble, you have the right to your own lab results...if you would like a copy of your lab reports, you just need to ask your doctor for one. Or ask him/her to write on the lab order "patient may have copy of lab report" then get it from the laboratory.

Speaking as a clinical lab scientist, we are not allowed to give out reports to patients without an order from the doctor, and we cannot legally discuss what the results mean. (You need to speak to the doctor for that.) My dad has no trouble at all getting copies of his labs.

Good luck with the liver issue. I am positive that 100% raw will cure it. I had no issue with ALT/AST myself, but my Lipids have dramatically improved eating raw, even when tested in a non-fasting state.