With everything going on health wise I have not been able to stay on top of this unfortunately. I am still focused on losing weight and even though I have been staying on track my weight loss has stalled out pretty bad. My current stats
Today’s stats: 3/28/2017
Begin Date: 2/13/2017
Starting Weight: 351.6 Today’s Weight : 325 Total Weight Loss: 26.6 lbs
Days: 43 Average Weight loss: .62 lbs per day
The past week I have spent trying to take all of this most recent medical discovery. It is making me reevaluate everything from what is important to what is not. It also has me seeking my life’s purpose as I feel I have never truly found it. I also have been trying to find any way possible to stop the progression of the aneurysm or reverse it.
I have come up with a bunch of over the counter supplements. Vitamins A,B,C,D,E, Fish Oil, Alpha Lipoic Acid, Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN), Garlic, Hawthorne Berries, Pomegranate Juice and a few others.
My goal with these supplements and my diet is to reduce all inflammation in my body so that my immune system doesn’t keep attacking my Aorta, it is either this or a blockage which has caused the aneurysm from what I have read. The MMP3, MMP9, and MMP13 Macrophages go after the aneurysm site and create a feedback loop where the more they eat the more they signal white blood cells which causes more oxidization and eventually the cellular matrix of the aorta is transformed and it loses its elasticity due to this process. The presence of the MMP’s cause more inflammation which keeps the cycle going. My goal is to try to break that cycle.
While trying to break this cycle I also have to continue to lose weight but any intense exercise is off the table as an increase in blood pressure could cause the aneurysm to get bigger and the bigger it gets the more risk of rupture. The more weight I lose the more active I will be able to be as my blood pressure will continue to decrease as the weight comes off which will put less pressure on the aorta.
Going forward I am going to still try to update this as much as possible but I know where there will be times I wont be able to update this for days due to being busy handling this issue and getting other things in order. I can only hope that something I do in the way of vitamins improves this situation and avoids rupture or surgery. I really do not have anything else at this point I’m just hoping that I can stop this and reverse it.