Chandler Klebs

“      Before that first three weeks I was on over 100 units of insulin per day, and in three weeks I was taking no insulin.       In about a month, I was once again in my doctor’s office, watching as they looked at my numbers in utter amazement. When they asked me what I did, I told them I had adopted a completely plant-based diet. They didn’t seem surprised at all and told me that plant-based diets were helping to reverse diabetes. When I asked why they had not suggested it, they told me “because it is not practical.”       There I was, morbidly obese, taking nine drugs, shooting insulin into myself multiple times per day, suffering nerve damage and severe pain, and yet they thought that changing my diet in a fairly easy way would be less practical?”
― Kathy Freston, Veganist: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, Change the World

“Because of FDA rules, supplement manufacturers cannot claim on a label any preventive or therapeutic qualities. For instance, magnesium, vitamin B6, and the herbal treatment chasteberry (Vitex agnus-castus) are proven to help premenstrual syndrome (PMS), but the labels cannot claim this effect. Instead, a label for magnesium might read “helps nerve and muscle function” but not mention PMS, even if that’s the reason you’re purchasing it.”
― Sara Gottfried, The Hormone Cure

“Although I have already been castrated, I still feel proud that I have gotten it done. I know it makes me special and different. No, I'll never be able to be a real woman, but I have made myself into something different—a eunuch. In a way, I am even more special than biological woman because I had to work so hard to be this way. I even had to have surgery done.”
― B. Castrucchio, How and Why I Got Castrated

“If all this talk about mood and libido sounds familiar, it should: testosterone has an overlapping role with our old friend estrogen. You see, testosterone can be converted to estrogen; fat cells contain an enzyme, called aromatase, that converts testosterone to estradiol. The more fat you have, the more likely it is that you’ll create an excess of both androgens and estrogens. We know that excess estrogen may make it extremely difficult to lose weight, which then reinforces the cycle of more fat, estrogen, and weight.”
― Sara Gottfried, The Hormone Cure