Physician Profile of Dr. Forrester from the Spring 2009 issue and picture of PCRM event in Sacramento from Winter 2012 issue of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s quarterly publication Good Medicine:
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- December 2003: no medications: Fasting Glucose = 270, Cholesterol = 250, placed on medications
- March 2011, Day 1: Weight = 313#, Diagnosis: Diabetes, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia, Heartburn; Medications: Glipizide, Metformin, Lisinopril, Lipitor, Tums, Fasting Glucose = 159, Cholesterol = 189, BP = 130/80; Day 1 removed meds except ½ tab metformin, Lipitor, Tums continue as needed
- Day 3: stopped metformin due to low sugar, reflux gone.
- Day 8: Weight = 308, Stopped Lipitor, Fasting Glucose = 129, Cholesterol = 122, BP = 130/80
- Day 120: Weight = 268, lost 45#, Fasting glucose 100, Cholesterol = 202
- Day 180: Weight = 253, lost 60#, home glucose =80
- Day 230: Fasting glucose = 73 Cholesterol = 182
- Day 270: Weight = 243, lost 70#