Success Story: "I bypassed the Bypass."

Leon Perlsweig always knew his DNA wasn’t the best. His earliest memories were of his dear mother passing out in the street, “which scared the hell out of me. I was just a little kid.”

She was a victim of fainting spells caused by severe high blood pressure. She died much too soon of, her doctor suspected, a massive stroke.

At age 53, the very same age of his mother’s passing, Leon started having his own problems – chest-squeezing angina so painful that “I had trouble walking from the back of my house to the front.”

Terrified, the Southern California attorney knew he had to do something – and fast. But his options at the time, 1974, weren’t to his liking. After treadmill stress testing and an angiogram, which showed 100% blockage in one coronary artery, 89% in a second, and 76% in a third, UCLA’s head of cardiology recommended immediate coronary bypass surgery. He also explained to Leon the risks involved.

Well, Leon was never one interested in risk – “I’m not a big hero.”

National Enquirer

So he returned home and, by sheer coincidence, picked up a National Enquirer just a few days later with an article about an 89-year-old woman whose story sounded a lot like his. She’d been taking a litany of drugs for heart disease and struggling with paralyzing angina. She couldn’t even walk out to her backyard to play with her grandchild.

Then she told the Enquirer that after meeting a man named Nathan Pritikin and adopting his diet and exercise program, her life had completely turned around. She was now off virtually all her meds, taking brisk walks for miles every day, and feeling like a million.

Not keen on accepting anything from a newspaper with a reputation for limited accuracy, but always with an open mind, Leon called the Enquirer, got the woman’s phone number, telephoned her, and found out that everything in the newspaper’s story was true. Nathan Pritikin, she affirmed, was her hero.

"I'd like to speak to Mr. Pritikin"

So Leon called Nathan Pritikin himself and learned he was involved in a major study at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California. Scientists there were investigating the efficacy of three different programs for VA patients with severe heart disease.

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