Pagandim's Graduation Speech: My Autonomy

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LIFE BEFORE PROTANDIM
JIM’S TESITMONY

Let me begin at June 28th, 2013 (my first heart attack) and I’ll expedite my life to March 9th, 2015 (my second heart attack). Going on 30 years I contracted this horrible disease called Diabetes; 12 years ago I had a stroke in my right optical cord – leaving me partially blind; and 6 years ago I began having seizures after learning I deal with Epilepsy. Around that same time, I found myself to deal with Sleep Apnea. I still deal with an equilibrium issue due to poor depth perception and not having peripheral vision in the right eye.

What was happening to me in the LIFE BEFORE PROTANDIM? Besides those horrible health issues, I dealt with trying to keeping my Diabetes A1c under control, having migraine headaches, fought with back pain, found to have heart failure, not having any energy at all, fighting with Seizures due to Epilepsy, too many colds and flus, my speech had slurs, and I hesitated with my memory.
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After I returned home in April my friend Dave Meidama suggested I start taking Protandim. He asked me, “Can you put a value on your life?” I recall mentioning that I could not! He said, “But God has already.” He mentioned that a Doctor McCord, from Life Vantage Corporation has made this product to bring health to people’s bodies. It is an antioxidant that deals with [bad] cells that are destroying our free radicals [good] cells. This Protandim acts as a neutralizer and this is called oxidizing or “oxidative stress.” The bad cells are removed and leaving good cells in our

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