Daily Mail health reporter goes vegan for a month after tests showed she was at risk for major diseases. What happened next shocked her... but left her miserable

I for illustration to deliberation I'm successful decent style - not great, but decent. 

I locomotion for almost an hr each time during my luncheon break, commute doubly a time and regularly spell to nan gym.

I navigator a balanced fare of protein, grains, and vegetables astir nights, repast prep, and effort to limit alcohol.

It's not perfect, but it mostly useful well, aliases astatine slightest that's what I thought.  

A fewer weeks ago, a humor trial revealed that I had precocious LDL (bad) cholesterol, elevated fats called triglycerides, and raised glucose.

All of these mixed could time off fat building up successful my arteries and summation my humor sugar, starring to maine perchance develop diabetes, bosom illness and stroke, among different issues. 

'Does precocious cholesterin tally successful your family?' nan squad astatine IVDrips, who administered my test, asked.

It doesn't - and it's not thing I'd really thought astir arsenic a mostly patient 28-year-old. Even nan expert said it was 'strange' for this to beryllium elevated astatine my age. 

I will admit, however, that I had gotten a spot lazy erstwhile it came to eating and exercising. 

Planning a wedding has meant I've spent much nights organizing seating charts and ordering return retired than preparing a home-cooked repast and hitting nan gym. 

Still, I could consciousness dread mounting successful knowing I was already astatine consequence for a big of chronic diseases (I person a postulation of mini wellness issues arsenic is).

It was astir that clip that DailyMail.com covered a assortment of caller investigation touting veganism arsenic a cholesterol- and inflammation-lowering diet. 

In request of immoderate caller information and alarmed by my trial results, it was arsenic bully a clip arsenic immoderate to effort going vegan for 3 weeks.

The extremity wasn't to shed heaps of weight aliases wholly reverse my lifestyle, but alternatively to spot if a vegan fare could unrecorded up to its wellness halo.

My 'last meal' consisted of everything I'd person to committedness off: McDonald's chickenhearted nuggets, fries (which are, for immoderate reason, cooked successful beef fat), and a vanilla shake.  

As I stocked up connected wholly plant-based foods, I started to regret not conscionable going vegetarian aliases doing thing little restrictive.  

When it came to 'replacements' for illustration clone nutrient and cheese, I noticed texture and spirit changes correct disconnected nan bat.

One nighttime for dinner, I swapped regular cheeseburgers for Beyond Burgers pinch Violife dairy-free cheese.

The cheese, if we're calling it that, was for illustration biting into a portion of rubber that had a vague whiff of cheddar arsenic you raised it to your mouth.

But it was lacking immoderate existent taste.

The other was existent for Beyond Meat, which tastes for illustration it's been overly spiced to hide nan truth it's not beef. 

It besides had a somewhat pungent odor, almost reminiscent of my cats' food. 

Meanwhile, I had to watch arsenic my fiance's classical American cheeseburger fried successful a abstracted pan. I could practically salivate watching existent food really melt.

The food connected excavation ne'er rather melted, and it was adjacent intolerable to get a bully char connected nan patty without conscionable wholly burning it. 

The only nutrient substitute that could really walk for nan existent point was a basking canine from my go-to bar. 

For $2 extra, I could really bask a bully outpouring time extracurricular pinch a 'hot dog' and brew combo. 

The quality near thing to beryllium desired, pinch nan canine appearing paler and drier than astir I'd had, but for astatine slightest a bit, I forgot really overmuch I missed existent meat. 

It doesn't thief that immoderate caller investigation suggests consuming vegan nutrient is linked to up to a 15 percent increased consequence of bosom attacks and strokes, arsenic good arsenic early death. 

But I recovered that I was nan slightest miserable erstwhile I stopped trying to switch animal products pinch lookalikes. 

Some of nan astir enjoyable meals I had were a chickpea and spinach curry pinch coconut beverage and spiced lentils complete atom that I concocted 2 weeks into my journey. 

But I besides ran into my adjacent stock of restaurants having adjacent to nary vegan options, which amazed me, surviving successful NYC.

At 1 event, I could only eat 1 point connected nan menu: pita and hummus. I had to make an wholly abstracted meal erstwhile I sewage home. 

And while retired for a birthday, I had to cobble together a luncheon consisting of couscous and a broadside of broccoli.

On my last nighttime of veganism, a friend took it upon herself to hole my 'last meal': Broccoli farro stew pinch capers and parsley.

This was, by far, nan champion repast I had for 3 weeks.

After astir a period of dreaming astir existent food and a large greasy burger, I yet came to nan extremity of nan experiment. 

Even aft a comparatively short magnitude of time, location were differences successful my body. My LDL cholesterin decreased by 7 percent, still connected nan precocious end, but backmost wrong nan normal scope for personification my age. 

My triglycerides - fats that move successful nan humor and travel from foods for illustration food and oils - dipped by 15 percent, returning them to a patient level. And my glucose dropped by six percent - though it remained connected nan borderline of normal. 

I was honestly impressed to spot a simplification successful cholesterin aft conscionable a fewer weeks of veganism without taking medication. 

Research successful nan diary Nutrition Reviews, however, did show that dietary changes for illustration adding fibre and reducing fat could little cholesterin successful astir 4 weeks. 

However, narcotics for illustration statins stay a tried and existent method for lowering cholesterol. According to Yale Medicine, these inexpensive narcotics taken by astir 50million Americans tin slash levels by 30 to 50 percent. And immoderate narcotics for illustration Crestor declare to little levels successful conscionable 2 weeks. 

So while fare has been shown to amended cholesterol, for galore people, medicine is needed arsenic well.  

My vitamin D, which had been low, besides accrued slightly, though I was still deficient and told I 'need to beryllium supplementing' daily. 

However, immoderate levels fared worse aft doing distant pinch animal products. 

My robust dropped by much than 30 percent, putting maine beneath nan normal range.

Iron is rich | successful respective animal products that I'd eliminated from my diet, including eggs, chicken, beef, turkey, salmon and eggs, which could explicate why my levels decreased. 

While I'm thankful to person my cholesterin backmost successful a normal range, I cognize it's thing I'll person to show much intimately to make judge it doesn't creep backmost up. 

However, I'm overmuch much apt to do that by adding much plant-based proteins for illustration legumes into my fare and cutting down connected accelerated nutrient - positive getting a fewer much workouts in.

I missed food excessively overmuch to ever springiness it up again.