Cheeseburger day pushed those drugs away

Tony Funderburk · Jun 2, 2026

I will never forget that one fantastically special cheeseburger day. Because that’s the day I started chasing a particular system away.

Here’s how that cheeseburger day started.

For about 13 years I was on a doctor-recommended vegetarian diet. And each time I’d go to a doctor to check my cholesterol levels, the bad numbers would be higher. Yep. Higher.

Finally, one day I heard a naturopathic chiropractor with his own radio program, in Denver, Colorado, talk about the dangers of statin drugs. Of course, my ears perked up because I had already been on a doctor prescribed…