{"id":1024,"date":"2017-09-12T07:16:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T14:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:36:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T18:36:30","slug":"a-call-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/a-call-for-support\/","title":{"rendered":"A Call For Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/DaveFeldman\">Patreon.com\/DaveFeldman<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"796\" height=\"448\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l9UrCFa3DDo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hello Everyone&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>I have a confession to make&#8230; I&#8217;m really bad about asking for help.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll soon be hitting two years since this entire thing began, and I&#8217;ve financed it almost entirely from my savings. Make no mistake, I never thought of this as a money-making venture \u2013 I already had a lifetime of those as an entrepreneur in software development. And frankly, there&#8217;s much more money putting people onto a product or medication than taking them off.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, it\u00a0was this series of discoveries that drove me forward. Were I not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jZu52duIqno\">finding these patterns in the data<\/a>, I&#8217;d have long abandoned this work. And were it not for the many like myself who felt shell shocked\u00a0on getting their cholesterol numbers, I wouldn&#8217;t have felt so compelled to write and illustrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/a-simple-guide-to-cholesterol-on-low-carb\/\">Simple Series<\/a> to educate and relieve some of the fear.<\/p>\n<p>In short, I found discovering the science and helping people to be worth every hour and penny spent!<\/p>\n<p>But alas, I was eventually going to need help, which is where I&#8217;m at now. I don&#8217;t just create content, I also run experiments where strips, tubes, and labs can all add up. And while placing the &#8220;Donate&#8221; button has helped without my promoting of it directly, I know now that I need to be more proactive about reaching out to the community.<a href=\"http:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/call_for_support_black.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1036 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/call_for_support_black-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/call_for_support_black-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/call_for_support_black-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/cholesterolcode.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/call_for_support_black.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So if you feel this work has helped you and others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/DaveFeldman\">please consider visiting my Patreon and joining<\/a>. There will be a lot of exclusives patrons get, such as previews and behind the scenes Vlogs on my experiments as they happen. And if successful enough, there will be new places I can take this, such as producing a full motion cartoon of the Simple Series comic.<\/p>\n<p>Mainly, I hope \u2013 like me \u2013 you&#8217;ll be motivated by what we can bring to the community with this work. Thank you for your consideration!<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<br \/>\nDave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patreon.com\/DaveFeldman Hello Everyone&#8211; I have a confession to make&#8230; I&#8217;m really bad about asking for help. I&#8217;ll soon be hitting two years since this entire thing began, and I&#8217;ve financed it almost entirely from my savings. 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