ben’s story
Heart & Body Naturals
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Heart & Body Naturals
the ayurvedic superfood shots company
by Paula Scarcella
Heart & Body Naturals’ Founder & CEO
The start of Heart & Body Naturals is deeply personal.
As personal as I can get, really. Something, like so many things, that
brings me back to the gifted healing abilities of Alexandria.
Everyone who knows me has often heard me express that the
best person I know is my husband, Ben. Everyone who knows Ben understands what I mean and
would agree.
In September of 2012, Ben and I found ourselves in the emergency room at Saint Ann’s hospital in Westerville, Ohio.
He had
been struggling with stomach pain for several hours. No other symptoms,
only abdominal pain.
The emergency room physician felt that maybe it was a stomach virus or food poisoning, but based on the degree of his
pain they took him for a cat scan of his stomach. Within minutes of starting the
scan, everything in our family’s life changed.

The cat scan revealed that the superior mesenteric artery was inflamed to the point
of closing; an acute, life-threatening situation.
The doctors immediately wanted to perform an angiogram,
similar to a heart
catheterization, where after inserting a catheter into a large artery in the leg and
advancing the catheter into the aorta, radiographic dye is injected into blood
vessels supplying the gastrointestinal tract.
The angiogram confirmed the doctor’s diagnosis of a disease
we had never heard
of before, vasculitis. Vasculitis is a term for a
group of rare diseases that result in the
inflammation of blood vessels.

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