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Audrey Zeitouni Lasky is a former New York educator turned author, speaker, trainer, and travel expert from San Francisco now permanently residing in Georgia. Beginning in 2012, the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center urged Audrey to make public how and why she survived a non-preventable and nearly fatal event in 1996 and to write a book based on her personal program “Climb, Lift & Eat Well…”® to help others emulate Audrey’s remarkable quality of life.
“Life was not easy as the immigrant child whose family life was different from the other kids in the neighborhood and dramatically different from what was portrayed on American television. Being the only one in the class not born in the United States raised the eyebrows of adults and children alike. It was more than just uncomfortable when I was asked, “What are you? Where are your parents from?” The tone of those questions, not the questions themselves, cut like a dagger through my heart. Although we lived in the township of Teaneck, a suburb minutes from the melting pot of New York City, the questions made me feel as though I was not supposed to be there.
Although Danny Thomas brought Lebanese culture into American living rooms through his television show and talk show appearances, the Lebanese grocer on Teaneck Road provided the one place I could go with my father to feel truly welcomed. I loved how the owner’s face would light up whenever he saw my father and I enter his store.
They loved to converse in Arabic and French, and I loved to hear it. In my mind, I wanted to belong in Teaneck. In my heart, I wanted to go back to my birthplace of Paris, back to the city of lights, and back to the place that had saved my parents.
Given current worldwide events, the circumstances surrounding her survival in 1996 as a direct result of her health and fitness routines are more relevant than ever. The changes Audrey made six years earlier in 1990 to shed more than 50 pounds safely in six months to prepare for a ten-year high school reunion were inspired by her own science and physical education classes in high school and college. Her powerful and gripping story of how and why she survived a sudden-onset, non-preventable, idiopathic (unknown cause) case of Septic Shock and Multiple Organ System Failure on Valentine’s Day 1996 as a direct result of “C.L.E.W.,” leaves audiences, including the medical communities from New York to San Francisco, inspired and motivated to act upon her every word.
Whatever precipitated her antibodies to go into overdrive was, and will forever remain, an unsolvable mystery. Doctors found no source of infection. The infectious disease expert and critical care team believed it was an idiopathic airborne viral infection. They also determined Audrey had a very healthy immune system, yet during the course of less than one day she went from being a healthy and fit thirty-four-year-old wife and mother to a woman trapped in the body of an elderly, dying patient. Her husband was told she had a ten percent chance of survival and likely 24 to 36 hours left. Although critical and on life-support, Audrey never lapsed into a coma during her 29-day ordeal in the Intensive Care Unit. She communicated by pointing to an alphabet board.
Audrey is the 20th century prime example of how and why “heart health equals brain health.” Her powerful story was featured in a Hudson Valley, New York newspaper in November 1996. In 2014, Audrey formed The Audrey Zeitouni Lasky Company, a boutique health and fitness training and consulting LLC and published her first book Get a C.L.E.W. for Life!© in 2018. Audrey specializes in teaching men and women of all ages how to make optimum health and fitness is an integral part of daily life at home and at the office.
Audrey’s determination to create a massive worldwide shift in the paradigm by disseminating crucial health and fitness information based only on principles of anatomy, physiology, and the laws of physics as they apply to the prevention, mitigation and reversal of conditions and diseases are crystal clear. Audrey is a champion of old-school methods based entirely on empirical evidence as she brings the best of the 20th century into the 21st to benefit the public at home, at the office, and during business and leisure travel. Audrey speaks from her heart as she delivers her signature remark to readers and audiences during book talks!!!
Well the clock has struck midnight and I thank you for a great exchange of stories. The powers that be have not been kind to this old-school educator because she dared to speak and write the truth.
I am now trying to finish what I started and when the hardcovers are gone at least those people who attended my book talks will know the truth about how humans beings were designed to enjoy life, not become objects to be manipulated and abused by big pharma and corrupt political hacks.
Good night from the peach state!
“Peace will come when those with power and influence love their children and the children of others more than they love money.
Peace will come when righteous knowledge is delivered to the masses rather than self-righteous rubble.”
“Experience is the best teacher.”
“As the journey begins With a jewel on the Nile The destination will turn Into an odyssey So worthwhile As emotions flow freely Like water from a fountain Cedars will breathe life And a new beginning on the mountain.” Parisian-born, Lebanese of the Nile.
A majestic haven of heavenly clouds Beyond the noise of maddening crowds I dream of daily from thousands of miles away A welcome arrival of a special day Nothing can replace the beauty or the calm.
Cedar trees Under stars Two stripes Of red on white And although We may have scars We climb mountains To make things right As the moon Reflects our vision And the Mediterranean Waves good night Cedar trees Under stars Allow dreams to take flight.
Into the sunset we venture.
Seeking solace into the night Into the sunrise we struggle To let painful memories take flight As we carefully try to tread water ~~~
The waves are especially rough We crave peace and tranquility.
As hearts cry out, Enough.
Where there is tranquility The mood is calming But without peace There can be no joy Where there is fluidity Movement is therapy But without peace Nothing more than a ploy To be solidly engaged To seek, to find In love’s defining moment Peace Of mind.
The Lebanese father’s daughter Knew from many years before That in the land of the cedars The mountains mean much more The birthplace of her father Ignites purpose within her vision With everything he taught her She writes with passion and precision.
“Beneath a Mediterranean sky an oasis beckons the spirit As not-so-still waters reflect restless souls Atop the grace of Mount Lebanon cedars create life As unforeseen twists take unexpected tolls,
The only salvation Is to restore a nation By the people.”
A majestic haven beneath the clouds Beyond the noise of the maddening crowds. I think of it daily from thousands of miles away.
I love to dream of a special day.
Nothing can replace the beauty and calm Of Lebanon’s heart touching —
my soul with its palm.
– Audrey Zeitouni Lasky
.I wrote and published the following in 2018: “
In 1996, I was on death’s doorstep in a New York intensive care unit.
I survived with…the music of my favorite classic rock musicians, the three tenors, the Orinoco Flow and Celtic beauty known as Enya made the unbearable, bearable.”
The 1996 backstory which is the introduction in my book and speech. They wanted me to imply that the same results could be had with the fads! But that is not how the human body and brain were brilliantly designed and it is not what transpired in 1996! Spin bikes, etc. You get it I am certain! I am so old-school. I use the term righteous knowledge in the second paragraph of chapter one. No one does that in the health & fitness industry. No one, but me.
With full blown septic shock and multiple organ system failure, I had many, many side effects cancer patients go through. I can speak firsthand to many issues during my 29 days in ICU/CCU and the aftermath. I help with firsthand experience and the integrity of an educator. “Although I suffered systemic inflammatory response syndrome, acute respiratory distress syndrome, on a respirator, acute renal failure, acute liver failure, complete gastrointestinal failure, and required multiple blood transfusions, I was awake, alert, and oriented the entire time and communicated by pointing to an alphabet board.
My heart was now working overtime to keep me alive.
The following day, I lay motionless but fully conscious. I watched the gut- wrenching distress on the faces of my husband and family as the respirator did the breathing for me. It broke my heart to see them work so hard to put on carefully choreographed smiles. I learned in an instant that there was no way to prepare for the catastrophic illness of a loved one. The fragility and fluidity of human life was now crystal clear.
At that moment, I remembered something the late wife of my husband’s former boss at IBM had told me years earlier when she was hospitalized just a few floors away. She said, “Audrey, it is sometimes easier to be the patient than the loved ones who helplessly watch.” I now understood what she meant. Loved ones also suffer and experience agony as they try to do everything possible to bring some semblance of relief to the patient and to themselves.”
My father was a proud Lebanese immigrant. From Beirut to Cairo to Paris to New York, my father took his Lebanese strength, integrity, and work ethic with him so he could give me the Promise of America but his greatest gift of all was his Lebanese heritage. The new dawn of Lebanon serves as the prime example of excellence & authenticity for the region and the world. Lebanon’s historic magnificence will re-emerge as the superior quality of life for citizens and visitors as it reclaims its legacy as the jewel of the Mediterranean.
A Lebanese father’s daughter gets her strength to survive in 1996.
Thank you, Papi, for giving me your strength.
I miss you so much since 2010.
When it comes to PREVENTING, MITIGATING, and REVERSING the gamut of conditions and diseases, as well as viral, bacterial, and other infections, neither the government nor technology can do for us what only we can do for ourselves:
“CLIMB, LIFT & EAT WELL…”
I wrote an entire chapter on how to stay healthy and fit during business and leisure travel but now the tourism, travel & hospitality industries have been deliberately sacrificed for medical and pharmaceutical tyranny. If you have already read through my tweets and tweet responses you know that I know what is behind all the mayhem – power, control & greed.
As long as politicians and “others” continue to be pressured by those with power and $$$, this egregious takeover will not stop. The goal is power and control over the public NOT prevention, mitigation, and reversal using scientific FACTS based entirely on EMPIRICAL evidence. Nothing justifies what was perpetrated on us as a nation and worldwide. I am just appalled by how many are complicit in this complete disregard for truth and ethics…
Thank you and by the way, if you read the “About” section of my website, you will note I discuss the similarities between cardiovascular disease prevention and cancer prevention both in my book and book talk. I know what it feels like to be a dying patient. The difference is I lived to tell about so much that it helps both patients and their families.
And I know why you lived … MIND BODY WITHIN SPIRIT ….
My Love of Life is a Powerful Healing Tool!!!
I lived through the sixties and seventies as an immigrant child and one who
was proud to sign her own citizenship papers.
THE AFTERMATH
Following the events of 1996, one might think something went terribly wrong but in reality something went right. My body fought hard to save itself from dying because I had been training it to do so without realizing it for the 6 years prior. Although since 1996, I have lived with severe nerve damage in both feet and my two big toes will never point due to shrinking tendons on both insteps, I climb my revolving stair machine daily and lift significant free-weight dumbbell and barbell loads during compound, multi-joint exercises in my home.
I will never be a ballerina, but I can dance until dawn.
As an expert on health and fitness during business and leisure travel, I fly on average 75,000 miles a year, domestically and internationally. To date, I have accrued one million documented miles. UCSF Medical Center is amazed how I travel across four continents with my “special feet.” A few years ago, a young 30- something in San Francisco told me she loved my outfit and that I would look really great in heels. I told her the physicians and nurses of UCSF Medical Center think I look really great in feet!
It is not that I avoid heels, I cannot even put them on let alone walk in them!
The interesting part is that my feet look very normal to orthopedic physicians!
Everything is lined up and I have no “pain” like other women in their feet.
I wear supportive and comfortable flat shoes.
I have known of this great man Rabbi Elie Abadie MD personally since 2004.
He is a dedicated clergyman & physician as I am a dedicated educator and writer/poet.
He & I know with our Lebanese/MidEast DNA it takes personal responsibility, human decency & respect for human life to lead to quality of life for all.
Also This man’s @KameelRayes work is breathtakingly genius.
Ehden the summer bride of North #Lebanon |
إهدن عروس الشمال #لبنان – YouTube
𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙖 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙃𝙊𝙋𝙀
Hope has a place… Aerial footage from Random places in #Lebanon…
مشاهد جوية ساحرة من #لبنان – YouTube #Lebanon #hope #staypositive #staystrong
As a Parisian-born, Lebanese/Mediterranean immigrant, Audrey’s arrival at what was then New York City’s Idlewild Airport (later JFK International) laid the foundation for the strong and inspirational educator and natural-born leader she would later become. Audrey’s triumphant story of how she was able to save her own life in 1996 now serves as a most timely and relevant lesson in 2021 as it captures the hearts and minds of all who hear her powerful firsthand account. Her company motto states her mission best after she reveals the shocking, yet inspiring details of why she created it: “Let’s prevent what we can and be combat-ready for what we cannot as we enjoy and make the most of every single day.”
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“CLIMB, LIFT & EAT WELL…” ®
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Audrey Zeitouni Lasky, MS EDU NASM-CPT FNS
The Audrey Zeitouni Lasky Company LLC
President, Author, Speaker, Trainer
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For everything there is a season, and a time for every
matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
—ECCLESIASTES 3:1-2
The World Should Be About Global Peace!!!
Exactly.
EARTH SONG (SWG Extended Mix) – MICHAEL JACKSON (HIStory)10 Reasons to Embrace the Season of Life You’re In (crosswalk.com)
People come into your life for a reason – YouTube