Mattie Lageveen (75) battled crippling pain for years, but everything changed when she started eating plant-based!

Mattie's health problems started in the spring of 1998. After some flu and a cold, she suddenly couldn't walk anymore within a week. Acute muscular rheumatism (PMR), as it turned out. This was accompanied by severe stiffness and pains. A doctor at the hospital told her to keep in mind that this could be the road to rheumatism, a wheelchair and the nursing home. Mattie: "I thought: never! That's when my fight against illness began."