Who are we?
Wellness Restored is a blog started by a husband and wife team to talk about adopting healthier lifestyle habits to lower the risks of as well as overcome cancer, heart attacks and other inflammatory conditions.
How we do this?
We approach healthier lifestyle through our simple and practical framework: “R.E.S.T. to overcome cancer, heart diseases and other chronic illnesses”
R.E.S.T. is our acronym for the following four pillars of health and wellness:
Who are the team members?
My name is Gabriel Lee. Together with my wife, Ng Kooi Hoon, we are health and wellness advocates focusing on overcoming cancer, heart attacks and other inflammatory conditions through making positive lifestyle changes.
I held senior management positions for over 30 years in the private education sector. I am currently a Senior Director and Board Member of a global online education company. Kooi Hoon has been a full-time homemaker for more than 24 years since the arrival of our first son, Michael. Prior to that, she worked as an administrator in the training function of the church that we are currently attending.
We have 3 boys, Michael, Caleb, and Joseph, and we live in Singapore
Kooi Hoon and I are breast cancer and heart attack survivors respectively.
Our Story
In the late January of 2023, Kooi Hoon felt a small lump on her left breast. We decided to seek medical advice to rule out anything that might be more serious than what we hoped was just a benign cyst. On 7 February, Kooi Hoon was diagnosed with breast cancer. She started on her weekly chemotherapy sessions on 20 Feb.
A month later on 20 Mar, I had a heart attack on a day when Kooi Hoon was undergoing one of her chemotherapy sessions. I had an emergency surgery where ballooning procedure was performed on me and a stent inserted. It turned out that my main artery was 100% blocked.
I was 53 years old and Kooi Hoon was 52.
Our road to recovery
As both Kooi Hoon and I are Christians, the Bible is an important anchor in our lives. During our ordeal, one text which stood out for us was: “And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them.”
We believed that even though Kooi Hoon and I came face to face with life threatening events at the same time, God would work out everything together for a wonderful purpose for us.
And there were certainly many good things that happened during our road to recovery. For example, Kooi Hoon experienced very little side effects from the chemotherapy other than hair loss and occasional diarrhea. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, she was in good shape. Had it not for the hair loss, those who did not know about her conditions would not be able to tell that she was a cancer patient.
We made changes to our lifestyle such as healthier diet and more consistent physical movements which helped in our recovery. And most importantly, family members and friends gathered around to support us.
We will share details about our journey in our blog.
Why Wellness Restored?
Kooi Hoon and I, at the same time, suffered from the top two killer diseases in many countries including Singapore. In our road to recovery, we benefited from the expertise of many health and wellness professionals in their respective fields such as doctors, physiotherapists, dietitians, financial advisors, educators. We also discovered many helpful research materials, products and other resources.
We became more aware of others around us who were battling (or lost the battle with) chronic diseases such as stroke, cancer, autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases.
This is when we realized that we could use our experiences and learning for the benefits of others.
Hence, Wellness Restored was born. By partnering with health and wellness experts in their fields, it is our mission to inspire as many people as we can to adopt healthier lifestyle to lower the risks or combat these chronic diseases. More importantly, it is our vision to see many living well holistically and fulfilling their life purposes.
Disclaimer
Kooi Hoon and I are not medical practitioners. We are however beneficiaries of the expertise of many health and wellness professionals who journeyed with us as well as many evidence-based research on lifestyle changes for health and wellness.
Through Wellness Restored, we will share contents for educational and informational purposes. However, none of our content are intended for medical or health advice.
As everyone’s health conditions are unique, always consult your doctors or healthcare professionals pertaining to your health and wellness before making any changes to your health-related lifestyles.
Other Disclosures
Most of our articles will contain affiliate links.
These are special web links that we use to redirect you to other websites that promote products and services that Kooi Hoon and I believe in. If you click on these affiliate links, and you take certain actions (for examples, you make a purchase or fill out a contact form) at these websites, we will receive commissions.
These commissions will go towards helping Kooi Hoon and myself maintain the operations of Wellness Restored, and thereby enable us to continue to deliver useful health related contents to as many people as possible. We will do our best to negotiate offers for you from these merchants and service providers so that it would be win/win situation most of the time!
However, not all of our links are affiliate links. There will be many links to other health and wellness related contents simply for the benefits of your own research. We do not receive any commissions from such links. There may also be links to other products and services that do not offer programs to pay commission. Kooi Hoon and I will refer them anyway, just simply because we believe in them.
As always, do your own research before making any purchase. Our health situations may be different and there may be better solutions for your unique health situation.