Recognizing the role of Inflammation in arteriosclerosis represents a far
bigger paradigm shift than Helicobacter Pylori was for ulcers. You cannot
see the Vulnerable Plaque that leads to the death of 85% of Heart attack
and stroke patients on arteriograms, so the time has come to treat the
bloodstream and stop attacking the blood vessel!
The American college of
Cardiology, The American College of Physician's and The American Heart
Associations' new guidelines (Circulation 5-1-99) for chronic chest pain
are desperately attempting to maintain status quo, entirely ignoring the
now proven involvement of inflammation in heart attacks and strokes. They
not only ignored the New England Journal of medicine review article volume
340 1999 on Inflammation and Arteriosclerosis, but they also ignored the
just released American Heart Associations' own monograph series Edited by
their President, Valentin Fuster MD, PhD Cardiologist at Mount Sinai in
New York City. Anyone reading this 429 page book, "The Vulnerable
Atherosclerotic Plaque:" will readily conclude that meaningful prevention
of heart attacks and strokes requires medical control of the inflammation
and infection aspects now being entirely ignored in the rush to operate on
the patient! Medical control of these newly recognized risk factors will
without question do far more than any surgical procedure to prevent heart
attacks and strokes!
Why Is Vulnerable Plaque So Significant?
The science behind these new parameters is an astonishing breakthrough:
vulnerable plaque. Research indicates that this unstable plaque can not be
identified on an arteriogram! Therefore, what the doctor does NOT see is
the very thing that leads to the blood clot that leads to the heart attack
or stroke. It is now well documented that all obstructing plaque that can
be seen, can be reversed with diet, exercise, and meditation programs such
as Dr Ornish has developed. Now we learn that these visible lesions that
have caused doctors to recommend so many needless bypass and other
invasive surgical procedures for heart disease are not the ones that are
involved in 85% of all heart attacks! That explains why we have not found
a really significant reduction in heart attacks or deaths in surgically
operated patients. It is clear that we have been operating needlessly on
the wrong plaque!
We Need to Treat the Blood, Not Cut Out the Artery
More importantly the new understanding about the role of infection and
inflammation in cases of sudden death from heart attacks suggests that all
current surgically based approaches to heart disease are as misguided as
removing your lung if you have pneumonia! We need to focus on the blood
and not the blood vessel!
Most doctors are not yet aware of some of the important developments that
have surfaced so rapidly in the past several years. These include efforts
to see the dangerous Vulnerable Plaque noninvasively with a high speed MRI
and other diagnostic techniques that are now being developed. These
instruments are not yet found in local hospitals, but may help to end the
current excessive reliance on surgical treatment of vascular disease in
the future. Although the popular high speed CAT scan provides useful
information regarding the calcium content of the artery, it is not capable
of measuring the really dangerous vulnerable plaque. Therefore, let these
tests motivate patients to address their risk factors, such as antibodies
to oxidized cholesterol, C-reactive protein levels etc., so that they
medically treat the problem - regularly, ideally for
the rest of their life! A bad score on this test should motivate you to
carefully follow the advice contained in this article and follow up later
with a retest.
Heart Disease Appears to Be Closely Linked to Inflammation
The inflammation/infection aspect of heart disease has gained added
validation by:
1. The recognition of a new measurement of Interleukin 1, an inflammatory
marker published in Circulation, Vol. 5-99, 1999, and
2. In a review article published in NEJM (New England Journal of
Medicine), Vol. 340, 1999. Further validation was added by the recent
report published in JAMA showing that up to 55% of heart attacks appear to
be prevented by treatment with proper antibiotics. In addition, evidence
published in Science, February 1999, implicates an infectious bacteria
known as chlamydia, while CMV and Herpes (common retroviruses) have also
been shown to be closely connected with heart attacks. Chlamydia is a
disease to which up to 95% of us is exposed during our lives and once it
enters our body, it finds some devitalized tissue (plaque) and never
leaves!
It's Extremely Difficult to Stop Inflammation with a Knife!
The experts studying vulnerable plaque agree that there's an inflammatory
component to this extremely dangerous plaque, which confirms that surgery
is not be the correct approach to control it. The Vulnerable plaque
appears to be as much as 4-5 Degrees C hotter, thus explaining the success
seen with Oxidant therapies such as Ozone, UVB, or H2O2 IV, and/or
antibiotics in treating angina. While these new parameters are more
important by far than current outdated risk factor information, we still
have to improve our diet and life style, exercise, and maintain a healthy
immune system by taking long- term oral Chelating and other detoxifying
supplements, as well as SAFE anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant,
anti-thrombotic, lipid-lowering, natural supplement therapies.
A Safe Anti-Inflammatory and Comprehensive Cardio-Vascular Supplement
Exists
At this time, I am happy to report that those of my patients taking the
comprehensive 9 pill packets of Beyond Chelation combined with 3 to 5
Wobenzym N twice daily are conveniently addressing all of the newly
recognized molecular mechanisms of heart disease -- from controlling
Homocysteine and elevated cholesterol or triglycerides, to lowering
C-reactive protein, which is clearly becoming one of the most significant
tests in cardiology!
Aspirin Is OK in an Emergency,But We Need Safe, Long Term Help
We have heard that taking an aspirin while having a heart attack can
increase survival. This may be true, but should be a temporary emergency
measure only. We know from statistics, however, that the great majority of
us must take some long-term anti-clotting protection against the massive
blood clots that we now believe are involved in lethal heart attacks. In
fact, researchers are finding that long term use of anti-inflammatory
drugs are a major factor in helping to prevent not just Alzheimer's
disease, but heart attacks and strokes as well! The problem is that
although there are now proven benefits from taking a daily dose of aspirin
and/or other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), we pay dearly
for these benefits with over 16 thousand deaths and over 125 thousand
hospitalizations annually, generally related to internal bleeding,
although liver and kidney damage are also a far too common side effect.)
We also can offer our patients a major new nutritionally based therapy
that acts like an oral vaccination, Transfer Factor. This exciting therapy
helps us deal with the infection aspect of vascular disease by helping to
control serious chronic viral and other infections now being implicated in
heart attack and stroke. Transfer Factor may improve resistance to Herpes,
CMV, Chlamydia, and Helicobacter (often coming from chronic dental
problems). Until such time as science identifies the proper vaccination or
anti-infective therapies to cure these infections, it seems advisable for
all of us to try a Transfer Factor type of product and also
regularlyconsume a safe affordable anti-inflammatory like Wobenzym, which
is well documented to have no side effects yet have many far reaching
benefits -- benefits such as:
1. Effectively treating most forms of arthritis better than standard
medicines today,
2. Helping to control cancer and increasing the life span of all cancer
patients a minimum of 30%,
3. Offering protection against infections and injuries, and
4. Fortifying our immune systems every day of our lives. Germany
developed Wobenzym: all-natural combination Enzyme-Bioflavonoid product.
(The rutin component appears to be an ideal Iron Chelator!) With it, we
get all the benefits of anti-inflammatory medication without the high
incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding associated with the use of aspirin
and the many other documented side effects known to develop after the
longterm use of NSAIDs and other standard anti-inflammatory medications.
Over 100 Million People Have Used Wobenzym in a 30-year Period. During
That Time, No Detrimental Side Effects Have Been Reported from Its Use.
Manufactured by the Mucos Company in Germany since the 1960's, Wobenzym is
now widely available in the United States at a time when there is a
greater need than ever before to include it in our nutritional defense
program. Unlike most enzymes on the market, this enzyme is specially
designed so that it is not used to digest food but is used internally,
inside the bloodstream, beneficially affecting many of the factors that
are now known to lead to the development of serious diseases. These
factors range from:
1. Lowering Circulating immune complexes (These have been shown to
shorten our lifespan.);
2. Lowering the elevated levels of fibrinogen that tend to make our blood
thicker as we get older to;
3. Treating Herpes and other viral and bacterial infections -- either
alone or as part of a total anti-infection program, including Transfer
Factor related nutrients and/or antibiotics. (Note: Wobenzym alone has
been shown more effective in treating Herpes than the standard anti-viral
drugs now available, and, when combined with the Transfer Factor related,
products, it is even more effective!);
4. Lowering elevated C-Reactive proteins to the lowest 50 percentile or
the lower portion of the so-called normal range. (Note: The normal range
at the current time is too wide. For optimum health, we should place our
optimal values at levels far lower than they are at present.) The
C-reactive Protein Test identifies how active the inflammatory process is
when the test is taken.
New Tests Have Been Proven Necessary for Accurate Treatment of Individual
Heart Problems
There is a plethora of scientific information regarding the many new tests
that are finally beginning to be accepted as significant in determining
and controlling all of the newer recognized cardiovascular risk factors.
If your doctor could keep up with current published literature, some of
the tests he would prescribe for you would not be just cholesterol even
with its subsets of HDL, LDL, but the newer LPA and the latest oxidized
cholesterol antibody test. Furthermore, adhesion molecules such as VCAM
and ICAM that measure how sticky things are can now be measured at the
molecular level. These are vascular and intercellular adhesion molecules
that have been implicated in the impaired circulation of the tiny vessels
(capillaries) that eventually lead to heart attacks, strokes and loss of
vision with such common conditions as macular degeneration and glaucoma.
The physician should also test platelet aggregation, fibrinogen, lipid
peroxides, and other markers of free radical damage. Furthermore, he can
monitor the level of activity (antibodies) to the various infectious
agents now implicated in arteriosclerosis, such as chlamydia, CMV
(Cytomegalovirus), Herpes, etc. Since virtually all of us test positive
for these infectious agents, I routinely now recommend the use of Immune
enhancing nutrients including Transfer Factor related compounds, Aloe
Vera, Beta Glucan, etc. however I also refer some seriously ill and/or
immune compromised patients for oxidative therapies such as IV Hydrogen
Peroxide (H2O2) and/or the use of antibiotics.
Platelet aggregation tests show how sticky platelets become when
challenged. Note: This leads to the bloodclots that we now recognize as
the immediate cause of death in many heart attacks and strokes!
Homocysteine (Note: This test may not be accurate if done using a serum
separator tube. It also is more sensitive if a load such as 1.5 gm of
methionine is taken orally 4 hours before in order to help identify the
approximately 30% of us who are found to have this dangerous and (now)
common but still generally unrecognized problem.
Serum ferritin levels are done because most of us have dangerously
elevated levels of iron because so many of us have mistakenly been taking
vitamin and mineral supplements containing iron. Having elevated iron
levels is as dangerous as having elevated lead. This iron overload is
contributing to our already heavy metal poisoned bodies.
Fasting insulin levels, triglycerides/HDL ratio, Redox, pH, Resistance,
APO E-2, 3, or 4, blood type testing, food allergy tests, these and many
other tests are all useful in helping optimize our lifestyle and dietary
program. Fatty acid analysis (on red blood cell membranes) and amino acid
testing on urine or blood are all part of the extremely useful battery of
tests that assists the properly trained health professional to
individualize the optimal nutritional and life extension support programs
for patients.
Generally the more of these tests that we do, the more things you will
find are sub-optimal. Fortunately, most of the abnormalities that we
uncover can be greatly helped with the cardiovascular nutritional support
products BC (Beyond Chelation) Wobenzym and nutritionally based immune
enhancing supplements. Note: Everything works better when taken along with
appropriate diet and life style changes! Note: Many of these tests are
available through specially licensed laboratories in the United States
such as Immunosciences, Beverly Hills CA, Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab
Asheville NC., and Antibody Assay Laboratories, Santa Ana, CA. or Doctors
Data, West Chicago, Illinois.
If These Tests Are Difficult to Obtain Cost-Wise and Within a Reasonable
Time,You Can Still Address Your Risk Factors with a Nutritionally-Based
Product.
Most of these tests are now recognized as important in maintaining optimal
health. I find these tests allow me to individualize and monitor the
success of nutritional and life style support programs that my patients
choose to follow. We cannot expect overnight to have all of these tests
widely available or get physicians up to speed on the proper
interpretation of these tests, nor can we expect all of the insurance
companies to suddenly agree to pay for all of these tests that they will
probably pretend are more of a longevity/anti-aging program rather than
the standard practice of disease detection which our health insurance
industry has chosen to focus upon. Since there will be many problems in
making these tests widely available for everyone, I have chosen to focus
on developing a cost effective, convenient, affordable, clinically tested
broad-spectrum nutritionally based approach that addresses all of these
newer risk factors
This program deals with the nutritional and metabolic aspects of vascular
disease and aging itself. This program also deals with Homocysteine, which
is a readily, nutritionally responsive, widespread, newly recognized
metabolic problem. We find that over 30% of people correctly and
appropriately tested by a laboratory specializing in this test will be
above ideal values of 7 or below. Current research clearly shows that
Homocysteine is such an important yet generally overlooked risk factor for
many health problems including Alzheimer's disease and Cancer, that it
makes taking potentially dangerous drugs to control the levels of
cholesterol appear to be an exercise in futility.
While Living on Devitalized Food from Mineral Deficient Soils, Packaged in
Boxes, Picked Green, and Stored in Refrigerated Compartments, We Need
Supplements More Than Ever Before.
Homocysteinuria used to be a rare in-born metabolic error, but it has
recently become a virtual epidemic. I believe this may be explained by a
combination of factors including as dietary deficiencies of many essential
nutrients, as well as an excessively high protein intake, in a body that
averages today 1000 times more lead than was present before the industrial
age, while getting less and less of the essential minerals such as Zinc in
our excessively refined foods.
No one but the A.H.A. doubts the advisability of taking anti-oxidants such
as Vitamin E and C in doses far beyond what the average diet provides us.
Homocysteine has become such a common problem in our society today that it
clearly would appear prudent to also protect ourselves by taking
additional levels of Folic Acid, B6, B12, and even Betaine Hydrochloride.
It has become clear to me that maintaining optimal health requires that we
also routinely take Chelating and detoxifying agents such as garlic and
EDTA that will continuously help pull out the toxins like lead, mercury,
and pesticides, etc., out of the body. This way, we are not putting the
expensive essential nutrients like vitamin E, etc., into a polluted
cesspool and expecting to get the full benefits of these miraculous
nutrients.
Our Systems Must Now Deal with Lead and Heavy Metal Intruders!
We know that on average, studies have shown that we have at least 1,000
times more lead in our brains, with even higher levels in our pituitary
gland (that makes our vital human growth hormone) than we had before the
industrial age and that other toxic heavy metals are being found in
equally elevated levels in critical tissues and organs throughout our
body, such as our kidneys, liver, and brain. Note: Congestive failure
heart patients have recently been reported to have 22,000 times
more
mercury and 14,000 times more antimony in their hearts. We all get too
much mercury, both from our silver amalgam fillings and even from the fish
we eat. I do not wait to start intravenous chelation for treating this
massive epidemic of heavy metal toxicity from which we all suffer. Instead
I routinely recommend taking oral chelation daily forever as soon as you
can begin to swallow a well formulated product.
I designed Garlic plus (as
found in BC) to be such a formula. It is the chelation portion of the new
all-purpose multiple nutrient support product (BC) and it provides
incredible detoxification. The formula includes EDTA, which was approved
by the FDA years ago for the treatment of asymptomatic levels of lead.
Thus it improves IQ levels, immune system, energy, etc. I find this to be
a very useful adjunct in detoxification, if not an essential therapy for
all of us to take daily in our polluted world. (I also use Proalgen.)
Excessive Levels of Lead in the Brain Lowers IQ.
I recommend taking BC (containing 9 pills in convenient plastic packs) be
taken at least once or preferably twice daily for everyone at
least by age
9 in place of any standard multiple vitamin formula. This formula includes
the Essential Fatty acids, GLA and EPA, which are well-documented
nutrients for optimal longevity and daily functioning. Then with our need
to maintain optimal brain function, we include Ginko and
Phosphatidylserine, the two most proven supplements for neurological
protection (memory, vision, etc.) is also in BC. Taking other oral
chelators such as alginates that have been specially processed for
efficient heavy metal removal (ProAlgen) can further augment the benefits
of detoxification. For extra anti-aging benefits, I still always
recommend
IV chelation as described in the book I co-authored with Dr Walker, but
always with the oral Chelating formula in BC, as well as the
anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic Wobenzym, and the immune enhancer TF.
With 50% of Our Population (Over the Age of 40) Dying Prematurely from
Heart Disease, It's Time for a New Multi-Vitamin: A Cardio-Support
Multi-Vitamin.
Considering the need to protect our immune system, the need for essential
nutrients, the need to detoxify our bloodstream and protect our
cardiovascular systems, as well as the well documented need for a long
term use of a safe anti-inflammatory, and the need to reduce heavy metals
from our tissues and organs, the time has arrived for us to broaden our
approach to optimal health with more comprehensive nutritionally balanced
supplements. These supplements must not only remove excessive levels of
metallic and other toxins, but simultaneously increase the levels of the
nutrients that we now provably need if we are to win the fight against the
multiple metabolic/environmental/infectious contributory causes of
degenerative diseases, dementia, heart attacks, and strokes and aging. The
time is ripe to introduce my special Beyond Chelation formula to the
American people.
Old, Inadequate Theories Must Give Way to New Discoveries
We know that by following the old completely inadequate recommendations
made by the American Heart Association and other health authorities that
we have only made a small dent in the number of deaths from stroke and
heart attack. Their recommendations have lead to entirely unhealthy
dietary practices, along with using the extremely ill advised cholesterol
lowering drugs so commonly prescribed today. Cholesterol, unless it is
oxidized, is a valuable nutrient which your body has to manufacture every
day in order to help build the membranes of the new cells that we must
form continually to replace the dead and dying cells in our body. We find
elevated antibodies to so many forms of chronic infection in virtually all
of us today. This strongly suggests that our immune systems are seriously
weakened, partially as a result of the heavy metals and other toxins we
ingest from our polluted environments as well as our stressful and
nutritionally deficient lifestyles.
Backed by Scientifically Formulated Nutritional Supplements, I Haven't Had
to Send One Patient to a Heart Surgeon for the Past 10 Years.
Obviously, even if you fully optimize all these factors, no one can
guarantee each individual will achieve complete success in restoring or
maintaining good health. Nevertheless, based on my 40 years of clinical
experience during the last 10 years of which I did not have to send a
single patient for bypass or angioplasty surgery no matter how advanced
their blockages were, I now believe that most degenerative and
cardiovascular diseases can be improved and often nearly totally reversed
with the special supplements described here combined with the dietary and
lifestyle recommendations that I have prescribed for my patients.
Dr. Dean Ornish has proven that those who are able to follow his more
rigid approach of exercise, meditation, and dietary change have continued
to improve over the years. He has show that all arteriosclerosis is
absolutely reversible. Why take the chance of dying or sustaining serious
injury, pain, or brain damage associated with most vascular surgical
procedures today, particularly when more and more experts are saying that
surgery is not dealing with the cause of heart attacks or strokes. We must
focus on the bloodstream and not the blood vessel. Current official
guidelines have not substantially prevented cardiovascular related deaths
from stroke and heart attacks.
Dr. Valentin Fuster, President of the American Heart Association, Is on
the Trail of Vulnerable Plaque
Dr. Valentin Fuster, a cardiologist, MD, Ph.D., at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in New York and President of the American Heart Association, has
stated on November 8th, 1999, that arteries containing (vulnerable) plaque
can now be identified by a high technology, super-fast, entirely painless,
safe imaging MRI scanner. When this fragile clot ruptures, it leads to the
formation of massive blood clots that suddenly cut off the supply of
oxygen rich blood to the heart and/or brain, resulting in heart attack or
stroke respectively. Only by our new knowledge regarding vulnerable plaque
can we now comprehend why some people with little or no apparent blockage
can have a heart attack while others with almost completely blocked
arteries may live for decades often without any of the symptoms of
cardiovascular disease.
When arteries close down slowly, the body compensates, often by producing
brand new collateral circulation to go around the blocked area. The person
may not even know that a significant artery in their body gradually closed
off, because it was safely and reliably replaced by tiny new blood
vessels, blood vessels that are not visible on the usual arteriogram
studies in hospitals. These entirely inadequate and grossly misleading
x-rays have led to so many needless bypass and angioplasty procedures. It
is, of course, important to stabilize the fragile vulnerable plaque
lesions and experts are hoping that lipid lowering approaches will show
some benefits here, so I have included the powerful proven lipid lowering
and detoxifying power or Red Yeast and Beta-Sitosterol in the Beyond
Chelation Formula.
The Roots of the Beyond Chelation Formula Reach Back 15 Years
In 1982, I began using the mucopolysaccaride heart attack prevention
formula introduced to me by Dr. Lester Morrison, director of the Institute
for Arteriosclerosis Research. Supported by this formula and a
welldocumented nutritional program, I saw better than a 90% reduction in
heart attacks with my patients no matter how advanced their condition had
become. This formula and the nutritional support program evolved through
the years to become the basis of the Beyond Chelation formula: a full,
comprehensive, cardio-vascular support multi-vitamin supplement suitable
for the entire family.
Most informed health professionals now recognize the obvious limitations
of vascular surgery and are much more open to learning about chelation, IV
hydrogen peroxide and these new, synergistically developed cardio-vascular
support programs such as BC. They are beginning to understand the benefits
as well as the limitations of all approaches for the prevention and
treatment of heart attacks and strokes.
Which Is Healthier: Building Something Up, or Cutting Something Out?
And now, with the breakthroughs on vulnerable plaque, all health
professionals have to reposition their approach to the prevention of heart
attacks by reevaluating their current treatment programs. I believe that
standard as well as alternative practitioners will have new information
that will encourage them to look into a broader approach to the prevention
of heart attacks and strokes such as we are describing in this article. We
get younger with every IV chelation treatment we take, because we remove
the pathologic calcium. Nevertheless, we can skill have a fatal heart
attack unless we are willing to support intermittent IV chelation
treatments with a comprehensive daily support program such as I'm trying
to introduce to you in this article.
Arteriosclerosis Is Not New, But the Treatment of It Can Be
Serious calcific arteriosclerotic changes in humans are not new. Careful
studies showed the iceman, whose body was assessed at 5,000+ years old,
was loaded with calcific arteriosclerosis. We find the same condition in
Egyptian mummies, and onward to the present time. What is exciting in
recent time, is that we finally have the means to analyze the components
in the bloodstream and improve risk factors identified therein. Thus we
can focus upon the sick or unhealthy components of our bloodstream that
used to cause irreparable damage and, rather than cutting out the areas in
which they became lodged, we can provide the blood itself with the
nutrients and other factors that will restore us to health. In our totally
safe but effective program, this is exactly what the combination of oral
substances, Wobenzym, Beyond Chelation, and the Immune enhancing
nutrients, when used together, work to achieve. (Note: We always also
recommend taking Co-Enzyme Q daily- 60-120 mg.)
I believe that everyone needs blood thinning, anti clotting, antiplatelet
benefits from substances like Vitamin E, garlic, gingko biloba, salmon oil
(EPA), red algae, and the mucopolysaccarrides (special sugars or
glyconutrients that help maintain the integrity of our body). Thus, we do
not have to wait for the new blood thinning drugs like the new
super-aspirins with their still-to-be-discovered dangerous and possibly
fatal side effects coming from the pharmaceutical industries. They know
that aspirin, coumadin, and heparin are all effecting far too little of
the bleeding and clotting cascade, often making it so unbalanced that
serious damage occurs to patients taking them, while not significantly
preventing fatal clots.
It is the synergistic action of natural nutrients that have well
documented antiplatelet, blood thinning activities that has allowed the
introduction of Beyond Chelation's affordable unique clinically tested
formula initiated by years of research by Dr. Lester Morrison and Dr.
Garry F. Gordon. *(Note: See Dr. Lester Morrison's Heart Saver Program, St
Martin's Press. Dr. Lester Morrison published
in 1941 in JAMA the first article linking cholesterol to the heart disease
problem, but please notice he didn't stop there. He went on to the far
more important research with natural substances for altering blood
viscosity and thus lowering the tendency of all of us to form a fatal
blood clot too readily as is fully described in his excellent books and
scientific articles).
This Website is Worth Reading!
In the website news release by Newsweek.com covering the work of Valentin
Fuster (February, 1999) "The Role of Inflammation" is the title of a
paragraph which states "evidence accumulated over the past year suggests
that inflammation in the circulating blood may play an important role in
triggering heart attacks by activating blood clotting mechanisms ... which
can stop blood flow (leading to death)." During the inflammatory process,
a substance, C-reactive protein, is produced in the blood. By measuring
the blood levels of C-reactive protein, your doctor can now help predict
the risk of heart attack. (Note: Inflammation makes clot dissolving, blood
thinning drugs less effective, and so far inflammation has always been
found in the vulnerable plaque that seems to be involved with heart
attacks and strokes.)
The final paragraph in this portion of Dr. Fuster's report states that
this study suggests that anti-inflammatory drugs may improve the
effectiveness of anti-clotting treatment in patients . . . All patients
who smoke have elevated of C-reactive protein."
There are many other new developments in this report including Gene
Therapy, which clearly has great promise in the future but will
undoubtedly be rather expensive and not widely available for some time.
All of the news in this report should make it very clear that no single
approach, from IV Chelation to Bypass Surgery, is anywhere near as
comprehensive as it must be if we're going to deal with this truly complex
disease that now has several additional newly recognized but treatable
contributing causes.
Read between the lines. Although the head of the American Heart
Association (AHA) obviously cannot tell you that any given bypass surgery
is unnecessary, he clearly has reported that most surgeons are not
operating on the right plaque! Furthermore, the right plaque involves an
inflammatory process and therefore requires medical and/or preferably
nutritional therapies and not surgery.
Will You Be One of the Courageous New Millennium Patients Who, In Saving
Yourself, Will Help Educate Your Doctor?
There are many centers now becoming involved in looking for the important
vulnerable plaque; therefore, soon patients will be enabled and empowered
sufficiently to explain to their cardiologist that they would prefer a
non-raditional and non-toxic approach to solving their cardiovascular
problems, thus saving the cardiologist's surgical skills for patients
seriously incapacitated and/or those who are unlikely to significantly
alter their chosen lifestyle.
Please note my patients have not used the surgical approach no matter how
advanced the blockages were because they became aware that all blockages
have been shown to be reversible. (See, D. Ornish, JAMA, approximately
January 1999, recent report.)
As we stated earlier in this article, discoveries in alternative medicine
and heart disease are surfacing at a very rapid rate. Thus, it would be
well for you to continue to search the Internet and the news media
regularly, especially because many of these discoveries are overnight
making old theories appear entirely inadequate. As a case in point, the
article referred to earlier by Dr. Fuster brings attention to the fact
that for many people dietary fat restriction has little or no benefit.
This statement applies mainly to those of us who have a healthier gene
(known as APO E3). So now, in a world becoming more unified in our
perspective of health, we are beginning to recognized that we all are a
truly different!
For those health practitioners who would like to review the February
Newsweek article, they are welcome to visit www.gordonresearch.com and
link with it. Those with sufficient time to get an in depth insight into
vulnerable plaque and the rapid changes in the field of cardiology must
obtain and read the book entitled Vulnerable Plaque by Valentin Fuster.
(Available for $115 from the American Heart Association or
www.Amazon.com.)
What we have to recognize is that Science marches on and has shown us all
that no one has a broad enough understanding of heart disease to really
stop the heart attacks that were virtually unknown at the beginning of the
20th century. Now, as we enter the 21st century, hopefully we can begin to
come together, and all of us benefit from these important and exciting
developments.
Hopefully this knowledge will make it clear to everyone involved in trying
to treat and prevent heart disease, from the jogger, meditator,
nutritionist, and chelation doctor to the cardiologist and heart surgeon,
that all of what we have been doing is not enough, and there is room here
to help all patients with these breakthroughs to live a longer and
healthier life, using wherever possible the most natural approaches where
we obviously find the least potential for harm. If we base our natural
supplement recommendations on these important new developments, I am
convinced from my own experience that we can really use properly
formulated, and targeted nutritional supplements to help make death from
heart attacks and strokes virtually a thing of the past.
Bypass surgery is finally on its way out. After all, it never
substantially reduced the later development of heart attacks and/or
strokes and it either killed or seriously injured many patients and it has
wasted billions of our health care dollars treating the wrong problem.
Since I believe that following the recommendations above will lead to a
far longer life span for your patients, therefore, as the founder of The
International Academy of Advanced Longevity medicine (InCALM) I invite you
to look into our organization, open to all health professionals interested
in anti-aging training and certification.
Further information can be found at
Gordon Research
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