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"Avoid licorice if you have low potassium, liver disease, kidney disease, heart failure or are pregnant. Avoid licorice if you are taking diuretics or prednisone-like drugs. Fibre Foods that are high in fibre help with constipation but also clear bile, cholesterol and toxic debris from the gastrointestinal tract. Certain types of fibre are particularly beneficial for cleaning up the system. Fibre that contains gums, mucilages, lignans and pectin is useful to absorb and excrete excess acid, bile and cholesterol. It also prevents gallstones." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Both came to the health center after collapsing with what was later diagnosed as heart failure due to rare cardiomyopathies. Both were comatose when they arrived at the hospital. Only adding to their already taxed cardiovascular systems, they were both smokers, overweight, and had high cholesterol and blood pressure. That's where their stories diverge. When Ashley awoke, she was angry and stayed bitter and resentful for the five months she remained in the hospital waiting for a properly matched heart donor." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"These life-threatening comorbidities commonly include sleep apnea, hypertension, diabetes, heart failure, and vertebral disk herniation [118]. Similar to pharmacotherapy, the use of a surgical intervention in obesity requires a case-by-case risk/benefit analysis. Patients with a low probability of success with nonsurgical interventions and who meet BMI criteria may be appropriate candidates for surgery." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Another study, published in American Heart Journal, indicated improvements in survival associated with carnitine supplementation in patients with heart failure. These studies and many others support carnitine's role in protecting and enhancing cardiovascular health. A number of other experimental studies in aging animals and other test models suggest carnitine may be beneficial in preventing age-related declines in memory and energy metabolism." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Perhaps it's not a coincidence that all the lifestyle factors linked to heart failure are also linked to the force that speaks to the universe itself: human emotion. Is there something that we feel over the course of our lives that can lead to the catastrophic failure of the most important organ in the body? The answer is yes. The Hurt That Kills A growing body of evidence from leading-edge researchers suggests that hurt can cause the failure of our hearts." - Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.)

"After battling heart problems for more than twenty years, Helen finally resigned herself to the fact that she was going to give in to her long battle against chronic heart failure and vital exhaustion, and just die. When she arrived in my office, her breathing was labored and she was short of breath. Her energy level was completely depleted, and she had a haunted look in her eyes when she said one thing to me: she needed a miracle." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "A study in which animals were fed ribose or sugar placebo for six weeks before pulmonary hypertension was induced showed that ribose significantly reduced the development of heart failure on the right side of the heart, allowing the heart to pump blood to the lungs more easily, (data on file) These studies clearly show the cardioprotective benefit of ribose and demonstrate its effect in improving function in ischemic, failing hearts. Peripheral vascular disease (PVD) also results from arterial clogging, most generally in the arteries feeding blood to the legs." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Congestive heart failure (CHF). Progressive disease of the heart in which the heart muscle becomes so weak it cannot effectively pump blood to the various parts of the body. Patients with these conditions usually experience shortness of breath with minimal exercise. Some may have pain or weakness in their legs and other peripheral skeletal muscles because the heart cannot pump enough blood to supply the oxygen needed by the rest of the body to make energy. Contractile reserve." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"They also had a 25-30 percent reduction in adverse outcomes: death, heart attack, heart failure, a worsening of the state of their arteries, or a need for a repeat angioplasty. But of all the alternative therapies employed, prayer had the most profound effect. The study was too small to yield any definitive conclusions; after all, only 30 patients had been in the prayer group. Nevertheless, Krucoff's results seemed highly promising." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Palmer claimed to have cured a janitor of deafness and to improve heart failure by manipulation of the neck. By the turn of the twentieth century, D. D. Palmer had a school, an infirmary, students, and a moniker for his sectarian therapy. The name "chiropractic" is derived from the Greek cheir (hand) and praxis (specific use). His son, B. J. Palmer, was one of his first students and later purchased the school and managed to turn it into a successful enterprise. B. J. and his followers were proponents of pure, "straight," unadulterated chiropractic." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"A weakened heart can result in bradycardia, tachycardia, arrhythmias and eventual heart failure. It is particularly dangerous in patients who are recovering from anorexia—the muscle tissue in their hearts has been damaged and taking on weight puts extra pressure on the heart. That is how the singer Karen Carpenter died. "After the first studies, which were just case reports, showed remarkable rates of recovery for anorexics and bulimics, we started to do control trials." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Even worse, overwhelming evidence shows that the treatment of heart disease or its presumed precursors, such as high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, and high cholesterol, not only prevents a real cure but also can easily lead to chronic heart failure. The patient's heart may still beat, but not strongly enough for him to feel vital and alive. Without removing the underlying causes of heart disease and its precursors, the average person has little, if any, protection against it." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"There are three causes for heart failure. One is the well-known and feared heart attack in which the coronary arteries, through which the blood flows to the heart, are suddenly blocked by a ruptured plaque sac. The next cause is high blood pressure, which causes the heart to enlarge, and puts added stress to the heart muscle. Lastly, the heart muscle may become diseased itself causing the heart to become enlarged and inefficient. There are various ways of treating these heart diseases, from using drugs to surgery." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Closer examination reveals that the timing of the end of the first study (1993-1999) coincided with the release of a drug aimed at helping to prevent heart failure. This was an Aventis drug called Rimipril, also know as Altace. The ending of the second study (1999-2003) doesn't coincide with anything. However, the second study results weren't released until March 15, 2005, which coincides with the release of another Aventis drug aimed at heart failure, Plavix, on March 10, 2005." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"You could be one of the 18 million people (80 percent of whom are not diagnosed42) who have sleep apnea, a condition where your airway closes off periodically at night, interrupting your sleep as well as leading to high blood pressure, weight gain, and even heart failure. If you think you may have this problem, ask your doctor about testing and treatment. It could save your life. Balance Your Hormones Balance is the key to staying healthy. Nowhere is this truer than in the world of hormones." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "But it is mostly ignored because it is not a drug, even though it is more powerful in many cases than drugs, which is why we use it in life-threatening and emergency situations like seizures and heart failure in the hospital." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"A few patients (<5%) may have a significant increase in blood pressure and, therefore, uncontrolled hypertension, a history of heart disease, heart failure, stroke, and arrhythmia are contraindications to the use of this drug. Sibutramine is also contraindicated with monoamine oxidase inhibitors and other serotonin uptake inhibitors, which include medications for depression and migraines. Sibutramine is available in 5-, 10-, and 15-mg tablets and is taken once a day. Weight loss is dose related with the 10- and 15-mg dose." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"I have heart disease or heart failure. • ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (continued) I have mitral valve prolapse. ? I have diabetes. ? I have a low intake of kelp, wheat bran or germ, almonds, cashews, buckwheat, and dark green leafy vegetables. ? • For your convenience, this quiz has been reprinted in The UltraMind Solution Companion Guide. Simply go to www.ultramind.com/guide download the guide, and print out the quiz. Scoring Key-Magnesium* Score 0-12 13 and above Severity You may have a slightly low level of magnesium. You may have a severely low level of magnesium." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"In 2005, Mayo Clinic researchers reported that rheumatoid arthritis patients carry twice the risk of heart failure as other patients. Other studies show similar elevated risk of heart disease among patients with lupus, diabetes, and MS. Researchers believe that some of the genetic variants that predispose a patient to autoimmune disease are the same genetic variants that predispose a patient to heart disease." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Researchers there linked low CoQ-10 levels to heart failure, which is why the synthesized supple-y^ ment is now one of the top 7 1 > (T^^l ^we neart medications in v_^; J nh| J Japan. It is also popular in ^ ~ ^Te ~>f Europe. \ | Those who have family histo- / ^ \ ries of heart disease may want to con-/' i' I \ sider taking the enzyme as a supplement starting in middle age. A protective dose (taken with meals or a bit of fat to promote absorption) is 10 to 30 mg per day." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Twenty-two rosiglitazone patients developed heart failure, compared to nineteen with metformin and nine with glyburide. In the PROspective pioglitAzone Clinical Trial In macro Vascular Events (PROactive) Study,5 5,238 patients with type 2 diabetes and evidence of vascular disease were randomly assigned to treatment with pioglitazone or placebo as part of their typical treatment regimen." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"After all, what could be scarier than heart failure? The patient, now on medication, feels he has nothing to fear. Or is this true? One might begin to wonder about the patient's security when one takes a look at the various side effects that these various drugs have. Let's take the case of Coronary Artery Disease. In this case, deposits of fatty deposits block the arteries. Eventually, one of the plaque sacs ruptures and the blood clotting mechanism begins, forming a blood clot that travels to the heart and blocks the blood flow. Now a heart attack takes place." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"It is possible that the supplement is helpful in the primary prevention of heart disease, particularly in protecting against sudden heart failure. A SKEPTICAL ADDENDUM Alas, were that the only disappointing finding. Other widely touted antioxidants have not been shown to prevent disease. At the turn of the millennium, one of the most touted supplement was omega-3 fatty acids, found in high concentrations in fish oil. It was widely believed to be a powerful antioxidant that protected against cancer." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Specifically, they "reduce the clinical consequences of atherosclerosis, including death from cardiovascular disease, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, hospitalization for unstable angina pectoris and heart failure, as well as the need for [stenting]."20 To summarize: Statins are widely used in the United States. In 2002, more than 56 million prescriptions were written for Lipitor; as a group, statins were the third most prescribed drug. What can we conclude about their effectiveness? First, they do treat the sign." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "ACE inhibitors, for treatment of high blood pressure and chronic heart failure, are the fourth most commonly prescribed. We've already considered semisynthetic narcotics; our discussion of antidepressants awaits the following chapter. Therefore, we turn our attention to... Statins Statins are a category of drug9 that slow the body's ability to produce cholesterol and increase the liver's ability to remove low density lipids (LDLs), so-called bad cholesterol. We pose three questions: (1) do statins lower blood cholesterol? (2) do statins prevent heart attacks?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In spite of this, one of the calcium channel blockers, amlodipine, continues to be a blockbuster drug, with $2 billion a year in sales reported in 2003, a year after the troubling reports of heart failure with calcium channel blockers was published." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"There was no reduction in death, or recurrent heart attacks, or heart failure for four years after stenting. After that, the patients who had stents were worse off. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development had the resolve to perform a similar multicenter trial, the "courage Trial," in their hospitals and in many outside the va's system. They provided optimal medical care to over 2,000 patients with objective evidence of myocardial ischemia. Half were randomized to also have angioplasty, usually with stent placement." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In one study of patients with severe heart failure, those with the highest ANP levels had the lowest levels of anxiety. None of them had anxiety disorders, but doctors were interested in their anxiety because it has a major influence on how well heart surgery patients recover. ANP directly dampens the sympathetic nervous system's response by stemming the flow of epinephrine and lowering the heart rate, and it also seems to reduce the feeling of anxiousness, which is paramount." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.) "Panic doesn't cause heart failure, but it sure feels that way. Muscle tension and hyperventilation cause severe chest pains. Then, because the rapid, shallow breathing expels too much carbon dioxide, the blood's pH level drops, triggering an alarm from the brain stem that causes muscles to constrict even more. (This is why breathing into a paper bag stops us from hyperventilating: it forces us to rebreathe the carbon dioxide.) Living with panic means avoiding anything that might set off another frightening episode." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Of the 671 patients on the 800 mg daily dose, twenty-three suffered death from cardiovascular causes or a nonfatal heart attack, stroke, or heart failure. That was the fate of seven of a similar number taking a placebo pill. So the additional absolute risk is slightly over 2 percent over the course of three years in a population with a mean age of about sixty. In other words, one would have to treat over forty people for three years to cause any one of these adverse events. One would have to treat 200 for three years to kill one." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

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