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"Heart failure Biopsy samples from patients undergoing cardiac surgery and blood samples from patients with congestive heart failure suggest that mitochondrial dysfunction and energy starvation caused by coenzyme Q10 deficiency contributes to heart failure. The improved cardiac function in patients with congestive heart failure treated with coenzyme Q10 supports this theory. Several controlled studies using coenzyme Q10 in patients with heart failure have been published." - Nicola Reavley, The New Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, Supplements and Herbs (Get the book.)

"Of course! heart failure has the reputation of being rather final in one's life. And because the doctor has invested interest in the pharmaceutical industry, he will prescribe medication. 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." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Lastly, but not the least important, is heart failure. The heart just stops beating. 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." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"Taking taurine orally improves left ventricular function and symptoms of heart failure. I recommend taurine for anyone who is having problems with water retention and bloat. But for the same reason that it helps with those annoying conditions, it is also a terrific nutrient for the heart, and should be included in any natural supplement program for heart health, congestive heart failure, recovery from heart attacks, and the prevention of arrhythmias. 5-HTP for Depression CONSIDER THIS: You're lying on the couch, unable to motivate yourself enough to get up and get dressed." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Some patients with severe heart failure rapidly improve from New York Heart Association functional class IV to functional class II after only four to eight weeks of treatment, and their improvement seems to continue for as long as the taurine treatment is continued. Taking taurine orally improves left ventricular function and symptoms of heart failure. I recommend taurine for anyone who is having problems with water retention and bloat." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In the nineteenth century, doctors learned that atherosclerosis, or clogging of the arteries in the heart, was a common cause of heart attack and heart failure. The twentieth century brought the understanding that nutritional factors related to eating fatty foods increased the risk of a person's getting atherosclerosis and heart disease. But the twenty-first century has brought other factors into focus—for example, that a smoldering infection can occur within the walls of coronary vessels, and the resulting inflammation can lead to clogging of the vessel." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"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. Garlic Garlic is a great anti-microbial, which means it is effective in killing yeast, viruses and bacteria. It may be helpful in inhibiting the growth of bacteria that causes ulcers. Garlic is medicinal to the GI tract because it has antimicrobial, anti-dyspepsia and beneficial digestive properties. Note: Avoid if you take blood thinners, have hypoglycemia or prior to surgery." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.) "Avoid licorice if you have low potassium, during pregnancy, liver disease, kidney disease and heart failure. Avoid licorice if you are taking diuretics or prednisone like drugs. Digestive Enzymes and HCL Digestive enzymes are a means for the body to break down foods and absorb their nutrients. Our body naturally makes digestive enzymes through the liver, the pancreas and stomach. If you do not have good digestion, digestive enzymes act as insurance for proper absorption." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"On a physical level hawthorn improves circulation, lowers blood pressure, and reduces palpitations and arrhythmia as well as serving as a remedy for degenerative heart disease and heart failure. As a heart tonic hawthorn is preventive for all manner of heart conditions. As a flower essence Hawthorn relieves a heart saddened by separation or love loss. It also opens the heart, helping one to give and receive love. The spirit of Hawthorn can bring balance to the heart organ, the offical of the fire element within the Five Element modality, and can also clear the heart chakra." - Pam Montgomery, Plant Spirit Healing: A Guide to Working with Plant Consciousness (Get the book.)

"This is the first step toward heart failure, and it can be decades before the patient has visible signs of this problem, including swollen legs and shortness of breath when lying flat. One group of researchers has suggested that some CFS patients may really have chronic viral infections of the heart. Though they were unable to find an actual virus, they did find antibodies to viral building blocks in some CFS patients. This is an important hypothesis that we are also pursuing, but I don't think it will prove to be a major factor for many CFS patients." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Avoid licorice if you have low potassium, during pregnancy, liver disease, kidney disease and heart failure. Avoid licorice if you are taking diuretics or prednisone like drugs. Garlic Garlic is a great anti-microbial, which means it is effective in killing yeast, viruses and bacteria. It may be helpful in inhibiting the growth of bacteria that causes ulcers. Garlic is medicinal to the GI tract because it has antimicrobial, anti dyspepsia and beneficial digestive properties. Note: Avoid garlic if you take blood thinners, prior to surgery and/or have hypoglycemia." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"For elderly people who have trouble walking, for people awaiting cardiac transplant due to heart failure, for patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) or with medically unexplained pain or fatigue, a physical conditioning regimen helps rather than hurts—as long as it is done right. When we know we have to do something, but we're afraid to do it, we can often find ourselves stuck. Fortunately, we can use a process called cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) as an "un-sticker." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"We see they were experiencing heart failure, and their kidneys weren't so good, and everything was slowly deteriorating. So aging seems to be about deteriorating cellular function and metabolism and so forth. And what I am saying is that with the Adventists it almost looks as if that general deterioration and cellular function may be impacted by lifestyle. If so, that would be very interesting." My last stop in Southern California was a pancake house. Tempting pictures of maple syrup slathered over sausage and pancakes adorned the menu. I was hungry, and the waitress had her pencil poised. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Years later doctors found that beta-blockers also helped patients suffering from heart failure. Yet history has shown that drugs prescribed off label have also killed or harmed tens of thousands of patients. The deadly diet pill combination known as fen-phen was an unapproved use of the combination of two drugs. For years doctors have commonly prescribed potent drugs for schizophrenia to patients with Alzheimer's disease, even though the FDA has never approved such use. Studies have shown these antipsychotic drugs, including Zyprexa and Risperdal, do not help patients with Alzheimer's." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) "The companies seemed to have little interest in getting to the bottom of what was actually causing cancer, heart failure, or diabetes. Instead, they focused like honeybees circling a picnic cake on products for what they called chronic disorders. These were drugs that did not cure but "managed" diseases as patients took them once a day for the rest of their lives. It was investors who drove the companies' push to medicate America on a daily basis. Wall Street analysts grilled the pharmaceutical executives about their marketing campaigns during conference calls held every three months." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Those on the experimental diet were 50 to 70 percent less likely to experience all the cardiac ailments the researchers recorded, from minor events that required hospitalization to major emergencies such as angina, stroke, or heart failure, to heart attacks and even death. Impressive results. It is not surprising that they received such great attention and that the Mediterranean diet attracted many adherents." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"The Antihypertensive and Lipid Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (ALLHAT) heart failure Validation Study: Diagnosis and prognosis. Am Heart J 2007 Jan; 153(l):42-53. Elliott WJ, Meyer PM. Incident diabetes in clinical trials of antihypertensive drugs: A network meta-analysis. Lancet 2007 Jan 20; 369(9557):201-7. Forbes JM et al. Reduction of the accumulation of advanced glycation end products by ACE inhibition in experimental diabetic nephropathy. Diabetes 2002 Nov; 51(11):3274-82. GlaxoSmithKline letter, Feb. 2007 at www.fda.gov/medwatch/ safety/2007/Avandia_GSK_Ltr." - 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.)

"Another study, the Canadian Heart Outcomes Prevention Evaluation (HOPE) randomized controlled prospective investigation of vitamin E supplementation (400 IU/day) in approximately 4700 patients with diabetes and other cardiovascular risk factors, linked supplementation with an increased risk of heart failure but no protection from cancer in the 2.6-year follow-up portion of the study; no differences in cardiovascular effects were noted during the first 4.6 years [75]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "All Cancer: -31% and mortality: -37% No supplement effect in women but lower CVD with high fruits and vegetables No significant effect on cancer incidence or mortality No significant effect on CVD events but heart failure +13% Nonsmokers 20% to 60+% reduction lung CA Smokers 1.5 to 2X increase 1. Antioxidant Supplementation and Cancer Prevention On initial examination of Table 3, large-scale trials do not consistently demonstrate a definite benefit of antioxidant supplements in healthy individuals." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"My research shows that this entire process is preventable—and that through nutrition (plus, in some cases, low doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs) the risk of heart attack and heart failure can be eliminated. Scientists and physicians have been slow to recognize the connection between nutrition and coronary disease. In part, that's because the development of the disease is not like, say, a bee sting, in which the relationship between cause and effect is quite obvious. It may require decades of self-injury from a high-fat diet before clinical symptoms develop." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"People with diseases such as diabetes, heart failure, CFS, FM, and IBS may find that their pulse does not vary greatly with breathing. This sounds like a good thing, but actually it isn't. Reduced parasympathetic activity means that sympathetic nerves are working more than they should. To combat this imbalance, I suggested you consider buying Freeze-Framer, the biofeedback software I described in chapter 9. That computer program shows just how well your parasympathetic nerves to the heart are working and allows you to practice improving your parasympathetic tone." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In fact, investigators observed an increase in heart failure rates in patients assigned to the vitamin E. It is not known whether this was due to chance or whether the alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E became a pro-oxidant in these patients with significant disease. One of the most damaging reports on vitamin E was a meta-analysis on high-dosage vitamin E that compiled the results of 19 studies from 1966 through August 2004 to conclude that large doses of vitamin E (400 IU per day or more) may increase death rates, at least in those people with chronic illnesses." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Three-year survival of patients with heart failure caused by dilated cardiomyopathy and L-carnitine administration. Am Heart J 2000; 139(2 Pt 3):S120-23. Rodriguez-Moran M and Guerrero-Romero F. Oral magnesium supplementation improves insulin sensitivity and metabolic control in type 2 diabetic subjects: A randomized double-blind controlled trial. Diabetes Care 2003 Apr; 26(4): 1147-52. Rosenblat M et al. Anti-oxidative effects of pomegranate juice (PJ) consumption by diabetic patients on serum and on macrophages. Atherosclerosis 2006 Aug; 187(2):363-71. Sanchez-Ramirez GM et al." - 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.)

"Researchers speculated that mercury adversely affects mitochondrial activity, which leads to pump dysfunction and heart failure. In another study of the association between mercury and heart attack, researchers used hair analysis to measure mercury levels in 1,833 men. Their experiment showed that men with the highest mercury levels had twice as many heart attacks and almost three times as many cardiac arrests as those with lower hair mercury content. All our enzymes require specific minerals to carry out their functions. Heavy metals gum up the works." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "This may explain why some patients with heart failure worsen on beta blockers. CoQIO supplementation reduces beta blocker-induced fatigue. We have used CoQIO in conjunction with beta blockers, especially for the treatment of high blood pressure, arrhythmia, and angina. The combination works very well. Doctors should carefully monitor PT/INR in patients using Coumadin, especially if they feel CoQIO therapy is also indicated. Careful monitoring can allow the successful therapeutic use of both. One need not exclude the other." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Anything that can restore cellular energy in patients with angina, heart failure, left ventricular enlargement, or even hypertension is a great boon. Three very important nutritional supplements are effective: CoQIO, L-carnitine, and D-ribose. They directly support ATP production and thus defend heart cells from the ravages of aging, toxins, and the many conditions that wear down mitochondrial function and cause CVD. 5. The Bacterial Threat Gum Disease For many people, heart disease may begin in the mouth." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"The related article published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the risks were 43 percent for heart failure and 64 percent for death from cardiovascular causes. Insulins For people who have type 1 diabetes, insulin is a life-saving medication that must be taken every day. Our goal when working with people who have type 2 diabetes, however, is to use the comprehensive approach we have presented throughout this book to control beta-cell function and insulin sensitivity in an effort to reverse the course of the disease." - 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.)

"Numerous other cardiovascular effects of L-carnitine are beyond the scope of this chapter, but improvement in exercise tolerance, functional improvement in angina, peripheral vascular disease, treatment of heart failure, and reduced death rates from heart attacks are all areas of clinical effectiveness of L-carnitine. L-Carm'tine 2-3 g per day Folic Acid, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B12." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"If the blockages leading up to oxygen starvation are not removed, either cancer or heart failure is most likely going to take the person's life. Oftentimes, cancer patients do not actually die because of the cancer, but due to a failing heart. In my experience with hundreds of cancer patients, I found that all of them also suffered from major cardiovascular problems. It is not a new discovery that chronic oxygen deprivation of cells is behind cancer and other degenerative disorders such as heart disease." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "The longer the blood has been stored, the higher the risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke and death. Nitric oxide in red blood cells is critical to the delivery of oxygen to tissues. If blood is stored for more than two weeks, its nitric oxide concentration drops to a level that may endanger the life of the patient. Current practice is to store blood for transfusion for up to six weeks. The above risk could be reduced by enriching the blood with nitric oxide, but very few hospitals do so." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

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