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"Adding omega-3 fatty acids to the diet (that is, eating more of a certain kind of fat) "substantially reduces coronary and total mortality" in heart patients, and replacing saturated fats with polyunsaturated fats lowers blood cholesterol, which they deem an important risk factor for CHD. (Some researchers no longer do, pointing out that half the people who get heart attacks don't have elevated cholesterol levels, and about half the people with elevated cholesterol do not suffer from CHD." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"This leaves unanswered the question why some studies show no benefit to cholesterol-lowering in heart patients whose LDL cholesterol level is less than 125 mg/dL, while other studies support the lower target. The only conclusion we can draw about the optimal level of LDL cholesterol in people who already have heart disease is that it is still to be determined. THE CHOLESTEROL CASH COW The disparity between the recommendations of the 2001 guidelines and the subsequent findings of the PROSPER and ALLHAT studies cannot be dismissed as simply due to the normal zigs and zags of science." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The Mid-America Heart Institute study—the study in which prayer by Christians of diverse denominations had reduced symptoms in heart patients by 10 percent—was also criticized for offering so many end points that it was bound to show a positive result.19 The negative results of these large prayer studies could be because praying for others does not work, because prayer simply cannot be subjected to scientific study, or simply because these new studies themselves were asking the wrong questions." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Several studies of heart patients have shown that isolation ?from oneself, one's community and one's spirituality - rather than physical conditions, such as a high cholesterol count, is one of the greatest contributors to disease.24 In studies of longevity, those people who live longest are often not only those who believe in a higher spiritual being, but also those who have the strongest sense of belonging to a community.2? It might mean that the intention of the healer was as important as his or her medicine." - Lynne Mctaggart, The Field - The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe (Get the book.)

"This is also used in weight loss and dietetic advice for heart patients. I've known doctors to give advice to heart patients such as, "Eat all the sugar and carbohydrates you want, just don't eat any fat or oil." That's terrible advice, but it was the standard line from the American Heart Association for decades, and it is still erroneously practiced by many heart doctors today. There is no diet that really works if you eat all the_you want, because being healthy requires eating a variety of foods. The only valid version of this might be, "Eat all the green, leafy vegetables you want." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.)

"This original research inspired numerous other studies showing major therapeutic benefits for supplemented heart patients. For his years of outstanding research, Folkers was honored with the Presidential Science Award by President George H. W. Bush in 1990. Multiple studies have confirmed widespread CoQIO deficiency among CVD patients. One study found deficiencies in three-fourths of 132 patients undergoing heart surgery. The most serious deficits occur among patients with weak hearts, suffering from conditions such as cardiomyopathy or heart failure." - 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.) "In another experiment, Rosenfeldt's group started sixteen heart patients on a similar program about a month before cardiac surgery. Six weeks after surgery, they found the patients experienced significant improvements in medical tests and quality of life compared to other patients receiving conventional care." - 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.) "Daily doses in excess of 30 grams are seldom needed. Most heart patients will stabilize at about 10 grams per day. Once a patient responds with a reduction in symptoms, the dosage may be gradually reduced until a maintenance level is reached. Sometimes patients well maintained at a certain dose may require an increase due to changes in their activity level or changes in their cardiac drug therapy, such as the addition or deletion of beta blockers or calcium channel blockers. It cannot be overemphasized that patients must continue on D-ribose therapy, or relapses will almost certainly occur." - 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.) "If a surgeon would like his heart patients to recover better and have a stronger heart muscle, CoQIO supplementation should be a real option to use," said Franklin Rosenfeldt, head of the research unit. More than half a million bypass surgeries are performed in the United States each year. They involve increasingly older patients and an increasing percentage of repeat operations. As a result, injury, death, and cost have risen substantially." - 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.)

"Often used for heart patients to reduce blood pressure, beta-blockers break the anxiety feedback loop to the brain that otherwise keeps the amygdala on alert. In quelling the bodily symptoms of anxiety, beta-blockers diffuse panic attacks before they explode. They're also useful for people with social anxiety or stage fright. It's exceedingly common for classical musicians to take beta-blockers before performances because it prevents them from sweating and tensing up, which can really interfere with their ability to play. (It must be hard to play a trombone with stiff lips!" - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Magnesium deficiency also increases the risk of heart-rhythm disturbances (arrhythmias), the most common cause of sudden death in heart patients.3 Heart patients develop magnesium deficiency for several different reasons. Low dietary intake (too much sugar and fat, not enough whole grains and vegetables) is certainly one factor. Drugs given to patients with CHF, particularly diuretics (water pills) and digoxin, also deplete the body of magnesium. In addition, the failing heart becomes less efficient at hanging onto the magnesium it already has." - Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Natural Medicine, Optimal Wellness: The Patient's Guide to Health and Healing (Get the book.)

"Walking program for heart patients:373 Distance Time Weeks (miles) (min/mile) 1-2 1 20 3-4 l 17-20 5-6 l 15 7-8 1.5 15 9-10 1.5 14 To maintain the conditioning effect, exercise 20 to 30 minutes three to five times a week. If you stop exercise for more than two weeks, start again at a lower level and gradually build back up to your original program." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The small studies that had made use of groups of Christians to send intercessory prayers to heart patients are often construed as a group intention—an attempt by a collection of people to influence the same thing at the same time. However promising the results of these early studies, Krucoff realized that a large-scale trial with tightened protocols was needed, and he mounted his own small pilot study. He enlisted 150 cardiac patients, recruited from nearby Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who had been scheduled for angioplasty and stents." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Brings ribose to the market for skeletal muscle energy recovery and to provide metabolic support to heart patients. Bioenergy received GRAS affirmation from expert panel. 2000- 2007 Continued clinical and scientific research on the benefit of ribose for controlling free radical formation in hypoxic tissue, cardioprotective benefit in hypoxia, treating congestive heart failure, cardioprotective benefit in healthy hearts, preserving harvested blood platelets and promoting skeletal muscle energy recovery. 2003- ?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "D-Ribose is emerging as a new player in the complex understanding of metabolic cardiology, and doctors are beginning to discuss the important role of magnesium deficiency in heart patients. As a practicing cardiologist for over thirty years, I see metabolic cardiology as the future for the treatment of heart disease, and other complex disease conditions, as well." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Following Jim's progress, my clinic partner, with his modest prior understanding of the importance of energy metabolism in heart function, was so impressed that he now recommends these nutrients to all his heart patients, too. When it comes to heart disease, D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio have become the triad of nutrients we rely on for healing and prevention. You will soon see that these nutrients can rocket your heart and muscle energy to new heights." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Daily doses in excess of 20 grams are seldom needed and most heart patients will normally stabilize at about 10 grams per day. Once the patient responds by having more energy, improvement in overall well being, reduced shortness of breath, or so forth, the dose may be lowered slightly until a maintenance level is reached. It is important to point out that even if patients are well maintained at a certain dose, changes in their activity level may require increasing the dose to keep cellular energy levels maximized." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Indeed, a recent analysis of46,000 heart patients, half of whom were taking a placebo, made the astonishing discovery that patients taking a placebo fared as well as those on the heart drug. The only factor determining survival seemed to be belief that the therapy would work and a willingness to follow it religiously. Those who stuck to the doctor's orders to take their drug three times a day fared equally well whether they were taking a drug or just a sugar pill." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"Unmarried heart patients who said no were three times more likely to die within five years. Do you live alone? Heart-attack survivors who said yes were more than twice as likely to die within a year.2 The numbers here tell a story, a story based on a narrative template I call "healing ties." I might almost as readily have called it "fractured ties," because it is a narrative that skirts the border between melancholy and hope." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"STROKE MODERATE TO SEVERE • Aspirin as Emergency First Aid For some time now, heart patients and those with high cholesterol have heard doctors' advice to take low doses of aspirin to help thin the blood and prevent clotting and heart attack. Not receiving as much attention in the medical and consumer press is the idea that similar benefits may accrue to people at high risk for stroke." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "Recently, results of a three-year, peer-reviewed study showed that heart patients who took daily supplements of vitamin E, containing a natural form of the vitamin called alpha tocopheryl, recorded 75% fewer heart attacks than those who were taking a placebo. This substantial study involved more than 2,000 people with histories of heart trouble. Absence Makes the Heart Grow...Weaker B Heart Smart Tk, What's the greatest risk factor for people living with coronary artery disease? Surprisingly, it's not a physical threat. It is emotional isolation." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "New Drug to Thin the Blood I Beware of Combination Treatments for Heart Health Now that word is filtering out that garlic has the power to help thin the blood and prevent heart attacks, some heart patients?not surprisingly—believe that they can simply load up on garlic in addition to other preventive efforts. For many, garlic may be just the right medicine. But another word has come in from the medical community: Garlic taken together with blood thinners or cholesterol-lowering drugs may alter blood chemistry too much." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.) "The belief is that the drugs help reduce blood clotting (as with heart patients), which it is believed might otherwise lead to miscarriage. Immune-System Treatments I A, n order not to reject a growing fetus during a normal pregnancy, the mother's immune system essentially turns off this rejection reaction in the uterus, letting the fetus develop. Studies have also shown that this natural shutdown sometimes fails to kick in, leaving the immune system free to attack the developing fetus. When this happens, the pregnancy does not "take," resulting in miscarriage." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"At one point, the heart department objected to what John was doing with heart patients. John told them, "I'll tell you what, I'll send every one of my heart patients to you for a second opinion if you'll send yours to me." It was quite an offer, but they didn't accept it. On another occasion John had referred a patient to a cardiologist and the cardiologist incorrectly told the patient that he needed to have bypass surgery. After a couple of these incidents, John had reached the limit of his patience." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"Rounding out the quartet with D-ribose and magnesium, as suggested by Sinatra, is a great idea, especially for heart patients. (Magnesium helps because it is critical for the making of ATP, has an important effect on cellular metabolism, has been found helpful in a wide range of cardiac Ribose and Fibromyalgia Just as we went to press, my friend and go-to guy for all things related to Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D., wrote to tell me of a just-published study showing that in Chronic Fatigue and Fibromyalgia patients, ribose increased energy an average of 45%. " - 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.)

"Then there are drugs for heart patients. I don't think there's any reason to prescribe statin drugs.211 At my clinic we stop these drugs on sight - there are far safer ways to lower the cholesterol. According to a 211 Statin drugs: Statin drugs are a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol levels in people who are at risk with cardiovascular disease. recent article in Business Week, statin drugs are virtually useless for preventing cardiovascular disease. The number of patients needed to be treated to reduce one death in three years is over 100." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"I have recently watched with a certain sense of wistfulness as at least some subsequent efforts to test the therapeutic efficacy of such ties with cancer and heart patients have failed to show any obvious beneficial effects. Stress, in contrast, struck me from the outset as a deeply unwieldy concept that, notwithstanding its apparent hard-nosed roots in the laboratory, had come to stand in for virtually every class of human unease, distress, and malaise—to the detriment of all involved. One anecdote in particular, which I heard in the late 1990s, clarified the issues for me here." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Two of my original heart patients had strokes before joining my nutrition program. William Morris had just one stroke. Emil Huffgard had three. As a result, both had suffered impairment of their walking. More than twenty years later, both of these men are alive and well. Neither has had any further strokes. The same plant-based nutrition that saved their hearts also saved their brains. I have mentioned previously that several of my patients have also noted a distinct improvement in their sex lives. And recent research confirms a strong connection between impotence and cardiovascular disease." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"The purpose of these tests was to identify heart patients who were having irregular heartbeats that put them at increased risk of fatal arrhythmias—like the one Mr. Peters almost suffered. The criteria for starting an antiarrhythmic drug to suppress extra heartbeats were well established, and the degree to which the particular drug and dose had succeeded in suppressing each patient's extra heartbeats could be evaluated by repeating the 24-hour heart monitor test. Few diagnostic tests and therapeutic interventions seemed as important as decreasing these patients' risk of sudden death." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"In October 1985, we began our experiment with this diverse group of heart patients. Every three to four months, the entire group convened—usually at Ann's and my house—to share recipes, to compare how they were doing and emphasize the fact that they were not alone, and to reinforce their sense of commitment—to themselves and to each other. As a result, they developed lasting friendships and family connections. A strong sense of community and common purpose helped sustain them and encourage compliance. I will tell you how things turned out for all these patients, and for others, as well." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

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