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"Ellsworth Wareham, 91, assists during a heart surgery procedure, something he does about two to three times per week. stamina is decreasing. The hormones that build the muscles are diminished. "So yes, I am sensitive about my age," he said. "If someone tells you the assistant on your heart surgery is in his 90s, well, that's not a comfortable thought. But the way I see it, the cardiac surgeons who want me there to assist them can judge my ability better than I can. And when I start to do less than top-quality work, I trust them not to use me." Eventually, he won't renew his license, he added. " - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "In Vietnam, a year before South Vietnam fell, the work of the heart surgery team in Saigon was featured on the Walter Cronkite TV program. As a surgeon he was a pioneer of open-heart procedures. (Dr. Leonard Bailey, who has performed more infant heart transplants than anyone in the world, unabashedly refers to Wareham as "my mentor.") When rudimentary open-heart surgery was first practiced in the early 1950s, Wareham saw the emergence of a new field and extended his residency to acquire the necessary expertise." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"I take advantage of hormesis when I perform heart surgery by briefly shutting off the flow of blood to the heart. This period of stress alerts the patient's heart cell genes that trouble is on the way, activating a complex series of events that cause heart muscle cells to hunker down and protect themselves until a better time-in the form of new blood flow-arrives. Even better, other cells in the area that are not pulling their weight are eaten by white blood cells or instructed to die, a process called apoptosis." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Krucoff longed to introduce some of these practices to hospitals in America, but if he was going to convince any of his colleagues in cardiology, he would have to prove the benefit of spirituality to the practice of heart surgery through hard data showing a measurable physiological effect. He would have to demonstrate that intangible aspects like intention, or spiritual beliefs, or even a spiritual, uplifting environment could really make a difference to a patient's outcome. During the eighteen-hour flight home, Krucoff and Crater began teasing out ideas for a study." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"If someone tells you the assistant on your heart surgery is in his 90s, well, that's not a comfortable thought. But the way I see it, the cardiac surgeons who want me there to assist them can judge my ability better than I can. And when I start to do less than top-quality work, I trust them not to use me." Eventually, he won't renew his license, he added. "And a deficit in mental or physical ability may appear at any time and make the decision for me." As I parked on the steep hill near his driveway, I spotted Wareham on his hands and knees, cleaning leaves out of the gutter in the road." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.) "Now this fellow has had cancer of the prostate and the neck, and two heart attacks, each followed by heart surgery and bypass grafts. Why wasn't he protected? Luck? Genes? Maybe stress. Remarkably, ten years after the last onslaught of these diseases, he is alive and active. I would conjecture his good health habits helped him recover. I know that it really helps me to have purpose to what I'm doing, to have a job and finish the job and have another job, and to enjoy that process. As I say, I am blessed." But the tone was not totally content this time." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"This would include patients with a history of myocardial infarction, angina pectoris, heart surgery, or angioplasty. Many obese patients may have "silent" comorbidities such as hyperlipidemia or hypertension." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The medical centers involved in this new study included some of the most important names in the cardiology and heart surgery arena: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Duke, the University of Washington, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Surely, such atrial, involving the best surgeons in the field, would return a lower operative mortality rate and demonstrate the true value of open-heart surgery. When the eagerly awaited CASS results were finally published in 1984, they did indeed show a far lower operative mortality rate (1.4 percent) than that seen in the Veterans study." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"In one clinical trial, researchers demonstrated that daily therapy using 300 mg of oral coenzyme Qiq for two weeks prior to cardiac surgery increased the coenzyme Qi0 content in cardiac muscle, improved mitochondrial energy production, and offered myocardial protection during heart surgery. In another study, the same group of researchers demonstrated that in the older heart, coenzyme Qio treatment increased the capacity to sustain a cardiac workload by 28 percent compared to untreated hearts." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The result is that strong cells remain and weak cells are eliminated, enhancing the chance of survival during and after heart surgery. All the research on hormesis in humans suggests that there is a point in every exposure to a stressor or toxin in which the response is not only to survive but also to thrive. That's because your genes realize both that it is not the right time to reproduce and put offspring in harm's way and that unless they can keep you well, you may die, taking your genes with you." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"An example would be using meditation following heart surgery to reduce pain, expedite post-surgical recovery, manage stress, and help maintain continued hearr health. Intuition—A form of ready, accurate insight that arises independent of a person's previous experiences or empirical knowledge. Jung, Carl—Born July 26, 1875, Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, a colleague of Sigmund Freud, and founder of analytical psychology." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"This mineral is so essential that all heart surgery patients receive 1 to 2 grams intravenously during and every six hours after their operation to normalize their heart rhythm and control blood pressure. Many cardiac disease specialists think a dietary deficiency of magnesium causes or contributes to hypertension. Magnesium is poorly absorbed and competes with the same receptors in the intestines that absorb calcium. When magnesium and calcium are combined in a supplement, you'll actually get less of each." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Cardiac surgeon Mehmet Oz, who combines Eastern and Western medical techniques into his surgical practice, declares that many of his heart surgery patients do better when they also learn how to meditate, use guided imagery, and receive adjunct complementary therapies such as acupuncture and foot reflexology.3 Acupuncturist Michael Wayne, in his book Quantum-Integral Medicine, argues that patients can harness their minds to ramp up their bodies' innate self-healing capabilities, so they can be their own doctors to a much larger extent than ever thought possible." - Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey, Decoding the Human Body-Field: The New Science of Information as Medicine (Get the book.)

"Most demoralizing for those who had been the beneficiaries of the clinic's surgical interventions was the recognition that so much that had been done to save them—repeated open heart surgery, angioplasties aplenty, stents, and a host of medications—seemed no longer to have any useful effect. Almost all the men had lost their sexual potency. Most had chest pains, the terrifying condition known as angina. For some, it was so agonizing that they couldn't lie down and had to sleep sitting up. Only a few could take long walks, and some couldn't even cross a room without excruciating pain." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "One of my patients, Jerry Murphy, came to me at the age of sixty-seven after his cardiologist recommended open heart surgery, something he was determined to avoid. "No male Murphy has ever lived beyond sixty-seven," he announced. "What are you going to do about that?" I responded that the real question was what he was going to do about it, albeit with my help. Now in his mid-eighties—well past the sixty-seven-year life expectancy for male Murphys—Jerry Murphy thinks my nutrition program represents a more natural way of eating, a return to healthier ways of the past. " - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"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. And we know that among panic disorder patients, those who have frequent attacks have a deficit of ANP in their bloodstreams." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"The infection can come from anything from IV drug use to dental or heart surgery. Other skin signs of endocarditis are red, painful nodules on the fingers and toes—medically known as Osier's nodes—and hemorrhages under the nails (see Dark Stripes, above) and on the whites of the eyes (Roth spots). Edema and excessive sweating are signs that the infection is worsening. Scaly Rash on Palms or Soles If you notice a lot of little scales on the palms of your hands or soles of your feet, you may mistake them for a cluster of warts or even psoriasis. Nails, above." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Most importantly, he notes, the people chosen for the study were carefully selected to represent the full range of heart surgery patients—young, old, those undergoing valve surgery and those protected by beta blockers. Half of the participants got a 13-day course of amiodarone, starting six days before they were scheduled for heart surgery. The other half got a placebo. Researchers found that the incidence of abnormal heartbeats was 50% lower in the group receiving amiodarone than in the group getting the placebo. "There was a substantial protective effect," Mitchell says. " - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"Cardiac surgeons at Johns Hopkins have observed that their heart surgery patients tend to be people who have suffered massive losses of love in their lives. We tend to attach love issues to the heart because the heart symbolizes love in our culture. If we have lost in love, we might say, "My heart is broken." People suffering a break-up will often experience physical heart pain, and so on. Simply put, people who've experienced love loss tend to store the resulting painful emotional energy in the heart. This described me perfectly." - Rick Levy and Lou Aronica, Miraculous Health: How to Heal Your Body by Unleashing the Hidden Power of Your Mind (Get the book.)

"These benefits apply not just to cardiomyopathy and heart failure but to angina, coronary artery disease, heart attack, and recovery from heart surgery. The cardiologist Peter Langsjoen, of Tyler, Texas, has participated in CoQIO studies since the early 1980s. First with his cardiologist father, Per, who passed away in 1993, and subsequently in his own private practice, Langsjoen has logged more clinical usage of CoQIO than any other U.S. doctor. "It's the backbone of my cardiac practice, and I find it unthinkable to practice medicine without it," said Langsjoen. " - 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.)

"A California doctor recently reported astounding improvements among beating heart surgery patients who received D-ribose supplementation prior to sur- Adenine Ribose ATP PRPP ? AMP Adenosine De Novo Synthetic Pathway Ribose PRPP" I I i IMP t I J Catabolic & Salvage Pathways PRPP t Ribose Hypoxanthine I I t Uric Acid ?Denotes intermediate steps Figure 6.5. Replacing lost energy substrates through the de novo pathway of energy synthesis begins with D-ribose. D-ribose can also "salvage" AMP degradation products capturing them before they can be washed out of the cell." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Acute ischemia, like that which takes place during a heart attack, heart surgery, or angioplasty, drains the cell of energy. Even when oxygenated blood flow returns, refilling the energy pool may take ten or more days. But when oxygen deprivation is chronic, or when energy metabolism is disrupted by disease, there may be so much continual strain on the energy supply that the pool can never refill without the assistance of supplemental ribose. Conditions like ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, or fibromyalgia fall into this category." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Almost all the patients on whom I've performed heart surgery used to have cereal for breakfast, 80 percent of them with a "healthy" banana and "healthy" skim milk. Instead, enjoy eggs-they won't kill you, unlike cereal and other grain-based foods-and open your mind to other choices, such as protein smoothies or even soup or leftovers of last night's dinner. EGG DISHES Eggs fortified with omega-3 fatty acids form one foundation of Phase 1 breakfast choices. Despite what you've been told, consuming up to four eggs a day has no major impact on most people's cholesterol." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"The entire heart surgery industry is worth about $100 billion a year. Drug-coated stents alone cost U.S. taxpayers and insurers $3.4 billion. More than a billion dollars a year are being wasted by cardiothoracic surgeons who perform bypasses on patients whose symptoms could be controlled with medical management, using drugs, diet, and exercise, which are not only cheaper but also safer and far less invasive." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "He suffered a stroke during the carotid endarterectomy, which delayed his heart surgery for six months. A year later, the man was almost back to normal, writes Goodwin, "and his hernia (still unrepaired) was not bothering him as much, because of his decreased activity. Here is the scariest part of the story: he was grateful—thankful that his doctors had found the heart and carotid problems in time. Grateful also are the legions of older men who have undergone radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer discovered by PSA screening, grateful that their doctors found it in time." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"In bypass surgery, also called open heart surgery, doctors remove one or more vessels from the chest, arm, leg, or stomach and attach them to arteries carrying blood to the heart, thus detouring blood around blockages. Clinton thought his blockage was probably caused in part by genetics. His mother's family has a history of heart disease. But he also admitted the possibility of self-inflicted damage during "those years when I was too careless about what I ate." As president, he was known for his fast-food habit. Clinton's case underscores the importance of listening to your body." - 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.) "I couldn't bring him back, but I could tell patients awaiting open heart surgery to start taking CoQIO daily. Those patients have all come off the heart-lung bypass machine without a problem. All through the 1980s, I found myself driven to learn all I could about mind/body and nutritional medicine. It consumed most of my spare time. I found major healing benefits for my patients using B vitamins, fish oil, green tea, and exciting natural substances with strange names like nat-tokinase and phospholipids. They transformed sick lives into revived and energized lives." - 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 you take vitamin C the night before open heart surgery, the risk of developing postoperative atrial fibrillation drops by more than half?from 33 percent to 14 percent—compared to someone who doesn't supplement. This conclusion is based on a Cleveland Clinic study in which individuals took 2,000 mg the night before surgery and then 500 mg twice a day during their postoperative recovery. Cigarette smoke destroys vitamin C in the body, one of the means by which smoking promotes cardiovascular disease." - 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.)

"Every day wasteful diagnostic tests and therapies, from the serious to the mundane, are prescribed in the name of "state-of-the-art" health care: heart surgery for which no benefit has been shown; treatment with expensive brand-name medications when drugs costing only one-fifteenth as much are more effective; MRIs performed simply to satisfy patients' or consultants' curiosity (and often leading to erroneous diagnostic assumptions); expensive drugs when lifestyle changes would be far more effective at protecting health; tests and consultations that are very unlikely to lead to better outcomes." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The cardiopulmonary bypass machine, which pumps blood through an artificial lung, replacing carbon dioxide with fresh oxygen, and then back into the body, allows surgeons to perform intricate heart surgery. The first successful surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass was done in Sweden in 1953, on an 18-year-old girl with a congenital heart defect. By 1960, surgery to bypass blockages in the arteries that supply the heart muscle with blood (coronary arteries) could be performed with relative safety. Surgical replacement of poorly functioning heart valves soon followed." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

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