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"In separate procedures, he'd had seven stents placed in various blockages in his heart arteries. Nonetheless, just walking from his bed to the bathroom caused him severe chest pain. No wonder, a scan of his heart suggested that at least half of his heart muscle wasn't getting enough blood flow. Isaiah had been told that additional stents or bypasses were useless. When I reviewed the results of his blood test and dietary habits questionnaire, I immediately found the culprit. Isaiah subsisted on "white" and "beige" foods." - 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 number of angioplasty procedures in the United States tripled in the 1990s, accelerated by the introduction in 1995 of wire mesh stents to keep narrowed coronary arteries from becoming completely blocked. Despite the advent of stents, the number of coronary artery bypass surgeries increased by about a third during the 1990s. In 1987 the FDA approved the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, Meva-cor. Sales of statins climbed steadily, so that in 2002 they took over as the best-selling class of drug in the United States." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Heart attacks can strike whether you have undergone a coronary bypass or had stents placed inside your arteries. According to research, these procedures fail to prevent heart attacks and do nothing to reduce mortality rates. Heart Disease No More, excerpted from the author's bestselling book, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation, puts the responsibility for healing where it belongs, on the heart, mind, and body of each individual. It provides the reader with practical insights about the development and causes of heart disease." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"He had undergone two rounds of angioplasty and had two stents placed in another artery. Abdominal aortic and popliteal artery (the artery behind the knee) aneurysms had been repaired. Blood flow to his lower extremities was poor, causing leg cramping when walking. On top of all this, chest pain remained an issue. An angiogram revealed 50 percent nar-rowings in all three of his coronary vessels. Dave came to me for a second opinion. He was taking a number of drugs, including a statin cholesterol-lowering agent. These were continued." - 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 test produces unreliably high calcium scores on individuals who have had bypass operations or stents. The bypassed native vessel, occluded and full of plaque, is being measured, thus contributing to the higher score. A metal stent will also throw off the accuracy. The highest score we ever encountered was in a male patient who had been bypassed. He had a score of 10,000 (see the results explanation below). EBT is not perfect. There are false positives and false negatives. The scan may indicate significant calcification; however, obstructive coronary disease may not be present." - 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.)

"It's reminiscent of the saga of the coronary artery stents (chapter 2). There are precious few systematic reviews of interventions for regional disorders of the knee, in part because quality literature is sparse (van Dijk et al. 2006). However, there are some recent telling randomized controlled trials. The trial from the va Medical Center in Houston (Moseley et al. 2002) should dampen anyone's enthusiasm for arthroscopic remediation of knee pain in the setting of osteoarthritis of the knee. And read about the Swedish experience (Roos et al." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In anyone with a history of coronary calcification, coronary artery disease or in those with stents or bypass, I would also strongly recommend vitamin K2. Vitamin K2-Coenzyme Q10's Cousin I stumbled upon vitamin K2 inadvertently when I wrote my last book Reverse Heart Disease Now (Wiley, 2007). Vitamin K2, specifically MK7 (short for mena-quinone-7) is actually a relative of coenzyme Qiq. To refresh your memory, when Dr. Fred Crane discovered coenzyme Qio he thought it was originally a carot-enoid but it turned out to be a quinone." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"He enlisted 150 cardiac patients, recruited from nearby Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who had been scheduled for angioplasty and stents. Besides prayer, Krucoff wanted to see whether "noetic" therapies, involving some form of remote or mind-body influence, could affect patient outcomes. He divided the patient population into five groups. In addition to standard medical treatmerit, four of the five were to receive one of the noetic treatments?stress relaxation, healing touch, guided imagery, or intercessory prayer." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.) "The prayer groups should have been instructed to ask for a specific outcome in cardiac symptoms or fewer cardiac stents placed during the study time or any other highly specific request, rather than a nebulous, highly generalized statement about the patient improving. None of the studies tightly controlled for the number of people involved in the prayer groups or for either the frequency or length of time they were to pray; this again might have confused the mass intention. Perhaps, since they were using highly diverse prayer groups, their prayers were not equivalent." - Lynne McTaggart, The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World (Get the book.)

"If you take medications for high blood pressure, diabetes, arthritis, cholesterol, depression, stomach acid, or pain—or get stents or bypass surgery or have colon polyps removed-you're doing just that: covering up the signals that killer genes have been activated. Shockingly, the number of people on Medicare being treated simultaneously for four or more medical conditions has doubled from 1987 to 2002.30 During this same period, the rate of obesity in the United States also doubled-a one to one correlation." - 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.) "Isaiah had been told that additional stents or bypasses were useless. When I reviewed the results of his blood test and dietary habits questionnaire, I immediately found the culprit. Isaiah subsisted on "white" and "beige" foods. Although he was quite thin, he had the characteristic gut of someone who was insulin resistant. Isaiah started Diet Evolution immediately, and within three months was down 12 pounds with improved blood profiles. His wife, however, was most upset by his weight loss. "Look, he's wasting away," she said. "You're going to kill him!" - 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.)

"A review of stents in JAMA, which sorts benefits into two categories, "proven" and "unproven,"19 is similarly bad science. "The logic here is really disappointing," I exclaimed. "There is no such thing as an 'unproven benefit.'" "Right again," said Fran. "It's more like political spinning than science." "What's really troubling," I countered, "is that this so-called evidence is being used to justify life or death decisions." A 1998 editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine asked an important question: Why is stenting often performed "without obvious indication?" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"So if any of you are anticipating cardiac procedures, including angioplasty, stents, cardiac bypass, and valvular surgery—as well as those of you recovering from heart attacks and heart procedures—to take heed and protect yourselves right away. And because the aging heart responds so strongly to physical and emotional stressors, it is crucial that if you are 70 or older, you protect your heart by taking coenzyme Qi0, no matter how healthy you feel at the moment. I believe that is absolutely essential to protect your heart from the nutraceutical point of view." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As an editorial in the prestigious British medical journal, Lancet, concludes—with typically English humor: "Stents clearly have a great future—they give excellent predictive results in angiography, are clinically safe, and most of all, calm the interventional cardiologist."21 "Finally, something I can agree with," proclaimed Fran. "Were I the patient, I would most assuredly want a calm cardiologist!" Alas, where in these procedures is the fierce warrior? A small incision in the groin is hardly heroic surgery!" - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In chapter 3, we examined the efforts of surgeons, and found that the seemingly obvious benefits of cardiac bypass surgery and stents are maddeningly difficult to demonstrate with clinical evidence, a statement that is strangely and counterintuitively true for many common surgeries. Surely emergency medicine saves lives. Such a statement, which would seem to have what logicians call "face validity," is difficult to substantiate." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "Thus, stents and cabbages cannot prevent the formation of these deadly clots. "I think it is ingrained in the American psyche," said one cardiologist, "that the worth of medical care is directly related to how aggressive it is. Americans want a full-court press," he concluded, blaming the patient for the physician's unscientific judgment. Instead of stenting and cabbages, we would be better off with "boring old advice"; give up smoking, and get blood pressure and cholesterol levels down." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In recent years, the use of stents has become more common. A stent is a wire mesh tube that is inserted during angioplasty. When the balloon is inflated, the stent expands and locks into place inside the artery, holding it open after the balloon and catheter are withdrawn. Bypass surgery is exactly what its name implies. The physician uses a short length of blood vessel from another part of the body to provide a way for blood to go around blockages in coronary arteries, much as a detour functions to route traffic around the congestion caused by an accident or by highway construction." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (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.) "His coronary artery anatomy excluded him as a candidate for surgical bypass, angioplasty, or stents, and at such a young age, with a wife and three small children, Dr. Crowe was understandably disconsolate and depressed. Since he already exercised, did not use tobacco, and had a relatively low cholesterol count of 156 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL), there seemed to be nothing he could modify, no obvious reforms in lifestyle that might halt the disease. Joe was aware of my interest in coronary disease." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.) "His longtime cardiologist wanted him to return to Columbus for an additional angiogram and, likely, more stents, but Jim was adamant about sticking to the arrest-and-reverse program. He found another cardiologist who did some research on me and was supportive of what Jim was trying. "If Dr. Esselstyn says do something," he told Jim, "I'll work with you." By April 2005, tests revealed that Jim's left ventricular ejection fraction had returned to 62 percent—normal." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Drug-Eluting stents Four Times Better than Others Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions news release. Drug-eluting stents improved the outcomes of patients who developed blockages in veins that had been surgically grafted onto the heart, according to a study by researchers at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "The Cedars Sinai team will continue to follow the patients to study whether the drug-eluting stents offer long-term benefits. tnfQ The US National Library of Medicine has more information about stents on their MedlinePlus Web site at www.medlineplus.gov. Click on "Medical Encyclopedia." Volunteer-Operated Defibs Are Lifesavers Riccardo Cappato, MD, professor of electrophysiol-ogy, University of Milan, Italy. Mary F. Hazinski, RN, clinical nurse specialist, emergency and clinical care, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. European Heart Journal." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"We inserted two more stents, but scans revealed poor blood flow to one-third of his heart muscle. After being released from the hospital, Jed came back to my office. "Let's start again," he said. He began Diet Evolution that day. I also prescribed supplements to augment his diet—there was no time to lose. Six weeks later, Jed's triglycerides were one-third their previous level. His LDL ("bad") cholesterol followed suit. More important, his HDL ("good") cholesterol, and specifically a subgroup of HDL that actually scours arteries had doubled." - 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.)

"Neither do their arteries clog up and need stents, angioplasties or bypass surgeries! Cooking has been proven to produce millions of different "Maillard molecules," sugar/protein combinations. In 1916, the chemist Louis Maillard proved that brown pigments and polymers that occur in pyrolysis (i.e., chemical breakdown caused by heat alone ?in a word, cooking) are formed after the reaction of an amino acid group of a protein with the carbonyl group of a sugar." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The jury is still out on whether these stents will turn out to be superior. But even if they do prevent scar tissue from reblocking the artery, they still won't prevent heart attacks. That's because a heart attack occurs when a bit of plaque ruptures, triggering a blood clot that flows toward smaller and smaller arteries until it blocks the flow of blood." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "By the 1990s, cardiologists were also employing stents, tiny mesh tubes that could prop open a blockage inside a coronary artery. Moon sometimes performed as many as a dozen cardiac catheterizations in a single day—four to five times the number his peers in northern California were performing. In one year, he performed more than eight hundred invasive cardiac procedures. Between June 2001 and 2002, he billed Medicare for four million dollars. At its peak, Redding Medical Center was performing nearly eight hundred open-heart surgeries per year—many of them done by Realyvasquez." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "And while the elective use of angioplasty and stents has skyrocketed over the past ten to fifteen years, there has been no change in the rate of heart attacks. Only recently have cardiologists begun to understand why this is so. They once believed that plaque in the coronary arteries accumulated slowly over decades, like sludge in a pipe, until one day it finally blocked an artery completely and triggered a heart attack. By crushing the plaque against the walls of the artery, they reasoned, angioplasty or a stent ought to keep the blood flowing, at least for a time." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "In total, the patient who walks out with one or more stents costs his insurer on average between $10,000 and $15,000, and as much as $50,000.) Topol makes another important observation: Not all cardiologists are equally inclined to treat heart disease patients with aggressive intervention. In 1995,Topol led a study that looked at the treatment that heart disease patients received in different parts of the country." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"Despite the advent of stents, the number of coronary artery bypass surgeries increased by about a third during the 1990s. In 1987 the FDA approved the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug, Meva-cor. Sales of statins climbed steadily, so that in 2002 they took over as the best-selling class of drug in the United States. What effect did all of these breakthroughs have on the death rate from coronary heart disease? Instead of a dramatic improvement, the rate of decline in the death rate actually slowed during the 1990s (from an average decline of 3.1 percent per year between 1970 and 1990 to 2." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"If people were instructed in the proper care and feeding of the body, virtually all of the following surgical procedures and many more not listed could be completely avoided: gallbladder removal, colostomy, stents, tonsillectomy, appendectomy, cardiovascular surgery of virtually all kinds, regenerative surgery, tumor removal and the most common unnecessary major surgery of all, the hysterectomy. Victoria Boutenko humorously points out that a baby's runny nose is not an indication of a "nose drop deficiency." I further ask, is a headache really an aspirin deficiency?" - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

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