Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As a result, they are getting atherosclerosis, or a built up of plaque in their arteries. And over time, of course, it leads to widespread cardiovascular disease. But more importantly, it can lead to strokes, heart attacks, and the need for heart bypass surgery, which will set you back at least six figures, if not more.
This is, then, perhaps the single most important thing you can do to prevent the buildup of plaque in your arteries. Avoid eating any food product made with hydrogenated oils.
Now how do you do that? It's simple. You start reading labels. |
| But let's talk now about a strategy that’s absolutely free and that will protect you from plaque buildup in your arteries. And this is perhaps even more important than getting good fats into your diet. It is avoiding hydrogenated oils and any foods made with hydrogenated oils. That's because hydrogenated oils are the number one cause of heart disease and a major contributor to neurological disorders in the United States and around the world. Hydrogenated oils are, simply put, poison in the human body. They accelerate the buildup of plaque in the arteries. |
| So, before we get into the strategies and therapies that can reverse atherosclerosis and unclog arteries, let's talk about stopping the clogging process in the first place.
There is a huge myth out there about what causes clogged arteries and heart disease. And the myth is a carryover from the 1980s when the big dietary enemy was fat. The entire nation, it seemed, was fleeing from fat, and at the same time running toward foods made with ridiculously large amounts of sugar. Fat was a big disease causer, doctors told us, and everybody was told to go on an extremely low-fat diet. |
Tom Bohager
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 Systolic pressure measures the pressure when the heart contracts and forces blood into the arteries. This is the higher number in a typical blood pressure reading. Diastolic pressure is the pressure in the blood vessels when the heart relaxes. This is typically the lower number. A diastolic measure over 90 and a systolic measure over 140 is usually considered high.
Hypertension can be caused by a variety of factors, including stress, kidney disease, high cholesterol that congests the arteries, and hardening of the arteries. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 This can lead to blockage of the coronary arteries and a heart attack.
Vitamin E is built into LDL for protection from oxidation that can lead to clogged arteries.
Four published, large-scale, randomized, double-blind clinical intervention studies tested the effectiveness of supplemental vitamin E to reduce heart attacks. Three of these studies used 50 mg of vitamin E in the synthetic form and found little correlation with heart attacks. However, the study using 268 mg to 567 mg of vitamin E in the natural alpha-tocopherol form found a strong correlation with reduced heart attacks. |
Dawson Church
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 This involved shooting dye into my arteries through an injection in my thigh. The surgeons wanted to discover the exact location of the blockages prior to the operation. I was prepared for surgery My chest was shaved, and the doctors were about to mark my skin where they planned to make the incision. When the new angiograms came back from the lab, the doctor in charge looked at them. He became very upset. He said he had wasted his time. There were no blockages visible at all. He said he wished his own arteries looked as clear. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 NES research suggests that not all arteries are the same bioenetgetically, and this Star links to those that develop in the early stages of embryological development. It is interesting to note that NES matching tests reveal that Energetic Star 6 does not link to cholesterol in terms of the "good" and "bad" fats in the bloodstream. Further research needs to be conducted, but in this regard NES's understanding of bioenergetic physiology is at odds with the widely accepted conventional view that cholesterol levels play a major contributory role in narrowing of the arteries. |
Dawson Church
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| The doctors administered several tests over the course of the following three days, and I failed them all because my arteries were severely clogged. They included an angiogram, another electrocardiogram, and a treadmill stress test. When I started the bicycle test, the clinic staff didn't even let me finish. They stopped me part way They were afraid I was going to die on the spot, my arteries were so clogged. As a high-risk patient, I was given an immediate appointment for heart bypass surgery
"The day before the surgery I woke up feeling much better. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So those are the basic strategies of what you can do to avoid increasing the buildup of plaque in your arteries. |
Tom Bohager
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| Hypertension can be caused by a variety of factors, including stress, kidney disease, high cholesterol that congests the arteries, and hardening of the arteries. Factors that increase the risk of this disorder include smoking, obesity, excessive use of stimulants and caffeine, drug abuse, use of birth control pills, and a high sodium/low potassium intake.
Mild hypertension may respond to weight or stress reduction, but more severe forms may require additional lifestyle changes and possibly treatment with prescription medications. For most people, treatment should include exercise. |
J.D. Kleinke
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 Sometimes the textbook approach seems to dance around the truth," he writes in Biophysics Journal, allowing the ambiguity included in a cornerstone medical text to speak for itself: "Tn the gradual transition from one type of artery to another it is sometimes difficult to classify the intermediate region. Some arteries of intermediate caliber have walls that suggest larger arteries, while some large arteries have walls like those of medium-sized arteries. The transitional regions ... are often designated arteries of mixed type'" (Goldberger, Bhargava, West, and Mandell, 1985, p. 525). |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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 Lycium stabilizes capillaries, veins, and arteries throughout the body. It can be used to treat or prevent varicose veins, spider veins, cold hands and feet, diabetic neuropathies (nerve damage from diabetes), and atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries).
• Reishi has been effective for improving cardiovascular function. Regular use lowers LDL and VLDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels, inhibits clumping of platelets, and mildly lowers blood pressure. |
J.D. Kleinke
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| Some arteries of intermediate caliber have walls that suggest larger arteries, while some large arteries have walls like those of medium-sized arteries. The transitional regions ... are often designated arteries of mixed type'" (Goldberger, Bhargava, West, and Mandell, 1985, p. 525).
The presence of fractals and other descriptive tools of complexity theory abound in anatomy and physiology. They describe not only heart-rate variability but also "fluctuations in respiration, systemic blood pressure, human gait, and white blood cell counts" (Goldberger, 1996). |
John E. Sarno, M.D.
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 Adrenaline also causes arteries to dilate, through stimulation of beta receptors in the walls of arteries.
The neural limb consists of nerves that traverse the spinal cord and innervate the heart and arterial wall. They stimulate the alpha receptors in the heart and arterial walls, raising blood pressure by increasing heart contractility and by narrowing arteries.
Stimulation of the SNS usually involves activation, to some extent, of both the adrenal and neural limbs. It is the SNS that mediates the transient effects of stress and emotion on our blood pressure. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
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| It can be used to treat or prevent varicose veins, spider veins, cold hands and feet, diabetic neuropathies (nerve damage from diabetes), and atherosclerosis (narrowing of the arteries).
• Reishi has been effective for improving cardiovascular function. Regular use lowers LDL and VLDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels, inhibits clumping of platelets, and mildly lowers blood pressure. In clinical studies, it reduced cardiac pain (angina), arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats), and helped prevent arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). |
Steven V. Joyal
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 ACE) inhibitor: A drug that inhibits ACE, which in turn helps reduce blood pressure by relaxing the arteries. ACE inhibitors are also used to tteat congestive heart failure. atherosclerosis: A disease in which fat accumulates in the medium-and large-sized arteries and impedes blood flow. It is a frequent complication of diabetes. autonomic neuropathy: A disease of the nerves rhat usually affects the internal organs, including the cardiovascular system, the digestive tract, and the bladder. The affected nerves function automatically and so are not under voluntary control. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| There are healthy, good fats that you must get into your diet if you wish to unclog your arteries. And today it is well known that those fats include omega-3 fatty acids, fish oils, and monounsaturated fats. Basically, the kind of fats you find in oily fish, nuts, seeds, and fruits like avocados (which is, yes, technically a fruit, not a vegetable).
The first practical thing, then, that you can do is switch from all the unhealthy fats in your diet to healthy fats. |
| This is, then, perhaps the single most important thing you can do to prevent the buildup of plaque in your arteries. Avoid eating any food product made with hydrogenated oils.
Now how do you do that? It's simple. You start reading labels. It is impossible to be healthy in modern society if you don't make a habit of reading the food labels of every food you purchase and consume. Personally, I don't touch a food unless I've read the label and it meets my criteria of not containing a certain list of ingredients known as metabolic disruptors. |
Dan Buettner
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 But I observed when I was cutting into the thighs of these patients that those who were vegetarians had better arteries."
"When we did the surgery," he continued, "if it was a nice, smooth artery, I went back later and asked the patient, and it turned out that he or she was a vegetarian. And those who really had a lot of heavy calcium and plaque in the arteries, their diet would not be toward the vegetarian side. Now that wasn't true 100 percent, and I didn't keep any statistics or write any papers or anything; it was just something I observed. But I began thinking about it. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Pregnant sheep that were underfed during the early days of pregnancy—again, even before the embryo implanted in the mother's uterus—gave birth to offspring that rapidly developed thickened arteries because their slower metabolisms stored more food as fat.
How do we know these are adaptive responses, as opposed to birth defects resulting from the mother's poor nutrition? Because the health problems—thickened arteries and increased weight— only occurred when the baby sheep were provided with normal diets. |
Steven V. Joyal
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| Sites in the body especially susceptible to the accumulation of glycotoxins include the renal glomerulus (in the kidney), the retina (the membrane at the back of the eye that helps you see), and important blood vessels like the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply blood to the heart). We also know that glycotoxins play a significant role in causing chronic diseases that are associated with underlying inflammation, such as heart disease and neuropathy. |
Gabriel Cousens, M.D.
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 The control group developed hardening of the arteries and all died within ten months. The experimental group did not develop hardening of the arteries.
Another experiment was done with a breed of rats that developed diseases of the eye. The ten eating sea-solid-grown food showed no deterioration of the eyes and bred five litters. Those in the control group all died of secondary eye disease. What we're seeing in these results is that animals grown on highly mineralized food basically took in the appropriate mineralization that created an optimal expression that protected them from disease. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 He was carrying an angiogram-a movie of the heart's arteries that, among other things, reveals the presence of cholesterol plaques or blockages. Big Ed, who was then in his late 40s, could serve as the poster child for Harley-Davidson bikers: you know, big beer gut, ponytail, and two days' growth of beard. He had been told that his condition was inoperable and his cardiologist referred him to me as someone who takes cases no one else wants. But, after reviewing Big Ed's angiogram, sadly I had to agree with the other surgeons: inoperable. |
| How about your leg arteries: sure, you can't walk or run because of the pain in your legs. All are perfect ways to cut you off from your food supply and make you a target for predators.
THE REAL CAUSE OF ALL OUR MODERN DISEASES?
Did you know that hypertension simply doesn't exist in societies that don't eat the Western diet or lots of refined grains? But in our culture, after we eat such foods for about twenty years, hypertension rears its ugly head. What happens if hypertension goes untreated? |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 Other studies showed that HRT actually accelerated the progression of thickening of the coronary arteries and doubled the risk of dying of heart disease.7'8 A recent meta-analysis showed a 29% increase in the risk of stroke. Based on these findings, there is no role for HRT in disease prevention.
Estrogen alone (Premarin), given to women with a hysterectomy, was shown, like estrogen and progesterone, to increase the risk of stroke, decrease the risk of bone fracture, and have no effect on cardiovascular disease. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| Better yet, her total cholesterol is now 170, her LDL plummeted to 70, and her liver began manufacturing more of the desirable HDL (now at 77) that helps move LDL out of our arteries. Her triglycerides dropped to 45. Even though Penny had always had a desirably low fasting insulin level, it is now less than 1, as low as can be measured. In fact, if I had only one blood test to choose to determine the best shot at longevity, a fasting insulin level is the one I would choose because insulin holds the key to most chronic diseases. |
| Likewise, think of HDL as a fat recycling truck that circulates through the body and arteries, picking up fat and carrying it back to the liver for reprocessing. My research demonstrates that when you activate the "Store Fat for Winter" program, your liver manufactures primarily LDL and cuts back on its production of HDL.3 As far as your genetic program is concerned, why send out recycling trucks to pick up fat, if you're giving instructions to your liver to manufacture and store it for the winter? |
| If you want smooth arteries, smooth skin, and a reduced risk for sunburn, be sure to take more vitamin C. It also boosts other micronutrients. For example, without it beta-carotene can actually act as a dangerous pro-oxidant instead of a beneficial antioxidant. Animals that can manufacture vitamin C, which humans cannot, produce much more of it during times of stress and infection. |
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