Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Congestive Heart Failure: Some of the most notable features of thiamin deficiency include cardiomyopathy, irregular heartbeat, and shortness of breath - clinical signs that mimic congestive heart failure. In fact, a pilot study did find thiamin deficiency among many congestive heart failure patients on long-term therapy with the drug furosemide. Based on this evidence, it is a wise idea for all patients with congestive heart failure on diuretic medication to take replacement doses of thiamin each day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 What's a greater concern is congestive heart failure. There's a big announcement: "Less people are dying from heart attack." Well, all that's happening is that they're dying from congestive heart failure. So you know, they say cancer is No. 1 and heart disease is No. 2. But if you add in congestive heart failure, which is just a weak heart with heart disease and heart attacks, it's still No. 1 by far.
I've seen statin use go up, and I've seen congestive heart failure go up. Until somebody studies that, I don't think it should be prescribed. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 That condition is known as congestive heart failure. If the heart attack is extensive, if it results in an abnormal rhythmical contraction, or if the congestive heart failure is prolonged, the person may die.
If the same process of plaque formation occurs in a noncoronary artery, it can be just as dangerous. Whatever tissue the artery supplies—it could be the leg muscles or even the brain—will not receive its full measure of blood. What's more, a piece of a plaque or a clot can break loose and be carried through the bloodstream, ultimately obstructing an artery far from its source. |
| Multiple heart attacks and widespread scarring weaken the heart, sometimes causing it to fail, a condition called congestive heart failure. If a heart attack is extensive, if it disrupts rhythmical contraction, or if congestive heart failure is prolonged, the victim may die.
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. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Leading health experts now recognize hypertensive drugs to be a major cause of congestive heart failure and other debilitating illnesses. congestive heart failure is a progressive condition of "dying very slowly," whereby every small movement, every breath taken, and every word uttered take huge efforts, and the body becomes unable to perform even the simplest of tasks.
One of the body's first and most efficient approaches for avoiding the danger of an imminent heart attack is to take excessive proteins out of the bloodstream and store them elsewhere, for the time being (see Figure 8). |
Shannon Brownlee
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 When you have congestive heart failure, your heart can't pump blood effectively, and fluid slowly builds up in your lungs. congestive heart failure is the most common diagnosis leading to hospitalization among the elderly, and it's a miserable condition to have, because when you go into a crisis and your lungs fill with fluid, you feel as if you're drowning. Several hospitals have demonstrated that an integrated approach to care can keep heart failure patients from having a crisis and out of the hospital for long stretches. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Well, all that's happening is that they're dying from congestive heart failure. So you know, they say cancer is No. 1 and heart disease is No. 2. But if you add in congestive heart failure, which is just a weak heart with heart disease and heart attacks, it's still No. 1 by far.
I've seen statin use go up, and I've seen congestive heart failure go up. Until somebody studies that, I don't think it should be prescribed. I think that there are a lot of ways to get cholesterol under control – greens, fiber, natural medicine diets. If your LDL is a little high, you can go on some antioxidants. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Leading health experts now recognize hypertensive drugs to be a major cause of congestive heart failure and other debilitating illnesses. congestive heart failure is a progressive condition of "dying very slowly," whereby every small movement, every breath taken, and every word uttered take huge efforts, and the body becomes unable to perform even the simplest of tasks.
One of the body's first and most efficient approaches for avoiding the danger of an imminent heart attack is to take excessive proteins out of the bloodstream and store them elsewhere, for the time being (see Figure 8). |
Melody Petersen
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 In one of the cases they wrote about, a patient died after the diuretic pills prescribed for congestive heart failure caused hyponatremia, a dangerous condition in which there is not enough sodium in the blood. Such an electrolyte imbalance is a known risk of diuretic treatment. The patient's doctors had listed hyponatremia as the cause of death on the death certificate. The pathologists said this was wrong. They said the underlying cause of death should have been listed as the atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease that had caused the congestive heart failure. |
Ray D. Strand
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 This is called congestive heart failure. The patient essentially begins to drown in his or her own fluid. Sometimes failure occurs primarily on the right side of the heart, which means the liver becomes congested and the patient's legs begin to swell.
When one's heart becomes severely weakened and dilated, as in Wayne's case, physicians call this cardiomyopathy. Cardiomyopathy is a very severe case of congestive heart failure. An uncommonly large, dilated heart is its hallmark.
What Is Coenzyme Q10? |
| Deficient levels of CoQlO have been most clearly established, however, in the blood levels of patients with congestive heart failure and cardiomyopathy.3
CoQlO deficiency can be the result of several conditions: a poor diet, impairment of the body's ability to synthesize CoQlO, and/or the body's excessive utilization of CoQlO.
Investigators in the early 1980s began trials in which patients took CoQlO supplements. Over the past twenty years, interest has continued to mount and numerous clinical studies have tested the results of CoQlO in cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure patients. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 This pooling of blood can lead to leg swelling and difficulty breathing—a condition known as congestive heart failure, or CHE Doctors have recognized the clinical syndrome of CHF for many years, and they have had an armamentarium of drugs to deal with this syndrome. A great example is digitalis. The original source of this drug was a plant called foxglove. Doctors in the seventeenth century learned that foxglove tea would relieve the leg swelling and shortness of breath that a century later would be named congestive heart failure.
Another common example is aspirin. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Supplementation with arginine has been shown to increase artery dilation in normal people, people with hyperlipidemia, and in those with hypertension;245' 246 significantly improve blood flow and function in patients with congestive heart failure;247- 248 and in some, but not all trials, improve blood flow, vasodilation, exercise tolerance, and quality of life in those with angina.249-250 Therapeutic doses for cardiovascular effects seem to range from 6 to 12 grams per day. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 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. Everything seems pointless, hopeless, and dark, and all you want to do is stare into space. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| CoQIO can be used for high blood pressure control, atherosclerosis, angina, mitral valve prolapse, congestive heart failure, and cardiomyopathy. As an antioxidant, CoQIO protects against atherosclerosis by preventing the oxidation of LDL. In a recent study, 150 mg CoQIO in combination with the lipid-lowering medication fenofibrate worked better than drug therapy alone in improving total cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure.191 A large review study showed that CoQl 0 administration led to decreases in systolic and diastolic blood pressure of 16 and 10 mmHg respectively. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Two-year-old Michael Daddio of Delaware dies of congestive heart failure. After his death, his parents learn that doctors had performed an experimental surgery on him when he was five months old, rather than using the established surgical method of repairing his congenital heart defect that the parents had been told would be performed. The established procedure has a 90- to 95-percent success rate, whereas the inventor of the procedure performed on baby Daddio would later be fired from his hospital in 2004 (Willen and Evans, "Parents of Babies Who Died in Delaware Tests Weren't Warned"). |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| In fact, a pilot study did find thiamin deficiency among many congestive heart failure patients on long-term therapy with the drug furosemide. Based on this evidence, it is a wise idea for all patients with congestive heart failure on diuretic medication to take replacement doses of thiamin each day.
Psychiatric Disorders: Psychiatric patients are another group in which supplementation with thiamin might be beneficial. Up to 30% of all patients entering a psychiatric ward were found to be deficient in thiamin. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| If the heart attack is extensive, if it results in an abnormal rhythmical contraction, or if the congestive heart failure is prolonged, the person may die.
If the same process of plaque formation occurs in a noncoronary artery, it can be just as dangerous. Whatever tissue the artery supplies—it could be the leg muscles or even the brain—will not receive its full measure of blood. What's more, a piece of a plaque or a clot can break loose and be carried through the bloodstream, ultimately obstructing an artery far from its source. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 He was selling nutritional supplements containing coenzyme Q10, a vital nutrient for cellular energy that has received tremendous praise from the scientific community for boosting cardiovascular health, preventing congestive heart failure, improving blood pressure and cholesterol profiles, as well as many other benefits. To help educate customers about the healing power of CoQ10, he offered to send reprints of magazine and newspaper articles describing some of the scientific findings about the nutrient.
This public education effort, of course, would not be tolerated by the FDA Gestapo. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| If a heart attack is extensive, if it disrupts rhythmical contraction, or if congestive heart failure is prolonged, the victim may die.
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. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| But if you add in congestive heart failure, which is just a weak heart with heart disease and heart attacks, it's still No. 1 by far.
I've seen statin use go up, and I've seen congestive heart failure go up. Until somebody studies that, I don't think it should be prescribed. I think that there are a lot of ways to get cholesterol under control – greens, fiber, natural medicine diets. If your LDL is a little high, you can go on some antioxidants. I'm not worried about it. It's also not the number one risk factor. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Other forms of heart disease include congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, mitral valve prolapse, and cardiomyopathy, but these are unrelated to issues of menopause and hormones. The focus of this chapter is the prevention and treatment of coronary artery disease (CAD) and atherosclerosis, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and myocardial infarction.
Risk Factors for Heart Disease
Major risk factors for coronary artery disease (CAD) include high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol profile (dyslipidemia), and diabetes. |
Andreas Moritz
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 In time, the increased congestion in the circulatory system may lead to heart attacks, stroke, or congestive heart failure.
Nearly every day, drugs are removed from the market because they have been shown to produce such strong side effects that their use is "no longer" justified. Yet all drugs are potentially dangerous because the poison they contain is "anti-body" oriented, which means that they are also destroying parts of the body. |
Ray D. Strand
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| And I've never heard of a cardiologist placing any of my patients with congestive heart failure or cardiomyopathy on CoQlO. After reviewing these studies I too am amazed at the unwillingness of the medical profession to offer this option to their patients. Only 1 percent of the cardiologists in the U.S. recommend CoQlO to their patients with heart failure or cardiomyopathy.11 It is not as if they have a good alternative therapy in mind. The National Institute of Health has funded most of the studies involving CoQlO in the United States. |
| Glass IV: Inability to carry on any physical activity without discomfort; symptoms of congestive heart failure are present at rest. With any physical activity, increased discomfort and symptoms will occur.8
Against the backdrop of substantial clinical trials already reported in the medical literature, Folkers and Langsjoen showed undeniable proof of efficacy and safety of the use of CoQlO in patients with end-stage heart failure who were awaiting transplantation.
Here is a prime example of a natural vitamin/antioxidant shown in several clinical trials to be effective and safe. |
| Over the past twenty years, interest has continued to mount and numerous clinical studies have tested the results of CoQlO in cardiomyopathy and congestive heart failure patients. No fewer than nine placebo-controlled clinical trials have taken place around the world. Eight international symposia have been held on the biomedical and clinical aspects of CoQlO, at which physicians and scientists from eighteen different countries presented more than three hundred papers. |
| Cardiomyopathy is a very severe case of congestive heart failure. An uncommonly large, dilated heart is its hallmark.
What Is Coenzyme Q10?
Coenzyme QlO (CoQlO), or ubiquinone, is a fat-soluble vitamin or vitaminlike substance that is also a potent antioxidant. Trace amounts of CoQlO exist in a variety of foods, such as organ meats, beef, soy oil, sardines, mackerel, and peanuts. The body also has the ability to make CoQlO from the amino acid tyrosine, but this is a complicated process that requires at least eight vitamins and several trace minerals to complete. |
Bill Sardi
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Herceptin
Trastuzumab antl-HER© monoclonal antibody
WARNINGS: CARDIOMYOPATHY
HERCEPTIN administration can result in the development of ventricular dysfunction and congestive heart failure. Left ventricular function should be evaluated in all patients prior to and during treatment with HERCEPTIN. discontinuation of HERCEPTIN treatment should be strongly considered in patients who develop a clinically significant decrease in left ventricular function. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Second, unfortunately, there is no evidence that ACE inhibitors are effective in primary prevention of congestive heart failure. In 2003, A meta-analysis of 42 clinical trials involving almost 200,000 patients concluded that they had little effect. Moreover, and to the surprise of all, low dose diuretics were more effective than ACE inhibitors in the prevention of cardiovascular morbidity or mortality. "Clinical practice and treatment should reflect this evidence," concluded the authors. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| The doctors diagnosed her with congestive heart failure. I immediately asked that, in addition to whatever treatment the doctors prescribed, she be put on a high dose of coenzyme Q10 (CoQIO). The first doctor told me he didn't know what that was. The second doctor said he had heard of it but it couldn't do any good and wasn't on their hospital pharmacy list. And the head nurse said, "Oh, that's some kind of enzyme that the heart makes when it's in trouble, right?" I knew right there we were in for trouble. |
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