Ray D. Strand
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 Almost all research scientists now believe that hardening of the arteries begins when oxidative stress damages or irritates this single cell layer.
Oxidized LDL cholesterol, homocysteine, and excessive free radicals cause the oxidative stress that injures the endothelium. This occurs when native LDL cholesterol is able to pass into the area just beneath the lining of the artery (called the subendothelial space) where it becomes oxidized. This cholesterol then begins to irritate the lining of the artery. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This supports the body in preventing and reversing the hardening of the arteries. Abyanga also stimulates growth hormone production and improves immunity because nearly one third of the immune system is located in the skin. Do the massage as often as is convenient for you. Some do it daily. (See more details about Abyanga below.)
Breakfast
þ If you are not hungry, skip breakfast. (Kapha types rarely need breakfast.)
þ If you are hungry, eat a light breakfast. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 My blood pressure was quite high, and I was showing signs of premature hardening of the arteries. I was only 30 and already going downhill! This was the incentive I needed to start myself down a healthier path. For the first two weeks, my wife and I followed the diet to the letter, using the PGX as directed and working out at the gym. When we went to the first weigh-in at two weeks, I was feeling pretty good and thought that I may have even lost a pound or two in the process. |
Andreas Moritz
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| The argument that animal tests on rabbits have confirmed that fatty foods cause hardening of the arteries sounds convincing, but only when the following facts are omitted:
• Rabbits respond 3,000 times more sensitively to cholesterol than humans do.
• Rabbits, which are non-carnivorous animals by nature, are force-fed excessive quantities of egg yolk and brain for the sake of proving that cholesterol-containing foods are harmful.
• The DNA and enzyme systems of rabbits are not designed for consumption of fatty foods, and if given a choice, these animals would never eat eggs or brains. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 As mentioned earlier, atherosclerosis is the most common type of arteriosclerosis, a general term for several diseases characterized by thickening and hardening of the arteries.) Some of the dysfunction is related to aging; with the passing years, the endothelial cells are less able to renew themselves, and the barrier layer weakens. |
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. |
Ron Garner
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 It is harmful to the heart and has been linked to high blood pressure and hardening of the arteries. It places great stress on the kidneys and replaces calcium and potassium in the body, which may lead to osteoporosis and heart disease. On the other hand, natural whole sea salt (not refined sea salt; there is a big difference), has many health benefits. Food should only be seasoned with whole sea salt after cooking, as heat harms the salt.
Red meat produces strong acids in the body even though it contains nutrition. |
| If it cannot be eliminated, it must be stored, which leads to a narrowing and hardening of the arteries. Only foods from animal sources, such as meat, eggs, pasteurized dairy products, fish, and shellfish contain cholesterol; plant foods do not. When we consume excess calories, from cooked and processed foods, unhealthy fats, and sugars, or when we are under stress, our bodies are pressured to make more cholesterol. The prime source of blood impurities and deposits that cause heart disease is a diet composed entirely of denatured and cooked foods. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Would you have believed even 25 years ago that hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and obesity would one day be as common among children as they are today? Childhood obesity increased from 5 percent in 1964 to about 20 percent today—and it is rising. Children spend an average of 5 to 6 hours a day on sedentary activities, including watching television, using the computer, and playing video games. Today's children are bombarded and brainwashed with well-crafted TV ads from fast-food chains and other purveyors of high-fat, high-sugar meals and snacks. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 A chronic disease in which fatty deposits of plaque restrict or block blood flow in the arteries; commonly known as "hardening of the arteries."
B cell. A type of white blood cell that is part of the immune system and circulates in the blood on the alert for invading bacteria; also called B lymphocyte.
Bacteria. Single-celled microorganisms; some cause disease, while others are harmless or even beneficial to biological processes.
Basal metabolic rate. The rate at which energy is used by a person at rest for maintaining basic body processes, such as breathing and the circulation of fluids. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 It became apparent in a number of epidemiological studies that chronic low-level carbon disulfide exposure could lead to hardening of the arteries, cerebral vascular disease, and stroke.69
Cellophane was having an even harder time than rayon. In 1947, the federal government filed a complaint against DuPont for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act through its cellophane deals. The legal battle was tied up in the courts for years, going all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.70 In a 1956 split decision (with Warren, Black, and Douglas dissenting), the Court sided with DuPont. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Some of the calcium combines with the phosphates, forming various calcium phosphate crystals, which can lead to hardening of the arteries and common arthritis.
Please also be aware that excessive sodium chloride (table salt) in the diet predisposes a person to kidney stones. In addition, for every gram of sodium chloride that your body cannot get rid of, your body uses 23 times the amount of water to neutralize the salt, which can lead to fluid retention, unsightly cellulite, arthritis, gout, rheumatism and gallstones. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Damaged lipids lead to rigid cell membranes; oxidized cholesterol often leads to hardening of the arteries. And poorly repaired DNA chains lead to cell mutation as implicated in cancer and aging.
Simply stated, when we overwork our built-in antioxidant defense and repair systems, significant damage occurs to the body and eventually may lead to any one of a number of chronic degenerative diseases. |
Elaine Magee
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 When these cells stick to artery walls and cause inflammation, plaque deposits build up and narrow the passageways where blood flows, leading to "hardening of the arteries."
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While getting more fiber is a good reason to reach for that packet of oats in the morning, there's a lot more to oats, nutritionally speaking. Half a cup will give you a nutritional boost beyond the 4 grams of fiber. You also get some protein; smart fats (from monounsat-urated and polyunsaturated fat); and a host of vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals to boot! |
Ray D. Strand
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| This foam cell then attaches itself to the lining of the artery and eventually forms the initial defect of hardening of the arteries, which is called a fatty streak.
The fatty streak is an inflammatory lesion. It is the initial step in this process called atherosclerosis. If the process would simply stop here, the body would at least have a chance to clear this defect. But this is not the case. As in any war, this process has some collateral damage. In other words the thin, vulnerable layer of cells lining our arteries is damaged even more by the very process that is supposed to heal it. |
| This leads to a much thicker plaque, and the process of hardening of the arteries is now well under way.
This chronic inflammation also causes the muscle layer of the artery to thicken by a process called proliferation, the building up of more and thicker muscle cells. As a result, the artery begins to narrow. See Figure 3.
This entire process is a vicious cycle. Not only is there a buildup of plaque, but there is also a thickening of the artery. Normally, the layer of endothelium functions well by releasing an important product called nitrous oxide. |
| When he examined the boys' pathology slides, he discovered that the damage to the arteries was eerily similar to that of an elderly man who had severe hardening of the arteries. This led Dr. McCully to wonder whether mild to moderate elevations of homocysteine that were present over a lifetime could be a cause of heart attacks and strokes in the average patient.2
As seen in the case of the two boys, homocysteine is an intermediate byproduct that we produce when our bodies metabolize (break down) an essential amino acid called methionine. |
Bottom Line Health
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| In a study, intensive cholesterol-lowering therapy using rosuvastatin (Crestor)—a powerful (and controversial) member of the statin family of drugs—not only reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL, or "bad") cholesterol levels but actually reversed atherosclerosis, also known as hardening of the arteries.
THE STUDY
For the trial, 507 patients at 53 health-care centers in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia were given 40 milligrams (mg) of Crestor daily.
Plaque build-up was measured at the beginning of the study and two years later using intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 People with atherosclerosis (clogging and hardening of the arteries) commonly don't make enough nitric oxide to keep their arteries open. The lack of NO helps to explain the detrimental effects we feel during periods of high stress as well as periods of low sleep. The common angina treatment nitroglycerine increases NO, dilating blood vessels and thus decreasing heart pain.
Now, you should be asking, how do you get your hands on some of this? If you want to open the valve on your own biological NO tank, you do it through your nose (without using your fingers). |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Cardiovascular problems, like hardening of the arteries, and degenerative diseases, like arthritis, soon follow. Most people who have progeria die in their teens of a heart attack or a stroke; nobody is known to have lived past thirty.
Hutchinson-Gilford progeria isn't the only disease that causes accelerated aging—it's just the most heartbreaking, because it's the fastest, and it starts at birth. Another aging disorder, Werner syndrome, doesn't manifest itself until someone carrying the mutation that causes it reaches puberty; it's sometimes called adult-onset progeria. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 It's also a promising therapy for angina (chest pain from poor blood flow to the heart muscle) and intermittent claudication (pain in the lower legs caused by poor circulation, generally due to arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries).
The best food sources of carnitine are red meats like steak and ground beef, but even those sources offer only about 80 mg per serving—far less than the amount recommended as a supplement.
Carnitine at high doses (more than 2 grams or 2,000 mg a day) can reduce thyroid hormone activity or the effectiveness of thyroid hormone replacement. |
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. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 One of the more interesting diseases that is not yet officially under the autoimmune umbrella lies in the field of cardiology, where researchers have recently shown that the autoimmune process is deeply implicated in atherosclerosis—the narrowing and hardening of the arteries from the slow buildup of plaque—which is implicated in 1.2 million heart attacks a year. In 2005, Mayo Clinic researchers reported that rheumatoid arthritis patients carry twice the risk of heart failure as other patients. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Ginkgo is also recommended by the prestigious German Commission E for the treatment of intermittent claudication—the restricted circulation in the legs due to hardening of the arteries. One small study also suggested that ginkgo may be helpful in relieving some of the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
My friend Daniel Amen, M.D., whom I consider to be one of the world's foremost experts on the brain, pioneered the SPECT method of brain scanning imagery and has a database of thousands of pictures of brains in every state imaginable. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 INDICATIONS AND USAGE
In folk medicine, the drug is used as a venous and capillary tonic and as a prophylaxis to prevent general hardening of the arteries. The drug alleviates venous stasis and varicose veins.
Efficacy has not been proven.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded.
OVERDOSAGE
The intake of large quantities of the buckwheat plant leads to phototoxicoses in animals due to the photosensitizing effect of the naphthadianthrones. |
Ray D. Strand
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| The Simvastatin (Zocor) and Niacin Study involved 160 patients with elevated cholesterol levels and hardening of the arteries who were assigned to one of four groups:
Group 1 was the control group and so received nothing Group 2 received Zocor and niacin
Group 3 received vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, and beta-carotene. Group 4 received Zocor, niacin, vitamin E, vitamin C, selenium, and beta-carotene.
Group 2 did the best and actually showed some minor reversal of the hardening of their arteries. The antioxidant group (Group 3) was the next best with significant improvement. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Unproven Uses: In folk medicine, the drug is used as a venous and capillary tonic and as a prophylaxis to prevent general hardening of the arteries. The drug alleviates venous stasis and varicose veins.
Homeopathic Uses: Buckwheat is used to treat skin and liver diseases with itching and headache. precautions and adverse reactions
Health risks or side effects following the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages are not recorded. |
Andreas Moritz
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 This indicates chronic liver weakness, resulting in hardening of the arteries and the accumulation of fat around the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, and prostate glands. If the enlargement is excessive and blood vessels are visible, a heart attack or stroke may be imminent.
The nose is constantly red. This condition shows an abnormal condition of the heart, with a tendency toward high blood pressure (hypertension). A purple nose indicates low blood pressure. Both conditions are due to imbalanced liver, digestive, and kidney functions.
Cleft nose or indentation of the tip of the nose. |
Hyla Cass
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| It's also a promising therapy for angina (chest pain from poor blood flow to the heart muscle) and intermittent claudication (pain in the lower legs caused by poor circulation, generally due to arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries).
The best food sources of carnitine are red meats like steak and ground beef, but even those sources offer only about 80 mg per serving—far less than the amount recommended as a supplement.
Carnitine at high doses (more than 2 grams or 2,000 mg a day) can reduce thyroid hormone activity or the effectiveness of thyroid hormone replacement.
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Gabriel Cousens
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 Damage to the heart muscle caused when the blood vessels supplying the muscle are blocked, such as when the blood vessels are clogged with fats (a condition sometimes called hardening of the arteries). hemodialysis—A mechanical way to remove waste products from the blood. See also dialysis. hemoglobin (Hgb)—The substance in red blood cells that carries oxygen to the body's cells.
HgbAlC—A test that sums up how much glucose is non-enzymatically bound to the hemoglobin during the past three months. |
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