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 REPPED: Following the recent revelations that Vioxx cause a high incidence of heart attacks and strokes, a competing drug from Pfizer, Bextra, has now been shown to display similar health problems. What's especially weighty about this particular revelation is that it comes from the American Heart Association, a disease-industry group that has traditionally acted in favor of pharmaceutical companies. Because of this, the AHA deserves credit for allowing this study to be published. In the preliminary results, Bextra was found to increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by 219%. |
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 Reducing stroke and heart attacks
Now, if you know anything about the cause of strokes and heart attacks, you realize that enhancing the quality of the blood will have a significant impact on reducing heart attacks and strokes. To my knowledge, there aren't any strong studies measuring this effect yet, but I have no doubt there will be in time. Eating aloe vera is like adding an all-natural non-stick additive to your blood flow. It stops blood cells from clumping together, which is part of what causes a stroke.
Dark-field microscopy is a technique for viewing live human blood vessels. |
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 Members of the FDA's Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee and the Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee voted 20-3 to acknowledge the finding that the drug raises the risk of heart attacks, and called for stronger warning labels.
Dr. Clifford J. Rosen, from St. Joseph Hospital in Bangor, Maine, said after the meeting that "there was enough concern on the advisory committee that virtually everybody felt there was risk" of heart attacks from taking Avandia. |
Dawson Church
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 They had seemingly succumbed to sudden and unforeseen heart attacks. But the major ity of answers they gave were based in their life-situations, not their medical histories. Typical responses were, "I couldn't stand to see my boss's face one more day" or, "I feel trapped in my marriage. I can't abide being with my wife" or, "My kids fight constantly. I would do anything to get away from their constant bickering." Their heart attacks had resulted in them getting away from the conditions that were intolerable to them—at the cost of their health. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 This may lead to a higher risk of heart attacks because of the free radical action of excess iron on LDL. The possibility of excess heme iron from animal sources increasing the risk of heart attacks is being investigated.
Iron Supplements
Absorption of iron from supplements depends on the form of the iron. The forms that are best absorbed and cause the least gastrointestinal discomfort are ferrous ascorbate and ferrous gluconate. Ferrous sulfate monohydrate is also well absorbed. |
Gregg Braden
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 He supports this statement by citing a number of studies that show, as did Blumenthal's, that physical conditions of anger and tension can lead to problems that include high blood pressure; headaches; lowered immunity; stomach problems; and, finally, heart attacks.
What Blumenthal's study showed was that teaching people to "tone down" their emotional responses to life situations could prevent heart attacks. This is precisely the point of healing our hurt—specifically, what we believe to be true about the things that have hurt us. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 More people also died from heart attacks in the winter.
Other studies suggest an inverse relationship between vitamin D levels and the incidence of heart attack: the lower the D levels, the higher the incidence of heart attack. Numerous studies show that when people increase their intake of dark meat/cold-water fish, they have fewer heart attacks and strokes and fewer deaths from these causes. The omega-3 fats in these fish have always gotten credit for this improved health outcome, but these same dietary sources are also high in vitamin D. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In the preliminary results, Bextra was found to increase the incidence of heart attacks and strokes by 219%. The cardiologist who presented the study, Dr. Garret Fitzgerald, called Bextra, "A time bomb waiting to go off," and noted that the apparent dangers of Bextra exceed those associated with Vioxx. Pfizer, of course, downplayed the study in an attempt to minimize any negative backlash from its release. The question remains, however: will Pfizer now follow in Merck's footsteps and voluntarily recall Bextra? |
Elaine Magee
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 Abdominal obesity (A waist circumference of more than 32 inches in women and more than 34 inches in men is linked to an increased risk of heart attacks. Measuring the waist is a better predictor of heart attack than is BMI—body mass index—because it measures abdominal fat, the fat most closely associated with heart attacks.)
7. A sedentary lifestyle
8. Eating too few fruits and vegetables
9. Abstaining from alcohol (Studies have shown that men who have up to two alcohol drinks a day and women who drink up to one a day have a lower risk of heart disease. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Unfortunately, just keeping tabs on your cholesterol levels and ratios is not necessarily a sure-fire way to avoid cardiovascular disease. heart attacks often strike men and women with apparently "normal" cholesterol levels and ratios. Doctors with patients who had enviably low cholesterol levels, yet still suffered heart attacks or other cardiovascular diseases concluded, understandably, that cholesterol levels were not the full explanation. Pieces of the cardiovascular disease puzzle were obviously missing. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Statin drugs, for example, have now been proven to offer absolutely no medical benefit whatsoever to women, with zero reduction in the risk of heart attacks or strokes. HRT drugs have been scientifically proven to actually cause breast cancer and heart attacks, not prevent them. Antidepressant drugs cause diabetes, and diabetes drugs cause liver damage. I could go on, but you get the point. |
Jonny Bowden, M.A., C.N.S.
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 The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
4. The Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
5. The Germans drink a lot of beers and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or Americans.
Conclusion: Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
I hope you see what I'm getting at.
Here's what actually happens. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Your article implied that the study found no protective benefits for women taking antioxidants, when in fact, the study found a significant reduction in the risk of stroke (31 percent reduction) and heart attacks (22 percent reduction) for those women who actually took the antioxidants. This is even more substantial given that the antioxidants were provided in low doses and only taken every other day.
The absence of protective benefits was observed in those women who did not actually take the vitamins. (Those women who took no vitamins experienced no benefits, which is expected. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chemotherapy doesn't work, antidepressant drugs cause weight gain, diabetes drugs cause liver damage, statin drugs damage the heart, antipsychotic drugs caused suicidal behavior, arthritis drugs cause heart attacks, blood pressure drugs cause circulation deficiencies... need I go on? There's hardly a popular drug in the arsenal of Big Pharma that isn't fraudulently marketed, promoted and prescribed. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 A 10-year French study of HRT using a low-dose estradiol patch plus oral progesterone shows no increased risk of breast cancer, strokes, or heart attacks. Hormone replacement therapy is a laudable goal, but it must be done correctly. HRT based on correcting hormone deficiency and restoring proper physiologic balanced tissue level, is proposed as a more sane, successful and safe technique.
Other Factors
Hormone imbalance is not the only cause of breast cancer, strokes, and heart attacks. Other risk factors of importance include the following: Poor diet. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Postmortem study showed no new blockages or heart attacks. Despite the improving coronary artery blood supply and decrease in angina, his heart, which was so scarred, had literally electrocuted itself into arrest.
As for the rest of the group, all improved. Nine of the patients had come to the study with angina—pain in the heart muscle caused by inadequate blood supply. It was completely eliminated in two and much improved in the remaining seven, including the patient who died. Exercise capacity improved. Sexual activity was enhanced. |
| We have known for a long time that one out of every four persons who have heart attacks has a blood cholesterol level between 180 and 210 mg/ dL,2 and we know that more than a third of those in the Framingham Heart Study who had heart disease showed cholesterol levels between 150 and 200 mg/dL.3 That means that millions of Americans who are doing the best they can to meet the standards set by national health officials are, in spite of their efforts, getting sick. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 Treating High Cholesterol
Diabetics suffer heart attacks and strokes at a greatly increased rate compared with people without diabetes. People with diabetes almost always have high triglycerides, low good HDL, and high bad LDL levels, with a tendency to form small, dense, atherogenic (artery-clogging) LDL particles. Given that insulin resistance is a major cardiovascular disease risk factor, should all patients with insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes be taking a cholesterol-lowering statin drug regardless of their cholesterol level? To get an answer to this question, read on. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| Americans will suffer heart attacks and that millions more will watch the inevitable progression of their coronary artery disease.
What is going on here? If the evidence is so clear that the goal for cholesterol levels should be set below 150 mg/dL, why don't the national experts and policy makers tell us that? |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Elevation of the HDL is protective and is associated with a lower risk of heart attacks.
Types of Fatty Acids. A distinction should be made between different types of fatty acids. Saturated fatty acids are solid at room temperature and are typically animal fats (found in beef, lamb, butter, cheese, and lard). Saturated fats in general are not good for the heart; they contribute to LDL cholesterol and should be eaten in sparse amounts for a heart-healthy diet. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| All the interventional procedures carry considerable risk of morbidity, including new heart attacks, strokes, infections, and, for some, an inevitable loss of cognition. Mine carries none. And the benefits of intervention erode with the passage of time; eventually, you have to have another angioplasty, another bypass procedure, another stent. By contrast, the benefits of my program actually grow with time. The longer you follow it, the healthier you will be. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 The study backfired and showed an increased risk of serious cardiovascular events, including heart attacks and strokes, for patients taking Vioxx. Fourteen months later in April 2002, the FDA implemented labeling changes to reflect the findings from the VIGOR study, but it did not require the information to be placed in the "warnings" section. It took fourteen months to alert patients about the risk of heart attack and stroke from taking Vioxx. |
| Some of you will read this and recall having read about a study that proved alcohol has health benefits, such as reducing the risk of heart attacks and stroke. Please don't fall for that one.
Given the state of health for the average person today, the last thing we should be thinking about is making sure we get a few drinks in everyday to reduce our risk of a heart attack or stroke. We would all be better served if we focused our attention on the lifestyle choices that caused us to get into the sad shape we are in. |
Anne Harrington
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 Close-knit communities in heartland America where people do not die of heart attacks, children in orphanages who fail to grow properly, women with breast cancer who seem to live longer because they meet weekly to share their troubles: all these things and more buttress the plausibility of this narrative and help it to realize new forms of expression and uses for itself.
Chapter six, "Eastward Journeys," is the exoticism narrative of mind-body medicine. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If you include only the women who complied with taking the vitamins on a regular basis, the results increase substantially and become quite significant with a 31 percent reduction in the risk of stroke and 22 percent reduction of risk in heart attacks. In other words, those women who actually took vitamins E and C experienced substantial benefits from doing so. Those who neglected to take the vitamins, not surprisingly, had little or no benefit.
Pushers of pharmaceuticals, of course, want to make vitamins look bad. So they quote the results that include people who never even took the vitamins. |
Anne Harrington
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| By the end of the decade, the number of fatal heart attacks in the town had risen to the national average. Wolf's prediction, it seemed clear, had come tragically true.15
Japanese hearts, East and West
Roseto was and remains, for many, nothing less than a morality play that really happened; an apparent vivid illustration both of the power of healing ties and of the medical dangers involved in fracturing those ties. It was not, however, the only such case study to function in this way. |
| The rates of death from heart attacks in Roseto, Pennsylvania, as compared to neighboring towns (Nazareth and Bangor) and also as compared to the national norm, from Wolf and Bruhn, The Power of Clan, copyright © 1993 by Transaction Publishers. Reprinted by permission of the publisher processes and track the ways in which they were affected by changes in his emotional state. |
| To see what others thought, they sent a survey around to a hundred and fifty San Francisco businessmen and a hundred general practitioners, asking them the same question: Were there any personality traits they believed characterized people who had heart attacks? From the list of options on the questionnaire, more than 70 percent of the businessmen and a majority of the internists picked "excessive competitive drive and meeting deadlines."52
This was clinical intuition. The question was, could it be validated objectively in a clinical study? |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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| I also hear the converse of that question, which is rather more to the point: "Both my father and his brother died of heart attacks at age fifty-eight, and their father had the same fate at sixty-three. Is there really anything I can do to avoid their fate? Am I condemned by my genes to have heart disease?"
This time, the answer is an emphatic NO. If you maintain a cholesterol level under 150 mg/dL, or LDL under 80 mg/dL, you— and all the other relatives who inherited these genes—will be free of heart disease. Recall, once again, the house fire analogy I ask my patients to consider. |
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