Hyla Cass, M.D.
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 You now have the inside scoop: when you're concerned about preventing heart disease, think reduce inflammation, not lower cholesterol.
If you chose to read this chapter, you are probably one of the millions of American adults who take a statin and/or a blood pressure-lowering drug every day. You've probably made this choice based on your doctor telling you that not lowering your cholesterol and/or blood pressure will eventually lead you down the road to heart attack or stroke. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 REPPED: Following yesterday's announcement of a new study showing the phenomenal benefits of antioxidants for preventing heart disease in women, the mainstream media rallied behind a blatantly false distortion of the study designed to convince the public that vitamins E and C are somehow useless. The popular press, which maintains an incestuous relationship with the pharmaceutical industry, once again demonstrates it is little more than a mouthpiece for the pro-pharma propaganda machine. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Conventional practitioners are as eager to educate their patients on the importance of preventing heart disease as holistic care providers are. For several years now, patients have been encouraged by their conventional physicians to stop smoking, increase exercise, lower their dietary fat, increase fruits and vegetables, lose weight, and reduce their stress. It has become much more common to recommend diet and lifestyle changes as a first line of treatment for mild hyperlipidemia and mild hypertension. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Spinach: One of the best natural sources of folic acid, excellent for preventing heart disease. Also a great brain tonic.
7. Sea vegetables: Provide ten times the mineral content of broccoli!
8. Almonds: One of the oldest healing foods in the world, almonds contain complete protein, good fats, and fiber, making them an ideal food for anyone, from children to elderly people.
9. Mung beans: High in protein, very easily digestible, this lesser-known bean is widely used in Asia.
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Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant that plays an important role in preventing heart disease by neutralizing free radicals that target LDL-cholesterol. Once LDL-cholesterol is damaged by free radicals, it is more likely to contribute to atherosclerosis, the begirvning stage of heart disease. Because polyphenols are water-soluble rather than fat-soluble, as vitamin E is, they cannot protect LDL-cholesterol directly; however, they may have an indirect protective effect. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| Due to brown rice's fiber and phytonutri-ent content, this grain also helps in lowering cholesterol and preventing heart disease. Another of brown rice's components that aids in its cholesterol-lowering effect is called oryzanol and is found in its oil. For that reason, a lot of people are hyping rice bran oil as a health food. However, I absolutely do not recommend it. Rice bran oil is highly refined and has a terrible ratio of omega-6s to omega-3s (27:1). Get the oryzanol and the other healthy ingredients from the rice itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The mainstream media has taken hold of this statistical distortion and declared that antioxidants are now useless for preventing heart disease. Utterly ignoring the fact that the vitamins worked remarkably well in those who actually took them, the media now seems to be on a crusade to discredit nutritional supplements by lying to its readers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 As such, you have done a great disservice to your readers who will now be less likely to seek out these safe, natural and highly effective therapies for preventing heart disease and stroke.
I respectfully request that you retract your original story on this antioxidant study and print a correction that accurately describes the factual findings of the study. Please reply and let me know your intentions in making this correction.
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When you receive a reply, forward it to us at antioxidants@newstarget.com. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 No effect on any measurement of lipids—total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides—was found in the group overall or in any sub-group analysis, leading the authors to conclude that recommending Psyllium for lowering these risk factors and preventing heart disease may be altogether premature. Total cholesterol for the "AM first" group was 5.76 mmol/L at baseline, 5.77 5.76 mmol/L at 8 weeks, and 5.80 5.76 mmol/L at 16 weeks, while the "PM first" group readings were 5.47, 5.61, and 5.57 mmol/L, respectively. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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 Together with L-glutamic acid and L-glutamine, aids in preventing heart disease.
To detoxify ammonia and aid in preventing heart disease. [See AMINO ACIDS in Part One.)
Selenium
200 meg daily.
Deficiency has been linked to heart disease.
Vitamin E and/or octacosanol
100 IU daily for first month, then increase to 200 IU daily. As directed on label.
Improves heart function. Vitamin E also acts as a blood-thinning agent; use with caution if you are taking prescription blood-thinners. Use d-alpha-tocopherol form. Use emulsion form for easier assimilation and greater safety at high doses. |
Hyla Cass
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| You now have the inside scoop: when you're concerned about preventing heart disease, think reduce inflammation, not lower cholesterol.
If you chose to read this chapter, you are probably one of the millions of American adults who take a statin and/or a blood pressure-lowering drug every day. You've probably made this choice based on your doctor telling you that not lowering your cholesterol and/or blood pressure will eventually lead you down the road to heart attack or stroke. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Even so, I would not currently consider estriol a viable approach for treating or preventing heart disease.
When it comes to cardiovascular disease, I contend that ethically, practitioners using bio-identical hormone therapy must have the same benefit-risk conversation with patients as a conventional practitioner who prescribes the typical Premarin/ Provera would have. That said, in my opinion, there is enough evidence at this point that oral micronized progesterone is more cardiac friendly on lipids and coronary arteries than are the synthetic progestogens or progestin (such as Provera). |
| Exercise is a vital part of a lifestyle routine that can have lifelong benefits in preventing heart disease and strokes. Regular exercise lowers cholesterol levels, improves the blood supply and therefore the oxygen delivered to the heart, increases the strength of the heart muscle and thus improves the volume of blood it can move, reduces blood pressure, helps to inhibit blood clots, reduces overall body fat, and minimizes damage from stress.
In many women, stress is the major cause of their high blood pressure. |
| Many sweeping statements have been made about the benefits of alcohol in preventing heart disease. If we look at the connections between heart disease and alcohol more closely, we find that these general statements are in fact paradoxical and can be misleading. Heavy use of alcohol causes damage to the heart muscle and is also related to high blood pressure, strokes, and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats). On the other hand, people who abstain from alcohol, when compared to those who drink, are at greater risk of major heart disease events such as heart attacks. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 An article in the New
England Journal of Medicine cited similar results showing conventional hormone replacement therapy ineffective for preventing heart disease.4
The Women's Health Initiative research study showed a 29% increase in cardiovascular disease in the group that took Prempro? This study confirmed the earlier studies on the ineffectiveness of conventional hormone replacement therapy in preventing cardiovascular disease.
In addition, WHI showed that there was no benefit for stroke prevention. |
Ben-Erik van Wyk
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 Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant (in the same way as P-carotene) and plays a role in preventing heart disease and some cancers.
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Biotin (Vitamin H) Vitamin C (Ascorbic acid)
Chemical structures of biotin (vitamin H) and vitamin C (ascorbic acid)
Folic acid (folate)
Folate is a term used for the various derivatives of pteroylglutamic acid (PGA or folic acid, the most stable form of this group of vitamins). Folic acid is a vitamin that occurs in most fresh foods but not in processed cereals. It is also easily oxidised. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Was it causing heart disease or preventing heart disease? Was it causing hormonal problems or was it the problem itself? Was it helping pregnancy or causing infertility? Or did it not matter one way or the other?
The complexity of the contradictions was overwhelmingly interesting and intriguing. Thus began a journey that will forever change the way we view health.
In a sense, it felt as if we had struck gold. Everything began to come together, like a complex puzzle falling into place. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's not about preventing heart disease. It's about managing these illnesses. The question essentially becomes: "How are we going to keep people on just enough prescription drugs so we make a lot of money from them, but not so many that it kills them?" That's basically the strategy of Big Pharma. "How are we going to extract a whole lot of profits out of the general public and call it science-based medicine?"
There are all sorts of people – most of them in Washington D.C. – who are scheming about how to make this happen. |
Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D.
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 Therefore, leading vitamin C researchers have begun to suggest that vitamin C may be important in preventing heart disease, but only up to 100-200 mg of intake per day.47 In a double-blind trial,48 supplementation with 250 mg of timed-release vitamin C twice daily for three years resulted in a 15% reduction in the progression of atherosclerosis, compared with placebo. Many doctors suggest that people take vitamin C—often 1 gram per day—despite the fact that research does not yet support levels higher than 500 mg per day. |
| In 1994, a diet purportedly high in ALA was successful in preventing heart disease (page 98),2 but this study altered many dietary factors, so ALA may not have been solely responsible for the outcome.3 Flaxseed oil does not appear to be a good replacement for fish oil for people with elevated triglycerides (page 235).4'5 ALA does not reduce excess platelet aggregation ("sticky platelets"), another risk factor for heart disease, the way fish oil does. |
| Due to the risks involved with drinking alcohol, drinking red wine cannot be recommended as a means of preventing heart disease until more information is known.
Are there any side effects or interactions?
No side effects have been reported with the use of resveratrol.
RIBOSE
Rating Health Concerns
What is it?
Ribose is a type of sugar normally made in the body from glucose. Ribose plays important roles in the synthesis of RNA, DNA, and the energy-containing substance adenosine triphosphate (ATP). |
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
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 In the end, meticulously evidenced concerns were dismissed in favor of weak evidence that soy protein might lower cholesterol and in support of the widely held—but still unproven—theory that cholesterol-lowering is the key to preventing heart disease.
Although Congress mandated that the FDA obtain "sufficient scientific evidence" of cholesterol-lowering properties before approving any health claim to that effect, it relied almost entirely on just one study—a 1995 meta-analysis by James W. Anderson, Ph.D. |
| This suggests that a diet rich in soy protein is highly unlikely to be good for preventing heart disease.
Finally, methionine is critical because it is the precursor for two "conditionally essential" amino acids, cysteine and taurine.
CYSTEINE
Cysteine is the instable form of the amino acid cystine, and the body converts one to the other as needed. Healthy blood sugar levels depend on cysteine for the production of glucose tolerance factor (GTF) and insulin. |
by Michael Murray, N.D. and Joseph Pizzorno, N.D.
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| Magnesium's role in preventing heart disease and kidney stones is the most widely accepted. Individuals dying suddenly of heart attacks have been shown to have very low levels of magnesium in their heart. Magnesium is extremely important to the heart, in terms of both energy production and heart muscle contraction. A magnesium deficiency may cause a heart attack by producing a spasm of the coronary arteries, thereby reducing the flow of blood and oxygen to the heart. Magnesium also increases the solubility of calcium in the urine, thereby preventing stone formation. |
Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels
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 Rather than preventing heart disease, the drugs were causing it. Among the older women in the trial, over five years the drugs doubled the risk of developing "probable dementia," from roughly I percent to 2 percent.42 Rather than prevent Alzheimer's, the drugs appeared to be causing more of it. Apart from the slight reductions in fractures and colon cancer, the long-term health benefits of these drugs simply did not exist. The promise to fix hormone bss with hormone replacement, the very basis of Wyeth's award-winning celebrity campaigns, had proved utterly false. |
Byron J. Richards
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 Low-fat diets are not the answer to weight loss, maintaining normal body weight, or preventing heart disease.
There are many breakfast options and many recipes for all kinds of breakfasts readily available on the internet or in numerous publications. Try to get at least 20 grams of protein at breakfast and realize that you, personally, may feel much better eating up to 50 grams of protein at this meal. Pay attention: Need varies greatly based on individual metabolism, activity level, and stress. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 The strong link between increased levels of cholesterol and a higher risk of heart disease has resulted in vast sums of money being spent on testing for and treating higher levels of cholesterol as a way of preventing heart disease. However, this "treatment" can cause health problems due to the many known, and frequently extreme, toxicities of the drugs known collectively as statins.
For many people, the first advice in tackling high cholesterol is to cut down on dietary cholesterol, but this alone often makes very little impact on overall body levels. |
James F. Balch, M.D. and Mark Stengler, N.D.
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 Stress reduction should be part of a comprehensive approach to preventing heart disease.
Other Recommendations
• Know your cholesterol and cardiovascular risk marker levels—all of them. Get regular checkups, and find a doctor who is willing to explain the numbers to you.
• Smoking is the number-one risk factor in heart disease. If you smoke and have high cholesterol, you're in grave danger of having a heart attack. People who smoke must quit immediately; even if you've never picked up the habit but are exposed to secondhand smoke, you must find a cleaner environment in which to live or work. |
| Regular exercise plays a significant role in preventing heart disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, diabetes, and many other disorders. For maximum benefits, your exercise plan should include aerobic exercise (for your heart and lungs), weight lifting (to keep your bones strong), and stretching. It is never too late to start. People who begin exercise and weight-lifting programs as late as their nineties show marked improvement in their general health. If you're older, ill, or overweight, consult with your doctor before beginning an exercise plan. |
Phyllis A. Balch, CNC
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| To detoxify ammonia and aid in preventing heart disease. [See AMINO ACIDS in Part One.)
Selenium
200 meg daily.
Deficiency has been linked to heart disease.
Vitamin E and/or octacosanol
100 IU daily for first month, then increase to 200 IU daily. As directed on label.
Improves heart function. Vitamin E also acts as a blood-thinning agent; use with caution if you are taking prescription blood-thinners. Use d-alpha-tocopherol form. Use emulsion form for easier assimilation and greater safety at high doses. |
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