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How to Keep Your Heart Healthy?

This article was posted on Monday, June 9th, 2008, in the following Categories: FAQ, Uncategorized

Sixty-two-year-old Jack Andre says having a heart attack in March 2003 was like getting hit in the head with a baseball bat. “It brought a lot of things to my attention that I never thought about before,” he says. He was overweight, didn’t exercise, and often ate high-fat foods. But he never connected his lifestyle to his heart.

“Six months before the heart attack, my doctor told me I had borderline high cholesterol and high blood pressure,” says Andre, of Rockville, Md. “But I didn’t think much of it.”

That all changed after he experienced heart attack symptoms–extreme fatigue, dizziness, and back pain. Tests revealed that Andre had three clogged coronary arteries. “Now I walk every day at lunch, eat smaller portions, and I’m a food label reader,” he says.

Bonnie Brown, 50, of Baltimore, says she also didn’t change her life until she had a heart attack in 1997. “I used to smoke, ate cold-cut subs for breakfast, and had lots of fried foods, all the time, any time,” Brown says. But her heart attack–which she initially mistook for a bad case of indigestion–led her to give up cigarettes, improve her diet, and sign up for weekly water aerobics and line dancing classes.

“There’s nothing that motivates people like having a heart attack or bypass surgery,” says Christopher Cates, M.D., director of vascular intervention at the Emory Heart Center in Atlanta. “I’ve found that people think that heart disease always happens to someone else, until it happens to them.” Experts say that until Americans change their way of thinking from one of damage control to one of proactive prevention, heart disease will remain the No.1 killer of men and women in the United States.

“In many ways, I think we’ve become insulated by high-tech care,” Cates says. “As physicians, we are partners in the health care of our patients, which means we need to educate them about their risk factors for heart disease. And they need to have some sense of ownership about what they can control. They can’t simply look to their doctors or to the FDA or to Medicine, and say, ‘Cure me, but I’m going to eat fatty foods, smoke, and be sedentary.’”

One of the reasons that some people may shrug off the possibility of developing heart disease is that it’s a gradual, lifelong process that people can’t see or feel. About the size of a fist, the heart muscle relies on oxygen and nutrients to continually pump blood through the circulatory system. In coronary artery disease, the most common type of heart disease, plaque builds up in the coronary arteries, the vessels that bring oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle. As the walls of the arteries get clogged, the space through which blood flows narrows. This decreases or cuts off the supply of oxygen and nutrients, which can result in chest pain or a heart attack. Damage can result when the supply is cut off for more than a few minutes. It’s called a heart attack when prolonged chest pain or symptoms (20 minutes or more) are associated with permanent damage to the heart muscle.

Every year, more than 1 million people have heart attacks, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). About 13 million Americans have coronary heart disease, and about half a million people die from it each year.

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Is Oral Chelation the Answer to Cardiovascular Disease?

This article was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008, in the following Categories: Heart Support

Dr. Garry Gorden notes that he has seen persons with cardiovascular disease who, for various reasons did not or could not undergo the IV chelation therapy, began taking oral chelation products and eventually experienced dramatic improvement in their condition. he notes ” I’ve had doctors friends who wouldn’t take the IV at first, but who now are are on oral EDTA, and are able to pass a treadmill stress test that they couldn’t pass for five years. I’ve had lots of good things happen with oral EDTA-base supplement programs” Dr. Ward Dean also supports the use of oral chelation products specifically for cardiovascular and other “irreversible” conditions.

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How Does EDTA Chelation Works?

This article was posted on Monday, May 12th, 2008, in the following Categories: Heart Support

EDTA therapy has multiple mechanisms of action that positively affect arterial plaque formation and cell membrane function. EDTA binds or chelates with the overabundant or offending mineral. Technically, chelation is defined as “the incorporation of a metal ion into a heterocyclic ring structure.” It is this binding action that is so valuable in removing and intended substance from the circulatory system or other parts of the body. The substance is then disposed of mainly via urine. Multiple studies have shown that EDTA is successful in removing calcium from blood, arterial plaque, arterial walls and other body areas. (As for as removing needed calcium from bones and related areas, there are studies that show EDTA does not bind with significant amounts.) (more…)

What Is Chelation Therapy?

This article was posted on Saturday, May 10th, 2008, in the following Categories: Heart Support

Chelation therapy consists of intravenous injections of a number of agents, but mostly a synthetic amino acid called ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA). Upon being introduced intravenously into the bloodstream. EDTA binds or “chelates” with certain minerals and substances that are present in the bloodstream and in the walls of blood vessels, and disposes of them via the urine. The most common mineral targeted by EDTA chelation therapy is calcium, whose irregular metabolism is thought to have a major role in spasms and constriction of the arteries. Calcium is also thought to be a principal player in circulatory impairment and other disorders of the circulatory system. (more…)

How to maintain a Healthy Heart?

This article was posted on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008, in the following Categories: Heart Support

There’s a lot of advice flying around about what makes for a healthy heart. And, while ideas may come and go, the evidence consistently points to 7 important factors that helps to keep the heart healthy. (more…)