Lynne Mctaggart
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 Several studies of heart patients have shown that isolation ?from oneself, one's community and one's spirituality - rather than physical conditions, such as a high cholesterol count, is one of the greatest contributors to disease.24 In studies of longevity, those people who live longest are often not only those who believe in a higher spiritual being, but also those who have the strongest sense of belonging to a community.2?
It might mean that the intention of the healer was as important as his or her medicine. |
Dawson Church
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 In hundreds of clinical studies, acupuncture has been proven effective for a wide variety of ailments, from reducing the chest pain of heart patients who have been unresponsive to drugs,49 to the restoration of fertility in men,50 to the control of chronic tension headaches in around three quarters of patients.51 Many Western practitioners now also hook up their acupuncture needles to devices that produce a controlled electrical current. |
| Under headlines like the one in the Washington Post on March 31, 2006: "Strangers' prayers didn't help heart patients heal," stories about this large-scale study of 1,800 patients undergoing heart bypass surgery reported that those who were prayed for had as many complications as those who did not.
A variety of explanations were advanced for why prayer had appeared to fail in this study, and some scientists opposed to prayer studies argued that it was so conclusive that further money should not be put into a consciousness-based intervention that had been so thoroughly debunked. |
Lynne McTaggart
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 The small studies that had made use of groups of Christians to send intercessory prayers to heart patients are often construed as a group intention—an attempt by a collection of people to influence the same thing at the same time.
However promising the results of these early studies, Krucoff realized that a large-scale trial with tightened protocols was needed, and he mounted his own small pilot study. He enlisted 150 cardiac patients, recruited from nearby Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, who had been scheduled for angioplasty and stents. |
| Indeed, a recent analysis of46,000 heart patients, half of whom were taking a placebo, made the astonishing discovery that patients taking a placebo fared as well as those on the heart drug. The only factor determining survival seemed to be belief that the therapy would work and a willingness to follow it religiously. Those who stuck to the doctor's orders to take their drug three times a day fared equally well whether they were taking a drug or just a sugar pill. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Translation: I don't care if my heart patients eat some fat. That's a fairly common sentiment among my medical colleagues. But what are the facts?
In science, a review of many studies on the same subject is referred to as a meta-analysis. Such a review of studies on coronary artery disease was done in 1988, when researchers in Wisconsin analyzed ten clinical trials involving 4,347 patients.1 Half of the patients had received cardiac rehabilitation, which generally consists of advice to lose weight, exercise, control high blood pressure, control diabetes, stop smoking, and eat less fat. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Following Jim's progress, my clinic partner, with his modest prior understanding of the importance of energy metabolism in heart function, was so impressed that he now recommends these nutrients to all his heart patients, too.
When it comes to heart disease, D-ribose, L-carnitine, and coenzyme Qio have become the triad of nutrients we rely on for healing and prevention. You will soon see that these nutrients can rocket your heart and muscle energy to new heights. |
Lynne McTaggart
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| The Mid-America Heart Institute study—the study in which prayer by Christians of diverse denominations had reduced symptoms in heart patients by 10 percent—was also criticized for offering so many end points that it was bound to show a positive result.19
The negative results of these large prayer studies could be because praying for others does not work, because prayer simply cannot be subjected to scientific study, or simply because these new studies themselves were asking the wrong questions. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Over the course of the next year he tried ribose on dozens of his heart patients, both those on EECP therapy and those who were not candidates for this treatment. Time after time, he found remarkable improvement in their cardiac functional parameters, exercise tolerance, quality of life, and recovery from fatigue. Dr. Roberts was hooked. He is now an avid advocate of ribose therapy, and he presents his findings to cardiologists around the country at every opportunity. Why is Dr. Roberts such a strong advocate of ribose therapy? Because ribose works. |
| And research continues, with studies currently underway in major universities in the United States and abroad focusing on the benefit of ribose administration on oxygen utilization in congestive heart failure, cardiac surgical recovery, enhancing the exercise tolerance and quality of life of heart patients, athletic performance, and improving the world blood supply. Two of these studies have been completed, and as this book goes to press these reports are scheduled for presentation at major heart symposia and for later publication. |
| D-Ribose is emerging as a new player in the complex understanding of metabolic cardiology, and doctors are beginning to discuss the important role of magnesium deficiency in heart patients. As a practicing cardiologist for over thirty years, I see metabolic cardiology as the future for the treatment of heart disease, and other complex disease conditions, as well. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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 At one point, the heart department objected to what John was doing with heart patients. John told them, "I'll tell you what, I'll send every one of my heart patients to you for a second opinion if you'll send yours to me." It was quite an offer, but they didn't accept it. On another occasion John had referred a patient to a cardiologist and the cardiologist incorrectly told the patient that he needed to have bypass surgery. After a couple of these incidents, John had reached the limit of his patience. |
Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Fortunately, the heart is also the most responsive tissue to ribose supplementation, and that is why ribose shows such great promise as an adjunctive therapy in treating heart patients.
Medical and scientific literature has confirmed that ribose treatment can be effective in treating patients with congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, angina, ischemic cardiomyopathies, and for those recovering from cardiac intervention, such as aortic valve repair, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, and angioplasty. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 Of 62 typical heart patients followed for an average of 52 months, there were four reinfarcts (two were fatal). Dr J.M. Ellis, who had been using pyridoxine for a long time to treat carpal tunnel syndrome with great success, observed that few of his patients on this vitamin had heart attacks.
Other Conditions: Other clinical uses of vitamin B-6 include the prevention of diabetic complications, asthma attacks, monosodium glutamate (MSG) reactions, and nausea and vomiting of pregnancy. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 B lack Yunnan Tuocha Tea (Mady' s) A Chinese black tea "able to dissolve fats", three cups per day lowered blood cholesterol, beta-lipoprotein fat, and triacylglycerol (stomach absorption) 22% in 30 days for hypertensives and coronary heart patients; and 64.3% in 60 days.
•CHRONIC FATIGUE Immune Dysfunction SYNDROME/C.F.I.D.S. |
| The transcutaneous passage of the truth-drug scopolamine behind the ear remedies motion sickness; and similar techniques deliver female hormones, and nitroglycerin for heart patients.
Poor Skin is often a sign of inner health as it diverts toxins from the intestines and the liver, which secreted by the Skin, may throw off Skin pH and cause rashes, infection and blemishes. |
| Heart patients' blocked arteries treated by diet without surgery had a death rate of 1.6%. Radical mastectomies and chemotherapies are unproven, disproven, and dangerous.
1000 United States citizens die every day of cancer; when the cancer rate was l%ofthepopulation in 1800; 3%in 1900; andhasmortallyrisento24%in 1989. The American Cancer Society keeps a black list of 63 "unproven" cancer treatments, over 40% of which have not been investigated (#63 is the 75% effective methods of Mr. Gaston Naessens).
The blood supply is not as safe as medicrats would have us believe. |
Michael Talbot
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 Janet Quinn, an associate professor and assistant director of nursing research at the University of South Carolina at Columbia, decided to see if therapeutic touch could lower the anxiety levels of heart patients. To accomplish this she devised a double-blind study in which one group of nurses trained in the technique would pass their hands over a group of heart patients' bodies. A second group with no training would pass their hands over the bodies of another group of heart patients, but without actually performing the technique. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| John told them, "I'll tell you what, I'll send every one of my heart patients to you for a second opinion if you'll send yours to me." It was quite an offer, but they didn't accept it. On another occasion John had referred a patient to a cardiologist and the cardiologist incorrectly told the patient that he needed to have bypass surgery. After a couple of these incidents, John had reached the limit of his patience. Finally, after the cardiologist recommended surgery for another one of John's patients, John called him and said, "I want to talk with you and the patient about this. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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 He began studying the value of salt in heart patients after discovering accidentally that heart patients who died suddenly had low salt levels. By giving salt to heart patients premature deaths were essentially halted, and the survival rate improved by some 400%. In other words, individuals with the lowest levels of salt in their bodies were most likely to die.
In ancient times salt was traded as a valuable commodity, and in some regions it was equal in value to its weight in gold. There were specific health reasons it was so highly esteemed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Thus there are all sorts of foods available in the hospital that are bad for heart patients. Of course, that doesn't mean McDonald's food is any healthier, it just means that the entire Clinic is a nutritional disaster, and that Cosgrove is on the right track by starting with McDonald's. He probably intends to work his way through the vending machines and other food offerings until every item available for sale at the hospital is consistent with heart health. |
Jacky Law
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 Most drugs have various effects and indeed, the unexpected can form the basis for an entirely new drug, as was precisely the case when the active ingredient in Viagra was being tested in heart patients. Enough of the trialists were so reluctant to stop taking it that further questions were asked.
But generally, the trials are designed with questions that home in on the results a would-be drug is expected to elicit. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Two recent reports show that vitamin E also helps heart patients get well after by-pass surgery and angioplasties. Dr D.S. Sgoutas at Emory
University found that 35.5% of angioplasty patients taking vitamin E suffered from restenosis, while 47.5% of the control placebo group did. Dr T. Yau at The University of Toronto reported that presurgical supplementation of vitamin E helped the heart pump during the high-risk, 5-hour postoperative period. Controls did not do as well. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 Kurt Oster, a cardiologist who routinely prescribed up to 80 mg of folic acid per day for heart patients, found that this vitamin reduced serum uric-acid levels in most patients.5 Studies in the 1940s had suggested that folic acid inhibits xanthine oxidase, the enzyme in the body that manufactures uric acid. Later studies showed that it was not folic acid itself, but a breakdown product of folic acid (pterin aldehyde) that inhibits xanthine oxidase. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| As mentioned in chapter five, he got the idea to treat heart patients with a low-fat, plant-based diet, and in 1985 went to the head of the Cleveland Clinic to discuss his study. She said that nobody had ever shown that heart disease in humans could be reversed by using dietary treatment. Still, Ess knew he was on the right track and went about quietly conducting his study over the next several years. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| Testosterone deficiency appears to be relatively common in heart patients, and treatment with this hormone is said to improve various heart and blood-vessel disorders." Measuring free testosterone in the blood is more reliable than measuring total testosterone, because the former is the more biologically active form of the hormone. Testosterone therapy is discussed in chapter 4, and it has been reviewed in a recent book by Dr. Wright.14
Hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha) is one of the most widely prescribed herbs in Europe. |
Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan
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 A few years later, I reviewed every published research study in which heart patients were asked to change their diet, with researchers tracking their success or failure.7 At the time, the prevailing wisdom was that doctors should not push their patients too hard to make diet changes because the patients were likely to just throw up their hands and give up. But I found just the opposite. In controlled studies, when researchers asked patients to make small diet changes, they in fact achieved only small changes. |
Dr. Cass Ingram
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| He began studying the value of salt in heart patients after discovering accidentally that heart patients who died suddenly had low salt levels. By giving salt to heart patients premature deaths were essentially halted, and the survival rate improved by some 400%. In other words, individuals with the lowest levels of salt in their bodies were most likely to die.
In ancient times salt was traded as a valuable commodity, and in some regions it was equal in value to its weight in gold. There were specific health reasons it was so highly esteemed. |
Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D.
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 More than 15,000 high-risk heart patients got either Plavix plus aspirin or aspirin alone. They were followed for more than 2 years. The conclusion: "Overall, clopidogrel [Plavix] plus aspirin was not significantly more effective than aspirin alone in reducing the rate of myocardial infarction [heart attack], stroke, or death from cardiovascular causes."462
Aspirin is more than 100 years old. On
***** Aspirin
Aspirin is the best deal in the pharmacy. It reduces the risk of heart attacks and thrombotic (clotting) strokes because of its anticlotting and anti-inflammatory actions. |
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II
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| When I read a paper that says I should be giving my heart patients beta blockers and ACE inhibitors, two classes of heart drugs, I don't know whether it's true. I honestly don't know if it's true because [drug research] is so tainted." Do you think the following headlines are related? |
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