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 C, E or beta-carotene on cardiovascular events for women at a high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD)."
Other medical associations and pharmaceutical-affiliated groups are making similar pronouncements. Vitamins C and E, according to them, are nutritionally worthless. And they're basing that conclusion on a study that actually showed the vitamins to be far better at preventing cardiovascular disease than any prescription drug! |
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 What does all of this mean to you as a person who might be a heart patient or a person with atherosclerosis who is looking to enhance your cardiovascular health? It means simply that if you eat aloe vera gel, which is something that I do on a daily basis, then you may be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of your cardiovascular health. Very likely you are increasing the viscosity of your blood at the cellular level. You're increasing its ability to carry oxygen, and to diffuse that oxygen into the organs in your body. |
| REPPED: Aloe vera is one of my favorite healing plants, and I believe it is quite promising in terms of enhancing cardiovascular health. This is a subject that hasn't had many studies conducted yet, but there has been some related research that I think sheds light on the issue. For example, it is now known that an extract from aloe vera gel, when injected into the human bloodstream, greatly multiplies the oxygen transportation and diffusion capabilities of red blood cells. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
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 Heart disease is the number one cause of death in America.
• cardiovascular diseases account for more than 40% of all deaths in the United States.
• Women comprise more than half of the people who die each year of cardiovascular disease.
• At least 58 million Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease, including high blood pressure. diabetes
• 18 million people in America have diabetes — 6 million don't know they have it. Another 41 million have prediabetes, and most of them don't know they have it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Another thing you can do from a nutritional standpoint to enhance your cardiovascular health is to be sure to take a plentiful supply of antioxidants. Of course you want to get those from natural sources, and some of the best sources of antioxidants are berries, such as blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and so on. You can also get antioxidants from superfoods such as various sprouts, Spirulina, Chlorella, and seaweed.
One of my favorite sources of antioxidants is a substance I'm calling Vitamin X. It is known as astaxanthin. Astaxanthin is just now emerging on the scene. |
| In fact, if you avoid those foods and engage in basic nutritional supplementation and cardiovascular exercise, your body will clean out the arteries for you over time all on its own. But don't forget it also means shifting to healthy oils and getting plenty of omega-3 oils, fish oils, and other healthy oils into your diet on a regular basis. |
| What the patient really needs is adequate hydration, a brand new approach to nutrition, and the avoidance of all dietary substances that are known to worsen cardiovascular health and deplete water soluble vitamins from the body. And of course, B vitamins are water soluble vitamins.
Moving on in the herbs category, of course there are many, many healing herbs for heart health, including herbs like garlic, onions, and juniper berries. |
| So this is one of those areas where, if you're taking the supplement, it's not necessarily proven for cardiovascular health but it probably will be down the road. And in the meantime, you're giving yourself worthy antioxidant protection by taking it.
Moving on to heart health in general, one of the main points I want to get across to readers here is that many of the defects that are diagnosed in people's hearts are really not physical defects at all. There's a great tendency in conventional medicine to misdiagnose functional disorders as physical or structural disorders. |
| This chelation solution binds with the plaque in your cardiovascular system and then helps flush it out of your system. At the same time, it is also very useful for removing heavy metals, such as mercury, cadmium, and lead from your body.
But because this is an invasive procedure, it is only performed by trained medical professionals. Typically, you're only going to have access to this by visiting a naturopathic clinic or some kind of alternative health clinic that pursues pioneering medicine. But by no mean is this intravenous chelation a brand new technology. |
| REPPED: In the first part of this question on avoiding atherosclerosis and improving cardiovascular health, we talked about what to avoid so that you don't worsen your situation. Here in the second part, we'll talk about more proactive strategies that you can use for reversing the build up of plaque in your arteries.
First off, one of the better-known therapies for eliminating the buildup of arterial plaque is called intravenous chelation. This is a therapy that can truly work miracles and help people avoid heart bypass surgery and other complications from atherosclerosis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| It means simply that if you eat aloe vera gel, which is something that I do on a daily basis, then you may be doing yourself a huge favor in terms of your cardiovascular health. Very likely you are increasing the viscosity of your blood at the cellular level. You're increasing its ability to carry oxygen, and to diffuse that oxygen into the organs in your body. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 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. Instead, women who took conventional hormones had a 41% increased risk of stroke compared to women who did not take the hormones. It is even more alarming that a 2,100%) increased risk for pulmonary embolism was observed. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 A Randomized Factorial Trial of Vitamins C and E and Beta Carotene in the Secondary Prevention of cardiovascular Events in Women: Results From the Women's Antioxidant cardiovascular Study")
The AMA's statement on antioxidants having no benefits in this study is based on the inclusion of all those women who did not take the antioxidants. I believe this conclusion to be biased in favor of drug company interests and wholly incorrect from a scientific point of view. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Seedless grapes are not natural, and they remove the very part of the grape that contains powerful cardiovascular medicine. Have you ever heard of the nutritional supplement called grape seed extract? Guess where it comes from? ... Grape seeds, of course. It's some of the best cardiovascular medicine known to modern science, far more potent than any prescription drug, yet with zero negative side effects. Yet food companies have removed it from the food supply and promoted "seedless grapes" as a benefit to consumers! |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Major cardiovascular events were 1 percent greater in the vitamin E group.
If you read those results, you'll see that the headlines should have read, "Vitamin E cures cancer." Instead, what you read is that vitamin E is bad for you. What you should have read is that the TYPE of vitamin E used in this study created a 1 percent increase in cardiovascular events. The researchers do not explain cardiovascular events, so that leaves it up to the companies who funded the study to interpret it however they choose to.
Let's look at the TYPE of vitamin E that was used in this study. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| A Randomized Factorial Trial of Vitamins C and E and Beta Carotene in the Secondary Prevention of cardiovascular Events in Women: Results From the Women's Antioxidant cardiovascular Study")
The AMA's statement on antioxidants having no benefits in this study is based on the inclusion of all those women who did not take the antioxidants. I believe this conclusion to be biased in favor of drug company interests and wholly incorrect from a scientific point of view. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Let me explain this again to make sure I'm communicating this properly: Overall, if you look at the entire group of women followed in this study, you find that cardiovascular protective benefits were only marginal: An 11 percent reduction in the risk of combined cardiovascular disease. But that benefit is diluted by the fact that it includes all the women who neglected to actually take the vitamins! |
Pam Montgomery
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 Fifty-eight percent of all deaths are directly or indirectly related to cardiovascular disease, as 2,500 people die of heart disease each day or one every thirty-five seconds. Health care related to heart disease costs Americans 403 billion dollars a year with one in every three persons having some form of cardiovascular disease, according to the American Heart Association's 2006 statistics. Two-thirds of all men and women who die suddenly of a heart attack had no previous symptoms, and 65 million people have high blood pressure that is due to unknown causes in 95 percent of cases. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| As JoAnn Manson, MD, chief of Preventive Medicine at BWH and principal investigator of WACS said (with my translation in brackets), "This research underscores the importance of focusing on proven methods for preventing cardiovascular disease, including physical activity, healthy diet, controlling high blood pressure and high cholesterol [i.e. using pharmaceuticals], maintaining healthy weight, and avoiding tobacco."
In other words, she's saying:
Antioxidants are "unproven."
Cardiovascular disease can only be prevented, in part, by using pharmaceuticals. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 For the specifics in regard to bone effects and cardiovascular effects, please refer to the osteoporosis and heart disease chapters.
If you choose to increase soy foods or take soy beverages, powders, or supplements, a word about dosages and addressing some of the highly publicized controversies about soy is important. A reasonable approach would be to ingest a daily level of isoflavones that does not exceed the amount consumed in ethnic diets that contain high amounts of isoflavones. |
| If deemed necessary, biomarkers of cardiovascular risk, EKG, stress EKG test, and stress echocardiograms may also be recommended. The results of these tests will help determine the most appropriate next step, whether it is a more aggressive diagnostic test and/or treatment intervention.
For women with abnormal findings, it is important to seek the advice of someone who can help determine if therapeutic doses of some of the natural therapies discussed in this chapter are suitable and sufficient for success. |
| In that age group, aspirin therapy did reduce overall cardiovascular disease by 26 percent and the risk of MI by 34 percent.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has found good evidence that aspirin decreases the incidence of heart disease in adults who are at increased risk. However, they also acknowledge that aspirin increases gastrointestinal bleeding episodes and that it may also increase the incidence of hemorrhagic (bleeding) strokes. Their conclusion is that for those individuals who are at high risk for heart disease, the benefits outweigh the risks. |
| In a meta-analysis of four large primary prevention trials using low-dose aspirin, a 15 percent reduction was seen in cardiovascular events and a 30 percent reduction was observed in MI rates.390 More recently, a large randomized placebo-controlled trial of low-dose aspirin was done in the Women's Health Study (WHS).391 In 39,876 women who did not have coronary disease, a 24 percent reduction was observed in the risk of ischemic strokes, compared with those women who did not take aspirin. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Isoflavones: their effects on cardiovascular risk and function, Curr Opin Lipidol 14: 3-8. Niessen, W. M. A., 1999, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry, Second Edition, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York.
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| Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant systems
Diets high in flavonoids, fruits, and vegetables are protective against a variety of diseases, particularly cardiovascular disease and some types of cancer (Ness and Powles, 1997). Antioxidants and dietary fiber are believed to be the principal nutrients responsible for these protective effects. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are formed in vivo during normal aerobic metabolism and can cause damage to DNA, proteins, and lipids, despite the natural antioxidant defense system of all organisms (Bors and Saran, 1987). |
| CONCLUDING REMARKS
Intensive epidemiological studies have shown consistently that regular consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with reduced risk of chronic diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular disease (Willett, 2002; Block et al, 1992). However, the individual antioxidants of these foods studied in clinical trials, including ^-carotene, vitamin C, and vitamin E, do not appear to have consistent preventive effects comparable to the observed health benefits of diets rich in fruits and vegetables (Omennetal, 1996). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| Burning sensations in the mouth can be a symptom of diabetes or anemia, and gum inflammation may be relared to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
Heart Palpitations. A palpitation can feel like a rapid heart rate, missed heartbeats, or irregular heartbeats. Not all heart palpitations are related to a decrease in estrogen levels but may be a symptom of anxiety, panic disorder, fears, or depression. Fortunately, women in their 40s and early 50s, during the most common time of the menopause transition, are not likely to have a serious cardiac problem. |
| Daily Supplements for cardiovascular Disease
Plant sterols/stanols: 2.0-3.4 g per day Vitamin E: 400-800 IU per day Garlic: 1 capsule per day containing 4,000-5,000 meg allicin
Green tea: 1 capsule extract or 3-5 cups tea per day
CoQlO: 100 mg per day EPA/DHA fish oil: 1 g per day Folic acid: 800 meg per day
Daily Supplements for Hyperlipidemia
Policosanol: 20-40 mg per day Niacin (nicotinic acid): 500-1,500 mg per day Plant sterols/stanols: 2.0-3. |
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