Dr. Steve Blake
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 This can lead to blockage of the coronary arteries and a heart attack.
Vitamin E is built into LDL for protection from oxidation that can lead to clogged arteries.
Four published, large-scale, randomized, double-blind clinical intervention studies tested the effectiveness of supplemental vitamin E to reduce heart attacks. Three of these studies used 50 mg of vitamin E in the synthetic form and found little correlation with heart attacks. However, the study using 268 mg to 567 mg of vitamin E in the natural alpha-tocopherol form found a strong correlation with reduced heart attacks. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 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. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 They don't work because the very model of why a heart attack occurs was incorrect. The old idea was this: "coronary disease is akin to sludge building up in a pipe." Plaque accumulates slowlv and irreversibly until one day blood cannot get through a small vessel and the patient has a heart attack. The new idea is that arteries almost never close with sludge, but rather plaque breaks off from any number of places and causes a clot which gets caught downstream, causing a heart attack. Thus, stents and cabbages cannot prevent the formation of these deadly clots. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This article heralded the "benefits" of Vioxx in reducing stomach problems and -- get this -- reducing heart attack rates. The article, of course, left out all the negative information about Vioxx, including what was obvious even in 2000: that Vioxx increased the risk of heart attacks, strokes and blood clots, even in healthy people.
The FDA: asleep at the wheel
For its part, the FDA does nothing to protect consumers. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 When I was an intern, the standard of care for someone with a heart attack was three weeks of bedrest. This prescription had two negative effects: it actually increased the rate of subsequent heart problems, and it made the heart attack survivor afraid of activity. Of course, nowadays we know that a carefully monitored program of aerobic activity protects against heart attacks.
If you're sick with fatigue and pain, your situation is surprisingly similar. If you decide to put yourself on bedrest, you'll be hit with a double whammy. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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| 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. |
Michael Pollan
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 For while during the period under analysis, heart attack deaths declined substantially, hospital admissions for heart attack did not. Modern medicine is clearly saving more people suffering from heart disease, but it appears that we haven't had nearly as much success eliminating the disease itself.
'o understand how nutrition science could have been so
J. spectacularly wrong about dietary fat and health, it's important to understand that doing nutrition science isn't easy. In fact, it's a lot harder than most of the scientists who do it for a living realize or at least are willing to admit. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Not enough people know that high triglycerides are an even bigger risk factor for a heart attack than high cholesterol," says Dr. Fratellone, former executive medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine.
"People are walking around with normal cholesterol, normal LDL, normal HDL, and high triglycerides, and that's why they have a heart attack. The only way to decrease your triglycerides is through diet: You need to restrict refined carbohydrates and sugar. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 This is a pretty innocuous condition, but if you are predisposed to panic disorder or another form of anxiety, you may interpret this sensation as a heart attack, which would set off an anxiety reaction.
The same is true of gastroesophageal acid reflux, which is basically indigestion. Excess stomach acid can produce heart palpitations, arm pain, a feeling that the chest is closing—so it resembles a heart attack or an anxiety attack. |
Jack Challem
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 Vital Exhaustion—A Particular Type of Anger
Doctors have long understood that persistent feelings of anger are strongly associated with a higher risk of having a heart attack. Yet a condition known as vital exhaustion significantly increases the risk of a heart attack. Vital exhaustion is characterized by a combination of three feelings: extreme fatigue and lack of energy, increasing irritability and anger, and a sense of demoralization.
Psychologically, irritability and anger stem from frustration with feeling beaten down in life and being overwhelmingly tired. |
Dan Buettner
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 But if you look at the AHS-1 data, it is very clear that men who drank five or six glasses of water a day had a substantial reduction in the risk of a fatal heart attack?0, 70 percent less—compared to those who drank considerably less water. The difference for women hasn't been seen as much. Yet if you looked at drinking nonwater fluids, consuming a lot of soft drinks, coffee, cocoa, seemed to be hazardous and increased the risk of attack. Imagine if you could really make a sizable dent in heart attack rates just by increasing the number of glasses of water you drink! |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Another animal study found that rats who were having a heart attack and who were treated with holy basil had less damage to their heart tissue than rats who were having a heart attack and who were not treated with holy basil.
ANTIADHESION: Basil has been shown to make platelets, a component of red blood cells, less "sticky"—a process that may reduce the chance of blood clots forming.
IMMUNE RESPONSE: Rats who were administered holy basil had decreases in immune response to allergens. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| This prescription had two negative effects: it actually increased the rate of subsequent heart problems, and it made the heart attack survivor afraid of activity. Of course, nowadays we know that a carefully monitored program of aerobic activity protects against heart attacks.
If you're sick with fatigue and pain, your situation is surprisingly similar. If you decide to put yourself on bedrest, you'll be hit with a double whammy. Your illness, and maybe your learned response to previous activity, will make you less active. And then your need to rest will end up making you even more sick. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Researchers tested synthetic, low-dose versions of vitamin E on populations with high risks of heart attack or stroke. When deaths occurred within the sample population group, the headlines read, "Vitamin E causes heart attack!" It's a preposterous conclusion; but this is how deeply distorted science has become today in its quest to promote the interests of corporations. (In truth, researchers weren't even using vitamin E, they were using a synthetic chemical with a molecular structure that isn't the same as vitamin E from plants. |
Mike Adams
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 A Boston research team found that people with the highest levels of trans-fatty acids in their diet had two and a half times the risk of heart attack as those who ate the least amount of this artificial fat.
- Artemis P. Simopoulos, M.D., The Omega Diet
What's clear from all this is that anyone who has suffered from a heart attack, or who is at risk of heart attacks or stroke, should clearly stay away from hydrogenated oils and trans fats for life. There is no safe level for human consumption, no matter what your state of health. Because heart disease is only the beginning... |
Pam Montgomery
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 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. Hopefully, the shock value of these numbers has gotten your attention, for these alarming statistics indicate that our hearts are in trouble and that the cause is more than diet and lifestyle. According to heart surgeon Dr. Philip Bhark, only half of heart attacks are caused by known risk factors like tobacco and obesity. What, then, is causing such massive heart disease? |
Michael Pollan
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| For while during the period under analysis, heart attack deaths declined substantially, hospital admissions for heart attack did not. Modern medicine is clearly saving more people suffering from heart disease, but it appears that we haven't had nearly as much success eliminating the disease itself.
'o understand how nutrition science could have been so
J. spectacularly wrong about dietary fat and health, it's important to understand that doing nutrition science isn't easy. In fact, it's a lot harder than most of the scientists who do it for a living realize or at least are willing to admit. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Question #4: Could my patient go to the emergency room and have a heart attack ? Because the T3 is given with a sustained release agent, it's extremely unlikely that patients will have a high risk of heart attack. However, the risk is there, so it's important to order a baseline EKG before the treatment. Since we now have the Car-diaCare formulas, as well as T4, the cardiac risk is much less.
Question # 5: What should I look for in an EKG? You can look for evidence of old heart attacks, frank arrhythmias, and other significant abnormalities. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 In a manner similar to that by which serum cholesterol concentration predicts risk for heart attack or blood pressure predicts risk for stroke, BMD measurements can successfully identify subjects at risk of fracture and can help physicians select those individuals who will derive greatest benefit for initiation of therapy. Indeed, the gradient of risk associated with a 1 SD difference in BMD is even greater than those for cholesterol and heart attack.
TABLE 2 A Partial List of Risk Factors for Osteoporosis and Related Fractures
Major factors
?Personal history of fracture as an adult
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Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Michelle Petri, who is involved in a trial to treat lupus patients prophylactically with Lipitor, a potent anticholesterol drug thought to lower the risk of heart attack, says that "the risk is fifty times greater of having a heart attack if you have lupus."
The concern here extends beyond the autoimmune patients who may develop heart disease. It encompasses those with atherosclerosis who do not know that autoimmunity is involved in their disease and who may be unaware that they are more susceptible to other autoimmune diseases as well. |
Rick Levy and Lou Aronica
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 My grandfather on my father's side died of a massive heart attack when he was sixty-one. My father had a major heart attack when he was fifty-five. By my late forties, I began to develop serious heart problems: high blood pressure, an arrhythmia, and bouts of angina. This was my genetic fate, something that was predestined to happen to my body. I was fully aware of my genetic predisposition. I was equally aware that I was complicating the problem by carrying too much emotional pain in my heart. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
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 Most of the research on CRP has focused on its role in predicting heart attack. The higher the CRP level, the higher the risk of developing heart attack. The same is true for sarcopenia: the higher the CRP level, the greater the acceleration in the loss of muscle mass. Elevated CRP levels are also associated with a significantly higher risk for the development of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes.
We recommend that part of your annual physical exam include blood work (see page 41) to determine your CRP levels. The goal is to keep your CRP level below l.Omg/L. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Reducing salt in the diet has been shown to slightly lower the risk of stroke, high blood pressure, and heart attack.
Reducing salt intake by six grams per day results in an average lowering of the systolic blood pressure by about four mm of mercury in people with high blood pressure. This may not seem like much, but over the entire U.S. population, this slight reduction could reduce the prevalence of heart attacks by 6 percent and the risk of strokes by 15 percent. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Plaque accumulates slowlv and irreversibly until one day blood cannot get through a small vessel and the patient has a heart attack. The new idea is that arteries almost never close with sludge, but rather plaque breaks off from any number of places and causes a clot which gets caught downstream, causing a heart attack. Thus, stents and cabbages cannot prevent the formation of these deadly clots.
"I think it is ingrained in the American psyche," said one cardiologist, "that the worth of medical care is directly related to how aggressive it is. |
Mike Adams
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| Where Mediterranean oils are used abundantly, heart attack and stroke rates are very low.
The most impressive diet study ever reported was the Lyon Heart Study. Here, the mostly monounsaturated fat, canola oil, (with omega-3 fat as well) was used in a spread by one-half of the patients studied. All those in the study had already had heart attacks, but those receiving the good fat had a 70 percent decrease in subsequent heart attacks.
- Arthur Agatston, M.D. |
Carol Simontacchi
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 First, Vioxx (rofecoxib) was removed from the market on September 30, 2004, because of increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Then on December 17, USA Today released a report stating that the over-the-counter pain reliever Aleve (naproxen) had been linked to a 50-percent increased risk of heart attack and stroke. This was followed in rapid succession by similar news about Celebrex (celecoxib).
Studies show that long-term users of both Vioxx and Celebrex have more than twice the risk of heart attacks than those taking a placebo drug. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 Fade to the guy on a erurney in the emergency room clutching his chest from an obvious heart attack. The camera fades to his wife and two kids distraught and huddling together in fear as they take him away. Text fades in: What are you willing to risk to find out? The club industry, like other health and fitness industries, has avoided this type of negative advertising out of a concern that it would turn people off. The belief is that the majority of people would respond more favorably to positive images of people looking healthy and happy. |
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D.
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 Angioplasty should be reserved for emergency situations (when someone is in the middle of a heart attack) or when medical and nutritional therapy have been attempted but failed to relieve the symptoms."2
Similarly, Dr. James Forrester and Dr. Prediman Shah of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles have criticized the fact that cardiologists are so quick to intervene with angioplasty or bypass procedures. In their own research, they wrote: ". . . |
| He'd been thirty-four when he had his first heart attack. He was washing his car one Sunday and suddenly felt breathless and congested. His self-diagnosis was that he was suffering a bronchitis attack. The next day, he was in a meeting at the elementary school where he was the principal, and he felt pressure in his chest. He decided to go to the hospital for some medicine to combat the "bronchitis."
He suspected, before anyone told him, that something was seriously wrong. "Electrocardiograms were taken on a roll of tape back then," Jim recalls. |
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