Heart Health
There is a lot more we can do to support heart health than follow the completely mistaken advice that the compromised heart and stroke foundations and dietetic associations claim. They receive much conglomerate food funding and pressure to push propaganda. I do not. So listen up on how to REALLY help your heart.
Personally if I wanted to go that extra proven mile to support heart health I would take;
B complex lowers homocysteine, a powerful contributor to heart disease.
vitamin C is perhaps the most powerful heart risk lowering supplement one can take.
vitamin E is second only perhaps to vitamin C in it's proven ability to support heart health and prevent problems in the heart and circulatory system.
omega 3's that are not rancid or over processed (believe me that's a rarity) benefit the heart and blood vessels in numerous profound ways.
First, forget about cholesterol! Cholesterol is on a lot of people’s minds, because some of us may have ‘high cholesterol’, while others are simply wanting to be in good health, including having healthy hearts. Blood cholesterol (as opposed to food cholesterol) comes in different sizes; LDL’s are bigger, and are often called ‘bad cholesterol’. HDL’s are smaller, and called ‘good cholesterol’. Both are necessary and elevations of LDL are often due to seldom considered factors like stress, micro-waved food (even vegetables!) and liver congestion (see detox pages), and even dehydration! Yes drinking more water often lowers LDL.
High blood cholesterol is only ONE, fairly small factor in heart disease, among many others. What this means is; if your blood cholesterol is high, do not worry, until you check other, often more important variables, like;
Lp(a), CRP, triglycerides, and homocysteine,
all of which can be easily tested for in a blood test. Lots of people have high blood cholesterol levels, and live to a ripe old age. Others have low levels, but die young from heart disease anyway. Consider the other factors, and you will understand why.
My FATS page has a brief Rx for naturally lowering your blood cholesterol.
Lp(a) lowers nicely with a vitamin C supplement, say 2000 mg a day
CRP also lowers with vitamin C, and also with pancreatin (pork source) or serrapeptase (silk worm source)
Homocysteine drops like a stone with a good B complex (I like the New Roots or CanPrev one)
newsflash; VEGETABLE OILS ARE KILLING US
The common vegetable oils we use everyday are killing us, promoting heart disease and cancer. That's right, vegetable oils are really really bad, including canola, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, soy and corn oils. If you care about your heart, do yourself a favour and read my fats page. I know, I know .. everyone says have more veg oils and avoid butter and animal fats ... well that simply is the OPPOSITE of the truth. Read that Fats section. And if you want more info on fats from hard research, simply email me and ask. I'll hook you up, free! Ok now on to some other heart topics;
First the don'ts; minimise all sugar to as close to zero as possible. Stick to fruits, dried fruits and small amounts of pure raw honey, and say no to all added sugars. Artificial sweeteners are even worse; they are neuro-toxins, and can lead to arrhythmias and other heart signalling problems.
Don't consume anything from a micro-wave, and never ever fry food in anything other than coconut oil ghee or butter. Read the Fats page on my site for heaven's sake. As stated above, there is a LOT of economically guided misinformation around about fats!
There is a lot more we can do to support heart health than follow the completely mistaken advice that the compromised heart and stroke foundations and dietetic associations claim. They receive much conglomerate food funding and pressure to push propaganda. I do not. So listen up on how to REALLY help your heart.
Personally if I wanted to go that extra proven mile to support heart health I would take;
- magnesium (read more further down on all of these supplements)
- fish oil* (only a truly cold processed one; most fish oils are JUNK)
- B complex*
- vitamins C* and E*
- Co Q10 (if I was older or had a real heart problem; stuff can get pricey!)
- hawthorn tea, tincture or capsules
B complex lowers homocysteine, a powerful contributor to heart disease.
vitamin C is perhaps the most powerful heart risk lowering supplement one can take.
vitamin E is second only perhaps to vitamin C in it's proven ability to support heart health and prevent problems in the heart and circulatory system.
omega 3's that are not rancid or over processed (believe me that's a rarity) benefit the heart and blood vessels in numerous profound ways.
First, forget about cholesterol! Cholesterol is on a lot of people’s minds, because some of us may have ‘high cholesterol’, while others are simply wanting to be in good health, including having healthy hearts. Blood cholesterol (as opposed to food cholesterol) comes in different sizes; LDL’s are bigger, and are often called ‘bad cholesterol’. HDL’s are smaller, and called ‘good cholesterol’. Both are necessary and elevations of LDL are often due to seldom considered factors like stress, micro-waved food (even vegetables!) and liver congestion (see detox pages), and even dehydration! Yes drinking more water often lowers LDL.
High blood cholesterol is only ONE, fairly small factor in heart disease, among many others. What this means is; if your blood cholesterol is high, do not worry, until you check other, often more important variables, like;
Lp(a), CRP, triglycerides, and homocysteine,
all of which can be easily tested for in a blood test. Lots of people have high blood cholesterol levels, and live to a ripe old age. Others have low levels, but die young from heart disease anyway. Consider the other factors, and you will understand why.
My FATS page has a brief Rx for naturally lowering your blood cholesterol.
Lp(a) lowers nicely with a vitamin C supplement, say 2000 mg a day
CRP also lowers with vitamin C, and also with pancreatin (pork source) or serrapeptase (silk worm source)
Homocysteine drops like a stone with a good B complex (I like the New Roots or CanPrev one)
newsflash; VEGETABLE OILS ARE KILLING US
The common vegetable oils we use everyday are killing us, promoting heart disease and cancer. That's right, vegetable oils are really really bad, including canola, sunflower, safflower, grapeseed, soy and corn oils. If you care about your heart, do yourself a favour and read my fats page. I know, I know .. everyone says have more veg oils and avoid butter and animal fats ... well that simply is the OPPOSITE of the truth. Read that Fats section. And if you want more info on fats from hard research, simply email me and ask. I'll hook you up, free! Ok now on to some other heart topics;
First the don'ts; minimise all sugar to as close to zero as possible. Stick to fruits, dried fruits and small amounts of pure raw honey, and say no to all added sugars. Artificial sweeteners are even worse; they are neuro-toxins, and can lead to arrhythmias and other heart signalling problems.
Don't consume anything from a micro-wave, and never ever fry food in anything other than coconut oil ghee or butter. Read the Fats page on my site for heaven's sake. As stated above, there is a LOT of economically guided misinformation around about fats!
I just saw a client today (january 3rd, 2018Magnesium super-star heart mineral
THE most important mineral for your heart. We know that stress really knocks the heart out- it raises cortisol, our premier stress hormone. Stress tends to raise blood pressure, and hurt insulin sensitivity, thus raising insulin levels. Excess insulin is a killer for arterial and heart health. So what? Magnesium is the only mineral I know of that lowers cortisol, in human research. On top of that, it does it when given as a supplement. Which is how I take it.
Other benefits . . . As if lowering cortisol were not enough, magnesium helps produce energy at a cellular level, aiding the heart in it's laborious almost constant work. Almost constant, because it does rest between beats, sort of. It actually takes work to fully rest between beats (the diastole portion of our blood pressure). So magnesium can help relax the heart muscle between beats, helping to lower diastolic pressure. If anyone really gets this section, they are going to run out and buy a case of 'mag', I am sure. Another handy feature; magnesium helps to dilate blood vessels, as well as preventing them from excessive contractions, or spasms. This is music for your heart, since dilated blood vessels supply more blood to the heart, if they are coronary arteries. If all the other vessels are dilated, then the heart's job is easier. Better to pump fluid through a relaxed 'hose' than a constricted one.
Another benefit of magnesium, proven in human research, is to help reduce or even correct valve prolapse! In younger and older human subjects.
If I had any kind of heart issue- anything- I would take 500-1000mg of magnesium. It is super safe in any quantity, since medicinal use of magnesium, to cleanse the bowels for certain procedures involves 15000mg (for reals!), which equals 60 capsules if you happen to have the 250mg size! My heart is remarkably strong and fit, and I take 500- 700mg (elemental) daily, to support heart health and general health. Minerals are in short supply in our diets; all of us, due to our soil being tired and depleted in much of the world, including our overused and under supported farmlands in Canada.
I use magnesium 250mg by Inno-Vite as well as Magnesium 100mg bisglycinate by Trophic, pictured above.
I just saw a client today (Jan 3rd, 2018) who told me her heart was so bad that the Drs in the hospital said there wasn't much more they could do for her, and that she should get her affairs in order. This good lady started praying, thanking God for all her blessings she had had, in her life of over 60 years, when a young Dr trained in China stepped in and insisted they dose her with magnesium via IV. The nurses balked, and the young Dr insisted. hey finbally did, and soon thereafter, this woman could feel her strength coming back to her! She has been taking 500mg of magnesium every day since and has had 10 pretty good years, and counting.
If you take too much at once, you will get loose stools. Not aware of any other risk.
All You Need is Love
As any Yogi will tell you- the heart chakra is the centre of giving and receiving love. Christopher P. Holmes, PhD, the wildly popular ex professor at York U here in Toronto, has an amazing book that sews together a wonderful picture of the heart in different philosophies, sciences and religions- all congruently recognising our heart is centre of us is . His Heart Doctrine book is available at www.zeropoint.ca
Try this; without reading on;
1. point to a door
2. point to the floor
3. Point to yourself
Where did you point to? Likely right to your heart. It is your centre. Live from it. Keep it happy. Love as much as you can. It comes back to you. Vitamin L, for love. That is the phrasing of Elson Haas, MD in the wondrful 1142 page book "Staying Healthy with Nutrition". Ya, a lot of pages, but excellenthealth education! I was teaching a wellness class, and said "I am going to give hard evidence that Love is miraculous;
First, consider having $10.oo Then imagine sharing it with someone. Now, you might have $5.oo, and they have $5.oo, so now you have less. Second case; consider sharing your love with someone. Now, you have more than you started with, and so do they. A miracle; plain and simple!"
As any Yogi will tell you- the heart chakra is the centre of giving and receiving love. Christopher P. Holmes, PhD, the wildly popular ex professor at York U here in Toronto, has an amazing book that sews together a wonderful picture of the heart in different philosophies, sciences and religions- all congruently recognising our heart is centre of us is . His Heart Doctrine book is available at www.zeropoint.ca
Try this; without reading on;
1. point to a door
2. point to the floor
3. Point to yourself
Where did you point to? Likely right to your heart. It is your centre. Live from it. Keep it happy. Love as much as you can. It comes back to you. Vitamin L, for love. That is the phrasing of Elson Haas, MD in the wondrful 1142 page book "Staying Healthy with Nutrition". Ya, a lot of pages, but excellenthealth education! I was teaching a wellness class, and said "I am going to give hard evidence that Love is miraculous;
First, consider having $10.oo Then imagine sharing it with someone. Now, you might have $5.oo, and they have $5.oo, so now you have less. Second case; consider sharing your love with someone. Now, you have more than you started with, and so do they. A miracle; plain and simple!"
Fish Oil
Omega 3 fats, particularly fish omega 3's; EPA (eicosapentanoic acid), and DHA (docosohexanoic acid) are very important for heart health. They are often seen as necessary supplements, but really, our diet is supposed to contain plenty of omega 3 fats- we are designed to have a constant supply in our diet, since we can not make these specialised fats. Typical people, who are woefully deficient in these fats reap benefits like reduced platelet aggregation (lower clotting tendency), reduced blood pressure, lower blood cholesterol, and reduced arrhythmia (irregular heart beats), by topping up their levels of these fats. What would I do if I was diagnosed with heart risk or problems? Take a relatively unprocessed fish oil, by the very few brands who are truly cold processed and solvent free; including Minami, or Rosita, or Green Pasture, 2- 5 grams per day (that is 1/2 - 1 teaspoon), and toss the aspirins in the garbage. Why people take aspirin as a "preventative" for heart disease, when fish oil is so much more effective and healthy in other ways (brain and insulin health, to name a few), I cannot fathom! Ideally you would have more plant omega 3 than fish, for best results according to some very convincing research done with large sample sizes of people. So say 2 teaspoons of Camelina or Sage seed or Chia oil to accompany your fish intake of 1/2 to 1 teaspoon. I'd recommend any high quality cod liver oil but really am only aware of 2 brands that aren't junk; Garden of Life and Blue Ice. See the amazing westonapricefoundation.org website for more on junk fish oil. Of course eating fish like sardines, herring and wild salmon are the most proven for heart health, as opposed to over-processed fish oils. I am especially wary of "molecularly distilled" fish oils, since distillation is a heat process, and fish oil is notoriously unstable. I repeat; avoid distilled fish oils, since they cause more harm than good. From Chris Kesser's site we see that fish oils on the market, around the world are loaded with oxidised harmful fats! No wonder my father had such terrible results with a well known "top quality" brand of fish oil. References for the rancid junk being sold as fish oil below (references 1, 2, 3, bottom of this page)
Omega 3 fats, particularly fish omega 3's; EPA (eicosapentanoic acid), and DHA (docosohexanoic acid) are very important for heart health. They are often seen as necessary supplements, but really, our diet is supposed to contain plenty of omega 3 fats- we are designed to have a constant supply in our diet, since we can not make these specialised fats. Typical people, who are woefully deficient in these fats reap benefits like reduced platelet aggregation (lower clotting tendency), reduced blood pressure, lower blood cholesterol, and reduced arrhythmia (irregular heart beats), by topping up their levels of these fats. What would I do if I was diagnosed with heart risk or problems? Take a relatively unprocessed fish oil, by the very few brands who are truly cold processed and solvent free; including Minami, or Rosita, or Green Pasture, 2- 5 grams per day (that is 1/2 - 1 teaspoon), and toss the aspirins in the garbage. Why people take aspirin as a "preventative" for heart disease, when fish oil is so much more effective and healthy in other ways (brain and insulin health, to name a few), I cannot fathom! Ideally you would have more plant omega 3 than fish, for best results according to some very convincing research done with large sample sizes of people. So say 2 teaspoons of Camelina or Sage seed or Chia oil to accompany your fish intake of 1/2 to 1 teaspoon. I'd recommend any high quality cod liver oil but really am only aware of 2 brands that aren't junk; Garden of Life and Blue Ice. See the amazing westonapricefoundation.org website for more on junk fish oil. Of course eating fish like sardines, herring and wild salmon are the most proven for heart health, as opposed to over-processed fish oils. I am especially wary of "molecularly distilled" fish oils, since distillation is a heat process, and fish oil is notoriously unstable. I repeat; avoid distilled fish oils, since they cause more harm than good. From Chris Kesser's site we see that fish oils on the market, around the world are loaded with oxidised harmful fats! No wonder my father had such terrible results with a well known "top quality" brand of fish oil. References for the rancid junk being sold as fish oil below (references 1, 2, 3, bottom of this page)
Coconut Oil
Can you say “USA vs. Poor Nations”? The entire ploy of bashing of coconut oil is a plan to sell more junk, refined soy, corn, and canola oil, in North America !
Coconut oil is high in saturated fat- any nutritionist will tell you that, but do they know that coconut fats are mostly medium and short-chain? Medium and short chain fats improve fat metabolism, support heart health, and they even kill Candida fungus in the body. Predictably, the research shows that people who eat a lot of coconut oil in their diets have VERY HEALTHY hearts (Mann,JI. A South Pacific perspective on diet and cardiovascular disease. Proceedings-of-the-Nutrition-Society-of-New-Zealand. 1996; 21: 1-8) Of course, when they move to the western world, and leave the coconuts behind, they start catching up to our high heart disease numbers. Coconut oil IMPROVES blood cholesterol levels (Nevin KG, Rajamohan T. Beneficial effects of virgin coconut oil on lipid parameters and in vitro LDL oxidation. Clinical Biochemistry. 2004;37(9):830-5). Some studies I saw, desperate to implicate coconut oil, fed subjects coconut oil WITH CHOLESTEROL ADDED. Cholesterol is an animal product, which cannot be found in any plant product, including coconut oil. Of course, I discuss this amazingly healthy fat in my fat page on this website. Back in 1992 in university I handed in a paper outlining how great coconut and palm oils were, which completely opposed what we were being taught in my BSc. nutrition program. I got an 'A' on my paper because I had 40 years of human evidence in it, and my teacher was open minded enough not to bash me simply because I refused to "toe the party line". thanks, Janet Chappell. : )
Lp(a)
Getting back to blood cholesterol, there is another, special type of blood cholesterol; Lp(a), or lipoprotein (a). It is FAR more important than total cholesterol, LDL, or HDL as a heart risk factor. 5 to 10 times more important! This means that if your Lp(a) levels are low, you don’t have much to worry about, EVEN IF YOUR ‘BAD CHOLESTEROL’ IS HIGH. Conversely, if your cholesterol levels are ‘healthy’, but your Lp(a) levels are high, you are NOT safe from heart disease. This knowledge was widely accepted amongst atherosclerosis/ cardiology researchers since the 1960’s, and has been a very consistently strong risk factor. So check your Lp(a) levels- your doctor can order this test from most labs, if they happen to know about it.
In the Dietetic manual followed in Canada and the USA, Lp(a) is listed under ‘other risk factors’, with no explanation. Predictably, the Manual goes on and on about LDL’s, HDL’s, and dietary fats. Lp(a) levels can be lowered quite easily. Dr. Linus Pauling, 2 time Nobel Prize recipient, together with Dr Matthias Rath, found that the body produces a lot of Lp(a) to help repair arteries damaged by low vitamin C levels. Unfortunately, Lp(a) is a strong, strong promoter of arterial placque. Vitamin C supplementation reliably lowers Lp(a) levels. I take between 1000 and 5000 mg of vitamin C daily. Not 500, but 5000mg. I once spoke to a very "smart' person, or at least he thought he was smart, who said that amount was just "pissed out" and useless and he was certain of it, since he had seen a study. Notwithstanding the continued anti-vitamin propaganda in general in our media, there is loads of evidence to back up my 5000mg dose. I personally have read 7 books whose sole subject is vitamin C and I've seen HUNDREDS of studies suggesting 1- 5 grams or even much more! I go on taking my big doses and not getting sick, and looking fitter than most men half my age!
Getting back to cholesterol; specifically the weak risk factors of LDL, and total blood cholesterol, if you want to lower them, fine, but NOT with drug ‘therapy’!
Why say NO to Drugs?
Because most cholesterol lowering drugs used today also lower Coenzyme Q 10 (Co Q10), which is extremely bad news for heart health. Maybe that’s why cholesterol lowering drugs are not very impressive when studied for their ability to prolong life; they do NOT. For God’s sake, if you are on a cholesterol lowering medication, supplement with Co Q10; 50- 100mg per day. Me personally? I would NEVER ever take a cholesterol lowering drug no matter what my age or my cholesterol numbers! Let us also remember, drugs are artificial; they do not occur in nature. your body was designed to run on things that occur in nature; water, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, carbs, phytonutrients. Drugs are all toxic; some more, some less.
Perhaps the USA's most famous anti-cholesterol crusader Dr, John McDougall who is so paranoid about cholesterol that he advocates a mostly vegan low fat diet is dead set against drugs for lowering cholesterol. He knows, as does anyone who digs into the available evidence, that statins and other drugs used to artificially lower cholesterol DO NOT extend life, or lower mortality. The statin taker still gets heart problems and suffers all kinds of side effects. In my experience, the muscle pain and dysfunction people experience on statins is rarely warned about by their doctors who prescribe them. All drugs that lower cholesterol have never been shown to extend life or reduce mortality. So why are we taking them? Cholesterol lowering drugs also lower CoQ10 levels in the body. CoQ10 is crucial for heart function, and mitochondrial function (mitochondria are our "power generation centres" contained in every muscle and heart cell).
BYPASS the Bypass!
Friends don't let friends get bypass surgery. I mention that cholesterol lowering drugs do NOT extend life and certainly don't improve life quality. Same for bypass surgery- it does NOT extend life (Forrester jS, and Shah PK. "Lipid lowering versus revascularization: an idea whose time (for testing) has come." Circulation 96 (1997): 1360-1362.)
I knew a Dr who will remain anonymous who was performing chelation therapy to open up clogged cardiac arteries - and by the way I am not a big fan of chelation therapy, but do rate it higher than bypass surgery.
This "chelation Dr" confided in me that one of his clients receiving the arterial cleansing chelation therapy was a heart surgeon! Let that sink in; this guy performed bypass surgeries for a living, but when he needed a bypass, he "bypassed" the bypass in favour of chelation therapy! - more on arterial cleansing below ...
Drop Your Cholesterol; How?
Very easy (not that blood cholesterol is very important anyway, but if you do want to, NATURALLY, go ahead);
1. consume plenty of flax meal or chia meal. Use the meal and not the oil; about 2 tablespoons per day, or more, for more powerful lowering of cholesterol. You can put it on oatmeal or other hot cereal (avoid boxed dry cereals- they are all rendered ‘junk, by the high temperature processing they endure- even whole grain, ‘natural’ boxed cereal) Alternately, you can just wash down your chia or flax meal with juice, water, or any drink. If your cholesterol levels are very high, and do not drop, the liver may need attention.
2. Do a liver cleanse- search the web for Hulda Clarke’s liver- gall flush, or ask a nutritionist about it. Many dietitians and doctors laugh at the idea of a liver cleanse, since they like to ignore the overwhelming (non mainstream) evidence that internal cleansing is key to health.
3. Water is surprisingly effective in dropping cholesterol levels. Underhydration (not drinking enough) reliably raises blood and body cholesterol; you don't want dehydration caused hypercholesterolemia.
Increase your water drinking; lower your cholesterol. Dr Batmanghelidj, a pioneer in medicine that works has had strong success in his practice with increasing water intake, to lower cholesterol, even in those who do not improve the rest of their diet in any way. A healthy minimum is 2 litres of water per day, with extra needed by those who drink coffee or alcohol. Exercise is accepted even by the mainstream as a powerful way to keep all types of blood fats at healthy levels, including LDL’s, HDL’s, and triglycerides, which are particularly tough to treat.
4. Up your vitamin C intake. Vitamin C supplementation has been shown to lower LDL, and specifically Lipoprotein (a), the most dangerous subset of LDL.
Not relating to cholesterol at all, but actually important is homocysteine. Homocysteine was discovered to be a very important substance found in the blood, in terms of heart disease risk prediction. It is an amino- not a fat. High homocysteine levels = heart attacks and artery placque.
This was conclusively proven in the late 60’s, but of course, is emerging now as a ‘new’ risk factor. This one is laughably easy to control- vitamins B6, B12, and folate, found in any good B complex multivitamin, send high levels plummeting- fast! (McCully, K.S., Homocysteine, vitamins, and prevention of vascular disease. Military Medicine. 2004 Apr;169(4):325-9)
CRP, or C-reactive protein
C reactive protein has conclusively been shown to be an independent risk variable for heart disease. Independant means that even if someone has low cholesterol, but their CRP levels are high, they are still high risk, heart-wise. C reactive protein levels can be brought down by supplementing with proteases, like bromelain (pineapple), papain (papaya), and msot strongly, pancreatin (from pork pancreas). CRP levels are elevated from chronic infection, so taking the occasional course of a natural antibiotic (high doses of echinacea, for 2 weeks or more, or oregano oil), would be good prevention, both for reducing CRP, and for keeping pathogens in the body in check.
blood Triglycerides ..
are an independent risk factor for heart disease, often measured in bloodwork. Triglycerides are directly stimulated by insulin. Lower your insulin, and triglycerides slide right down. Direct, bam! How? By eating less bad carbs (sugars, artificial sweeteneers, and white flour products (pasta, bread) and also white rice. With carbs, less is more. Don't go too heavy on whole grains either, even if they are way better than their white counterparts.
Homocysteine
was originally "discovered" as a disease contributor by Dr. Kilmer McCully in the 1960's, who was convinced it was a strong risk variable for heart disease, independent of any cholesterol values. As is normal for real pioneers science and medicine, he was ignored or ridiculed. Then 30 years later his theory started to be widely accepted. Homocysteine is easily lowered by a supplement of B6, B9, and B12, as shown abundantly in medical research. I would simply take a 50 or 100mg B complex if my homocysteine ever showed high. I like the B complex by CanPrev, New Roots, or Sisu.
Circulation
It is all ultimately about circulation. Stop the circulation to part of the heart; BAM; a heart attack. Stop circulation to the brain; POW; a stroke. If circulation is only partially choked off, angina (heart), transient stroke (brain), impotence (penis), numbness and tingling (limbs), or pain (anywhere), results.
Atherosclerosis which affects circulation, we already discussed. Another easy to control circulation factor is blood vessel dilation (good), and constriction or spasm (bad). Magnesium helps our vessels dilate, letting the blood flow well. A magnesium deficiency reduces dilation, and can directly cause blood vessel spasms, which are a direct cause of heart attacks, especially the sudden, severe ones. Magnesium is deficient in many if not most people- we ‘burn up’ magnesium with stress. Do yourself a favour-take a supplement. Many athletes in my care have, and report better performance. Physical and mental stress consume magnesium. Magnesium also helps to prevent harmful blood clots, which often trigger heart attacks and strokes.
Vitamin E
There are literally hundreds of studies showing that the more vitamin E we consume, the longer we live, and the healthier our hearts and arteries are. The incidence of fatal and non fatal heart pathologies is far, far reduced in studies where people supplement with vitamin E, especially when 400iu or more are taken, per day. I like the vitamin E complex made by Trophic- it is a great product, with every naturally occurring form of E that I know; alpha through gamma, in the tocopherol and tocotrienol varieties. They are present in effective quantities in that particular product, as well.
There is so much research on vitamin E, that even the conservative Dietetic Manual for US and Canadian Dietitians states that supplemental vitamin E (400iu or 800iu ) lowers heart disease incidence by over 40%!
There was a recent study to the contrary which was preposterously analysed and executed. I thoroughly read the study, and in disgust realized that it got published because it supports the medical mafia anti- supplement bias. It is far too poor a piece of work to have garnered the attention that it did, otherwise. Like Magnesium, vitamin E has long been shown to help prevent harmful blood clots (without overly thinning the blood). I take vitamin E complex, by Trophic.
Can you say “USA vs. Poor Nations”? The entire ploy of bashing of coconut oil is a plan to sell more junk, refined soy, corn, and canola oil, in North America !
Coconut oil is high in saturated fat- any nutritionist will tell you that, but do they know that coconut fats are mostly medium and short-chain? Medium and short chain fats improve fat metabolism, support heart health, and they even kill Candida fungus in the body. Predictably, the research shows that people who eat a lot of coconut oil in their diets have VERY HEALTHY hearts (Mann,JI. A South Pacific perspective on diet and cardiovascular disease. Proceedings-of-the-Nutrition-Society-of-New-Zealand. 1996; 21: 1-8) Of course, when they move to the western world, and leave the coconuts behind, they start catching up to our high heart disease numbers. Coconut oil IMPROVES blood cholesterol levels (Nevin KG, Rajamohan T. Beneficial effects of virgin coconut oil on lipid parameters and in vitro LDL oxidation. Clinical Biochemistry. 2004;37(9):830-5). Some studies I saw, desperate to implicate coconut oil, fed subjects coconut oil WITH CHOLESTEROL ADDED. Cholesterol is an animal product, which cannot be found in any plant product, including coconut oil. Of course, I discuss this amazingly healthy fat in my fat page on this website. Back in 1992 in university I handed in a paper outlining how great coconut and palm oils were, which completely opposed what we were being taught in my BSc. nutrition program. I got an 'A' on my paper because I had 40 years of human evidence in it, and my teacher was open minded enough not to bash me simply because I refused to "toe the party line". thanks, Janet Chappell. : )
Lp(a)
Getting back to blood cholesterol, there is another, special type of blood cholesterol; Lp(a), or lipoprotein (a). It is FAR more important than total cholesterol, LDL, or HDL as a heart risk factor. 5 to 10 times more important! This means that if your Lp(a) levels are low, you don’t have much to worry about, EVEN IF YOUR ‘BAD CHOLESTEROL’ IS HIGH. Conversely, if your cholesterol levels are ‘healthy’, but your Lp(a) levels are high, you are NOT safe from heart disease. This knowledge was widely accepted amongst atherosclerosis/ cardiology researchers since the 1960’s, and has been a very consistently strong risk factor. So check your Lp(a) levels- your doctor can order this test from most labs, if they happen to know about it.
In the Dietetic manual followed in Canada and the USA, Lp(a) is listed under ‘other risk factors’, with no explanation. Predictably, the Manual goes on and on about LDL’s, HDL’s, and dietary fats. Lp(a) levels can be lowered quite easily. Dr. Linus Pauling, 2 time Nobel Prize recipient, together with Dr Matthias Rath, found that the body produces a lot of Lp(a) to help repair arteries damaged by low vitamin C levels. Unfortunately, Lp(a) is a strong, strong promoter of arterial placque. Vitamin C supplementation reliably lowers Lp(a) levels. I take between 1000 and 5000 mg of vitamin C daily. Not 500, but 5000mg. I once spoke to a very "smart' person, or at least he thought he was smart, who said that amount was just "pissed out" and useless and he was certain of it, since he had seen a study. Notwithstanding the continued anti-vitamin propaganda in general in our media, there is loads of evidence to back up my 5000mg dose. I personally have read 7 books whose sole subject is vitamin C and I've seen HUNDREDS of studies suggesting 1- 5 grams or even much more! I go on taking my big doses and not getting sick, and looking fitter than most men half my age!
Getting back to cholesterol; specifically the weak risk factors of LDL, and total blood cholesterol, if you want to lower them, fine, but NOT with drug ‘therapy’!
Why say NO to Drugs?
Because most cholesterol lowering drugs used today also lower Coenzyme Q 10 (Co Q10), which is extremely bad news for heart health. Maybe that’s why cholesterol lowering drugs are not very impressive when studied for their ability to prolong life; they do NOT. For God’s sake, if you are on a cholesterol lowering medication, supplement with Co Q10; 50- 100mg per day. Me personally? I would NEVER ever take a cholesterol lowering drug no matter what my age or my cholesterol numbers! Let us also remember, drugs are artificial; they do not occur in nature. your body was designed to run on things that occur in nature; water, vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, carbs, phytonutrients. Drugs are all toxic; some more, some less.
Perhaps the USA's most famous anti-cholesterol crusader Dr, John McDougall who is so paranoid about cholesterol that he advocates a mostly vegan low fat diet is dead set against drugs for lowering cholesterol. He knows, as does anyone who digs into the available evidence, that statins and other drugs used to artificially lower cholesterol DO NOT extend life, or lower mortality. The statin taker still gets heart problems and suffers all kinds of side effects. In my experience, the muscle pain and dysfunction people experience on statins is rarely warned about by their doctors who prescribe them. All drugs that lower cholesterol have never been shown to extend life or reduce mortality. So why are we taking them? Cholesterol lowering drugs also lower CoQ10 levels in the body. CoQ10 is crucial for heart function, and mitochondrial function (mitochondria are our "power generation centres" contained in every muscle and heart cell).
BYPASS the Bypass!
Friends don't let friends get bypass surgery. I mention that cholesterol lowering drugs do NOT extend life and certainly don't improve life quality. Same for bypass surgery- it does NOT extend life (Forrester jS, and Shah PK. "Lipid lowering versus revascularization: an idea whose time (for testing) has come." Circulation 96 (1997): 1360-1362.)
I knew a Dr who will remain anonymous who was performing chelation therapy to open up clogged cardiac arteries - and by the way I am not a big fan of chelation therapy, but do rate it higher than bypass surgery.
This "chelation Dr" confided in me that one of his clients receiving the arterial cleansing chelation therapy was a heart surgeon! Let that sink in; this guy performed bypass surgeries for a living, but when he needed a bypass, he "bypassed" the bypass in favour of chelation therapy! - more on arterial cleansing below ...
Drop Your Cholesterol; How?
Very easy (not that blood cholesterol is very important anyway, but if you do want to, NATURALLY, go ahead);
1. consume plenty of flax meal or chia meal. Use the meal and not the oil; about 2 tablespoons per day, or more, for more powerful lowering of cholesterol. You can put it on oatmeal or other hot cereal (avoid boxed dry cereals- they are all rendered ‘junk, by the high temperature processing they endure- even whole grain, ‘natural’ boxed cereal) Alternately, you can just wash down your chia or flax meal with juice, water, or any drink. If your cholesterol levels are very high, and do not drop, the liver may need attention.
2. Do a liver cleanse- search the web for Hulda Clarke’s liver- gall flush, or ask a nutritionist about it. Many dietitians and doctors laugh at the idea of a liver cleanse, since they like to ignore the overwhelming (non mainstream) evidence that internal cleansing is key to health.
3. Water is surprisingly effective in dropping cholesterol levels. Underhydration (not drinking enough) reliably raises blood and body cholesterol; you don't want dehydration caused hypercholesterolemia.
Increase your water drinking; lower your cholesterol. Dr Batmanghelidj, a pioneer in medicine that works has had strong success in his practice with increasing water intake, to lower cholesterol, even in those who do not improve the rest of their diet in any way. A healthy minimum is 2 litres of water per day, with extra needed by those who drink coffee or alcohol. Exercise is accepted even by the mainstream as a powerful way to keep all types of blood fats at healthy levels, including LDL’s, HDL’s, and triglycerides, which are particularly tough to treat.
4. Up your vitamin C intake. Vitamin C supplementation has been shown to lower LDL, and specifically Lipoprotein (a), the most dangerous subset of LDL.
Not relating to cholesterol at all, but actually important is homocysteine. Homocysteine was discovered to be a very important substance found in the blood, in terms of heart disease risk prediction. It is an amino- not a fat. High homocysteine levels = heart attacks and artery placque.
This was conclusively proven in the late 60’s, but of course, is emerging now as a ‘new’ risk factor. This one is laughably easy to control- vitamins B6, B12, and folate, found in any good B complex multivitamin, send high levels plummeting- fast! (McCully, K.S., Homocysteine, vitamins, and prevention of vascular disease. Military Medicine. 2004 Apr;169(4):325-9)
CRP, or C-reactive protein
C reactive protein has conclusively been shown to be an independent risk variable for heart disease. Independant means that even if someone has low cholesterol, but their CRP levels are high, they are still high risk, heart-wise. C reactive protein levels can be brought down by supplementing with proteases, like bromelain (pineapple), papain (papaya), and msot strongly, pancreatin (from pork pancreas). CRP levels are elevated from chronic infection, so taking the occasional course of a natural antibiotic (high doses of echinacea, for 2 weeks or more, or oregano oil), would be good prevention, both for reducing CRP, and for keeping pathogens in the body in check.
blood Triglycerides ..
are an independent risk factor for heart disease, often measured in bloodwork. Triglycerides are directly stimulated by insulin. Lower your insulin, and triglycerides slide right down. Direct, bam! How? By eating less bad carbs (sugars, artificial sweeteneers, and white flour products (pasta, bread) and also white rice. With carbs, less is more. Don't go too heavy on whole grains either, even if they are way better than their white counterparts.
Homocysteine
was originally "discovered" as a disease contributor by Dr. Kilmer McCully in the 1960's, who was convinced it was a strong risk variable for heart disease, independent of any cholesterol values. As is normal for real pioneers science and medicine, he was ignored or ridiculed. Then 30 years later his theory started to be widely accepted. Homocysteine is easily lowered by a supplement of B6, B9, and B12, as shown abundantly in medical research. I would simply take a 50 or 100mg B complex if my homocysteine ever showed high. I like the B complex by CanPrev, New Roots, or Sisu.
Circulation
It is all ultimately about circulation. Stop the circulation to part of the heart; BAM; a heart attack. Stop circulation to the brain; POW; a stroke. If circulation is only partially choked off, angina (heart), transient stroke (brain), impotence (penis), numbness and tingling (limbs), or pain (anywhere), results.
Atherosclerosis which affects circulation, we already discussed. Another easy to control circulation factor is blood vessel dilation (good), and constriction or spasm (bad). Magnesium helps our vessels dilate, letting the blood flow well. A magnesium deficiency reduces dilation, and can directly cause blood vessel spasms, which are a direct cause of heart attacks, especially the sudden, severe ones. Magnesium is deficient in many if not most people- we ‘burn up’ magnesium with stress. Do yourself a favour-take a supplement. Many athletes in my care have, and report better performance. Physical and mental stress consume magnesium. Magnesium also helps to prevent harmful blood clots, which often trigger heart attacks and strokes.
Vitamin E
There are literally hundreds of studies showing that the more vitamin E we consume, the longer we live, and the healthier our hearts and arteries are. The incidence of fatal and non fatal heart pathologies is far, far reduced in studies where people supplement with vitamin E, especially when 400iu or more are taken, per day. I like the vitamin E complex made by Trophic- it is a great product, with every naturally occurring form of E that I know; alpha through gamma, in the tocopherol and tocotrienol varieties. They are present in effective quantities in that particular product, as well.
There is so much research on vitamin E, that even the conservative Dietetic Manual for US and Canadian Dietitians states that supplemental vitamin E (400iu or 800iu ) lowers heart disease incidence by over 40%!
There was a recent study to the contrary which was preposterously analysed and executed. I thoroughly read the study, and in disgust realized that it got published because it supports the medical mafia anti- supplement bias. It is far too poor a piece of work to have garnered the attention that it did, otherwise. Like Magnesium, vitamin E has long been shown to help prevent harmful blood clots (without overly thinning the blood). I take vitamin E complex, by Trophic.
Nuts and Seeds
Brazils, cashews, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, tahini, walnuts, pine nuts, macadamias, pistachios; mmmmm. How amazing that a tantalising snack of nuts and seeds is beneficial for your heart? Yes, nuts and seeds are high in fat. So what? They are proven beyond any doubt to be specifically good for heart health; every study I have ever seen that looks at nuts and seeds for heart health shows a definite protective effect.
Could it be due to the high vitamin E content? Or perhaps the plant sterols that are abundant in nuts and seeds, which lower cholesterol. Could also be the high heart-friendly magnesium and selenium content. Who cares why- enjoy them!
CoQ10 Ubiquinone (coQ10) is very effective stuff for congestive heart failure, and weak hearts in general. Unless you are on cholesterol lowering drugs, your body is probably making enough CoQ10 of it's own. Those who are over 40 and think their endogenous production is low (and anyone on those ill-conceived cholesterol lowering drugs), can safely take any dosage of Co Q10, with 50 to 100 mg being effective for most people. If you take 'CoQ', and you do not need it, NO HARM IS DONE, unless you count the harm to your wallet. It is exceedingly safe. Some report increased energy from taking it. One very fit man, around 40 years of age, told me he had a lot more energy from CoQ. Placebo? Maybe, but taking an antioxidant like Co Q for a placebo effect is fine, in my book! The new kid on the block is the much-hyped ubiquinol rather than ubiquinone. Ho hum. The old one works just fine, thank you. If you see the new one at a decent price, fine. i wouldn't pay a premium for it, because I have had astonishingly good feedback with the original ubiquinone form.
By the way, leaky valves leak, because they can't produce enough energy to seal, with each positive heartbeat. Co Q10 helps them seal again- some excellent research was done on this problem, in , on humans.
Trans fats
After 50 years of strong research (I wish I was exaggerating), there is talk of reducing or eliminating these plastic, dangerous fats from our food supply. That would be good, given that trans fats are far, far worse for us than any other dietary fat, anywhere.
Butter or margarine? The answer is easy; butter is better! That has been proven in direct research since the 60’s, but the message gets obscured in the media, and schools. Thanks, Unilver (owners of Becel), and to other "food" companies! I stick to the research for my facts.
Of course, virgin Olive oil beats butter, as one of the most heart healthy fats possible. Just do not fry with it! Frying is evil, but if you must, do use coconut oil, or ghee.
Today's packaged garbage (oops) I meant foods, often lie about trans fats. i have seen products like potatoe chips, fried in polyunsaturated fat (canola, or sunflower for example) claiming little or no trans fat. Lies! Labels very often lie. best bet; buy food with no labels, as in real foods that are non processed.
Brazils, cashews, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, tahini, walnuts, pine nuts, macadamias, pistachios; mmmmm. How amazing that a tantalising snack of nuts and seeds is beneficial for your heart? Yes, nuts and seeds are high in fat. So what? They are proven beyond any doubt to be specifically good for heart health; every study I have ever seen that looks at nuts and seeds for heart health shows a definite protective effect.
Could it be due to the high vitamin E content? Or perhaps the plant sterols that are abundant in nuts and seeds, which lower cholesterol. Could also be the high heart-friendly magnesium and selenium content. Who cares why- enjoy them!
CoQ10 Ubiquinone (coQ10) is very effective stuff for congestive heart failure, and weak hearts in general. Unless you are on cholesterol lowering drugs, your body is probably making enough CoQ10 of it's own. Those who are over 40 and think their endogenous production is low (and anyone on those ill-conceived cholesterol lowering drugs), can safely take any dosage of Co Q10, with 50 to 100 mg being effective for most people. If you take 'CoQ', and you do not need it, NO HARM IS DONE, unless you count the harm to your wallet. It is exceedingly safe. Some report increased energy from taking it. One very fit man, around 40 years of age, told me he had a lot more energy from CoQ. Placebo? Maybe, but taking an antioxidant like Co Q for a placebo effect is fine, in my book! The new kid on the block is the much-hyped ubiquinol rather than ubiquinone. Ho hum. The old one works just fine, thank you. If you see the new one at a decent price, fine. i wouldn't pay a premium for it, because I have had astonishingly good feedback with the original ubiquinone form.
By the way, leaky valves leak, because they can't produce enough energy to seal, with each positive heartbeat. Co Q10 helps them seal again- some excellent research was done on this problem, in , on humans.
Trans fats
After 50 years of strong research (I wish I was exaggerating), there is talk of reducing or eliminating these plastic, dangerous fats from our food supply. That would be good, given that trans fats are far, far worse for us than any other dietary fat, anywhere.
Butter or margarine? The answer is easy; butter is better! That has been proven in direct research since the 60’s, but the message gets obscured in the media, and schools. Thanks, Unilver (owners of Becel), and to other "food" companies! I stick to the research for my facts.
Of course, virgin Olive oil beats butter, as one of the most heart healthy fats possible. Just do not fry with it! Frying is evil, but if you must, do use coconut oil, or ghee.
Today's packaged garbage (oops) I meant foods, often lie about trans fats. i have seen products like potatoe chips, fried in polyunsaturated fat (canola, or sunflower for example) claiming little or no trans fat. Lies! Labels very often lie. best bet; buy food with no labels, as in real foods that are non processed.
Microwave Killer?
Microwaved vegetables will raise human subjects' cholesterol, as found in a well designed human study done in Switzerland, by Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel et al. Note well that he also found pre-carcinogenic changes in human blood cells, taken from subjects who had just consumed test meals which were cooked in a microwave. Identical test meals cooked on a stove-top, given to subjects on different days did not raise pre-cancerous blood markers. Microwaving is an abusive, electromagnetically unnatural process which renders food toxic, on a molecular level. Use a toaster oven, your stove; ANYTHING BUT A MICROWAVE to heat or cook your food. Given the diverse research I have seen on microwave ‘cooking’, I would definitely not consume anything ‘nuked’; not even microwaved water!
Exercise
Exercise your body, for a strong heart. The lower body- the muscles in your legs are crucially important for your heart. As your leg muscles contract (as you walk, or get out of a chair, or exercise your legs, blood is pumped back towards your heart, by muscular contractions, pressing against your leg veins, which are equipped with one-way valves, to allow this type of (passive) circulation. Firm, well-developed leg muscles means you rheart receives a steady supply of blood from your lower body. Flabby weak legs means a poor venous blood return, and a starving heart muscle. Work your legs! Sprint, jog quickly (followed by intermittent bouts of walking recovery), get in the gym or home, and do suitcase lifts, squats, and deadlifts. Swim, making sure to really pump the legs. A low tech machine was developed quite a few years ago, which was miraculously effective for congestive heart failure and angina- it was a couple of leg sleeves which rhythmically pumped the legs, from bottom to top, squeezing blood up towards the heart. It was too cheap, simple, and effective to be actively promoted by the medical mafia, but you can do the same thing by flexing your legs with the good exercise methods outlined above. Exercising on your own also gives you direct heart strengthening effect, from the exercise positive stress. Just be sure you are topped up with heart- supportive magnesium.
Summary; exercise, drink plenty of water, eat clean fish or take fish oil, and take magnesium, extra B complex, C, and E, and you most likely to enjoy a healthy heart and whole body circulation. And do not fry or microwave anything, if you can help it. And relax! Stress hormones are killers for the heart. Avoid all stimulants, legal or otherwise. And be sure to take extra C and Magnesium, the only two nutrient supplements that I am aware of that are proven to lower stress hormones in humans.
Arrhythmia
I have known two young people with severe heart arrrhythmia, or racing heart. If the heart races uncontrollably, or skips beats, or beats slower, faster slower- just kind of lost it's rhythm. . . that's arrhythmia.
So, the first was a young man who was a mild drug abuser and was pretty fit and into lifting weights. His heart would start flipping, and he had to stop training altogether- he felt like he was going to die, when he got his arrhythmic attacks. I told him not to go back to the cardiologist he'd been referred to (this was a friend and not a client), and recommended 500plus mg of magnesium- see Mg section above, on this page- and a 50mg of B-complex, for good luck. Omega 3's also help normalise heart rhythm. See above for good cod liver oil sources.
One week later, the man was able to train heavy and hard, and his heart was totally fine!
Case 2 was quite a foxy young thing- a Go-Go dancer, who casually complained of her heart racing and almost fainting, after doing a 20 minute dance 'set'. It didn't sound like a casual problem to me at all, so as a friend, I suggested the same thing I gave dude number 1, above.
That same week, she danced and danced, and her heart felt fine. No fainting feeling, either!
Magnesium deficiency is very very common. You should just assume you need some extra, unless you have a good reason to think you are special, and have all the magnesium in your body that you need. Because it really is that common to be short of it!
I take it every day, to nourish my heart, lower my cortisol and improve my overall life quality.
About Angina and Leg Claudication; a successful case study;
What is leg Claudication and Angina, anyway?
These are potentially burningly painful conditions caused by lack of blood flow. When the heart burns from lack of flow, it's Angina. When it's the legs, it's claudication. They are both usually caused by blocked, placqued arteries.
So, I am living in this building in the 'hood, and am friends with the super- always good to be friends with the super, especially in 'da hood', so to the story- this fellow, a South American, confided in me his entire leg claudication case history. He never was my paid client, but I do like helping people out.
His condition was getting pretty bad, so he (bad idea) went to the Cardiologist to get help. He suggested chopping a vein from part of the leg, and splicing it into part of the other leg's artery, to bypass a badly placqued, blocked section. Sounds like a bright idea? Not to me, but I digress.
So, he went ahead (this was before he talked to me about it- I would have told him to leave the Cardio Quack alone). After his surgery, which was quite intrusive and painful, he was no better.
So, telling the Cardio Quack this, it was suggested they go in again, and do some more splicing and dicing. He told the CQ to "fv¢& himself", and told me of his predicament. By this point, going up any steps was excruciating, and he "couldn't even imagine" getting an erection, he said. The erectile situation made sense, since if the legs are poorly supplied with blood, then the genitals being close by, were also likely lacking.
I said have no fear- I had heard of chelation from many sources being a great way to clean the arteries, and restore circulation.
I wanted him to try the oral route, with a product called RTRE or FLW by CNC. Check quality health stores- they'll have it or be able to get it. I told him if I was him, I would take 10 tabs a day, I would ignore the label, and I would polish off at least 6 bottles in a row, if I was in my 60's, as he was.
Chelation is also done intravenously- more on that later- I do prefer the oral route, for the record.
So this fellow took a bottle- 10 pills faithfully each day. Then he stopped. He said he could get up stairs with no difficulty, and could walk much longer and faster than he had been able to in a long long time. He was so much better, he just was too cheap to get more bottles! They are about 80 bucks a piece. Speaking of long time, I never asked about his sex life, but I assume it was also improved, or else he would have likely gone for more bottles.
Let's think about this- placqued, blocked arteries cause claudication. And angina SO what treats one, should most likely help the other. Let's just say I have heard indeed it does.
Chelation therapy
The oral chelating agent I mentioned above has an intravenous counterpart. I am very conservative when it comes to injecting anything, and really really prefer to see people do it orally rather than the injectable route, but for those who want to know, the intravenous chelation works pretty damn well, from all I have heard. I do know a doctor who chelates people with IV, and I mention him above, on this page under "Bypassing the bypass".
Short term help for angina is to take 500mg of Arginine, a few times a day- this told to me by a sufferer, years before I knew enough to really be of help. Arginine is a nitrous oxide (NO) precursor in the body, and it is naturally produced by healthy arteries to dilate, or widen, when more blood flow is needed. The arteries supplying the penis produce NO when an erection is called for. Our muscle arteries do it, when we get a "pump" in the gym. So Arginine can help a blood starved heart, as well as a blood starved penis. Just don't overdo it- Arginine can give you diarrhea in higher doses. Besides that, it's pretty innocuous/ safe.
References for rancid, harmful fish oils being the majority of what's sold in the market!
1. Scientific Reports, January 2015, volume 21; issue 5: pp7928 authors; Albert B.B., Derraik J.G., Cameron-Smith D., Hofman P.L., Tumanov S., Villas-Boas S.G., Garg M.L., Cutfield W.S.
2. Journal of Nutritional Science November 2015: authors; Jackowski S.A., Jackowski G., Alvi A.Z., Mirajkar A., Imani Z., Gamalevych Y., Shaikh N.A.
3. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa September 2013: authors; Opperman M., Benade S.
Microwaved vegetables will raise human subjects' cholesterol, as found in a well designed human study done in Switzerland, by Dr. Hans Ulrich Hertel et al. Note well that he also found pre-carcinogenic changes in human blood cells, taken from subjects who had just consumed test meals which were cooked in a microwave. Identical test meals cooked on a stove-top, given to subjects on different days did not raise pre-cancerous blood markers. Microwaving is an abusive, electromagnetically unnatural process which renders food toxic, on a molecular level. Use a toaster oven, your stove; ANYTHING BUT A MICROWAVE to heat or cook your food. Given the diverse research I have seen on microwave ‘cooking’, I would definitely not consume anything ‘nuked’; not even microwaved water!
Exercise
Exercise your body, for a strong heart. The lower body- the muscles in your legs are crucially important for your heart. As your leg muscles contract (as you walk, or get out of a chair, or exercise your legs, blood is pumped back towards your heart, by muscular contractions, pressing against your leg veins, which are equipped with one-way valves, to allow this type of (passive) circulation. Firm, well-developed leg muscles means you rheart receives a steady supply of blood from your lower body. Flabby weak legs means a poor venous blood return, and a starving heart muscle. Work your legs! Sprint, jog quickly (followed by intermittent bouts of walking recovery), get in the gym or home, and do suitcase lifts, squats, and deadlifts. Swim, making sure to really pump the legs. A low tech machine was developed quite a few years ago, which was miraculously effective for congestive heart failure and angina- it was a couple of leg sleeves which rhythmically pumped the legs, from bottom to top, squeezing blood up towards the heart. It was too cheap, simple, and effective to be actively promoted by the medical mafia, but you can do the same thing by flexing your legs with the good exercise methods outlined above. Exercising on your own also gives you direct heart strengthening effect, from the exercise positive stress. Just be sure you are topped up with heart- supportive magnesium.
Summary; exercise, drink plenty of water, eat clean fish or take fish oil, and take magnesium, extra B complex, C, and E, and you most likely to enjoy a healthy heart and whole body circulation. And do not fry or microwave anything, if you can help it. And relax! Stress hormones are killers for the heart. Avoid all stimulants, legal or otherwise. And be sure to take extra C and Magnesium, the only two nutrient supplements that I am aware of that are proven to lower stress hormones in humans.
Arrhythmia
I have known two young people with severe heart arrrhythmia, or racing heart. If the heart races uncontrollably, or skips beats, or beats slower, faster slower- just kind of lost it's rhythm. . . that's arrhythmia.
So, the first was a young man who was a mild drug abuser and was pretty fit and into lifting weights. His heart would start flipping, and he had to stop training altogether- he felt like he was going to die, when he got his arrhythmic attacks. I told him not to go back to the cardiologist he'd been referred to (this was a friend and not a client), and recommended 500plus mg of magnesium- see Mg section above, on this page- and a 50mg of B-complex, for good luck. Omega 3's also help normalise heart rhythm. See above for good cod liver oil sources.
One week later, the man was able to train heavy and hard, and his heart was totally fine!
Case 2 was quite a foxy young thing- a Go-Go dancer, who casually complained of her heart racing and almost fainting, after doing a 20 minute dance 'set'. It didn't sound like a casual problem to me at all, so as a friend, I suggested the same thing I gave dude number 1, above.
That same week, she danced and danced, and her heart felt fine. No fainting feeling, either!
Magnesium deficiency is very very common. You should just assume you need some extra, unless you have a good reason to think you are special, and have all the magnesium in your body that you need. Because it really is that common to be short of it!
I take it every day, to nourish my heart, lower my cortisol and improve my overall life quality.
About Angina and Leg Claudication; a successful case study;
What is leg Claudication and Angina, anyway?
These are potentially burningly painful conditions caused by lack of blood flow. When the heart burns from lack of flow, it's Angina. When it's the legs, it's claudication. They are both usually caused by blocked, placqued arteries.
So, I am living in this building in the 'hood, and am friends with the super- always good to be friends with the super, especially in 'da hood', so to the story- this fellow, a South American, confided in me his entire leg claudication case history. He never was my paid client, but I do like helping people out.
His condition was getting pretty bad, so he (bad idea) went to the Cardiologist to get help. He suggested chopping a vein from part of the leg, and splicing it into part of the other leg's artery, to bypass a badly placqued, blocked section. Sounds like a bright idea? Not to me, but I digress.
So, he went ahead (this was before he talked to me about it- I would have told him to leave the Cardio Quack alone). After his surgery, which was quite intrusive and painful, he was no better.
So, telling the Cardio Quack this, it was suggested they go in again, and do some more splicing and dicing. He told the CQ to "fv¢& himself", and told me of his predicament. By this point, going up any steps was excruciating, and he "couldn't even imagine" getting an erection, he said. The erectile situation made sense, since if the legs are poorly supplied with blood, then the genitals being close by, were also likely lacking.
I said have no fear- I had heard of chelation from many sources being a great way to clean the arteries, and restore circulation.
I wanted him to try the oral route, with a product called RTRE or FLW by CNC. Check quality health stores- they'll have it or be able to get it. I told him if I was him, I would take 10 tabs a day, I would ignore the label, and I would polish off at least 6 bottles in a row, if I was in my 60's, as he was.
Chelation is also done intravenously- more on that later- I do prefer the oral route, for the record.
So this fellow took a bottle- 10 pills faithfully each day. Then he stopped. He said he could get up stairs with no difficulty, and could walk much longer and faster than he had been able to in a long long time. He was so much better, he just was too cheap to get more bottles! They are about 80 bucks a piece. Speaking of long time, I never asked about his sex life, but I assume it was also improved, or else he would have likely gone for more bottles.
Let's think about this- placqued, blocked arteries cause claudication. And angina SO what treats one, should most likely help the other. Let's just say I have heard indeed it does.
Chelation therapy
The oral chelating agent I mentioned above has an intravenous counterpart. I am very conservative when it comes to injecting anything, and really really prefer to see people do it orally rather than the injectable route, but for those who want to know, the intravenous chelation works pretty damn well, from all I have heard. I do know a doctor who chelates people with IV, and I mention him above, on this page under "Bypassing the bypass".
Short term help for angina is to take 500mg of Arginine, a few times a day- this told to me by a sufferer, years before I knew enough to really be of help. Arginine is a nitrous oxide (NO) precursor in the body, and it is naturally produced by healthy arteries to dilate, or widen, when more blood flow is needed. The arteries supplying the penis produce NO when an erection is called for. Our muscle arteries do it, when we get a "pump" in the gym. So Arginine can help a blood starved heart, as well as a blood starved penis. Just don't overdo it- Arginine can give you diarrhea in higher doses. Besides that, it's pretty innocuous/ safe.
References for rancid, harmful fish oils being the majority of what's sold in the market!
1. Scientific Reports, January 2015, volume 21; issue 5: pp7928 authors; Albert B.B., Derraik J.G., Cameron-Smith D., Hofman P.L., Tumanov S., Villas-Boas S.G., Garg M.L., Cutfield W.S.
2. Journal of Nutritional Science November 2015: authors; Jackowski S.A., Jackowski G., Alvi A.Z., Mirajkar A., Imani Z., Gamalevych Y., Shaikh N.A.
3. Cardiovascular Journal of Africa September 2013: authors; Opperman M., Benade S.
