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"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease."
- Thomas Edison
Drinking chlorinated water causes atherosclerosis.
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Dr. Joseph M. Price
Oxidized cholesterol doesn't melt until 149º C. This
means that a hunk of waxy plaque in your artery isn't going to be
removed unless it can be liquefied first. This is exactly what the
nutrient lecithin does. It dissolves these fatty globs in your arteries
the way dishwasher detergent breaks up grease. It dissolves fat and
washes it out of your arteries so it can't harm you. Just one tablespoon
daily (with food or in a drink) usually does the trick. You can find it
in any health food store. - Dr. David Williams
Cholesterol becomes soluble in the bloodstream
when enough lecithin is present.
- J American Oil Chemists Society 63;40: 464
- Science 74;155:222.
Iodine and iodide make fats, oils and waxes more
soluble in water. Consuming a little iodide and niacin daily can help
clean cholesterol from the arteries. Read more
in this
article by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D.
Lugol's solution is a mix of iodine and
potassium iodide. The body needs both.
DMG (Dimethylglycine) is a lipotropic agent (fat
emulsifier) that lowers blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride
levels.
- Dr. Roger Kendall
Northerners have higher rates of heart
disease than southerners because they don't experience the same levels
of sunlight. - Dr. David Williams (Sunlight on the skin produces
vitamin D)
Vitamin C supplementation of 1 1/2 - 3 grams daily reverses
atherosclerotic lesions in animals and humans.
- Canadian Med Assn J 54;71: 562
- Canadian Med Assn J 57;77: 106
Bioflavonoids complement and increase the
effectiveness of vitamin C. Pectin,
found in the pulp of grapefruit, reverses atherosclerosis in both the
aorta and small coronary arteries that supply the heart.
- Circulation 94;89[3]: 1247-1253
- Clin Cardiol 88;11: 589-591
- J Franklin Institute 94;[331A]: 199-202
Pectin is the fiber that provides the framework for
fruits like grapefruit and oranges. Normally indigestible, bacterial
enzymes in a healthy colon can break it down.
The "modified citrus pectin" used to prevent cancer
metastases is pre-digested.
Pomegranate juice is found to help clean arteries,
prevent cancer and diabetes, and prevent the spread of AIDS. 10
published studies are discussed by Dr. David Williams in his
Alternatives newsletter May 2005.
According to Dr. Andrew Sereda, the primary risk
factors for heart disease are:
1.
Hypothyroidism
2. Mechanical stress on the arteries due to the pumping of the
heart and turbulence where the arteries branch
3. Excess iron
Iron is necessary for the growth of bacteria, and
inflammation of the arteries caused by bacteria may be one of the
underlying causes of cardiovascular disease. Iodine helps kill the
bacteria and dissolve plaque while normalizing thyroid function.
Pre-menopausal, pregnant and lactating women are frequently iron deficient. Iron overload is more likely to occur in men.
This may be one reason why women live on average 5 years longer than men. Your doctor can do a serum ferritin test to determine if you have too much or too little iron. If your blood is normal, give a donation to the Red Cross of one pint twice a year. This will rid your body of any excess iron it may have. - Dr. William Campbell Douglass
One teaspoon of flax oil daily resulted in a 70% reduction in deaths from heart disease.
- Circulation, Feb. 16, 1999.
People who eat butter have half the risk of heart disease compared to
those who eat margarine.
- Nut Week 91;21(12):2-3
Pacific islanders and other populations that consume an abundance of
coconut oil are amazingly free from degenerative diseases so common in
the west including:
- heart disease
- high blood pressure
- atherosclerosis - stroke.
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Dr. Bruce Fife pages 37 - 58.
"Magnesium and calcium work together to control
muscle action though calcium becomes increasingly toxic in the face of
any kind of magnesium deficiency. Calcium tightens the muscles;
magnesium relaxes the muscles. With insufficient magnesium the muscles
stay tense and through the years may cause a cramp in the muscle. This
could happen when you have too much calcium or too little magnesium. Too
much calcium causes the heart to go into a spasm and this can cause a
heart attack." - Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
1, 2.
Magnesium Deficiency in the Pathogenesis of
Cardiovascular Diseases -
Dr. Mildred S. Seelig
"Anatabloc™
has been shown in pre-clinical tests to
assist in maintaining healthy levels of
c-reactive protein, indicating that is
helps provide anti-inflammatory
support."
There are many was to
reduce
inflammation in the body.
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Cancer and heart disease are the "terrible
two" and they are frequently found together. Maintaining a healthy heart and circulatory system is essential for
cancer treatment and prevention.
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Unobstructed arteries help ensure that adequate
oxygen reaches all the tissues and that tissues are cleansed of
waste. Cancer starts in toxic areas lacking oxygen.
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Healthy arteries free of blood clots prevent
cancer metastases, because cancer cells floating in the bloodstream
come to rest in a blood clot before forming a new tumor.
On this page we are gathering all the different
approaches to a healthy heart and circulatory system that we come
across. The health maintenance program that results should be very
helpful to prevent both cardio-vascular disease and cancer.
1. Dr. Dean Ornish - 4 Step Program to Prevent and
Reverse Heart Disease
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The 4 step program by Dr. Dean Ornish has been
shown in clinical practice to reverse even serious heart disease
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The 4 step program includes 1. non-smoking, 2.
low-fat vegetarian diet, 3. exercise, and 4. meditation.
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Smoking fills the lungs with toxic chemicals
which form free radicals when they enter the bloodstream. The lungs
are full of tiny blood vessels which are designed to allow close
interaction between the air we breathe and the bloodstream. As a
result the toxic chemicals in cigarette smoke have ready access to
the blood. Free radical damage to the arterial walls is thought to
be one of the causes of atherosclerosis.
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The diet is high in fruits, vegetables, grains,
beans, and other complex carbohydrates. This is essentially the same
diet that Alkalize For Health recommends for cancer patients. This
diet is rich in anti-oxidants and other nutrients. The Ornish diet to
prevent heart disease allows more fats than the diet
to reverse heart disease.
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Dr. Ornish recommends regular exercise such as
walking 30 minutes daily or 60 minutes every other day. Exercise
promotes the flow of lymph, and this flow of
lymph has been
demonstrated to prevent and remove atherosclerosis.
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Dr. Ornish does not endorse any particular kind
of meditation. However, here at Alkalize For Health we are very
impressed with the
research on Transcendental Meditation showing an 87% reduction in
hospitalization for heart disease in those who practice this
technique. Add to this a 55% reduction in
hospitalizations for cancer in TM meditators. As a result, we
recommend TM.
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Dr. Ornish describes his program in detail in his
book
Dr. Dean Ornish's Program For Reversing Heart Disease.
Here is a short video of Dr. Dean Ornish speaking on
healing.
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The Healthy Heart
Much of medicine is based on the study of
illness. However, in the quest for health does it not make good
sense to also study health? Then the goal becomes more
understandable. The goal is not just an absence of illness, it is
the presence of health.
Since 1993 a growing body of
research makes it clear that a steady heartbeat is a sign of
illness, with the heart isolated from the many other rhythms in the
body. The healthy heart "is not a solo player in the quantum jazz of
life [3, 4]. Instead, it is in symphony with all other players,
intermeshing and syncopating with their varied rhythms, reflecting
the correlations and couplings in a system that is quantum coherent
in the ideal. It is the rhythm of the organism dancing life into
being, in which every single player is freely improvising and yet
keeping in tune and in step with the whole...The coupling between
heart and other rhythms is quite precise, extending to phase
correlations among all the body rhythms..." -
ISIS
Here we may have a window into
the effectiveness of Transcendental Meditation (TM) to increase heart
health and overall physiological health, because
increased coherence in brain
activity (and by extension increased coherence throughout
the physiology) is the defining characteristic of this meditation
technique.
In November 1996, The American Heart Foundation chose blood pressure
research on the TM technique as amongst the most significant studies for
health from all their 10 medical journals. - American Journal of
Cardiology 1996; 77:867-870
A 20-year cost comparison found the Transcendental
Meditation technique more cost-effective than five standard
antihypertensive medications.
- American Journal of Managed Care 1996, 2:
427-437
For more information, here is a
bibliography
of some of the research on Transcendental Meditation. Two minute
video.
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2. Dr. Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath - The
Unified Theory of Human Cardiovascular Disease
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Plaque is found on arterial walls, not in veins.
What is the difference between arteries and veins that might account
for this? The arteries must expand to accommodate the rush of blood
each time the heart beats, and contract between beats. This constant
flexing is unique to arteries.
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The constant flexing of the arterial walls
requires flexibility. If the walls become stiff they will begin to
crack. The body heals the cracks by filling them with plaque. This
is the origin of atherosclerosis. Drs. Brown and Goldstein were
awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1985 for the discovery that
atherosclerotic plaques are deposited in response to injury of the
blood vessel wall.
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Removing the plaque without restoring flexibility
to the arterial walls is just a short term solution. If the walls
continue to crack, the plaque will return.
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Restoring flexibility to arterial walls can
be achieved by providing the necessary nutrients in the diet. The
required nutrients are vitamin C, and the amino acids lysine and proline.
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Vitamin C, lysine and proline heal and
maintain the cartilage in arterial walls near the heart where it is
subject to mechanical stress. Plus, they remove arterial
plaque. All three nutrients are essential.
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Collagen is largely made of two amino acids
called hydroxylysine and hydroxyproline. Vitamin C is needed by the body
to change lysine into hydroxylysine and proline into hydroxyproline.
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For more information see this
article.
The article also explains why fat and cholesterol do not cause heart
disease.
3. Dr. Michael Holick - Vitamin
D and Heart Disease
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Blood pressure tends to be
higher in the winter than in the summer. This is because sunshine in
summer produces vitamin D. Blood vessels have vitamin D receptors
and the effect of vitamin D is to cause the blood vessels to relax
and become more flexible.
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When vitamin D levels are low,
calcium can accumulate on artery walls and promotes formation of
fatty plaques. The breakup of these plaques leads to occlusions and
clots that are the direct cause of heart attacks, heart failure, and
strokes.
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Women with osteoporosis tend
to have more calcium in their artery walls (atherosclerosis). The
problem is not calcium, but lack of vitamin D which governs how the
body absorbs and utilizes calcium.
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Vitamin D levels can be kept
high even in winter through the use of supplements and exposing the
skin to
UVB light.
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"If you take people with
hypertension and put them in a tanning bed for brief periods that
simulates sunlight three times a week for three months, you can
increase their blood level of 25-vitamin D by as much as 180 percent
and lower their blood pressure to normal levels - no drugs
required." -
Dr. Michael Holick, page 92.
Based on the body's indicated
daily vitamin D usage, Vitamin D Council recommends the
following amounts of supplemental vitamin D3 per day in
the absence of proper sun exposure. Due to the variable
response discussed above, these are only estimated
amounts.
- Healthy children under the
age of 1 years – 1,000 IU.
- Healthy children over the age
of 1 years – 1,000 IU per every 25 lbs of body
weight.
- Healthy adults and
adolescents – at least 5,000 IU.
- Pregnant and lactating
mothers - at least 6,000 IU.
Additionally, children and adults
with chronic health conditions such as autism, MS,
cancer, heart disease, or obesity
may need as much as
double these amounts.
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4. Dr. T.C. McDaniel - Maintaining a High Zeta
Potential in the Circulatory System
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Zeta potential is the negative electrical charge
on cells and particles in the blood that keeps them all separate.
Loss of this electrical charge causes coagulation of the blood and
precipitation of the nutrients and other substances in the blood.
The coagulated blood is difficult for the heart to pump. The
precipitated material forms plaques and deposits throughout the
body.
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Increasing the zeta potential is necessary to
remove the coagulation from the blood and to dissolve the deposits
of material.
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Increasing zeta potential involves consuming
appropriate electrolytes. This generally means more potassium and
less sodium (salt). Also required is consumption of more fluids,
which increases the effectiveness of the
kidneys to remove wastes
such as excess salt.
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Deposits of minerals on the arterial walls can be
removed by increasing the zeta potential of the blood. Deposits of fibrin on the arterial walls can be
removed by enzyme supplementation such as bromelain (found in
pineapples), papain (found in papayas) and pancreatic enzymes.
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Increased zeta potential in the blood prevents
intravascular coagulation. This in turn lowers blood pressure and
allows the heart to pump more efficiently, preventing damage to the
heart valves.
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Blood that is not coagulated is better able to
carry oxygen to the tissues, thereby helping to prevent cancer.
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Increased zeta potential in the blood
simultaneously increases the zeta potential in the lymph, which
allows the lymph to dissolve accumulations of waste material
throughout the body. This also helps prevent cancer.
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Dr. McDaniel has used zeta potential in clinical
practice on over 10,000 patients with good results.
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For more information see our page on
zeta potential.
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Micro Circulation
The eye offers a location
where blood vessels can be seen directly. The
intravascular coagulation
that concerns Dr. McDaniel can readily be seen in the capillaries of
the sclera, conjunctiva and retina of the human eye.
However, in addition to
seeing coagulation of the blood, the eye offers an opportunity to view the
condition of the blood vessels themselves. Circulatory problems are
not restricted to the larger arteries, and difficulties can arise in
smaller and smaller arteries right down to the arterioles of the
capillary system. If you have any clogging of the arteries to the
heart, then it is a sure bet that you also have problems at the
microcirculatory level. In fact, it is estimated that more than 80%
of the population over age 40 has moderate to extreme problems at
the microvascular level.
Every one of the 50 trillion cells in your body
has a capillary nearby. To make this possible, there are more than
60,000 miles of capillaries in your body. Capillaries are the level
of the cardiovascular system where the real work takes place -
gases, nutrients and waste materials are exchanged. Problems at the microvascular level can affect all your cells, tissues and organs as
well as the circulatory system itself. Now you know why people
can have heart problems even when their arteries appear to be clear.
Their difficulties are at the microvascular level. Blockages, leaks and breaks
in the capillaries increase the overall resistance to blood flow
resulting in higher blood pressure. This results in a negative
feedback loop as higher blood pressure can in
turn cause further damage at the microvascular level.
Capillaries need to be
flexible. When the body is under stress, blood pressure will
increase. At the same time, capillaries will dilate to increase
blood flow to the muscles, skin and other areas. This in turn
moderates the increase in blood pressure and prevents rupturing of
blood vessels. Refer to the work of Dr. Pauling and Dr. Rath in
section 2 above regarding nutritional supplementation to restore and
maintain the flexibility of the arteries and arterioles.
Kidneys help control blood pressure by
regulating sodium and potassium. However, high blood pressure can
damage microcirculation in the kidney which in turn reduces the
kidney's ability to regulate sodium and potassium, resulting in even
higher blood pressure. Here we see another negative feedback loop
that can be helped by all the measures to reduce blood pressure
discussed on this page, plus ways to aid the kidneys such as
drinking lots of liquid and
eating healthy fats.
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"Dr. Alzheimer
had never before seen anyone like Auguste D., and he
gained the family's permission to perform an
autopsy. In Auguste's brain, he saw dramatic
shrinkage, especially of the cortex, the outer layer
involved in memory, thinking, judgment and speech.
Under the microscope, he also saw
widespread
fatty deposits in small blood vessels, dead
and dying brain cells, and abnormal deposits in and
around cells." -
http://editthis.info/psy3242/Alzheimer's_Disease
***
Blockage of the peripheral
arteries is called "peripheral vascular disease".
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Earthing
"Earthing"
is the name popularly given to electrically grounding the human body
to the earth. Modern people are electrically insulated from the earth
most of the time due to rubber sole shoes, rubber tire vehicles,
vinyl and carpet floors, wood structures, and so on. However, the
human race evolved in direct electrical contact with the earth while
walking barefoot, sleeping on the ground, etc. It turns out that
insulating ourselves from the earth has health consequences, and
that many health benefits are to be gained by reconnecting to the
earth.
In our modern world, this electrical reconnection
to the earth is being created by means of conductive bed sheets and
floor mats that plug into the grounding hole in electrical outlets.
Conductive footwear is also being developed.
When the human body is
electrically grounded to the earth, random static charges and
foreign electromagnetic fields immediately bleed off into the earth.
Plus, the earth's surface has a negative electrical charge which becomes a
constant source of free electrons for our body. These free electrons
neutralize the positively charged free radicals that are largely responsible
for the present epidemic of inflammation and inflammatory diseases.
Also, the negative electrical charge that the
body attains when electrically grounded to the earth is exactly what
is needed to raise zeta potential to its optimal level. In a study
by cardiologist Dr. Stephen Sinatra and electrophysiologist Dr. Gaetan Chevalier, 40 minutes of Earthing raised zeta potential of
the blood by 270%, restoring the zeta potential to its natural
level (see Earthing pages 176-177).
For more information you can read various studies
and discussion papers
here. |
5. Kilmer McCully, MD and Homocysteine
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Homocysteine is a naturally occurring metabolite of the amino
acid L-methionine used by the body for many functions
including detoxification.
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High levels of homocysteine can damage the
arteries, and this damage leads to plaque formation and heart
disease. Homocysteine also may damage the matrix on which calcium is
deposited to make bone. The result is osteoporosis.
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Homocysteine levels can be controlled by adequate
intake of B vitamins, particularly folic acid, vitamin B6, and
vitamin B12.
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Read more about
homocysteine.
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Dr. Broda Barnes demonstrated that treating an underactive
thyroid can normalize homocysteine levels. Thyroid hormones also
improve circulation by causing the capillaries to dilate. The thyroid needs
iodine.
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Homocysteine is a Precursor
to Glutathione
Glutathione is one of the most
powerful anti-oxidants in the body. With the help of folic acid,
vitamin B6, and vitamin B12 the body can recycle homocysteine or
convert it into
glutathione.
Source of picture
www.biopsychiatry.com/article/sameart.htm
See the diagram of
metabolic pathways involving methionine, homocysteine and glutathione.
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6. Dr. Goldhammer and Sodium Salt
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Consumption of too much salt has become a
problem. Canned and packaged foods are generally less tasty than
fresh foods. As a result, food processors add salt to enhance the
flavor. The FDA places no limit on the amount of salt that may be
added to foods. The widespread consumption of packaged foods has
resulted in the consumption of too much salt by most of the
population.
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Kidneys have the job of removing excess
electrolytes such as salt from the bloodstream. However, even the
kidneys have their limits, and when more salt is consumed than the
kidneys can remove, then salt backs up into the system. High salt
levels in the blood spread by osmosis into the arterial walls, lymph
and other tissues.
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Excessive salt in the arterial walls causes the
vascular lining to swell. This in turn reduces the amount of room
within the arteries for the blood, resulting in hypertension.
Anti-hypertension drugs do not address this problem.
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Dr. Goldhammer solves the problem by placing his
patients on a water-only fast. At the end of the fast, 100% of his
patients are able to stop taking anti-hypertension drugs. During the
fast, Dr. Goldhammer carefully monitors the blood electrolytes of
his patients.
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You can read more about this
here.
7. Dr. Atkins and Potassium Salt
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"The problem for those with high blood pressure isn't sodium, it's a lack of balance between sodium and potassium levels. More than 25 separate studies show how increasing potassium intake (without decreasing the sodium) is an effective way to lower blood pressure. One of those studies demonstrated that with just one daily serving of a potassium-rich food the risk of death by stroke may be cut by as much as half." - Robert C. Atkins, M.D., author of Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution.
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The famous cancer physician Dr. Max Gerson found that
cancer patients also have too much sodium relative to potassium. His
cancer patients were put on a temporary salt free diet and received supplementary
potassium. See
Gerson chapter 22.
You can read more about potassium and cancer
here.
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Dr. Demetrio Sodi Pallares
1,
2 found that
cardiac disease is caused by loss of potassium from the body and
penetration of sodium into the cells (This is the same situation that Dr. Gerson
found in cancer patients). To treat heart attacks and
circulatory problems, Dr. Pallares together with Dr. Henri Laborit of France
developed an intravenous glucose-potassium-insulin (GKI) drip. The
glucose and insulin provided the energy needed to transport potassium
into the cells. Dr. Pallares published over a dozen books and hundreds of
scientific papers describing this successful method of treatment.
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Cholesterol
According to Dr. W. Vergil Brown, professor
at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, food sources with the highest
concentration of cholesterol include hamburgers, cheeseburgers,
meat loaf, whole milk and cheese, steaks, hot dogs and eggs.
Gerson Therapy eliminates these foods while
providing flax oil which is high in Omega-3 and low in Omega-6
fatty acids. According to Charlotte Gerson, flax oil causes
excess cholesterol to be dissolved. The result is that the
Gerson diet clears the arteries of plaque, normalizes blood
pressure, and prevents heart
disease and stroke. See
Healing the Gerson Way, pages 65 - 71.
Sunlight on the skin converts cholesterol
into vitamin D, so the amount of cholesterol in the blood goes
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8. Dr. Wright and Potassium Iodide (SSKI)
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"When I was a pre-med student at
Harvard University, the famous chemistry professor Louis Feiser made a
point of demonstrating to all the pre-medical students that iodine and
iodide would make oils, fats, and waxes (cholesterol is actually a wax)
more soluble in water. He urged us to remember this in our medical
practices, as he was sure it wouldn't be taught in medical school (he
was right!). This known action of iodide likely explains why SSKI can be
useful in the next two applications.
Over 30 years ago, two ophthalmologists observed that a combination
tablet called "Iodo-niacin" (iodide 120 milligrams, niacin 15
milligrams) taken for several months could actually reverse
atherosclerotic clogging of arteries. They proved this effect by taking
pictures of clogged arteries in the backs of the eyes ("retinal
photomicrographs") before and after treatment. The published photographs
showed a significant lessening of the cholesterol-laden artery clogging
in the "after" pictures.
Amazingly enough, no follow-up study has ever been published (probably
because niacin and iodide aren't patentable). Despite this, the
published pictures speak clearly for themselves. I recommend 4 to 6
drops of SSKI and niacin-containing B-complex daily (along with many
other things) for anyone with significant cholesterol-related
atherosclerotic clogging. Thyroid function must be monitored!"
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SSKI means "Saturated Solution Potassium Iodide".
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Read the entire article
here.
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The famous cancer physician
Dr. Max Gerson advocated potassium and iodine, together with a
healthy liver, as necessary for cancer prevention. See
Gerson page 62.
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Radiation and Heart Disease? “My recent study (Radiation from Medical Procedures, 699 pages) provides the first powerful evidence that the U.S. population's accumulated exposure to medical x-rays is a necessary co-actor in causing over half the deaths from cancer, and over half the deaths also from ischemic (coronary) heart disease. Since the study's publication in November 1999, no one has shown that it overestimates the impact of x-rays in causing cancer and coronary heart disease. Some people say "it must be an overestimate," but they have never shown how. Some of the critics have never even looked at the study.”
John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D.
“The X-rays and Health Project. An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility. www.x-raysandhealth.org”
If radiation can cause heart disease, then we must also consider
other sources of radiation such as depleted uranium (DU). According to US
radiation specialist
Leuren Moret, "DU weaponry largely meets the definition of a
weapon of mass destruction (WMD)." In a newspaper article in 2005,
she wrote: "Since 1991, the US has released the radioactive
atomicity (through DU weapons) equivalent of at least 400,000
Nagasaki bombs into the global atmosphere. That is 10 times the
amount released during atmospheric testing which was the equivalent
of 40,000 Hiroshima bombs. The US has permanently contaminated the
global atmosphere with radioactive pollution having a half-life of
2.5 billion years."
Anti-oxidants help neutralize the free radicals caused by ionizing
radiation. Potassium iodide protects the thyroid gland from
radioactive elements.
For more information see
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons. |
9. Dr. Joseph M. Price and
Chlorinated Drinking Water
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Heart disease is virtually
unknown in areas of the world without chlorinated drinking water,
and was unknown in the west prior to the introduction of chlorinated
drinking water in 1904. The first clinical description of coronary
thrombosis (heart attack) was made in 1912. The number of deaths by
heart attack was not significant enough to be included in national
statistics until 1930.
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The water you drink and bathe in probably has chlorine added to it.
Chlorine combines with organic material in the water to form carcinogenic
chemicals called trihalomethanes. When chlorinated water comes into
contact with your digestive system, skin or lungs you can expect the
chlorine to react with your body tissues. Olympic athletes refuse to swim in
chlorinated pools.
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Chlorine displaces iodine in the
body.
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Dr. Joseph M. Price reports
that
animal studies clearly demonstrate that drinking chlorinated water can cause heart disease.
In fact, Dr. Joseph M. Price writes on page 57 of his book
Coronaries Cholesterol Chlorine that "atherosclerosis cannot occur to a
clinically significant degree in the absence of chlorine regardless of diet
and other contributing factors."
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Safer alternatives to create clean drinking water would be ultraviolet light and either ozone or hydrogen peroxide (ozone becomes hydrogen peroxide when it is dissolved in water). In
your home, you might consider a reverse osmosis filter for drinking
water and a KDF filter in your shower.
Page Summary and Conclusion:
Here at Alkalize For Health we do not recommend water
fasting except under the direct supervision of a physician. However, we
note that it is a simple matter to reduce your salt consumption and
increase your liquid intake, both of which should reduce the amount of
salt in your body. Doubling your
consumption of liquids is very helpful to the kidneys, as explained
here. We note that freshly
made fruit and vegetable juices contain an abundance of electrolytes and
a liquid diet of these juices for a brief time on your own should be
safe. Freshly made vegetable juices contain potassium, the
advantages of which are discussed
here. Increasing your zeta
potential will also help cleanse the tissues of excess salt.
Plaque forms
on arteries as the result of damage to the arteries. Arteries can be
damaged by physical stress due to the pumping of the heart, and also by
toxic substances in the blood such as homocysteine and free radicals
(from smoking, rancid fat, radiation, etc.). Oxidized (rancid)
vegetable oils (corn oil, soy oil, etc) look and taste the same as non-oxidized
vegetable oils, but the oxidized oils produce masses of free radicals in
your body. Rather than eating a low fat diet, we recommend eating
healthy fats as part of a balanced
nutrient-dense diet, and avoiding unhealthy fats.
The effectiveness of most of the above approaches to
heart disease has been demonstrated in clinical trials. So why not use
them all together to create a supremely effective program to prevent and
remove heart disease?
Recommended dietary improvements include:
- B
vitamins, particularly folic acid, B6 and B12
- The best B12 supplement is sublingual methylcobalamin. All vegetarians
and senior citizens
should supplement their diet with vitamin B12
- One tablespoon daily of lecithin
- Healthy fats - flax oil, olive oil, coconut oil, butter
- Potassium iodide
- Vitamin C
- Vitamin D
- Amino acids lysine and proline (sprouts
are a good source)
- Anti-oxidants including selenium and natural source vitamin E (with mixed tocopherols)
- Pomegranate juice
- Eat more potassium (found in fruits and vegetables as well as supplemental
potassium such as potassium chloride, potassium bicarbonate, potassium citrate
and potassium iodide)
- Eat more magnesium (found in green leafy vegetables as well as
supplemental magnesium chloride and magnesium citrate)
- Eat less salt (avoid canned food and other pre-packaged foods)
- Consume more reverse-osmosis filtered water, juices, herbal teas, soups and moist foods such as fresh fruit and vegetables
- Lacto-vegetarian diet
Lifestyle improvements include:
- Non-smoking
- Regular exercise
- Sunlight/UVB light
- Meditation
- Earthing This simple program should help
ensure cardiovascular health and cancer prevention. The following table
relates our 8 step cancer program to the above healthy heart programs.
| | 8 Step Cancer Program |
Healthy Heart Program | | 1. | More oxygen | Increased
oxygen results from a healthy heart and circulatory system. | | 2. | More alkalinity | Alkaline
body fluids have a higher zeta potential due to the negative
charge of the OH- ions (Dr. McDaniel). The alkaline mineral
potassium lowers blood pressure (Dr. Atkins). The alkaline
mineral magnesium relaxes the muscles (Dr. Sircus). | | 3. | Less free radicals |
Less free radicals is achieved by purifying what
comes into the body (eg. non-smoking, eating healthy fats,
drinking reverse osmosis filtered water) and by consuming
anti-oxidant foods (Dr. Ornish, Dr. Price). Earthing (Dr.
Sinatra, Dr. Chevalier) | | 4. | More exercise |
Exercise moves the lymph, and improves the health of the heart
and circulatory system. Dr. Ornish recommends regular exercise such as
walking 30 minutes daily or 60 minutes every other day. | | 5. | Hyperthermia | Helps to remove
free radicals (heavy metals and toxic chemicals) from the body and improves circulation. | | 6. | More enzymes | Enzymes
complement the effect of higher zeta potential by dissolving
fibrin from the artery walls (Dr. McDaniel). | | 7. |
Nutrient-dense diet, B17, F, C,
D & Glyconutrients |
Nutrient dense diet provides nutrients
needed: vitamin C, lysine, proline (Drs. Pauling & Rath),
potassium (Drs. Atkins & McDaniel), potassium iodide (Drs.
Wright and Sereda), folic acid, vitamins B6 &
B12 (Dr. McCully), lecithin (Dr. Williams), coconut oil (Dr.
Fife), flax oil (Charlotte Gerson), more water and liquids (Drs. Goldhammer &
McDaniel) , fruits, vegetables, grains, beans (Dr. Ornish).
Sunlight & vitamin D (Dr. Holick & Dr. Williams) | | 8. | Transcendental Meditation |
Deep rest and release of stress resulting in
lower blood pressure and thinner artery walls (reduced
atherosclerosis). Significant increase in blood flow to the brain. |
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