We Need to Treat the Blood, Not Cut Out the Artery
More importantly the new understanding about the role of infection and
inflammation in cases of sudden death from heart attacks suggests that all current
surgically based approaches to heart disease are
as misguided as removing your lung if you have pneumonia!
We need to focus on the blood and not the blood vessel!
Most doctors are not yet aware of some of the important developments that
have surfaced so rapidly in the past several years. These include efforts to see the
dangerous Vulnerable Plaque noninvasively with a high speed MRI and other
diagnostic techniques that are now being developed. These instruments are not
yet found in local hospitals, but may help to end the current excessive reliance on
surgical treatment of vascular disease in the future. Although the popular high
speed CAT scan provides useful information regarding the calcium content of the
artery, it is not capable of measuring the really dangerous vulnerable
plaque. Therefore, let these tests motivate
patients to address their risk factors, such as
antibodies to oxidized cholesterol, C-reactive protein levels etc., so that they
medically treat the problem - regularly, ideally
for
the rest of their life! A bad score on this test should motivate you to carefully
follow the advice contained in this article and follow up later with a retest.
Heart Disease Appears to Be Closely Linked to Inflammation
The inflammation/infection aspect of heart disease has gained added validation by:
- The recognition of a new measurement of Interleukin 1, an
inflammatory marker published in Circulation, Vol. 5-99, 1999, and
- In a review article published in NEJM (New England Journal of
Medicine), Vol. 340, 1999. Further validation was added by the recent report
published in JAMA showing that up to 55% of heart attacks appear to be prevented
by treatment with proper antibiotics. In addition, evidence published in
Science, February 1999, implicates an infectious bacteria known as chlamydia,
while CMV and Herpes (common retroviruses) have also been shown to be
closely connected with heart attacks. Chlamydia is a disease to which up to 95%
of us is exposed during our lives and once it enters our body, it finds some
devitalized tissue (plaque) and never leaves!
It's Extremely Difficult to Stop Inflammation with a Knife!
The experts studying vulnerable plaque agree that there's an
inflammatory component to this extremely dangerous
plaque, which confirms that surgery is not be the correct approach to control it. The
Vulnerable plaque appears to be as much as 4-5 Degrees C hotter, thus explaining the
success seen with Oxidant therapies such as Ozone, UVB, or
H2O2 IV, and/or antibiotics in treating angina. While these
new parameters are more important by far than current outdated risk factor
information, we still have to improve our diet and
life style, exercise, and maintain a healthy immune system by taking long- term
oral Chelating and other detoxifying supplements, as well as SAFE
anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, anti-thrombotic,
lipid-lowering, natural supplement therapies.
A Safe Anti-Inflammatory and Comprehensive Cardio-Vascular Supplement Exists
At this time, I am happy to report that those of my patients taking the
comprehensive 9 pill packets of Beyond Chelation combined with 3 to 5 Wobenzym
N twice daily are conveniently addressing all of the newly recognized molecular
mechanisms of heart disease -- from controlling Homocysteine and elevated
cholesterol or triglycerides, to lowering C-reactive protein, which is clearly
becoming one of the most significant tests in cardiology!
Aspirin Is OK in an Emergency,But We Need Safe, Long Term Help
We have heard that taking an aspirin while having a heart attack can
increase survival. This may be true, but should be a temporary emergency measure only.
We know from statistics, however, that the great majority of us
must take some long-term anti-clotting protection against
the massive blood clots that we now believe are involved in lethal heart attacks. In
fact, researchers are finding that long term use of anti-inflammatory drugs are a
major factor in helping to prevent not just Alzheimer's disease, but heart attacks
and strokes as well! The problem is that although there are now proven
benefits from taking a daily dose of aspirin
and/or other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), we pay dearly for
these benefits with over 16 thousand deaths and over 125 thousand hospitalizations
annually, generally related to internal bleeding, although liver and kidney damage are
also a far too common side effect.)
We also can offer our patients a major new nutritionally based therapy that
acts like an oral vaccination, Transfer Factor. This exciting therapy helps us deal
with the infection aspect of vascular disease by helping to control serious chronic viral
and other infections now being implicated in heart attack and stroke. Transfer
Factor may improve resistance to Herpes, CMV, Chlamydia, and Helicobacter (often
coming from chronic dental problems). Until such time as science identifies the
proper vaccination or anti-infective therapies to cure these infections, it seems advisable
for all of us to try a Transfer Factor type of product and also regularlyconsume a safe affordable anti-inflammatory like
Wobenzym, which is well documented to have no side effects yet have
many far reaching benefits -- benefits such as:
- Effectively treating most forms of
arthritis better than standard medicines today,
- Helping to control cancer and increasing the life span of all cancer patients
a minimum of 30%,
- Offering protection against infections and injuries, and
- Fortifying our immune systems every day of our lives. Germany
developed Wobenzym: all-natural combination Enzyme-Bioflavonoid
product. (The rutin component appears to be an
ideal Iron Chelator!) With it, we get all the benefits of anti-inflammatory
medication without the high incidence of gastrointestinal bleeding associated
with the use of aspirin and the many other documented side effects known to
develop after the longterm use of NSAIDs and other standard
anti-inflammatory medications.
Over 100 Million People Have Used Wobenzym in a 30-year Period. During åThat Time, No Detrimental Side Effects Have Been Reported from Its Use.
Manufactured by the Mucos Company in Germany since the 1960's,
Wobenzym is now widely available in the United States at a time when there is a
greater need than ever before to include it in our nutritional defense program. Unlike
most enzymes on the market, this enzyme is specially designed so that it is
not used to digest food but is used internally,
inside the bloodstream, beneficially affecting many of the factors that are now
known to lead to the development of serious diseases. These factors range from:
- Lowering Circulating immune complexes (These have been shown to
shorten our lifespan.);
- Lowering the elevated levels of fibrinogen that tend to make our blood
thicker as we get older to;
- Treating Herpes and other viral and bacterial infections -- either alone or as
part of a total anti-infection program, including Transfer Factor related
nutrients and/or antibiotics. (Note: Wobenzym alone has been shown more effective
in treating Herpes than the standard anti-viral drugs now available, and,
when combined with the Transfer Factor related, products, it is even more effective!);
- Lowering elevated C-Reactive proteins to the lowest 50 percentile or the
lower portion of the so-called normal range. (Note: The normal range at the
current time is too wide. For optimum health, we should place our optimal values
at levels far lower than they are at present.) The C-reactive Protein Test identifies how active the inflammatory process
is when the test is taken.
New Tests Have Been Proven Necessary for Accurate Treatment of Individual Heart Problems
There is a plethora of scientific information regarding the many new tests
that are finally beginning to be accepted as significant in determining and
controlling all of the newer recognized
cardiovascular risk factors. If your doctor could
keep up with current published literature, some of the tests he would prescribe for
you would not be just cholesterol even with its subsets of HDL, LDL, but the
newer LPA and the latest oxidized cholesterol antibody test. Furthermore,
adhesion molecules such as VCAM and ICAM that measure how sticky things are
can now be measured at the molecular level. These are vascular and intercellular
adhesion molecules that have been implicated in the impaired circulation of
the tiny vessels (capillaries) that eventually lead to heart attacks, strokes and loss
of vision with such common conditions as macular degeneration and glaucoma.
The physician should also test platelet aggregation, fibrinogen, lipid
peroxides, and other markers of free radical
damage. Furthermore, he can monitor the level of activity (antibodies) to the various
infectious agents now implicated in arteriosclerosis, such as chlamydia, CMV
(Cytomegalovirus), Herpes, etc. Since virtually
all of us test positive for these infectious agents, I routinely now recommend the
use of Immune enhancing nutrients including Transfer Factor related compounds,
Aloe Vera, Beta Glucan, etc. however I also refer some seriously ill and/or immune
compromised patients for oxidative therapies such as IV Hydrogen Peroxide
(H2O2) and/or the use of antibiotics.
Platelet aggregation tests show how sticky platelets become when
challenged. Note: This leads to the bloodclots that
we now recognize as the immediate cause of death in
many heart attacks and strokes! Homocysteine (Note: This test may
not be accurate if done using a serum separator tube. It also is more sensitive if a
load such as 1.5 gm of methionine is taken orally 4 hours before in order to help identify
the approximately 30% of us who are found to have this
dangerous and (now) common but still generally unrecognized problem.
Serum ferritin levels are done because most of us have dangerously elevated
levels of iron because so many of us have mistakenly been taking vitamin and
mineral supplements containing iron. Having elevated iron levels is as dangerous as
having elevated lead. This iron overload is contributing to our already heavy
metal poisoned bodies.
Fasting insulin levels, triglycerides/HDL ratio, Redox, pH, Resistance,
APO E-2, 3, or 4, blood type testing, food allergy tests, these and many other tests
are all useful in helping optimize our lifestyle and dietary program. Fatty acid
analysis (on red blood cell membranes) and amino acid testing on urine or blood are
all part of the extremely useful battery of tests that assists the properly trained
health professional to individualize the optimal nutritional and life extension support
programs for patients.
Generally the more of these tests that we do, the more things you will find
are sub-optimal. Fortunately, most of the abnormalities that we uncover can be
greatly helped with the cardiovascular nutritional support products BC (Beyond
Chelation) Wobenzym and nutritionally based immune enhancing supplements. Note:
Everything works better when taken along with appropriate diet and life style
changes! Note: Many of these tests are available through specially licensed laboratories
in the United States such as Immunosciences, Beverly Hills CA, Great Smokies
Diagnostic Lab Asheville NC., and Antibody Assay Laboratories, Santa Ana, CA.
or Doctors Data, West Chicago, Illinois.
If These Tests Are Difficult to Obtain Cost-Wise and Within a
Reasonable Time,You Can Still Address Your Risk
Factors with a Nutritionally-Based Product.
Most of these tests are now recognized as important in maintaining
optimal health. I find these tests allow me to individualize and monitor the success
of nutritional and life style support programs that my patients choose to follow. We
cannot expect overnight to have all of these tests widely available or get physicians
up to speed on the proper interpretation of these tests, nor can we expect all of
the insurance companies to suddenly agree to pay for all of these tests that they
will probably pretend are more of a longevity/anti-aging program rather than the
standard practice of disease detection which
our health insurance industry has chosen to focus upon. Since there will be
many problems in making these tests widely available for everyone, I have chosen to focus
on developing a cost effective, convenient, affordable, clinically tested
broad-spectrum nutritionally based approach that
addresses all of these newer risk factors
This program deals with the nutritional and metabolic aspects of vascular
disease and aging itself. This program also deals with Homocysteine, which is
a readily, nutritionally responsive, widespread, newly recognized metabolic
problem. We find that over 30% of people correctly and appropriately
tested by a laboratory specializing in this test will be
above ideal values of 7 or below. Current research clearly shows that
Homocysteine is such an important yet generally overlooked
risk factor for many health problems including Alzheimer's disease and Cancer,
that it makes taking potentially dangerous drugs to control the levels of
cholesterol appear to be an exercise in futility.
While Living on Devitalized Food from Mineral Deficient Soils,
Packaged in Boxes, Picked Green, and Stored in Refrigerated Compartments, We
Need Supplements More Than Ever Before.
Homocysteinuria used to be a rare in-born metabolic error, but it has
recently become a virtual epidemic. I believe this may be explained by a combination of
factors including as dietary deficiencies of many essential nutrients, as well as an
excessively high protein intake, in a body that averages today 1000 times more
lead than was present before the industrial age, while getting less and less of the
essential minerals such as Zinc in our excessively refined foods.
No one but the A.H.A. doubts the advisability of taking anti-oxidants
such as Vitamin E and C in doses far beyond what the average diet provides us.
Homocysteine has become such a common problem in our society today that it
clearly would appear prudent to also protect ourselves by taking additional levels of
Folic Acid, B6, B12, and even Betaine
Hydrochloride. It has become clear to me that maintaining optimal health requires
that we also routinely take Chelating and detoxifying agents such as garlic
and EDTA that will continuously help pull out the toxins like lead, mercury, and
pesticides, etc., out of the body. This way, we are not putting the expensive
essential nutrients like vitamin E, etc., into a
polluted cesspool and expecting to get the full benefits of these miraculous nutrients.
Our Systems Must Now Deal with Lead and Heavy Metal Intruders!
We know that on average, studies have shown that we have at least 1,000
times more lead in our brains, with even higher levels in our pituitary gland (that
makes our vital human growth hormone) than we had before the industrial age
and that other toxic heavy metals are being found in equally elevated levels in critical
tissues and organs throughout our body, such as our kidneys, liver, and brain. Note:
Congestive failure heart patients have recently been reported to have 22,000
times more mercury and 14,000 times more antimony in their hearts. We all get
too much mercury, both from our silver amalgam fillings and even from the fish
we eat. I do not wait to start intravenous chelation for treating this massive
epidemic of heavy metal toxicity from which we all suffer. Instead
I routinely recommend taking oral chelation daily forever as soon
as you can begin to swallow a well formulated product. I designed Garlic plus (as
found in BC) to be such a formula. It is the chelation portion of the new all-purpose
multiple nutrient support product (BC) and it provides incredible detoxification.
The formula includes EDTA, which was approved by the FDA years ago for the
treatment of asymptomatic levels of lead. Thus it improves IQ levels, immune
system, energy, etc. I find this to be a very
useful adjunct in detoxification, if not an essential therapy for all of us to take daily
in our polluted world. (I also use Proalgen.)
Excessive Levels of Lead in the Brain Lowers IQ.
I recommend taking BC (containing 9 pills in convenient plastic packs) be
taken at least once or preferably twice daily for everyone at least by age 9
in place of any standard multiple vitamin formula.
This formula includes the Essential Fatty
acids, GLA and EPA, which are well-documented nutrients for optimal longevity and
daily functioning. Then with our need to maintain optimal brain function, we
include Ginko and Phosphatidylserine, the two most proven supplements for
neurological protection (memory, vision, etc.) is also
in BC. Taking other oral chelators such as alginates that have been specially
processed for efficient heavy metal removal (ProAlgen) can further augment the benefits
of detoxification. For extra anti-aging benefits, I still always recommend IV
chelation as described in the book I co-authored with Dr Walker, but always
with the oral Chelating formula in BC, as well as
the anti-inflammatory, anti-thrombotic Wobenzym, and the immune enhancer TF.
With 50% of Our Population (Over the Age of 40)
Dying Prematurely from Heart Disease, It's Time for a New
Multi-Vitamin: A Cardio-Support Multi-Vitamin.
Considering the need to protect our immune system, the need for essential
nutrients, the need to detoxify our bloodstream and protect our cardiovascular systems, as
well as the well documented need for a long term use of a safe anti-inflammatory, and the
need to reduce heavy metals from our tissues and organs, the time has arrived for us to
broaden our approach to optimal health with more comprehensive nutritionally balanced
supplements. These supplements must not only remove excessive levels of metallic and
other toxins, but simultaneously increase the
levels of the nutrients that we now provably need if we are to win the fight against the
multiple metabolic/environmental/infectious
contributory causes of degenerative diseases,
dementia, heart attacks, and strokes and aging.
The time is ripe to introduce my special Beyond Chelation formula
to the American people.
Old, Inadequate Theories Must Give Way to New Discoveries
We know that by following the old completely inadequate
recommendations made by the American Heart
Association and other health authorities that we
have only made a small dent in the number of deaths from stroke and heart attack.
Their recommendations have lead to entirely unhealthy dietary practices, along with
using the extremely ill advised cholesterol lowering drugs so commonly
prescribed today. Cholesterol, unless it is oxidized,
is a valuable nutrient which your body has to manufacture every day in order to
help build the membranes of the new cells that we must form continually to replace
the dead and dying cells in our body. We find elevated antibodies to so many forms
of chronic infection in virtually all of us today. This strongly suggests that our
immune systems are seriously weakened, partially as a result of the heavy
metals and other toxins we ingest from our polluted environments as well as our
stressful and nutritionally deficient lifestyles.
Backed by Scientifically Formulated Nutritional
Supplements, I Haven't Had to Send One Patient to a Heart
Surgeon for the Past 10 Years.
Obviously, even if you fully optimize all these factors, no one can guarantee each individual will achieve complete
success in restoring or maintaining good health. Nevertheless, based on my 40
years of clinical experience during the last 10 years of which I did not have to send
a single patient for bypass or angioplasty surgery no matter how advanced
their blockages were, I now believe that most degenerative and cardiovascular
diseases can be improved and often nearly totally reversed with the special
supplements described here combined with the
dietary and lifestyle recommendations that I have prescribed for my patients.
Dr. Dean Ornish has proven that those who are able to follow his more rigid
approach of exercise, meditation, and dietary change have continued to improve
over the years. He has show that all arteriosclerosis is absolutely reversible. Why
take the chance of dying or sustaining serious injury, pain, or brain damage
associated with most vascular surgical procedures today, particularly when more and
more experts are saying that surgery is not dealing with the
cause of heart attacks or strokes. We must focus on the
bloodstream and not the blood vessel. Current official guidelines have not
substantially prevented cardiovascular related
deaths from stroke and heart attacks.
Dr. Valentin Fuster, President of the American Heart Association, Is on the Trail of Vulnerable Plaque
Dr. Valentin Fuster, a cardiologist, MD, Ph.D., at Mount Sinai School
of Medicine in New York and President of the American Heart Association, has
stated on November 8th, 1999, that arteries containing
(vulnerable) plaque can now be identified by a high technology,
super-fast, entirely painless, safe imaging MRI scanner. When this fragile clot
ruptures, it leads to the formation of massive
blood clots that suddenly cut off the supply of oxygen rich blood to the heart
and/or brain, resulting in heart attack or stroke respectively. Only by our new
knowledge regarding vulnerable plaque can we now comprehend why some people with
little or no apparent blockage can have a heart attack while others with almost
completely blocked arteries may live for decades often without any of the symptoms of
cardiovascular disease.
When arteries close down slowly, the body compensates, often by
producing brand new collateral circulation to go around the blocked area. The person
may
not even know that a significant artery in their body gradually closed off, because
it was safely and reliably replaced by tiny new blood vessels, blood vessels that
are not visible on the usual arteriogram studies in hospitals. These entirely
inadequate and grossly misleading x-rays have led
to so many needless bypass and angioplasty procedures. It is, of course, important
to stabilize the fragile vulnerable plaque lesions and experts are hoping that
lipid lowering approaches will show some benefits here, so I have included the
powerful proven lipid lowering and detoxifying power or Red Yeast and
Beta-Sitosterol in the Beyond Chelation Formula
The Roots of the Beyond Chelation Formula Reach Back 15 Years
In 1982, I began using the mucopolysaccaride heart attack prevention formula
introduced to me by Dr. Lester Morrison, director of the Institute for
Arteriosclerosis Research. Supported by this formula and
a welldocumented nutritional program, I saw better than a 90% reduction in heart
attacks with my patients no matter how advanced their condition had become. This
formula and the nutritional support program evolved through the years to become
the basis of the Beyond Chelation formula: a full, comprehensive, cardio-vascular
support multi-vitamin supplement suitable for the entire family.
Most informed health professionals now recognize the obvious limitations
of vascular surgery and are much more open to learning about chelation, IV
hydrogen peroxide and these new, synergistically
developed cardio-vascular support programs such as BC. They are beginning to
understand the benefits as well as the limitations of all approaches for the prevention
and treatment of heart attacks and strokes.
