Cardiovascular Disease Protection Protocol

      

"Cardiovascular Disease is a preventable disease. We have the ability to prevent heart disease." Doctor Michael Ozner MD, Heart Surgeon

     

"What if you were to learn that every day, 25 percent of your calories came from a poison, disguised as a food? And what if you discovered that this chemical imposter was responsible for your insulin resistance and weight gain? And elevated blood pressure. And elevated triglycerides and LDL. And depletion of vitamins and minerals. And even gout, heart disease and liver damage? What if you were to discover that this toxic substance had been dumped into your food in gradually increasing quantities for the last thirty years, with the full knowledge and blessings of the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, the USDA and the FDA?      Doctor Robert H. Lustig MD  UCSF        Start of series, NOTE You MUST watch this nine part series, This video will help you kick the deadly sugar habit, Please start your anti-CVD program by eliminating sugar/HFCS from your diet

"It might surprise you to learn that nearly 85 percent of coronary bypass surgeries are done unnecessarily. But at nearly $60,000 per surgery it’s certainly easy to see why. Since almost 70 percent of the U.S. population has some sort of heart disease—related treatments, surgeries, and drugs line the pockets of mainstream medicine and big pharma. It ultimately puts your health at risk and this infuriates me. That’s why I wrote my book the Doctor’s Heart Cure.”    Doctor Al Sears MD, Note this book is a great concise big picture of how to obviate 75% of your CVD death risk

"Heart disease, just like type 2 diabetes, is one of the easiest diseases to prevent and avoid, BUT you simply must be proactive.”  Doctor Joseph Mercola MD

"Coronary heart disease need never ever exist and if it does exist it need never ever progress. A raw plant based diet restores the ability of the endothelial cells to produce nitric oxide which oxygenates the entire body.” Doctor Caldwell Esselstyn MD Coronary Specialist Cleveland Clinic, Note couple this with ingesting NO processed vegetable oils and its close to 100% IMO

"The Doctor of the Future will give no medicine, but will involve the patient in the proper use of food, fresh air, and exercise." Thomas Edison

"Most heart disease is treatable because it is caused by a deficiency of a specific phytonutrient complex." Doctor Bruce West DC

"Ascorbate deficiency is an important underlying factor and that all mechanisms known today leading to CVD can be triggered by ascorbate deficiency. The different mechanisms of human CVD known today therefore all compensate for impaired integrity and stability of the vascular wall caused by chronically low dietary ascorbate intake. If these mechanisms overshoot, heart attack, stroke and other forms of CVD develop. "  Doctor Matthias Rath, Note ascorbate is vitamin C in it's complete form as found in nature, ascorbic acid is a component of ascorbate

"Preserving and restoring the integrity and stability of the vascular wall is the most important therapeutic aim for prevention and treatment of human CVD. Integrity and stability of connective tissue are critically dependent on an optimum amount and function of collagen and elastin. Ascorbate stimulates the production of collagen and elastin and thereby directly contributes to preserving and restoring the stability and integrity of the vascular wall." Doctor Matthias Rath, Note here it is in a word ascorbate

"The only approach to heart disease that has never failed is prevention. "Treating" heart disease with prevention rather than intervention will require a paradigm shift, a radical reconceptualization of the way we physicians practice medicine and in the way patients not only interact with their health providers, but their lives." Doctor Michael Ozner MD, Note this shift MUST originate IMO with us patients or potential patients

“Ascorbate and several other nutritional supplements are of particular value including niacin, L-proline and L-lysine as well as natural antioxidants. The therapeutic use of these nutrients may pave the way towards a new therapeutic goal: the pharmaceutical, noninvasive reversal of existing CVD with nutritional supplements.” Doctor Matthias Rath

“Major epidemics and outbreaks are ALWAYS linked to major sociopolitical upheaval. Today our cancer and AIDS pandemics, our explosive diabetes and heart disease rates, obesity and even Avian Flu frights are all man made, politically contrived and financially sustained. These are social political impositions NOT nature’s curses.”   Doctor Leonard Horowitz  

“The leading cause of death in the western world is the formation of abnormal clots inside a blood vessel. It is important for healthy people to take steps to prevent this.”    Life Extension

“Cardiovascular Disease is essentially unknown in animals producing their own vitamin C at a daily rate of several grams.” Doctor Matthias Rath

“Current research indicates vitamin D deficiency plays a role in causing seventeen varieties of cancer as well as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, and periodontal disease.” John Cantrell Vitamin D Council

“From many surveys on the isle of Crete, I have the impression that centenarians are common among farmers, whose breakfast is often only a wine glass of Olive Oil. In a fifteen year period only 38 out of 10,000 Cretans died of heart disease compared with 773 out of 10,000 Americans.” Doctor Ancel Keys Epidemiologist, Note this survey was taken about 1961 and most poor Cretian farmers rarely if ever saw a doctor

“The decrease in cardiovascular deaths could be staggering if larger numbers of the population took Chondroitin Sulfate.”  Lester M. Morrison, M.D., F.A.C.A.

“An individual who is prone to anger is about three times more likely to suffer a heart attack or sudden cardiac death as someone who is least prone to anger.” Williams et al

“People with periodontal disease are 200% – 300% more likely to have a heart attack than those with healthy gums. Gum disease was a greater risk for heart attack than high blood pressure.” Genco

“A study of 2800 men over 55 showed even minor depression can increase cardiac deaths by 60%, while major depression can triple deaths. Stress response to depression seems to trigger chronically high cortisol levels.”  Pennix et al

“In a study of 80,000 women researchers concluded a 2% increase in calories from transfats nearly doubled the risk of heart disease.”  Harvard

“A study tracking 1822 men over 30 years found that those who ate the most fish, over an ounce per day, cut their risk of cardiovascular disease by over 40% and their risk of heart attack by about half.” Northwestern University Medical School

"In all my years of research as a professor of cardiovascular and pulmonary medicine, natto and nattokinase represents the most exciting new development in the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular related diseases, We have finally found a potent natural agent that can thin and dissolve clots effectively, with relative safety and without side effects."  Doctor Martin Milner

“Taking 800 IU of vitamin E daily for three months lowered LDL cholesterol oxidation by 40%. It’s very clear that vitamin E is the most potent antioxidant against LDL oxidation. Anyone with a family history of heart disease would be foolish not to take vitamin E.”  Ishwarlal Jialal, University of Texas

“In our war against heart disease too many Americans sadly continue to rely on risky surgical treatments that can only be effective after the fact, after years of neglect and abuse of their naturally resilient bodies. The good news is that experts are now increasingly recognizing the value of nutritional, dietary and lifestyle therapies for cardiovascular disease prevention and management.”  Life Extension

“Oxidation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) is a primary initiating event in the development of atherosclerosis. LDL oxidation occurs when oxidants such as peroxynitrite radical, iron ascorbate, and copper ascorbate modify LDL particles. Once LDL is oxidized, it can no longer be recognized by LDL receptors, but instead is targeted by scavenger receptors on macro-phages, leading to the formation of lipid-filled foam cells observed in atherosclerotic lesions.” Life Extension, Note here is a key to the great cholesterol scam. It is OXIDIZED LDL we should fear NOT LDL

“Lysine and proline have unique features of having a high affinity for sticky lipoproteins. With high level of these two amino acids, plaques already formed can be dissolved and washed out of the body. The end result - healthier vascular walls and reduced risk of cardiovascular disease.”  Doctor Michael Lam MD

“A variety of cardiac arrhythmias have been associated with magnesium dis-equilibrium, including ventricular tachycardias, fibrillations, and ectopic beats. Coronary spasm is also a major pathogenic feature of hypo-magnesemia. For patients with variant angina, 24-hour magnesium retention after intravenous magnesium loading was 60%, while it was only 36% in control subjects. Substantial evidence has associated magnesium deficiency with sudden cardiac death, a condition that claims 300,000 lives every year.”  Doctor Michael Lam MD

“There is an increase of awareness in the role of omega-3 fatty acids.  Omega-3 fatty acids are found in fish and fish oils and aid in the prevention and management of heart diseases.   This can help reduce your risk of developing an abnormal heartbeat; which can lead to heart problems and even sudden death. Greater than half of all sudden death from cardiac causes have no history of cardiovascular disease. In fact, over 40% of all heart attack victim autopsies show clear coronary vessels. Clearly, there is much more going on than the simple "cholesterol kills" hypothesis. It is interesting to note that the first and most common sign of cardiovascular disease in post-menopausal women is death. Yes, death.  In other words, there are no signs or symptoms.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

“When comparing the Greenland Inuit and the Dutch, the former exhibit a significantly lower death rate from acute myocardial infarction despite only moderate differences in their blood cholesterol levels. This is because the Inuit's diet is high in fat and provides up to several grams of omega-3 fatty acid daily, primarily in the form of marine mammals, wildfowl and various fish.” Doctor Michael Lam MD

“In a study 1,471 postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to take a placebo or 1,500 mg of calcium daily for five years. Those taking calcium had a 40% higher risk of heart attacks. Their risk for stroke also rose.” University of Auckland

"There is no correspondence between coronary mortality and fat consumption."  Michael Gurr PhD, Molecular Sciences, Oxford

"If you believe that you can ward off death by altering the amount of cholesterol in your blood, whether by diet or drugs... you have been taken in by commercial interest groups who are more interested in your money than in your life."  Edward Pinckney, PhD editor of JAMA ( [14] p 262)

“The Masai are animal herders who live in the highlands of Kenya. For centuries their diet has consisted almost exclusively of blood, meat, and milk. A diet higher in cholesterol could scarcely be imagined, unless of course we consider the diet of another isolated group: Eskimos. The Eskimos subsist on diets of meat, fish, and blubber. When no meat or fish is available they can live for months on blubber alone - almost 100% cholesterol. So if the diet/heart/cholesterol myth of organized medicine were true, these two groups should be dying of hypertension and heart attack in high numbers. Instead, the exact opposite is true - heart disease is unknown in both these societies.” The Doctor Within

“Scientists were first alerted to the many benefits of fish oils in the early 1970s when Danish physicians observed that Greenland Eskimos had an exceptionally low incidence of heart disease and arthritis despite the fact that they consumed a high-fat diet. Intensive research soon discovered that two of the fats (oils) they consumed in large quantities, EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), were actually highly beneficial. More recent research has established that fish oils (EPA and DHA) play a crucial role in the prevention of atherosclerosis, heart attack, depression, and cancer. Clinical trials have shown that fish oil supplementation is effective in the treatment of many disorders including rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, ulcerative colitis, and Reynaud’s disease.” Fish and Fish Oil

"There is a better road we can walk down that will provide us with a lifetime of heart health. This road is called progress road and it costs a fraction of the journey down the dead-end road, with excessive interventions and diagnostic studies that don’t improve clinical outcome. Progress road is truly the biggest bang for the buck! Progress road utilizes clinically proven prevention rather than needless intervention to keep us healthy and lowers our health care costs that cripple the financial health of America thereby impeding our ability to compete in a global economy."    Doctor Michael Ozner MD  

"Cardiovascular care in America is spiraling out of control.  We are now spending more than one hundred billion dollars a year for treatment and management of cardiovascular catastrophes (heart attack, stroke and diseases of the vascular system). This extraordinary amount of money is spent on victims of a disease that is largely preventable. In the Great American Heart Hoax I have outlined the problems of cardiovascular care in America that is draining our healthcare dollars and contributing to our financial collapse. In addition, I point out key areas of wasteful spending on expensive and risky diagnostic studies as well as procedures that are of no benefit to the millions of Americans who fall prey to the cardiovascular intervention industry. What may surprise you is what is considered to be the ultimate of cardiac care in this country is often unnecessary and dangerous." Doctor Michael Ozner MD  

"Dental diseases, mental diseases, heart disease, infectious respiratory diseases, and heart disease are all at least partially caused by common failures in metabolism. Such failures are inevitable when there is a deficiency of essential nutrients, particularly vitamins D, C, and niacin. There is especially strong evidence for a relationship between vitamin D deficiency and cavities. Dozens of studies were conducted in the 1930's and 1940's [16-27]. More than 90% of the studies concluded that supplementing children with vitamin D prevents cavities. Particularly impressive was a study published in 1941 demonstrated the preventative affect of "massive" doses of vitamin D [28]. And yet no subsequent studies in the scientific literature suggested a need to follow up and repeat this work."  Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 19, 2009

"Obtaining vitamins in sufficient doses to help prevent dental disease is safe and easily accomplished. Between 5,000 and 15,000 IU of vitamin D may be obtained from modest exposure to sunshine in the middle of the day. Recommending that people regularly use the capacity of their skin to make vitamin D is common sense. Certainly 1,000 to 2,000 IU per day of vitamin D in supplemental form is safe. 2,000 milligrams per day of vitamin C, and hundreds of milligrams per day of niacin, help prevent tooth and mouth troubles. Sick individuals, and those who are prone to cavities, will typically benefit by starting with higher doses of vitamin D, vitamin C, and niacin under the supervision of an orthomolecular physician." Orthomolecular Medicine News Service, February 19, 2009

"Loma Linda University research just published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition compares the effects of walnuts and fatty fish in the fight against heart disease, demonstrating that in healthy individuals, walnuts lower cholesterol more than fish, while fatty fish lower triglycerides. Both can reduce the overall risk of coronary heart disease." Life Extension

"Blood clots kill more than 600,000 Americans every year yet conventional medicine has largely ignored well-documented methods of reducing abnormal blood clot formation." Circulation Ahajournal

"High levels of fibrinogen predispose a person to coronary and cerebral artery disease even when other known risk factors are normal." Life Extension

"Excess abdominal fat that grows around internal belly organs, visceral fat, is linked with a host of undesirable conditions including increased inflammation and elevated risks of type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease." Life Extension

"Doctor Thomas Graboys of Harvard Medical School saw 168 patients who were told that they needed cardiac catheterization and who came to him for a second opinion. He concluded, in the study published in JAMA in 1992 that 162 of the 168 patients did not need cardiac catheterization. While cardiac catheterization is an essential tool for unstable patients or those experiencing a heart attack, all the evidence suggests it is being overused in stable men and women." Doctor Michael Ozner MD. Note to understand the profound risk this has on people not needing the catheterization please read Doctor Ozner's book "The Great American Heart Hoax"

"I don't consider cardiac catheterization to be either simple or risk-free. It is an invasive procedure, more akin to surgery than image scanning, that can lead to deadly complications, and it should not be ordered at the drop of a hat." Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"Unfortunately the patient must receive a dose of radioactive material through an IV. The patient becomes 'radioactive" which increases the risk of cancer. The second pitfall of the nuclear stress test is that any abnormal finding usually leads to other tests and procedures, usually tests and procedures that studies have not shown to reduce the risk of either heart attack or death." Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"Nature designed us for daily exercise and working harder actually improves the functionality of the heart and blood vessels." Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"And if your doctor couldn't successfully "snake out" the arterial clog, a surgeon could always just bypass it, adding a new pipe through which blood could flow freely. Sounds simple. Makes sense. Why not? I'll tell you why not. Our arteries are not pipes."  Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"What makes high levels of triglycerides so dangerous is their shrinking of the average LDL particle size, making the LDL more likely to enter the artery wall and possibly begin the atherosclerosis process."  Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"The extracellular accumulation of lipoprotein(a) in the vascular wall as the predominant pathomechanism of human atherosclerosis is no coincidence. The frequency of this mechanism today is directly related to its advantage during the evolution of man. After the loss of endogenous ascorbate production in our ancestors lipoprotein(a) became a life-saving feature to counteract fatal blood-loss through the scorbutic vascular wall. While scurvy is essentially unknown today, chronic insufficient dietary ascorbate intake is widespread. The deposition of lipoprotein(a) in the vascular wall stabilizes the wall of the arteries particularly during ascorbate deficiency. With insufficient dietary ascorbate intake over decades this defense mechanism overshoots and CVD develops."  Doctor Matthias Rath, Note take 3 grams of vitamin C/day What could be simpler?

"Enzymes and other therapies like Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and IV chelation offer surprising benefits even a few days after a major circulatory event." Doctor Gary Gordon MD

"The most important thing we can do for CVD prevention is to get the 90% of the public who get little to no exercise and are unfit to become mildly fit. That is where we are going to have our biggest impact on CVD prevention. Clearly that can be accomplished by getting the American public to start moving. Walking 30 minutes a day is a start." Doctor Michael Ozner MD

"In a group of aging humans with risk factors for cardiovascular events, pomegranate or placebo was ingested on a daily basis. After 12 months blood flow through the carotid artery was increased by 44% in the pomegranate group and worsened 9% in the placebo group." Life extension

"Omega 3 EFA and transfats have profound effects on cardiovascular health in incredibly small amounts. CVD risk is reduced by one third by 250 mg of DHA and EPA. Transfats are the  most harmful fats in the food supply. Eating 40 calories of transfats a day raises your risk of CVD by 30%."  Doctor Dariush Mozaffarian MD, Note transfats, heavily used in processed foods and fast foods are the man made substitute for natures healthy saturated fats.

"Inflammation is a major risk factor for heart disease, and periodontal disease may increase the inflammation level throughout the body. Since several studies have shown that patients with periodontal disease have an increased risk for cardiovascular disease, we felt it was important to develop clinical recommendations for our respective specialties. Therefore, you will now see cardiologists and periodontists joining forces to help our patients." Consensus Paper AJC, AAP

"Except for a minority of patients, bypass surgery and angioplasty have never been shown to prolong life or prevent heart attacks. An estimated 25% to 30% of angioplasties fail requiring patients to repeat the procedure. And eventually many of these angioplasties will require bypass surgery. Up to 80% of bypass surgeries may experience cognitive difficulties. People who undergo bypass surgery are four times more likely to suffer a subsequent stroke. Complications of angioplasty and stent placement include heart attack, stroke; aneurism at the puncture site; infection and the need for emergency bypass surgery."  Doctor Michael Ozner MD  

"The study participants all of whom had type 2 diabetes, who ranged in age from 35 to 75, were instructed to take a 20- to 30-minute walk every day. Among the 64 who managed to achieve this, just 1 - or 2 percent -- suffered a stroke and none developed heart disease during the 17-month study. In contrast, of the 38 participants who failed to stick with their exercise prescription, 7 -- or 18 percent -- developed heart disease or had a stroke." International Journal of Sports Medicine, October 2007, Note WOW a better testament for exercise cannot be found

"Chocolate eaters in a study of heart attack survivors had lower blood pressure and were less likely to die of heart disease, scientists in Sweden said. Of the 1,169 patients studied, those who ate chocolate two or more times a week cut their risk of dying from heart disease nearly threefold compared to those who didn't eat chocolate at all, said the study's lead author, Doctor Imre Janszky of Karolinska Institute. This study also suggested antioxidants in cocoa cut the risk of death from heart disease in healthy older men and post-menopausal women,"  Life Extension, Note dark cocoa should work better

"One study says that natural vitamin K2 reduced arterial calcifications by 50%. And it also reduced cardiovascular mortality risk by the same amount. The dose they used in this study was only 45 mcg. That's a tiny dose. Personally, I think 100 mcg is the optimum dose. So try to take this much every day. The best food source of this vitamin is natto."  Doctor Robert Rowen MD

"Researchers at Johns Hopkins and the NIH (led by Dr. Jared Reis) looked at 3500 American teenagers and found teenagers with the lowest Vitamin D levels, compared to the highest, were five times more likely to be obese, 2.5 times more likely to be hypertensive, 2.5 times more likely to have elevated blood sugar, and about 4 times more likely to have the metabolic syndrome. Only 25% of the teenagers had levels higher than 26 ng/ml while 25% had levels lower than 15 ng/ml."

"Dr. Jahi Kumar and colleagues at Albert Einstein School of Medicine looked at more than 6,000 American kids (age one to 21) who were carefully selected to be representative of the average American child. Nine percent of the kids had 25(OH)D levels less than 15 ng/ml and 70% (representing 58 million kids) had levels less than 30 ng/ml. The older the child, the blacker the child, the more TV and video games, the fatter the child, the higher the chance the child is deficient. Tragically, 59% of black teenage girls had levels less than 15 ng/ml. Children with low levels were more likely to have abnormal blood lipids, high blood pressure, obesity, and abnormally elevate parathyroid hormone levels, all risks for future cardiovascular disease. Only 4% of American children take recommended doses of Vitamin D supplements, surely a failure of U.S. pediatricians." Note for robust good health shoot for 60 ng/ml IMO

Continuation of  Cardiovascular Disease Protection Protocol (See CVD Protection Protocol Continuation)