Cardiovascular Disease
Cardiovascular disease (heart attack and stroke) is our nation’s number one killer. Around 40% of the people who die each year, die of cardiovascular disease. All while the textbook Robbins Pathological Basis of Disease, which is a medical text used widely in the US, indicates that it is virtually 100% preventable.
There is a solution to CVD…avoid it, prevent it, never get it. And I will tell you how. If you have suffered the effects, the same rules apply. If you live through a heart attack or stroke, you have to fix the underlying cause because each subsequent “event” is more likely to be fatal. So what is, or rather are, the underlying causes?
According to Robbins textbook, the sequence of events is:
Damage to the internal wall of the vessel caused by inflammation, carbon monoxide (smoking) or high blood pressure.
“Scar tissue” formation on the damage sites.
Oxidation or oxygen damage to fat, know as LDL particles. LDLs are the “bad” cholesterol.
Oxidized LDL particles stick to the “Scab” and eventually clog the vessel.
By understanding biochemistry, you can fix, heal, or prevent this sequence virtually 100% of the time. Let’s take it step by step.
The inflammatory effects on the vessels primarily results from homocysteine, which can be easily measured and lowered using B12, B6, and folic acid. High blood pressure can be lowered medically or by using the techniques I describe (HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE). The stickiest one is smoking, if you are a smoker. It is highly addictive and requires significant neurological conditioning to let it go; but people do it, it is possible, so it also is 100% preventable. (NET can offer help with kicking the habit).
Lower cholesterol naturally (HIGH CHOLESTEROL), and eat an abundance of high antioxidant foods to prevent the oxidation of LDLs. These foods include berries, prunes, apricots, spinach, and really most fruits and vegetables. It is a fact, however, that 80% of heart attacks occur in individuals with normal cholesterol because step one is the most significant and is not controlled by cholesterol levels.
Done…gone…the whole mess is resolved.
What about genetics, you ask? Bruce Ames of University of California at Berkley, a prominent researcher, now in his 70s and still solving biochemical problems, has published several studies on the use of B vitamins to overcome genetic influences on disease. In short, he has found genetic predispositions linked to the “speed” at which an enzyme converts one chemical into another, for instance homocysteine back into methionine. Homocysteine is destructive, and methionine is safe. So if you are genetically a slow converter, you just supplement activated B vitamins or high dose to make up for bad parents.
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