7 Essential Facts About Heart Disease

Coronary heart disease can often be reversed through a natural, integrative approach that targets the root cause: microclot formation in the blood.

This article outlines seven essential facts about heart disease, seven powerful heart-smart nutrients, and seven healing foods and herbs that support cardiovascular health. Learn why bypass surgery and cholesterol-lowering drugs may not be the only answers, and how oxidative stress, emotional triggers, and nutritional deficiencies play a bigger role than we’ve been led to believe.

If you have been told you have coronary heart disease, you need to understand seven things about this condition:

1. Coronary heart disease is reversible.

2. Coronary heart disease begins in the circulating blood, with formation of microclots and microplaques that clog heart arteries, injure heart cells, and cause disease.

3. Coronary heart disease cannot be reversed with bypass surgery, angioplasty or blocker drugs.

4. Microclots in blood are caused by oxidative injury.

5. The most dangerous heart killers are anger and stress.

6. Cholesterol is an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect the heart, not injure it.

7. An injured heart heals with nutrients, not with beta- and calcium channel blockers.

THE BIG SEVEN

1. Coronary heart disease is reversible.
   Coronary heart disease is reversible for most people with failed bypass operations and angioplasty, as well as for those who do not respond to multiple drug therapies. This is not an opinion, but a fact. Employing our integrative protocols, including EDTA chelation therapy, my colleagues and I reported complete control of symptoms and discontinuation of all drugs in 61% of patients in whom bypass surgery, angioplasty and multiple drug therapies had failed. A more than 75% reduction in symptoms and in the doses of drugs used was observed in another 17%, giving excellent or good results in 78%.

2. Coronary heart disease begins in the circulating blood with formation of microclots that clog coronary arteries.
   Circulating blood continually clots and unclots. Microbes in the circulation ‘curdle’ blood just as a culture turns milk into yoghurt. Certain chemicals curdle blood as lemon juice curdles milk. Microclots are churned around in the bloodstream and compacted into microplaques. My colleague, Omar Ali, and I recently introduced the term oxidative coagulopathy for excessive formation of microclots and microplaques in the circulating blood.

3. Coronary heart disease cannot be reversed with bypass surgery, angioplasty or blocker drugs.
   According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, the odds of dying increased for people who underwent procedures such as angioplasty and bypass surgery after suffering heart attacks, compared with those who did not. Both types of procedure in fact caused an increased rate of death in all three study periods measured: during hospitalisation, one month after discharge, and after one year. This is not surprising, given that heart attacks are caused by microclots forming in the circulating blood. Neither angioplasty nor bypass operations address that basic cause. As for beta- and calcium channel blocker drugs, common sense alone should tell us that coronary artery disease cannot be reversed by blocking natural cell membrane receptors and channels.

4. Blood curdles are formed by oxidative injury.
   Oxidants such as adrenaline damage (‘cook’) proteins, fats, and sugars in the blood and tissues, just as heat cooks meat. Antioxidants such as vitamin C prevent that. Some oxidants are produced naturally in the body as part of metabolism, while others enter through water, food, and air. Examples of oxidants include free radicals (such as hydrogen peroxide), adrenaline, tobacco smoke, and excess iron and copper. Antioxidants not only prevent blood curdling but, under certain conditions, can ‘uncurdle’ recently formed soft microclots. In 1991 I proved the oxidative nature of blood cell damage by demonstrating that such damage can be reversed by vitamin C.

5. The most dangerous heart killers are anger and stress.
   Anger and stress curdle the blood. Other common contributors include adrenaline, lactic acid and related molecules; sugar overload and resulting insulin excess; toxic metals like iron and copper; oxidants from microbes or chronic inflammation; tobacco smoke; and environmental pollutants. A diet lacking in antioxidants further promotes oxidative coagulopathy.

6. Cholesterol is an antioxidant. Antioxidants protect the heart, not injure it.
   To blame natural, unoxidised cholesterol for heart disease is a gross biochemical error. In 1991, the British Medical Journal published results from 22 large trials on cholesterol-lowering drugs.⁵ The overall reduction in heart attacks was less than one-third of 1%. Quoting directly:
   “Lowering serum cholesterol concentrations does not reduce mortality… Methods subject to bias… probably explain the overall 0.32% reduction recorded in non-fatal coronary heart disease.”
   When media claim a 40% reduction in heart attacks from these drugs, ask your doctor to show the real numbers — the absolute reduction is often no more than 1%. That means 99 people take drugs for every one person who might benefit.

7. An injured heart heals with nutrients, not with drugs.
   Three key facts should guide our strategy:

• The heart, like a pump, won’t clog when pumping clean blood.

• A damaged heart needs heart-smart nutrients, not drugs, for healing.

• Sugar, not cholesterol, is the nutritional villain in heart disease.

ASPECTS OF A RATIONAL PROGRAMME

A comprehensive programme should:

1. Prevent microclots and microplaques through prayer, meditation, optimal hydration, good nutrition, and herbs.

2. Improve blood flow using heart-smart nutrients, herbs, exercise, and EDTA chelation.

Prayer is the most potent antioxidant. Why? Because adrenaline, a major oxidant, is neutralised by spiritual calm. Meditation reduces stress-induced cardiac damage.

Heart-Smart Nutrients (My Big Seven)

• Magnesium: 1 500 – 2 000 mg

• Co-enzyme Q10: 100 – 200 mg

• Taurine: 1 000 – 2 000 mg

• Lecithin: 2 – 5 g

• Glutathione: 600 – 800 mg

• Essential oils

• Vitamin C: 1 500 – 3 000 mg

Other helpful nutrients: pantetheine, alpha-lipoic acid, potassium, oral EDTA, vitamin E, vitamin A, and inositol hexaphosphate.

Heart-Smart Foods & Herbs (My Big Seven)

• Fresh ginger

• Hawthorn berry tincture

• Lily of the valley

• Butcher’s broom

• Motherwort

• Figwort

• Bugleweed

Also valuable: foxglove, fenugreek, fennel seeds, night-blooming cereus, valerian, St John’s wort, passionflower, skullcap, lavender, and bowel herbs like echinacea, astragalus, pau d’arco, goldenseal, burdock root, and artemisia. Dosages should be guided by a qualified clinician.

EDTA Chelation Therapy

Chelation should be considered an essential part of any serious reversal programme for heart disease.

For more, see the video Reversal of Heart Disease (call 973-586 4111 – US number). Professionals can refer to reference 1 for advanced insight.

Editor's note: Safety first. Always consult an experienced clinician when addressing heart disease. Here is another very helpful article Nutrients for the Heart and Lower your Risk for Heart Disease.