In the last hundred years, our society has had to endure an ever-increasing plague affecting the lives of millions. Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) in the form of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’, which is also known as ‘Atherosclerosis’ or ‘plaquing’ of the arteries is affecting younger and younger people with each passing generation. The disorder leads to the majority of our heart attacks, strokes and the spiraling costs of healthcare. It remains today as the leading cause of death by disease in the developed world.

Medical treatment of choice continues to be cholesterol-lowering drugs (statin drugs). Add to this the prescriptions for chest pains, high blood pressure, blood thinners, calcium beta-blockers, triglyceride etc. and you have a toxic cocktail mix taken by millions of people with only a poor prognosis to show for their efforts.

What can we do?

A world-renowned biochemist Linus Pauling PhD (1901-1994), two-time unshared Nobel Prize Laureate, and recipient of more than 40 honorary degrees is regarded by many of his peers as one of the world’s greatest scientific minds of the 20th century. In his last interview with the British journal of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition he spoke these prophetic words:

“I think I know what the answer is… we can get almost COMPLETE CONTROL of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and strokes by the proper use of this therapy …even cure it.” — Linus Pauling (1992)

The “therapy” he spoke about was formulated after decades of scientific and clinical research and introduced following issues of his patents (1990 and 1991) for the reversal of ‘Occlusive Cardiovascular Disease’. Add this to his 1989 ‘Unified Theory” of heart disease and we have an effective way of eliminating the majority of suffering caused by this major scourge of our times.

Medicine’s silence is deafening!

Mainstream medicine and big Pharma continue to remain silent as to Pauling’s discovery and one might be inclined to believe that their focus on profits might be the motives for their suppression of his research. Heart disease is big business.

How does Pauling’s formula work? It’s rather quite simple. It starts with the scientific facts that CVD is predominantly a Vitamin C deficiency disease. Also lacking is, a couple of key amino acids L-lysine and L-proline. Add to that a few supportive A, B, & E vitamins, minerals like magnesium and selenium, a little CoQ10 and plenty of Omega 3 oils, and there you have it. A formula which when taken therapeutically, can stop, reverse and help the body heal the majority of CVD cases.

Following up on 1985 Nobel Laureates Brown and Goldstein’s scientific work of the early 1980’s, Pauling re-confirmed that all plaque in the arteries is laid down as temporarily repair material for damaged or injured blood vessels. This sticky cholesterol plaque, which the body uses to seal up the cracks and fissures, is a “special” kind of cholesterol made in our livers and not the cholesterol we ingest from fatty foods. LP(a) cholesterol plaque is manufactured as a necessary emergency ‘secondary response tissue’ to deal with the damaged blood vessels. This happens only when the body is malnourished.

The ‘primary’ healing tissue for blood vessels is “collagen”. Collagen needs high levels of Vitamin C and amino acids such as lysine, proline, to be properly and adequately synthesized. Also, L-lysine and L-proline act as LP(a) binding inhibitors.

So there is hope for the majority of those who suffer with this chronic degenerative disease. The results of using the Pauling protocol are predictable and measurable.

Start by getting a full blood profile for heart risk factors. Once you have your ‘numbers’, start taking a well formulated ‘Pauling formula’ product (Cardioflex Q10) up to three times a day with juice or water. (Water only if you are diabetic) You will start to notice a difference in your wellbeing within only a few days to a few weeks.

Note: Check regularly with your doctor as to the continued need for your prescription drugs. Within 6 to 18 months, the majority of patients should be off most of their heart drugs and will have reduced by up to 80-90% all of their CVD risk factors identified in the blood tests.

Adopting a healthier diet and a regular exercise routine accelerates the process and puts you on a fast tract to a lifetime free of heart disease.

You no longer have to be a casualty of the CVD plague.

Dr. Gerry Bohemier DC

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Sometimes, the danger signal from the heart is more dramatic. Atherosclerosis causes plaques to accumulate in the coronary arteries. These plaques are lumps and bumps within the coronary arteries that can contain cholesterol, white blood cells, and other substances. Sometimes they grow to block the arteries and sometimes they are small and do not effect the blood flow. A cap forms on top of the plaque to keep the contents from seeping into the bloodstream. These plaques can be quiet and not cause a problem. Occasionally, however, the cap on a plaque can rupture exposing its contents to the bloodstream. When this happens, the content of the plaque are mixed with the blood and can cause formation of a blood clot. If the blood clot blocks an important artery supplying blood to the heart, heart muscle can be suddenly deprived of vital oxygen and nutrients. At this point, every minute counts because heart muscle cannot survive long without receiving fresh blood. Within a relatively short period the damage to the
heart can be severe and permanent. This event is what doctors call myocardial infarction. Everyone else calls it a heart attack.

The symptoms of a heart attack are often similar to those of angina, but much worse and more persistant. The classic description of a heart attack is a crushing chest pain that does not go away, even after resting or taking angina medication. Other symptoms, which sometimes can even occur without chest pain, can include sweating, nausea, light headedness, and breathlessness. These symptoms are often confused with those caused by other much less serious conditions.

Here is the important thing to keep in mind: Don’t take chances. If you experience symptoms that may represent a heart attack, you should call an ambulance immediately and be brought to an emergency hospital; your survival may depend on it. It is natural to feel reluctant  to ask for help, and for many people it is embarrassing to call an ambulance. Also, heart attacks often do not start like they do in the movies, with crushing pain that causes you to clutch your chest. Uncertainty is quite common. but you should not wait to see whether your condition gets worse. This is the time to call 911.

As a general rule, doctors recommend that angina like discomfort that occurs without exertion or persists for more than ten minutes should be treated as a sign of a possible heart attack, even if more dramatic symptoms do not develop. The national heart, lung, and blood institute of the national institutes of health recommends that people should not wait more than five minutes before calling 911. Why the rush? Treatment, particularly in the first hour, can make an enormous difference in improving a person’s chance od survival. Unfortunatly, most people experiencing a heart attack wait much longer to seek help. According to experts, most people wait two or more hours before obtaining medical attention.

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The human heart is an amazing organ. A muscle only about the size of your fist, it sits just to the left of the center of your chest contracting and relaxing to pump blood, roughly 5 liters a minute throughout your body. It is an involuntarty muscle. Unlike the muscle in your arm that you flex voluntarily when you lift something, your heart needs no instruction. It operates independently and continuously, day and night, week in, week out, year after year. When it stops, life stops.

What Is Heart Disease

The heart tough, but it’s not invulnerable and it can be afflicted by a variety of diseases. But what is commonly called heart disease is, interestingly enough, not a disease of the heart at all. At least not directly. It’s a disease of the large arteries outside the heart that supply the smaller vessels that feed the heart muscle with blood rich nutrients and oxygen that the heart needs to keep working. Other vessels carry away the waste products produced by the heart in the course of its work. Coronary arteries, the large arteries carrying blood to the heart muscle, are like the huge pipes that carry water from a reservoir to a big city, to be distributed to streets, individual houses, and then specific faucets before being carried away again through drains. If something happens to those big pipes that blocks the flow of vital water to the city, the city shuts down in no time at all. Your heart needs an open system of pipes to maintain an unabated flow of blood all the time.

When the heart works harder, such as during exertion or stress, it needs even more blood flow. It gets this greater flow because, unlike water pipes, the blood vessels can dilate, or open larger, when the need arises. When something impedes that flow, it causes immediate problems for the heart muscle, which becomes starved of oxygen and nutrients.

With heart disease, the “something” that restricts the flow is an accumulation of fatty deposits including cholesterol that form thick plaques on the interior walls of the coronary arteries, a process that can slow the flow of blood to the heart. This condition called atherosclerosis, occurs gradually and may go unnoticed for years.

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Arrhythmias of the Heart included live broadcasts of a diagnostic study of electrical firings of the heart and an internal cardiac defibrillator (ICD) implant that shocks the heart into a normal rhythm if necessary.

Electrophysiologists, electricians of the heart, Dan Dan, M.D., Joseph Poku, M.D., and Bobby Smith, M.D., performed and narrated the procedures. Viewers emailed questions to the physicians during the procedure.

CLICK HERE to see the videoNationwide, there are 400,000 people walking around with ICDs implanted in their chests,?

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“You have coronary heart disease.” When your doctor says those words to you or to someone you love, it’s frightening and confusing.  You probably have dozens of questions: What is coronary heart disease? Do I need to change my lifestyle?

Coronary heart disease (CHD), also called coronary artery disease (CAD) or ischemic heart disease, is a form of heart disease that’s caused by narrowing of the coronary arteries that feed the heart.  If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with CHD, it may  help to know that you are not alone. In fact, CHD is the most common form of heart disease, affecting at least 12 million Americans.  It is the single largest killer of both men and women in the United States, responsible for nearly a half million deaths each year, or about 1 out of every 5 deaths.  CHD causes nearly all heart attacks (myocardial infarctions). Every 29 seconds, an American suffers a coronary event (a heart attack or fatal CHD), and every minute one of us will die from one.  The american Heart Association estimates that this year alone, more than a million Americans will suffer from a new or recurrent coronary event, and nearly 40 percent of those will die from it.

Coronary heart disease isn’t just an American problem. CHD is very common in other Westernized countries, too, such as many in Europe. Diseases of the heart and circulation such as heart attacks and stroke (a “brain attack”) kill more people worldwide than any other cause. The World Health Organization estimates that as many as 30 percent of all deaths are caused by heart and circulation diseases like CHD.

The good news is that you don’t have to become another CHD statistic. There is a lot you can do to reduce your risk of having a heart attack or dying from CHD. Sometimes just changing your lifestyle - following a heart-healthy diet, exercising regularly, and reducing the stress in your life-can prevent a heart attack or even reverse the narrowing in your arteries. There are a number of medications-and new ones being developed every day-that can help lower your heart attack risk. Surgical procedures such as angioplasty and stenting or bypass surgery can help compensate for blockages in your arteries and help keep your heart supplied with the blood it needs. By educating yourself about your treatment options, and working closely with your doctor you and your doctor can choose the best treatments that will enable you to live a long and healthy life.

The Circulatory System

The first step in taking charge of your CHD is to learn all you can about the disease. To understand what CHD is and how it affects your heart, you need to understand a little about your heart and how it works.

Your circulatory system, also called your cardiovascular system, is made up of the heart, the lungs, and blood vessels called arteries and veins. This system carries blood, food, and oxygen to every cell in the body. It also carries waste products away from the cells and out of the body. (A cell is a building block of every tissue and organ in the body.) Think of your circulatory system as a busy highway system composed of massive freeways and large streets that feed into smaller and smaller streets, and finally into tiny lanes and alleyways. This system is made up entirely of one-way streets. In our imaginary highway system, cars, or in this case, blood, can flow in only one direction. The one-way streets called arteries and arterioles (small arteries) carry blood enriched with oxygen and nutrients away from the heart to the cells in the body. The one-way street called veins and venules (small veins) carry blood loaded with waste products from the cells back to the heart.

Between these two one-way street systems are tiny blood vessels called capillaries. Almost too tiny to see and often thinner than a strand of hair, capillaries connect the smallest arteries with the smallest veins. They are the brides that connect our two systems of one-way streets. The walls of these tiny capillaries are so thin that food and oxygen in the blood pass through them into the surrounding cells. These thin walls also allow waste products from the cells to pass into the capillaries. This enables the blood to carry waste from the cell to be removed by the kidneys, liver, and lungs.

If you can imagine a single drop of blood flowing through this system, it might look something like this. The blood droplet, full of oxygen and nutrients, (fuel), is pumped out of the left side of the heart into the largest arteries. There is flows into progressively smaller arteries and finally into the capillaries, where it delivers its load of oxygen and food for the cells. At the same time, the blood picks up waste products from the cells and flows into tiny veins, then into larger and larger veins. Finally, the blood droplet arrives back at the right side of the heart, where it’s pumped into the lungs and unload carbon dioxide, pick up a fresh supply of oxygen, and begin its circular journey again.

The Heart: An Amazing Pump

The heart is the pump that keeps the blood flowing around and around in an endless circle throughout the body. Think of it as the traffic cop that coordinates the flow of traffic throughout our highway system. The heart is a hollow muscle that weighs less than a pound and is about the size of a man’s fist. Despite its small size, this amazing organ an average of 100,000 times a day, pumping about 2,000 gallons of blood every day. If you live to be 70, your heart will beat more than 2.5 billion times.

Located in the center of the chest and protected by the breastbone and rib cage, the heart is actually a double pump thats divided into four chambers, two upper ones and two lower ones. A thin wall of muscle separates the left and right sides of the heart. The top chamber (atriums or atria) and lower chambers (ventricles) are connected by valves that act like one-way doors. These valves make sure blood flows only in one direction. In the heart, the blood is pumped from the left and right atriums to the left and right ventricles. The right side of the heart sends blood to the lungs. The left side of the heart pumps blood out to the cells in the body.

Coronary Arteries

Just like other muscles in the body, the heart needs its own supply of blood and oxygen to work properly. Even though the heart pumps blood through its chambers, the heart itself receives no significant nourishment from this blood. There is a separate set of arteries that branch off the aorta (the main artery that receives blood from the left ventricle) that provide the heart’s blood supply. These are called coronary arteries. The coronary arteries encircle the top and sides of the heart bringing plenty of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. The two major coronary arteries are the left coronary artery and the right coronary artery. These vessels divide into many smaller coronary arteries that feed the heart.

What Is Coronary Heart Disease?

Healthy coronary arteries have smooth, flexible walls that provide plenty of blood to the heart. However, over many years, these flexible walls can become progressively irritated and damaged by such substance as fats, cholesterol, calcium, cellular debris, and platelets (tiny cells responsible for blood clotting). When the walls of the arteries are damaged, these substances are able to “stick” to them. Coronary heart disease (CHD) occurs when these coronary arteries become narrowed and clogged.

This buildup inside the artery walls is a process called atherosclerosis, which produces a substance known as plaque. As it builds, plaque is a lot like the dirt, fat, and minerals that build up inside your home’s plumbing. As the buildup becomes thicker, the flow through the pipes becomes less and less and may even completely stop. Similarly, when your heart doesn’t get enough oxygen due to narrowed arteries, you may feel chest pressure or pain called angina. If the blood supply to part of the heart is completely cut off, the result is often a heart attack.

Everyone has a certain amount of atherosclerosis as they age. For many of us, atherosclerosis begins in childhood. Some people have a rapid increase in the buildup of atherosclerotic plaque after age 30. For others, plaque buildup does not become a problem until we’re in our 50s or 60s.

What Causes CHD

We don’t know for sure why atherosclerosis occurs or even how it begins, but  there are several theories. Some medical experts believe the atherosclerotic buildup in the inner layer of the arteries may be caused by several conditions, including:*Elevated levels of LDL cholesterol (low-density lipoprotein) and triglycerides in the blood*Low levels of HDL CHOLESTEROL (high-density lipoprotein)*High blood pressure*Tobacco smoke*High blood sugar levels (diabetes mellitus)*Inflammation.

It’s likely that more than one process is involved in the buildup of plaque. Many researchers believe that when excess fat combine with oxygen, they become trapped in the arterial wall. This attracts white blood cells which help prevent infection when tissue is damaged. Then substances call prostaglandins, which are involved in blood clotting and altering tone (firmness) within arteries, become active. Any injury to the artery wall, such as damage caused by smoking, can activate prostaglandins. The activated prostaglandins stimulate more plaque growth and narrow arteries and/or cause blood clots to form.

Regardless of how plaque forms, advanced plaque is made up mostly of living cells. In fact, about 85 percent of advanced plaque consists of cell debris, calcium, smooth muscle cells, connective tissue, and foam cells (white blood cells that have digested fat). About 15 percent of advanced plaque is made up fatty deposits.

Once the plaque develops, plaque containing cells can be easily damaged. This can lead to blood clots forming on the outside of the plaque. Small clots can further damage other layers of the blood vessel wall and stimulate more plaque growth. Larger blood clots can partially or totally block the artery.

In addition to interfering with or totally blocking blood flow, plaque can hinder the arteries ability to dilate and contract. In order to respond to the bodies ever-changing need for blood, the arteries need to be strong and elastic. For instance, when you exercise, your body needs more blood. The heart responds by pumping faster, and the arteries respond by expanding to accommodate the increased volume of blood expanding to accommodate the increased volume of blood coming from the heart. As the artery becomes narrowed and hard, that elasticity is lost. Arteries that have atherosclerotic plaque are more apt to spasm (temporarily narrow), causing even less blood to flow to the heart and possible causing chest pain or heart attack.

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Certain medical conditions (e.g., diabetes), disorders, personal habits (e.g., smoking), and drugs or chemicals are known to increase the risk of coronary heart disease, particularly a heart attack. Such factors that lay the groundwork for heart problems are called coronary risk factors. To prevent heart attack, you should be fully aware of various coronary risk factors. They include High blood pressure, abnormal blood cholesterol levels, and smoking; these factors must be modified or even eliminated.

Some risk factors, such as age and male gender, are beyond our control, but we can modify many other factors and even eliminate them altogether. Family history of a heart attack is a very strong risk factor, but it can be limited to a certain degree. For instance, obesity, high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, and cigarette smoking frequently run in the same family, but certain life styles and eating habits often influence these factors and can influence a family history of heart attack. Many individuals have been shown to have multiple risk factors. Typically, obese people have a tendancy to have high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and diabetes, and all that may be worsened by a sedentary life style.

Coronary risk factors can be summarized as major and minor. Major risk factors include:
* Genetic factors (e.g., a family history of premature coronary artery disease).
* Age and gender (e.g., men who are over 45 years of age, and women who are over 55 years of age).

Coronary heart disease risk factors also include:
* High blood pressure
* elevated blood lipods
* Diabetes Mellitus
* cigarette smoking
* obesity
* A sedentary lifestyle
* emotional stress

Emotional stress is a major risk factor that you might consider less important because it is not evident as a physical process. However, such stress often raises blood pressure, and it may cause overeating or smoking from nervous tension. Anger also does not always exhibit physical signs or effects. Yet angry young men are prone to premature coronary heart disease, particularly a heart attack.

One type of minor risk factor is the excessive use of alcohol. Excessive alcohol drinking can raise blood pressure and triglyceride blood levels, and overuse of alcohol often triggers the onset of various abnormal heart rhythms. Nevertheless, some medical reports state that consumption of a moderate amount of alcohol is said to be protection against heart attack. Another well known fact is that drinking large amounts of alcohol often produces heart muscle damage.

Another minor risk factor is type A personality. The term type A personality describes a person who has an aggressive, ambitious, and competitive character. Such people seem to have heart attacks more often, but this theory is smewhat controversial.

Homocysteine is a further minor risk factor. Abnormally high blood levels of amino acid Homocysteine are considered to create an increased risk for coronary heart disease and stroke. Homocysteine may harm the lining of the arteries and contribute to blood clotting. Excessive Homocysteine levels are reported to occur with the dificiency of vitamins B6, B12, and folic acid, so it may be beneficial to ensure that you get sufficient amounts of these vitamins to prevent high Homocysteine levels.

Other vitamins may also be beneficial in prevention of heart attacks. Vitamen E seems to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, but its role is still controversial. Vitamin C may improve the function of the inner layer of the blood vessel called the endothelium, which can effect blood flow. High intake of beta carotene and other carotenoids from dark colored fruits and vegetables may also help t`o reduce the risk of heart attack.

Depression has adverse biological effects on the immune system, on blood clotting, on blood pressure, on the blood vessels, and on heart rhythms. This factor can even impair a patients desire to comply with heart medicines. Somewhat related are seasonal variations: More deaths from heart disease occur in the winter months , and the fewest occur in the summertime. Short daylight hours in gloomy or rainy weather often cause emotional depression and therefore an increased risk for heart attack.

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