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Heart disease prevention and reversal is dependent on lifestyle. So many of our body’s critical functions dependent on micronutrients for normal muscle and nerve functions. To keep the heart rhythm steady, immune system functioning, and blood sugar levels in the normal range, sufficient nutrients are needed.

Causes of Heart Disease

The most common ones are thought of as high cholesterol, high blood pressure, smoking, diabetes, family history, and stress. The problem with all these things on the front burner, we are overlooking some clearly important data. Basic research shows that high cholesterol in of itself isn’t a reliable marker. There is a gap in our basic understanding to what is going on is causing untold misery.

Ischemic Heart Disease

Ischemic heart disease is a condition of recurring chest pain or discomfort that occurs when part of the heart doesn’t get oxygen and nutrients.

Ischemic heart disease is also referred to as coronary artery disease or coronary heart disease. The coronary arteries are the blood vessels that pump oxygen-rich blood to the heart. When blood flowing through the coronary arteries is blocked, completely or partially, you are develop ischemic heart disease. This blocking of the arteries leads to a lack of oxygen-rich blood to the heart, which in turn leads to chest pain, called angina, and even myocardial infarction, or heart attack.

The epidemic of ischemic heart disease (IHD) is a phenomenon of the 21st century. It isn’t that it is a new disease, but it has reached epidemic proportions. In the united States heart disease didn’t exceed tuberculosis until the early 20th century.

Standard Thinking

Ischemic heart disease can be treated successfully with lifestyle changes, medicines, and surgical procedures. Even better, you can reduce your risk of ischemic heart disease by following heart-healthy practices, such as eating a low-fat, low-sodium diet, being physically active, not smoking, and maintaining a healthy body weight.

Another View

Heart disease is a multi-dimensional pathological condition. These are some facts: stress and infections cause Cortisol to be released, and when released in excess, can suppress immunity, cause hypertension, create insulin resistance, bring on metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. cortisol is a “stress hormone,” which is responsible for many of the long-term health consequences.

Heart Disease is a Deficiency State

According to the national Institutes of Health magnesium keeps heart rhythm steady, keeps blood sugar levels in the normal range,  promotes normal blood pressure, and maintains vascular health. A healthy heart is attainable and the way to do it is to become a healthy person.

There are three forms of vitamin K that promote arterial health. Vitamin K1 is the form of vitamin K that is found in green vegetables and is tightly bound to the plant fiber. Vitamin K2 is found mostly in meats, dairy, and egg yolks. The very foods that we are told to avoid. The best source is grass fed beef and dairy. CoQ10 which is needed for heart health is found in red meat.

PQQ may be the first new vitamin to be identified in over five decades. It’s been found to have antioxidant and neuroprotective properties as well as contributing to mitochondrial health. Mitochondrial damage and depopulation is thought to be a major factor in some diseases, particularly those involving energy-intensive organs like the brain, heart, and liver.  This is found in parsley, green peppers, papaya, spinach, carrots, cabbage and apples.

Herbs

Silymarin know as milk thistle is protective for those at high risk for cardiovascular disease. In animal studies silmarin’s antioxidant properties were shown to reduce oxidation of (LDL). It also inhibits inflammation and inhibits arthrosclerotic activity. Turning research into reality is up the consumer.

Reversal of Heart Disease

Regenerative medicine is based on the deep-seated belief that the body including the heart can and is the process of creating functional tissues by repairing and replacing cells. All abnormalities afflicting previous generation never were on the grand scale of what we are facing now. Even modest vitamin or mineral deficiencies can increase the incidence of age-related diseases, which includes heart disease.

Heart Disease isn’t a shortage of statins, or any othe pharmaceutical, it is a product of both our food supply and lifestyle.

There is a cancer study, which may radically transform how you look at this condition. Most research has to do with altering the process through physical means. There are scientist studying cancer cells response to emotional signals. We may be able to emulate and extrapolate these findings to slow or stop cancer from spreading.

A cancer  diagnosis

Many people weren’t feeling that terrible before they heard the news. You are the same person you were before you heard this. The real question is what do you do.

Current Thinking is Changing

When you do the standard treatment it is to survive. However, when you do some alternative methods it takes the apathetic approach and turns it into passionate commitment to living to the fullest. The history of standard treatments shows a system on a collision course with your physical health. There is a quiet revolution, which is making people take notice of a different way to ride the storm. The catastrophic proportions of the condition and the treatment options need to be revisited.

Make a Plan

Its okay to look at other solutions, and then try to tailor your own program. Yes, that can incorporate standard western modalities. The idea is to apply it smart. Most people don’t have an idea of what they are being offered and what the statistical outcome is.  It takes time to research the oncologist recommendation. The one thing to remember is there is no magical fix.

To create a plan you need facts. The best approaches are meant to rebuild and restore your health. This is priceless, there is a relationship between your physical emotional and environmental conditions and cancer. The mission is to put together a program that works for you. The first step is to know what a healthy body needs to function. 

What has been misleading is the fact that once the C word bomb is dropped there is nothing that you can do. This is so far from the truth. You feel like you are in a different world with new rules. The rules are the same follow a healthy lifestyle.

Emotions and Environment

A healthy lifestyle includes and is not exclusive of of one’s emotional makeup. Geneticist Professor Matthew During’s findings published in the Journal Cell offered some powerful evidence that social connections and an individual’s mental state plays a role in cancer development and progression. Matthew has show that animals interaction with the environment has a profound influence on the growth of cancer.

Mice are natural sociable creatures like humans. When in laboratory settings are usually housed in groups of five or so for laboratory experiments. They are provided with all the food they want and allowed to play all day.

Sounds good so far, however, when the mice with tumors, were placed in an enriched environment with between 15-20 mice, and more space and things to do, which included toys, hiding places and running wheels, their disease often went into spontaneous remission. Tumor mas shrunk by an average of 77 percent and the volume by 43 percent. The best part 1 in 20 of the of the Cancer ridden mice showed no evidence of disease.

The animals did show lower levels of a hormone produced by a fat called leptin, indicative of a significant shift in metabolism, Reducing leptin leaves slow down the development and spread of cancer. Cancer cells thrive on leptin.

What this shows: you can’t look at any disease without looking at your life. Those that argue that standard western care is the only course of action aren’t looking at the big picture.

The cancer lifesaving natural interventions are the ones that you do to change your internal environment. Cancer is a multifaceted process that most people don’t realize that they have control of. The things that contribute to pathological conditions, including cancer are the food one eats, the air one breaths, the water one consumes, the amount of radiation one receives, the amount one exercises, and how one handles stress.  There are natural interventions that are capable of putting the odds in your favor. The control of the environment that the cancer cells thrive in can be changed. The only one who could do that is the person themselves.

The Missing Data

On many levels cancer is an environmental and deficiency state. By environment I mean the terrain that your cells live and take a bath in everyday. This is evident by the steady rise in cases. The rapid rise in cases is attributed to people living longer. In some of the long lived people of the world who reside in their traditional culture age doesn’t seem to be a factor. It is a fact that the numbers are going up for all age groups.

The missing data is what can help reverse the trend.  All anyone has to look at is what has changed in the culture to put the population at risk. It is obvious if you just look around at the lifestyle habits that have become the norm.

The Food Supply

The biggest change is in the American diet. This is a critical component of the rise in this condition. Simple carbohydrates may seem like a simplistic response when talking about the initiation and progression of cancer. Taking a careful look at the biological explanation makes this a very logical conclusion.

Low Carbohydrate Diet

According to a study published in Cancer Research, a journal of The American Association for Cancer Research and reported on June 15, 2011 eating a low-carbohydrate, high-protein diet may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present.

This data makes previous generations had a diet that was lower in carbs, and the number of cases were smaller. The information that the public gets is confusing, less red meat, low fat, and breakfast cereals are a healthy diet. If this was true where are all the healthy people. Are they hiding under the layers of fat?

The meat blame game may come from the fact that we are consuming meat in a highly toxic form. From feeding cattle grains, and sometimes cement dust, moldy food sources, giving them hormones and antibiotics and then claiming meat causes all sorts of conditions is really dumb science.

Calorie Restriction

Calorie restriction with optimal nutrition. It has been proven that calorie restriction with optimal nutrition triggers favorable gene expression. A study in the July 20,2011 issue of Carciongenesis points to this conclusion: A diet with reduced calories slowed the growth of mammary tumors and metastases.

Insulin and Leptin

Calorie restriction lowers the levels of insulin, and leptin, while increasing adiponectin in tumors. If you know nothing else about what makes cancer cells survive, this is the information that is a must. Insulin and leptin are involved in the carcinogenesis of breast cancer. Many studies have demonstrated that obesity, frequent snacking increase colon cancer risks. Leptin concentrations are higher in people who are overweight. Insulin releases in response to food, leptin releases in response to insulin.

This process operates well in healthy individuals. The problem is our bodies were never meant to handle the American diet. We have and epidemic of insulin resistance which produces the chronically high levels of leptin.

Colon cancer cells love leptin and thrives on it. Leptin has the ability to encourage colon cancer cells to reproduce. Breast cancer cells express higher levels of leptin and it’ receptor than normal mammary cells. There is significant correlation between leptin levels and lower survival of breast cancer patients.

Adiponectin

Adiponectin is a protein hormone that modulates a number of metabolic processed, including glucose regulation. Adiponectin is exclusively secreted from adipose tissue (fat). The more fat the less adipnectin released. The hormone helps suppress the metabolic conditions that may result, in type 2 diabetes, obesity, atherosclerosis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and risk factors for metabolic syndrome.

After adjustment for body mass index (BMI) women with higher adiponectin levels had a reduced risk for breast cancer. This was true for post menopausal women, where most of the cases occur.

The next article will tell you how to take the first step in reversing cancer.