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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.

Treating atria fibrillation with an alternative approach, means looking at it as a systemic problem, not just a heart condition.

Atria Fibrillation and Diabetes

People with diabetes are at a higher risk of having atrial fibrillation. There is research that found an association between atrial fibrillation and diabetes. In the Journal of General Internal Medicine Dr. Sascha Dublin of Group Health Research Institute has linked diabetes to a 40 percent greater risk of developing atrial fibrillation, and she has found that the risks rises even higher the longer people have diabetes and less controlled their blood sugar is.

Atrial fibrillation is found to be more common in both diabetics and heavier people. Patients with diabetes were 40 percent more likely to be diagnosed with this disorder. The risk of atrial fibrillation rose by 3 percent for each additional year that a patient had diabetes.

Other Causes

Another cause is an overactive thyroid gland. Steroid use can contribute to this condition. Treatment with high doses of corticosteroids, increase the risk of atrial fibrillation. A high dose of 7.5 mg/day or more of prednisone equivalents is more likely to cause atrial fibrillation than a lower dose. High blood pressure, and valvular heart disease is considered a risk for this condition.

Alternative Approach

Many times there is no known cause, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a cause. Since arrhythmia and atrial fibrillation is becoming a growing problem, it is important to look at this phenomenon.

It is known that adequate stores of iodine are necessary for a smooth heartbeat. It is also a fact that our diets fall short on providing this nutrient. Amiodarone an anti-fibrillation drug is actually iodine in a toxic, sustained released form.

Due to mineral exhausted farmland, stress, processed foods, we aren’t getting enough nutrients. The aging populaton is expected to experience more atrial fibrillation. Our quality of life in our senior years is directly related to the state of our health.

Our hearts depend on magnesium, iodine, calcium, and B complex derived from whole foods. It takes years for nutrient deprivation to show up. The heart is a muscle like all muscles it depends on a good oxygen supply, vitamins, and minerals. Nothing in the body occurs in a vacuum, so when you treat atrial fibrillation you have to treat the whole person.