Search results matching tag 'heart disease'

Re: Blood Pressure

prioris@excite.com — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:56:14 GMT

Blood pressure drugs like Statin are dangerous to your health. Do not take them. Ignore the information on cholesterol. It is disinformation. I eat as much cholesterol as I want. It's about one thing only - cleaning the arteries.

China has done thousands of studies on fibrolytic enzymes and heart disease. They essentially prevent heart attack and strokes. They are inexpensive.

I would recommend fIbrolytic enzyme such as nattokinase and serrapeptase.

I had peripheral artery disease in late 40s due to coagulation of blood. At one point I could hardly walk. In 3 weeks at high doses, the enzymes started to melt away my symptoms. Your blood pressure will become mostly irrelevant and may even go down. I am 58 years old and have been taking nattokinase and serrapeptase for 7 years at maintenance dose. They work. I will eventually die of something but it won't be from heart attack or strokes.

I'm surprised that fibrolytics enzymes have not been mentioned.

Alternative Medicine?

s.a.macadam786@btinternet.com — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:16:40 GMT

Has anyone heard of Tibb/Unani Medicine?

Re: Eczema & Poor Circulation

contact@home-cures.net — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:51:30 GMT

Hello,

Eczema is often caused by a series of things, and invariably very difficult to trace. However, there are cures. And I use the word advisedly. I have been a Naturapath for many years and have tried and tested all my recommendations.

Externally Eczema is treatable with ECZ OIl or Cream available from www.home-cures.net. For the circulation problems, Serrapeptase 80,000iu will almost certainly do the trick, available from the same source.

The future of herbal remedies

contact@home-cures.net — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 16:53:15 GMT

Believe it or not, we are just weeks away from being denied access to natural herbal remedies in Europe. And, unless we do something, like the differences in motor insurance being foisted on UK for no real reason, we will, by 1st. May next, be denied the ability buy herbal remedies.

The history is long, but in 2004 the drug companies obliged the regulators to introduce an act that was intended to control cowboys selling highly suspicious "remedies", mostly from little corner shops. The Chinese "bucket shops" were largely responsible for this. There is one man selling bleach as a natural remedy on the net. He claims it kills intestinal germs. It is right that the use of all sorts of things purported to be "beneficial", must be stopped. Irresponsible selling of rubbish, or worse, poisonous, products to unsuspecting people, is illegal, immoral and harms everyone; the trade and the customer.

However since 2004, a lot has changed. With modern technology to help the cause, the increased number of failures by the medical "industry", with rather too many deaths from bad medicines - Mediator in France being the latest with a death toll certainly in the hundreds, if not more - there has been a big swing towards alternative remedies. So, the medical "industry" - and it is a big, powerful industry - now has forced the regulators to try to ban all herbal remedies. No questions asked. Just ban the lot. A blanket ban on all herbs. Unless, and here is the real key to what is happening, one shells out many tens of thousands of pounds to have a licence - for each herb. So, if a shop sells, say, 50 herbal products - a not large number - they would have to pay several hundred thousand pounds, just to sell them.

There are two sides to this. The commercial side and the ethical side. The commercial side is easy to see. The chemical producers are suffering from the success of herbal remedies. They are also well aware of the failure of their products to heal on anything like the scale of their capacity. (And do not forget, it is not in their interests to heal us. What would happen if we were cured? They would lose their customers!)

The second, and far more important side of this is that we are being denied the right to make our own choices. |And one principal choice for humankind is to choose how we live; how we treat ourselves and our families. What we eat; what we do. We are slowly having our Human Rights denied us. And the proposed law is a severe intrusion into our right to decide for ourselves.

One of the now proven ways to combat cancer , arthritis and fibromyalgia is natural. It has been the subject of several double blind tests all over the world. The proof is beyond doubt. Some years back the chemical industry tried to hold a Patent on it - it is that good. (They were denied, thanks to the Indian Government.) But, as from next month, it will be banned, unless we stop the arrival of this law.

There is a legal challenge being mounted in the High Court. It needs all our support. For more information on this, and other natural topics, please go to http://www.anhinternational.org/.

I have no connection with ANH. I do have a strong connection with my own right to decide.

Only connect

jowddty — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:42:00 GMT

Nearly a year ago, Hollywood was shocked when actress Brittany Murphy, just 32, died from pneumonia, which she contracted after taking over-the-counter drugs. Within five months, her doting husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, aged 40, was also dead from a cardiac arrest—his heart had literally broken.

This phenomenon, called ‘stress cardiomyopathy’, is extraordinarily common; an emotional upset, such as the loss of a loved one, causes heart dysfunction and failure in people without previous heart disease.

As with Monjack, the heart muscle weakens, causing it to literally break. Those left behind die of a broken heart—largely due to loneliness.

Of all the potential risk factors, our cover story this month shows that loneliness is the greatest of all. Heart expert Dr Dean Ornish has discovered that every so-called lifestyle risk factor laid at the door of cardiovascular disease by the medical community has less to do with having a heart attack than simple loneliness. All the usual risk factors—smoking, obesity, a sedentary lifestyle and high-fat diet—only account for half of all heart disease.

No single environmental or dietary risk factor appears to be more important than isolation—from other people, from our own feelings and from a higher source. In that sense, heart disease—like a goodly number of other illnesses—can be viewed as a disease of being on our own.

Researchers at Brigham Young University were so intrigued by such statistics that they pooled and analyzed data from 148 studies comparing human interaction with health outcomes over an average of seven years. Their stark conclusion: relationships of any sort—good or bad—improve your odds of survival by 50 per cent.

Isolation was equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes a day or being an alcoholic, and twice as harmful as obesity. And the survival advantage may be an underestimation of the benefits of healthy relationships.

Social psychologists at the UK’s University of Exeter have shown that the most important predictor of health—even more than diet and exercise—is the number of groups to which you belong, particularly if you have strong relationships within them. The greater your group membership in voluntary social organizations such as religious groups or unions, the lower your risk of death from all causes.

“As a rough rule of thumb,” wrote Harvard political scientist Robert D. Putnam in his book Bowling Alone (Simon & Schuster, 2002), “if you belong to no groups but decide to join one, you cut your risk of dying over the next year in half.”

This research demonstrates something fundamental about the human experience—or, indeed, the experience of all living beings. The need to move beyond the boundaries of our individual selves is more vital than any diet or exercise programme; it protects against the worst toxins and greatest adversity. This connection is the most fundamental need we have because it generates our most authentic state of being.

Despite our propensity for one-upsmanship and competition, our most basic urge always is to connect. May your year be full of joy and health for you—primarily through connection.

Re: Warfarin Side Effects

calciphylaxis — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:07:54 GMT

The worrying thing is that even when presented with a serious side effect - doctors failed to attribute it to Warfarin. This drug caused acute warfarin induced encephalopathy with seizures and calciphylaxis which is life threatening - Are patients told of all that can happen when put on this drug? My husband was at a leading uk teaching hospital and still there was a systematic failure to look outside the box as far a recognising that warfarin was poisoning him. Familiarise yourself with the symptoms of these catastrophic conditons and be vigilant - it's thankfully not common but is becoming more common. If your doctor however is not educated about it - it won't be picked up - and that could be a terminal mistake. See www.anticoagulationrisks.com for more information.

Co- enzyme Q-10 and Cholesterol lowering medication

Gerald Farrell — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:31:49 GMT

Hi,I am a 60 year old healthy employed male, married with two adult sons .Very fortuneate.
I have been taking Co-E Q10 daily for approx 18 months now as a means of helping lower my cholesterol levels. My GP had previously prescibed one of the popular Statins.
The GP had insisted strongly I should take a Statin because my cholesterol levels were raised in the region of high 8's. I was hypertensive and he reccomended I should also take antihypertensive medication plus a daily dose of Aspirin?
After researching the advans/disavans of the above prescribed medication(s) and pharmacology in general I decided to opt for alternative type therapy/treatment.
Taking responsibility for my personal health I now combine Co-E Q-10 100mg daily with a low fat diet, moderate exercise and 100ml of beetroot juice daily.
Subsequently I find my elevated levels in both cholesterol and blood pressure have been decreasing, albeit slowly over the last 18 months or so.
I must add that I had ate cheese as a meat substitute for over 20yrs that may have accounted for the high cholesterol count?
Below I have attached an email I received from the BHF, having requested their thoughts on Co-En Q10.
I would be interested if yourself or forum members have any comments on BHF's reply to me?

Question:- Can you give me any information on CoenzymeQ-10 please
HThank you for your email to the Heart HelpLine at the British Heart Foundation.
It has been suggested that co-enzyme Q-10 supplements might help relieve symptoms of muscle pain sometimes associated with taking statins (a cholesterol lowering drug). This is because statins reduce the amounts of Q-10 produced by the liver.
However, there isn’t any good scientific evidence to suggest that individuals will benefit from taking co-enzyme Q-10 to relieve muscle discomfort.
Should you decide to take co-enzyme Q-10 supplements it is important to check with your doctor before starting, as they can interact with certain medications such as beta-blockers, warfarin, and medicines prescribed for high blood pressure. It should also be noted that there is a particular lack of research on usage by pregnant women and children. Effect of supplementation is not known in these groups and so supplements should not be taken by them.

I hope that this has been of some help and wish you best wishes. For further information or to chat to one of our cardiac nurses or heart health advisors, please call us on 0300 330 3300. The Heart Help Line is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 6pm.

This information is not a substitute for the advice your doctor or consultant may give you based on his or her knowledge of your condition.

Kind regards
HearthelpLine Team
0300 330 3311
hearthelponline@bhf.org.uk

Re: Warfarin Side Effects

calciphylaxis — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:51:33 GMT

I am relieved to hear anyone on warfarin say they have no side effects from it - I think you should count your blessings. As with all drugs, they come with the potential to do more harm than good and I would dispute the fact that anyone could call warfarin a 'clean drug'. My husband certainly didn't benefit from it as you will see if you go to www.warfarininduced.com As outlined in this report the information given is not meant to alarm but merely to inform anyone who wants to know as much as possible about what can happen when put on warfarin and, as with anything, the more we know the better equipped we are to react effectively when things go wrong. The biggest danger he faced however, was the inability of the doctors who were supposed to be looking after him to recognise when something wasn't right despite our protestations and to listen to what their patient was saying to them. See for yourselves.

Re: alcohol dependent sleep disorder

hdolgin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:22:37 GMT

See www.WatersofHealth.com to learn about a special kind of water which has health-beneficial properties. One of its effects tends to be sounder sleep for many people. Water plays a crucial role in our health since our body is about 70% water! When our body becomes overly acidic due to poor diet choices, stress, pollution and poor hydration, many different symptoms can arise. Water is the means to transport nutrients into our cells and the waste out of our cells. Most city water (tap, filtered and bottled water) is acidic, oxidizing and too bulky to be properly absorbed. Kangen water helps to properly hydrate and detoxify our body and fights free-radical damage which leads to aging and degenerative disease.

This technology has been in use in Japanese hospitals and clinics for 30 years, and is now available all over the world. Dr. Hiromi Shinya, a world famous gastro-enterologist who invented the colonoscopy procedure used all over the world, recommends this water in his best selling book The Enzyme Factor. See a video of Dr. Shinya with before-and after colonoscopy shots on my website www.WatersofHealth.com.

For further info, contact me at watersofhealth@gmail.com.

All the best,

Hana Dolgin

Hydration Consultant

Re: Losing my hair

hdolgin — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:24:38 GMT

There is a Japanese technology, in use in hospitals there for over 30 years, which processes tap water through a counter-top device which changes the properties of the water It creates water with many healthful properties such as reducing the accumulation of acidic waste in our body, detoxiying the colon and bringing more oxygen into the blood. This device also makes the water more absorbable than ordinary water, and people tend to lose weight, if they are overweight, when drinking this water. This water retains the minerals in the water, which are very important for our body's functioning, unlike reverse osmosis or distilled water, which contain no minerals. When a woman has a child, the baby draws minerals from her body in order to build its own, and sometimes this can cause various health problems as a result of the mother's body becoming depleted and overly acidic. Your hair loss may be related to that.

You can learn more about the healthful benefits of this water at www.WatersofHealth.com. It has been helpful to people with many different problems such as high blood pressures, diabetes, asthma, allergies, obesity, heart disease, MS, cancer, Crohn's disease and many more health problems, as a result of its ability to help our body regain the proper chemical balance which affects all of our cells and systems.

These counter-top machines can be ordered anywhere in the world. Please email me directly for more information at watersofhealth@gmail.com.

All the best,

Hana Dolgin

Hydration Consultant