The Cure for Heart Disease: Truth Will Save a Nation Long live Dr. Lundell! – Jack M. Kesler – Kingman, AZ USA
I only hope mainstream medical dogma will listen to him and realize the error in their ways.
Dr. Lundell is a cardiac surgeon and a scientist with 5,000 cardiac surgeries under his belt. He is trying to get a message, (with a lot of science behind it) out there. While this message has been “out there” for some time, he makes a more specific case in regards to cardiac health and disease and brings his personal experience and perspective to it. In short, he says that inflammation is the main cause of cardiac disease and that our focus should be on that. In order to reduce inflammation he says everyone should:

1.) Consume more essential free fatty acids, particularly omega 3 fatty acids. He states that there are 4,500 articles that come to this conclusion about the benefits of omega 3 and that some countries like Japan have taken this seriously. The main type of omega 3 we need is EPA and DHA and both come from fish and marine algae, and he suggests only using high concentration purified fish oil with atl ealst 500 mg EPA and DHA. You can test it by putting it in the freezer. If it gets cloudy it has too many impurities. Dr. Barry Sears says the same thing (and sells it on his website).

2. Add CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) to your diet. The body cannot synthesize it so you need to get it from dairy products and meat. CLA has shown to be: a significant antioxidant, increases energy, improve insulin sensitivity, anti-inflammatory (a natural Cox 2 inhibitor that may increase the synthesis of the anti-inflammatory prostaglandins), reduces the production of cytokines, reduces abdominal fat and preserves muscle mass. It has also been shown to be anti-atherogenic. CLA works better when there is adequate omega 3 in our system and vice versa. The benefit of having both is synergistic.

3. Take a baby aspirin (81 mg) once a day. Studies show benefit against chronic low-grade inflammation (it is a non-steroidal anti-inflammation drug).

4. Consume a lot of anti-oxidants.

5. Lower your sugar and carbohydrate consumption

6. Reduce stress to reduce hormone production by adrenal glands. (Exercise, meditation, reading, taking a drive… whatever works)

7. Eliminate transfats completely, which includes hydrongenated vegetable oil (totally or partially) margarine, commercial baked goods, restaurant fried foods. They interfere with normal metabolism of omega 3. Transfats replace normal fats in the cell wall and interfere with function. Other fats, including animal fats, olive oil and coconut oil are healthful in small quantities.

8. Go on a high protein, low carb, med fat diet, but make sure it is the right fat, like olive oil or coconut oil. He sees sugar and refined carbs as a large cause of inflammation.

9. Lose weight if you need to, quit if you are smoking.

10. Exercise daily. Start slow and don’t stop.

11. He recommends lots of vegetables, fruit and protein (meat and dairy is fine) but his emphasis is on avoiding the carbohydrates and the wrong fats.

This advice is for everyone, not just people with coronary disease. Everyone has damage already.

He recommends health screening options so that you know your status, get motivated and stay motivated:

1. Test your CRP (C-reactive protein) The lowest risk is 1.0 or below. Above 3.0 and you are in sig. risk category for coronary disease. You can ask your doctor to measure it. Soon it will become standard because it is a better predictor than LDL.

2. Test your homocysteine levels. High leveles indicate low levels of critical B vitamins esp. B12 adn B9 (folic acid). A lot of vegetarians are low in B12; this could be a bigger risk factor than previously realized.

3. Test your omega 3 index, which measures the amount of omega 3 in the cell walls of your red blood cells. Dr. Lundell offers for you to contact him at his website and he will arrange for it for you as it is not common yet.

4. Have a stress echo and stress nuclear scan performed. You can request these tests.

5. Get a CT or MRI scan of your coronary arteries (MRI is better).

6. Have a carotid ultrasound performed. It is also a surrogate marker for coronary disease. It measures the thickness of your artery wall and the ratio of the intima to the media. It is referred to as CIMT (carotid intimal to medial thickness).

It was a mistake to present this book with the paid writer playing the curmudgeon arguing with Dr. Lundell throughout… I think it got in the way of the material. In my opinion, this book should have been put together with a professional writing style, like most books on disease are nowadays and it should have been organized… it doesn’t have an index and takes forever to find something or find if something is missing. Actually, what seemed to be missing was a clear framework or list of what dietary recommendations Dr. Lundell has in mind. He talks about diet, but it is scattered here and there and I had to go over and over it to pick up his points on diet to make sure I understood him.

I don’t know if I missed it but I don’t think there was anything about CLA (conjugated linoleic acid) supplements. He talked about the importance of CLA and that with a diet of dairy and meat we do get CLA, but he didn’t say anything about supplementation. That would be important for vegetarians and vegans. There has been some research on high inflammation in vegetarians, which would have helped to make his case. Actually, it would depend on what they actually ate… probably most vegetarians are on a high-carb low-protein diet (even if they don’t think about that way); very few are on a low-carb diet because that would be another restriction of a restricted choice diet… and it would be difficult to be on a vegetarian high-protein diet (that would probably entail consuming 1 1/2 12-ounce blocks of tofu or more per day… which would total 75 gm of protein). I would have been interested in Dr. Lundell’s opinions and I believe it would be extremely relevant as a lot of people are leaning towards vegetarianism nowadays for a lot of reasons. As I mentioned before, vegetarians are often B12 deficient which he mentions as another risk in regards to cardiovascular health.

It would have been interesting to know Dr. Lundell’s opinion suggested supplements for people with heart disease recommended by Dr. Sinatra, a cardiologist (not a cardiac surgeon).

I think his observations and synthesis of medicine and science in regards to cardiac health and disease are pretty profound and should be taken seriously.
: The Cure for Heart Disease, although written in everyday language, is different than every other book exploring the number one killer of Americans. A riveting yet straight forward discussion that challenges public consensus, explains the reasons for the epidemic of heart disease, and provides an easy to follow guide to eliminate heart disease.
The Cure for Heart Disease: Truth Will Save a Nation

• Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It’s Too Late
• L-Carnitine and the Heart
• Track Your Plaque: The Only Heart Disease Prevention Program That Shows How to Use the New Heart Scans to Detect, Track and Control Coronary Plaque
• The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It
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Solarcosa 054022 Solar-Sicherheitsleuchte mit Abstand das Beste – R. Wagner – Graz
Ich habe nun schon die 4te Solarleuchte für den Garten und diese ist wirklich mit Abstand die beste.

Die Leuchtkraft ist mehr als ausreichend und das scho bei sehr wenig Sonneneinstrahlung.

Das Kabel zwischen Solar und Leuchte ist ausreichend.

Kann ich ur jedem empfehlen.

ich kann die leuchten auch sehr empfehlen. wenn man die leuchten links und rechts bis zum anschlag dreht hat man licht für ca 15-20 laufende Meter (wer es gerne sehr hell haben will sollte mit max 10 laufende meter rechnen) man darf zwar kein tageslicht erwarten aber um einen weg nachts gut auszuleuchten reicht das licht vollkommen aus. was ich sehr positiv finde ist, dass das licht sowohl beim an als auch beim ausgehen auf und/oder abdimmt. sprich, das licht geht nicht schlagartig an oder aus wie bei einem lichtschalter. je nachdem wie lange man die brenndauer einstellt, ist auch die abdimmgeschwindigkeit. akkus waren ebenso mit dabei und die waren ca. 30% vorgeladen. die montage ist sehr einfach und ausreichend stabil gelöst. das solarpanel lässt sich ebenfalls gut drehen und einstellen.

ich habe mit diesen leuchten eine zufahrt bzw weg an garagen entlang ausgeleuchtet. insgesamt sind es 17 fertiggaragen-boxen à 3 meter, auf den kompletten weg verteilt sind 4 leuchten montiert was absolut ausreichend ist. die leuchtdauer, lichtempfindlichkeit und der erfassungsbereich vom bewegungsmelder sind sehr gut und relativ genau einstellbar. kleine büsche oder bäume die sich durch den wind bewegen werden ignoriert, eine katze die ca 2 meter durch läuft reicht aus um das licht zu aktivieren (bei voller empfindlichkeit).

ich würde sie jederzeit wieder kaufen und empfehle sie uneingeschränkt zu diesem preis. ich habe über amazon bei solarcosa bestellt. sehr schnelle lieferung, so wie man es sich eben wünscht.

5 Sterne weil die funktion wirklich gut ist und der preis stimmt.

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Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It’s Too Late Heart disease info – Carl Hughes – Whitefish, Montana
If you have heart disease noe or want to avoid it in the future this is must reading!!
I have been very impressed by this book. If only it had been the superb book it could have been.

The authors, Drs Sinatra and Roberts, have been converted to a new way of doing cardiology. PREVENTION of heart troubles and treatment with nutritional supplements are not often practised by cardiologists. And Drs Sinatra and Roberts are humble enough to admit that they have learned much from their patients. If only other doctors would be prepared to listen to their patients instead of acting as if they know everything.

If only Drs Sinatra and Roberts had taken notice of some much earlier research about the causes of heart disease.

Here I will quote Dr Mark Starr, who in his book “Hypothyroidism Type 2: the Epidemic” refers to the work of Dr Broda Barnes:

“Dr Barnes realized quite early in his career that hypothyroidism was pervasive and a majority of those afflicted were not being diagnosed or properly treated. By 1950, he also recognized that his patients had not suffered any heart attacks while their incidence was exploding in the rest of America. In 1950 … Dr Barnes began a long-term study to determine if proper treatment of hypothyroidism would prevent heart attacks … Dr Barnes intended for his study to parallel the Framingham study. In 1972, after 22 years of his ongoing study, Dr Barnes published the results of his work in a book, ‘Heart Attack Rareness in Thyroid-Treated Patients’ … The Framingham Study would have predicted that 72 of Dr Barnes’ patients should have suffered heart attacks. Only four occurred. In addition, at least 30 patients who quit the study and discontinued thyroid hormones suffered fatal heart attacks within six years of stopping their thyroid [treatment]. Many of these patients had moved. Their new doctors declined to continue thyroid treatment. Blood tests often showed the patients did not need thyroid hormones … Dr Barnes purposely did not attempt to control cholesterol, smoking, exercise or other variables. He wanted the only variable between his patients and those from the Framingham study to be the use of thyroid hormones. In 1976, four years after his book, ‘Heart Attack Rareness in Thyroid Treated Patients’ was published, Dr Barnes published another groundbreaking book, ‘Solved: the Riddle of Heart Attacks’. Despite the publication of eight editions through 1999, mainstream medicine continues to dismiss his irrefutable work.”
There is much more about this in the ‘heart attack’ chapter of Dr Starr’s book!

In the whole of “Reverse Heart Disease Now” Drs Sinatra and Roberts acknowledge the thyroid connection in only two brief sentences: “We look at hormone levels, particularly estrogen, testosterone and thyroid. Even a slight hypothyroid status increases the risk of CVD because the body needs thyroid hormone to metabolize cholesterol efficiently.”

I do not know how they “look at” thyroid hormone levels, but if they look for blood test levels outside what is considered the normal range, they will miss most cases of hypothyroidism. This is one of the serious points made by Dr Starr and of course by Dr Barnes. Hypothyroidism is not diagnosed properly, because of concentration on blood tests and so-called normal ranges, leaving many sick people to get sicker and to potentially suffer heart attacks! And those who do manage to get a diagnosis are often under-treated. If only the diagnosis was made by careful observation of the patient and careful listening to his story (as in the olden days!) and treatment given at a level that is effective for the patient, not just to make the numbers look good.

If only Drs Sinatra and Roberts had true knowledge of dietary matters! This is the second major flaw in their book.

While some parts of their dietary advice are correct, others are not. For instance, they advise against refined carbohydrates, and that is good advice. But then they define refined carbohydrates as “highly processed foods loaded with sugar”. They then go on to advocate GRAINS, which even as “whole grains” start turning into sugar as soon as they arrive in the mouth, and prunes, which are loaded with sugar. They are thoroughly confused about saturated fats, and still believe the outdated notion that meat, poultry and full-fat dairy products create a risk for CVD. So, “more fish, less beef and dairy”, they advise. This is quite wrong.

The entire lipid hypothesis, covering saturated fats, cholesterol etc, has been proved false. Many books demonstrate this, eg Ravnskov “The Cholesterol Myths: exposing the fallacy that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease”, Colpo “The Great Cholesterol Con: why everything you’ve been told about cholesterol, diet and heart disease is wrong”, Kendrick ” The Great Cholesterol Con: the truth about what really causes heart disease and how to avoid it”, Taubes “Good Calories, Bad Calories” — also known as “The Diet Delusion” — and Ravnskov’s latest book, “Fat and Cholesterol are GOOD for You!” Also look for “7 reasons to eat more saturated fat” and “Diet and fat: a severe case of mistaken consensus” and “The skinny on fats” (google them). The real villain among fats is TRANS fat, which should definitely be avoided, along with polyunsaturated oils. The big problem is to get all those doctors, nutritionists, dietitians and diet gurus to acknowledge their mistake about saturated fats, swallow their pride and eat humble pie. If only they would!

I could go on with criticism of the Sinatra/Roberts diet advice, for instance their advice to eat less salt (only SOME people need to have a low-salt diet, everybody else NEEDS salt, though not as processed foods) and their advocacy of soy products, which are toxic and act as endocrine disruptors. But I think I have given enough information to justify the 4 star rating instead of a 5.

: While most books focus solely on the role of cholesterol in heart disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now draws on new research that points to the surprising other causes. Two leading cardiologists draw on their collective fifty years of clinical cardiology research to show you how to combine the benefits of modern medicine, over-the-counter vitamins and supplements, and simple lifestyle changes to have a healthy heart.
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