Bypass surgery can save your life when you are dying from a heart attack. A stent (a small devise placed in a blocked coronary artery) can also be used for the same purpose, What I am talking about is cleaning out the coronary arteries before you have no other options and also preventing further clogging of the arteries feeding your heart. Can you really do this? You bet! The published studies are overwhelming and proof lies in the patients themselves. We can just look ahead and find narrowed arteries before they are completely blocked.
One non-invasive way to investigate coronary arteries is by getting a rapid CAT scan of your heart. This is a way to quantify the amount of calcium that is associated with these blockages and to also map out where blockages are. Insurance typically does not pay for it and it usually costs the consumer somewhere between $100 - $200 to have it done. The test can be done periodically if needed, to monitor the degree of change in the blockage. The good news is the calcium can be removed by specific nutritional supplements; a prescription of Tetracycline taken twice a year during the cleaning process and by using a product called EDTA. In the past, EDTA has been given intravenously, and now we have research to prove it works as a small suppository four days a week. Studies have shown that not only can you reverse the calcium and clean it out, but virtually 100% of people with angina (chest pain) have their symptoms relieved. The risk is effectively zero; not so with a stent where serious problems can result. The supplements are simply a large dose of Vitamin C, B6, B12, Vitamin E, tocotrienols, and high dose folic acid, and Omega 3 fish oil. The EDTA and Tetracycline are, of course, prescription. So why doesn’t everybody know about this? Simply put, money. If it was expensive, everyone would know about it. The cost of having one stent placed in Austin from beginning to end is about $72,000. Bypass is a lot more.
They are probably going to squeal like a mashed cat. There’s a lot more money in non-generic prescription drugs and medical procedures, than in nutrition. As a physician, I am involved in medical procedures, I prescribe prescription drugs, and I suggest nutritional supplements. However, I don’t control the medical journals; the pharmaceutical industry does. Harvard professor, Marcia Angell, M.D., says the pharmaceutical industry owns our journals; nothing gets published except through them. That’s interesting because she’s also former Editor-In-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. A recent study showed that the four top English language medical journals in the world, when examined over the last four years, showed that 95% of the research published had a financial conflict of interest. It’s done. Newsflash… I wrote this article on July 11, 2007. But, predictably on July 16th ,the Journal of American Medical Association published an article (absolutely fabricated to protect the stent and bypass industry), that did not include any patients, but using only statistics, stated a rapid CT of the heart, can increase risk of lung and breast cancer. This stuff is scary.
