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Cholesterol And Heart Disease.
A Little Known Secret.
Solving the Cholesterol and Heart Disease Puzzle
For 30 years we have been bombarded with cholesterol
and heart disease solutions that don't work.
"Lower your cholesterol," say the drug companies ads and everything will be just fine. It’s not quite so simple.
Cholesterol is essential for a healthy body and our liver manufactures far more of it than we eat.
It's amazing and somewhat frustrating to me that the other important heart attack and stroke risks are largely ignored by the medical community. Robert Superko, MD, director of research at Berkeley Heart Lab explains a little known "secret:"
| “Cholesterol is not the problem we thought it was. Relying on cholesterol levels as a risk factor for coronary artery disease may not be wise since 80% of coronary patients have the same cholesterol as individuals who do not develop the disease.” |
Certain members of the pharmaceutical industry do not look upon this finding as good news. Cholesterol lowering drugs now have total annual sales of more than $14 billion!
How Arteries Clog
A piece of the cholesterol and heart disease puzzle that the above illustration fails to describe is what causes the "bad" LDL cholesterol to stick to the artery walls.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone, author of “The Perricone Connection” explains how cholesterol and heart disease works.
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“To visualize how LDL cholesterol operates, think about rust. Rust occurs when metal oxidizes. Rust corrodes and eats away the metal, ultimately destroying it. Similarly, when LDLs are oxidized in our bodies by free radicals or sugar, the LDL molecules create an inflammatory cascade resulting in cell and artery damage, irritation of the artery walls, and fatty streaks. More oxidized LDLs start to build up at this spot, producing an artery-blocking plaque. Left untreated, this plaque eventually closes the artery entirely, leading to a possible heart attack or stroke.” |
I'm
Gene Millen. About seventeen years ago a highly skilled heart surgeon, sawed open my
chest and stitched in bypasses to six of my favorite heart arteries.
Six heart bypasses isn't’ a
record but it’s not bad for a skinny 59-year-old non-smoker
with normal cholesterol and blood pressure and no family history of
heart disease.
Since my heart bypass operation in
1990, my passion has been to learn
exactly what
causes heart attacks and strokes and how we can avoid
them!
I've spent hundreds of hours sifting
through clinical research for the latest information you (and I) need to
know to keep our hearts as strong and vital as our Creator designed them
to be.
Are you confused by conflicting claims and media hype about heart disease? Who wouldn't be? National author and fitness consultant, James Rippee says it better than I could.
“We have too much
knowledge, too much media exposure to ‘breakthroughs and
controversies’. What we need is more
common sense!"
Fortunately there is one voice of reason crying in the wilderness of main stream gobbledygook...Dr. Al Sears.
I discovered Dr. Sears about two years ago and have been increasingly impressed with his knowledge and his natural approach to cholesterol and heart disease.
Dr. Sears has a very successful medical practice in Florida and a remarkable track record. He has produced results for thousands of people from around the world.
I've learned an amazing amount of information
from Dr. Al and recommend that you take a look at his book,
The Doctor's
Heart Cure. Just
click here to discover how
you can dramatically reduce your risk of having a heart
attack or stroke.
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