The Real Cause of Most (85%) Heart Attacks and
Strokes
From our book
Bypassing Bypass, published in 2002 |
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Dr Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD
(director of cardiovascular research at Mount Sinai School of
Medicine in New York and previous head of the American Heart
Association) published the results of a forty-year study (from 1959
to 1999) in a book called Understanding Vulnerable Plaque. The rest
of us first heard of this study in an article by Ron Winslow first
published in the Wall Street Journal. It was such an amazing story
that it had four headlines:
Coronary Culprit
Heart-Disease Sleuths Identify
Prime Suspect: Inflammation of Artery
The Body’s Efforts to Repair
Irritated Lining of Vessel Can Backfire Disastrously
Plaques Burst Like Popcorn
The article starts off
describing the previous (popular) line of thought concerning the
mechanism of heart attacks. First there is the accumulation of
plaque until a blockage is created. Then a clot forms and gets
caught in the plaque, which cuts off the blood to the heart and
bingo, heart stops: standard cardiac arrest caused by coronary
thrombosis (blood clot in the arteries that feed the heart).
“But the popular view is wrong,”
writes Ron Winslow. We’ve been wrong a long, long time. If you take
a look at your Encarta Encyclopedia, you’ll see this “popular view.”
If you go today to the American Heart Association’s web site, you’ll
still see this same view. Billions of dollars are spent yearly on
medical procedures supporting this “popular view.”
Even Newsweek eventually picked
up the story quoting Dr Fuster: “inflammation in the circulating
blood may play an important role in triggering heart attacks by
activating blood clotting mechanisms.” Fuster even has the integrity
to state that the role of physicians should be to care for the blood
and not go into the plumbing business (performing expensive
“roto-rooter” services on our blood vessels).
If you go to Dr Garry Gordon’s
web site, www.gordonresearch.com, you’ll see that Dr Gordon was
pushing this line of thought years before it was released in the
Wall Street Journal. You’ll see that for the past ten years Dr Garry
Gordon has not sent one of his heart disease patients in for bypass
surgery. You’ll see that he has written all sorts of papers on
Bypassing Bypass Surgery:
Based on my 40 years clinical
experience during the last 10 years of which I did not have to send
a single patient for bypass or angioplasty surgery no matter how
advanced their blockages were, I now believe that most degenerative
and cardiovascular diseases can be improved and often nearly totally
reversed.
Dr Garry Gordon was kind enough
to help us with this edition. He is a co-founder of the American
College for the Advancement of Medicine. He is founder and president
of the International College of Advanced Longevity and a board
member of the International Oxidative Medicine Association. He is a
medical doctor, a doctor of osteopathy, and a homeopathic physician.
He practices orthomolecular and functional medicine and is a
full-time consultant for many nutritional supplement companies, one
being Longevity Plus where his office is located. He is responsible
for the majority of their formulations.
Dr Gordon lectures around the
world on cardiovascular wellness: “The End of Bypass Surgery is in
Sight.”
During his radiology residency
at Mount Zion hospital in San Francisco, he suffered from terrible
angina attacks. He watched carefully the cardiology practice at this
hospital, knowing that he would soon be a patient. He discovered he
didn’t like the odds. For every two cardiac patients who walked
through the entrance, only one walked out the exit after
treatment.
He learned right away the limits
of modern diagnostics. No matter which instrument we use to view the
arteries, we can never see them in three dimensions. And when we
find a completely blocked artery, doctors want to jump right in and
start cracking open the patient’s chest. They jump in despite all the
evidence that collateralization has taken place. When an artery
collateralizes, it branches off and forms a new artery to deliver
the blood the blocked artery can no longer deliver.
Dr Gordon long ago suspected
inflammations in the blood had a connection to heart attacks and
strokes. He has now completely eliminated the problem using
Wobenzym®
from Germany (along with nutrition and chelation therapy). From Dr
Gordon’s web site:
Wobenzym® is an enzyme
preparation initially developed in Germany in the 1960’s by the
Medical Enzyme Research Foundation.
Wobenzym® is backed by millions
of dollars of research. This research has been primarily done in
Europe, there are FDA approved studies under way in the United
States on Osteo-Arthritis and Multiple Myeloma.
Studies in Europe have
documented an average lowering of C-reactive protein levels (a
marker of chronic infection in the body) of 30%.
New research, published in the
New England Journal of Medicine, has documented that higher levels
of C-reactive protein have up to 6 times the incidence of death from
heart attack and stroke as lower levels. This obviously means that
long-term use of Wobenzym® can be life saving. In addition it has
the well deserved reputation of being the leading natural safe
alternative for anti-inflammatory drugs such Ibuprofen.
Note: Recently Wobenzym®, though
advertised on the web, could not be found in America because many of
its ingredients came from animal sources, and in Europe there had
been that outbreak of Mad Cow disease. This situation, combined with
a number of agreements being contested locked the entire supply of
Wobenzym® in a warehouse. That is all cleared up now, and along with
Wobenzym’s® return to the shelves, the vegetarian form,
Rutozym™ has
hit the market.
Ron Wilson points out in his
article that it is our own body’s immune system that becomes a
turncoat and works against our longevity by bursting holes in our
arteries. Trying to attack the intruders causing the infections, our
own immune system contributes to the problem.
Infections in our blood are not
new. They’ve been uncovered in a good many books, such as the Root
Canal Cover-up, published in 1992 that focused on the low-grade
infections caused by root canals, low grade infections that can get
into the blood stream. However, this root canal business goes back
even further when you realize that Weston Price, working with 60
other scientists in the 1920’s and 1930’s, did the original research
on the root canal problem and predicted that a host of systemic
diseases—including heart disease—can be caused by these low grade
inflammations as well as by gum disease.
The process, the actual
development of Vulnerable Plaque, its coming to a head and
exploding, and the subsequent clotting that can result in one huge
clot racing through your bloodstream to get caught in your brain or
heart is as interesting as any detective novel.

Vulnerable Plaque: Left:
Ultra-High-speed Magnetic Resonance Image showing
vulnerable plaque in the walls of the left coronary artery (arrow).
Right: Image from the top portion of the aorta shows the plaque made
up of cholesterol deposits, calcium and blood clots. (Courtesy of Dr
Zahi A. Fayad, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine.)
[http://www.gordonresearch.com/Blood%20%20Vessel.htm]
As you will learn later under
the heading of Arteriosclerosis (or hardening of the arteries), a
good portion of the assault on our arteries, as described by Doctors Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath, is caused by lack of proper
nutrition. Now we see another cause, which is the attack on the
vascular wall by germs. According to the article, the repeated
attacks and repairs cause this build-up of plaque: “Researchers
believe that coronary-artery disease is an inflammatory process,
characterized by a decades-long cycle of irritation, injury, healing
and reinjury to the inside of the blood vessels.”
Sadly, the article hangs onto
old prejudices: “The new research doesn’t detract from well-known
risk
factors. On the contrary, it
bolsters arguments for controlling blood pressure and cholesterol,
avoiding smoking and adopting a healthier lifestyle.”
We agree about the smoking and
the lifestyle changes, but this cholesterol stuff is outdated and,
at best, a harmful misconception. Cholesterol is a secondary factor
only. It is not cholesterol that causes cardiovascular disease, but
cardiovascular disease that causes your cholesterol levels to rise.
We will later on talk about the
build up of plaque on the arterial walls, but first let us take a
look at Ron Wilson’s article and his take on this:
The picture that emerges from
their labs as well as others is of a disease that begins as early as
adolescence with an initial irritation to the artery’s inner wall,
called the endothelium. This sets off alarms summoning the immune
system and the broader inflammatory response, dispatching cellular
soldiers to fight the invaders and fix the damage.
If the injury is a one-time
event, this is no problem. The immune-system players retreat, and
the inflammatory response that accompanied their efforts recedes as
well. But over decades, with persistent irritation such as from high
blood cholesterol or exposure to cigarette smoke, this becomes
chronic, and the body’s repair machinery begins to run amok.
“It’s a smoldering process,”
says Dr Libby. As it proceeds, “the normal defense mechanisms get
turned against you.” For instance, an irritated cell in the lining
produces molecules that act like flypaper to attract the beneficial
repair crews. But over time, these stuck molecules become the
seedbed for eventual cholesterol deposits called plaques.
The only problem in the above
quotation is this strange idea that cholesterol, a very needed
component to our basic biology, is called an irritant. Rancid,
oxidized cholesterol is an irritant that can be avoided by the
proper use of antioxidants.
At this point we need Dr
Gordon’s input, as the article doesn’t seem to completely tell the
story.
Dr Gordon points out that the
inflammations in the blood (we all have them or will have them; it’s
just a matter of time) are caused by microbes (such as mycoplasma,
HHV-6, chlamydia, CMV, and a few others, possibly even stealth
viruses—viruses that have gone undetected by modern science but
cause low grade inflammations in the blood). He also reminds us that
not all inflammations are caused by infections. He points out that
poor metabolism (not burning cleanly) and a lot of free radicals can
cause inflammations. The infections in the blood stream are caused
by tiny microbes that get into the artery and are attacked by the
immune system. This causes inflammation. The resulting scar tissue
is first covered up by lp(a)—first discovered by Pauling and Rath—and
then by cholesterol, and finally covered with a fibrous cap (from
the fibrinogen in the blood, the clotting mechanism). This entire
process of inflammation and attack keeps the blood hypercoagulable,
as fibrin is needed to patch the wounds. Interestingly enough, the
microorganisms become hidden from the immune system by the fibrin
coating.
Keep in mind that, normally, a
healthy immune system keeps these microbes in check. But when you
are stressed, overtired, and undernourished, with your immune system
deactivated, these critters can get out of hand.
One of the problems leading up
to vulnerable plaque is caused by macrophages (or “big eaters”). The
job of macrophages is to eat things that are causing problems:
microbes and excess cholesterol. They get so full of cholesterol
that they can no longer function and become, what scientists call,
foam cells. The processes of patching the arteries hides the foam
cells beneath the fibrous cap and the macrophages die adding their
contents to what Ron Wilson calls a “cauldron of plaque bubbling
under the fibrous cap.”
Dr Garry Gordon calls it a boil.
And like any boil, it’s eventually going to burst.
Now let’s step back for a
second. Science is developing more and more sophisticated
instruments to peer into the human body. Recently on the radio we’ve
heard advertisements about this new machine (in a “heart” hospital
in Minnetonka) that can peer into all your clogged arteries and tell
you precisely the percentage of clog. But do not think for a minute
that it can tell you that you have vulnerable plaque. It cannot tell you that you
have a boil about to burst. They would have to scan your entire
body, inch by inch to find this boil.
So, POW! the boil explodes. Do
these tissues and fibrin and gunk cause a clot? No. They are cleaned
up by the immune system. But a clot is formed. It forms when passing
blood cells spot the epithelial tissues laid bare by the boil’s
explosion. They begin to clot and form a patch. Blood clots to
correct a problem, but as you will see, the clot becomes the
problem.
Because of the
hypercoagulability of our blood (due to all the infections, our
diet, our heavy metals, etc., as noted earlier) our blood is quick
to clot. It wants to clot. It creates an extra large, humongous clot
to patch the hole. Because of its ungainly size, it can break loose
in the current of the blood flow. This is the clot that is going to
kill you. It is going to kill people with no visible signs of heart disease. It is going to kill people who seem to be perfectly
healthy. It is going to kill people with cholesterol levels that are
supposedly normal. It is going to kill a million people this year,
and it is 100% preventable.
Oh the medical profession is
jumping on this one right now. They want you to take an aspirin a
day. They want you to continue your cholesterol lowering drugs, the
statins. Why? Because they’re also anti-inflammatory. They want you
to take Coumadin to thin your blood, the new COX-2 inhibitors to
attack the inflammation, or NSAIDS to thin your blood. (As we've
reported at this web site, the COX-2 inhibitor, Vioxx does lower
inflammation, and at the same time attacks the arteries.)
Statins have side effects.
Reducing your cholesterol levels does not extend your life. Anti-inflammatories
can. Despite the advertising that tells us how aspirin saves lives,
aspirin and NSAIDS kill at least 20,000 people a year. [www.gordonresearch.com/articles_acam/acam_response_cranton_rebuttal_5-15-03.html]
They either bleed to death or die from hemorrhagic strokes.
The total number of deaths due to bleeding caused by the use of NSAIDS is over 30,000 a year. Coumadin? From the 2001 Encarta
Encyclopedia we see:
Possible side effects of [Coumadin]
include hemorrhage (severe bleeding), chest pain, joint pain,
headache, difficulty breathing, difficulty swallowing, or swelling.
Other side effects may include diarrhea, nausea, fever, hair loss,
skin inflammation, discolored (purplish) toes, or gangrene.
Excessive bleeding from a nosebleed, cut, puncture, or unusual
menstrual flow should be checked by a doctor.
Just recently, medical journals
are pointing out that patients on coumadin for a long period of time
increase their chances of hemorrhagic strokes.
No wonder it’s the main
ingredient in rat poison.
According to Dr Gordon, most of
the blood in blood banks is used to replace the blood lost by people
on conventional blood thinners. Does this tell you anything?
We dispute the practice of using
aspirin as a blood thinner throughout our articles on cardiovascular
disease, but right here
we will give you Dr Val Fuster’s take on aspirin (and other
anticoagulants) because aspirin (and the others) affect only one
pathway to coagulation:
Aspirin interferes with only one
of the three pathways of platelet activation - the one dependent on
thromboxane A. The other two pathways — one dependent on ADP and
collagen and the other on thrombin — remain unaffected, as does the
coagulation system. On the other hand, current anticoagulant agents
interfere only partially with the coagulation system and do not
affect platelet activation. It is not surprising, therefore, that
aspirin or anticoagulants cannot completely prevent coronary
thrombotic events, although the relative antithrombotic
effectiveness of both types of antithrombotic agents is clinically
similar.
Treatment Begins After
Testing
I’m sure you’ve all seen the
television commercial in which a “doctor” recommends some antacid
product to someone with heartburn. Prescribing without testing is
malpractice. In this case, the heartburn, the physician did not even
know whether the heartburn was caused by too much stomach acid or
too little stomach acid. Simple logic tells us that to fix a
problem, we must know the problem. Therefore to fix whatever is
causing your hypercoagulability means you must have the proper
testing, and the following is a list of tests about which you might
wish to learn more.
-
Serum Ferritin (iron)
levels: high iron is almost as dangerous as high lead levels in
your blood. People who give blood have fewer heart attacks than
those who don’t. If we just lowered our iron levels we could cut
the number of diabetes cases in America by one third.
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lp(a) test and oxidized
cholesterol antibody test: adhesion molecules such as VCAM and
ICAM that measure how sticky things are at a molecular level
(implicated in the impaired circulation of the tiny vessels
[capillaries]) eventually leading to heart attacks, strokes, and
loss of vision.
-
Platelet aggregation,
fibrinogen, lipid peroxides, and other markers of free radical
damage and monitor antibody levels to various infections
implicated in atherosclerosis: CMV(cytomegalorvirus), Herpes,
etc.
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Fasting insulin levels,
homocysteine levels, triglycerides/HDL ratio, Redox, pH,
Resistance, APO E-2, 3, or 4, blood type testing, and food
allergy tests.
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Fatty acid analysis (on red
blood cell membranes), and amino acid testing on urine and
blood.
-
And most important of all,
the C-reactive protein test and an IL-6 test, as we recently
discovered and published in the article:
Chronic Inflammation.
Valentin Fuster, M.D., Ph.D., in
an article entitled, “Heartbeat, A Heart Health Update” (http://www.gordonresearch.com/fuster.htm)
writes “During the inflammatory process, a substance—C-reactive
protein—is produced in the blood. By measuring blood levels of
C-reactive protein, researchers now have an important tool for
studying the role of inflammation in heart attacks and strokes,
since the amount of inflammation can be measured by the C-reactive
protein.”
If C-reactive protein is found
in your blood, you are 8 times (800%) more likely to die from a
heart attack or stroke. No other test even comes close to this
indicator. Dr Gordon told us, “There has never been a lipid disorder
or cholesterol value that was associated with 8 times the risk of
death.”
UPDATE
2016: We have since learned that testing for CRP is not
enough. What you need is a battery of tests that will establish your
"inflammation
index." Click on that link to learn about these tests in our
paper, "Chronic Inflammation."
So it is the care and cleaning
of our blood that medicine must focus on, as Dr Val Fuster and Dr
Garry Gordon both tell us, and not by playing plumbers trying to
repair our pipes. We now have many, many supplements that can help
us get away from blood thinners whose side effects all too often
include death.
Dr Gordon does concede that we
might have to put a patient on Heparin and antibiotics at first just
to get a handle on the coagulation problem. Thin the blood and
attack the infections. But after this, let’s use supplements that
are natural and needed and we can slowly wean the patient off of the
other drugs.
Vitamin C, a weak acid, bonds
with iron. All weak acids are natural chelators in that they either
pull heavy metals from the body or they bond with them and keep them
from doing damage. We now know that viruses and bacteria congregate
in organs that are high in heavy metals. Pulling these metals from
the body is just one step in helping to clear up the viruses. Dr
Gordon takes a daily chelation formula because he says our
environment, “has exceeded the body’s ability to handle [heavy
metals].”
Next we have the blood thinners
we’ve mentioned above: garlic, cayenne, vitamin E, and magnesium.
Wobenzym® and Rutozym™ are made
to digest any proteins in the blood (such as C-reactive protein). To
begin with, you might need to take twelve to sixteen capsules of
Wobmenzym® (or Rutozym™) per day to get your levels down. Keep in
mind, you must test, treat, retest, and modify your treatment. This
is not a hit or miss practice. FYI, or
For Your Inflammation, from
Dr Gordon’s research, complements the Wobenzym® nicely.
However, elevated C-reactive
protein, according to Dr Gordon, “is not merely the chlamydia
growing in our blood vessels; it is the overall impact of all the
things going wrong with our metabolism and the entire infection load
we’re handling.” He goes on to talk about the antibiotics in our
fruits and vegetables and livestock (75% of antibiotics used go into
our livestock). With all these antibiotics in our system he directed
us to Inuflora, just one of the supplements he takes daily. It is a
sugar that we cannot use, but the flora in our digestive tract can
use it, and need it. It is also a fiber; a fiber with an interesting
side effect: it also too helps to lower C-reactive protein.
Dr Garry Gordon’s plan is based
upon years of research and treatment, and we want to pass on his own
words.
First, on hypercoagulability:
I believe that with our improved
understanding regarding the need for effective control of
hypercoagulability in virtually all ill patients, it may be
beneficial to routinely add a more therapeutic level of intravenous
or subcutaneous Heparin, along with more aggressive therapeutic
levels of intravenous Vitamin C, in our efforts to manage this newly
identified epidemic of hypercoaguability/infection related problems.
4,000 to 6,000 units of Heparin, based on weight, administered
subcutaneously b.i.d. are safe, for a therapeutic trial of several
weeks, without doing specialized coagulation studies in patients
without a history of serious bleeding disorder (personal
communication with David Berg, May 3, 2000). Longer term use of oral
enzymes or daily heparin injections to decrease fibrinogen
concentrations and soluble fibrin monomers appear to greatly
facilitate the treatment of any chronic infectious process.
[David] Berg [of Hemex labs in
Phoenix, AZ] has shown that a coagulation panel that is more
sensitive than hitherto available is capable of distinguishing
healthy from unhealthy subjects with over 95% accuracy. In fact,
hypercoagulability is associated with a large number of chronic
diseases.
Since EDTA prevents clotting in
blood collection tubes used daily, I believe more sensitive tests
may show some subtle reduction of hypercoagulability. Possibly
lowering the number of adhesion molecules, or soluble fibrin
monomers, may be one of its subtler, but life saving benefits. The
combination of a polluted environment, stressful life style and
chronic low-grade infection leading to hypercoagulability, initially
called the AntiPhospholipid antibody syndrome, has now more recently
been renamed “immune system activation of coagulation” (ISAC). It
appears to be surprisingly common and those at risk need long-term
effective but safe lifelong anticoagulation treatment. Aspirin alone
is too weak and too dangerous to handle this epidemic of
hypercoagulability. It has also recently been reported to be too
dangerous for men with hypertension to take on a regular basis.
Effective aspirin substitutes include pancreatic enzymes (Wobenzym®)
and properly stabilized bromelain supplements, preferably used in
combination with garlic, Ginkgo, and salmon oil. A polysaccharide/
chelation based product, containing EDTA, also acts as an effective
aspirin substitute and affordably helps to meet this nearly
universal need.
The polysaccharide he prefers is
a mucopolysaccharide from red seaweed (found in Gordon’s Essential
Daily Defense™ formula). This by itself has a good number of studies
done showing it to be very significant in reversing heart disease.
Furthermore, he adds that to
fight infections in the blood, his own daily regimen consists of
Wobenzym® and
RM-10™, a new product he developed in addition to his
earlier products, such as IMMUNI-T®. RM-10™ is a proprietary
mushroom blend that boosts interferon and interleukin levels, and
kick-starts Natural Killer Cell activity. Next he uses 8 or 9 grams
of Beyond C®, and Essential Daily Defense™, his oral chelation
formula (all of which we will talk about later on).
On a more natural note, you
might wish to try willow bark: Willow bark has been referred to as
Nature’s Aspirin. It is a natural anti-inflammatory that has been
shown to decrease the incidence of stroke and heart attack. Keep
this in mind when battling infections in the blood too, for it is a
wonderful tea and can be used daily.
UPDATE 2016:
Many of Dr Garry
Gordon's designer supplements are now made by
Garden of Life. You
can get all of these products from
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If you cannot find the product
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In Summation
We’ve just handed you a lot of
information, information your physician might or might not know. So
we’re going to summarize all you have to know about the real cause
of 85% of Strokes and Heart Attacks, and then give you the best
solutions currently accepted to prevent them. Do not forget to check
out the solutions we've added in our article
Chronic Inflammation.
Infections/inflammation in the
blood are the beginning of the problem. Fibrin is central to
inflammatory conditions. Our diets and lifestyles also add to the
hypercoagulable condition of our blood. Repeated activation of our
immune response to the inflammation and pollution (heavy metals)
produces antibodies and circulating immune complexes that only add
to the viscosity of our blood. Fibrin, normally a substance that
tries to save our lives, starts to coat the infection in the vessel
wall and ends up coating the microbes and immune complexes. This
creates a boil on our blood vessel that eventually explodes
uncovering the epithelial tissue. Red blood cells are signaled to
patch up this hole. The hypercoagulable state caused by all this
fibrin creates a much bigger clot than is needed. The clot can be
dislodged by over-exertion, over-excitement, or just getting up in
the morning, depending on the size of this clot, its adhesion
strength, and the current in the vessel. Once dislodged, it travels
to the brain for a stroke or to the heart for a heart attack.
Aspirin and Coumadin affect one
facet of the clotting process only. However, time and again we see
that nutritional protocols are not only more effective in the long
run but much safer. Dr Valls-Serra treated 245 patients with
systemic enzymes and witnessed substantially better therapeutic
outcome than with conventional anticoagulants and vasoactive
substances. You can call Longevity Plus (800-580-7587) and request a
copy of the article: Aspirin vs. Enzymes, by Dr Garry Gordon.
From Dr Garry Gordon’s web site
(www.gordonresearch.com),
we get these Darkfield Microscopy Images:

The blood of a patient with
cardiovascular disease shows signs of severe clotting, indicated by
the gray mass.

After three months
supplementation to make up for nutritional deficiencies, the
blood is free of clots.

Two weeks after temporarily
discontinuing supplements, some clotting returned. (Courtesy of
James R. Privitera, M.D.)
The following is just a part of
Dr Garry Gordon’s protocol (which he himself uses daily—we will list
his entire daily protocol following this section). He has not sent
one patient in for bypass surgery in over ten years. This works for
him, and you might want to see if it works for you, but as always,
get yourself a professional health practitioner to help you along
your way. Get tested, treated, and retested. All of the following
products are made by Longevity Plus, 800-580-7587.
However,
before you go there, you might also want to check out an article
that took years of research to write:
Chronic Inflammation.
You'll find even more info on inflammation and even more supplements
(with links) that can help.
Beyond C is a form of vitamin C
that allows you to take a large dosage without the usual stomach
problems. It also contains: MSM (methylsulfonomethane) for dramatic
immune enhancing and anti-inflammatory activities, TMG (Trimethylglycine)
to help keep homocysteine levels (associated with heart attack,
cancer and aging) at safe levels, Ribose to benefit the heart, and
Biopterine to aid in nutrient uptake.
Beyond Chelation is an entire
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There are over 60 ingredients in
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ALPHA LIPOIC ACID: An
antioxidant that facilitates the metabolism of Vitamin C, E and
glutathione.
EPA (Eicosapentaenoic Acid):
Essential fatty acids like those naturally occurring in some fish.
“The benefits of these can be best summarized by pointing out that
the mere ingestion of salmon twice a week has been shown to reduce
the overall mortality from heart attacks by more than 40%,” says Dr
Gordon. “The deficiency in our diet of this essential nutrient is
widely recognized, and its use in preventing thrombosis or hypercoagulable states in the bloodstream is well documented.”
GLA (Gamma-Linolenic Acid):
Essential fatty acids which also help prevent thrombosis and the
tendency toward excessive blood clotting implicated in heart
disease.
OMEGA 3, 6 AND 9: More than 25%
of the adult American population has low levels of omega 3s.
GRAPE SEED EXTRACT: Grape seed
contains OPCs (oligomeric phenolic compounds), which enhance
anti-oxidant activity and are also anti-inflammatory and anti-viral.
They are believed to be more powerful than Vitamin C, E, or
beta-carotene and are also very potent chelating agents.
GINKGO BILOBA: Reduces the
cholesterol concentration present in the arterial wall and protects
against all nerve degenerative diseases, among other beneficial
effects.
ORGANIC GARLIC: Reduces total
cholesterol as well as LDL cholesterol, lowers blood pressure and is
anti-viral.
RED YEAST (mucopolysaccharides):
Lipid-lowering; reduces total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and
triglycerides.
CoQ10, also known as
Ubiquinone,
is present in every cell of the body and is responsible for cellular
respiration. It has been shown to improve cardiac function, reduce
episodes of angina, decrease arrhythmias, improve cardiac strength
and contraction, slow the heart rate, lower blood pressure and, most
important, decrease the oxygen demand on the heart. It's most potent
from is called
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Inuflora is a proprietary blend
of inulins isolated from the Jerusalem artichoke. It has been
formulated not only to improve digestive health but also to restore
floral balance in the intestine. Inuline is a soluble fiber that
cannot be digested by the human body. It is absorbed intact and
travels to the colon as fibrous material where it serves as a
selective food source for beneficial bacteria. Inuflora, like most
fiber, also helps to thin the blood. It also reduces C-reactive
protein.
Essential Daily Defense™ is a
unique, proprietary formula based on a combination of 30 years of Dr
Gordon’s work in chelation and Dr Lester Morrison’s arteriosclerosis
research. This formula is designed to enhance excretion of all heavy
metals while concurrently providing anti-thrombotic activity due to
the unique synergy of the sulfated polysaccharide (red algae/carrageenan)
with EDTA. For serious mercury, lead and other heavy metal
detoxification, from 9 to 18 capsules a day is recommended. (NOTE:
ESSENTIAL DAILY DEFENSE™ MUST ALWAYS BE TAKEN WITH A BROAD SPECTRUM
MULTIVITAMIN.)
Wobenzym® is a combination of
systemic enzymes and Rutin (a bioflavonoid that supports blood
vessels and binds with excess iron) that has been tested for fifty
years at a cost of millions of dollars. It reduces C-reactive
protein and thins the blood and has not contributed to one known
death. Additionally, used with Beyond Chelation, it has been shown
to:
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Substantially reduce the incidence of fatal blood
clots now known to be induced by the sudden breakdown of vulnerable
plaque.
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Increase feelings of well
being because of its antioxidant and cholesterol lowering
effects.
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Allow fewer heart attacks or
strokes because of anti-thrombotic, anti-spasmodic, and
anti-arrhythmic abilities.
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Promote longevity due to the
control of many of the molecular bases of aging.
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If used with Beyond
Chelation™ (or another form of chelation therapy), improve
results related to arterial blockages caused by Herpes, CMV, and
other molecular based causes.
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Offer an opportunity for
continuing long-term survival and long-term improvement in
health.
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Improve the functioning of
all body organs/systems.
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Provide protection from
environmental toxins in the air, water and food.
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Be beneficial when used to
treat Autoimmune, Rheumatic and Cardiovascular Diseases,
Inflammations, Injuries, Infections, Tumor Illnesses, Osteo and
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Joint and Muscle Pain, Herpes and Other
Viral Infections, Cancer and Hepatitis C, Recurrent
Miscarriages, and many other Degenerative Diseases.
Nitric Oxide is out of place
here because it needs its own focus. Nitric Oxide “linked to hemoglobin allows blood vessels to expand or
contract, depending on how much of the molecule is present.”
Additionally, it “dilates blood vessels and thus allows oxygen to
better reach tissues.” [Scientific America, Nov 2001]
How can we get Nitric Oxide?
This nutrient is so important, that we've written all about it, and
here are the articles referencing NO:
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Ecklonia
Cava
Hypertension Update (June 2015)
Stroke Prevention Basics
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Additional Supplements
Rutozym™ is a vegetarian form of Wobenzym®. It has not been tested as much as Wobenzym® though many
feel it to be just as valuable in a heart healthy program.
FYI, For Your Inflammation
is a
new product developed by Dr Garry Gordon that contains systemic
enzymes and many more (see later) anti-inflammatory ingredients that
works well with Wobenzym®.
Immuni-T, Immuni-T2, and RM-10
are immune stimulants. Once you’ve cleared up the junk in your
pipelines, you can attack the invaders with these wonderful formulae
from Longevity Plus, 800-580-7587 708 E. Hwy 260, Bldg. C-2, Payson,
AZ 85541 (www.longevityplus.net).
Special Bonus
As promised, we’ll list for you
Dr Garry Gordon’s personal protocol that he uses daily. Dr Gordon’s
career began in research and eventually he started up a private
practice, but because of disabling angina he had to leave it. He
went on to heal himself, initiated or has been a part of some 40
professional organizations, and today is a full time consultant to
vitamin and supplement companies. His protocol is almost entirely
from products he’s helped to developed over the years and it is
constantly changing, so keep in mind that what is laid out here is
probably changing as we write these words. Nearly all of these
products can be purchased from
Longevity Plus (see above).
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Beyond Chelation, 1 pkg
twice/day (morning & night)
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Essential Daily Defense, 2
three times/day
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Beyond GHS, 3 before bed
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Beyond Immuni-T, 2 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Immuni-T2 2 twice/day (morning &
night)
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RM-10, 1 twice/day(morning &
night)
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FYI, 2 twice/day (morning &
night)
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Wobenzym Med, 3 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Painful Joints, 1 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Primal Defense, 1 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Inuflora 2 tsp twice/day
(morning & night)
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Super Sterolin, 2 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Super Carnitine, 500 mg, 1
twice/day (morning & night)
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CoQ10, 30mg, 2 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Beyond B12, 1 before bed
(sublingually)
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ThioGel, 200mg, 1 twice/day
(morning & night)
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Plasmin, 2 twice/day (morning
and Night)
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Maca, 1 heaping tsp twice/day
(morning & night)
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Beyond C, 1 heaping tsp
twice/day (morning & night)
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Perfect Food, 1 heaping tsp.
twice/day (morning & night)
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Imm-Kine, 2 before bed (one
month on and on month off)
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ProDetox, 2 before bed
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IGF-1+ 2 sprays before bed
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Pure Focus 2 pumps before bed
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Aloe Immune, 500mg, 1 before bed
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Pregenenolone, 75mg, 1 twice/day(morning
& night)
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DHEA, 50mg, 1 twice/day (morning
& night)
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Acetyl-Carnitine, 250mg b.i.d.†
(morning & night)
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Melatonin 1.3 - 3mg, before bed
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Piracetam, 500mg, 1 Each
morning, (N00tropil) from IAS
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Flax Seed, 1 tbl Freshly ground,
twice/day (morning & night)
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Calcium EDTA Powder 1/2 tsp.
(occasionally) once a day
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Arginine (Hemoxide), 2-4 before
bed on an empty stomach
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(Plasmin is taken one month out
of three; Inuflora should be started slowly [1/2 to 1 tsp] to avoid
gas; all the powdered supplements are mixed into a drink)
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