Heart Disease Treatment and Prevention
Old Paradigm For Heart Disease TreatmentFor heart disease, Take this pill for the rest of your life it will help your heart even though we don't really know whether it will prolong your life. New ParadigmTake charge of your own health by educating yourself about disease prevention and a healthy lifestyle for increased vitality and longevity.Prevent or reverse coronary artery disease by getting your doctor on side to monitor your best choices and new habits. Old Paradigm for Heart DiseaseWe expect older people to be sickly, have clogged arteries and weak hearts and think that they need to take drugs to prolong their life.For example, researchers found that doctors are dismissing the side effects of statin drugs such as Lipitor and Zocor because such symptoms are considered to be "normal" for older people. TYPICAL SIDE EFFECTS include a lack of energy, cognitive problems, mood changes and muscle weakness. (don't forget that the heart is a muscle) (Drug Safety. 30(8):669-675, 2007) New Longevity ParadigmPeople can stay healthy and vital regardless of their age.Decline in mental function, for example, is related more to coronary artery disease than to chronological age. Our genetic makeup, say geneticists, only determines about a third of the factors that influence how long we live and which diseases we are prone to getting. Re-writing the Book on Risk FactorsResearchers are still re-writing the book on risk factors for heart disease: CHOLESTEROL is no longer the big bad villain it is just one of many indicators. INFLAMMATION is becoming to be considered the underlying cause of coronary artery disease, using for example, high HOMOCYSTEINE levels and CRP's (C-Reactive Proteins) as markers. LOW GLUTATHIONE levels have also been found to be MORE PREDICTIVE of heart attack risk than is having high cholesterol. Spotting risk factors is NOT rocket science anymore: YOUR WAIST SIZE is a big indicator. IF your waist measures more than 40 (102 cm) if you are a man, or 35 (89 cm) if you are a woman, you are at risk. And there is no quick-fix pill -- some medications may prevent a heart attack, but they have not been shown to prolong your life!
Links: Heart Disease Discoveries How NUTRITION Helps Heart Health COMPARED TO MEDS What medical researchers say about how nutrition helps heart health compared to meds. Best Heart Disease Prevention Diet? Researchers sort out the best diet, putting low fat diets and statin medications head to head with the Mediterranean diet and foods shown to prevent cardiovascular disease. What Nutrition Helps Heart Health Best? Determining what nutrition helps heart health best has some surprises, especially how quickly a change in nutrition can help heart health. New Players for Preventing Heart Disease How Vitamin D and Vitamin K Can Stop Heart Disease Both Vitamin K and Vitamin D are found to play a BIG role in PREVENTING coronary artery disease. Simple but Overlooked Cause of Congestive Heart Failure? Researchers identify an overlooked vitamin as congestive heart failure nutrition, linking heart failure to its deficiency. ARRHYTHMIAS: Heart RATE Variability linked to NUTRITION "Double whammy" research shows how "bad" fats can cause sudden cardiac death through arrhythmias. HEART SURGERY Nutrition: New Discoveries for Better Recovery New discoveries for better recovery with pre - heart surgery nutrition as well as for better heart surgery postoperative recovery. Surprising Findings about Heart Meds Who does NOT benefit from statins such as Lipitor or Zocor? Scientists find that statins e.g. Lipitor & Zocor only protect men with diagnosed heart disease under 70 -- not healthy men, not women, nor the obese or the elderly from death by heart disease or from a heart attack. Cholesterol Lowering Drugs? Doctors In Denial about Their Negative Side Effects When people report experiencing side effects from statins such as Lipitor and Zocor such as --lack of energy, cognitive problems, mood changes and muscle weakness -- doctors don't tend to believe these to be caused by the drugs, but due to old age etc. Coumadin Side Effects: Brain Strokes Found To Be Warfarin Side Effects New studies show serious warfarin side effects -- the blood thinner Coumadin side effects. Also some simple but effective ways to improve STROKE RECOVERY. High CHOLESTEROL not a DISEASE? Heart Attacks not CAUSED BY CHOLESTEROL? A new American study has shown that nearly 75 percent of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had normal cholesterol levels that did not indicate that they were at high risk for a cardiovascular event. Nutrition or Meds Better for Blood Pressure & Cholesterol? Nutrition or Meds for High Blood Pressure? Researchers show how nutrition lowers high blood pressure as effectively as do anti-hypertensive drugs. Dark Chocolate as Good as Heart Meds? Researcher starts to eat chocolate every day after studying effects of chocolate on High Blood Pressure. Lowering Cholesterol Without Meds Researchers effective in LOWERING cholesterol and AVOIDING use of Statins e.g Lipitor, Zocor, Pravachol, Simvastatin and their negative side effects, using dietary interventions. What are Better Predictors than Cholesterol? Studies shows new indicators for prevention arteriosclerosis than cholesterol. How I Lowered my Cholesterol Naturally Shirley H., Registered Nurse: How I brought my cholesterol back to normal when using statins did not help and were causing concern and muscle weakness. Beyond Diet and Exercise: How Emotions and Pollution Play a PartStressors such as chemicals and pollutants, emotional stresses e.g., worry, anger and illnesses increase our susceptibility to heart problems. Hardening of the arteries is also being linked to air pollution. For example, researchers at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California have found a 3-6% increase in the long-term risk for heart attack based on exposure to air pollution. Heavy metals, especially mercury, are problematic. A Finnish study found a 50 percent to 70 percent greater risk of heart attacks, heart disease and cardiovascular disease in men ages 42 to 60 who had elevated levels of mercury in their bodies, in spite of eating fish and omega 3s. Jyrki Virtanen with the Research Institute of Public Health at the University of Kuopio in Finland says that the evidence is strong enough to warrant urging middle-aged men to avoid eating high-mercury fish. Resolving negative emotions has also been linked to prevention. We know that pressures such as anger and hostility can release certain chemicals in the body that may increase the risk of heart disease, (Belinda Linden, British Heart Foundation). Hostility during marital disputes was found bad for womens hearts, while controlling behavior during marital disputes was bad for mens hearts according to research done by Professor Tim Smith and other psychologists from the University of Utah. Heart disease prevention, say researchers, involves the environment, creating harmonious relationships as well as the right diet and exercise. So, be happy and value your friends and family! New Paradigm for Heart Health: Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Disease and Heart AttackGO to Health Discoveries HOME PAGE from heart disease
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