Heart Disease is the #1 Killer

Dr. Augustus M. Reynolds 11, MS, DC, CCN, DACBN

There is a heart attack every 20 seconds, it causes 50% of all deaths in the US. There is one death every 60 seconds and a million each year. Heart disease kills more than the next 9 causes of death. About 1 out of 8 live births has congenital heart disease.

Heart disease is a staggering financial burden with estimates as high as 2 billion dollars a day in the next couple of years.

In 1999, researchers found that 60% of 5-10 year olds have at least one risk factor for heart disease including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, or elevated insulin levels.

Heart disease kills more women over the age of 60 than any other disease. At a half a million deaths, it dwarfs breast cancer, which will claim about 43,000 lives this year.

Specific diseases caused by atherosclerosis include coronary artery disease, angina pectoris, cerebral vascular disease, thrombotic stroke, transient ischemic attacks, diabetic vascular complications, and pulmonary embolisms.

Conventional medicine’s approach is Drano or roto-rooter.

Not Just A Killer of Men

• 500,000 women every year die from heart disease, each year dwarfing breast cancer.
• 60% of youth are at risk for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol and high insulin levels.

What Is Cardiovascular Disease?

• Hypertension
• Congestive Heart Failure
• Coronary Heart Disease
• Stroke
• Diabetes
• Peripheral Arterial Disease
• Critical Limb Ischemia
• Vasculogenic Impotence
• Sudden Cardiac Death

Are You A Ticking Time Bomb?

• Sudden Cardiac Death accounts for 300,000 deaths each year – 1 every 60 seconds
• 95% die before reaching the hospital
• 70% die at home
• 100,000 athletes die each year from SCD
• SCD takes the lives of 6 children every week
• Almost one-third of sudden cardiac arrests outside homes and hospitals occur in fitness clubs or sports facilities - Mary Fran Hazinski, Senior Science Editor for the American Heart Association

Stress & Heart Disease

Facts

About 50% of heart attack victims had normal cholesterol levels. Anxiety and depression double the risk of a first heart attack and quadruples the risk for a repeat heart attack. Hostility raises the risk of a heart attack by 29% and by 60% in people under 60 years old. Childhood trauma raises the risk of a heart attack by 30 to 70%.

Why?

Negative emotions affect the autonomic nervous systems which in turn affects all the organs. Depression, anger and hostility increased C-reactive protein…a blood marker for inflammation. Stress cardiomyopathy or broken-heart syndrome caused from a major shock…people had 30 times the normal level of adrenaline, which is 4 to 5 times higher than people actually having a heart attack. This huge dose of hormone disrupts the way heart cells take up calcium, which affects the way the heart contracts.

Heart attack procedure: women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jawline. About 500,000 women every year die from heart disease each year dwarfing breast cancer. About 60% of youth are at risk for heart disease: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and high insulin levels.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. The first symptom in 60% of all heart attacks is death, if asleep don’t awaken. Today, you will be experiencing the very latest scientific information on CVD. In 1998, a team of American scientists from UCLA won the Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery of the nitric oxide pathway.

The study was praised in the journal of the American Medical Association, and the New England Journal of Medicine.

The American Heart Association acknowledges that all cardiovascular disease is diet-related apart from rheumatic heart disease, which is caused by a staphylococcus infection. They refused to endorse this study.

Nitric oxide is a powerful substance that promotes optimal blood flow and maintains smooth, Teflon-like texture of arteries. Inside the artery, there is an inner lining called the endothelium. When nitric oxide is present in adequate amounts, the endothelium is smooth and tough like Teflon. When there is inadequate nitric oxide, the lining in the walls of the arteries becomes sticky, like “velcro”. So, how do we benefit from this Nobel Prize winning research? The answer is a naturally occurring amino acid called L-arginine. L-arginine is the precursor to nitric oxide.

Your body converts L-arginine into nitric oxide that maintains healthy blood vessels and allows blood to flow efficiently and smoothly throughout the body. The beauty of this system is the utilization of an FDA-approved laboratory instrument called a digital pulse wave analyzer that provides information five, ten, fifteen, even twenty years in advance of a possible heart attack. This is a treatment program which will restore healthy levels of arginine and other heart nutrients, such as antioxidants and vitamin D.

The Benefits Of Nitric Oxide

• Blood pressure: Nitric oxide lowers blood pressure, improves blood flow and blood vessel diameter, and prevents the formation of blood clots.
• Heart: Nitric oxide widens blood vessels, increases oxygen supply and protects the heart from damage and cell death. It helps establish regular electrical impulses and normal rhythm to the heart.
• Immune system: Immune cells release bursts of nitric oxide to kill bacteria, viral and parasitic infections. Nitric oxide is involved in the production of blood cells in the bone marrow and has been shown to increase the number of immune boosting “Killer T-Cells.”
• Brain: Nitric oxide transmits messages between nerve cells and is associated with the processes of learning, memory, and sleeping. It can stimulate the brain and modulate many functions, from behavior to gastrointestinal activity.
• Impotence: Nitric oxide stimulates, restores and magnifies the natural responses of male and female genitals. Creating increased nitric oxide is the expected effect of the celebrated drug Viagra. The proper amount of it heightens and lengthens the time of stimulation.
• Inflammation: Nitric oxide is a mediator in inflammation and rheumatism. It helps relieve pain. The drug morphine produces nitric oxide, which is the non-addictive but beneficial portion of the drug.
• Tumor reduction: Nitric oxide reduces tumor growth and increases the immune response against the radical replication of cancerous cells.
• Skeletal muscles: Nitric oxide widens the blood channels leading to skeletal muscles. For those that exercise or life weights, this means faster gains in lean muscle mass, greater strength, increased endurance, and full-body muscle recovery.

Your heart is the most amazing and abused organ found in the human body. Using good nutrition, clean air, pure water and exercise, the heart can last well over 120 years, love it and it will serve you well. Abused it and it will take you down.

What Is Arginine?

• One of twenty-two naturally-occurring amino acids necessary for life.
• Found naturally in dietary protein sources such as red meat, fish and nuts. About 3 grams in the average diet.
• Your body’s key source of nitrogen, critical for maintaining circulatory functions.
• Over 74,000 of peer-reviewed publications link arginine to vascular benefits dating as far back as 1927.

Medically Published Clinical Studies Say:

      Lower Blood Pressure - Lancet 1990

      Lower Cholesterol & Triglycerides - J Nutr 1996

      Improve Diabetes – Diabetes Care 2001

      Improve Sexual Function – BJU Int 1999

      Reduce Blood Clots & Strokes – Circulation 2001

      Improve Congestive Heart Failure – J Am Coll Cardiol 2002

      Improve Wound Healing – Surgery 1993

      Improve Kidney & Liver Function – Kidney Int 1999

      Improve Memory & Cognitive Functions – J Physiol Pharmacol 1999

      Increase Human Growth Hormone – J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2000

Who Needs Arginine?

Risk Factors for CVD

High cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, family history, low estrogen or being a smoker.

Common Symptoms

Chest pains, leg pains, easily winded, lacking energy, impotence, memory loss, weight gain, and comparative analysis.

*Arginine Is Safe To Take With Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

*Aspirin or Anticoagulants

*Calcium Channel Blockers

*Digitalis or ACE Inhibitors

*Beta-Blockers

***Do not take with nitroglycerine

Note: Please check with your doctor before making any changes.

What Are The Side Effects?

• Increased Energy
• Improved Memory
• Increased Immune System
• Improved Sleep
• Increased Muscle Toning
• Loss of Weight
• Better Athletic Performance
• Quicker Wound Healing
• Increased Sexual Function
• Less Prescription Medicine

Age is a feeling, not a number! Life is the production of energy! Health is the natural state of the body. If you make the right CHOICE now, all the evidence promises that the quality of life you can enjoy into your sunset years will be rich with both mental and physical pleasures.