CS - Heart Attack Question

CS,

I read your previous advice on someones father who had a heart attack. My dad had one yesterday and we are waiting to hear what the cardiologist says about the severity. I read the advice you gave in your previous post. However, my dad also suffers from diabetes and had a moderate stroke 3 years ago.

What would you recommend that I put him on?

Thank you so much.

Raxe - Diabetics are much more prone to heart disease.

Here's a few questions before we proceed. If he's interested I know of a place he can go for various treatments to get everything helped, including the stroke, assuming there were some complications with it.

Would need to know what drugs he's currently taking. The reason is that diabetic drugs make the patient far worse in virtually all cases. Assuming he's also on heart medication is important also.

What's his general condition? Shortness of breath, his physical ability? Is he on any health supplements?

I wonder if the medical staff gave him an IV-Magnesium treatment upon his arrival? I sure hope so.

CS, I havent spoken to the doctor yet. But He has blockages in three main vessels. Right now he is in ICU. He will want all the conventional treatments and I do not think I could talk him out of it. They are saying he is going to need open heart surgery. I will get the names of the drugs he is on and will be taking.

Raxe - Considering his history of stroke, I can only hope he's not on warfarin/coumadin. If he's not on it already and you find out they are prescribing it to him, tell him it is a guaranteed death sentence. If he wants to live don't take any rat poison. If he's already on it, then he will have to continue to take it, but there are some ways to reduce the damage (will explain that if that is the case). If he hasn't taken any coumadin/warfarin yet and he is told to do so, tell him to take Nattokinase and Ecklonia Cava instead.

I would recommend the liberal use of Magnesium oil, Magnesium Orotate, Sulforaphane (restores activation of Nrf2 in the disease-prone regions of the arteries), Vitamin K2, find out if they checked him for Vitamin D levels, chances are very high that they are low. He'll probably need 10,000 IU of D3 per day.

200 milligrams of Ubiquinol per day is important.

A natural form of B-complex is essential (non-isolate forms), Brewer's yeast is highly recommended for this.

D-Ribose can regenerate heart tissue, the amount to take is 5-gram servings 2 to three times daily.

He'll also need plenty of Omega-3 fatty acids, but preferably 3 grams of krill oil per day would be better.

He'll also need to take 6 grams of Perfusia-SR per day (contraindicated with Nitroglycerin)

Hope they check his testosterone levels, because chances are strong that he's very low. Testosterone supplementation can work wonders on both diabetes and heart disease.

Cardiologists are taught to believe that heart disease is a "plumbing problem" but it is untrue. The real problem is nutritional. Natural forms of B-complex, vitamin E, Tocotrienols, complexed Vitamin C and Grape seed extract are very important. Vitamin C in the correct whole form is anti-viral, Vitamin E in the natural form helps rid the waste acids in the heart, and natural, non-isolate vitamin B-complex prevent heart paralysis.

Unfortunately, the conventional mindset only has evaluated studies based on synthetic isolates and without synergy and often by themselves in small clusters. I find more often that not, it is a deliberate attempt to prove failure for vitamin therapy. Synthetic isolates, might as well be drugs.

The guidelines that cardiologist must follow disparage natural treatments and recommend beta-blockers, nitro and daily aspirin but it doesn't work.

What about Hawthorn?

CS. The surgery is scheduled for later in the week.

These are the drugs he is on(I am not sure of the spelling of them because I was told over the phone)

Plavix
Aspirin
Lovanox?
Insukub
Lasics?
Cortaid

What is your opinion?

Raxe - Glad he's not on warfarin. I'm not familiar with Insukub. Do you know what type of heart surgery he will have, is it open heart, coronary artery bypass, Angioplasty or other?

oops, that was a typo - I mean insulin.

It is open heart - triple bypass.

As far as the supplements you mentioned for him, none of them would interfere with his meds? Do you recommend those for his diabetes also?

Raxe - The other day, I put up some basic diabetes information centered around basic treatments and some drugs on my daily blog, check out the last two entries: http://www.immortalhair.org/apps/blog/

Since he's on insulin, is he type I (insulin dependent) or is he type II (Mellitus) non-insulin dependent?

I would guess type II since about 90% of the diabetic population fall into this category, but will wait for your response.

Coronary artery bypass is frequently unnecessary. Do you know which arteries are blocked? One surprising fact is that placebo surgery is just as effective, although there are exceptions depending on which arteries are blocked. Another question--does he any any shortness of breath or angina pain? Or did this heart attack occur silently without any warning or symptom?

An alternative treatment, which works better (it is approved by medicare) is EECP, this stands for Enhanced External Counterpulsation.

This treatment was developed by Harry Soroff, MD, at Harvard University more than 50 years ago as a treatment for angina. EECP is a noninvasive therapy that dramatically increases the blood flow through the heart arteries, pumping blood from the legs and lower abdomen. It's performed externally without surgery, it works by laying on an elevated surface, adjustable cuffs are placed around the lower extremities from the ankles to just below the waist. Then, timed with each beat of your heart, the stocking contracts, pushing blood up the extremities, through the veins, and into the heart.

It works just like heart bypass, except that it works better and without being cut open and being subject to anesthesia, which frequently causes other complications (memory loss is one).

What makes EECP superior to bypass surgery is that it opens up collateral circulation. This is a process that naturally occurs during artery occlusion. As coronary arteries gradually become blocked, the heart opens up additional avenues of blood around the blockage.

One treatment session lasts about an hour, and is conducted over a course of 3-weeks for 35 sessions. Usually the patient reads a book or listens to music, some even fall asleep. It's useful for other circulatory conditions as well.

Another nice thing about EECP is that it helps reverse the damage done by bypass surgery itself. Bypass surgery is considered "the gold standard," but it has been proven not to be, it's the money that keeps it going. But even if myself and others explain all these facts to a patient in ICU, they are already scared to death from their cardiologist saying that if they don't do the heart surgery they are doomed.

By chance if he is receptive to this idea, you can find places here to have the procedure done instead of bypass:

http://www.vasomedical.com/

If you have ask a typical heart doctor about EECP, they've probably heard of it, but they have been trained to believe it's a last line therapy, to be performed after (the much more profitable heart surgery is tried first). Yet, they rarely even offer EECP in the last place anyway.

EECP therapy was developed at one of the most prestigious medical centers in this country and is has been widely used in China for decades, it has been slow to get off the ground in the United States for obvious reasons.

Based on what he's taking so far, drug wise the supplements would be fine. That could change if they decide to put him on something else.