This is my chance to share and possibly change the world. If you realize that cholesterol isn’t as big a deal as drug commercials portray and you look at being healthy as your responsibility and not insurers. Then you will be astonished with the information in this article. If you have questions or want more specific advice, just leave a comment below.
In remembering Tim Russert, we can learn a little, and in my case a lot.
Unusual facts forgotten by drug commercials.
#1 Think for a moment about how far America has come and changed in the last 100 years. From airplanes to cell phones, truly amazing. What did people eat 100 years ago? Eggs, milk, butter, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, in a nut shell. By todays standards, lots of saturated fats, right? If you think this is a mistake quit reading and go to a history book, and do not pass go (Monopoly, patented 1933).
#2 In the 1930’s there were about 3,000 deaths from heart attacks. By the 1950’s, deaths were 500,000 and the leading cause of death. Thats a huge jump in ~20 years, for a relatively rare disease. Ironically, in the 1950’s the cholesterol theory was born.
What most people know about Heart Disease is summarized by USA Today:
“Half of all heart attacks occur in people who have no risk factors and 20% in people with no major risk factors.
The reason lies in the biology of the coronary artery. In landmark research, Steven Nissen of the Cleveland Clinic has shown that when cholesterol begins collecting in artery walls, it pushes them outward, not into the channel where blood flows. So many patients — Russert included — experience no symptoms of heart disease.
Heart attacks occur when a plaque becomes inflamed and bursts, sending blood clots and debris downstream to lodge in arteries supplying the heart. Standard diagnostic tests don’t reveal these inflamed cholesterol deposits or plaques. Over the past few years, researchers led by Paul Ridker of Harvard have shown that testing for a chemical signal of inflammation, called C-reactive protein, or CRP, can add predictive power.
But many heart attacks are still unpredictable. Russert’s is a textbook example.”
USA TODAY June 16th, 2008
The cardiology industry is based on one premise, arteries get blocked with plaque.
What if it was all wrong?
What if our common belief was like a flat earth?
It is fairly close to once per year than an article rocks my world and gets me to sit up and take notice. Most of the printed material on health and nutrition would be better served for use in the bathroom. Most of it is regurgitated crap.
I came across an article, quite by accident, about research that has been going on for 29 years out side of the USA.
There are a few holes in the “blockages cause heart attacks theory”.
#1 Not all heart attacks have blockages
#2 The more time it takes from heart attack until death the more blockages that are found. If a person dies within 1 hour of an attack there is 16% of people had blockages. If they die after 24 hours 53% of people had blockages. Meaning: the blockage is a consequence of the attack not the cause of the attack.
#3 In 1988, a 20 year study of coronary surgery from the VA and NIH found that survival for those who had surgery and those who used drug therapies were no different. Not what you’d expect if blockages were the real cause of heart attacks.
Sometimes standing on the threshold of greatness is amazing. The insider secrets to heart attacks and how to prevent them and maybe, just maybe, avoid them. Truly amazing information is available through our website. This is unlike anything you have ever read about heart disease before. As usual, the info has been buried for many years.
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