by Dr. Eliezer Ben-Joseph
Almost all adults are concerned about the condition of their heart and cardiovascular system. Some live in constant fear wondering whether any ache, cramp or pain in their chest is a sign of a heart attack. There isn’t an adult living in North America that hasn’t lost a loved one or a family member to heart disease. The fact is, heart attacks kill, and they kill by the millions every year!
Just recently we witnessed the sudden death of TV news anchorman Tim Russert from a massive heart attack. Tim was only 58 years old. It came as a complete shock to the world. Since Tim was internationally recognized, our society tends to give deaths like his more attention than others. What happened to Tim Russert is only a microcosm of what is happening on a massive scale every year. Generally we expect people in their seventies, eighties and nineties to die from heart attacks. When it occurs with people in their twenties, thirties, forties or fifties, it’s usually considered a tragedy.
What you will rarely hear is that most heart disease is caused by nutritional deficiencies. You won’t get well or live out the years you were created to live until you know what’s causing your heart condition or how to prevent one altogether. Of all the organs in the body the heart is the one most often damaged by nutritional deficiencies. It is also the most responsive organ to nutritional therapies.
Mainstream medicine’s answer to heart disease, high blood pressure and diabetes/blood sugar issues is to treat it with drugs. They have it all wrong?
Neither heart disease, high blood pressure nor diabetes/blood sugar issues are due to “drug deficiencies”. The reasons for each of these problems are due to complexities of nutritional deficiencies. These deficiencies come from a few very bad dietary habits that have only become common place over the last 100 years.
100 years ago cardiovascular disease was not even among the top ten causes of death. Today it is the number one cause of death and has been number one more than half a century.
Take statin drugs to lower cholesterol and save your life. If statin drugs are not the biggest scam ever they are at least right near the top.
Cholesterol levels are reduced due to statins interfering with normal liver processes. Liver problems are one of the two most common and most serious side effects of taking statins.
The other most common and most serious side effect of taking statins is muscle damage. Isn’t the heart a muscle? Why, YES, it is!
Cholesterol is not the issue, yet rather one has too little of the essential trace mineral element chromium, selenium, magnesium, and silica.
Chromium manages cholesterol. In the absence of chromium cholesterol is unmanaged and goes haywire.
Increased chromium does two things; it increases the levels of “good” HDL cholesterol and decreases the “bad” LDL cholesterol. Chromium provides the best of both worlds with no side effects.
How about this fact. Chromium in the aorta was not detected (too low to be found) in every person dying of coronary artery disease, and was present in every aorta of persons dying accidentally.”
You do not have high cholesterol and heart disease because of a deficiency of Lipitor! Artificial means (DRUGS) do not fix the problem which in part is a chromium deficiencies.
The most effective way of avoiding the atherosclerotic-diabetic syndrome is by prevention, that means, “take chromium”
Everyone talks about CoQ10 and the heart. It is a naturally occurring compound that is found in every cell of the body. It also plays a major role in protecting the heart. Let me say that selenium is more important than CoQ10?
CoQ10 is produced in the body from selenium. Second, selenium is relatively inexpensive and CoQ10 is one of the more expensive products on the market. It is a matter of common sense and dollars and cents – as well as scientific sense – to concentrate more on selenium supplementation than on CoQ10 supplementation.
There is also no better antioxidant than selenium. Antioxidants protect against free radicals that damage the arteries, thereby setting up the basis for plaque build-up.
Selenium deficiency is also at the root of hypertension (commonly called high blood pressure) that also increases cardiovascular risk. The real problem is the heavy metal cadmium.
Research has found that refined, white salt was a carrying agent for the mineral cadmium and that a build-up of cadmium was the real agent of hypertension.
Cadmium is a heavy metal and as such is stable against the processing that removes other minerals when refining salt deposits to the pretty, white, sodium chloride salt so popular with almost everybody – this sets up an exaggerated imbalance of cadmium that results in high blood pressure.
Cadmium displaces zinc. The only normal means by which the body removes cadmium is the mineral selenium. Selenium physically bonds with cadmium to escort it out of the system. Of course, selenium is sacrificed in this role so that it is then unavailable to protect the heart, prevent cancer.
Cigarette smoking is documented to dramatically increase high blood pressure risk. Cigarette smoke is very high in cadmium. The subsequent loss of selenium due to such cadmium increase also explains why cigarette smokers have so much more heart disease as well as cancer.
The only mineral left in white flour and white sugar is cadmium.
Selenium is important for so many functions in the body that it just makes sense in so many ways to concentrate on selenium supplementation rather than CoQ10 supplementation.
Going back to statins. The artificial means by which statin drugs interfere with the production of cholesterol also interferes with the production of CoQ10 from selenium.
So, if you are so brainwashed and/or brain dead as to use a statin drug then you must supplement with the very expensive supplement of CoQ10, because this very important substance cannot be produced from the more economical selenium due to the interference from the statin drug. So plaque builds up.
Plaque build-up is a concern to the vast majority of Americans who make Standard American Dietary choices.
First, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” as the old saying goes. Preventing heart problems is easier than countering heart problems.
While chromium deficiency is a primary cause of heart problems, it is not THE primary cause of heart problems.
91 per cent of chromium is removed when white flour is made. However, before cholesterol goes out of control due to a lack of chromium and becomes a significant part of the plaque process there has to be damage to the artery.
92 per cent of selenium is removed when white flour is made. However, before a lack of selenium becomes a part of the plaque process due to increased damage to the artery there is another matter of the heart.
95 per cent of the mineral silicon is removed when white flour is made – more than either selenium or chromium. Silica is vital to the integrity of the blood vessels. It is key to both strength and elasticity of the vessels.
Lack of silica results in weaker blood vessels. This results in damage to the weaker vessels from free radicals due to lack of selenium. Then cholesterol acts as a band-aid to a problem that is not truly countered without the restoration of the nutrients. The continual placing of cholesterol band-aids is the plaque that builds up in the arteries.
A study many years ago confirmed that in those dying from cardiovascular disease there was little or no silica to be found in the arteries. Those who died with healthy cardiovascular systems had an abundance of silica in their arteries.
Other very important nutrient deficiencies contributing to heart disease are magnesium, of which 75 per cent is removed in the refining of white flour, and pyridoxal compounds (referred to as vitamin B6) of which more than 50 per cent is removed in the refining of white flour.
Statin drug use is so absolutely idiotic. The primary function of statins – the number one most prescribed drug in the world – is to reduce cholesterol, which is not a primary cause of heart disease. Neither is cholesterol secondary or even tertiary to heart disease. Yet statins do prevent production of CoQ10 which IS a primary PROTECTOR of the heart!
There is even growing talk of statins being given to children. THAT would be child abuse.
When cholesterol is alleged to be high the concern needs to be to cease refined white flour and refined white sugar products, and start taking chromium. I’ve never known a “cholesterol problem” not resolved with that regimen through almost three decades of experience and it happens in a matter of months and sometimes in a matter of weeks.
The most important aspect of utilizing chromium with cholesterol issues – since cholesterol issues ARE actually chromium deficiency issues – is that chromium balances out cholesterol by decreasing truly high “bad” LDL levels and increasing low “good” HDL levels.
Of all the organs in the human body, the heart is most responsive to nutritional therapies. So take the nutrients!
The mineral chromium is the most important for cardiovascular health. Remember that all the important nutrients for cardiovascular health – chromium, silicon, selenium, magnesium and the pyridoxals (vitamin B6) – are gone from the American dietary staple of refined white flour and sugar.
Exercise and running – which requires energy. The basic energy unit of the body at the most basic level is ATP. That is formed from glucose and oxygen. The extra energy required for running requires extra chromium. When that is absent then the benefits of running are increasing your risk of death.. The lack of chromium will eventually catch up to you. Sooner or later it will overtake you.
Jim Fixx dropped dead of a massive heart attack at the young age of 52 in the midst of his normal 10-mile daily run. It was only seven years after releasing his book on running. Though a runner for many years he died with one coronary artery blocked almost 100 per cent, a second blocked 80 per cent, and a third 70 per cent blocked.
If your heart is broke, don’t Fixx it. Running causes the release of endorphins and makes those who do so feel good. Running is a better option than drug therapy. It may make you feel better. It may even extend your life more than if you did nothing at all. Ultimately, it still does not address the underlying problem of chromium deficiency. Running in fact demands more chromium and will therefore increase a deficiency if that nutrient need is not addressed.
Take vitamin B6 every time you eat any animal food – that’s meat, eggs, or any heated dairy product, to prevent the formation of homocysteine that damages arteries.
Dr. Eliezer Ben-Joseph
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