Thursday, April 21, 2011
Improve your Health using Natural Alternatives to Drugs!: Xooma KardiaXyme a Natural Treatment for HIV?
Improve your Health using Natural Alternatives to Drugs!: Xooma KardiaXyme a Natural Treatment for HIV?: "HIV Remission Possible Using Natural Treatment? Watch the testimony of two HIV positive men share their experience drinking 4 ounces of an..."
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Xooma KardiaXyme a Natural Treatment for HIV?
HIV Remission Possible Using Natural Treatment?
Watch the testimony of two HIV positive men share their experience drinking 4 ounces of an algae infused water called KardiaXyme. They claim a level of health for the last 6 years not possible with medical drugs. There are scores and possibly hundreds experiencing the same results....
Watch the testimony of two HIV positive men share their experience drinking 4 ounces of an algae infused water called KardiaXyme. They claim a level of health for the last 6 years not possible with medical drugs. There are scores and possibly hundreds experiencing the same results....
Friday, April 1, 2011
Without Inflammation, Cholesterol won't accumulate in Blood Vessel walls and cause Heart Disease
Without inflammation, cholesterol won't accumulate in blood vessel walls and cause heart disease
By Dr. Dwight Rundell, MD
Author of "The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie"
Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large
ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to
being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000
open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.”
Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we
opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood
cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet
that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower
cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered
heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery
a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is
slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be
treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and
diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality,
human suffering and dire economic consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite
the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of
heart disease than ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently
suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes.
These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that
cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and
strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as
nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defence to a
foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in
how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we
chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never
designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other
substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at
least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat
and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing
repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation
leading to heart disease, Stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low
fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the
overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products
made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean,
corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes
quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up several times a day, every day for five
years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen
infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize
the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the
same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks
as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day,
every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing
the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a
foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple
carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the
mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been Slowly poisoning
everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the
cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In
response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into
each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is
rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.
insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very
narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the
blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation.
When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like
taking Sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical
patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in
their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it
is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in
soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life.
While omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what
goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces
chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats.
The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a
tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1
ratio would be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates
overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add
to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll
turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure,
diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues
unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed
foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human
body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and
soaked in omega-6 oils.
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to
their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very
complex such as colorful fruits and
vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and
soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg.
Instead, use olive oil or butterfrom grass-fed beef. contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause
inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the
“science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated
fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood
cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of
heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the
very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated
fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial
inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your
mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating
inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will
reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the
typical American diet.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner
Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa , AZ.
Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He
is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on
helping large corporations promote wellness. He is the author of "The Cure for Heart
Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie"] .
Animal fats
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more
By Dwight Lundell, MD
By Dr. Dwight Rundell, MD
Author of "The Cure for Heart Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie"
Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake!
We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large
ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to
being wrong.. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000
open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.
I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.”
Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we
opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood
cholesterol.
The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet
that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower
cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered
heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.
It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery
a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is
slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be
treated.
The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and
diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality,
human suffering and dire economic consequences.
Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite
the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of
heart disease than ever before.
Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently
suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes.
These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that
cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and
strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as
nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.
Inflammation is not complicated -- it is quite simply your body's natural defence to a
foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in
how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we
chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never
designed to process,a condition occurs called chronic inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.
What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other
substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at
least they made that choice willfully.
The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat
and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing
repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation
leading to heart disease, Stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that. The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low
fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.
What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the
overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products
made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean,
corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods.
Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes
quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up several times a day, every day for five
years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen
infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize
the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.
Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the
same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks
as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day,
every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing
the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a
foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple
carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the
mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been Slowly poisoning
everyone.
How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?
Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the
cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In
response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into
each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is
rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.
insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very
narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the
blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation.
When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like
taking Sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.
While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical
patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in
their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it
is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in
soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life.
While omega-6’s are essential –they are part of every cell membrane controlling what
goes in and out of the cell — they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.
If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces
chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.
Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats.
The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a
tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1
ratio would be optimal and healthy.
To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates
overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add
to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll
turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure,
diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues
unabated.
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed
foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human
body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and
soaked in omega-6 oils.
There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to
their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very
complex such as colorful fruits and
vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and
soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.
One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg.
Instead, use olive oil or butterfrom grass-fed beef. contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause
inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the
“science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated
fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood
cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of
heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.
The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the
very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation.
Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated
fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial
inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.
What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your
mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating
inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will
reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the
typical American diet.
[Ed. Note: Dr. Dwight Lundell is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner
Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa , AZ.
Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He
is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on
helping large corporations promote wellness. He is the author of "The Cure for Heart
Disease and The Great Cholesterol Lie"] .
Animal fats
When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more
By Dwight Lundell, MD
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