Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

I do not use aspirin for primary prevention for any of my patients. The benefits are too small and the risks are real. It has clearly been oversold and misrepresented. It never has been an anticoagulant, but it does have some limited antiplatelet effects. On the whole it has some benefits but there are also some bleeding risks.

Moreover, since it does not decrease deaths from heart attacks or all-cause mortality, the patients are living with false sense of security and will ignore advice to be on a product that could clearly add years to their life but does not have all the marketing money behind it. Beyond Chelation-Improved is the real protection patients are seeking.

Patients who I clearly can help decrease all cause morbidity and mortality without question using Beyond Chelation Improved and, particularly for serious cases, adding Boluoke BID to the program, are not getting the message, as they believe in the hype surrounding aspirin. I can state unequivocally BC-I and Boluoke together do dramatically lower mortality from heart attacks even in patients with high risk documented left main disease. It also lowers all-cause mortality while also lowering stroke incidences.

The reasons are clear if you consider that BC-I has over 100 active ingredients and over $10 million in research behind it. BC-I has three books written about how it was developed and it took over $10 million back in the sixties to develop this natural approach to ending heart attacks and that was real money back then. There are two published studies where it lowered heart attacks by an average of 91% but that was some time before I added the EDTA to the formula. I believe that the benefits are even greater now.

So let’s take the time to learn the truth about the limitations of aspirin. For as long as your patients believe that their aspirin has made them less subject to death, they will have little real interest in learning about a product that really works, but takes real money to purchase every day of their life.

Attached is the conclusion of this large meta analysis report linked here: “There was no evidence of a statistical bias (p >0.05). In conclusion, aspirin decreased the risk for CV events and nonfatal MI in this large sample. Thus, primary prevention with aspirin decreased the risk for total CV events and nonfatal MI, but there were no significant differences in the incidences of stroke, CV mortality, all-cause mortality and total coronary heart disease.”

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.ajconline.org/article/S0002-9149(11)01013-7/fulltext

Excerpt:

Systematic analysis of the outcomes from the 9 trials confirmed that aspirin decreases the incidence of nonfatal MI and CV events. However, aspirin had no statistically significant effect on CHD, stroke, CV mortality, and all-cause mortality, but was highly significant for overall CV events.

This is vital information; most bypass and stents are operating on the wrong lesions.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/724138

Excerpt:

From Heartwire 
Building Multimodality Pictures to Unlock the Secrets of Vulnerable Plaques
Reed Miller

June 24, 2010 (Hamburg, Germany) — Researchers are developing techniques combining intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) “virtual histology” (VH) with positron-emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) that they hope will someday predict which coronary plaques trigger MIs.

Dr Martin Bennett (Cambridge University, UK) discussed his group’s research into vulnerable plaque imaging here at the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) EAS 2010 Congress. “We know what a vulnerable plaque is–[it is characterized by] a loss of smooth-muscle cells, inflammation, platelet aggregation, expansion of lipid cores. But if we’re trying to detect these features with imaging, we need to focus on particular structural or functional components of those plaques that we can detect using noninvasive imaging techniques.”

IVUS VH, a technology developed by Volcano (San Diego, CA), analyzes ultrasound “backscatter” patterns to differentiate plaque constituents in IVUS coronary images. IVUS VH’s ability to identify fibrous tissue, fibrous fatty tissue, necrotic core, and dense calcification has been validated in postmortem studies with sensitivity and specificity up to 95% to 98%. By assigning different colors to different constituent materials in the vessel wall, IVUS VH can show the thin-cap fibrous atheromas, also known as vulnerable plaques.

Bennett and colleagues studied 200 patients with IVUS VH to see how the coronary substrate wall was different between patients with stable angina and unstable-angina patients. So far, the researchers have processed over 200 m worth of plaque, or about 750 plaques.

Objective: This study aimed to investigate antimicrobial treatment of an infected cochlear implant, undertaken in an attempt to salvage the infected device.

Methods: We used the broth microdilution method to assess the susceptibility of meticillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus isolate, cultured from an infected cochlear implant, to common antimicrobial agents as well as to novel agents such as tea tree oil. To better simulate in vivo conditions, where bacteria grow as microcolonies encased in glycocalyx, the bactericidal activity of selected antimicrobial agents against the isolate growing in biofilm were also compared.

Results: When grown planktonically, the S aureus isolate was susceptible to 17 of the 18 antimicrobials tested. However, when grown in biofilm, it was resistant to all conventional antimicrobials. In contrast, 5 per cent tea tree oil completely eradicated the biofilm following exposure for 1 hour.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

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