cardiovascular disease – F.I.G.H.T for your health! http://lymebook.com/fight Linda Heming describes her Lyme disease healing journey Wed, 06 Nov 2013 05:54:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Linda, Dr. Gordon, comment on Fruit & Vegetable intake http://lymebook.com/fight/linda-dr-gordon-comment-on-fruit-vegetable-intake/ http://lymebook.com/fight/linda-dr-gordon-comment-on-fruit-vegetable-intake/#respond Tue, 10 May 2011 16:09:44 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=2442 Linda Comment:  We are what we EAT!!  Food is healing, that is if you are not eating GMO garbage….Today it is even more important that we watch what we eat and try and get the foods that will help us heal….

Dr. Gordon’s Comments:

his research supports the need to prescribe food, not drugs, to patients. Each serving of fruit or vegetable lowers overall risk by 4%.

The findings also suggested that people who consumed at least eight portions of fruits and vegetables per day had a 22 percent lower risk of fatal ischemic heart disease compared with those in the study who consumed three or fewer servings per day.  In fact, the data shows that EVERY SERVING lowered risk by 4% and even a medium size apple counted as two servings! So an apple a day DOES help keep the doctor away.

Link: http://www.nhiondemand.com/hsjarticle.aspx?id=1003&utm_source=NHI+OnDemand+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=d8846ba647-ISJ_Ribose_March16_2011&utm_medium=email

Excerpt:

Consumption of Fruit and Vegetables May Reduce Risk of Heart Disease.
Source: European Heart Journal

Diseases of the heart and circulation are so common and the laity is so well acquainted with the major symptoms resulting from these disorders that patients and occasionally physicians, erroneously attribute many noncardiac complaints to cardiovascular disease. Ischemia, or inadequate myocardial perfusion, is manifest most frequently as chest discomfort.

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Fiber & Cardiovascular Health with Comments from Linda, Dr. Gordon http://lymebook.com/fight/fiber-cardiovascular-health-with-comments-from-linda-dr-gordon/ http://lymebook.com/fight/fiber-cardiovascular-health-with-comments-from-linda-dr-gordon/#respond Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:32:31 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=2020 Linda’s comment:  This is all part of the FIGHT protocol…however, I do take other things added to this like a good probiotic, etc., etc., etc.

Dr. Gordon’s Comments: You are not taking enough fiber to keep your intestinal flora happy unless you are on Beyond Fiber. With the epidemic of food sensitivities today just consuming a great probiotic is not enough, as you must feed the new flora. I hope you will learn more about stabilized rice bran with artichoke and EDTA, as found in Beyond Fiber!

This has the ideal ratio of soluble to insoluble fiber, and since everyone on treat is detoxing heavy metals everyday of their life while on my FIGHT program please learn to stop enterohepatic reuptake of toxins!  You must have active detoxing fiber content in the intestine 24/7. I do that with my Power Drink and Zeolite. My Power Drink includes MACA, which is an ideal GLUCOSINOLATE, doing much more than broccoli does, as this also stabilizes hormone levels in men and women. It also includes Organic Greens, Beyond Fiber and BioEn’R-G’y C along with daily zeolite, ACZ to start then ZeoGold.

I hope you warn patients who are not responding to your programs that the devil is in the details. Without the above they risk just moving the heavy metals from the right eye to the left eye! 

There is no substitute for more fiber but this is not cellulose or psyllium, this is based on the most nutrient dense food you can find, Stabilized Rice Bran. This is providing Beta Sitosterol and nutrients like gamma oryzanol, octocosinol etc, as well as high levels of inositol and other B vitamins, as nutrients while acting to help toxins keep moving out of the body. My patients understand all this because they see the acne and bad skin clear up within weeks so they stay on the Power Drink and will not go without the added fiber.

Let’s remember TOXINS NEED TO BE ESCORTED all the way OUT OF THE BODY,  not just to the liver and then dumped into the intestine! With all the toxins I know I breath and consume daily I will not go more than 12 hours without a slightly heaping tsp of all the above in 12 ounces of fluid to keep me protected from a toxic world.

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

Link: http://www.nhiondemand.com/hsjarticle.aspx?id=958&utm_source=NHI+OnDemand+Newsletter+List&utm_campaign=3dc63070d1-HSJ_Dec7_2010&utm_medium=email 

Excerpt:

Cardiovascular disease or heart disease is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels (arteries and veins). There are several risk factors for cardiovascular disease that are essentially immutable. These are older age, male gender, and a family history of CVD. Additionally, three major risk factors identified include cigarette smoking, dyslipidemia (high cholesterol), and hypertension. Other identified factors associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease include physical inactivity, sleep problems, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, obesity, excessive intake of alcohol, thrombotic and fibrinolytic factors, elevated homocysteine levels, certain infections and inflammation, exogenously administered estrogens and androgens, certain psychosocial factors, increased fasting glucose. and frequency of migraines. The synergism of the presence of multiple risk factors must also be considered.

Dietary fiber is a general term that refers to a wide variety of compounds from plants that are resistant to the digestive enzymes produced by humans. Because dietary fiber is resistant to digestive enzymes, it is not broken down or absorbed, which means it does not provide calories or energy to the body. In general, high fiber diets are associated with significantly reduced risks of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all cause mortality. It is generally recommended that Americans should strive to achieve a total dietary fiber intake of 25 to 30 grams/day, which should preferentially come from foods, not supplements. However, dietary surveys indicate that dietary fiber intake among adults in the United States averages about 15 grams/day, or approximately half the recommended amount.

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The Vitamin D Newsletter http://lymebook.com/fight/the-vitamin-d-newsletter/ http://lymebook.com/fight/the-vitamin-d-newsletter/#respond Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:44:20 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1739 How much calcium do we need and does excess cause harm? This Vitamin D newsletter is always reviewing the latest information. It is worth reading the research on Calcium.

We all get about 800 mg from our average diet and we get about 1400 mg of phosphorus so I give enough calcium (500 mg) in Beyond Any Multiple and in Beyond Chelation-Improved to avoid SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM. Also I insist on giving 500 mg of Magnesium (with B-6) to help tame the calcium (i.e. a calcium channel blocker effect) whenever I give any calcium, which is almost never more than the 500 mg in BAM.

Of course, with the research on vitamin D we almost all need more than we get and with the fact that we are all living longer, who wants calcified vascular tissues and resulting hypertension, so we also need K-2.

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

Excerpt:

Quest Diagnostics and Cardiovascular Disease
This is a periodic newsletter from the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit trying to end the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. If you want to unsubscribe, go to the end of this newsletter. If you are not subscribed, you can do so on the Vitamin D Council’s website. 
The Annals of Internal Medicine published two important reviews this month. In the first review, Dr. Anastassios Pittas and colleagues from Tufts University reviewed 106 articles and combined the 32 quality studies, a meta-analysis, looking at “cardiometabolic” outcomes such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Their conclusion: “Lower vitamin D status seems to be associated with increased risk for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, but we do not yet know whether vitamin D supplements will affect clinical outcomes.” Read on.

Pittas AG, et al. Systematic review: Vitamin D and cardiometabolic outcomes. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Mar 2;152(5):307-14.
The second Annals of Internal Medicine review, by Dr. Lu Wang and colleagues at Harvard, looked at studies of vitamin D supplementation and found two randomized placebo controlled trials to combine. Dozens of different types of studies have looked at vitamin D and cardiovascular outcomes. The latitude studies are clear, the closer you live to the equator, the less cardiovascular disease. The dietary studies are mixed, because vitamin D is not contained in the diet, at least in significant amounts.  The epidemiological studies are clear.

Wang L, et al. Systematic review: Vitamin D and calcium supplementation in prevention of cardiovascular events. Ann Intern Med. 2010 Mar 2;152(5):315-23.
Dr. Wang concluded, “To date, evidence from prospective observational studies and randomized controlled trials suggests that vitamin D supplementation at moderate to high doses may have beneficial effects on reducing the risk for cardiovascular disease.” 
About the same time that the two above meta-analyses were published, Dr. Brent Muhlestein, director of cardiovascular research at the Intermountain Medical Center Heart Institute in Murray, Utah, presented a paper at this year’s American College of Cardiology’s annual scientific session in Atlanta. 

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Dr. Andrew Weil (and Dr. Gordon) on Vitamin D http://lymebook.com/fight/dr-andrew-weil-and-dr-gordon-on-vitamin-d/ http://lymebook.com/fight/dr-andrew-weil-and-dr-gordon-on-vitamin-d/#respond Wed, 25 Aug 2010 05:39:21 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=1541 Linda’s comments:  I would NEVER be without my D-3….This was part of the problems I had with so many Cancers…My D-3 levels were in the toilet….Just a wakeUP call, you don’t get enough VitD from the sun or the toxic MILK you drink either….I take 15 thousand units daily and sometimes more.  When in doubt have your doctor run a blood test on you…while you are add it get your B12 and Magnesium levels checked.

Vitamin D is now essential to lower colon and breast cancer. And short term high dose Vitamin A for infections saves lives. Dr Weil finds Vitamin D long-term use for adults is TOTALLY SAFE at 2000 units a day. The Counsel for Responsible Nutrition believes it is totally safe at 10,000 units a day for adults but what about short term use in massive amounts like 50-100,000 for acute infections. This knowledge has almost been ignored and could have become lost. 

My friend Dr Carl Reich MD in Canada was famous for treating ASTHMA and eliminating frequent hospitalizations in tough cases. He was using up to 50,000 units a week!  Of course they took his license but he changed the lives of nearly 10,000 patients! So it may be a long time until we fully appreciate the medical applications of aggressive Vitamin D therapy.

Vitamin A for treatment of most infections is safe and totally underutilized due to ignorance by medical profession. In the same vein as changing attitudes toward high dose vitamin D there is need to learn more about Vitamin A. The World Health Organization recommends the injections of children with 250,000 units of Vitamin A. This treatment is proven to save children’s lives daily around the world but long term use can affect bone growth so no one uses this fantastically effective therapy proving that a little knowledge is dangerous. No serious side effect of high dose for 5 days therapy up to 500,000 units a day for adults has been reported.

But with a few reports of relatively minor side effects related to long term use nothing serious with the 5 day use of high dose vitamin A is documented other than some increase in intracranial pressure leading to some headaches in perhaps 1-3% of patients but with dramatic recovery from infections. 

So hopefully one day we will realize that the “side effects” incurred with nutritional therapy are rather benign. There are no reported deaths in the USA in 2008 from nutritional supplements yet those who become knowledgeable in Orthomolecular Medicine, as I am, have to be prepared for criticism from less enlightened colleagues who do not understand benefit to risk calculations. They think nothing of their being at least the 4th leading cause of death in the US but are quick to criticize those who use therapies that they know nothing about but which have tremendous potential for really helping patients!!

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

Full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-weil-md/new-recommendation-why-yo_b_446580.html

Excerpt:

I am raising my recommendation of 1,000 IU of vitamin D per day to 2,000 IU per day. Since 2005, when I raised it from 400 to 1,000 IU, clinical evidence has been accumulating to suggest that a higher dose is more appropriate to help maintain optimum health.
We have known for many years that we need vitamin D to facilitate calcium absorption and promote bone mineralization. But newer research has shown that we also need it for protection against a number of serious diseases. In recent years, scientists have discovered that it may help to prevent several cancers, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disorders, psoriasis, diabetes, psychosis, and respiratory infections including colds and flu. 

To focus particularly on cancer prevention, two recent meta-analyses (in which data from multiple studies is combined) conducted by the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California at San Diego and colleagues suggested that raising blood levels of vitamin D could prevent one-half of the cases of breast cancer and two-thirds of the cases of colorectal cancer in the U.S. Discussing the breast cancer analysis, study author Cedric Garland, Dr.P.H., stated that “The serum level associated with a 50 percent reduction in risk could be maintained by taking 2,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily plus, when the weather permits, spending 10 to 15 minutes a day in the sun.” A 50 percent reduction in breast cancer deaths would have saved the lives of more than 20,000 American women in 2009.

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Rickets makes comeback among computer generation http://lymebook.com/fight/rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation/ http://lymebook.com/fight/rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation/#respond Sat, 20 Feb 2010 00:56:38 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=868 The growth of the computer generation and changing lifestyles among children are leading to a Vitamin D deficiency and a rise in cases of rickets, medical experts have warned

Full article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7043698/Rickets-makes-comeback-among-computer-generation.html

Excerpt:

They said modern diets often lack Vitamin D and this could be a big reason – along with changing lifestyles – for the increasing health problems, in particular rickets in children.

The main source of Vitamin D is sunlight, through skin exposure. But it is also present in a small number of foods, such as oily fish or cod liver oil.

Writing a clinical review in the latest issue of the British Medical Journal, Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham, of Newcastle University, call for a change in public health policy.

Prof Pearce, a professor of endocrinology, said: ”Kids tend to stay indoors more these days and play on their computers instead of enjoying the fresh air.

”This means their Vitamin D levels are worse than in previous years.

”A change in public health policy is required. Health professionals have been slow to deal with this problem, even though we have known about it for a while.

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Medline is Biased, and Taxpayers Pay for It http://lymebook.com/fight/medline-is-biased-and-taxpayers-pay-for-it/ http://lymebook.com/fight/medline-is-biased-and-taxpayers-pay-for-it/#respond Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:51:13 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=775 Linda’s comment: “Your taxes should not be used to fund censorship in a public library, especially the largest medical library on the planet. It is un-American.”  This quote is so very true…how dare they censor information that can and does save lived.  Follow the money.  More and more folks are turning to the Internet today to find answers for their health woes.  They don’t trust doctors with their treatment plans,  Why? Because they are not getting well or have been misdiagnosed.  I wonder how much money Medline receives from the pharmaceutical industry to censor alternative medicine articles?  If they are going to use my tax dollars then they need to put alternative medicine on medline, medscape, etc., etc., etc.

Regards,

Linda or Angel

Excerpt:

Comment by Andrew W. Saul
Editor-In-Chief, Orthomolecular Medicine News Service

(OMNS, January 15, 2010) Did you know that there are “good” medical journals, and that there are “naughty” medical journals?

No kidding. The good journals are easy to access on the Internet through a huge electronic database called Medline ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed ) This wonderful, free service is brought to you by the US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. In other words, by you. By your tax dollars. Generally it is money well spent, until you go searching for megavitamin therapy research papers. Then you will find that you can’t find all of them. That is because of selective indexing.

The National Library of Medicine (NLM) proudly describes itself as “the largest medical library in the world. The goal of the NLM is to collect, organize and make available biomedical literature to advance medical science and improve public health.”

Hmm. Collect. Organize. Make available. Improve public health.

So, after over 40 continuous years of publication, why is the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine NOT indexed by Medline?

Full article:

http://www.orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n03.shtml

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Heart Disease A ‘Silent Killer’ In Patients With Severe Mental Illness http://lymebook.com/fight/heart-disease-a-silent-killer-in-patients-with-severe-mental-illness/ http://lymebook.com/fight/heart-disease-a-silent-killer-in-patients-with-severe-mental-illness/#respond Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:56:22 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=508 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/170934.php

A large new study confirms that people with severe mental disorders – such as schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders – are 25 percent to 40 percent more prone to die from heart disease than people without mental illness are.

Moreover, smoking and physical inactivity – behaviors that individuals potentially can change – significantly contribute to this increased risk of death, found researchers led by Amy Kilbourne, Ph.D.

They looked at results from the 1999 Large Health Survey of Veteran Enrollees in conjunction with the VA’s National Psychosis Registry and the National Death Index of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Including responses from more than 147,000 veterans, the study is the largest of its kind to ever take place. Most of the respondents were men and about two-thirds were 50 or older.

Kilbourne, associate director of the VA Ann Arbor National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center in Michigan, and colleagues from Dartmouth Medical School conducted the study, which appears in the November-December issue of the journal General Hospital Psychiatry.

Patients with mental disorders who also had a diagnosis of diabetes – a known risk factor for heart disease and a side effect of some antipsychotic medications – were at high risk for heart disease-related mortality, as were patients with a diagnosis of dementia.

Smoking and lack of exercise, both common behaviors in people with mental disorders, contributed to the heart disease-related deaths considerably.

“These are devastating illnesses that lead to a lot of functional impairment, so many of these individuals have difficulty staying motivated to exercise to begin with, or finding places where they feel comfortable exercising,” Kilbourne said.

However, even when considering factors such as diabetes and lifestyle, researchers found that patients with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders were still more likely to die from heart disease. “This suggests that we are either missing some factor, or there is something inherent about having these disorders that puts patients at greater risk for heart disease-related mortality,” Kilbourne said.

Eric Goplerud, Ph.D., director of the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health Policy in Washington, said that results of this study and others suggest that people with serious mental illnesses are far less likely to receive medical screening and general preventive care. He said that lack of coordinated care has serious consequences: “Serving their mental needs in one stovepipe and their medical needs in another is probably associated with premature mortality.”

“The issue of cardiovascular disease in this population is huge,” Goplerud said. “As we look at national health reform, it is absolutely critical that people with mental illness and addictions be included – they are dying of preventable medical conditions.”

General Hospital Psychiatry is a peer-reviewed research journal published bimonthly by Elsevier Science. For information about the journal, contact Wayne Katon, M.D., at (206) 543-7177.

Kilbourne AM, et al. Excess heart-disease-related mortality in a national study of patients with mental disorders: identifying modifiable risk factors. Gen Hosp Psychiatry 31(6), 2009.

Source
Health Behavior News Service

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Zona Plus for Blood Pressure http://lymebook.com/fight/zona-plus-for-blood-pressure/ http://lymebook.com/fight/zona-plus-for-blood-pressure/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:34:10 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=282 You really can lower blood pressure with this device, The Zona Plus, and we still have no reports of anyone having a fatal heart attack while on Beyond Chelation Improved. Looks like a perfect combination,  but when there is a history of prior blood clots, Boluoke  should be added at least for a time. Of course, since BC-I lowers blood viscosity and so does Boluoke, the blood pressure lowering effect from Zona Plus will be further enhanced.

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

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HSI eAlert

Dear Reader,

It was scary.

My husband’s blood pressure kept going up higher and higher. He started out taking magnesium and a few other supplements. When those did nothing, he decided to try a beta blocker (over my very loud protests).

And still nothing…the best medicine on the market wasn’t working.

His blood pressure shot up to 190/110. We were both petrified.

Then I heard about Zona Plus…

It’s not a supplement, it’s not a drug. No, Zona Plus is a small hand-held device that uses a breakthrough technology to lower blood pressure naturally and safely. Even doctors with high blood pressure are using it!

I knew if they would put down their prescription pad and pick up Zona Plus, I had to convince my husband to try it.

But I didn’t want you to wait, so I decided to let you know about it right away.

You can learn more about this revolutionary technology by reading the special offer below. (And I’ll keep you posted on how my husband does with it…)

To your good health,

Jenny Thompson

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Dear Friend,
If you’re one of the millions of Americans who’ve been diagnosed with high blood pressure, you already know how important it is to take control of this silent killer. Your doctor may have prescribed you medication, or you may be making diet changes, starting an exercise program, or taking other steps to bring your blood pressure down.
But I’ve got some good news. You’re about to discover a safer, easier way to lower your blood pressure—without resorting to drugs, diet changes, or strenuous exercise. Thanks to Zona Plus™, you can drop your blood pressure to normal in just 4 to 7 weeks, even if you’ve been unable to lower it with medications or other therapies in the past.
Introducing Zona Plus™…a safe, proven therapy recommended by doctors and reviewed in the Harvard Heart Letter!
Zona Plus™ is a breakthrough hypertension relief device that’s now recommended by physicians, clinics, and universities and has been reviewed in the Harvard Heart Letter and other leading publications for people who want to take control of their blood pressure naturally. It’s so effective, more than 90% of people who use Zona Plus™ are able to drop their blood pressure into the normal range—many of them in just weeks. Even doctors with high blood pressure are using it!
What’s more, you may be able to avoid costly blood pressure medications that are often loaded with unwanted side effects—or safely ease off those you may be taking. One study found that more than 60% of people currently taking drugs to control hypertension were able to reduce or completely stop their medication, simply by using Zona PLUS™ as directed. (Of course, you should never stop taking a medication without a doctor’s approval.) Best of all, just about anyone can perform this therapy without excessive strain or fatigue. It’s so easy, you can do it while watching the news, reading a book, talking on the phone, or any other time your hands are free.
All it takes is 12 minutes a day, 5 days a week—that’s just one hour total each week—to see dramatic results! And as long as you continue to perform this therapy, you’ll be able to keep your blood pressure down.
How an accidental discovery by the Air Force turned into a lifesaving breakthrough Researchers first discovered the science behind this high blood pressure therapy while trying to solve a completely different problem for the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force found many of its fighter pilots were experiencing incidents of “G-Force blackout,” a condition that causes temporary vision loss. The problem arose when the Air Force began deploying the F-16 fighter jet—an aircraft that turns very quickly, putting greater G-force on the pilot.
To find a solution, the Air Force commissioned Dr. Ronald L. Wiley, a respected cardiopulmonary physiologist. Dr. Wiley took part in a study using a certain type of isometric handgrip therapy. It was hoped that this therapy, which involved steady pressure against measured resistance, would help Air Force pilots better maneuver the F-16 fighter jet and increase their G-force tolerance. Dr. Wiley discovered this isometric therapy worked wonders to increase pilots’ G-force tolerance so they could avoid “G-Force blackout.” But it also offered another important side benefit. For pilots with slightly elevated blood pressure, the therapy actually lowered their blood pressure!
Armed with this accidental discovery, Dr. Wiley decided to research this therapy further. Working in several university laboratories over the next two decades, he eventually developed the ideal isometric therapy to safely and effectively lower blood pressure. He then tested this therapy in multiple controlled studies conducted by physicians and cardiac rehabilitation centers, and found it produced dramatic results in just weeks.

Works 4 ways to lower your blood pressure naturally Thanks to Zona Plus™, it’s easy for you to take advantage of Dr. Wiley’s breakthrough discovery and lower your blood pressure naturally. This easy-to-use device is programmed to lead you through the same isometric therapy Dr. Wiley found to be safe and effective in his studies. You simply turn it on, and Zona Plus™ guides you through each 12-minute session step-by-step.
The therapy is simple. First, you squeeze as hard as you can for 1-2 seconds with your right hand, then with your left, each followed by 10 seconds of rest. Next, you’re directed through four 2-minute sessions, two with each hand, separated by 1-minute rest periods. That’s all there is to it! And you just need to do five therapy sessions a week to see results.
Research shows Zona Plus™ works four ways to lower your blood pressure naturally:
•         Reverses the effects of damaged arteries—Studies indicate Zona Plus™ therapy actually reverses the effects of Endothelial Dysfunction, a condition in which the cells that line your blood vessels become damaged. This condition is a major precursor to other cardiovascular diseases like heart attack, diabetes, stroke, and hardening of the arteries.
•          •         Boosts nitric oxide production— Zona Plus™ therapy increases the production of nitric oxide (a vasodilator), which helps relax blood vessels, thus increasing the amount those arteries and veins can stretch. This also aids in lowering blood pressure.
•         Retrains your nervous system to work more efficiently—Zona Plus™ therapy increases vagal tone. This makes your nervous system work more efficiently so you become more resistant to stress. It’s like doing three hours of yoga in 12 minutes!
•         Provides easy cardiovascular exercise— Zona Plus™ therapy restricts blood movement to the heart by constricting blood vessels in your forearm. This causes your heart to work harder, just as in other forms of exercise. Except there’s no sweating required!
Because Zona Plus™ changes how your body works from the inside out, people who use this therapy see blood pressure improvements that are 7 times better than with regular exercise and twice as good as with medication. That’s why it’s a more effective way to lower your blood pressure than running, biking or swimming!

Proven safe and effective in 21 published medical articles To date there are 21 published medical articles that support the effectiveness of this type of isometric therapy in lowering blood pressure. They’ve appeared in respected, peer-reviewed medical journals such as the Journal of Applied Physiology, Circulation, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and many others.
One recent study that appeared in the International Journal of Cardiology found that participants who performed a similar type of isometric therapy as you get by using Zona Plus™ dropped their blood pressure by an average of 13 points in just six weeks.
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Even doctors are using Zona Plus™ to control their own hypertension and seeing outstanding results. Dr. John O’Handley, a family physician from Ohio, says, “After researching the scientific basis for Zona Plus™, I tried it myself and found it lowered my blood pressure. Now I recommend Zona Plus™ to my patients.”
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Many people who take drugs for high blood pressure suffer miserable side effects, like fatigue, weakness, leg cramps, headaches, joint pain, even insomnia. But it doesn’t have to be that way. As long as your doctor says you’re allowed to do physical exercise, Zona Plus™ may be able to change your life by eliminating your need for these drugs in the first place.
Not only that, you could save a fortune on what you may currently spend on blood pressure medications. According to a Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive poll, the average cost of these drugs runs about $93 a month. That adds up to $1,116 a year! And the cost just keeps going up.
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Compare the cost of Zona Plus™ to the long-term costs of using blood pressure medications, and you’ll see how much more you can save. Zona Plus™ is built to last 20 years, so it actually costs just $1.45 a month. If you spend an average of $93 a month on blood pressure drugs, you could enjoy a net savings of nearly $5,500 in just 5 years!
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How can I back up Zona Plus™ with such an incredible guarantee? Because it works for almost everyone who tries it. As I mentioned earlier, more than 90% of people who use Zona Plus™ as directed are able to drop their blood pressure into the normal range. What’s more, many of them are able to work with their physicians to get off blood pressure medications for good! I know Zona Plus™ can help you take control of your blood pressure naturally, too. So please don’t miss this chance to put it to the test today—without risking a penny! Simply click here to get all the details on this special introductory offer.

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You CAN Help Patients Get Off Coumadin http://lymebook.com/fight/you-can-help-patients-get-off-coumadin/ http://lymebook.com/fight/you-can-help-patients-get-off-coumadin/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:18:40 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=266 There is a huge need for doctors’ knowledgeable enough to consult with patients about alternatives to Coumadin.  I feel that it is one of the most dangerous drugs prescribed so therefore I help patients go off Coumadin every day (Read personal testimonies below), but they have to assume FULL PERSONAL responsibility, as there are almost no doctors who will help them do that due to lack of adequate knowledge about the benefit to risk ratio. Remember, Coumadin helps to calcify blood vessels so it is NOT a life extension strategy for most people.

In the past, I have sent you emails about HEPARIN and I mentioned consulting with ww.thrombocare.com in Texas. I am sorry to report that their director Rodger Bick MD PhD, hematologist, Pathologist from University of Texas is deceased and their lab is closed. I believe that he was one of the leading authorities in the world about coagulation related issues, and that, as he said, 2 million die each year from blood clots that are usually called MI’s strokes or pulmonary emboli, so we need to provide a better answer than Coumadin, Plavix etc. That is 2 million deaths that I find are largely avoidable with the right blood viscosity lowering approach!

Patients contact me daily about how Coumadin is wrecking their life. Now then, I have for years believed in the INFORMED CONSENT approach in which a fully informed patient is free to decide for themselves what treatment to follow. Once a patient has read my informed consent approach to Coumadin (see www.gordonresearch.com  and use search and type in Coumadin and do the same SEARCH on FACT to learn more and find my Informed Consent).

Then I believe that  anyone is  entitled to accept full personal responsibility for not using mainstream drugs for their clot prevention, or to augment the effect of their standard meds with alternatives like BC-I, with or without Boluoke. That is my standard MINIMUM alternative approach. However, we have patients with serious histories of obvious coagulopathies and they deserve the best lab tests to try to understand the predicament in which they find themselves. Big Labs like Quest and LAB Core charge $1200 for their panels but there is always more to learn about how to interpret the tests and which tests to use.

I inform all my patients that there is no established test to provide the assurance that they are adequately lowering platelet adhesiveness or getting enough anticoagulant benefit. There is one patient that has gone to the extreme and is using Essential Daily Defense, Boluoke, Endokinase, BC-I and extra OMEGA 3, all in large quantities but is able to keep his INR in the ranges he was accustomed to on Coumadin, which he could not tolerate.

Clearly there is still a great deal to learn about all of this and I have just discussed this with DAVID BERG formerly lab director of HEMEX labs. He has formed ARIZONA COAGULATION CONSULTANTS in PHOENIX at 602 793 4361 and his email is davidberg@azrf.org.  He charges a minimum of $50 for any consultation with health professionals and $100 per hour for more lengthy consultations.

He is not a MD but he has extensive experience in this area that I believe may be helpful when you are contacted by a patient with a history that could be a genetic linked coag defect, as in LEIDEN 5, which is found in 5% of our population or may have chronic infections that have led to ANTIPHOSPHOLIPID SYNDROME. He is not going to tell patients that my suggestions above are adequate or recommend therapy but I see that the need is to help patients QUANTIFY the extent of their RISK.

That means more patients over time will need tests and most have no idea of what is covered and which labs to use and what tests could cost them, which is information that I believe David Berg can offer assistance with for your problem patients with histories of clot related problems. The more you learn, the more things will be seen to relate to increased blood viscosity and/or hypercoagulability.

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

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Dear Dr. Gordon:

In 2004 you helped me start to get off the drug coumadin by introducing me to the Longevity Plus EDD capsules that have EDTA in them and garlic. We found that three EDD caps every four hours during my waking hours would duplicate coumadin. My INR was almost 2.0 without any coumadin which has major negative side effects. I have a one inch St. Jude mechanical aortic heart valve.

For years I also took nattokinase. You recently introduced me to Boluoke which lasts longer and works better.

I had to quit one of the finest jobs I ever had due to temporary strokes during the day. I went to leading top neurologists and they said the problem was blood clots caused by my mechanical aortic heart valve. They had no solution but you did: EDD capsules and nattokinase. (Now Boluoke.)

Here is my current daily EDD and Boluoke schedule:

7:00 AM One capsule Boluoke, three EDD capsules, and one 1000mg. Carlson fish oil capsule.
11:00 AM One fish oil cap and three EDD caps.
3:30 PM One fish oil caps and three EDD caps.
6:30 PM One fish oil cap and three EDD caps.
7:00 One Boluoke cap. (Evening dosage.)
10:00PM Just before bedtime, to cover me all night, I take three EDD caps and one fish oil cap.

God Bless and keep you safe,
JT
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Dear Dr. Gordon,

Eight years ago, I had my first heart attack. I was stented emergently in my LAD coronary artery, and later stented electively in my right coronary artery.

After recovery, I did all the recommended things like taking the cardiac rehab course offered by the hospital, taking my post op drugs like blood thinners, ACE inhibitors, beta-blockers, and a statin. Then I found your web site and your publications.

Soon, I was off all drugs, getting all my necessary metabolic needs via diet, and supplements, and your package, Beyond Chelation Improved. I was doing all the right things, promoting your BCI, and feeling very good. This got me eight years of life with absolutely no symptoms. Two weeks ago, I had a second heart attack.

I had a feeling when I was again transported to the hospital that the problem wasn’t diffuse disease but a narrowing stent lumen which indeed was exactly the case. All distal arteries were open and clear of any detectable disease but the old stent had fibrosed to 99% occlusion. The fibrotic section was cleaned out and a new stent was placed inside the old stent. (If your work would be enhanced by images of the before and after arteriogram please let me know and I will forward you images of the scans.)

Bottom line, I feel great and judging from the arteriogram, it appears that the supplement program and the BCI did as advertised and kept my heart arteries clean and clear, without the side effects of all the big-pharma recommended drugs with all their attendant side effects. I did agree to take Plavix for a while, (the cardiologist said for at least a year, however, I think I will ease off this and substitute nattokinase).

Anyway, here is my present question: is there something I could have done and could now do that would have prevented the stent from the fibrosis? It seems to me that there should be some natural substance that might have minimized the risk of fibrosis or from the foreign body reaction that occurred in my stent. FYI, my original stent was not the “medicated” type since at the time, there was no medicated stent on-hand large enough for my coronary artery (5mm).

I am convinced that the BCI works but for those like myself who have stents, is there another therapy that I can use to prevent a recurrence? FYI, I am not your average ‘civilian’ heart patient. For eight years, I was a cardiopulmonary perfusionist, the person that operates the heart lung machine during heart surgery.

Thanks in advance,
MS
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Dear MS:
Thanks for sharing your important information! I am sorry that you had the second heart attack. I expect, however, that you can regain high functioning although for awhile you may want to consider use of CO-Q, Carnitine, Ribose, Testosterone, and other things I write about continually to the 2000 health professional members of FACT.

I think it is really important for us to let others hear of your story. Everyone with a stent then ideally needs to be on Beyond Chelation-Improved AND either Nattokinase or Boluoke. I believe you are right; you definitely have great alternatives to Plavix that offer better protection with less side effect. I would replace it or Coumadin with Nattokinase (Endokinase) or Boluoke taken twice a day.

As you read up on both, you will see that they have slightly different mechanisms of action and it appears that Boluoke is a bit stronger. Since Boluoke is also more expensive I have some patients use one of each (ie take the Nattokinase each AM and the Boluoke each PM).

The question is to save money would short term use of the enzyme as for several months be sufficient?  I am afraid to gamble. You could use more aggressive doses for a couple of months in an effort to reduce some blockages but I feel that we all have excessive clotting tendencies for many reasons today, and I would recommend LIFE TIME protection with one of those enzymes for you. I believe today with the toxins and pathogens we find in all of us, that my future recommendations are going to HAVE to include Boluoke or Nattokinase for everyone with a history of a heart attack and certainly for anyone that has a stent.

BC-I clearly continues to keep people alive around the world all by itself so it continues to prove its usefulness, but with the increasing pollution, and the presence of a foreign material like a stent, in a patient with a history of a prior heart attack, it is clear that adding one of those enzymes is necessary for optimal protection.
Sincerely,

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

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Military issues, related to service in the military http://lymebook.com/fight/235/ http://lymebook.com/fight/235/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:30:50 +0000 http://lymebook.com/fight/?p=235 While I have no doubt this retired lieutenant colonel was diagnosed with Lyme disease,  my question is, has/was any thought given to how many chemical toxins he was exposed to during his military career?? 

With a full career in the military this poor guy was shot full of vaccines!!  How dirty were those vaccines.  Many say that vaccines can and has given patients, especially military personnel.

Lord knows the foods he was fed no doubt were GMO foods?

Bottom-line, we NEED to stop labeling everything with the word “Lyme”!  We need to focus on detoxing environmental toxins, and the poisons in GMO foods.   Plus, if we get word of the work “Lyme” no doubt more insurance companies would pay for treatments.  After all, Lyme symptoms can and are labeled with Fibro, Arthritis, Alzheimers, etc., etc., etc.

Keep your thinking caps on folks, there is more than one way to win this war against the diseases we are dealing with today!!

Angel Huggzz

Linda

Drwal drops election bid due to conditions
Medical issues related to service in military
BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer

Drwal, a 24-year veteran of the U.S. Army who retired as a lieutenant colonel after serving in various regions around the world, has been dealing with military-related injuries for over a decade.

“I had a couple of injuries when I was in the military,” he said. “I suffered injuries to both of my legs, which caused walking problems, and I suffered some neurological problems that affected speech and balance.”

Drwal, a member of the Disabled American Veterans Chapter 67, also suffered from a tick-related disease while he was abroad, although the symptoms did not surface until years later.

“Last year I got really sick, and it turns out I had Lyme disease, and they are finding more and more troops that have been stationed in Europe have been coming down with it,” he said. “It just came on last year, attacking my joints and my neurological system.”

Full article: http://suburban.gmnews.com/news/2009/0917/front_page/003.html

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