Articles About Heart Disease
Heart disease is NOT caused by eating eggs and butter. It is NOT caused by having high cholesterol. These are lies that are fully exposed on many pages among my 12 web sites. I have written a major article on this in April 2002 on this subject. Click here for that.
The traditional view has been that when you ate eggs and butter -- and other foods high in cholesterol, you increased the amount of cholesterol in your blood stream. (This is false! Click here for that story.) Then, this excessive cholesterol would "build up" on the inner lining of the artery. (This is false! Click here for that story.) Next, that cholesterol would attract particles of calcium floating along in the blood stream, building up, now, a sandwich of cholesterol - calcium - cholesterol - calcium - cholesterol. ETC.
This build-up of material is called "plaque" and is easily detected by standard diagnostic techniques -- usually the MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine). This plaque is measured, they say, more accurately with an angiogram. Click Here for the story of MRI measurement of plaque.
This build-up of material would gradually get so large that it would then start cutting off the flow of blood through the artery and eventually a stop in the blood supply would cause a heart attack or stroke.
The traditional solution to this problem was four-pronged:
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First, the person must be educated on proper diet and get on the "heart smart" diet. Basically this is a low-fat diet with no eggs, butter or other high-cholesterol foods. (In truth this is the diet recommended by the American Heart Association that, exactly, causes heart disease!) Click here for my, Karl Loren, diet suggestions. Click here for my exposure of the lies put out by the American Heart Association.
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If that didn't work, the assumption was that the person had some sort of problem mentally -- he couldn't stick to a diet even when he knew it was vital. The next step in the program (as designed by the National Cholesterol Education Program) was "group counseling" or even psychiatric treatment. (This is hardly ever mentioned any more because it so obviously never worked!) Click here for my comments on psychiatric counseling and psychiatric drugs.
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If the above didn't work, then the person would have to take a cholesterol-lowering drug for the rest of his life. The great bulk of humanity seems to be at this stage -- the two most popular cholesterol-lowering drugs (Lipitor and Mevacor) now sell about $10 billion per years! (These drugs lower cholesterol, but don't prevent death from heart disease.) Click here for the story on the failure of cholesterol lowering drugs.
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The next step, for those who "refused" to get on the proper diet (which wouldn't work anyway) or refused to swallow their Lipitor, was and is bypass surgery. Bypass surgery has been the surgical procedure with the most money of all surgical procedures. Many billions of dollars every year are spent for bypass. Bypass, of course, is a very foolish answer to the problem -- it is expensive, harmful to the individual, and doesn't provide very long-lasting relief. I've written quite a bit about the failures of bypass surgery. Click here for one article, and HERE for another.
The truth about heart disease is very different from the above traditional view of this number one killer in America.
The actual cause of heart disease is damage by free radicals to individual cells within the arteries. This free radical damage cannot be prevented or cured by any drugs -- most drugs are, in fact, sources of MORE free radicals in the body. The full story of how free radicals cause this type of damage, and thus heart disease is here.
Free radicals are explained fully here.
Free radicals are increased in quantity and activity by bumping into toxic metals in the body. Thus, toxic metals are an earlier cause of heart disease than free radicals. Several hundred years ago we did NOT have the burden of toxic metals in our bodies that we now do, and we also did not have the exposure to free radicals. Both toxic metals and increased numbers of free radicals are modern scourges on our planet.
If you remove the toxic metals from the body, you then greatly reduce the number and activity of free radicals, and THEN the cells are able to return to an earlier state of health, the arteries again become flexible, and blood flow increases.
So, heart disease is something caused by excessive toxic metals in the body, and the resulting free radical activity.
THIS Page links to the many pages that present information about toxic metals, free radicals, and heart disease generally.
Heart Disease -- The Top Killer
Heart Disease Remains Top Killer -- Statistics Show
Ventricular and Atrial Septal Defects
Study Ties Young Women's Obesity, Higher Risk of Heart Enlargement
How Can It Be That The "Plaque" You Have Heard So Much About Does Not Even Exist?
Vulnerable Plaque -- The New Kid On The Block!
Heart-Disease Sleuths Identify Prime Suspect: Inflammation of Artery
Clogged arteries start early in males -- Vulnerable Plaque
MR Imaging and Biomechanics of Vulnerable Plaque
Technically Accurate Drawing Of The Layers Within The Artery
Question: Can An MRI Distinguish The Walls Of A Cell?
Images Of So-Called "Plaque" Inside An Artery
Thickness of a Cell Membrane -- Can The MRI Distinguish A Cell Membrane?
MRI Imaging Failures -- Categories
Failures In MRI Imaging -- Differentiation Failures
The Details and Mechanics Of BLOOD!
How Cells In The Body Reproduce
The Role Of Calcium In The Blood -- And The Calcium Pump
Study Shows Risk of Heart Disease, Strokes Soaring Throughout China -- WSJ Article
Calcium Channel Blockers
What Is Computerized Tomography -- Or The CAT Scan?
MRI Clinical Applications
Bundle Branch Block -- Another Denial Of Reality By Cardiologists!
Atoms & Heat -- Including Basic Description of the Atom with Protons, Neutrons and Electrons
Chemical Bonding -- Atoms, Electron Shells, Valency, Electrovalent, Ions & Covalent -- Explained
The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin
Testing For Mercury & Other Heavy Metals
Manganese Toxicity
Manganese As Essential And Possibly Toxic Mineral
Molecular Mechanisms of Manganese Toxicity
Manganese Toxicity of Plants in Florida
Manganese Toxicity -- Merck Drug Co
Other Metals -- Toxicity
Iron Toxicity and Deficiency -- Merck Drug Co.
Other
Aortic Stenosis And Chelation Therapy
STENT: Device to prop open arteries may prove major heart treatment advance
Malpractice? Or To Be Expected? Heart Stent Recall; 26 Injured, 1 Dead
Heart Operation Clot Risk Warning -- From Stents
Cardiac Catheterization & Stent Placement
Cardiac Catheterization And Bypass Surgery
Cardiac Catheterization And Stent Procedure
Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty / Stent
Hall Of Infamy -- Famous and Evil People In The Health World
Fish Oil Cuts Risk of Sudden Death From Heart Disease -- Prestige Reports
Free Radical Activity
Karl Note: Notice that it is very easy to find literally hundreds of web sites that explain "free radical activity" and include references to neutralizing free radicals with, for instance, Vitamin C. It is almost impossible to find references to the role of toxic metals as MULTIPLIERS of free radicals. In other words, when a free radical hits most substances, the free radical is stopped and ONE new free radical is created -- causing the chain reaction. But, when a free radical hits toxic metals, then instead of ONE new free radical, there are literally thousands of new free radicals created. THIS is the danger of metals in the body.
Free Radical Theory Of Disease
Explaining Free Radical Chain Reactions -- Very Technical
Free Radical Chain Reactions -- Part Two -- Very Technical
Chain Reactions -- Free Radicals Reasonably Simple Explanation
Dr. Denham Harman -- The Original Source of Data On Free Radicals
The Fenton Reaction -- Multiplication Of Free Radicals Because of Iron