Heart Attacks

According the the American Heart Association, 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. And these disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.

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.

What is wrong with this picture? How can we spend so much money on a disease and have more deaths? Are we taking the wrong approach? Could our medical science be treating the wrong thing?

So you go to your doctor and he says "Bad News, your cholesterol is too high." Many people might be surprised to hear that since they cholesterol was the same as it was during last year's test." But the current standard for recommended cholesterol levels have dropped and now its a problem. So now you are "Suddenly Sick." (read this article for an eye opener.) Then your doctor says you need to start taking a statin drug to get that cholesterol level down. Yes, get it down to the normal level where most people die of heart attacks. More than 50% of people with heart attacks have "normal" cholesterol levels.

In Dr. Tim Reynolds article linked from this page, he says it is a myth that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease and statin drugs are the answer to anything. In fact there are studies being done right now that could show that statin drugs are a cause of heart disease due to the fact they rob your body of Coenzyme Q10 which your heart muscle needs to function normally. I strongly suggest you read this excellent article by Dr. Reynolds.

Don't miss reading Dwight Lundell MD's article, Heart Surgeon Admits Huge Mistake! After doing 5,000 open heart surgeries over the last 25 years, Dr. Lundell recognizes he and his peers have been treating the wrong thing at best. He say that the accepted therapy was to prescribe medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricts fat intake. In his words, "It is not working." According the Dr. Lundell the one common thing that all 5,000 of his patients shared was inflammation of the artery walls. It is this inflammation that causes LDL Cholesterol to stick to the walls. It is not the level of cholesterol. And eating animal fats are better than polyunsaturated oils which are a cause of this inflammation. This is a must read since it will redefine what you know about how to combat heart attacks. You are very likely to have been misinformed and doing things that will cause a heart attack.

The article here called "Healthy France" just adds to the above information. The French has a far lower rate of heart attacks then we do here in the US. Yet, their diet is quite contrary to what we are told is a healthy diet. Many French are smokers and they drink lots of wine. But the French have a longer life expectancy than we do. But when you read this you can see, what we have been told is the cause of heart attacks isn't true.