I am getting over a broken leg and recently had a lot of body pain, which seemed to be better with low dosages of ibu — 400 mg, my primary said it would be ok, but I haven’t taken plavix in two days. I don’t know what to do, people say plavix is worthless and yet they stuff 4 or 5 down you when you have a heart cath, makes one afraid not to take the stuff. I hate plavix, as there are so many side affects and I don’t believe anybody really knows what it is doing to their body. Aspirin, I used to take all the time as a kid and now take with milk and doesn’t bother my stomach — not afraid of fish oil or natural supps but am very afraid of plavix.

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RE:What is REAL risk? question about ibuprofen or nsaids

However, that being said, there are some potential heart risks, however low, that are associated with taking NSAIDS, especially in people who take a very lot and I think are taking no other kind of supplement support, including not taking any kind of multivitamins, and are usually not eating very well at all. I take a lot of supplements and vitamins and eat better than most, so I’m not really concerned. However, there is a small risk. That risk needs to quantified in my opinion because the risk of driving a car to the store to buy your NSAIDs is much greater.

I think risk always needs to be put in perspective since almost all choices we make in life involve trades offs with pros and cons and some of the risks we take for granted as part of daily activities are significantly greater than the ones that somehow catch our attention. If we worked on the riskiest choices we make from a list ordered by real risk, the ones we actually worry about the most are usually far far down the list.

I know my daughter worries about thunderstorms, earthquakes, and fires while the risk to her health from a poor diet concerns her little at all. The diet will most likely kill her years earlier than any of the others. I’ve been in tons of thunderstorms which I consider beautiful and awesome experiences, especially with lots of horizontal lightening, I’ve been several hurricanes and typhoons with their considerable risk and things crashing down all around our houses (in western Australia at 180 mph, a big storm, and in the Philippines with a rinkey dink built house and water dripping in at dozens of places and running down the walls of the kid’s bedroom), and I’ve been near large fires but have had nothing personal burn down, and it’s diet and driving that are really the biggest risks I experiences and these occur every day. I recently purchased a new vehicle and elected a large truck with top crash ratings for it’s safety margin, not gas mileage.

Right now, the biggest risk I think that exists to health and life is the collapse of the US dollar from gross overspending along with the freeing of all American bank accounts (see Argentina 2002 while used to have the 9th highest standard of living in the world) and the resulting collapse of the US standard of living. I expect that within 10 years, the quality of life in the USA will be 1/2 of what it is now if we are very very lucky. I’m in the process of moving my savings to non US denominated currencies of countries that are being more frugal in their spending to avoid the dollar’s continuing devaluation, and in accounts outside the reach of the US governments potential inflation busting attempts to control. The cost of gas in not going up primarily because of higher costs, but because oil is priced in US dollars and those
dollars are decreasing in value. The decreasing value of the US dollar will effect all aspects of life, including the ability to get any kind of decent heath care including supplements and vitamins, most of which are coming from international sources and will be priced in US dollars which will double or triple the prices to Americans unless they are able to pay for them in non-inflated non-US currencies. My political 2 cents for the day. Prepare.

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What is REAL risk? questions about ibuprofen or nsaids

There are several very promising options. The first one is a medical one which is FDA approved (not that I really consider the FDA a viable tool), and that is EECP. Do some research into this area. EECP in the
USA is not as effective as in some other countries, because the FDA only approves leg cuffs (they don’t add arm cuffs), but EECP does help create new vessel growth around the heart.

EDTA IV therapy is not cheap, several thousand dollars and 30+ 4 hour sessions with the IV at a minimum. However, it does increase walking distance and decrease angina while the method by which it causes this
effect is controversial. My theory, which isn’t in the mainstream of theories on this, is that nanobacteria are a factor (there are several medical abstracts finding nanobacteria in arterial plaque, prostate
stones (who knew?), brain calcium (brain sand), and kidney stones).

Nanobacteria build up calcium for “protection” and EDTA tends to break this down allowing the body to get at them. Tetracycline, an antibiotic, is by far the most successful in killing nanobacteria outside the body and appears to be effective with EDTA is evidenced by calcium scan scores decreasing when using both. I got EDTA IV therapy and took tetracycline on the side without telling my EDTA doctor. I purchased it internationally.

Several over the counter products appear to be effective in reducing arterial plaque and calcium in the arteries and the evidence is mounting quickly for two, vitamin D3 and vitamin K2-mk7. The higher your blood
vitamin D status, the lower your risk of cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, MS, cancer, and a dozen other diseases of civilization (think too many clothes and not enough “natural” time in the sun). The higher
one’s living latitude, the greater one’s risk of cardiovascular disease. D3 and K2-mk7 are used by the bone rebuilding process. The body’s bones are broken down by one kind of bone cells and rebuilt regularly by
another set of bone cells. D3 and K2 are needed for this and since many of us are low, the calcium released by the bone breaking down process ends up in the arteries and other places since it doesn’t effectively
get reused in rebuilding bone due to the lack of those vitamins.

Americans get too much calcium in their diet as well. A very large recent New Zealand study showed that women who take calcium supplements get more cardiovascular events and get more strokes. Limit or avoid
calcium supplements.

Get your vitamin D status well above 50 ng/ml. Get your blood tested. It takes 4000-8000 IU/day of D3 get get most people up to a more optimum level.

K2-mk7 has been found to reverse calcium deposits in several animal studies. I consider it essential.

Most Americans don’t get enough Magnesium. I supplement a lot of this and it’s very good for the cardiovascular system.

Cocoa extract reverses IMT, Carotid artery thickness in the neck, a good proxy of cardiovascular plaque build up. Pomegranate juice is even more effective at doing this with the number one study drinking only 50
ml/day (about 2 onces). I use pomegranate extract instead of juice.

Many people have sub optimum and/or poor thyroid function. The addition of T3 or Armour will reduce high cholesterol and reduce trigs without the side effects of statin drugs.

Lowering trigs are important. Fish oil and Niacin, real niacin(B3), are effective treatments. I use both. Niacin also improves LDL particle size and improves HDL quality. Most doctors never test for this. The
test to request is the VAP test. Fish oil reduces cardiovascular events by about 50%, far above using aspirin and plavix both.

Poor diet increases trigs and lowers LDL quality. High glycemic foods, wheat, processed foods, sugar, and anything with corn syrup will screw up your cholesterol and trigs big time. Get rid of them. Look into a diet that is higher in fat/protein and/or look into the paleo diet.

CoQ10 is an excellent supplement for the heart and an absolute must if your doctor has you on statin drugs and you follow this particular guidance. I don’t.

I had a heart attack about 5 years ago and had no insurance. They wanted to do a full quad bypass and reading the two initial reports (by the angiogram guy and the cardiologist), I had 13+ blockages. I elected
stents instead. Only 4 were stented leaving the LAD 98% blocked. About 2 months ago I passed a cardio stress test with flying colors.

Statins are drugs I would avoid. My reason for avoiding them is that deaths from all causes is essentially unchanged in statin drug users verses non-users. The causes of death is somewhat changed in statin
users with less cardiovascular deaths and more strokes, cancer, and accidents and suicides. The reason for the last two is that cholesterol is essential for brain function and lowering cholesterol with statin
drugs lowers cognitive function, lowers IQ, and lowers reaction times. IN other words it, F*@Ks up your brain.

The solutions are for the most part found outside conventional cardiology while the one solution that is effective within cardiology, EECP, is rarely ever promoted by cardiology. If you were to travel to
India or some other third world country which has better cardio outcomes than in the US, their EECP devices use both leg and arm cuffs. But, if you can get this done in the US, and it should be available to you, it
is much better than doing what your doctors seem to promote (waiting to die).

Live long and prosper as the saying goes.

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other ways to solve the problem for triple bypass – Heart attacks

Start at http://www.lef.org/ and search for coq10 or search for ubiquinone or ubiquinol. Some good articles with many references will pop up.

Also, there is no “initial reports” but an ongoing list of solid research showing benefit in many areas. There is no “consensus” that it has no value and the alleged recent studies your doctors report to know about they should provide. I call it medical lying.

If you go to PubMed, a government site that provides medical abstracts for public use:

and do a search for medical abstracts using “ubiquinone OR ubiquinol” as the search term (the two forms of CoQ10), you will get 8367 medical abstracts. If you go to the advanced search and restrict this to human
only studies, you can cut down the number of abstracts to 2415.

Here’s one study published in 2008 that indicates your doctors are full of BS – there are related abstracts on the right on the PubMed pages one can examine:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19096107

Supplemental ubiquinol in patients with advanced congestive heart failure. Langsjoen PH, Langsjoen AM.

East Texas Medical Center and Trinity Mother Francis Hospital, TX, USA. alilangsjoen@cs.com

Patients with CHF, NYHA class IV, often fail to achieve adequate plasma CoQ10 levels on supplemental ubiquinone at dosages up to 900 mg/day. These patients often have plasma total CoQ10 levels of less than 2.5 microg/ml and have limited clinical improvement. It is postulated that the intestinal edema in these critically ill patients may impair CoQ10 absorption. We identified seven patients with advanced CHF (mean EF 22%) with sub-therapeutic plasma CoQ10 levels with mean level of 1.6 microg/ml on an average dose of 450 mg of ubiquinone daily (150-600 mg/day). All seven of these patients were changed to an average of 580
mg/day of ubiquinol (450-900 mg/day) with follow-up plasma CoQ10 levels, clinical status, and EF measurements by echocardiography. Mean plasma CoQ10 levels increased from 1.6 microg/ml (0.9-2.0 microg/ml) up to 6.5 microg/ml (2.6-9.3 microg/ml). Mean EF improved from 22% (10-35%) up to
39% (10-60%) and clinical improvement has been remarkable with NYHA class improving from a mean of IV to a mean of II (I to III). Ubiquinol has dramatically improved absorption in patients with severe heart
failure and the improvement in plasma CoQ10 levels is correlated with both clinical improvement and improvement in measurement of left ventricular function.

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Also, you should know that if you are taking a statin drug, your CoQ10 levels are being lowered. The outcome of lowered CoQ10 levels is an increase in sudden cardiac failure since CoQ10 is essential to energy
use in the heart.

As to endocrinologists, I’m a member of several hormone related lists including thyroid, adrenal, and testosterone replacement and of more than 10,000 members across the lists, there has only been one report of a positive experience with an endocrinologist and that person had no idea he had been screwed. Many had seem multiple endocrinologists over the years and ended up educating their own regular physician, often a Doctor with D.O. designation, in order to get appropriate and effective care. Most endocrinologist don’t even follow the recommendations of the Association of endocrinologists nor do they know what it recommends.
The Association is often wrong but is more correct that what a typical endocrinologist recommends. Adrenal fatigue, thyroid resistance, and high estrogen (in males) are three areas that endocrinologists have no clue about. Who knows how they are screwing diabetics?

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Coenzyme Q10

A man was sleeping one night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might…

So, this the man did, day after day. For many years he toiled from sunup to sundown, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might!

Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain. Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary mind: (He will do it every time)!

You have been pushing against that rock for a long time and it hasn’t moved.” Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and
disheartened the man.

Satan said, “Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your time, giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough.”

That’s what the weary man planned to do, but decided to make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.

“Lord,” he said, “I have labored long and hard in Your Service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this
time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?”

The Lord responded compassionately, “My friend, when I asked you to serve Me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have done.

Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to Me with your strength spent,
thinking that you have failed.

But, is that really so? Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back shiny and brown; your hands are callused from constant pressure, your legs have become massive and hard.

Through opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have. True, you haven’t moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in My wisdom. That you have done. Now I, my friend, will move the rock.”

At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants, when actually what God wants is just simple
o bedience and faith in Him.

By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God Who moves the mountains.

When everything seems to go wrong………………………Just P.U.S.H.

When the job gets you down………………………Just P.U.S.H.

When people don’t do as you think they should……………Just P.U.S.H.

When your money is “gone” and the bills are due……………Just P.U.S.H.

When people just don’t understand you…………………….Just P.U.S.H.

P = Pray
U = Until
S = Something
H = Happens

Pass this on to a ll your loved ones and friends who may need it; they may get it just in time. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new
start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”

Friends are quiet angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. May God Bless You.

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JUST PUSH

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Life with Angina pectoris

See the greatest naturalist  opinion:

Alexander von Humbold
German naturalist
“Eating animals as food is not far away from athropophagy and cannibalism. The same amount of land used to graze and feed cattle could feed ten people, if however we cultivated it with lentils, kidney beans or peas it could feed a hundred people….The Orinoco basin can produce sufficient bananas to feed the whole of mankind comfortably.”

Richard Owen

Richard Owen (1804-1892) was an English naturalist who studied with Cuvier, cataloged the Hunter Collection of the British Museum

a. “The anthropoids and all quadumanous derive their nourishment from fruits, grains and other succulent vegetable substances and the strict analogy between the structure of those animals and man clearly demonstrates their natural frugivorousness.”

b. “The apes, whose dentition is almost equal to that of man, lives principally on fruit, seeds, nuts and other similar kinds of savoury textures of nutritious value which are elaborated by the vegetable kingdom. The profound similarity between the dentition of quadrupeds and that of humans demonstrates that man was from his origins adapted to eat fruit from the trees in Paradise.”

Charles Darwin

“The grading of forms, organic functions, customs and diets showed in an evident way that the normal food of man is vegetable like the anthropoids and apes and that our canine teeth are less developed than theirs and that we are not destined to compete with wild beasts or carnivorous animals.”

Thomas Henry Huxley
a. “Man came before the axe and fire so he couldn’t be carnivorous.”

b. “The length of mans digestive tube is 5-8 meters and the distance between the mouth and the coccyx is 50 to 80 centimeters, which gives us a result of 10 as in other frugivorous animals and not 3 as in the carnivorous or 20 as in the herbivorous animals.”

c. “The only animal with probable omnivorous morphology that exists, is the bear, which has some pointed teeth and others that are flat.”

Sir Arthur Keith

Sir Arthur Keith (1866-1955) was a famous English anatomist and anthropologist:
“Chimpanzees and gorillas have the same digestive mechanisms as man does. That is the proof of compared anatomy in favour of a diet of crude vegetables which permits the fermentation to produce several disposals daily, soft and free from putrefaction.”

I want to ask  the following question: Is man by nature a vegetarian? Nowadays most doctors tell us, that he is not, but the most famous naturalists have all deduced, that he is.

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heart disease, coconuts oil and traditions

RESULTS: VCO obtained by wet process has a beneficial effect in lowering lipid components compared to CO. It reduced total cholesterol, triglycerides, phospholipids, LDL, and VLDL cholesterol levels and increased HDL cholesterol in serum and tissues. The PF of virgin coconut oil was also found to be capable of preventing in vitro LDL oxidation with reduced carbonyl formation.

CONCLUSION: The results demonstrated the potential beneficiary effect of virgin coconut oil in lowering lipid levels in serum and tissues and LDL oxidation by physiological oxidants. This property of VCO may be attributed to the biologically active polyphenol components present in the oil.

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heart disease – coconuts oil

Foreign drugs were dangerous, the FDA warned, because they were not subjected to rigorous quality control requirements — the implication being, of course, that brand-name pharmaceuticals sold in the United States are not contaminated.

This has been proven to be yet another lie. Heparin, a blood-thinning drug made by Baxter International, was recently discovered by consumers to be manufactured in China, where the quality controls were so low that this FDA approved, brand-name drug was apparently deliberately contaminated with an adulterated chemical.

It has now resulted in the death of dozens of consumers in the United States. The very scenario dreamed up by the FDA to warn consumers away from pharmaceuticals purchased in Canada or Mexico turns out to be true — for a brand-name drug sold at monopoly prices in the United States.

The FDA has not inspected 93 percent of the factories that manufacture pharmaceuticals outside the United States, and many of the pharmaceuticals manufactured for U.S. drug companies are contaminated with metal parts from the gears of processing machines or flecks of paint from factory walls.

Many brand-name drugs are NOT tested for contaminants before being sold to consumers in the United States, Canada and other countries, regardless of where they were manufactured.

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Dirty Drug Industry Secret: Their Pills are Made in China