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HEART DISEASE HALTED

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Lion Tamer Dr. Matthias Rath Interviewed
Until today, every second woman and man has died of heart attacks,
strokes and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerosis,
the underlying disease, starts early in life. At age 25, every second
person has already developed deposits in their artery walls.

Until recently, bypass surgery and coronary angioplasty were the only
remedies known to medicine. Now there is a natural answer to the
cardiovascular epidemic, and it has just been clinically proven.

One of the great advances in medicine in this century is the
discovery that heart attacks and strokes are not diseases, but the
result of long-term vitamin deficiencies, and that they are
preventable. Animals don't get heart attacks because they produce
vitamin C in their bodies.

Your body cannot manufacture vitamin C, and long-term vitamin
deficiencies lead to weakness of your artery walls similar to the
sailor's disease scurvy. Cholesterol and other blood factors are
deposited inside your arteries only if your blood vessel walls are
weakened by vitamin deficiencies. Thus, cardiovascular disease is
essentially an early form of scurvy. This new understanding of
America's Number One health problem was discovered by Nobel prize
winner Linus Pauling and Dr. Matthias Rath, M.D.
Since early stages of coronary heart disease have already developed
in every second person during the third decade of life, the need for
halting this process becomes of paramount importance. Therefore, the
results of our clinical study cannot be overestimated.
They are of great significance for millions of people worldwide. For
the first time it has been clinically demonstrated that the growth of
atherosclerosis in coronary arteries can be stopped by a natural
program of essential nutrients. The study, published in the January
1997 issue of the Journal of Applied Nutrition, was conducted on 55
patients (age 45 to 68) with different stages of coronary heart
disease, ranging from early to advanced forms.
The study documented the growth of calcified atherosclerotic deposits
in the coronary artery walls of these patients before and during one
year of the vitamin program, developed by health Now, Inc. The
deposits were measured directly by means of Ultrafast Computed
Tomography. This new technique allows diagnosis of heart disease
before you feel any symptoms and allows the non-invasive monitoring
of the coronary deposits. The results of this study documented for
the first time that coronary heart disease is an aggressive process
with an exponential growth rate.
The results show that the more advanced disease is, the faster it
grows. On average the calcium deposits increased every year by 44%.
A comparison of the growth rate of coronary calcium deposits before
and after following a natural program of vitamins, minerals and other
essential nutrients showed that this disease can be stopped in its
early stages in the relatively short time of one year. Most
importantly, in individual cases this nutritional supplement program
even led to the reversal of existing coronary deposits.
One example was a 50-year-old business executive who entered the
study after learning that he had developed beginning coronary heart
disease. The x-ray pictures are cross-sections of this patient's
heart and coronary arteries, taken with Ultrafast computed
tomography. With this technology the Doctors could see the presence
of calcified deposits in the coronary arteries. After about one year
on the vitamin program the coronary deposits had entirely disappeared.
In summary, the clinical study documents for the first time that:
· atherosclerosis is an aggressive disease, and without nutritional
supplementation can progress annually on average by 44%,
· coronary heart disease can be diagnosed early, before symptoms
occur, and can be prevented at this early stage,
· a natural program of vitamins, minerals and other essential
nutrients can stop the growth of coronary heart disease during its
early stages in the relatively short time of one year.
The fact that coronary deposits can disappear without angioplasty,
bypass surgery or drugs, indicates that the cardiovascular epidemic
can be controlled, or even eradicated, in the next century. We are
now entering an era where we can reverse heart disease without
surgery.
This is the story of one doctor's quest to eradicate heart disease
that led to amazing new discoveries about the link between nutrition
and cardiovascular health. Dr. Matthias Rath, physician and
researcher, has devoted his career to discovering the causes and
treatment of cardiovascular disease. Dr. Rath came to this country
from Germany in 1990 and became the first Director of Cardiovascular
Research at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine.
His groundbreaking work in establishing a clear connection between
deficiencies of certain key nutrients and the development of heart
disease has resulted in, among other things, the first U.S. patent
for a technology to reverse heart disease without surgery.
Dr. Rath's research, and his startling findings, revolve around two
simple yet powerful concepts: that a deficiency of certain nutrients
causes a loss of stability in blood vessel walls, and that
cardiovascular disease originates when the body "overcorrects" this
unstable condition with deposits of fat molecules. In the following
interview, Dr. Rath outlines the ways in which his findings lead to
these conclusions.


Dr. Rath, your book is entitled "Eradicating Heart Disease." Do you
really believe that this deadly disease can be eradicated?
Dr. Rath: Absolutely. There is an interesting phenomenon that
startles most people when they hear about it: heart attack, stroke -
cardiovascular disease in general - is virtually unknown among
animals. It isn't impossible for it to happen, but it simply doesn't
occur, regardless of the animal's diet, level of activity or other
factors. And yet coronary and cardiovascular diseases are epidemics
worldwide among people. They are the number one killers in all
industrialized countries, accounting for about half of all deaths.
For years, scientists have puzzled over this phenomenon, and now at
last research is shedding some light on it. With the exception of man
and a few other species, animals synthesize the vitamin C they need
in their bodies. We do not produce vitamin C, and must attain the
levels we need from food and supplementation.
If you don't get enough vitamin C, your body cannot produce adequate
collagen and collagen is the substance which gives your
cardiovascular system its structural integrity. Low vitamin C intake
over many years leads to chronic instability of the vessel walls.
Deposits develop over time as a reaction to this instability. Once
you understand heart disease as a vitamin deficiency, treatment is
easy, non-intrusive and risk free.


But if it were as simple as a vitamin deficiency, wouldn't we know
that by now? With the millions of dollars that have been spent on
research in this field, how can this just now be coming to light?
Dr. Rath: Well, I guess sometimes the simplest ideas can be the
hardest to see. But there is also an economic factor involved.
Vitamins are not patent able. Therefore, there has been little
incentive for vital research and clinical studies.
Also, linking disease and nutrition challenges the way many doctors
think. This is changing, and more and more doctors every year are
considering nutritive factors. But this kind of vast orientation
change takes time.


When you mention "vitamin deficiency," most people probably think of
scurvy, the disease sailors got a hundred years or so ago when they
failed to get any vitamin C in their diets. Is the vitamin deficiency
that leads to heart disease the same kind of thing?
Dr. Rath: As a matter of fact, it is the same thing. Heart disease is
a form of early, or chronic, scurvy. When a person develops scurvy,
their body is totally depleted of vitamin C and all bodily tissue
degrades quickly. The first symptom you see is bleeding gums. And
what is this bleeding? It is leaking of the blood vessel walls.
As the scurvy progresses, the blood vessel walls - not just the gums,
but throughout the body - break down and are no longer able to
contain blood as it is pumped through them by the heart. Eventually
the blood escapes from the blood vessels, and death results.
The reason that a lack of vitamin C causes scurvy is the same as the
reason that a shortage of vitamin C causes heart disease. Among the
most important functions of vitamin C in the body is the production
of collagen. collagen molecules form the structure of the entire
cardiovascular system.
They function like the steel girders in a skyscraper - they form a
supporting grid that assures the strength and stability of the veins,
arteries and other blood vessels. With no vitamin C, collagen
production ceases and in a relatively short time the entire system
loses its structural integrity. This is scurvy. Today most people get
enough vitamin C to avoid getting scurvy.
However, enough to prevent scurvy isn't necessarily enough to keep
your cardiovascular system healthy. If your diet includes only
minimal amounts of vitamin C, collagen production is reduced and
blood vessels weaken. Tiny lesions develop in the vessel walls, and
the blood vessels lose elasticity.
In order to combat this, the body sends clusters of fat molecules
into the blood vessel walls, acting as repair agents to do the work
that collagen should be doing. but like a plaster patch on a wall,
the result is a repair that is not as strong or stable as the
original structure. Over time, the body overshoots the repair
mechanism. Arterial deposits are nothing other than nature's "plaster
cast" against the weakness of the blood vessel walls.
If these deposits develop in the arteries of the heart they lead to
the heart attack. If they develop in the arteries of the brain they
lead to stroke.


Are there other factors involved besides vitamin C?
Dr. Rath: Yes. Animals that do not produce vitamin C in their bodies,
such as humans, do produce a specific type of fat molecule called
lipoprotein (a). this molecule is naturally very sticky. the reason
why cholesterol particles and other fatty particles deposit in the
blood vessel wall is because some of them are coated with these
sticky lipoprotein molecules, which form a biological "adhesive tape"
around the fatty particle.
So it is actually the stickiness of the lipoprotein particle which
makes the fat globules accumulate inside the blood vessel wall, which
leads to the build-up of deposits and eventually to the clogging of
these arteries. In summary, the new understanding is that less
stickiness means less risk for heart disease.
Of course, now that the stickiness has become the focus of
therapeutic attention, it is logical to say, well, let's look
for "Teflon" agents which can prevent and neutralize this stickiness,
and thereby prevent the spread and build-up of new deposits, and more
importantly reverse already existing deposits by loosening the fatty
particles, the LDL and the other cholesterol particles, from the
arterial wall and thereby decrease the clogging.


And are there actually "Teflon" agents that can do that?
Dr. Rath: Yes, there are. Part of the work I've been doing, and the
patents I've received, involve using the natural amino acids lysine
and proline for just this purpose. These two nutritional supplements
are the first generation of "Teflon" agents that we know, and of
course since they are natural supplements, eventually everyone can
take immediate advantage of these new discoveries.


So there are two factors which make humans more prone to heart
disease than animals?
Dr. Rath: Yes. First, animals produce a lot of their own vitamin C,
which humans do not do. Our ancestors have lost this ability to
produce their own vitamin C. All the vitamin C for our bodies must
come from our diet.
The second factor is, animals do not have these sticky particles,
they just have normal fat particles. This stickiness is the second
reason why human beings are much more prone to this disease than any
other living beings on this planet.


You hold a patent in this area. Can you explain that, and the studies
that led to the patent?
Dr. Rath: Certainly. the scientific search - the drive - that I was
involved in over the past eight years, started by looking inside the
human arteries. What is it exactly that leads to the build-up of
deposits, and kills millions of people every year from heart attacks
and strokes?
The key we found was really the adhesive tape - the lipoprotein
particle. No adhesive tape - no stickiness - no fatty deposit,
period! So, the patent that we received comes directly from this
discovery, and that it is the possibility to use the amino acids,
lysine and proline, as agents to reverse these deposits, to get the
fatty deposits out of the wall and thereby decrease the risk of heart
disease.
This is the core of the patent. Of course, in order to get the
patents, you have to have a certain amount of experimental evidence,
and first clinical evidence. So, we already have a series of
testimonials from people following this program, who have been taking
higher amounts of vitamin C, lysine, proline and other important
nutrients.
A person who has angina pectoris experiences chest pain, which
results from the narrowing of the coronary arteries. people following
this program report to us regularly that within four to six weeks
they almost entirely get rid of this chest pain.
The blood circulation through their coronary arteries has obviously
improved, and therefore the chest pain, which is a sign of the
suffocating heart muscle, does not occur anymore. Studies which will
document the reversal of deposits in the coronary arteries of heart
disease patients are in and the results are remarkable.


Beyond vitamin C, lysine and proline, are there other nutrients that
you recommend supplementing?
Dr. Rath: Yes. What you have to keep in mind is that your
cardiovascular system is your largest organ. One person's
cardiovascular system has the surface area of about half a football
field! This system is made of millions of individual cells, and
keeping those cells healthy is of paramount importance. So it is
essential to follow a well-thought-out nutritional supplementation
plan.
One important and powerful antioxidant I have researched is
pycnogenol. I recommend this very highly. Pycnogenol is a little
known extract of a European pine bark that is tremendously effective
in fighting free radical damage. It is absorbed very quickly by the
body, and helps potentiate vitamin C and other antioxidant activity.
Pycnogenol is a fairly expensive nutrient, and rather hard to find,
but it is very worthwhile to seek it out.
I also recommend including other antioxidants such as vitamin E and
beta-carotene, along with vitamin C, for their protective ability.
Moreover, many of the B vitamins are important as cell fuel, as are
several key minerals and CoEnzyme Q10.
Are there any dangers in using these supplements in the amounts you
recommend?
Dr. Rath: The answer is no. Clearly no.
So there is no downside and quite a bit of potential for preventing
or even reversing heart disease.
Dr. Rath: Yes. I think the dimension of these discoveries has not yet
been understood. What we're talking about is that today medicine has
only surgical treatments for heart disease. We are now entering an
era where we can reverse heart disease without surgery, based on
nutritional supplements. These new safe, effective treatments
represent a complete change in our approach to these health problems.
Thank you, Dr. Rath.
Dr. Rath: You're very welcome.
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