How to Prevent Heart Disease
The chances are you know someone with heart disease.
The chances are that the only focus is on lowering cholesterol.
This is like trying to stop your house from burning down by keeping one or two rooms in your house wet. This may prevent some fires in those rooms but actually increases the risk of electrical fires.
The point is, cholesterol is NOT a main cause of heart disease.
Before going on any medication here are 6 great questions to ask your doctor:
There are more important tests to do than cholesterol lone:
You may have also been alerted to the fact that the ‘bad’ saturated fats actually PROTECT your heart. Something us Functional Health providers have been noticing for years.
What may not have been told is diabetes medication aggravates blood pressure, and that ant-acid drugs like lansoprazole and pantoprazole increase strokes by up to 90%.
You also may not have been told that up to 90% of high blood pressure may be down to just one nutrient deficiency – a deficiency made worse by statin drugs and even some ‘blood pressure ‘ pills.
Are you confused as to what to do know?
This is knowledge I have picked up from a heart consultant, functional health experts, and reading medical journals for 24 years.
7 Reasons Why Doctors Struggle To Find & Fix The Cause Of Your Heart Disease
- Lab Tests. This is in 2 parts.
Doctors are often unaware of the importance of certain lab tests so don’t order them (more of a UK problem than a USA one)
Doctors (in my experience) have poor training as to what those lab test results mean, so will often say ‘nothing is wrong’ when in fact there is often quite a lot ‘wrong’.
- Lifestyle issues
– Doctors have almost no training in implementing lifestyle changes which can help you, beyond stopping smoking and drinking, and lowering salt. Considering lifestyle factors are the single largest contributing factor to heart disease, this is a glaring black hole. - Nutrition
– Related to lifestyle. Today’s diet is deficient in optimal levels of nutrients needed to heal your heart, so often extra supplements (the right ones) can make a considerable difference. - Toxins
– From air pollution, to pesticides in our food, and mycotoxins from mould, these are all well documented causes of health problems that doctors are largely unaware of, so will not consider or treat. - Stress
– Once again linked to lifestyle, and there a many techniques that can help. - Spinal Health
– One cardiologist in the USA sends all his patients to a chiropractor just in case their heart problem is a simple to fix spinal nerve issue. - Pain (and pain killers!)
– One more reason chiropractic/osteopathy can help. Pain leads to stress, leading to heart disease. Also, pain killers lead to heart disease and high blood pressure. Finding and fixing the cause of your pain may be the answer.
Heart Communication & the Cell Danger Response
Stress and the Heart
Mouldy Heart
Environmental Toxins
How to Prevent High Blood Pressure
My ‘Myths About Blood Pressure Webinar’ – https://lowerpressure.gr8.com/
Some Heart Arrhythmia Prevention Tips
How to Prevent Heart Attacks
Heart Disease and Pollution
If you want my recommendation to a great heart consultant then call us on 01707 662 704.
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