Heart Disease,

America's

No. 1 Killer


By Garry F. Gordon, MD, DO, MD(H), USA
(Explore Issue: Volume 9, Number 4&5)

Surgery for the treatment of Heart

Disease is coming to an end!

Cardiologists are not ready for

This New Information.


Recognizing the role of Inflammation in arteriosclerosis represents a far bigger

paradigm shift than Helicobacter Pylori was for ulcers. You cannot see the

Vulnerable Plaque that leads to the death of 85% of Heart attack and stroke

patients on arteriograms, so the time has come to treat the bloodstream and

stop attacking the blood vessel! The American college of Cardiology,

The American College of Physician's and The American Heart Associations'

new guidelines (Circulation 5-1-99) for chronic chest pain are desperately

attempting to maintain status quo, entirely ignoring the now proven involvement

of inflammation in heart attacks and strokes. They not only ignored the New

England Journal of medicine review article volume 340 1999 on Inflammation

and Arteriosclerosis, but they also ignored the just released American Heart

Associations' own monograph series Edited by their President, Valentin Fuster

MD, PhD Cardiologist at Mount Sinai in New York City. Anyone reading this

429 page book, "The Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque:" will readily conclude

that meaningful prevention of heart attacks and strokes requires medical control

of the inflammation and infection aspects now being entirely ignored in the rush

to operate on the patient! Medical control of these newly recognized risk factors

will without question do far more than any surgical procedure to prevent heart

attacks and strokes!

Why Is Vulnerable Plaque So Significant?
The science behind these new parameters is an astonishing breakthrough: vulnerable

plaque. Research indicates that this unstable plaque can not be identified on an

arteriogram! Therefore, what the doctor does NOT see is the very thing that leads

to the blood clot that leads to the heart attack or stroke. It is now well documented

that all obstructing plaque that can be seen, can be reversed with diet, exercise,

and meditation programs such as Dr Ornish has developed. Now we learn that these

visible lesions that have caused doctors to recommend so many needless bypass

and other invasive surgical procedures for heart disease are not the ones that are

involved in 85% of all heart attacks! That explains why we have not found a really

significant reduction in heart attacks or deaths in surgically operated patients. It is

clear that we have been operating needlessly on the wrong plaque!

 

We Need to Treat the Blood, Not Cut Out the Artery
More importantly the new understanding about the role of infection and inflammation

in cases of sudden death from heart attacks suggests that all current surgically

based approaches to heart disease are as misguided as removing your lung if you

have pneumonia! We need to focus on the blood and not the blood vessel!

Most doctors are not yet aware of some of the important developments that have

surfaced so rapidly in the past several years. These include efforts to see the

dangerous Vulnerable Plaque noninvasively with a high speed MRI and other

diagnostic techniques that are now being developed. These instruments are not

yet found in local hospitals, but may help to end the current excessive reliance

on surgical treatment of vascular disease in the future. Although the popular high

speed CAT scan provides useful information regarding the calcium content of the

artery, it is not capable of measuring the really dangerous vulnerable plaque.

Therefore, let these tests motivate patients to address their risk factors, such

as antibodies to oxidized cholesterol, C-reactive protein levels etc., so that they

medically treat the problem - regularly, ideally for the rest of their life!

A bad score on this test should motivate you to carefully follow the advice

contained in this article and follow up later with a retest.

Heart Disease Appears to Be Closely Linked to Inflammation
The inflammation/infection aspect of heart disease has gained added validation by:

The recognition of a new measurement of Interleukin 1, an inflammatory marker

published in Circulation, Vol. 5-99, 1999, and in a review article published in

NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine), Vol. 340, 1999. Further validation was

added by the recent report published in JAMA showing that up to 55% of heart

attacks appear to be prevented by treatment with proper antibiotics. In addition,

evidence published in Science, February 1999, implicates an infectious bacteria

known as chlamydia, while CMV and Herpes (common retroviruses) have also

been shown to be closely connected with heart attacks. Chlamydia is a disease

to which up to 95% of us is exposed during our lives and once it enters our body,

it finds some devitalized tissue (plaque) and never leaves!
It's Extremely Difficult to Stop Inflammation with a Knife!

The experts studying vulnerable plaque agree that there's an inflammatory

component to this extremely dangerous plaque, which confirms that surgery

is not be the correct approach to control it. The Vulnerable plaque appears to

be as much as 4-5 Degrees C hotter, thus explaining the success seen with

Oxidant therapies such as Ozone, UVB, or H2O2 IV, and/or antibiotics in treating

angina. While these new parameters are more important by far than current outdated

risk factor information, we still have to improve our diet and life style, exercise, and

maintain a healthy immune system by taking long- term oral Chelating and other

detoxifying supplements, as well as SAFE anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant,

anti-thrombotic, lipid-lowering, natural supplement therapies.

A Safe Anti-Inflammatory and Comprehensive

Cardio-Vascular Supplement Exists
At this time, I am happy to report that those of my patients taking the comprehensive

9 pill packets of Beyond Chelation combined with 3 to 5 Wobenzym N twice daily

are conveniently addressing all of the newly recognized molecular mechanisms of

heart disease -- from controlling Homocysteine and elevated cholesterol or

triglycerides, to lowering C-reactive protein, which is clearly becoming one of

the most significant tests in cardiology!

Aspirin Is OK in an Emergency,But We Need Safe, Long Term Help
We have heard that taking an aspirin while having a heart attack can increase survival.

This may be true, but should be a temporary emergency measure only. We know from

statistics, however, that the great majority of us must take some long-term anti-clotting

protection against the massive blood clots that we now believe are involved in lethal

heart attacks. In fact, researchers are finding that long term use of anti-inflammatory

drugs are a major factor in helping to prevent not just Alzheimer's disease, but heart

attacks and strokes as well! The problem is that although there are now proven benefits

from taking a daily dose of aspirin and/or other NSAIDs

(non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), we pay dearly for these benefits with over

16 thousand deaths and over 125 thousand hospitalizations annually, generally

related to internal bleeding, although liver and kidney damage are also a far

too common side effect.)

We also can offer our patients a major new nutritionally based therapy that acts like

an oral vaccination, Transfer Factor. This exciting therapy helps us deal with the

infection aspect of vascular disease by helping to control serious chronic viral and

other infections now being implicated in heart attack and stroke. Transfer Factor may

improve resistance to Herpes, CMV, Chlamydia, and Helicobacter (often coming from

chronic dental problems). Until such time as science identifies the proper vaccination

or anti-infective therapies to cure these infections, it seems advisable for all of us to try

a Transfer Factor type of product and also regularlyconsume a safe affordable

anti-inflammatory like Wobenzym, which is well documented to have no side effects

yet have many far reaching benefits -- benefits such as:

Effectively treating most forms of arthritis better than standard

medicines today,
Helping to control cancer and increasing the life span of all cancer patients

a minimum of 30%, Offering protection against infections and injuries, and
Fortifying our immune systems every day of our lives. Germany developed

Wobenzym: all-natural combination Enzyme-Bioflavonoid product. (The rutin

component appears to be an ideal Iron Chelator!) With it, we get all the benefits

of anti-inflammatory medication without the high incidence of gastrointestinal

bleeding associated with the use of aspirin and the many other documented

side effects known to develop after the longterm use of NSAIDs and other

standard anti-inflammatory medications. Over 100 Million People Have

Used Wobenzym in a 30-year Period. During �That Time, No Detrimental

Side Effects Have Been Reported from Its Use.

Manufactured by the Mucos Company in Germany since the 1960's, Wobenzym

is now widely available in the United States at a time when there is a greater need

than ever before to include it in our nutritional defense program. Unlike most enzymes

on the market, this enzyme is specially designed so that it is not used to digest food

but is used internally, inside the bloodstream, beneficially affecting many of the factors

that are now known to lead to the development of serious diseases. These factors

range from:

Lowering Circulating immune complexes (These have been shown to

shorten our lifespan.);
Lowering the elevated levels of fibrinogen that tend to make our blood thicker as

we get older to; Treating Herpes and other viral and bacterial infections -- either

alone or as part of a total anti-infection program, including Transfer Factor related

nutrients and/or antibiotics. (Note: Wobenzym alone has been shown more effective

in treating Herpes than the standard anti-viral drugs now available, and, when combined

with the Transfer Factor related, products, it is even more effective!);
Lowering elevated C-Reactive proteins to the lowest 50 percentile or the lower portion

of the so-called normal range. (Note: The normal range at the current time is too wide.

For optimum health, we should place our optimal values at levels far lower than they

are at present.) The C-reactive Protein Test identifies how active the inflammatory

process is when the test is taken.

New Tests Have Been Proven Necessary for Accurate Treatment

of Individual Heart Problems
There is a plethora of scientific information regarding the many new tests that are

finally beginning to be accepted as significant in determining and controlling all of the

newer recognized cardiovascular risk factors. If your doctor could keep up with current

published literature, some of the tests he would prescribe for you would not be just

cholesterol even with its subsets of HDL, LDL, but the newer LPA and the latest oxidized

cholesterol antibody test. Furthermore, adhesion molecules such as VCAM and ICAM

that measure how sticky things are can now be measured at the molecular level. These

are vascular and intercellular adhesion molecules that have been implicated in the

impaired circulation of the tiny vessels (capillaries) that eventually lead to heart attacks,

strokes and loss of vision with such common conditions as macular degeneration

and glaucoma.

The physician should also test platelet aggregation, fibrinogen, lipid peroxides, and

other markers of free radical damage. Furthermore, he can monitor the level of activity

(antibodies) to the various infectious agents now implicated in arteriosclerosis, such as

chlamydia, CMV (Cytomegalovirus), Herpes, etc. Since virtually all of us test positive

for these infectious agents, I routinely now recommend the use of Immune enhancing

nutrients including Transfer Factor related compounds, Aloe Vera, Beta Glucan, etc.

however I also refer some seriously ill and/or immune compromised patients for oxidative

therapies such as IV Hydrogen Peroxide (H2O2) and/or the use of antibiotics.

Platelet aggregation tests show how sticky platelets become when challenged. Note:

This leads to the bloodclots that we now recognize as the immediate cause of death in

any heart attacks and strokes! Homocysteine (Note: This test may not be accurate if done

using a serum separator tube. It also is more sensitive if a load such as 1.5 gm of methionine

is taken orally 4 hours before in order to help identify the approximately 30% of us who are

found to have this dangerous and (now) common but still generally unrecognized problem.

Serum ferritin levels are done because most of us have dangerously elevated levels of iron

because so many of us have mistakenly been taking vitamin and mineral supplements

containing iron. Having elevated iron levels is as dangerous as having elevated lead. This

iron overload is contributing to our already heavy metal poisoned bodies.

Fasting insulin levels, triglycerides/HDL ratio, Redox, pH, Resistance, APO E-2, 3, or 4,

blood type testing, food allergy tests, these and many other tests are all useful in helping

optimize our lifestyle and dietary program. Fatty acid analysis (on red blood cell membranes)

and amino acid testing on urine or blood are all part of the extremely useful battery of tests

that assists the properly trained health professional to individualize the optimal nutritional

and life extension support programs for patients.

Generally the more of these tests that we do, the more things you will find are sub-optimal.

Fortunately, most of the abnormalities that we uncover can be greatly helped with the

ardiovascular nutritional support products BC (Beyond Chelation) Wobenzym and

nutritionally based immune enhancing supplements. Note: Everything works better

when taken along with appropriate diet and life style changes! Note: Many of these tests

are available through specially licensed laboratories in the United States such as

Immunosciences, Beverly Hills CA, Great Smokies Diagnostic Lab Asheville NC.,

and Antibody Assay Laboratories, Santa Ana, CA. or Doctors Data, West Chicago, Illinois.

If These Tests Are Difficult to Obtain Cost-Wise and Within a Reasonable Time,You Can

Still Address Your Risk Factors with a Nutritionally-Based Product.


With 50% of Our Population (Over the Age of 40) Dying Prematurely from

Heart Disease, It's Time for a New Multi-Vitamin: A Cardio-Support Multi-Vitamin.

Considering the need to protect our immune system, the need for essential nutrients, the need

to detoxify our bloodstream and protect our cardiovascular systems, as well as the well

documented need for a long term use of a safe anti-inflammatory, and the need to reduce

heavy metals from our tissues and organs, the time has arrived for us to broaden our approach

to optimal health with more comprehensive nutritionally balanced supplements. These

supplements must not only remove excessive levels of metallic and other toxins, but

simultaneously increase the levels of the nutrients that we now provably need if we are to

win the fight against the multiple metabolic/environmental/infectious contributory causes

of degenerative diseases, dementia, heart attacks, and strokes and aging. The time is

ripe to introduce my special Beyond Chelation formula to the American people.

Old, Inadequate Theories Must Give Way to New Discoveries
We know that by following the old completely inadequate recommendations made by the

American Heart Association and other health authorities that we have only made a small

dent in the number of deaths from stroke and heart attack. Their recommendations have

ead to entirely unhealthy dietary practices, along with using the extremely ill advised

cholesterol lowering drugs so commonly prescribed today. Cholesterol, unless it is oxidized,

is a valuable nutrient which your body has to manufacture every day in order to help build the

membranes of the new cells that we must form continually to replace the dead and dying

cells in our body. We find elevated antibodies to so many forms of chronic infection in

virtually all of us today. This strongly suggests that our immune systems are seriously

weakened, partially as a result of the heavy metals and other toxins we ingest from our

polluted environments as well as our stressful and nutritionally deficient lifestyles.

Backed by Scientifically Formulated Nutritional Supplements, I Haven't Had to Send One

atient to a Heart Surgeon for the Past 10 Years.

Obviously, even if you fully optimize all these factors, no one can guarantee each individual

will achieve complete success in restoring or maintaining good health. Nevertheless, based

on my 40 years of clinical experience during the last 10 years of which I did not have to send

a single patient for bypass or angioplasty surgery no matter how advanced their blockages

were, I now believe that most degenerative and cardiovascular diseases can be improved

and often nearly totally reversed with the special supplements described here combined

with the dietary and lifestyle recommendations that I have prescribed for my patients.

Dr. Dean Ornish has proven that those who are able to follow his more rigid approach of

exercise, meditation, and dietary change have continued to improve over the years. He has

show that all arteriosclerosis is absolutely reversible. Why take the chance of dying or

sustaining serious injury, pain, or brain damage associated with most vascular surgical

procedures today, particularly when more and more experts are saying that surgery is not

dealing with the cause of heart attacks or strokes. We must focus on the bloodstream and

not the blood vessel. Current official guidelines have not substantially prevented

ardiovascular related deaths from stroke and heart attacks.

Dr. Valentin Fuster, President of the American Heart Association, Is on the Trail of

Vulnerable Plaque Dr. Valentin Fuster, a cardiologist, MD, Ph.D., at Mount Sinai

School of Medicine in New York and President of the American Heart Association,

has stated on November 8th, 1999, that arteries containing (vulnerable) plaque can

now be identified by a high technology, super-fast, entirely painless, safe imaging MRI

scanner. When this fragile clot ruptures, it leads to the formation of massive blood clots

that suddenly cut off the supply of oxygen rich blood to the heart and/or brain, resulting in

heart attack or stroke respectively. Only by our new knowledge regarding vulnerable plaque

can we now comprehend why some people with little or no apparent blockage can have a

heart attack while others with almost completely blocked arteries may live for decades often

without any of the symptoms of cardiovascular disease.

When arteries close down slowly, the body compensates, often by producing brand new

collateral circulation to go around the blocked area. The person may not even know that

a significant artery in their body gradually closed off, because it was safely and reliably

replaced by tiny new blood vessels, blood vessels that are not visible on the usual arteriogram

studies in hospitals. These entirely inadequate and grossly misleading x-rays have led to so

many needless bypass and angioplasty procedures. It is, of course, important to stabilize the

fragile vulnerable plaque lesions and experts are hoping that lipid lowering approaches will show

some benefits here, so I have included the powerful proven lipid lowering and detoxifying power

or Red Yeast and Beta-Sitosterol in the Beyond Chelation Formula.