Coumadin Sample WARNING!

WARNING!

If you are taking Coumadin, or know anyone taking Coumadin, it is imperative that you and they read this warning!

Bristol-Myers Squibb has made a grievous error in free sample packets of Coumadin they had manufactured.

If you have recently received a free sample pack of Coumadin from your doctor, DO NOT USE IT!

An alert has been just issued by the FDA for an urgent recall for the 1mg strength Coumadin sample packs because taking them could put you in dire straits.

The recall was initiated by Bristol-Myers Squibb when they realized that a key ingredient that activates the Coumadin was not working properly, which could make your medication extremely dangerous, if not deadly.

The unsafe sample packs are from lot numbers:

Lot# 9A48931A, 9A48931B, 9A48931C, all with expiration dates of January 2012.

Please pass this warning on to anyone you know is on heart medication.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Agave plant used to make Agave Syrup

Warning!  You’re Being Had!

It never ends. You know how bad High Fructose Corn Syrup is and how we have been blindsided by clever marketing into thinking HFCS is a healthy sweetener.

Well once again we are being blindsided by the clever marketing of a new so called “natural” sweetener implying it is a safe substitute for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Science has proven conclusively that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a major cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease because of its 56% high fructose content.

This new so called “natural” sweetener is from the agave plant.  Ferment it and you have Mexico’s favorite alcoholic beverage — tequila.

Blue agave, agave “syrup”, or agave “nectar”, is nothing more than a laboratory generated super-condensed fructose syrup devoid of all nutrient value and offering metabolic misfortune.

Agave syrup is much worse than the High Fructose Corn Syrup it’s replacing.

It has the highest fructose content of any commercial sweetener —- 70% to 97% depending on the brand.

Your body burns glucose for energy, not fructose.  Nearly all of the fructose is  broken down by your liver and directly converted to dangerous fats, not energy.

This is why fructose is the leading cause of obesity.

It is important to understand that fructose from fruits and vegetables are a completely different animal.

Natural fructose contains fiber, enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, whereas fructose sweeteners have no nutritional value at all.

Here are some more menacing facts about synthetic fructose like HFCS:

• Fructose elevates your uric acid level.  This is more dangerous than elevated cholesterol levels as it causes chronic low-level inflammation increasing your risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, arthritis and premature aging.
• Fructose “tricks” your body into gaining weight by fooling your metabolism.  It actually impairs your body’s normal appetite-control system.
• Excessive fructose decreases HDL, increases LDL levels, elevates triglycerides, elevates blood sugar, and raises your blood pressure.  This is classic metabolic syndrome.

Let me be clear that small amounts of fructose are not the problem, it is excess fructose, over 25 grams per day, that is the problem, and the average person consumes at least 70 grams of fructose per day.

Despite manufacturer’s claims, agave syrup is not made from the sap of the agave plant as is maple syrup.  Agave syrup is made from the starch of its pineapple like root bulb.

The root is comprised mainly of starch, similar to corn, and a complex carbohydrate called inulin, which is made up of fructose molecules.

The process in which the starch and inulin are converted into agave syrup it very similar to the way cornstarch is converted to High Fructose Corn Syrup.

The process uses genetically modified enzymes and is chemically intensive involving caustic acids, clarifiers, and filtration chemicals.

Here is a partial list of the chemicals involved:

• Activated charcoal
• Cationic and ionic resins
• Sulfuric and/or hydrofluoric acid
• Dicalite
• Clarimex
• Inulin enzymes
• Fructozyme

The public has been deceived into thinking that agave syrup comes from the pure sap of the agave plant just like maple syrup comes from the sap of the maple tree.

The result of this deception is the strong growth of sales of agave syrup to the public, bakers, and food processors.

This deception needs to be exposed and the purchase of agave syrup by consumers and food companies needs to be stopped or the health of millions of people will go down the drain.

Personally, we too were deceived.  We bought agave syrup thinking it was a safe substitute for maple syrup and other sweeteners as we do not use any products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup.

When we uncovered the fraud, we dumped our agave syrup down the drain, as should you.

We all need to help protect the health of our families, friends, and neighbors.  Pass on this information because when it comes to health, we need to help ourselves.

Don’t look to our government, FDA, USDA, or medical doctors for help.

Unfortunately, the very people who should be helping us, are the very ones who are causing the greatest damage to our health.

You need to take charge of your own health.  Don’t buy products containing High Fructose Corn Syrup and do not buy agave syrups or any products containing agave syrups.

Our only defense is to boycott those food processors as their only goal is to make money and could care less if they poison our bodies along the way.

The only way to beat them is by withholding our dollars.  It catches their attention in a hurry, making them sit up and listen.

For a long time I have been warning you about the dangers to your health of ingesting High Fructose Corn Syrup.

More and more studies have proven the folly of consuming products that contain HFCS to the extent that some of our major food processors are finally paying attention and switching away from HFCS as their sweetener of choice.

Pepsi-Cola being one of them.  But, if they switch to agave syrup, we will be worse off when using their products.  I use Pepsi-Cola as an example but no one should be drinking soda! Period!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Stopping Cancer, Heart Disease and 100 Other Diseases On 26 1/2 Cents A Day?

Can you imagine the world-wide media explosion if a drug company announced it had developed a single pill that would substantially reduce the risk or prevent breast, colon, prostate, 14 other cancers, heart attack, stroke, diabetes, osteoporosis, osteomalacia, PMS, MS and other autoimmune disease, as well as flu, colds, other respiratory diseases and, last but  not least — Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and possibly ALS?

Can you imagine the euphoria to having access to such a miracle pill?

Well — guess what—that miracle is here NOW!  TODAY!

It is the miracle of vitamin D-3 and we not only have it, we have it in liquid form at a cost of only pennies a day.

It is estimated that about 60% of the diseases in the world today are probably vitamin D-3 deficiency based —as it has been well established that most people in the U.S. and around the world are vitamin D-3 deficient.

Can you imagine people in their 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s taking a fall and not breaking a hip, or other bones because their bones are so strong?

Can you imagine not having to worry about the swine flu or any other kind of flu because your immune system is so strong?

In the last 10 years a whole new science has burst open upon the world.

It is the scientific study of the effects of the hormone known as vitamin D-3 on the body.  Yes, it is a hormone, not a vitamin.

D-3 impacts your heart, organs and most every tissue and cell in your body.

It is anti-viral, bacterial and fungal.

It regulates normal cell death thus maintaining life saving control over cancer.

It protects against gum disease and helps keep your muscles strong.

Vitamin D-3 is the most impactful and wide reaching nutrient for your body and you can have this incredible protection for as little as 26.5 cents a day.

That’s $7.95 for a month’s supply of 10,000 IU liquid vitamin D-3 per day at the special multiple bottle price for the NEW Mirimmune Super D-3.

That is 26 1/2 cents per day and no shipping cost in the U.S. and Canada.

Is your life worth 26 1/2 cents a day?  Are you dancing in the street yet?

Well you should be because this is the greatest medical discovery of the 21st century and the drug companies haven’t yet figured out a way to take it away from us!

So let’s make hay while the sun shines!

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

Mirimmune Super D-3

“The Most Important Health Discovery for the 21st Century.”

I use this quotation by Marc Sorneson, EdD because this discovery will become our health salvation and destroyer of disease.

I learned the hard way.

You don’t really appreciate your good health unless you lose it —- as I did mine.

I was also shocked to learn that the medical profession had no cure for my debilitating disease, and not being ready to have my life shortened— I began looking for alternatives.

Being persistent, I learned that although drugs could not cure me, nutrition and nutritional supplements could, and cure me it did.

I no longer have congestive heart failure, but that’s another story.

What is of immense value to you, me, and all we know, is what I subsequently learned —- had I been taking a sufficient quantity of ONE, easy to take, inexpensive, NUTRIENT —- I never would have developed heart disease and gone through all that misery, and that is what I want to talk to you about.

It is well known that there are multi-millions of people in this country and many more millions around the world who are on drugs, have no hope for a cure, or have no knowledge of how to keep from developing or catching life threatening diseases.

I now know that that can now change.

With that change, millions of people would be taken off the Medicare rolls.

Think about what that would do for health care systems around the world!

The drug companies are going to hate this.  All those healthy people walking around who won’t get the flu, heart disease, cancer, MS, or any of 100 different problems all because they added this one nutrient to their diet.

We all know the best cure of all is prevention and prevention is easy and doable with what I am about to reveal to you.

If you are already suffering from serious or not-so-serious diseases, be comforted by the fact that there are tens of thousands of people who have cured themselves by just making lifestyle and nutritional changes, no drugs, and I believe most everyone can achieve the same success.

Oh, I forgot to tell you, I am now very healthy, very strong, and on the long side of 86.  I was 74 when I developed congestive heart failure.  So you see, a disease the medical profession has no cure for — can be cured!

Let me tell you —- If you are looking for a magic potion, sorry, I cannot help you, although what I am about to tell you is about as close to a magic potion you will ever get, and there are hundreds of scientific studies behind that statement.

“In all my many years of practice of medicine, I’ve never seen one vitamin, even vitamin C, have such profound effects on human health.” Dr. Soram Khalsa, board-certified internist and medical director for the East-West Medical Research Institute.

It has been established, based on scientific studies, why so many people are so sick with heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, stoke, MS, obesity, etc, etc.

They ALL have a VITAMIN D-3 DEFICIENCY!

“We estimate that vitamin D deficiency is the most common medical condition in the world.” Dr. Michael F. Holick, Vitamin D expert.

Does that mean that the cause for each person contacting or developing a disease was a deficiency of Vitamin D-3 alone?  Probably not, but it is evident from scientific studies that for most —- the answer is a resounding YES!

And further, science says very specifically, a sufficiency of Vitamin D-3 would prevent respiratory diseases, breast, lung, colon, and prostate cancers as well as 20 major internal cancers.

In reading the literature you will find that vitamin D and vitamin D-3 are used interchangeably.

Most people associate vitamin D with strong bones and think about it only as a vitamin, when in actuality, vitamin D-3 is a hormone and affects 32 different organs in your body all of which have vitamin C-3 receptors.

“The number one public health advance in medicine in the last 20 years.” Dr. John Whitcomb, Aurora Sinai Medical Center.

In keeping with this medical advance, we are pleased to offer you our exclusive, energy enhanced, liquid Mirimmune Super D-3.

“Because vitamin D is so cheap and so clearly reduces all-cause mortality, I can say this with great certainty: Vitamin D represents the single most cost-effective medical intervention in the United State.” Dr Greg Plotnikoff, Medical Director, Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

Below is a Sampling of Hundreds of References:

Grant, W. et al.  Benefits and requirements of vitamin D for optimal health.  Ali Med Rev. 2005; 10:94-111.

Hollis B. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels indicative of vitamin D sufficiency: implications for establishing a new effective dietary intake recommendation for virtamin D. J Nudtr. 2005;135:317-22

Vieth R.  Why the optimal requirement for viramin D3 is probably much higher than what is officially recommended for adults. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol 2004.89;89-90:575-79.

Cannell, J. et al.  EpidemicInfluenza and vitamin D.  Epidemiol Infect    2006;134:1129-40

Kirkey, S.  Experts prescribe massive increase of vitamin D.  Canadian West News Service, September 25, 2007.

Marineau A. et al.  Effect of vitamin D supplementation on anti-mycobacterial immunity: a double-blind randomized placebo-controlled trial in London tuberculosis contact.  Int J Tuberculosis Lung Dis 2005;9:S173

Reginster, J. et al.  The high prevalence of inadequate serum vitamin d levels and implications for bone health.  Curr Med Res Opin 2005; 21 (4): 579

Vieth, R. et al.  The urgent need to recommend an intake of vitamin D that is effective.  Am J Clin Nutr 2007;85:649-50

Quotes:

“VitaminD is cholecalciferol, a hormone.  Deficiencies of hormones can have catastrophic consequences.” Dr. William Davis, cardiologist.

“Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized, emerging cardiovascular risk factor, which should be screened for and treated.  Vitamin D is easy to access, and supplementation is simple, safe, and inexpensive.” Dr. James H. O’Keefe, cardiologist and Director of Preventive Cardiology, Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, Missouri.

The need for an adequate level of vitamin D-3 in one’s body cannot be over emphasized.

Our government’s recommendation of 400 IU daily for an adult is not even sufficient for a child and falls far short of the 5000, 10,000 and even 20,000 IUs in some cases that science is now recommending as a daily intake for adults.

Vitamin D-3 is synonymous with good health.

Remain deficient and you will get sick.

Check out the Mirimmune Super D-3 at our Good Health Supplements website today! You can thank me later.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2010 – All Rights Reserved

Note: Good Health Supplements are dietary supplements and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Any statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Readers should consult appropriate health professionals as necessary on any matter relating to their health and well-being. Individual results will vary and statements mentioned are anecdotal and may not represent typical results.

For many, taking an aspirin is a no brainer, a simple way to protect against cardiovascular disease.

The problem is that aspirin causes many uncomfortable and possibly dangerous side effects.

In addition, a little known phenomenon called aspirin resistance means that, for some people, aspirin provides no protection at all.

There is no single laboratory test for aspirin resistance and the estimates of how many people are aspirin resistant vary widely from as low as 5.5% to as high as 60% according to a recent study in Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Aspirin belongs to a class of drugs called “nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs” NSAIDs.

They work by inhibiting the enzymes that make prostaglandins, chemicals that promote inflammation, pain and fever, and are necessary for blood clotting.

People often think of aspirin as a completely benign substance.

It is not.

Here are some of its side effects which may surprise you:

• Gastrointestinal bleeding.  In the US, about 103,000 hospitalizations and 16,500 deaths occur every year from gastrointestinal bleeding related to NSAIDs, including aspirin.
• Dyspepsia.  This condition, which is characterized by pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen, is reported by 12% of users of aspirin and other NSAIDs.
• Gastroduodenal lesions.  In a study of arthritic patients taking NSAIDs for pain, 30% developed painful gastroduodenal lesions or sores in the stomach and/or small intestine.
• Cataracts.  Prolonged aspirin use can increase risk for cataracts (hardening and clouding of the lens of the eye) by 55%, according to a study in Ophthalmology.

NSAIDs can also interfere with the treatment of high blood pressure.

NSAIDs are among the most commonly used drugs for osteoarthritis and other painful conditions.

“Traditional” NSAIDs are a central part of pain management and include Advil, Medipren, Motrin, Nuprin, Aleve, Anaprox, Naprosyn, and COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex.  All of these agents have potentially serious side effects.

NSAIDs can cause gastrointestinal toxicity and life-threatening gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

More recently, it was discovered that COX-2 inhibitors such as Celebrex increase the risk of heart attacks, and the Food and Drug Administration now considers “traditional” NSAIDs such as ibuprofen also capable of increasing heart attacks.

NSAIDs also can worsen heart failure and can cause kidney disease in susceptible people.

As to high blood pressure, many studies have found that NSAIDs increase blood pressure in people who already have hypertension.  In some cases, blood pressure is extremely difficult to control in the presence of NSAIDs.

Do NSAIDs interact with all antihypertensive drugs?

The answer is yes, but there may be some differences.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACE inhibitors), angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs) and diuretics appear to be particularly susceptible to the effects of NSAIDs.

Although some evidence suggests that calcium channel blockers (such as verapamil and diltiazem) are not affected as much as ACE inhibitors, ARBs and diuretics, people who use antihypertensives should assume that all blood pressure lowering drugs interact with NSAIDs.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

Although most people know this, Americans have shown little increase in activity levels in the past decade, according to recent surveys.

Talk to owners of physical fitness centers and they will site a history of people who sign up, expressing great intentions, and then a week, two, or a month later, disappear, and never come back again.  End of exercise program.

Unfortunately, a life of good intensions just does not cut it.

The lack of exercise is directly related to health issues such as obesity, which has grown to epidemic levels along with its associated health risks, and a decline in cognitive abilities, bone strength, increase in heart disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes and other degenerative diseases.

The protest but “I eat healthy and take supplements” doesn’t cut it either.

There is no substitute for exercise, and especially so past 50.

As you age, if you remain sedentary, you will begin to lose both balance and flexibility.

Broken hips and arms as a result of falls happen to so many due to a loss of balance.

Loss of ability to bend or twist is a result of loss of flexibility all of which are directly related to the lack of exercise.

Muscles weaken and atrophy due to lack of use, even your heart muscle.

Tendons and ligaments shrink and lose their flexibility, due to lack of use.

Even your brain loses functionality if it is not exercised.

To maintain and improve your brain function, you need to constantly challenge your brain with exercises that expand your number of neurons and the communication between them.

Reading books, doing puzzles, mathematics, pondering problems, all help to exercise your brain improving your memory and mental sharpness.

And I cannot place enough emphasis on exercise when it comes to diabetic’s ability to control their diabetes, and for everyone to help control their blood pressure and aid in maintaining a healthy vascular system.

There is hardly a function in your body that is not improved by a routine of regular exercise.

When it comes to exercise, more is better.  If you only did five minutes of exercise a day, that is better than none and doing an hour of multiple exercises three times a week, will absolutely change your life.

There are so called experts that will tell you that walking 20 minutes a day or three times a week is all the exercise you need.

Don’t believe it.

If you walk briskly, which is the way you should be walking, you will get your blood moving, exercise you legs, and get minimal exercise of your arms.

But your body is more than just legs and swinging arms, you need arm strength, back strength, balance and flexibility to enable you to move spryly, bend, twist, lift and carry.

Exercise 45 minutes to one hour at least three times a week is more like it.

Everyone can do this to one degree or another.

Walking is great but you also need to do stretching and exercises that include lifting weights, and there are special exercises that maintain or improve your balance and flexibility.

Talk to a trainer at a gym. Check out books that are available at you library or book store.  Google exercise programs.

Just do it!  A regular exercise program can also get people off their meds.

Eat healthy – take good supplements – exercise, that’s the formula for a high quality long healthy life.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

Alzheimer’s is a very scary disease.

There is no cure and the signs that you are on the road to developing the disease are often not very clear.

Until recently, people with signs of dementia were diagnosed as having either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Experts used the term “vascular” in relation to dementia when they found signs of a stroke, mini-strokes, or clogged arteries.  All three of these factors can kill the brain’s nerve cells (neurons) by cutting off their oxygen supply.

Autopsy studies show that many people have both types of dementia.

“When you look at pathology in the brain, it’s the rare person who doesn’t have both Alzheimer’s and vascular disease, “says professor of epidemiology, Mary Haan, at the University of Michigan’s School of Public Health.

Those studies led researchers to ask whether people who were diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia had other things—-like high blood pressure, diabetes, or clogged arteries—-in common.

“As we started to look at risk factors for vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, lo and behold, we found that they overlap,” says David Knopman, professor of neurology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota.

“We realized that vascular risk factors contribute to Alzheimer’s disease pathology,” says Mary Haan.

Researchers say it looks as though Alzheimer’s may somehow be triggered or sped up by high insulin levels, high blood pressure, inflammation, and clogged arteries—some of the same risk factors that cause heart attacks, strokes, and diabetes.  (Lancet 363: 1139, 2004).

“Diabetes is a strong risk factor for dementia,” says David Knopman.

Five years ago, the Rotterdam Study in the Netherlands found that people with diabetes had nearly double the risk of dementia.  (Neurology 62: 66. 2004.)

Two years prior to those studies, this study was reported: HOMOCYSTEINE IS A STRONG RISK FACTOR FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE New England Journal of Medicine. 2002 Feb 14; 346:476-483 .

SUMMARY: Subjects from the “Framingham Study“, were examined over an eight-year period to determine whether the amount of homocysteine in the blood is a cause of dementia or Alzheimer’s Disease, or is the homocysteine the result of vitamin deficiencies that occur in people with dementia-related illnesses.

TEST: A total of 1092 adults, who did not have dementia, were measured to find out whether the amount of homocysteine in a person’s blood could predict who would develop dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. Eight years later 111 of those tested were diagnosed with dementia including 83 with Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s Disease nearly doubled in subjects with a high level of homocysteine.

CONCLUSION: The study concluded that an increased homocysteine level is a strong, independent risk factor for the development of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

What other risk is high homocysteine level known for?

Arterial wall damage and the formation of arterial clogging plaque that block blood flow and reduce the amount of oxygen that reaches the heart and brain, which we now know can put you at severe risk of getting Alzheimer’s as well as a heart attack or stroke.

Inflammation is another causative which also damages arterial walls causing the formation of arterial clogging plaque that can lead to dementia, a heart attack or stroke.

Researchers and the medical profession tell us they have no cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.

Drugs have been developed to slow the progress of dementia, but the best are effective, according to research findings, for no longer than 18 months when they no longer exhibit any beneficial affect for the patient.

As with all major diseases, researchers concentrate on drug cures.

That’s where the money is.

Researchers and the medical profession have totally ignored the results from the above research studies.

The results demonstrate if you keep your arteries clear of arterial clogging plaque, keep your homocysetine and C-reactive protein (inflammation) at normal levels, plus increase the release of your own natural growth hormone from your pituitary, (growth hormone helps reverse cognitive decline which, regrettably, the researchers have not addressed), your chances of getting Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia, as well as losing you cognitive capabilities, are slim to non-existent.

There are no miracles here.

Take care of your vascular system and you take care of your brain.

It’s all done with natural nutritional supplements, healthy eating, and some exercise.  No mirrors, no voodoo, no drugs!

Contrary to what the researchers and the medical profession believe, there is a cure for Alzheimer’s or vascular dementia.  It’s called Prevention!

Dementia sneaks up on you, and then it’s too late, so practice prevention and prevent such a horrible fate.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved

The war on cholesterol by Big Pharma and the Main Stream Medical Profession is being successfully orchestrated through misinformation and twisted truths mainly by the marketing divisions of Big Pharma.

Clearly with science taking a back seat, marketing’s main objective is Big Dollars and Be Damned with Good Health and Lives.

Understand that Big Pharma doesn’t want you to know what you are about to read.

Before reading the informative excerpt on cholesterol from the book: “Lipitor, Thief of Memory”, by Graveline and Richardson, ask yourself this question: If Big Pharma and the Medical Profession are so right about cholesterol, statin, beta-blockers and blood thinner drugs, why is heart disease STILL the number one killer?

Excerpt:

“There is no doubt that the present notoriety of cholesterol has all but obscured its physiological importance and necessity in our bodies. Cholesterol is not only the most common organic molecule in our brain, it is also distributed intimately throughout our entire body. It is an essential constituent of the membrane surrounding every cell. The presence of cholesterol in this fatty double layer of the cell wall membrane adjusts the fluid level and rigidity the proper value for both cell stability and function. Not all that bad for a substance so maligned in today’s media world that we can use the word to frighten small children.

Children take heed for without cholesterol they would not even be here. Cholesterol, a steroid in its chemical structure, is metabolized into other essential body steroids known as the steroid hormones and is therefore the sole substrate within our bodies for the formation of the very powerful chemicals that determine our sexuality, control the reproductive process and make possible our very existence. This same substance that society has been taught to fear happens to be our sole source for androgen, estrogen and progesterone. Researchers marvel at the remarkable similarity in chemical structure these sex hormones have with each other and with the original cholesterol parent from which they were derived. One might say the glaring family resemblance attests to the mighty power of a methyl group here and a carboxyl group there. The destiny of us all is marvelously controlled by such seemingly minor changes.

This same notorious cholesterol substance is also the parent of a pair of steroid hormones called aldosterone and cortisol. They are of adrenal origin and we could not exist without them. Aldosterone protects the body from excessive loss of sodium and water and is known in scientific circles as a mineralocorticoid. It is absolutely vital for life. Without an adequate supply of aldosterone we would be like an ill-prepared desert traveler destined to die of thirst and dehydration under the glaring rays of a merciless sun as water and salt escape from his body. Cortisol is known as a glucocorticoid because of its effect on glucose metabolism, but it also has powerful mineralocorticoid and immune system functions and is fundamentally involved in the biologic response to the stress in our lives. Both of these vital substances are created in the cortex, the outer shell of the adrenal glands. When the adrenal cortex is destroyed by accident, surgery or disease, death is inevitable within days unless another source of aldosterone and cortisol can be substituted. Like the sex hormones mentioned above, there can be no aldosterone or cortisol unless an adequate supply of the parent substance, cholesterol, is available. So much of our life is dependent on this remarkable substance.

And where would we be without calcitrol? Another offspring of cholesterol, this remarkable steroid hormone is charged with the responsibility for maintaining the proper level of calcium in our bodies. Just as sodium must be maintained at proper levels for us to function, so must serum calcium be maintained within a very narrow range. Without calcitrol the calcium we ingest would pass through our bowels unclaimed. The calcium in our teeth and bones would be rapidly depleted, leading to advanced osteoporosis, skeletal weakness and fractures. The interference with nerve transmission to our muscles would result in a hyper-excitable state. We have all seen cartoons and movies where a doctor gets an exaggerated knee jerk response while checking a patient’s reflexes. In a state of sufficiently low serum calcium there could result not only brisk reflexes but massive seizures of muscles, incompatible with life, in a condition known as generalized tetany. Such is the power of a simple element like calcium on our bodies if homeostatic levels are violated. These observations reflect the labyrinthine complexity of physiologic inter-relationships as more and more of nature’s secrets are discovered. As we refine our research techniques and our microscopes probe ever more deeply into the molecular chemistry of cholesterol, we discover far more mystery, puzzles and questions than we find answers.

Again, cholesterol is the basis of all these steroid hormones without which life, as we know it, would not be possible. But, by no means is the list of cholesterol’s contributions to body function exhausted, for there is another class of cholesterol’s steroid offspring without which our metabolic well-being might be in serious jeopardy: the production of bile acids. Secreted by the liver and stored in the gall bladder these steroids make it possible for us to emulsify fats and other nutrients enabling them to be digested and absorbed as food. In the absence of sufficient bile acids we would all be like those unfortunate souls whose intestinal villi are rudimentary or deficient, which causes them to produce voluminous stools of undigested material while they slowly starve.

The pharmaceutical industry would lead us to believe that rapidly bottoming out our natural cholesterol levels through the use of their highly touted statin drugs is a relatively innocuous process of definite benefit to society. But as we learn more each day of this ubiquitous and unique substance, we must question the veracity of their medical advisors. Cholesterol is perhaps the most important substance in our lives. Researchers everywhere are learning how extraordinarily complex and often surprising are the pathways that produce and metabolize cholesterol in our bodies. Admittedly, even after decades of study of this remarkable chemical, we still have much to learn.

On 9 November 2001 a research news release from the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science announced to the world the discovery of the identity of the elusive synaptogenic factor responsible for the development of highly specialized contact sites between adjacent neurons in the brain known as synapses. For years the nature of this magic ingredient had been sought. Not surprisingly to specialists in the field, the synaptogenic factor finally was shown to be the notorious substance cholesterol!

The so-called glial cells of the brain, long suspected of providing certain housekeeping functions, were shown to produce their own supply of cholesterol for the specific purpose of providing nerve cells with this vital synaptic component. As many of you may know, the neuronal synapse of the nervous system is the basis of neurotransmission connecting the brain with the rest of the body. The brain cannot tap the cholesterol supply in the blood, since the lipoproteins that mediate the transport of cholesterol, including both LDL and HDL, are too large to pass the blood-brain barrier, explains Dr. Frank Pfrieger,1 leader of a research group which also included the National Center for Scientific Research in Strasbourg, France. The brain must depend upon its own cholesterol synthesis, which the glial cells provide.

This should be sobering news for those in the pharmaceutical industry developing drugs, which interfere with cholesterol biosynthesis, the mechanism of action of the newer statins. One wonders how anyone knowing the mechanism of brain cholesterol synthesis can seriously challenge the inevitability of cognitive side effects from statin drug use. The only surprise is that there are not more reported cases of memory impairment, amnesia, confusion and disorientation. But even that, we suspect, is due to the almost complete lack of physician awareness of the possibility of cognitive impairment from the statin class of drugs. When confronted with these complaints by an anxious patient on a statin drug, he almost always reassures them that they are older now and should expect senior moments, early senility or perhaps a touch of Alzheimers.

This strikingly positive information about cholesterol is heady stuff, indeed, for a substance with such a bad press. When and if the industry finally vindicates cholesterol, it will not be unlike posthumously elevating Al Capone to knighthood.

Despite the glowing reports statin drugs receive in the press for their risk reduction in stroke and heart attack, strong evidence exists that they do so independently of cholesterol manipulation despite the past 35 years of vilification of this substance. Ravnskov summarizes that statin drug therapy is reported to be almost as effective for women as for men despite the fact that most studies have shown cholesterol not to be a significant risk factor for women. Additionally the elderly are protected just as much as younger individuals, although all studies have shown that cholesterol is only a weak risk factor, if at all, for men older than fifty. Another result mitigating against a cholesterol explanation for statin effectiveness is the consistent observation that strokes are reduced after statin therapy even though high cholesterol is known as only a weak risk factor for stroke, if indeed it is a risk factor at all. Further burying a possible cholesterol effect mechanism for statins is the fact that they protect regardless of whether the patient’s cholesterol is high or low.

Clearly mechanisms other than cholesterol change must be invoked to explain statin drug effectiveness in strokes and heart attacks. Possibilities include such anti-inflammatory action as platelet inhibition and smooth muscle blockage but this paradoxical action of the statin drugs still remains to be explained. Meanwhile the war against cholesterol continues unabated apparently oblivious to the fact that scientific justification for such steadfast focus has all but vanished. As McCully has firmly established, homocysteine elevation and subtle vitamin deficiency states now are taking center stage as factors intrinsic to the development of arteriosclerosis. The role of cholesterol is now seen to be rather a passive one, dragged into a plaque only in its toxic, oxidized form quite alien to the natural substance making up so much of our brain.

More and more research results are accumulating that argue against the merits of excessively low cholesterol in the public at large. The lower the better for serum cholesterol no longer seems to be a valid statement. Certainly this seems to be the case for the cognitive side effects, which Doctor Beatrice Golomb reports are far more common when cholesterol values plummet. Paul Rosch, well-known researcher and spokesman for the scientific community, cites recent disquieting evidence from statin studies on animals that there is a carcinogenic consequence of artificially low cholesterol and a personal conviction that such findings may well become evident in humans after sufficient follow-up time. We can be certain only that we do not yet know the long-term consequences of artificially lowered serum cholesterol through the use of statin drugs. In light of current evidence, for most of us, our present almost day-to-day preoccupation with serum cholesterol values appears misguided.

If cholesterol is our enemy, it is a strange enemy, indeed, for without abundant and immediate cholesterol reserves in our bodies, life is impossible. Our true enemy is arteriosclerosis, the product of other nutritional factors, hypertension, diabetes, smoking and increasing sedentary existence. The end result of this process is plaque formation with inflammation, ulceration and thrombus formation. Cholesterol can be drawn passively into this process but even in the absence of cholesterol elevation, the process continues. C-reactive protein, the product of this inflammatory and ulcerative process, not cholesterol, now is recognized by all to be our most consistently accurate predictor of strokes and heart attacks to come.

Although this information is now common knowledge among those researchers in the field, the overwhelming majority of practicing physicians and lay public still regard cholesterol as public health enemy #1 – such is the effect of thirty-five years of a powerful but misdirected war against fat and cholesterol in our national diet. Truly, much work remains to be done in the field of public health education for cholesterol is not our enemy, it is our indispensable friend! Remember – you cannot live without it!”

By Duane Doc Graveline, M.D.

Most people don’t want to hear that cholesterol is not the cause of their problem. Their expert doctor, and the expert drug company television, newspaper and magazine advertising told them that it was, and who should know better then them?

It amazes me that with all that their doctor tells them and with all that advertising assuring them that cholesterol control is the answer to heart disease, they don’t stop and ask themselves…

“If what my doctor and the drug companies say is really true, then why is heart disease still our number one killer?”

Actually the answer is simple.

The three major causes of heart disease are not curable by drugs, stents or bi-pass surgery. These three major causes of heart disease are easily cured by nutrition.

Big Pharma can’t patent nutrition and that means no money, they can only patent drugs, which mean big money. Their Billions come from selling you, and keeping you, on drugs.

Big Pharma wants you on drugs the rest of your life and if you are on drugs, then you must be constantly monitored by a doctor. Nice cozy money making relationship.

Besides, the main stream medical profession hasn’t got a clue when you start talking about nutrition and honestly believe that drugs and surgery are the only way to go. Don’t believe me? Go ask your cardiologist about curing arterial (heart) disease with nutritional supplements and he/she will laugh at you. No money prescribing nutritional supplements, but drugs and surgery make him/her rich.

People and organizations like NC Research Associates, who have demonstrated through digital infrared thermal imaging that the nutritional supplement GHS Plus™, not drugs, dissolves arterial plaque reversing and preventing heart disease, are totally ignored by the medical profession and are vilified by Big Pharma.

Although GHS Plus™ lowers your cholesterol as part of nutritional balancing in your body, it cannot lower cholesterol like statin drugs do, nor would we want it to.

GHS Plus™ lowers your homocysteine and C-reactive protein levels and protects you from the effects of free radical damage to your arterial walls, the real causes of heart disease, which statin drugs cannot do.

Also, did you know that when you get rid of your arterial plaque you usually lower your blood pressure as well?

Also, listen to a Health Matters Minutes podcast titled Your Cholesterol…Friend or Foe? to discover the shocking truth your main stream medical doctor and the big drug companies don’t want you to know about. Audio length 9:22.

To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

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To your good heath & longevity.

Ira Marxe
“The Good Health & Wellness Guy”

Copyrighted © 2009 – All Rights Reserved