No Cure for Heart Disease?
February 28, 2010
Dr. David Brownstein M.D.
The headline in today’s (2.12.10) Washington Post reads, “No cure for heart disease, Clinton’s case shows.” The article states, “Bill Clinton has a new lease on life, but there’s no cure for the heart disease that has twice forced the former president to get blocked arteries fixed.” Further in the article the writer states that bypass surgery grafts usually last around 10 years, on average.
Bill Clinton was taken to the hospital yesterday for chest pain and found to have one of his bypass grafts blocked. The doctors performed a cardiac catheritization where they placed a catheter near his heart and injected dye to find the blockage. Once the blockage is visualized, they put a stent (a mesh tube) in the artery to open it up.
Placing stents in blocked arteries have never been shown to prolong one’s life. But, stent placement can help with symptoms such as chest pain and fatigue. Furthermore, in an acute situation of an evolving heart attack or an impending heart attack, stent placement can be a life-saving procedure.
Having said that I can assure you people do not have heart attacks due to a stent-deficiency syndrome. They have heart attacks for a variety of reasons, but the main reason heart attacks occur is due to oxidative stress of the coronary arteries. How do you get oxidative stress in the cells of the coronary arteries? You can get increased oxidative stress by becoming nutrient deficient, particularly vitamin C deficient.
Research has shown that vitamin C deficiency can cause scurvy or sub-clinical scurvy in the arteries and result in the development of plaque. Eventually plaque can build up and lead to a heart attack.
Other nutrient deficiencies can lead to oxidative stress in the coronary arteries including deficiencies of omega 6 fats, magnesium, vitamin E and CoQ10.
I assume Bill Clinton is being treated with statin drugs. In the Washington Post article it states that since Mr. Clinton’s original bypass surgery six years ago, “he has really toed the line. This (the new stents) was not about his lifestyle or his diet.”
Perhaps Mr. Clinton does not know that 50% of all heart attack patients have low cholesterol—below 200. This one statistic blows apart the whole theory that lowering cholesterol levels prevents heart attacks. That theory is nonsense. In order to decrease heart attacks, the most important idea is to lower oxidative stress. How do you do that? Eat whole foods, drink water and correct nutrient and hormonal imbalances. Exercise also helps to lower oxidative stress.
My father was a textbook case of what holistic medicine can do for heart disease. In fact, he was my first heart disease patient treated with holistic medicine. He had his first heart attack at age 40 and a second heart attack a few years later. He was treated with two bypass surgeries and numerous angioplasties and drugs. At age 60 he was dying from heart disease. Unfortunately, my dad never took care of himself. He smoked cigarettes, was overweight and never exercised. When I began using holistic medicine, I treated him with bioidentical hormones and a nutritional regimen of vitamins and minerals. The change in his heart disease symptoms was astounding; 25 years of continual angina went away in a week. He lost weight (without changing any bad habits) and, more importantly, he looked better and felt better. His story is in my book The Miracle of Natural Hormones. After using a holistic approach, he lived another 10 years and had a good quality of life during that time.
Heart disease can be helped and, in some cases, cured. However, heart disease is not cured from stents or prescription drug use. Poor lifestyle choices which lead to nutrient and hormonal deficiencies as well as oxidative stress lead to heart disease. I believe Bill Clinton needs a holistic evaluation to treat the underlying cause of heart disease. There is no reason he cannot get the same positive results that I see from my patients.
Dr. David Majercin`s Comments: I heard Dr Brownstein lecture in 2009. I think he is doing fantastic work in treating and educating people on natural non invasive ways to be healthy. He is also an expert on the science behind drug therapy, and is very critical of the short comings. I highly recommend his books.
At our clinic, we have treated people who have had heart palpitations, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, rapid heart beat, too slow heart beat that needs a pace maker, enlarged heart, swollen feet from weak heart, clogged arteries, poor circulation, atrial fibrillation, heart valve dysfunction, angina, vasculitis, and others. There is a whole array of natural medicine and nutritional protocols that can effectively improve just about any cardiovascular issue.
Basic CardioVascular Health Protocol
- Be at your normal body weight. You can look up your weight on our BMI scale on this website. If your overweight, get on the Anti-Inflammatory Diet we have Phase 1-3. You can read about the diet specifics on our site. Call for specific guidance.
- Take Vitamin D3 at 5,000 IU/ day. Check it on a blood test yearly.
- Use Circulatory Strength about 30 drops twice a day. Review on our site.
- Take 3 Inflam-Ox twice per day on an empty stomach.
- Take 3 InflaZyme twice per day on an empty stomach.
- Take 2 Concentrated Fish Oil capsules twice per day.
- Take Wellness MultiVitamin 1 twice per day.
- There are specific natural medicines for cholesterol, blood pressure and other conditions, but should be reviewed with your physician first.
Detoxifying for better heath!
February 16, 2010
Dr. David Majercin D.C.
It used to be a very popular part of detoxifying and health regimes to incorporate fasting. However the newer approach is to have adequate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and essential fatty acids to drive the natural detoxification mechanisms in the body.
With a lack of essential nutrients, more toxins like various heavy metals are retained versus being shed. In addition to ensuring that patients have adequate nutritional intake, it also can be very important to use natural medicines to facilitate detoxification pathways from the liver, intestines, or lymphatic system.
Many diseases today we find have an underlying toxicity as the causative agent. Ovarian cysts, Parkinson`s disease, hepatitis, reoccurring infections, hormone imbalance to just name a few problems that we have found directly caused by toxicity.
At our clinic, the 1st thing we usually do is a kinesiology exam and test the acupuncture points that relate to toxicity. We then can set up a specific regimen for the particular imbalance. If need be, we will also order diagnostic testing if deemed valuable. The success rate using natural medicine is very high.
Live longer with less disease taking enzymes?
Dr. David Majercin D.C.
Low calorie diets and fasting have interested me for many years. There is a lot of studies that correlate longevity with low cal diets. One of the main researchers I have found to be helpful was Edward Howell M.D. and his work on enzymes.
Some of the studies on animals show that the ones who eat raw food diets versus completely cooked or enzymes-less foods have longer lives and less disease. Animals on the all cooked food diets had more pathology in various organs like their pancreas.
Dr Howell hypothesized that when a diet that included a large percentage of raw food, the naturally occurring food enzymes would break down a lot of the food eaten, so that the pancreas would not have to work as hard to produce enzymes to digest food. Dr. Howell thought that the digestive system may be over worked from having to digest such a large percentage of our total calories. It was thought that the digestive system might rob nutrients from other systems just to keep up with the over worked system.
Our eating habits have radically changed with modern food processing were enzymes are taken out of food to give longer self life. Dr Howell thought that it was impractical for the average person to eat a raw food diet, so he created the 1st digestive enzyme supplement to digest the food before it reaches the small intestine to signal pancreatic enzymes.
After studying Howell`s work and others and seeing my own blood under a microscope before and after eating meals with and without enzymes (not pretty), I have been a big believer in daily enzyme usage.
I also think the total caloric load, quality of the nutrients, and health of the persons digestive system influences the amount of free radical chemicals created from food that potentially creates disease in the body and possibly shortens life span.
At our clinic as a general protocol, we have people take 1 Digestion (enzyme formula) per 300 calories.
Dr. Majercin`s background
As a youngster, I was riddled with serious health problems. I was always seeing different medical specialists. Needless to say it was not a pleasant experience. I got interested in natural healing and natural medicine at an early age.
After finishing my science degree at University of S. Florida, I went on to chiropractic school to be a sports injury doctor. However when I was there I got exposed to the most marvelous natural healing techniques. I did not even know that another paradigm existed besides the allopathic western medical model.
I learned that their are physicians that focus on restoring health versus disease treatment. There is a whole world of natural healing with wonderful traditional techniques and exciting cutting edge techniques based on new science. Allergy correction, cranial bone treatment that corrects chronic headaches, natural medicine that fixes all the chronic `itis` diseases of the stomach and intestines 100% of the time, neuropathy healing, stopping reoccurring infections, normalizing blood pressure and heart function naturally, restoring pain free normal motion in the jaw down to the toes and everywhere in between! As a student and later as a physician, there were many nights that I just could not sleep because the information was so exciting and vast.
After a few years in practice I had 3 clinics, including the largest walk-in medical center in town. I was wanting to expand the public`s knowledge of natural medicine and incorporate it into the main stream. After a few years of that, I realized I don`t like the politics that go along with bigger healthcare operations and don`t really like managing people. My strengths are in research, fixing people`s health problems, and teaching. So now, I mostly study natural medicine and healing techniques, create natural medicine, and treat people out of our one clinic in Sarasota, FL.
