Cutting-Edge Natural Secrets For Healing Your Heart, Bob Livingston

A M E D I C A L T R E A S U RY
Cutting-Edge
Natural Secrets
For Healing
Your Heart
And Deadly Heart Hoaxes Exposed!
Avoid sudden death by heart attack,

sweep your arteries clear, and reverse
heart disease… without surgery,
doctors, or drugs.
The Bob Livingston Letter

P.O. Box 3623 By Bob Livingston
Hueytown, AL 35023 Founder, Personal Liberty Alerts
1-800-773-5699 Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter
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Cutting-Edge
Natural Secrets
For Healing
Your Heart
And Deadly Heart
Hoaxes Exposed!
Avoid sudden death by heart attack, sweep
your arteries clear, and reverse heart disease…
without surgery, doctors, or drugs.
By Bob Livingston
Founder, Personal Liberty Alerts
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter
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Cutting-Edge
Natural Secrets
For Healing
Your Heart
And Deadly Heart
Hoaxes Exposed!
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Contents
Chapter 1:
Heart Disease Risk Factors And Prevention ........................11
Chapter 2:
Heart Bypass Risks And Alternatives ..................................19
Chapter 3:
The Great Cholesterol Hoax ................................................35
Chapter 4:
The Relationship Between Heart Disease
And Blood Clots ..................................................................45
Chapter 5:
The Effect Salt Consumption
Has On Heart Disease ..........................................................55
Chapter 6:
Blood Sugar Imbalances and
the Risk of Heart Disease.....................................................61
Chapter 7:
Heart Disease and Your Hormones ......................................63
Chapter 8:
The Link Between Heart Disease and Osteoporosis............71
Chapter 9:
Natural Alternatives for Avoiding Heart Disease.................73
Index ....................................................................................91
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Introduction
YOU Have the Power for a
Perfect Heart!
eart disease is currently the #1 cause of death in the United
H States. Despite the increasing sophistication of surgical
techniques and the introduction of new techniques such as
balloon angioplasty and a number of new prescription drugs,
the world is losing the war on heart disease.
Every 26 seconds someone in America dies prematurely
from heart disease. That’s more than one million people a year
who might have enjoyed a rich, full life had they known what
to do to prevent heart disease.
Today, we have very high, sophisticated medical science
called cardiology. Doctors are highly trained in a medical
system called cardiology. And, too, we have very highly
educated and skillful heart surgeons.
The prestige and pay of this profession is probably unexcelled
in the world. Few professionals in society carry such admiration
and acclaim among their peers and the general public.
There is absolutely no question about the professionalism or
medical expertise of cardiologists and heart surgeons in the
public mind. This state of mind amounts to a medical religion
unchallenged and unchallengeable. Any small isolated excep-
tions are meaningless. It is safe to say that “everybody” is
8 Natural Secrets for Healing Your Heart
deceived about this “medical orthodoxy.”

Let’s understand at the beginning that there is a vested
interest in heart disease. There is no money to be made in
heart health. So you have to be a responsible person to have
a healthy heart because nobody else will do it for you, most
especially the doctors and hospitals. We will quickly throw
in the insurance companies and the government. They are all
in it together.
I don’t have to convince you that many people are making
huge profits on heart disease.
Let’s see it like it is. A heart surgeon is taught to operate on
hearts and that’s what he gets paid for and paid well. Heart
surgeons have absolutely no incentive to study how you can
have a healthy heart by eating healthy foods. Heart surgeons
must have sick hearts to operate on.
The cardiology profession, like all fields of modern medi-
cine, is locked into a mindset system from which few escape.
It is an amazing system that has trapped the mental capacity
of tens-of-thousands of minds with superior intellectual
capacity.
Somehow, we come to believe that doctors and heart sur-
geons are all-knowing, and their white coats symbolize an
elite cult in society. We believe this and are in awe of doctors
because we don’t know any better. Once we learn about heart
surgery, we become scared to death of it and heart surgeons.
Even their own literature has been saying for several years
that those who have bypass surgery fare no better than those
who don’t. But who reads it? But the good thing is that you
have an option where your cardiologist doesn’t.
Your cardiologist does not know and cannot be told that
“heart disease” is nothing more than an unrecognized form of
malnutrition or a specialized form of starvation. But you are
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not handicapped with modern medical technology.

Therefore you have the ability to recognize and consider
that your heart trouble is a nutritional deficiency and you
have the option to change that immediately.
Not only that, it is most encouraging to know that the
human heart has an amazing proclivity to quickly heal.
In fact, your heart will heal faster than any other organ in
your body.
Between the ages of 38 and 40, I had three heart attacks.
The surgeons rushed me in for a catheterization procedure,
which I have learned since is a prelude to bypass surgery.
There, surgeons looked down at me on my hospital bed and
told me that I would die without bypass surgery.
I didn’t believe them and I didn’t at the time know why
I didn’t believe them. I even flushed the drugs that they gave
me down the toilet. I said, “I don’t know what’s wrong with
me but I know that I don’t have a drug deficiency.”
Well, over the years, all three surgeons died one by one,
the last a little over 12 years ago. I am still here, but believe
me, I have done much studying since age 38. I have learned
a lot. I believe now more than ever that bypass surgery is a
fraud to make money—big money!
Your heart is no different from your car. If you put bad
fuel in your car, it won’t run, and if it runs, it won’t run long.
There are many signals of heart disease. For example,
there is tachycardia, bradycardia, irregular heartbeat or
arrhythmia, angina pectoris, and many more. The most
fearful signal of heart disease is sudden death, from which
there is no second chance.
The most dangerous heart disease is that which you have
but don’t yet know about. You had better assume that you
have silent heart disease, as almost all Americans do. If you
are 25 years old or older, you have the early stages of heart
disease. I am sorry.
If everyone would help their heart, they would collapse the
empire of fraud, deceit, and money called modern medicine
which, at best, is symptomatic relief.
Wellness is a natural state of nature. Wellness is a result of
pure food, water, and air. Yet when we get sick, we go to the
doctor, who begins immediately injecting drugs which are
unnatural toxins to the body. There is no mystery about all
this. It’s just common sense. It’s just that we have been
re-educated into medical foolishness.
If you help your heart, you will be helping your total
health. Nutrition for the heart will greatly help the whole
body. How exciting and how simple!
What’s more, if you have some form of heart disease, you
can help yourself and you will know the difference and in
most cases in a very few days. Be patient. You didn’t get sick
in a day so it may take a few days or weeks for some people
to feel the difference. When you start to recover your healthy
heart, your doctor may take you off of some drugs. I hope so.
You will find eye-opening information in this heart health
report to help you make the right choices for a healthy lifestyle
and avoid the risks and dangers associated with heart disease.
Don’t become another statistic… or another body in the
emergency room succumbing to what big pharma and
money-hungry physicians THINK you should do.
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C HAPTE R 1
Heart Disease Risk Factors

And Prevention
What is a Heart Attack or Stroke?
A blood clot that lodges in your arteries and blocks your
oxygen to the heart is a heart attack; one that lodges in your
arteries and blocks your oxygen to the brain is a stroke.
A stroke is the sudden death of brain cells due to a
disruption of blood supply to the brain. Without adequate
blood flow to the brain, oxygen and important nutrients
cannot be delivered. The result is abnormal brain function.
Blood flow to the brain can be disrupted by either a block-
age or rupture of an artery to the brain.
There are two main types of stroke: Ischemic strokes
and hemorrhagic strokes. Ischemic strokes are caused
by blood clots that form and block blood flow to the brain.
Ischemic strokes are most common and account for 88
percent of all strokes. Hemorrhagic strokes are caused
by a break in an artery in the brain.
The most common symptom of a stroke is weakness,
partial paralysis, loss of voluntary movement, sensation
in a leg or arm, speech problems, and weak muscles of the
face, which can cause drooling. Numbness or tingling in
the leg, arm, or face is very common. A stroke involving
the base of the brain can affect balance, vision, and
swallowing functions. A stroke can cause difficulty breathing

and even unconsciousness.
If any of the symptoms mentioned above suddenly appear,
get emergency medical help FAST. The sooner treatment is
started, the better the eventual outcome will be.
Take this as a fact. Aging causes blood sludging. Right
now, if you are past age 35, your blood is beginning to
sludge or get thicker. Oh, you don’t feel anything so why
worry about a blood clot from thick blood until you have
a heart attack or stroke. Then guess what? Your doctor puts
you on a blood thinning drug. It will do more damage than
the blood clot.
You wouldn’t think of not doing preventive maintenance
on your car. Likewise, it’s a fact of physiology that your
blood is sludging so you need preventive maintenance.
I’m not talking about an emergency, but preventing an
emergency.
I believe in a natural, potent enzyme called nattokinase
(natto). Natto is why the Japanese don’t have heart attacks.
They keep their blood thin to avoid clots. Isn’t that about as
simple as it gets? Natto does indeed dissolve clots that have
already formed. Yes, those clots you silently have building
up right now. (More about the natural blood-thinning
effects of natto in Chapter 4.)
So you have a double-impact fighting nutrient. You thin
your blood without a drug and dissolve the clot that may
already be there. This is better than science and drugs any
day to prevent that dreaded heart attack or stroke. Natto
competes with any expensive clot-busting drug.
So we can clean out the plaque in our arteries with oral
chelation containing EDTA and keep our blood thin while
we are doing the chelation to avoid a clot and a heart attack
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or stroke. This almost makes heart disease a no-brainer.

Of course, it won’t help the heart disease industry.
Sudden Death and Other Top

Heart Disease Symptoms
More Americans die from heart disease than from any
other cause. You may be familiar with the more common
symptoms such as chest pain, pain in one or both arms, or
shortness of breath. However, approximately one-half of
all heart-related deaths result from sudden death, with little
or no warning. In other words, there are no warning chest
pains. You just drop dead.
Half of all sudden death events in the United States, about
125,000 per year, occur in people with no history of heart
disease. So what is the cause? In some cases, it can be trig-
gered by a massive heart attack, but the underlying cause is a
disruption in the heart’s
electrical system that inter-
rupts the heart’s normal
rhythm, also known as a
cardiac arrhythmia.
Along with sudden
death, there are other,
lesser-known symptoms
of heart problems, which
include:
■ Unexplained dizzi-
ness or fainting
spells, or light-
headedness
■ Nausea, vomiting,
or lasting discomfort
after meals, similar to
heartburn symptoms
■ Toothache
■ Pain in the armpits
■ A sudden, severe headache
■ Fatigue with no known cause
■ Heart palpitations
■ A sudden change in vision, particularly
if in only one eye
■ Swelling of the feet, ankles, legs, or abdomen
■ Persistent coughing
■ Breaking out into a cold sweat
■ Pressure/discomfort in the chest
■ Numbness or weakness in the legs, arms,
or face, especially if on only one side
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■ Back, neck, abdomen, or jaw pain

■ A sudden change in your ability to speak
or understand speech
■ No symptoms at all—up to 25 percent of
heart attacks produce no symptoms
If you notice any of these symptoms, even if they appear
to be slight, you should seek medical attention.
The Role of Homocysteine

And Heart Disease
The role of vitamin B6 and folic acid in preventing
heart attacks is becoming clearer. It involves an amino acid
called homocysteine. Elevated blood homocysteine levels
are significantly associated with increased incidents of
cardiovascular disease.
As we age, it seems that homocysteine will accumulate
unless we take vitamin B6 and folic acid along with vitamin
B12. B12 should preferably be taken in a shot as older
people have no stomach-intrinsic factor to digest B12 by
mouth.
It has been known by researchers, like Dr. Kilmer McCully
of Harvard, for many years that the benefits of folic acid
are vital and essential to basic heart health. This discovery,
as far back as 1968, was a major, major breakthrough for
health and longevity.
I suspect though that those in the inner sanctums of the
pharmaceuticals have known about the powerful therapeutic
value of folic acid (folate) for a long time.
How do I know? Simple: The Food and Drug Adminis-
tration (FDA) has limited the strength of folic acid to 800
micrograms. But, lo and behold, we can get one whole
milligram (1,000 micrograms) with a prescription, while
many toxic drugs are over the counter. Do you see this ruse
that almost nobody questions?
The FDA sidesteps the efficacy of folic acid by publishing
a puny list of foods that contain minute amounts of folic
acid, provided they are not cooked. They throw out a crumb,
presenting it as the real thing. And they know full well that
if they limit the strength of folic acid supplements that this
conditions the public to believe that this is all that is necessary.
This 800-microgram size limitation alone should tell
us clearly that we need to consume much more, perhaps
5,000 micrograms or 5 mgs a day, at least that’s what many
studies suggest. It can be bought freely in other countries in
5-milligram (5,000 microgram) size. What about the real
and powerful benefits of folic acid in heart health?
In 1968, Dr. Kilmer McCully discovered the relationship
between homocysteine and arteriosclerosis. Dr. McCully
had learned about homocystinuria, a newly discovered
disease, at a medical conference. He found that mentally
retarded youngsters had often been found to have chemical
homocysteine in their urine. These children died from a
condition indistinguishable from hardening of the arteries
in the elderly.
Researchers found homocysteine also in the blood of
adults. The question in Dr. McCully’s mind was, does the
level of the chemical homocysteine in the blood correlate
with hardening of the arteries? Is it possible that the fat and
cholesterol deposits seen in arteriosclerotic arterial plaques
are only secondary accretions after homocysteine has already
done the damage? The answer is yes, and in 1969 he
announced the homocysteine theory of heart disease.
According to Dr. McCully’s discovery, taking just three
low-cost, zero-risk nutrients would support cardiovascular
function and enable the average person to live to age 90
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or 100 in good health. These three nutrients are folic acid,

vitamin B6, and vitamin B12. Folic acid (folate) is the
most important, but all three are important.
Dr. McCully said forget cholesterol and animal fat, the
whole thing was a hoax and a delusion. Where does this
conclusion put the pharmaceuticals, the government, and
tens-of-thousands of doctors who make their practices treat-
ing cholesterol? These commercial interests, as always,
were on the wrong side of truth.
The cholesterol hoax has been raking in trillions of dollars
on statin drugs that kill and complicate heart patients’ health
for profit. (More about the cholesterol hoax in Chapter 3.)
Cholesterol does become unbalanced in the body, but
this is the effect, not the cause of heart problems. Poor
heart health starts with the malnutrition of folic acid, B6,
and B12. Of course, the malnutrition of these vital nutrients
becomes more pronounced as we age.
High levels of homocysteine are highly toxic to the
blood vessels and other tissues. Our level of homocysteine
is now considered to be a more important indicator of heart
risk than any of the oxidative cholesterols. The medical

establishment has had the cart before the horse for many
years.
Everybody who knows anything about nutrition in
today’s world knows that nutrition has to be supplemented.
Our food sources from commercial processors have little or
no nutrition, and what’s added is synthetic. The FDA and
the pharmaceuticals know that we have starvation diets
almost void of significant nutrition. Health now requires
intelligent supplementation.
Lack of folic acid (folate), B6, and B12 leaves us with
poor methylation (detoxification of harmful compounds).
Poor methylation, because of lack of these three nutrients,
causes an excess of homocysteine to spill out of our cells
into the bloodstream, where it damages the arteries, setting
the stage for the buildup of plaque in the arteries. Then we
have to take chelation therapy with EDTA to help purge the
plaque out. But it keeps accumulating unless we supplement
with nutritional choices, including folate, B6, and B12.
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C HAPTE R 2
Heart Bypass Risks

And Alternatives
For Your Heart!—Enhanced External
Counter-Pulsation (EECP)
This non-invasive heart therapy is truly a valid cardio-
vascular treatment for ischemic heart disease and congestive
heart failure. Although developed over 50 years ago, I tell
you up front that most cardiologists—and especially heart
surgeons—are disinterested in EECP. It is, as they know, a
strong alternative to bypass surgery.
EECP in many cases is paid for by Medicare and Blue
Cross and is approved by the FDA. It costs about $10,000
to $12,000 vs. $50,000 to $70,000 for bypass surgery, at far
greater risk.
EECP should be used as a first option before bypass sur-
gery. At this point, this is unthinkable to conventional heart
medicine, which runs on huge amounts of money.
The testimonials of patients with severe angina are full of
the highest praise. I have talked to one extremely serious heart
patient who called EECP a miracle! He was an invalid and
now he’s back to life, even playing golf.
EECP improves coronary flow reserve significantly at rest
and with increased exercise tolerance.
A main and essential feature of enhanced external
counter-pulsation (EECP) mechanism is the development

and recruitment of collateral arteries. A collateral or new
artery implies more circulation and less angina.
Yes, this is the spontaneous growth and development of
brand new arteries on and around the heart to supply new
and improved blood flow and oxygen to the heart.
The heart patient knows only too well the benefits of
vasodilation and increased blood flow to the heart. Extra
dilation of the coronary arteries, plus added blood flow via
the new collaterals means greatly improved quality of life
for an extended period, maybe several years as experience
has shown.
The data suggests that EECP therapy not only improves
myocardial perfusion (circulation) but also decreases cardiac
workload.
Some patients are excluded, such as:
1. Those who have had myocardial infarction in the
preceding three months.
2. Intervention in the preceding two weeks.
3. Unstable angina, i.e., high risk angina.
4. Overt congestive heart failure.
5. Left ventricular ejection fraction of less than 30 percent.
6. Significant valvular disease.
7. Blood pressure more than 180/100 mm Hg.
8. A permanent pacemaker or implantable cardioverter
defibrillator.
9. Non-bypassed left main stenosis of more than 50 percent.
10. Severe peripheral vascular disease, phlebitis, deep vein
thrombosis, etc.
11. Cannot have atrial fibrillation or frequent ventricular
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premature construction that would interfere with

enhanced external counter-pulsation triggering; i.e.,
your electrocardiogram has to be reliable enough for
the machine to work.
All this may sound very limiting, but my personal inter-
view was with a serious cardiac patient who did exceedingly
well. He previously had 17 procedures from two bypass sur-
geries to many stents, etc. If you have any of these limitations
named, I would still pursue EECP evaluation by a cardiologist
to make sure that you aren’t excluded. If your cardiologist is
indifferent to EECP, then get another cardiologist.
My research reveals that EECP is the best possible therapy
before bypass surgery or even as a preventive for everybody.
Why not overhaul your vascular system before you have a
problem, particularly if heart disease is in your family?
Enhanced External Counter-Pulsation (EECP) coupled
with a steady oral chelation and nutritional protocol could
easily add many quality years to your life.
The following mechanical hook-up describes the therapy.
It is not uncomfortable for most people. It is necessary to
have a house doctor available but not to administer or moni-
tor the therapy. The doctor does not have to be a cardiologist.
The EECP machine is composed of an air compressor, a
computer console, a set of cuffs which appear to be just large
pressure cuffs, and a treatment table. Before treatment, the
cuffs are wrapped around both calves and the lower and
upper thighs, including the buttocks. The machine operates
off of an EKG hookup and inflates on the diastole or diastolic
(down) beat and rapidly deflates upon commencement of the
upbeat or systole. Therapeutic pressure is 280 to 300 mm Hg.
Your EKG tells the computer when to inflate and deflate.
This treatment is normally for one hour per day, five days a
week for seven weeks.
Finally, I have had this full treatment for seven weeks. I

know that the results are significant and I have no angina
except while doing extra heavy work or exertion.
I have no trouble predicting that within a few years EECP
therapy will become public knowledge and in wide use. This
activity will trigger more research and the development of a far
more sophisticated and efficient EECP. This is very exciting
except maybe not for the bypass surgery industry.
Theories on Heart Disease

And Natural Bypass
The very high-paid heart surgeons treat heart disease as
clogged plumbing. This erroneous theory creates the largest
segment of funding in hospital operating facilities. The more
heart bypass operations, the better for hospital finances.
The cornerstone of therapy for treatment and prevention
of myocardial infarction is to remove blockages in coronary
arteries that are thought to be the cause of the infarction. This
of course is the widely accepted coronary artery thrombosis
theory of infarction.
According to this theory arteries become clogged with
plaque, caused by such things as smoking or high cholesterol.
A clot forms a fissure in the plaque. The clot may shut off the
blood flow of a coronary artery, causing a heart attack. It is
deceptively simple. The coronary arteries are clogged. No
blood can flow, so the heart muscle cannot be supported and
heart metabolism stops, leading to death.
All of you know this by heart. It’s the party line. But there
is another theory that American medicine will never tell you.
There is much clinical evidence in Germany by Dr. Berthold
Kern showing remarkable success. It has been known as
early as the 1960s. The principle basis is that victims of fatal
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heart attacks have had no evidence whatsoever of coronary

occlusion (blockage).
Findings can be summarized as follows:
1. The coronary obstruction theory cannot adequately
explain observed facts.
2. The major etiologic factor underlying myocardial
infarction is a primary chemical destructive process
caused by unchecked metabolic acidosis (accumulation
of acid) in the left ventricular tissue and substantially
unrelated to coronary artery disease, as taught in
conventional medicine.
3. Dr. Kern observed that most myocardial infarctions
occur in patients without significant obstruction of the
coronary artery supplying the infarcted tissue and he
finds great support in the American peer-reviewed
literature. From a 1980 article in Circulation this
quote: “These data support the concept that an occlusive
coronary thrombus has no primary role in the patho-
genesis of a myocardial infarct.”
4. Dr. Kern’s research revealed that collaterals, a finely
meshed network of small blood vessels, act as natural
bypass channels in the heart muscle. These bypass
grafts appear to be created naturally by the body when
a coronary artery becomes blocked. This natural process
is called angiogenesis. This alone would make heart
bypass unnecessary to a large degree.
Strophanthin is not available in the U.S. Alkaline water
on a daily basis is a good substitute to alkalize the body. The
reviewer in the Circulation article went on to note: “These
reports also present clear refutation of the most common expla-
nation used to date to dismiss autopsy findings which detect
NO coronary thrombi, i.e. that thrombi existed at infarction,
but have since lysed (dissolved) embolized or washed away.”
There appears to be no refutation in the literature of

these findings. When the tissues were later dissolved in
acid, the entire structure of blood vessels in the heart was
revealed. Dr. Kern hypothesized that bypass grafts were
created naturally by the body via the collaterals when a
coronary artery became blocked. Therefore heart bypass
would be redundant to a large degree.
A study by Rentrop in the April 1, 1988 issue of The
American Journal of Cardiology has produced results com-
pletely at odds with the coronary artery blockage theory and
consistent with Kern’s hypothesis.
Dr. Kern’s second claim, i.e., his proposed new theory of
metabolic acidosis, can be summarized as follows. Metabolic
conditions in the most healthy of hearts are, at best, marginal
in the constantly beating left ventricle. This is the part of the
heart responsible for pumping blood to most of the body, the
right ventricle merely supplying the lungs. Oxygen and energy
requirements are always perilously close to available supplies
and any of several stressors may cause an oxygen/energy
deficit with deterioration in oxidative metabolism and conse-
quent development of acidosis.
Lack of oxygen sets off the process of zymosis or fermen-
tation metabolism, an anaerobic process, which produces
energy in the cells. This in turn lowers the pH. This lowering
of the pH sets off a destructive chemical process, literally a
suicide reaction of the cell. Lysozymal enzymes are released
causing cell self-digestion. This starts as a single point in the
muscle, then many points, which eventually join to form a
small area of necrotic tissue.
Finally, a critical mass is reached, no bigger than the head
of a pin, which triggers larger and larger areas of damaged
tissue leading to infarction (heart attack). Ideally then, the
remedy to address infarction would be a restoration of pH
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balance to the heart muscle, thereby preventing tissue dam-

age and fatal infarction.
The problem Kern faced was how to accomplish this
without causing positive inotropy (increasing the strength of
muscular contraction) i.e., without putting further stress on the
contracting heart muscle itself. The cardiac glyosides, includ-
ing digitalis and the strophanthin byproduct known as ouabain,
are known to produce such a deleterious effect and this is why
they are not effective against infarction.
This is where Kern made an important rediscovery. In
reviewing the literature he came across the work of Dr. Edens,
who in the 1920s had reported on a qualitatively different
effect of strophanthin given intravenously versus orally. Specif-
ically, the positive inotropic effects (increasing contraction)
that accompanied intravenous administration were not
observed with oral administration.
This important observation has been confirmed in a study
by Belz published in the European Journal of Clinical Phar-
macology in 1984. Utilizing a randomized, placebo-controlled,
double-blind methodology the researchers found that the intra-
venous ouabain (strophanthin) produced the expected increase
in cardiac inotrophy. However, the investigators stated quite
definitely that, “…the single sublingual (oral) dose of ouabain
did not exert a positive inotropic effect…”
The postulated mechanism of action, based on animal
research done by Adams, Powell, and Erdmann, is that there
are two receptors in the heart, “high affinity” and “low affin-
ity.” High affinity receptors react to small concentrations of
g-strophanthin, thereby avoiding positive inotrophy. It is
thought that intravenous administration triggers low affinity
receptors and thus positive inotrophy. Oral administration,
on the other hand, triggers high affinity receptors and avoids
this dangerous effect.
Dr. Kern reported results of his clinical practice in Stuttgart

over the period 1947-1968 involving more than 15,000 car-
diac patients. His patients treated with oral g-strophanthin
experienced no fatal infarcts and only 20 non-fatal heart
infarcts. These patients included many suffering infarction
prior to entering the study. In contrast with these results,
government statistics for the same time period would have
predicted more than 120 fatal heart infarctions and more
than 400 non-fatal infarctions in this group of patients.
(From WRF News, article by Wesley James entitled,
“G-Strophanthin: A New Approach for the Heart.”)
Etiology of Acidosis:
1. Defective oxidation of organic acids as typified by
diabetes.
2. Defective elimination of mineral acids.
3. Highly acidic American diet. The American diet has
become progressively more acid as more and more
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Americans subsist on commercial foods or more

accurately stated commercial nonfoods.
In conclusion, Dr. Kern, in the 1930s and 1940s, observed
that most myocardial infarctions (heart attacks) occur in
patients without any significant obstruction of the coronary
artery supplying the infarcted tissue. Even in the United States
in 1980, more than a dozen reports of postmortem examina-
tion of infarcted hearts have consistently failed to corroborate
the coronary artery thrombosis theory of heart attack.
That is, victims of fatal heart attacks have had no evi-
dence whatsoever of coronary occlusion. Yet, this theory is
the basis of the trillion-dollar “heart therapy” industry in the
United States. This too is a stealth conspiracy upon heart
attack victims.
An example of the degree of non-confirmation can be
ascertained by the following quote from a 1980 article in
Circulation: “These data support the concept that an occlusive
coronary thrombus has no primary role in the pathogenesis of
a myocardial infarct.” It appears that the basis of infarction in
the above article is over acid in the system or acidosis. It is a
simple matter of keeping normal pH balance.
We know that death is the result of progressive acid satu-
ration. We know that the American diet has for 100 years
become more and more acid. I think that this has more and
more to do with an overbalance of omega-6s coming from
non-grass-fed cattle and junk food.
The American Medical Association (AMA) recommends
for the heart a more omega-6-rich diet. I believe the exact
opposite. We need to reverse our omega-6 diet to an omega-3
diet by eating more fish. The Japanese have a much higher
fish diet and considerably less heart attacks. Fresh salmon is
my favorite omega-3. I try to eat fish daily.
More on the Subject of Natural

Bypass Observations
In recent years, the publication of two scientific works (which
should have caused a great stir) went largely unnoticed. The
author of one of these two works is Dr. Epstein of the National
Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.
At first glance, his studies appear to be paradoxical. All his
conclusions are the opposite of what you read daily in the news-
papers or what you hear from your doctor: That arteriosclerosis,
the narrowing of the coronary arteries of the heart, causes an
infarction which destroys part of the heart muscle. Dr. Epstein
says, no more and no less, that the more the coronaries narrow
down, the LESS danger there is of heart infarction.
The second investigation I wish to report here is by Dr.
Ernst Wolner, recently appointed to the University of Vienna.
He has been working over the years in a rehabilitation center
in southern Germany, monitoring patients suffering from heart
infarction and stroke. He came to the important conclusion that
the thicker and more viscous the blood, the greater was the
danger of a repeat infarction. And when the flowing quality
of the blood could be improved, the likelihood of a new infarct
was greatly lessened. Pathological blood is one of the main
factors for the frequency of reinfarction. An excellent product
for a natural blood thinner is Nattokinase.
How are these two results to be explained? What do they
say? What do they mean?
Blood can scarcely flow through blood vessels, stiffened
and narrowed by arteriosclerosis. And when the narrowing
reaches 70 percent, according to Hagen-Poiseuille’s law, only
one percent of the original blood amount can flow through that
blood vessel. I emphasize this 70 percent figure because many
surgeons maintain that this is the latest stage that an operation
can be postponed. After this point, it must be done.
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Dr. Epstein has also confirmed that in an advanced state of

the narrowing of the coronary arteries, the supply of blood to
the heart muscles is fully assured. To understand this apparent
contradiction, one must realize that the heart itself does not
depend solely on those arteries wrapped like a corona around
its outside, which are so clearly visible on an X-ray picture.
In the thick muscle layer of the left ventricle where infarc-
tion begins, there is a finely meshed network of blood vessels
intertwining with each other in innumerable crossings. Their
effectiveness in the transport of blood can be compared to the
network of streets in a town.
If one of the main arteries narrows down, the diversion of
the blood begins through these interconnected, subsidiary
blood vessels. This network of blood vessels has another
advantage. The tiny vessels can enlarge themselves into
remarkable channels to take over the transport of blood.
Collaterals (or anastomoses) are the medical term for them.
Accurately named since they are, precisely, natural bypasses
and nothing else.
Professor Giorgio Baroldi has made these collaterals
outstandingly and impressively visible. In year-long studies at

the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington, he
has developed a technique for filling the arteries of the heart
with artificial blood, a chemical substance that thickens in the
blood vessels.
Later when the tissues were dissolved in acid, a fascinating
sight was revealed. The large, the small, and even the finest
blood vessels of the heart lay open to view, a piece of artistic
creation. This displayed clearly what X-ray photos kept hid-
den. This made visible a substitute system of blood circulation
that helps us to understand Dr. Epstein’s findings. However,
this also brought disagreement with those whose first precept
is to hold sacrosanct the theory of the coronary cause of heart
infarction; i.e., that the primary cause is the blockage of the
large blood vessels.
When these pictures are closely examined, it becomes
impressively manifest that heart infarction and the condition of
the coronary arteries are two very different things. Dr. Epstein
and Professor Baroldi’s research should really galvanize and
should really shake up the practice of heart medicine, espe-
cially the coronary surgeons.
In summary, there are strong clinical observations that
support the fact that the condition of the coronary arteries
and heart infarction are two different things and not related
as conventional medicine in the United States claims.
It is my observation that the basis of this natural bypass
theory is the maintenance of pH neutral biochemistry
around 7.2. This can be monitored daily with pH hydron
paper with saliva. You can be use a natural supplement to
assure alkaline/acid balance.
Successful Bypass Surgery by Robotics

In Odessa, Texas, at Alliance Hospital, there is a heart
bypass procedure unique in all these United States! Can you
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imagine a heart bypass operation where no human hands ever

touch the heart and the chest is never opened as in conven-
tional heart surgery? It is a robotic cardiac surgical procedure.
In the first two years after its grand opening in June
2003, Alliance Hospital had already performed the largest
volume of robotic cardiac surgical procedures done in a
single institution to date. A group of 11 physicians estab-
lished Alliance Hospital with the primary purpose of
establishing a center of medical excellence.
The closed-chest, minimally-invasive procedure utilizes
four fingertip-size incisions on the chest where special
robotic instruments are inserted and manipulated remotely
by a cardiac surgeon sitting away from the patient. The
operation is performed on a beating heart.
The cardiac surgeon sits at a remote console and harvests
arteries that run along the inside of the chest to use as grafts
for the heart bypass surgery. Most of the time this means no
leg wounds to remove large arteries!
Because of this approach, most patients are out of the
hospital in 24 to 48 hours and back to their lifestyles with-
out the misery of healing a split sternum and recovery from
a stopped heart or heart-lung machine.
Alliance Hospital does heart, orthopedic, vascular,
urological, general and specialty surgeries. Interestingly,
the insurance companies and Medicare pay on the same
basis as for conventional operations.
Suresh Gadasalli, M.D., F.A.C.C., whom I consider
highly professional and who devotes time and attention to
each patient, treated me.
Sudhir Srivastava, M.D., is a cardiovascular and thoracic
surgeon. He has performed approximately 550 robotic
assisted surgeries with no heart attacks, strokes, or deaths.
Alliance Hospital has been rated number one in the
Permian Basin area for overall cardiac care according to

a study recently released by HealthGrades®, the nation’s
leading provider of independent hospital ratings. The study
ranked Alliance Hospital among the best hospitals in Texas
for cardiology, and received five-star ratings for the treat-
ment of heart attack and heart failure.
For more information, contact Alliance Hospital in
Odessa, Texas. Tell everyone you care about!
Therapeutic Angiogenesis (Natural

Bypass) in Patients with Severe
Coronary Artery Disease
A new treatment modality called therapeutic angiogenesis
has appeared on the clinical research scene during the last
five years. This approach recreates the natural processes of
new blood vessel formation that is observed during growth
and development in every human being. It is an extremely
potent and promising modality, but so far the results of
clinical trials in patients have been equivocal.
What heart patient wouldn’t want natural revascularization
(bypass) around occluded arteries? This hypothesis has been
verified with extensive animal data by investigators of this
research where a swine model of coronary disease was shown
to severely inhibit the action of angiogenic growth factors.
If one wants angiogenesis to work, a means of improving
the function of the coronary lining of patients with severe
ischemic heart disease must be identified and its effects eval-
uated in order to allow for angiogenic substances to exert
their action towards successful revascularization (natural
bypass) of the heart muscle.
Well, well… an amino acid called L-arginine has repeat-
edly been shown to markedly improve function of the
coronary artery lining in patients with ischemic heart disease
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when taken regularly over several months.

So that wonderful L-arginine is therapeutic to coronary
artery disease as well as a vital facilitator of new blood vessel
angiogenesis or growth factors in the heart and blood vessels.
This is plum exciting, but maybe not to heart surgeons.
If this approach is successful, as is anticipated, angiogen-
esis will constitute an effective modality for the treatment of
coronary artery disease not only in patients with advanced
severe bypass grafting, but even perhaps in all patients with
coronary artery disease in need of revascularization (bypass
surgery).
Bypass Alternatives: Far

Infrared Sauna (FIR)
For toxic burden, heart function in patients with conges-
tive heart failure, atherosclerosis, male sexual function,
hypertension, and impaired blood vessel dilation—Far
Infrared Saunas (FIR) help in just two to four weeks,
according to a study published in the Journal of the American
College of Cardiology.
Far infrared waves warm things without actually heating
up the air in between the heat source and the object. So in a
far infrared sauna the air is warm and dry, opposite to the
humid steam in traditional saunas.
The sauna temperatures range from 105 to 140 degrees
Fahrenheit, daily, for up to four weeks to get noticeable
results.
Chemical analysis shows that infrared produces greater
amounts of nitric oxide synthesis in the endothelial (lining)
cells of the aorta, coronary, carotid, and femoral arteries.
Increased levels produce more and more nitric oxide. Nitric
oxide dilates coronary and all arteries to improve heart
function and general circulation.

All this can happen in two to four weeks. The far infrared
benefit for congestive heart failure and high blood pressure
could be much greater by combining the amino acid L-arginine
(another precursor of nitric oxide).
There are many other benefits of FIR such as rapid removal
of a wide range of toxic substances from the body, as well as
relief from different kinds of pain, stimulation of immune
response, improvement in skin tone and conditions such as
burns, eczema, acne, and the accelerated burning of calories
and the breakdown of fat.
The FIR energy emitted in these infrared saunas may
induce two or three times the sweat volume of conventional
steam saunas, yet they operate at a much cooler air temperature
range; about 110 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit compared with
180 to 235 degrees Fahrenheit in a conventional sauna. Less
needed temperature puts this therapy in a safer range for many
people, as well as for those with cardiovascular risk factors.
Induced sweating has been used for centuries to bring about
improved health and relief from disease. More than 2,000 years
ago, the famous Greek physician Parmenides stated: “Give me
a chance to create fever, and I will cure any disease.”
Induced hyperthermia—the artificial elevation of body
temperature—is used in Germany on cancer patients. Raising
the body temperature causes infections to heal more quickly.
Our bodies develop fever when ill to enhance metabolism and
help kill bacteria, viruses, and tumors. Toxin-laden cells are
weaker than normal cells. They tolerate heat poorly, hence
cancer treatment with hyperthermia in Germany.
An at-home Far Infrared Sauna (FIR) is available for
around $2,000. I have one and I use it daily for 30 minutes
at 110 to 130 degrees Fahrenheit.
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C HAPTE R 3
The Great Cholesterol Hoax

There is no proof that cholesterol kills or is even danger-
ous. In fact, cholesterol is very necessary to health, and
nearly all of our cholesterol is manufactured in our own
bodies. Almost none comes from dietary cholesterol.
Really, the whole cholesterol story is a hoax. Read the
book The Cholesterol Hoax. Neither HDL cholesterol nor
LDL cholesterol is associated with mortality. In fact, after
age 70, cholesterol is a non-issue, and there is certainly no
point in monitoring it.
Cholesterol is the basis of a trillion-dollar annual take
by the pharmaceuticals. It is not an innocent deception.
Cholesterol drugs actually cause heart disease! Patients
taking cholesterol drugs (statin drugs) become depleted in
coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which leads to fatigue, muscle
weakness and soreness, and heart failure.
Statin drugs are being prescribed like candy for millions
of people. Now the “medical authorities” have recently
issued their new recommendations to enlarge the popula-
tions “needs” for cholesterol drugs to include over 40
million people.
Cholesterol therapy, like most of conventional medicine,
is a treatment of symptoms. It’s a high-profit industry built
upon a complete hoax.
Says Ron Rosedale, M.D., “Using the same conven-
tional medical thinking that is being used for cholesterol
would lead one to believe that doctors should reduce the

risk of Alzheimer’s disease by taking out everybody’s
brain.”
The fixation on cholesterol as a major cause of heart
disease defies the last 15 years of science and deflects from
real causes such as the damage (via glycation) that sugars
such as glucose and fructose inflict on tissues including
the lining of arteries, causing chronic inflammation and
resultant plaque.
Removing cholesterol will do nothing to improve the
underlying problems, the real roots of chronic disease,
which will always have to do with improper communica-
tion, and the generals of metabolic communication are
insulin and leptin. They are really what must be treated to
reverse heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity, and
to some extent aging itself.
Doctors never stop to think that the “cholesterol causes
heart disease” myth has solid sales of $26 to $30 billion of
statin drugs per year and the doctors are the salesmen. We
used to call people who did, dumb things suckers.
Forget Statin Drugs—You Need Cholesterol

The cholesterol myth is a monument to the lies, deceit,
and fraud of the pharmaceuticals and the government.
Cholesterol drugs are expensive and bad for your health—
they destroy the essential nutrient Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10),
compromise your overall health, and increase your risk of
death from all causes.
The best doctors that I know will write a prescription
instantly for a statin drug (i.e., a drug to force cholesterol
lower). The cholesterol myth proves that super fortunes
can be built on the sale of products based on medical
myths. This has absolutely nothing to do with medicine
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or the treatment of disease. It is commerce, pure and

simple. It is crime, incorporated.
The cholesterol myth is so well established and so com-
pletely accepted by doctors that there is almost no inquiry
into this crime of commerce. Organized propaganda can
force-feed the public mind any myth they can imagine.
Crime becomes legitimate after it is generally accepted by
the people. And the longer a crime has been accepted as
legitimate or legal, the harder it is to challenge.
Cholesterol drugs are bad for human health. They
destroy CoQ10. They complicate general health in many
ways. They cost the American people billions of dollars
annually.
The cholesterol myth is based on the Lipid Hypothesis
created by Ancel Keys in the 1950s. The Lipid Hypothesis
is a theory that saturated animal fats and cholesterol in our
food raise cholesterol levels in the blood. Then the theory
goes that high blood cholesterol causes atherosclerosis—
leading to obstruction of blood vessels of the heart, and

resulting in coronary heart disease. The pharmaceuticals
saw trillions of dollars of profits. Who can say that the
pharmaceuticals didn’t create the flawed studies that led
to the cholesterol profit empire that we have today. You
may call it a “science” of fraud.
This reversed the American diet of good omega-3 fats
to the consumption of liquid vegetable oils and margarine
substituting for coconut oil and animal fat that did our
ancestors so well.
Well, as profits skyrocketed, deaths from heart disease
and cancer did, too.
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is actually a heavyweight alcohol with a hor-
mone-like structure that behaves like a fat—being insoluble
in water and in blood. Cholesterol has a coating compound
called a lipoprotein, which makes it water soluble so it can
be carried in the blood. We need our cholesterol. To suppress
it with cholesterol drugs is to create degenerative disease.
The Benefits of Cholesterol:
■ Your body uses cholesterol to make hormones that
help you deal with stress and protect against heart
disease and cancer.
■ Your body needs cholesterol to make all the sex
hormones, including androgen, testosterone, estrogen,
progesterone, and DHEA.
■ Your body uses cholesterol to make vitamin D, vital
for the bones and nervous system, proper growth,
mineral metabolism, muscle tone, insulin production,
reproduction, and immune system function.
■ The bile salts are made from cholesterol. Bile is
vital for digestion and assimilation of dietary fats.
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■ Cholesterol acts as an antioxidant, protecting us

against free radical damage that leads to heart
disease and cancer.
■ Cholesterol is needed for proper function of
serotonin receptors in the brain.
■ Since serotonin is the body’s natural “feel-good”
chemical, it’s not surprising that low cholesterol
levels have been linked to aggressive and violent
behavior, depression, and suicidal tendencies.
■ Mother’s milk is especially rich in cholesterol and
contains a special enzyme that helps the baby utilize
this nutrient. Babies and children need cholesterol-
rich foods throughout their growing years to ensure
proper development of the brain and nervous system.
■ Dietary cholesterol plays an important role in main-
taining the health of the intestinal wall. This is why
low-cholesterol vegetarian diets can lead to leaky
gut syndrome and other intestinal disorders.
■ Finally, the body uses cholesterol to repair damaged
cells. This means that higher cholesterol levels are
actually beneficial. Meyer Texon, M.D., a well-known
pathologist at New York University Medical Center,
points out that indicting fat and cholesterol for hard-
ening the arteries is like accusing white blood cells
of causing infection, rather than helping the immune
system to address it.
FACT: Deaths from heart disease and all other causes
increased 11 percent for each one percent drop in cholesterol,
according to a 30-year follow-up of the famous Framingham
Study.
Do the American people know this? No, because the
American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung,
and Blood Institute published in the journal Circulation the

reverse of the above fact. Yes, believe it or not!
And the fact is that for women, low cholesterol is more
dangerous than high cholesterol. Another fact is that when
people maintain low levels of cholesterol in their blood
over long periods of time with statin drugs, their risk of
death from all causes will increase.
Taken from the book Eat Fat, Lose Fat by Mary Enig
and Sally Fallon.
More Cholesterol Lies and

The Low-Fat Madness
This bogey has terrified the whole population. Choles-
terol levels have become the ultimate measure of health
and fitness in America. Suppressing cholesterol is not
about health.
As I’ve said, high cholesterol and a bad ratio of HDL
and LDL is not in itself bad health. It is only a marker of
a health problem. Suppressing cholesterol is like placing
something over your car heat indicator, expecting to
prevent it from running hot.
People are actually paying $200 dollars a month—
or more—for statin drugs (to lower cholesterol) that are
offending their health far more than elevated cholesterol.
I feel sure that a lot of old folks are using their grocery
money to buy these drugs.
Elevated cholesterol and a bad ratio of HDL and LDL is
an indicator of an insulin problem. High levels of insulin
continuously stimulate production of cholesterol.
The anti-fat phobia is directly linked in the medical liter-
ature and in the public mind to the cholesterol nonsense.
Once and for all, fat does not make a person fat. It does
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not raise cholesterol or triglycerides and fat consumption

does not put on body fat. In fact, fat consumption takes
off body fat inside and outside. And what’s shocking, you
have to eat fat to lose fat. Eskimos live on fat, an enormous
amount, and they have almost no heart disease, diabetes,
or obesity. Why does all the pretended research against fat
fail to mention this?
It’s carbohydrates that stimulate body fat storage, and
sales of cholesterol drugs. Also carbohydrates stimulate
large quantities of insulin, which directly stimulates
radical rises in cholesterol.
Even though carbohydrates themselves are fat-free,
excess carbohydrates end up as excess fat. So the insulin
that’s stimulated by excess carbohydrates aggressively
promotes the accumulation of body fat.
What’s the matter with these people who are advising
high carbohydrate diets?
It gets worse. Not only does increased carbohydrate pro-
duced insulin tell your body to store carbohydrates as fat,
they also tell it not to release any stored fat. And this makes
it impossible for you to use your own stored body fat for
energy. So the excess carbohydrates in your diet not only
produce excess insulin that makes you fat, they make sure
you stay fat. This is how lethal excess carbohydrates are.
The medical people who are trying to force your
cholesterol down to zero forgot to tell you that as your
cholesterol level falls to a certain point, you jump from
the frying pan of heart disease risk into the fire of death
by all sorts of other diseases. What kind of diseases?
Cerebral hemorrhage, gall bladder disease, and many
types of cancer. Falling cholesterol is a marker for several
types of cancer. Cholesterol need not be lower than 180
mg/dl to 200 mg/dl range.
Really concerned about your cholesterol? Learn about

the insulin-controlling diet, get your weight to normal, rid
yourself of a multitude of health problems, including heart
trouble and save and invest the $200 dollars that you are
spending monthly to keep up the pharmaceuticals. I prom-
ise and guarantee you positive results beyond anything you
can imagine.
Order the book Protein Power by Michael Eades, M.D.,
and Mary Eades, M.D. Buy this book with some of your
cholesterol drug money. You’ll be glad you did.
Don’t Let Statin Drugs Deplete

Your CoQ10 Levels and Increase
Your Heart Failure Risk
More than 39 million Americans are now on cholesterol-
lowering (statin) drugs. Everybody is in on the act—the
government, the pharmaceuticals, and the medical
establishment. The public is
overwhelmed. Everybody is
sold!
My opinion: The choles-
terol mania is commerce pure
and simple—high cholesterol
is a diet problem, not a drug
problem.
Statin drugs work by
blocking cellular produc-
tion of cholesterol in the
mevalonate pathway (the
liver) but statin drugs also
block Coenzyme Q10
(CoQ10) production, a
vital heart nutrient, in the
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same pathway.
The good news is that consumption of 100 to 200 mgs
per day of CoQ10 will reverse CoQ10 depletion induced by
statins. At least one cholesterol drug manufacturing company
has admitted to this widespread problem with statin drugs.
Numerous human and animal studies have conclusively
shown that cholesterol (statin) drugs interfere with the
body’s production of CoQ10, a vital vitamin antioxidant
involved in cellular energy production and normal heart
muscle function.
There is particular depletion in seniors of CoQ10 when
statins are taken at higher doses. Doctors are getting more
aggressive at prescribing higher and higher dosages of
statin drugs, with corresponding higher and higher deple-
tion of CoQ10 increasing the likelihood of impairment in
heart-muscle function.
If you take a cholesterol-lowering drug, you should take
extra CoQ10. It won’t affect the action of the cholesterol
drug but will greatly improve heart function.
CoQ10 is a nutrient, but in practice it is near impossible
to obtain therapeutic quantities of CoQ10 from the diet,
most especially if one is on statin drugs. CoQ10 supple-
mentation will guarantee adequate levels.
In cardiovascular health, CoQ10 is valued by many
alternative physicians for helping angina, high blood
pressure, and congestive heart failure. Symptoms such as
fluid retention, shortness of breath, palpitations, sweating,
subjective arrhythmia, purple skin color, and nighttime
urination were checked for improvement. Overall there
was significant improved quality of life.
A six-year study at the University of Texas found that
sufferers of congestive heart failure who took CoQ10 in
addition to their conventional therapy had a 75 percent

chance of survival after three years, compared to 25 percent
survival rate for those using conventional therapy alone.
Further more:
■ Coenzyme Q10 may normalize heart function in
mitral valve prolapse patients.
■ Coenzyme Q10 may help prevent stroke as well as
prevent death in people who have had a stroke.
■ Coenzyme Q10 improves blood circulation.
■ Coenzyme Q10 helps prevent blood clots.
■ Coenzyme Q10 is a specific for heart function. More
is needed for the aging process.
Coenzyme Q10 may also improve the heart’s ability to
survive and produce energy in hypoxia (limited oxygen)
situations such as: High altitudes, clogged arteries, blood
clots, angina, and high fat content blood.
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C HAPTE R 4
The Relationship
Between Heart Disease
And Blood Clots
The Blood Thinner Cure
Do we survive a heart attack most of the time because
the doctor immediately puts us on a blood thinner?
Kenneth R. Kensey, M.D., cardiologist says in his book,
The Blood Thinner Cure, that our blood gets thicker as we
get older. The heart has to pump harder, forcing up blood
pressure. The sheer force of the blood pressure pumping
dangerously thick blood continuously injures the arteries
with each beat. This problem results in atherosclerosis
and heart attack, or stroke.
Says Dr. Kensey: “I’ll show that all the risk factors for
atherosclerosis have one common denominator—your
heart is working too hard because of thickened, sticky
blood, what I call ‘the sludge factor.’ The result is injury
to the artery lining that leads to clogging. The constant
process of mechanical injury to the arteries eventually
leads to stiffening and thickening and the formation of
plaque.”
Here now is a very important question for heart doctors
posed by Dr. Kensey: “If diet and lifestyle alone cause
atherosclerosis artery damage, then why don’t the arteries
all over the body become stiffened and clogged?”

Instead, if you want to find a blocked and clogged
artery, the best place to look is in the arteries that feed
blood to the heart, the brain, and the legs. These areas, says
Dr. Kensey, are the “zone(s) of over-expansion.” This is a
wear and tear process to the carotid, coronary, and femoral
arteries. So then atherosclerosis is site specific. We know
that most mechanical repair by heart surgeons is to the
aorta and the coronary arteries, and to a lesser extent, the
femoral arteries.
The thickness and stickiness of the blood is resistant to
blood flow and is a cause of high blood pressure and heart
attack. Try to put syrup through your hosepipe. It will
greatly slow velocity, the same as thick and sticky blood
would. Less velocity means less oxygen, equals heart pain
(angina) and heart attack. Smooth, thin blood speeds veloc-
ity, increases oxygen delivery, and lowers blood pressure.
The blood pressure monitor doesn’t reveal that even
with normal blood pressure, your blood may have turned to
sludge and that the heart’s struggle to pump this blood is
taking a daily toll on your arteries and your heart.
The thickness and stickiness of the blood is directly
related to the work the heart is doing. It becomes harder to
pump. Dr. Kensey says that the thickness of your blood is
every bit as important as your blood pressure.
The most important factor in determining blood thick-
ness is how many red blood cells you have. This is called
the hematocrit and varies from one person to another. Men
have a naturally higher amount of red blood cells. The
higher the concentration of red blood cells, the harder the
heart must work to pump the blood. A 10 percent increase
in your hematocrit means a 25 percent increase in your
blood’s thickness. Does this explain why men are more
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prone to heart attacks than premenopausal women?

The thickness of blood is also determined by the thick-
ness of the plasma that surrounds the blood cells, which
can turn to sludge in the presence of chronic infections and
inflammations.
Any time there is inflammation or infection from any
cause, the blood becomes thicker and stickier. Increased
viscosity caused by thickness and stickiness of blood
injures the lining of the arteries.
Then atherosclerosis develops as injured arteries
become inflamed, which increases blood viscosity. It
begins to feed on itself. As the artery’s lining is injured, it
releases C-Reactive Protein (CRP) into the bloodstream.
CRP is a measure of the level of injury that is occurring to
the artery’s lining and it is a measure of a person’s risk of
heart attack or stroke.
A high CRP level is a warning that your blood is too
thick, and that it may be sludging. Of course, the medical
answer throughout the country is a very expensive drug…
Plavix®.
But alternative blood thinners are just as good. See your
doctor before making any changes to medication or taking
natural blood thinners with drug blood thinners. Here are
some of the best natural blood thinners I know of:
Write these words and paste them on the inside of a
kitchen cabinet door:
■ Eat fresh or herbal garlic daily.
■ Eat fish often and take fish oil and cod liver oil daily.
■ Take gingko biloba daily.
■ Take nattokinase daily.
There are many other natural blood thinners, but if you
take at least garlic and fish oil/cod liver oil daily, and eat
fish you will be way safer than those who don’t. Fish oil or
cod liver oil, at least a tablespoon a day. According to one
study, 6 tablespoonfuls daily would keep your blood from
clotting at all.
You may notice that you bruise slightly or have some
capillary fragility, slight bleeding spots. This is only a
symptom of thin blood. I have seen many people with dark
blue hands from prescription Coumadin® (rat poison in my
opinion). I like cod liver oil from Carlson, both the liquid
and the capsules. If anything, it tastes good.
In my experience, I have seen men weighing 350 to 400
pounds, who really you would think should be expired, but
they were all big fish eaters and none of these goliath peo-
ple had heart disease—including cardiac arrhythmias or
ventricular fibrillation.
Gingko is an excellent platelet anti-
clotting nutrient. Studies show that
gingko is helpful for Alzheimer’s
disease, for poor memory and
impaired circulation. The usual
dose is 40 to 80 milligrams,
two to three times daily.
Niacin (B3) is another
effective platelet buster—
use the time release or
inositol hexaniacinate,
500 to 600 milligrams,
twice daily as a sugges-
tion.
L-arginine dilates
arteries which enables
blood to flow freely.
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L-arginine keeps appearing in the literature as if a miracle.

As mentioned numerous times, nattokinase is an effec-
tive clot buster that actually keeps clots from forming. It’s
a blood thinner par excellence. The Japanese have used it
for more than 2,000 years to eliminate rogue blood clots
that may be in your bloodstream now—just waiting to
deliver a heart attack or stroke.
More About the Clot-Busting

Effects of Nattokinase!
All seniors need to be aware of their blood clotting
mechanism. If our blood clots too fast or too slow, we
could have a medical emergency. It happens all the time.
There are many natural blood thinners, but none of these
have been known to cause overly thin blood. I’ve mentioned
that I take fish oil, cod liver oil, Viobin, nattokinase (natto),
garlic, and gingko, daily.
If you’re under the care of a doctor, they prescribe Heparin®,
Coumadin® (warfarin), Streptokinase, and T-PA (tissue
plasminogen activator.) And after most any heart procedure,
Plavix® is their drug favorite. They don’t tell us what Plavix®
does to the skin. Coumadin® increases the risk of bleeding
under the skin, and depletes the body of vitamin K which
has an important natural blood clotting action.
Streptokinase has a very short lived action and over time
becomes less effective. Heparin® must be injected and it
can lead to allergic reaction, high potassium blood levels,
osteoporosis, low blood platelets, and even hair loss. T-PA
is only administered as an I.V., is effective for a relatively
short period, and is very expensive.
Natural natto is a favorite because it is packaged in very
small capsules with no taste. It is a rich source of protein,
vitamin B2, and vitamin K2. Mainly, it contains the enzyme

nattokinase. The enzyme nattokinase has the ability to dis-
solve blood clots. This is known as fibrinolysis.
The body produces an enzyme called plasmin which
has fibrinolytic properties. But for a variety of reasons, its
activity appears to diminish as we age. So the effect of nat-
tokinase is similar to plasmin, but research shows that it is
four times more potent. It is a relatively safe clot buster for
most people. I love it because it has more than 2,000 years
of use in Japan.
We need to be aware if we have an overactive clotting
mechanism. It’s dangerous! It leads to a host of cardio-
vascular problems such as hardening of the arteries, heart
attack, stroke, intermittent claudication (leg pain upon
exerting), varicose veins, and high blood pressure. It is
also thought that an overactive clotting factor contributes
to senility, infertility, impotence, hemorrhoids, eye conditions
involving the retina, and fibromyalgia.
The enzymatic activity of nattokinase is not only fibri-
nolytic (dissolves blood clots), but also it is homeostatic.
That is, not only does it break down existing clots, but it
also works to prevent the formation of excessive amounts
of fibrin and reestablishes a healthy coagulation mecha-
nism of the body.
Nattokinase is a clot buster, but unlike pharmaceutical
clot-busting agents, natto does not reduce the capacity of
the body to form clots appropriately and quickly to stop
bleeding. Pharmaceuticals thin blood to the point of hemor-
rhage—causing huge black bruised looking places on the
skin.
Coumadin® depletes the body of vitamin K and therefore
limits the capacity of blood to clot when it needs to.
Natto is a tiny capsule that has a longer lasting action,
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costs less, and has no negative side effects. In fact it has

positive side effects such as increased energy, new and
better circulation, better vision, less joint and muscle pain,
and has been used to manage migraine headaches.
The Dangers of Aspirin as a

Blood Thinning Agent
Aspirin is the most widely used drug to combat heart
disease and thin the blood. Yet aspirin doesn’t lower cho-
lesterol. It doesn’t lower blood pressure. It doesn’t lower
high blood sugar in Type 2 diabetes and it doesn’t reduce
excess body fat. But it seems to work, or many people and
their doctors think that it does.
I have always been opposed to aspirin, as any drug,
but continuous study dilutes some of my hard conviction
against aspirin. We should let our body decide when we
have marginal conviction. It is possible that in some instances
pharmacology can work with what Robert Atkins called
complementary medicine.
No doctor knows how we feel better than we do ourselves.
If our body tells us that we are better or worse, we need to
listen. Sickness or wellness is always a case of biochemical
individuality. This is to say, “what’s one man’s meat is another
man’s poison.” Simply stated, we have to find what works
for us.
Enter good and bad eicosanoids (pronounced eye-kah-
sah-noids). You have probably never heard of them. I know
that you have never seen them. Eicosanoids are like master
hormones totally controlled by diet. They are both good
and bad. We should strive to over-balance the bad with the
good. At least keep them in balance.
Aspirin works its wonders by affecting eicosanoids.
According to Michael Eades in Protein Power, eicosanoids,

“are a gang of at least 100 powerful hormone-like substances
that control virtually all physiological actions in your body.”
According to your biochemical individuality, bad eicosan-
oids can cause many dangerous health conditions including
heart disease and cancer. And guess what, eicosanoids can be
balanced only with diet—no drugs please.
In fact, statin drugs purported to lower cholesterol do in
fact increase insulin resistance which is a direct cause of
heart disease. Statin drugs throw the body’s balance to the
bad eicosanoids causing stress, inflammation, and aging.
And anti-hypertensive drugs may cause reductions in blood
pressure, but they also cause an increase in insulin levels
leading to all the symptoms of heart disease.
Any food or drug that increases insulin levels also
increases bad eicosanoid production. Bad eicosanoid pro-
duction overwhelms any symptom relief experienced by
so-called drug therapy, or aspirin.
Food and bad eicosanoids? Yes, the American high-carbo-
hydrate diet causes a dominance of bad eicosanoids followed
by diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, insulin resistance,
heart disease, and any other disease known to man.
On the contrary, good eicosanoid balance promotes
vasodilation, so that instead of narrowing blood vessels,
blood vessels actually widen, blood pressure levels go
down, and so does your risk of heart disease.
So the much-celebrated Dean Ornish high-carbohydrate
diet may and does cause weight loss, but just as surely
leads to insulin resistance, elevated triglycerides, and cho-
lesterol. I can see why all cardiologists and heart surgeons
would love the Dean Ornish diet. Make no mistake about
it, cardiologists need heart patients and they have plenty.
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But the low-carbohydrate diet with balanced eicosanoids

could erase the heart disease profession. The low-carbohydrate
diet will balance the eicosanoids.
So it appears strongly that we can get on the low-
carbohydrate diet to reduce insulin resistance and heart
disease. But there seems to be one thing critically missing
and that is to make sure that our eicosanoids are balanced
in favor of the good. If the over-production of bad eicosanoids
is reduced, then the likelihood of having a heart attack is
greatly reduced.
Remember above that we talked about biochemical indi-
viduality. This simply means that everybody is different
and, “what’s one man’s meat is another man’s poison.”
Some people are genetically predisposed to a high insulin
response to carbohydrates, and in these same people,
disturbance of normal eicosanoid balance is the primary
molecular cause of heart disease. So a low-carbohydrate
diet may not totally protect against a bad eicosanoid bal-
ance, which means the positive balance of eicosanoids is
primary in a healthy heart.
The worst of the bad eicosanoids is arachidonic acid.
And the worst food sources for arachidonic acid are organ
meats like liver, fatty red meat, and egg yolk. Remember,
this is for some people. There is no harm in any red meat
raised on grass instead of grain. Grain causes meat to have
very high omega-6 versus omega-3 fatty acids. This is one
reason I eat deer meat. Deer are grass fed of course and are
fed no growth hormones nor given vaccinations.
Omega-6 and omega-3 fatty acids must at least be bal-
anced favoring omega-3 fatty acids. Our modern diet in
addition to high-refined carbohydrates is dominated with
refined fats or trans fats, which is the source of way too
many omega-6 fatty acids.

It’s only these omega-3 and omega-6 fats that can be
transformed into eicosanoids. The omega-3 fatty acids have
the opposite effect of the omega-6 fatty acids. Omega-3
fatty acids act as blood thinners and expand and dilate
arteries to create more oxygen supply and a decrease of
platelet aggregation. Omega-6 fatty acids produce bad
eicosanoids especially thromboxane A2, the most powerful
blood-clotting agent known. In addition to blood clotting,
bad eicosanoids or omega-6 fatty acids produce abnormal
smooth muscle cell growth and vasoconstriction, a triple
negative, causing heart attacks.
What’s all this got to do with aspirin? Aspirin is a potent
inhibitor of eiconsanoid synthesis. Aspirin works against bad
eiconsanoids and in fact aspirin’s only effect is on eicon-
sanoids. Aspirin reduces the production of bad eicosanoids
that prompt platelet aggregation such as thromboxane A2.
It also works against good eiconsanoids, but on balance
it may give an edge in favor of preventing heart attacks.
The famous Physicians’ Heart Study of 1988 with 22,000
doctors showed 40 percent less heart attacks.
If one has all the threats of heart attack like abdominal
obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides, shortness
of breath, or even angina, I would ask my doctor about tak-
ing a baby aspirin a day. Most heart doctors will say yes,
and we agree, but with the proviso that one move toward
eiconsanoid balance with the low-carbohydrate diet as fast
as possible. Our diet is our best medicine.
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C HAPTE R 5
The Effect Salt Consumption

Has On Heart Disease
Salt and Your Health: Is it All Bad?
Today’s common table salt is poison that has nothing in
common with natural sea salt.
American table salt is 97.5 percent sodium chloride and
2.5 percent chemicals such as moisture absorbents and
iodine. Dried at more than 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit, the
excessive heat alters the natural chemical structure creating
potentially a myriad of health problems. Refined salt has no
minerals. Unrefined salt has 80 minerals.
It’s not what we have been taught. In a study of 3,000
hypertensive subjects on low salt diets, there was a 430
percent increase in heart attacks in the lower salt group
versus the highest salt group.
Yes, hypertensive patients need natural salt—not drugs.
The case studies prove it. You can purchase natural Celtic
Sea Salt® in many stores and online.
Salt is as important to life as oxygen and water. Everybody
needs salt. Everybody needs to know about natural salt.
Since I put my dog Rambo on sea salt, he eats like a dog.
I recommend you get the following basic health book:
Salt, Your Way to Health by David Brownstein, M.D.
The History of Salt and Your Health

The Law of Moses required that all offerings contain salt.
Leonardo da Vinci painted an overturned salt dish in front of
Judas, which represented an ill omen for his traitorous act.
The importance of salt originated not only from its nutri-
tional value as a mineral source, but also from its usefulness
in preserving foods for seasons when people would otherwise
have starved. Many societies have used salt as a form of cur-
rency. The expression “not worth his salt” comes from the
practice of trading slaves for salt in Greece.
For thousands of years, salt has been considered an irre-
placeable component of the human diet. But guess what!
Government-sponsored salt-related research triggered in
1979 Surgeon General’s Report on Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention identified salt as a major factor in
hypertensive conditions.
Then another government study concluded that, in general
societies with higher salt intake will have higher average blood
pressure.
And even more damning was a 1999 study that followed
more than 20,000 Americans for 25 years. The results were
that people who ate more salt had, “32 percent more strokes,
89 percent more deaths from stroke, 44 percent more heart-
attack deaths, and 39 percent more deaths from all causes.”
Well, an independent review of all this proved that the con-
clusions were false. The relationship of salt to cardiovascular
disease was only true for persons hugely overweight.
In fact, Michael Alderman, an epidemiologist and past
president of the American Society of Hypertension, con-
cluded quite the opposite and wrote that for persons who
were not overweight, “the more salt you eat, the less likely
you are to die.”
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While some hypertensive persons are sensitive to salt, it is

false to conclude that high salt intake is a cause of high blood
pressure. Dr. Alderman concluded that those who consumed
the least salt had the most myocardial infarctions and other
cardiovascular complications.
An article published in The Lancet, a prestigious British
medical journal, in 1998 similarly concluded that people, “who
eat lots of salt live longer than those who avoid it.” The 25 per-
cent of people who consumed the lowest amount of salt had a
higher risk of death compared with the 25 percent who con-
sumed the highest amounts of salt. Likewise, in an eight-year
study of hypertensive patients in New York, those on low-salt
diets had more than four times as many heart attacks as people
with normal sodium intake.
Paul Rosch, M.D., states that reduced salt intake actually
has a number of negative consequences including: Increased
levels of renin (an enzyme that is associated with hyperten-
sion), increased levels of LDL (low density lipids—the bad
type of cholesterol), insulin resistance (the cause of adult onset
or Type 2 diabetes), reduced sexual activity in men and cogni-
tive difficulties, and anorexia in the elderly.
There is not a doctor in the land who would not advise to
cut your salt. Meanwhile, they never mention sugar. But more
on sugar to come…
What kind of salt? Again, I recommend Celtic Sea Salt®
from France or real natural salt from Utah.
How Much Salt is Safe? Better

Not Listen to Government!
“An increasing body of evidence indicates that we should
reduce the amount of salt in our diet. The American Medical
Association (AMA), the American Heart Association (AHA),
the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the National

Institutes of Health have begun a campaign to cut the salt
intake of Americans by one-half.”
Sounds like another big pharma/government propaganda
campaign to feed big pharma more bodies. When that many
government agencies all come out against salt, you had better
get the debate from the other side.
What crass and base nonsense! And yes, the American
people will follow and their general health will enter a new
downhill direction. Heart doctors already have their patients
off salt. This started 60 years ago.
The following salt information was taken from the book,
Obesity, Cancer, Depression by F. Batmanghelidj, M.D.
The following is a discussion about sea salt, not refined
(poisonous) table salt.
As a rough rule of thumb, Dr. Batmanghelidj recommends
one-fourth teaspoon of sea salt per quart of water. Exceptions
are those with kidney failure or other medical reasons which
call for a doctor’s consultation.
The government agencies listed above who set the direc-
tion for our “medical welfare” should take note that when we
get sick and land in the hospital, they immediately give saline
(salt) intravenous (IV) drip with 0.9 percent concentration of
salt. This figure translates to 9 grams of salt per liter of water.
However, it is prudent to take only a third as much salt on a
regular daily basis. And these silent injections of salt cost the
insurance companies more than gold costs.
The following are direct quotes from Dr. Batmanghelidj’s
book: Salt: Some of its Hidden Miracles: Salt has many func-
tions other than just regulating the water content of the body.
Here are some of its additional important functions in the
body:
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■ Salt is a strong natural antihistamine. It can be used to

relieve asthma: Put some on your tongue after drinking a
glass or two of water. It is as effective as an inhaler, with-
out the toxicity. You should drink one or two glasses of
water before putting salt on the tongue.
■ Salt is a strong anti-stress element for the body.
■ Salt is vital for extracting excess acidity from inside
the cells, particularly brain cells. If you don’t want
Alzheimer’s disease, don’t go salt-free, and don’t let
them put you on diuretic medications for long!
■ Salt is vital for the kidneys to clear excess acidity,
passing it into the urine. Without sufficient salt in the
body, the body will become more and more acidic.
■ Salt is essential in the treatment of emotional and
affective disorders. Lithium is a salt substitute used in
the treatment of depression. To prevent suffering from
depression, make sure you take some salt.
■ Salt is essential for preserving the serotonin and mela-
tonin levels in the brain. When water and salt perform
their natural antioxidant duties and clear toxic waste
from the body, essential amino acids, such as trypto-
phan and tyrosine, will not be sacrificed as chemical
antioxidants. In a well-hydrated body, tryptophan is
spared and gets into the brain tissue, where it is used to
manufacture serotonin, melatonin, indolamine, and
tryptamine—essential antidepressant neurotransmitters.
■ Salt is a vitally needed element in the treatment of dia-
betics. It helps balance the sugar levels in the blood
and reduces the need for insulin in those who have to
inject the chemical to regulate their blood sugar levels.
Water and salt reduce the extent of secondary damage
associated with diabetes.
■ Salt is vital for the generation of hydroelectric energy

in all of the cells in the body. It is used for local power
generation at the sites of energy needed by the cells.
■ Salt is vital to the communication and information-
processing of nerve cells the entire time that the brain
cells work—from the moment of conception to death.
■ Salt is vital for the absorption of food particles through
the intestinal tract.
■ Salt is vital for clearing the lungs of mucous plugs and
sticky phlegm, particularly in asthma, emphysema, and
cystic fibrosis sufferers. Salt makes mucus fluid loose
and ready to “disconnect”—by changing the physical
state of its structure (the process is called charge-
shielding).
■ Salt on the tongue will stop persistent dry coughs;
water will enhance this effect.
■ Salt is vital for clearing up catarrh and sinus congestion.
■ Salt is vital for the prevention of gout and gouty
arthritis.
■ Salt is essential for the prevention of muscle cramps.
■ Salt is vital to preventing excess saliva production to
the point that it flows out of the mouth during sleep.
Needing to constantly mop up excess saliva indicates
a salt shortage.
■ Major osteoporosis is the result of salt and water short-
ages in the body. More than 20 percent of the salt
reserves of the body are stored in the shaft of the long
bones, giving them their strength. When the diet is
short of salt, the stored salt in the bones is released to
osmotically balance the content of salt in the blood.
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C HAPTE R 6
Blood Sugar Imbalances and

The Risk of Heart Disease
Sugar is acid! All artificial sweeteners are acid except
Stevia. Stevia is a natural sweetener from Peru. It has no
glycemic index, meaning it does not disturb insulin, so
anybody can and should use this product.
The bad artificial sweeteners include aspartame
(NutraSweet®), saccharin (Sweet-n-Low®), sucralose
(Splenda®), acesulfame (Sunette, Sweet & Safe), and
cyclamates. They all break down to deadly acids. One of
the poisons in aspartame—methyl alcohol—converts into
formaldehyde, a deadly neurotoxin and known carcinogen.
It turns into formic acid (fire ants create formic acid to
sting with).
A variety of symptoms can be caused by artificial
sweeteners, such as migraine headaches, dizziness, ver-
tigo, seizures, depression, fatigue, irritability, increased
heart rate, heart palpitations, insomnia, vision impairment,
hearing loss, ringing in the ears, weight gain, numbness,
muscle spasms, arrhythmias, joint pain, breathing difficul-
ties, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, and loss of taste.
Just use the natural herb Stevia. The sugar trust, which
includes all the artificial sweeteners, succeeded at one time
getting the FDA to block the entry of Stevia into the United
States. It is available now with restricted advertising.
Heart doctors rant about low-fat diets as a safety factor.
But it has been proven many times over that dietary fat has
no effect on serum cholesterol or serum fat. In fact, good
saturated fats are essential! My friends, fat does not create
fat in the body as cholesterol. Transfatty acids do accumu-
late as waste, but this is another point.
Sugar or sweeteners (except Stevia) cause insulin levels
to rise precipitously. The more rapid the absorption of
sugar, the higher the glycemic index, and the more insulin
is produced. A high-carbohydrate (sugars) diet is a big
contributor to heart disease, because over time, the body
becomes insulin-resistant, and this causes the speed-up of
acid accumulation waste. By the time we reach 40, acid
accumulation is ready to become heart disease as well as
cancer and diabetes. Sugar is a killer but doctors don’t talk
about the sugar disease in America. Of course not! That
would mean less profit in their already oversized pockets!
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C HAPTE R 7
Heart Disease and

Your Hormones
Discover the Hormone of the Heart
Everyone knows about the epidemic of heart and vascu-
lar disease. Few realize that the risk of heart disease grows
with age. Research dating back more than half a century
has tied heart disease to male menopause and the reduction
of androgens (testosterone).
■ Testosterone is a primary factor in the health of the
heart and blood vessels.
■ Testosterone levels decline with age.
■ Restoring testosterone—and dehydroepiandrosterone
(DHEA)—to youthful levels can yield significant
health benefits, including protection against the
various manifestations of atherosclerotic disease.
Women do need testosterone, but only one-tenth as
much as men. We are talking about natural testosterone.
Most physicians completely ignore the role of testos-
terone and other hormones in maintaining men’s
cardiovascular health.
German researchers before World War II found that
testosterone treatment using testosterone esters could
normalize faulty glucose metabolism, a major co-existing
condition with cardiovascular disease. They found that
testosterone treatment over several months would relieve

angina and improve leg pain in men suffering from inter-
mittent claudication (leg pain).
Jens Moller, M.D., (1904-1989) medical researcher and
practitioner, found that testosterone replacement fell into
three general categories:
1. Complete healing of gangrene of the upper and lower
extremities.
2. Improvement of impaired carbohydrate metabolism
and circulation.
3. Milder and fewer angina pectoris attacks, as well as
normalized EKG findings.
According to Maximize Your Vitality and Potency for
Men Over 40 by Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., and Lane
Lenard, Ph.D., “In Dr. Moller’s view, conventional medi-
cine sees cardiovascular disease (CVD) as primarily a
plumbing problem. The aim is to keep the pipes clear
and the pump working. The focus is on symptoms of the
disease—high cholesterol, hypertension, atherosclerosis,
thrombosis (clot formation), intermittent claudication,
angina, and other familiar manifestations—but not on
what is really causing the symptoms.”
Dr. Moller’s view was that protein is the substance on
which all the biochemical and physiological activity of life
is based. And testosterone is the hormone whose major role
is to build up this core substance.
Of course the treatment of symptoms is the foundation
of the pharmaceutical business. It is the core training in
U.S. medical schools. Translated, this makes most United
States doctors drug salesmen. And this makes the public
victims of “medical” assault under the guise of medical
treatment.
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This is one of the most thorough systems of brainwash

in history, proving that a professional education system is a
training ground for esoteric hidden control. Not one doctor
in 10,000 is suspicious of his education and professional
shackles.
Following the trail of the serpent, it’s the fraud of paper
money that creates such a colossus of fraud and deceit. The
medical system is government paper money dependent.
If not for this system, there would not be more than two
percent of the present number of doctors.
Transdermal (rub on) testosterone cream is a highly
effective delivery method. This can be bought from a
compounding pharmacy with a prescription.
More on the Relationship

Between Cholesterol, Heart
Disease, and Hormones
Here’s the way the pharmaceuticals do it: As soon as
they develop more and more potent statin (cholesterol-
lowering) drugs, they and the government announce that
“research” has discovered the need to lower cholesterol
below the last approved level. In other words, lower
cholesterol is not a health factor until the drug has been
developed.
They hate testosterone!
Prostate physicians and surgeons believe that testos-
terone causes cancer. As prostate malignancy is diagnosed,
androgen (testosterone) blockade is initiated. According to
this logic, all males should have their testosterone produc-
tion stopped to avoid prostate cancer. Yes, doctors believe
this witchcraft—but I don’t believe that those people in the
inner sanctums of medicine believe it. They simply want to
perpetuate “the cancer industry.”

Is testosterone the elixir of life?
Protein is the core substance of our bodies. And since
testosterone is responsible for the building of protein from
the point of conception to our very last breath, its anabolic
function is an absolute precondition for the maintenance of
life. In this role, testosterones effect is expressed equally in
both sexes, as is the effect of prostaglandins, for example.
Despite their names, neither of these substances is specifi-
cally male.
Estrogen is made from testosterone. In the book, Principles
of Biochemistry: “The principal estrogen secreted by the
human female is B-estradiol made by the ovary, from of all
things testosterone, the principal male hormone. Eve was
made from more than Adam’s rib.”
Opposing the action of testosterone is cortisol. There is a
continuous struggle between testosterone and cortisol in
the body and the state of this struggle is reflected in the
level of cholesterol.
When cortisol is dominant it leads to impaired carbohy-
drate metabolism and increased cholesterol levels. Excess
cortisol raises blood lipids (blood fat) and the plasma cho-
lesterol level. Testosterone administration can positively
affect glucose tolerance and carbohydrate metabolism.
Most important of all, circulation improves. The claudication
patient walks without difficulty, angina pectoris attacks
slowly disappear, gangrene heals, and signs of hypoxia
(lack of oxygen) on the ECG are normalized.
As life goes on, cortisol wins out over testosterone.
This process leads eventually to the extinction of life.
There is indeed such a thing as testosterone therapy, but
I assure you—not in the United States. And there is no
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doubt that intervention with testosterone decreases the cho-

lesterol level, improves the oxygen supply of the tissues,
increases ATP level, an improvement of glucose tolerance,
and a restoration of the nitrogen balance. This is powerful
stuff, and to think it is relatively unknown in the U.S.!
There is really no mystery about the treatment of testos-
terone. You can buy it in a lot of ways now. They have the
testosterone patch which is by prescription and they have
five percent testosterone cream which is by prescription.
But not to worry—you can get it easy enough in a homeo-
pathic preparation which is cream based and, in my
opinion, just as effective. Of course you can get the pre-
scription testosterone from any compounding pharmacy.
Cardiovascular patients treated with testosterone often
show such remarkable improvement that they are able to
live the normal life which their age permits. Thousands of
patients have been saved from amputation and premature
death by testosterone administration. I think that this bene-
fit is not possible in American medicine.
Physiology of Cardiac Output, Aging,

And the Effect of Hormones
The equation is:
Heart rate x Stroke volume = Cardiac output
This equation means that decreasing stroke volume
results in increasing heart rate, in order to maintain ade-
quate cardiac output. As noted by Franke, “The really
fundamental change affecting the heart and circulatory
system over the course of its biological existence is the
general decline in its capacity to adapt to physical exertion
as age increases. Accordingly, the stroke and minute volumes
and the maximal oxygen uptake—which provide a measure
of the physical reserve—all decline after the thirtieth year

of life.” An increase in heart rate is brought about by an
increase in the production of catecholamines.
If stroke volume decreases, sympathetic dominance
must develop in order to maintain cardiac output. Overpro-
duction of catecholamines can go so far as to become toxic
to cells, because the amount of oxygen available to cells
may be insufficient to meet the metabolic requirements,
leading to a shift toward anaerobic metabolism.
Stimulated by adenyl cyclase, catecholamines activate
phosphorylase in the liver and skeletal muscles. Blood glucose
and lactic acid levels subsequently rise, with a decrease in pH
and catastrophic drops in tissue adenosine triphosphate (ATP)
levels, leading to cellular necrosis (e.g., gangrene and infarc-
tion). By treatment with testosterone we are able to counteract
the effect of catecholamines. In accordance with the equation
for cardiac output, this
means an increase in stroke
volume and an improve-
ment of circulation.
Note from Bob: This is
a bit medically technical
for most of us, but well
worth the effort. I re-read
several times to sort it out.
There is a lot of talk and
print about the negative,
costly, and deteriorating
state of American conven-
tional medicine. Actually
the medical pharmaceutical
cartel has nothing to do
with health. Health, my
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friends, is a conscious choice. If we get it we have to pur-

sue it, hence the silent number of alternative physicians.
These alternative M.D.s were mostly trained in the big
pharma system until they saw the scam and fraud.
■ Testosterone therapy improves oxygen supply, which
is basic to longevity and stamina. Oxygen supply
greatly offsets simple vasoconstriction.
■ There is a direct relationship between physical activity
and testosterone production.
■ Hypoxia (deficit of tissue oxygen) and the related
anaerobic metabolism are the root of cardiovascular
disease (CVD).
Testosterone levels decline gradually and because it
comes on slowly, men and women often accommodate to
the symptoms and do not realize how much they have lost.
Testosterone is a principal androgen, or male sex hormone.
Even though testosterone is a “male sex hormone,” it is
important to realize and understand the benefits for women.
One of the group of compounds known as anabolic steroids,
testosterone is secreted by the testes, but is also synthesized
in small quantities in the ovaries, cortices of the adrenal
glands, and placenta, usually from cholesterol.
Andropause is the medical term for low-normal levels of
natural testosterone. Symptoms of andropause or hypogo-
nadism (male menopause) are:
■ Decreased mental sharpness
■ Decreased energy and strength
■ Decreased muscle and increased fat
■ Decreased sex drive
■ Decreased sensitivity to stimulation
■ Decreased strength of orgasm
■ Decreased erectile function

■ Depression and/or loss of eagerness and enthusiasm
■ Irritability (20-25 percent of men heard of “grumpy
old men”)
■ Increased risk of cancer (low testosterone levels
increase risk)
Men who receive testosterone therapy consequently
report that they feel sexier, stronger, and healthier. Testos-
terone is responsible for the sex drive for both men and
women. It is expressed as menopause in women, whereas
in men it is expressed as andropause. Many of these symp-
toms and disease processes that we come to accept as normal
aging are processes that are actually secondary to low
testosterone levels and are easily correctable.
In men, hypogonadism is a condition in which the testes
produce a less than normal amount of testosterone, the male
hormone. When too little testosterone is present, men tend
to undergo a drop in sexual desire and performance. They
may also experience depression, fatigue, loss of motivation,
and osteoporosis. Andropause (male menopause) symptoms
are caused by declining hormones in men.
Hormones do not decline because we age—we age
because hormones decline.
I have long written that testosterone therapy, exercise,
and alkaline pH greatly offset the American acidic diet, and
the gradual acidification of the body is attended with termi-
nal illness. Total acid saturation is death. Chronological
aging is a fact. Biological aging is a variable that can be
enhanced with testosterone therapy, exercise, and an alkaline
pH balance. This is not rocket science and is available to
everyone.
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The Link Between

Heart Disease and
Osteoporosis
Studies show an inverse correlation between bone
mineral density and calcification of the arteries—a major
contributor to heart disease. This means that if our bone
mineral density is low, the calcification of our arteries is
high. This makes osteoporosis and heart disease twins.
What is the common thread between osteoporosis and
heart disease? It’s vitamin D and vitamin K deficiency.
Vitamin K is commonly known for its ability to activate
blood clotting factors, but it is equally important and
responsible for the activation of two other important pro-
teins: Osteocalcin, which is involved in the mineralization
of bone matrix, and matrix Gla protein (MGP), which
protects soft tissues from calcification. Vitamin D is also
necessary for proper bone mineralization. Vitamin K is
needed in smaller amounts than vitamin D to abate toxic
effects of soft tissue calcification. Bone health requires
both vitamins D and K.
Clinical trials show that vitamin K supplementation
increases the activation of osteocalcin, decreasing bone
loss, and increasing bone mineral density. Gone is osteo-
porosis and calcification of the arteries. Calcification of the
arteries is a clinical predictor of heart disease. And studies
show that those with the highest intake of vitamin K have
less severe artery calcification.

Can vitamin D and vitamin K reverse artery calcification?
There is no evidence that they can but they could stop fur-
ther calcification. My choice to clean out calcification is
oral EDTA chelation.
The blood thinner warfarin does its work by inhibiting
vitamin K recycling, causing soft tissue calcification. Those
on this drug might consider talking to your doctor about
switching to fish oil and cod liver oil, the best natural blood
thinners. Otherwise you might change the effect of your
prescribed blood thinner. So don’t take them both. It’s
vitamin K or warfarin.
The best vitamin K that I know of is an oil-based chloro-
phyll complex (perle) product containing vitamins A, K, E,
and F. Chlorophyll is the essence of the life-supporting
nutritional pattern of the planet earth. Cooking our green
foods destroys the chlorophyll content. Most chlorophyll
supplements sold are water soluble and mostly void of any
nutrition.
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Natural Alternatives for

Avoiding Heart Disease
Think You Are Having a Heart Attack?
Remember This!
Man or woman, you don’t have but a few seconds—
maybe ten.
Do this: Start coughing repeatedly and very vigorously.
A deep breath should be taken before each cough. The
cough must be deep and prolonged as when producing
sputum from deep inside the chest.
A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two
seconds without letting up until help arrives, or until the
heart appears to be beating normally.
Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing
movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulat-
ing. The squeezing pressure on the heart helps regain
normal rhythm. Proceed to the emergency room.
Regulating Your Thyroid to

Avoid Heart Disease
Blood cholesterol is elevated in persons with a lower-
functioning thyroid. The gland depends upon iodine for its
normal function. Without iodine the thyroid cannot produce
its hormone, thyroxine. When the thyroid is not supplied with
sufficient iodine, there is an increase in the size of the thyroid

gland, a condition called “goiter.” This can be reduced by
simply taking iodine.
So when the thyroid is overactive there is a calcium
loss; when the thyroid is underactive, we have cholesterol
accumulation.
We can measure our own thyroid balance by taking
underarm basal temperature for about five days in a row.
This means taking morning underarm temperature before
we get out of bed in the morning.
Normal body temperature is 98.6°F. If it is below this, as
much as one degree, we need more iodine and/or thyroxin
in the form of Armour Desiccated Hormone. Do not take a
synthetic thyroid hormone such as most doctors prescribe.
Low basal temperature mentioned above means low basal
metabolism which controls the rate at which each cell burns
the food that gives us energy. This directly relates to our
quality of life, because thyroid deficiency may mimic any
disease. For this reason every man, woman, and child should
test their basal (at rest) body temperature. About half of the
population suffers from some degree of thyroid deficiency.
Most allopathic doctors ignore thyroid function and
when they do test function, they do so with a blood pro-
file, which most of the time does not pick up low thyroid
function. If thyroid function is to be treated, it usually is a
lifetime protocol. Hypothyroidism (low thyroid function)
is serious but is very easy to detect with the self basal
temperature test and it is equally easy to treat. Doctors
will start hypothyroid patients on very low doses (about
0.5 grain) and build up over months.
The first hint of the connection of heart disease with
low thyroid function (hypothyroidism) came when investi-
gators demonstrated that elevated cholesterol could be
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brought down to normal with thyroid therapy. Thyroid

therapy does reduce the rate of formation of atherosclerosis
in the heart arteries. I never heard or read where an allo-
pathic cardiologist observed or knew this.
Broda O. Barnes M.D., Ph.D., concluded after thousands
of case histories that the hypothyroid patient at a young
age (or any age) is unusually susceptible to heart attacks.
Even in the hypothyroid infant, atherosclerosis starts.
Dr. Barnes says that atherosclerosis results from thyroid
deficiency and not from the elevated serum fats that
accompany it. He said that 95 percent of the cholesterol
levels returned to normal with only thyroid therapy.
I recommend the book, Solved: The Riddle of Heart
Attacks, by Broda O. Barnes, M.D., Ph.D.
Why Fish Oil Works Better Than Statins!

One excellent way to prevent heart disease is by taking
omega-3 fats as found in fish oil. This is one simple, natural
solution that even the traditional medical community cannot
dispute.
Study after study shows that supplementing the diet with
omega-3 reduces the risk of sudden death, heart attack, and
stroke.
I recommend a high-quality liquid form of fish oil rather
than capsules. You can check your local health food store
for brands. In the winter months, you may want to switch
from fish oil to cod liver oil.
The main difference between cod liver oil and fish oil
is that cod liver oil is high in vitamin D. In warm weather
months, the more intense sunshine allows your body to pro-
duce high and usually sufficient levels of vitamin D without
any supplementation necessary.
However, in cool weather when intense sun exposure is

limited, your body will need more vitamin D, and so I rec-
ommend cod liver oil versus fish oil in cool weather months
or climates, unless you live in a more tropical region.
The results of a July 2006 study published in American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition has shown that fish oils are
more effective than the statin drug Lipitor® in positively
affecting the levels of HDL (good) cholesterol in obese and
insulin-resistant men. The six-week study was with 48 men
who were given fish oil and Lipitor®, both separately and
combined. Lipitor® and fish oil combined had a dramatic
effect on triglycerides and increased HDL cholesterol.
HDL is the good cholesterol that protects against athero-
sclerosis by removing excess cholesterol from arterial cells.
Low levels of HDL cholesterol can increase the risk of car-
diovascular disease. This is especially true for those who
are overweight or have insulin resistance.
The statin drug industry has gone crazy. Lipitor® alone is
projected to produce $13 billion in sales—or more—each year.
It’s also important to remember the many harmful side-
effects of statin drugs. One critical one is the depletion of
CoQ10 that statin drugs cause. CoQ10 is the energy spark
your cells need to turn fuel into energy.
Over time, as CoQ10 levels drop, serious health problems
and even death will surely occur. There are currently more
than 120 prescription drugs that can cause severe CoQ10
deficiencies in your body!
According to The Lancet…
“The widespread use of statins—cholesterol lower-
ing drugs—is a concern because they lower natural
levels of CoQ10.
Since CoQ10 is needed in the chain of events that
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produces energy, reduced CoQ10 levels may lower

cell energy metabolism.
This might show up as cardiomyopathy with exer-
cise intolerance—heart failure.”
Since CoQ10 was first discovered in 1957, literally
hundreds of major medical studies have proven that the
more of this miracle nutrient you have in your body,
the longer you will live. The less CoQ10 you have, the
sooner you will die. CoQ10 is definitely one of the most
important nutrients for your heart… and your life.
More on the Heart-Healing Effects

Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
In the first study, published in the New England Journal
of Medicine, researchers looked at the experience of about
22,000 male doctors who enrolled in the Physicians’ Health
Study in 1982. They were all free of heart disease at the
time, and about 15,000 volunteered a blood sample.
Over the next 17 years, 94 of the men who had given
blood samples and who had not subsequently been diag-
nosed with heart disease died suddenly. The researchers
chose about 180 surviving members of the study and com-
pared them with those victims. In particular, they compared
the bloodstream concentrations of substances called
omega-3 fatty acids, found primarily in fish oils.
On average, the men who died suddenly had lower
amounts of omega-3 fatty acids than the ones who did not.
When the researchers divided all the men into four groups
based on the concentration of omega-3 fatty acids in their
blood, the men in the highest quarter had only a fifth the
risk of sudden death as those in the lowest quarter.
In the second study, which appears in JAMA, researchers
studied the experience of 85,000 female nurses. Like the

physicians, they volunteered to be questioned and followed
over many years as part of the Nurses’ Health Study, which
began in 1976.
The researchers used dietary information gathered in
five interviews between 1980 and 1994 to estimate fish
intake. They also calculated the approximate amount of
omega-3 fatty acids consumed, based on the type of fish
the women listed in their diet questionnaires.
The researchers found that the more frequently a woman
ate fish, the less likely she was to suffer a heart attack or to
die of any cardiac cause. Specifically, those who ate fish
once a week had a 30 percent lower risk of heart attack or
death than those who never ate fish. Eating fish five times a
week was only slightly more beneficial; those women had
a 34 percent lower risk.
What is C-Reactive Protein and How

Can it Predict Heart Disease?
C-Reactive protein is the concentration of a protein that is
produced by the liver during episodes of acute inflammation.
It is a part of the body’s basic emergency response system.
As far as my study goes, everybody should at least annually
get a C-Reactive Protein Test (CRP).
CRP is a health marker that indicates early signs of the
risk of heart disease and stroke. Without this test most doc-
tors rely on lipid profile (cholesterol and triglycerides) as
their indicators or predictors of heart disease and stroke.
Evidence is substantial that high CRP levels double the risk
of heart disease and stroke. Millions of people have normal
cholesterol levels but high levels of inflammation in their
cardiovascular system, as identified by the CRP blood test.
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Many studies in the last few years have shown that

inflammation is always present in the heart blood vessels
of heart attack patients with normal cholesterol levels.
An inflammatory response is a normal response to
disease or injury and particularly to infection. The trouble
with inflammation is that it is sometimes an over response
doing more harm than good.
It is now clear that atherosclerosis (hardening of the
arteries) is an inflammatory disease rather than a cholesterol
buildup problem. Infection and inflammation are closely
related. Researchers have suspected for some time that artery
disease may have an infectious component.
Chronic low level or subclinical infection or inflamma-
tion is a tipoff that something is out of stasis, or balance.
Those who have had bacterial or viral infections are more
susceptible later to inflammation leading to heart attacks or
stroke.
A CRP blood test can accurately predict future heart
problems even in otherwise low risk patients, such as those
who don’t smoke, who have normal cholesterol and blood
pressure, and no family history of heart disease or diabetes.
Above normal CRP has multiple, independent effects
that cause heart disease not seen and not suspected. The very
important thing is that a CRP blood test may predict many
months or years in advance of an incident.
Keep in mind that many heart disease risk factors such as
obesity, lack of exercise, smoking, and high blood pressure
are all known to increase inflammation and CRP levels. In
fact, fat cells by themselves and independent of the rest of
the body produce inflammation and higher CRP levels lead-
ing to heart disease. Fat is an organ in and by itself that can,
over time, destroy the rest of the body with subclinical
infection and eventually heart disease.
Many of us are dying as walking time bombs, totally

unsuspecting.
What to do? Get a CRP test at least once a year. Be sure
to get the high-sensitivity CRP test because it can detect the
extremely low level of inflammation (infection) linked to
early heart disease.
Get inflammation down to get CRP down.
Water Heals—Drugs Kill!

We in America have so much junk to drink that we have
completely lost our thirst for water. If we only knew the
price. Here are some facts about water: Unknown to the
public, dehydration is a major health problem but the easiest
to reverse and control. Just drink at least eight glasses of
water a day.
Anything so simple is unimpressive to people and cer-
tainly not profitable to the American medical establishment.
As you’ve read previously in this book, the outstanding
work and research of Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D.,
has not only proved that dehydration is undermining the
health of Americans, but that simple act of drinking at least
eight glasses of water a day with one-fourth teaspoon of sea
salt is the prescription for restoring health and staying
healthy.
This scientific fact is totally ignored by the medical
establishment and their sponsors the pharmaceuticals. There
is no money in the water cure. The U.S. medical establish-
ment has been very successful in producing the chemistry
of suffering and death. Drugs are toxins that are acid in pH
and accumulate in the human body. The conventional prac-
tice of medicines with drugs is nothing less than mass
murder. It is terrorism on the American people. The fact
that Americans have been “sold” on drugs and conventional
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medical practice in no way excuses the crime.

Because the public does not have knowledge of the crime
makes the dimensions of this evil multiply to infinity. In fact,
this conspiracy is predicated on ignorance and produces tril-
lions-of-dollars of wealth for the medical establishment.
Crime can be so big as to defy exposure. This, my
friends, is the situation with so-called health care in Amer-
ica. According to Dr. Batmanghelidj, the discovery that
chronic unintentional dehydration is the primary cause of
pain and disease in the human body, including cancer. Illness
in all of its modern manifestations can be traced to basic
dehydration.
When plump and hydrated human cells become trans-
formed into prune-like and drying cells because of
insufficient water, the dehydrating body begins to malfunction
with symptoms called disease by medical doctors. Call it
disease, but what it is dehydration. Water shortage inside
the cell is not an investigation of modern medicine which
focuses on the erroneous premise that it’s the solid matter
of the body that regulates all functions. This totally false
system is the foundation of the medical empire that is sucking
the resources out of America into the pockets of medical
demagogues.
The scientific truth is that water is the master regulator
of the body and everything else is subservient. Why should
we consider the water cure in our own health care? Because
it is simple, it is cheap and needs no medical supervision.
Caveat, do not drop any medication or medical supervision
that you may be on now. If in any doubt about your condi-
tion as it relates to drinking eight glasses of water a day, seek
your doctor’s advice. There may be certain rare conditions
that need special attention.
Conventional medicine has its own jargon that serves to
lock out the truth about physiology. It’s called double-blind

randomized trials which has absolutely nothing to do with a
physiological approach to health. Double-blind studies are only
suited for evaluation of drugs (toxic chemicals).
The medical establishment prescribes drugs as if any health
problem poses or implies a drug deficiency. This is seductive
terrorism! Water is a nutrient and does possess a dominant
metabolic role in all physiological functions of the body.
Seniors have a special problem because thirst perception is
lost as we age. This, of course, is why we age. Drinking water
has to become a conscious discipline especially as we age.
There is no way around it. If we don’t hydrate or drink enough
water, all the nutrition in the world won’t save us from disease
and suffering.
One of the most important health lessons anyone can learn
is to drink plenty of good water daily, at least eight eight-ounce
glasses. Not just any water, but alkalizing water. As you
rehydrate your body, you will develop much more thirst.
At first, you may think surely that you will pop, but instead
you will begin to crave water.
Our bodies are 70 percent water; our blood is 94 percent
water. So water is life… literally! Getting liberal amounts
of alkaline water (having a pH between 9.0 and 11.0)
neutralizes accumulated acid wastes. Over a few months,
alkaline water will remove all acid waste.
This is the most effective way to stop aging and indeed
reverse aging. This, my friends, is the great secret of health
and longevity, and it excludes all drugs and all doctors. We
could all be very healthy and very rich, because we could
take all the trillions of wasted dollars spent on doctors,
drugs, and hospitals and pay it to the people in the form of a
national dividend. Well, this won’t happen, because the pub-
lic mind is gone. But on an individual basis, we can survive
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with good health and quality of life.

Plain tap water is out. Please drink distilled or reverse-
osmosis water. It’s far better to drink most of your water
between meals. Drinking a lot of water with your meals—
especially cold water—interferes with stomach acid and
digesting—very important! Lemon juice added to your water is
very alkalizing, and it makes water tasty.
Your heart, like your health in general, is directly related to
what you eat. I apologize for the simplicity of this profound
statement—and for repeating it consistently in this text. But it’s
that important! The medical establishment doesn’t want you to
know this. Our parents lost it, and now we have to relearn it.
If the heart is properly
fed, it will last many years
longer. But don’t feed it
drugs, no matter what.
Of course, basic to
general health and the
heart is to learn to eat as
much fresh raw vegeta-
bles and green foods as
you possibly can. Strive
to eat 80 percent of your
diet as alkaline foods.
Raw vegetables, green
foods, and drinks are
highly alkaline and
rewarding over a few
months.
But your heart needs
not just food, but nutri-
tion. This should include
some important natural
food supplements, oral and/or I.V. chelation, thyroid therapy,

enhanced external counter-pulsation (EECP), hormonal
balance, and, in an emergency, strophantin.
Let’s take these one at a time. They apply as preventatives
and as therapy after you already have symptoms of heart
disease.
First, burn into your mind the very essential need for an 80
percent alkaline diet. This will likely be a great change for
you, since you are probably like most Americans—addicted
to a very acid diet. Acid foods are highly addictive, a secret
of commercial food processors.
Next, get on a good chelation supplement. Stay on it before
you develop heart disease and certainly after symptoms appear.
Oral chelation is a supplement that has essential heart nutri-
ents, especially EDTA.
EDTA is an amino acid discovered in Germany in the
1930s as a therapy to remove toxic metals such as lead, mer-
cury, aluminum, and cadmium poisoning. And today, EDTA
is approved by the FDA and the American Heart Association
for the removal of metal poisoning.
Then, patients and doctors observed that while on EDTA
therapy their angina would bother them less, pain in their legs
(claudication) would disappear, and they could breathe better.
Of course, one would expect to feel much better if his arteries
were cleaned out. Significant therapeutic results do occur
over several months. It takes years to get clogged up and
several months to flush the arteries out. But it definitely
works and has extended many lives.
EDTA chelation improves vascular circulation so much
that many legs and feet have been saved from amputation.
EDTA chelation is a powerful vascular therapy outside the
medical establishment and certainly not profitable to medical
establishment and certainly not profitable to medical practice.
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So the last thing most doctors would do is to recommend this

vital heart and vascular therapy which is absolutely harmless
and without “side effects.”
Oral chelation is cheap, available, easy, and you don’t
need the supervision of a doctor. It helps prevent premature
aging. Many people who have cold extremities; i.e., cold
hands and cold feet have improved blood circulation and
they report great improvements after beginning EDTA oral
chelation therapy.
Also, men report improvement in erectile dysfunction. The
physiology of erectile function is based on blood flow. EDTA
oral chelation helps this also.
EDTA oral chelation effects brain circulation, thereby
improving memory and mental clarity. While bypass heart
surgery affects two to three inches of coronary arteries,
EDTA, oral chelation affects the whole body’s vascular
system. It is a super miracle to tens-of-thousands of people.
It should be a preventive for every man and woman.
Magnesium is Essential for

Avoiding Heart Disease!
Magnesium deficiency in the United States is common and
critical, yet unrecognized. The usual serum magnesium tests
do not identify intracellular magnesium deficiency. The usual
application to soil of NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus, and potas-
sium) does not restore magnesium. So it is very wise to take a
daily supplement of at least 300 mg of magnesium complex.
Incidentally, the association between magnesium deficiency
and diabetes is well established. The role of magnesium in
preventing death from heart disease is very critical but not
well known.
During a heart attack, or myocardial infarction, there is a
distinct shift in magnesium concentrations in heart cells. This

observation in emergency rooms alerts the need for quick
administration of intramuscular magnesium.
Heart cells are deprived of oxygen in myocardial ischemia,
interfering with their ability to manufacture ATP (the body’s
most basic form of energy). When oxygen supply is renewed,
normal or even high concentrations of magnesium are restored,
and the heart cells are able to produce adequate ATP again.
Magnesium prevents an increase in intracellular concen-
trations of sodium, calcium, and potassium. Proper balance
of these electrolytes keeps the heartbeat regular and the heart
vessels open.
Magnesium and calcium have opposing effects in heart
cells and in artery vessel walls throughout the body. Too much
calcium and not enough magnesium can mean tightening of
muscular artery walls and irregular heartbeats (arrhythmias).
When magnesium replaces calcium at a crucial point in the
contraction of muscle cells in the heart or in artery walls, it
helps to repair damage by free radicals.
Magnesium also opposes release or fight-or-flight hormones
(catecholamines) from the adrenal gland, and this could have
anti-arrhythmic and anti-thrombotic (dangerous blood-clotting)
effect. This could protect against blood vessel spasm and
against blood clots blocking vessels and causing ischemic
attacks.
Magnesium decreases platelet activity and, therefore, risk
of blood clots.
The likelihood of heart tissue being damaged during a
heart attack is much greater when tissue is low in magne-
sium. Higher CVD mortality correlates with magnesium
depleting factors such as diuretic usage, diabetes, dioxin
therapy, hyperaldosteronism, alcohol, age, congestive heart
failure, diarrhea, and dietary magnesium deficiency.
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There is no such thing as an overload of magnesium in

the diet. Any excess will be excreted harmlessly, whereas a
deficiency is serious indeed.
Magnesium is a miracle mineral! It’s not in our soils,
and the processing and refining of foods has caused
critical shortages in our diet. In cooking, magnesium is
sensitive to heat and easily lost. Magnesium acts as a
“brake for cancer.” The predisposition to cancer accom-
panies the deficit of magnesium reserves.
According to Dr. Mildred Sealig in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition, June 1964, there is a direct relationship
between the amount of magnesium in the diet and the ability
to avoid high blood pressure. People concerned about osteo-
porosis need to know that it is magnesium that maintains
normal levels of calcium in the body.
Twitching, irregular heartbeat, irritability, and nervous
fatigue are symptoms of magnesium depletion. The anti-
arrhythmic attribute of magnesium is well known.
Children of all ages who are stricken with epilepsy
almost always fail to respond to drugs, but placed on high
oral doses of magnesium, they experience stunning improve-
ments on magnesium.
Magnesium has been clinically neglected in most medical
centers and certainly in private practice. This is unfortunate,
because many of the pathological changes caused by magne-
sium deficiency are responsible for medical problems.
Magnesium deficiency has immediate as well as long-term
effects, culminating in degenerative disease later in life in the
form of chronic cardiovascular and renal disease.
The thing to fix firmly in mind about a magnesium defi-
ciency, or any other mineral or nutritional deficiency is that
these deficiencies are occult (hidden) sometimes for years until
a health problem is triggered, as in myocardial infarction. This

fact disassociates cause and effect. The fact that it may take 30
or 40 years to manifest itself makes it no less a deficiency.
Our bodies are a miracle of creation. We are able to live
quite comfortably for years as we use up our reserves before
deficiencies become apparent. Then we pay the piper. Of
course, the general impulse of modern Americans is to seek
a quick fix or silver bullet in drug therapy. Unfortunately,
doctors can only mask symptoms, leaving the underlying
health problems to deteriorate.
There has developed in the last 50 years an alarming trend
of sudden deaths from ischemic heart disease in middle-age
men, and an increasing number of younger men who suddenly
develop myocardial infarctions, cardiac arrhythmias, or
arrests. Underlying is a widespread increase of atherosclerosis
in young people. Magnesium deficiency is a common etio-
logic factor, and it is believed to be directly related to
increased incidence of sudden infant deaths.
Calcium without magnesium causes heart spasm. Calcium
contracts and magnesium relaxes, a very important harmony
in cardiovascular health. This harmony is equally important
in bone health. Magnesium is absolutely required to harden
and strengthen bones. Magnesium is required for calcium
homeostasis.
Convulsions or seizures in adults and children are related
to magnesium deficiency far more than calcium deficiency.
Overt symptomatology may be totally absent in magnesium
deficiency leading to cardiovascular, renal, and bone
abnormalities.
Another problem is that serum (blood) magnesium
evels cannot be relied upon to accurately reflect magnesium
status. Magnesium is definitely a heart mineral, as magne-
sium uptake has been shown to be ten times as rapid as
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that of skeletal muscle.

Low magnesium intake is directly associated with loss
of magnesium from the heart and with a high incidence of
sudden death. The good news is that lost magnesium can
quickly be restored with supplementation. It has been
demonstrated that arrhythmias respond dramatically to
magnesium therapy. Irregular heartbeat presupposes a
magnesium deficiency.
Regular magnesium supplementation for everybody is
recommended.
Personal Recommendations from

My Medicine Cabinet
The following natural food supplements are what I take as
a heart protocol, but these same supplements promote general
health:
■ Cardiotrophin—for a weak heart, loss of heart muscle
tone.
■ Catalyn—multiple vitamin, trace mineral enzyme
source, 12 raw foods.
■ Cataplex B—a unique formula with a special B4 for
nerve motor conductivity. Special formula for arrhyth-
mia or irregular heart.
■ Cataplex G—for liver support, fat metabolism, hyper-
tension, vasodilation, for the tense coronary type
person or the hyperactive child.
■ Cataplex C—for a pounding heart short of oxygen.
This is great for the heart because this whole C com-
plex increases the oxygen carrying capacity of the
blood.
■ Cataplex F—for a weak second heart sound, transfers
calcium from blood into tissue essential fatty acid.

■ Cardio-Plus—special all around combination product
for the heart. It rebuilds the heart.
■ Cataplex E—a very functional nutrition for the heart.
Everybody knows that vitamin E goes with the heart.
It is vital for a healthy heart.
This may seem like a lot of vitamins but think of them as
food supplements as that is what they are. Altogether, what
you take may amount to two tablespoons full per day, not
much compared to a normal food intake.
I know these nutrients. I have taken them for years.
They have been proven over time as vital support for the
heart as well as whole health. This is live food, a biological
mechanism. These food supplements cannot in any way be
compared to mass-produced commercial vitamins like you
find at the supermarket.
Our bodies are designed to utilize whole foods grown in
the soil. Heart disease in America is malnutrition. We fool
our bodies with calories and starve for nutrition. Everybody
has more than enough calories but a precious few have
adequate nutrition. This is the black horse of silent famine
and ill fares the land.
I’ll leave you with this thought… wouldn’t it be great if
we could prevent heart disease and all the correlating fatal
diseases without the pressures from physicians, hospitals,
drugs, or big pharmaceutical companies? Then maybe the
headline for the year 2020 would read:
Emergency Rooms Closed Except for Accidents Only
Bob Livingston 91
Index
A 86, 88, 89
Adams 25 Arteriosclerosis 16, 28
Alderman, Dr. Michael 56, 57 Aspirin 51, 52, 54
Alkaline pH balance 70 Atkins, Robert 51
Alliance Hospital 30, 31, 32
B
Alzheimer’s disease 36,
48, 59 Balloon angioplasty 7
American Dietetic Baroldi, Professor Giorgio 29
Association (ADA) 58 Barnes, M.D., Ph.D.,
American Heart Association Broda O. 75
(AHA) 39, 57, 84 Basal temperature 74
American Medical Batmanghelidj, M.D., F. 58,
Association (AMA) 27, 57 80, 81
American Society of Belz 25
Hypertension 56 Bile 38
Andropause 69, 70 Biochemical individuality
Angina pectoris 9, 64, 66 51, 52, 53
Angiogenesis 23, 32, 33 Blood Clots 11, 44, 45, 49,
Arachidonic acid 53 50, 86
Armed Forces Institute Blood Sugar Imbalances
of Pathology 30 5, 61
Armour Dessicated Bradycardia 9
Hormone 74 Brownstein, M.D., David 55
Arrhythmia 9, 13, 43, 61, Bypass grafts 23, 24
C Collaterals 20, 23, 24, 29

C-Reactive Protein (CRP) Congestive heart failure
47, 78, 79, 80 19, 20, 33, 34, 43, 86
Calcium 74, 86, 87, 88, 90 Coronary occlusion 23, 27
Carbohydrates 41, 52, 53, Cortisol 66
54, 62, 64 Coumadin® 48, 49, 50
Cardiac arrhythmia 13, 48,
88 D
Cardiac Output 67, 68 Dean Ornish high-carbohy-
Cardio-Plus 90 drate diet 52
Cardiology 7, 8, 24, 32, 33 Dehydration 80, 81
Cardiotrophin 89 Dehydroepiandrosterone
(DHEA) 38, 63
Catalyn 89
Cataplex B 89 E
Cataplex C 89 Eades, M.D., Mary 42
Cataplex E 90 Eades, M.D., Michael 42,
Cataplex F 89 52
Cataplex G 89 Edens, Dr. 25
Celtic Sea Salt® 55, 57 EDTA 12, 18, 72, 84, 85
Cerebral hemorrhage 41 Eicosanoids 51, 52, 53, 54
Chlorophyll complex 72 EKG 21, 64
Cholesterol 16, 17, 18, 22, Enhanced External
35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, Counter-Pulsation (EECP)
42, 43, 51, 52, 57, 62, 64, 19, 20, 21, 22, 84
65, 66, 67, 69, 73, 74, 75, Enig, Mary 40
76, 78, 79
Epstein, Dr. 28, 29, 30
Cholesterol Hoax 17, 35
Erdmann 25
Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)
35, 36, 37, 42, 43, 44, 76, Estrogen 38, 66
77 Etiology of Acidosis 26
Bob Livingston 93
F Hematocrit 46
Fallon, Sally 40 Hemorrhagic strokes 11
Far Infared Sauna (FIR) 33, Heparin® 49
34 High affinity 25
Fish Oil 47, 48, 49, 72, Homocysteine 15, 16, 17, 18
75, 76, 77 Homocystinuria 16
Folate 15, 17, 18 Hormones 38, 51, 53, 63,
Folic acid 15, 16, 17, 18 65, 67, 70, 86
Food and Drug Administra- Hypogonadism 69, 70
tion (FDA) 15, 16, 18, 19, Hypothyroidism 74
61, 84
Hypoxia 44, 66, 69
Framingham Study 39
Franke 67 I
Iodine 55, 73, 74
G
Irregular heartbeat 9, 86,
Gadasalli, M.D., Suresh 31 87, 89
Gall bladder disease 41 Ischemic heart disease 19,
Gingko 47, 48, 49 32, 88
Gla protein 71 Ischemic strokes 11
Goiter 74
K
H Kensey, M.D., Kenneth R.
Hagen-Poiseuille’s law 28 45, 46
HealthGrades® 32 Kern, Dr. Berthold 22, 23,
24, 25, 26, 27
Heart Attack 11, 12, 13, 15,
22, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 45, Keys, Ancel 37
46, 47, 49, 50, 53, 54, 55,
57, 73, 75, 78, 79, 85, 86 L
Heart Bypass Risks 19 L-arginine 32, 33, 34, 48, 49
Heart Disease Symptoms 13 Law of Moses 56
Leaky gut syndrome 39 NutraSweet® 61

Lenard, Ph.D., Lane 64
Leonardo da Vinci 56
O
Lipid Hypothesis 37 Occlusive coronary
thrombus 23, 27
Lipitor® 76
Omega-3 27, 38, 53, 54,
Low affinity 25 75, 77, 78
Lysozymal enzymes 24 Omega-6 27, 53, 54
Oral chelation 12, 21,
M 84, 85
McCully, Dr. Kilmer 15, Osteoporosis 36, 49,
16, 17 60, 70, 71, 87
Metabolic acidosis 23, 24 Ouabain 25
Moller, M.D., Jens 64
Myocardial infarction 20, P
22, 23, 27, 57, 85, 88 pH 24, 27, 30, 68,
Myocardial perfusion 20 70, 80, 82
Physicians’ Health
N Study 54, 77
National Heart, Lung, and Plavix® 47, 49
Blood Institute 28, 39 Potassium 49, 85, 86
Nattokinase 12, 28, 47, Powell 25
49, 50
Protein 42, 47, 49, 52, 64,
Natural Alternatives 73 66, 71, 78
Natural Bypass 22, 23,
28, 29, 30, 32 R
New York University Rentrop 24
Medical Center 39 Robotic cardiac surgical
Niacin 48 procedure 31
Nitric oxide 33, 34 Rosedale, M.D., Ron 35
Nurses’ Health Study 78 Rosch, M.D., Paul 57
Bob Livingston 95
S Texon, M.D., Meyer 39

Salt 55, 56, 57, 58, Therapeutic Angiogenesis 32
59, 60, 80 Thromboxane 54
Sealig, Dr. Mildred 87 Thyroid 73, 74, 75, 84
Serotonin 39, 59 Thyroxine 73
Sodium 55, 57, 86 Tissue plasminogen
Splenda® 61 activator (T-PA) 49
Srivastava, M.D., Sudhir 31 Type 2 diabetes 51, 57
Stevia 61, 62
Streptokinase 49 V
Stroke 11, 12, 13, 28,31, Vitamin B12 15, 17, 18
44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 56, 67, Vitamin B6 15, 17, 18
68, 75, 78, 79
Vitamin D 38, 71, 72,
Strophanthin 23, 25, 26 75, 76
Sudden Death 9, 11, Vitamin K 49, 50, 71, 72
13, 75, 77, 88, 89
Surgeon General’s Report W
on Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention 56 Water 10, 23, 38, 55, 58,
59, 60, 72, 80, 81, 82, 83
Sweet-n-Low® 61
Wolner, Dr. Ernst 28
T Wesley, James 26
Tachycardia 9 Wright, M.D., Jonathan V.
Testosterone 38, 63, 64, 65, 64
66, 67, 68, 69, 70
Notes:
Cutting-Edge
Natural Secrets
For Healing
Your Heart
And Deadly Heart Hoaxes Exposed!
Avoid sudden death by heart attack,

sweep your arteries clear, and reverse
heart disease… without surgery,
doctors, or drugs.

P.O. Box 3623 By Bob Livingston
Hueytown, AL 35023 Founder, Personal Liberty Alerts
1-800-773-5699 Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter
www.PersonalLiberty.com BL-PR162-9

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A M E D I C A L T R E A S U RY

Avoid sudden death by heart attack,

The Bob Livingston Letter

The information contained in this book is meant to educate the reader,

This information is published under the First Amendment of the

Published by The Bob Livingston Letter

deceived about this “medical orthodoxy.”

not handicapped with modern medical technology.

Heart Disease Risk Factors

swallowing functions. A stroke can cause difficulty breathing

or stroke. This almost makes heart disease a no-brainer.

Sudden Death and Other Top

■ Back, neck, abdomen, or jaw pain

The Role of Homocysteine

or 100 in good health. These three nutrients are folic acid,

risk than any of the oxidative cholesterols. The medical

Heart Bypass Risks

counter-pulsation (EECP) mechanism is the development

premature construction that would interfere with

Finally, I have had this full treatment for seven weeks. I

Theories on Heart Disease

heart attacks have had no evidence whatsoever of coronary

There appears to be no refutation in the literature of

balance to the heart muscle, thereby preventing tissue dam-

Dr. Kern reported results of his clinical practice in Stuttgart

Americans subsist on commercial foods or more

More on the Subject of Natural

Dr. Epstein has also confirmed that in an advanced state of

outstandingly and impressively visible. In year-long studies at

Successful Bypass Surgery by Robotics

imagine a heart bypass operation where no human hands ever

Permian Basin area for overall cardiac care according to

Therapeutic Angiogenesis (Natural

when taken regularly over several months.

Bypass Alternatives: Far

function and general circulation.

The Great Cholesterol Hoax

would lead one to believe that doctors should reduce the

Forget Statin Drugs—You Need Cholesterol

or the treatment of disease. It is commerce, pure and

leading to obstruction of blood vessels of the heart, and

■ Cholesterol acts as an antioxidant, protecting us

and Blood Institute published in the journal Circulation the

More Cholesterol Lies and

not raise cholesterol or triglycerides and fat consumption

Really concerned about your cholesterol? Learn about

Don’t Let Statin Drugs Deplete

addition to their conventional therapy had a 75 percent

all over the body become stiffened and clogged?”

prone to heart attacks than premenopausal women?

L-arginine keeps appearing in the literature as if a miracle.

More About the Clot-Busting

vitamin B2, and vitamin K2. Mainly, it contains the enzyme

costs less, and has no negative side effects. In fact it has

The Dangers of Aspirin as a

According to Michael Eades in Protein Power, eicosanoids,

But the low-carbohydrate diet with balanced eicosanoids

many omega-6 fatty acids.

The Effect Salt Consumption

The History of Salt and Your Health

While some hypertensive persons are sensitive to salt, it is

How Much Salt is Safe? Better

the American Dietetic Association (ADA), and the National