Eradicating Heart Disease

212 Pages·1997·31.417 MB·English

by  Dr Matthias Rath

THE MOST IMPORTANT BOOK OF YOUR LIFE
ERADICATING
HEART DISEASE
MATTHIAS RATH, M.D.
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Heart attacks and strokes are not diseases
they are caused by vitamin deficiencies.
America's number one killers can be prevented
by an optimum intake of essential nutrients.
This book shows you how.

ERADICATING
HEART DISEASE
MATTHIAS RATH, M.D.
Published by Health Now
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"An ounce ofprevention is worth a pound of cure."
President Bill Clinton in his Health
Care address to the U.S. Congress.
Copyright ©1993 by Matthias Rath, M.D.
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THE NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY
THAT DOES NOT MAKE US HUNGRY
Vitamin deficiencies that cause heart attacks, strokes and other
cardiovascular diseases do not give us warning signs. Unlike regular
hunger, we don't feel stomach pain or any other alarm sign. The first
signs that our body cells starve from vitamin deficiency are the
outbreak of diseases. These diseases develop primarily in those
organs which suffer most from nutritional deficiencies: the heart and
the blood vessels.
"New thoughts and new truths go through three stages. First they are
ridiculed. Next they are violently opposed. Then, finally they are
accepted as being self-evident."
Arthur Schopenhauer
May this book help to make self-evident to all that vitamins are keys
to optimum cardiovascular health.
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HEART DISEASE THE EPIDEMIC
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OF THE 20TH CENTURY
CAN BE ERADICATED
Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer in the United States
and many other countries. Every year, millions of people die from
heart attacks and strokes, and millions more are left disabled. Heart
disease has become an epidemic disease. Like all epidemics, heart
disease is caused by one or only a few factors which have now been
identified.
A hundred years ago, Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and other brilliant
scientists, discovered bacteria as the cause of infectious diseases.
This led to the eradication of many infectious diseases and saved
millions of lives. Now a medical discovery has been made that can
lead to the eradication of heart attacks, strokes, and other forms of
cardiovascular diseases.
During recent years an increasing number of studies indicated the
benefits of vitamins in relation to cardiovascular disease. Now.
finally, a scientific breakthrough was made documenting that vitamin
deficiency is in fact the primary cause of heart attacks, strokes.
and other cardiovascular diseases. Most importantly, on the basis
of these discoveries, we can now prevent cardiovascular diseases
by an optimum intake of nutritional supplements. My discoveries
which led to this scientific breakthrough are summarized in this
book. These discoveries will have a direct impact on your personal
health and on the health of millions of people.
hope that the recommendations of this book will help you
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personally to achieve and maintain optimum cardiovascular health.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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INTRODUCTION
Heart disease is a worldwide epidemic 8
The heart disease epidemic in the United States 10
The health care costs for cardiovascular diseases are skyrocketing 11
Most cardiovascular diseases are vitamin deficiencies 12
A daily nutritional regimen for optimum cardiovascular health 1 3
Testimonials: striking evidence 1 4
SECTION A: THE KEYS TO CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH
Why animals don't get heart attacks 19
How vitamin C prevents heart attacks and strokes 20
Vitamins prevent heart disease - the clinical evidence 22
A new riskfor your heart ten times greaterthan cholesterol 23
Why you have heard about cholesterol - but not about lipoprotein(a) 24
The reversal of existing cardiovascular diseases without surgery 25
When to start protecting your blood vessels and your heart 26
How you can improvethe performance ofyour heart 27
How you can protect your blood vessels from free radical damage 28
SECTION B: THE NATURE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
How the blood circulation works 31
Howthe heart is built 32
How the heartworks 33
How the heart is nourished 34
Why the coronary arteries are the most stressed arteries of the human body 35
How a heart attack occurs 36
Mow a stroke occurs 37
How atherosclerotic deposits develop 38
How lipoprotein(a) forms deposits in the blood vessel wall 40
Impaired waste collection from the blood vessel wall increases deposits 41
What is lipoprotein(a) 42
Lipoprotein(a) is the greatest risk factor for cardiovascular disease today 44
You should know your lipoprotein(a) blood levels 45
Lipoprotein(a), and LDL-cholesterol - how to interpret your personal risk 46
Riskfor lipoprotein(a) deposits increases with high lipoprotem(a) blood levels 48
Extent of atherosclerotic lesions increase with lipoprotem(a) deposited 49
The lipoprotein(a) - vitamin C connection 50
Blood vessels stability is the key 51
Vitamin C deficiency is the primary cause of cardiovascular disease
- Early clinical evidence - 53
- Furtherevidence - 54
-The proof- 55
Heart attacks, strokes, and peripheral vascular diseases 59
The pipeline phenomenon 60
Essential nutrients can prevent and reverse cardiovascular diseases 61
SECTION C: HOW TO PREVENT CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
WITH NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Vitamin C cuts heart disease rate in half 65
Vitamin C adds years to your life 66
USA: more vitamin C - less heart disease 67
Largest study ever conducted on vitamin C and heart disease prevention 68
Protecting your blood vessel wall against free radical damage 70
Antioxidant vitamins reduce the risk for cardiovascular diseases 71
Europe: more vitamins - less heartdisease 72
SECTION D: HOW TO REVERSE EXISTING CARDIOVASCULAR
DISEASE WITH NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS
Dietary vitamin C supplementation reverses atherosclerotic deposits 76
Deposits in coronary arteries lead to angina pectoris 77
Reversing heart disease and decreasing angina pectoris 78
Nutritional recommendations to reverse heart disease 79
Reversing heart disease within weeks: the proof 80
How nutritional supplements reverse existing atherosclerotic deposits 83
Vitamins reverse atherosclerotic deposits by increasing HDL levels 84
A teflon-like layerfor your blood vessel walls 85
A medical breakthrough from the laboratory bench 87
Lysine, proline and vitamin C can halt the "atherosclerotic tumor" 89
Reversing cardiovascular diseases with nutritional supplements 90
Heart attacks and strokes can be eradicated 91
"A call for excellence in health care" 92