The Hows and Whys of Arteriosclerosis
Arteriosclerosis or Atherosclerosis.
What is the mechanism of this debilitating disease? Statins treatments seem to fail systematically to protect susceptible population from the risk of heart attack or stroke and provide a quality of life.
That is because statins target the symptoms and not the root of the disease.
Atherosclerosis is tightly associated with homocysteine levels.
In fact, in human studies, elevation of blood homocysteine is found to be a greater risk factor (22-40 fold) than elevated cholesterol (1.
2 - 3.
1 fold), high blood pressure (8-18 fold) or cigarette smoking (3.
5 fold).
Obviously high cholesterol is the factor with the lowest correlation score here.
But this serves the profits of the big pharmaceutical companies in the best way possible.
Selling statins like Lipitor, Crestor etc, result in billions of profit each year for the pharma companies.
In 1968 a grand medical researcher form Harvard Medical School, clarified the atherosclerosis mechanism.
His opinions and publications were ignored by the mainstream medical society.
Few scientists supported him and it took almost two decades for more official publications, except for his, to start supporting his findings.
This is a well documented and more than sufficiently supported theory now and clinical and experimental data clearly point towards that direction.
Unfortunately it will probably take a couple more decades for the medical society to catch up and incorporate these valuable findings to practice.
It's all about homocysteine then.
This molecule, under certain circumstances, accumulates in the liver and modifies LDL molecules.
The modified LDL is highly toxic and when it is taken in by arterial cells it causes endothelial damage.
This is the start of atherosclerosis.
Cholesterol is accumulated there as a byproduct of the numerous reactions taking place in the area of endothelial dysfunction.
Soon platelets start to accumulate, get stuck to the atheromatic plaques being formed and thrombosis becomes an extra clinical symptom of atherosclerosis.
If this sequence of events involves the arteries supplying the heart with blood, coronary artery disease is the result and the risk of myocardial infarction is highly elevated.
Other parts of the circulatory system involved will equally threaten other vital organs, such as the brain, threatening with stroke, kidneys, threatening with kidney failure and the list goes on...
The bottom-line is that there is a cheap, safe and massively efficient atherosclerosis treatment.
Vitamins.
Yes, it only takes vitamins B12, B6 and folic acid (folate) to help the liver detoxify the excess of homocysteine.
This is the reason it all started anyway.
Severe deficiencies in these vitamins in the first place caused the liver to be unable to metabolize the excessive amount of homocysteine.
These vitamins are key factors in the liver detoxification enzymes.
Given that a healthy liver is available, supplementation with the missing nutrients provided with instant alleviation of the atherosclerosis condition and gradually reverses the clinical picture.
It is a shame indeed that conventional doctors are completely unaware of these revolutionary findings and instead of cheap and efficient vitamin therapy prescribe dangerous statins full of side effects.
Statins are minimally tested on humans, have tremendous side effects and at the end of the day, they are inefficient in lowering the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
People should know about this.
It is a crime committed by pharmaceutical companies and people are paying the price by compromising their lives.
What is the mechanism of this debilitating disease? Statins treatments seem to fail systematically to protect susceptible population from the risk of heart attack or stroke and provide a quality of life.
That is because statins target the symptoms and not the root of the disease.
Atherosclerosis is tightly associated with homocysteine levels.
In fact, in human studies, elevation of blood homocysteine is found to be a greater risk factor (22-40 fold) than elevated cholesterol (1.
2 - 3.
1 fold), high blood pressure (8-18 fold) or cigarette smoking (3.
5 fold).
Obviously high cholesterol is the factor with the lowest correlation score here.
But this serves the profits of the big pharmaceutical companies in the best way possible.
Selling statins like Lipitor, Crestor etc, result in billions of profit each year for the pharma companies.
In 1968 a grand medical researcher form Harvard Medical School, clarified the atherosclerosis mechanism.
His opinions and publications were ignored by the mainstream medical society.
Few scientists supported him and it took almost two decades for more official publications, except for his, to start supporting his findings.
This is a well documented and more than sufficiently supported theory now and clinical and experimental data clearly point towards that direction.
Unfortunately it will probably take a couple more decades for the medical society to catch up and incorporate these valuable findings to practice.
It's all about homocysteine then.
This molecule, under certain circumstances, accumulates in the liver and modifies LDL molecules.
The modified LDL is highly toxic and when it is taken in by arterial cells it causes endothelial damage.
This is the start of atherosclerosis.
Cholesterol is accumulated there as a byproduct of the numerous reactions taking place in the area of endothelial dysfunction.
Soon platelets start to accumulate, get stuck to the atheromatic plaques being formed and thrombosis becomes an extra clinical symptom of atherosclerosis.
If this sequence of events involves the arteries supplying the heart with blood, coronary artery disease is the result and the risk of myocardial infarction is highly elevated.
Other parts of the circulatory system involved will equally threaten other vital organs, such as the brain, threatening with stroke, kidneys, threatening with kidney failure and the list goes on...
The bottom-line is that there is a cheap, safe and massively efficient atherosclerosis treatment.
Vitamins.
Yes, it only takes vitamins B12, B6 and folic acid (folate) to help the liver detoxify the excess of homocysteine.
This is the reason it all started anyway.
Severe deficiencies in these vitamins in the first place caused the liver to be unable to metabolize the excessive amount of homocysteine.
These vitamins are key factors in the liver detoxification enzymes.
Given that a healthy liver is available, supplementation with the missing nutrients provided with instant alleviation of the atherosclerosis condition and gradually reverses the clinical picture.
It is a shame indeed that conventional doctors are completely unaware of these revolutionary findings and instead of cheap and efficient vitamin therapy prescribe dangerous statins full of side effects.
Statins are minimally tested on humans, have tremendous side effects and at the end of the day, they are inefficient in lowering the risk of cardiovascular diseases.
People should know about this.
It is a crime committed by pharmaceutical companies and people are paying the price by compromising their lives.
