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Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations

for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

• Unhealthy Diet

• Smoking

• Stress

• Hormonal Contraceptives

• Pharmaceutical Drugs

• Dialysis

• Surgery

• Inherited Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

External and Inherited

Cardiovascular Risks

WHY ANIMALS DON’T GET HEART ATTACKS – BUT PEOPLE DO!

9 EXTERNAL AND INHERITED CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS

Unhealthy Diet

Besides too much fat, there are other dangers in our diets.

Residues from herbicides, pesticides and chemical preservatives

are present in essentially every meal we eat. These toxic sub-

stances have to be detoxified in the liver. Vitamin C and other

components of my Cellular Health recommendations are essen-

tial cofactors for the detoxification of these substances in our

bodies.

The basis of any natural cardiovascular health program is a

healthy diet. For many generations, the diets of our ancestors

shaped the metabolism of our bodies today. By understanding

our ancestors’ diets, we have learned what is best for our bod-

ies now. Their diets were rich in cereal, fruits, vegetables and

other plant nutrition high in fiber and vitamins. They ate con-

siderably less fat and sugar than we do today. Conversely, the

average diet in industrialized countries imposes a heavy meta-

bolic burden on our bodies. Certain inherited disorders put our

bodies at further risk.

My recommendations:

Eat a prudent diet. Watch your body weight and exercise regu-

larly. A healthy diet is rich in plant nutrition and contains

abundant vitamins and fiber substances. Try to avoid consum-

ing too much fat and sweetened food. Above all, avoid chronic

depletion of your body’s vitamin reserves by following my Cel-

lular Health recommendations on a daily basis.

My Cellular Health recommendations have been shown to opti-

mize metabolism. This is particularly important for fat metabo-

lism in our bodies. My nutrient program can help you to:

• Lower cholesterol production in your body

• Optimize the metabolism of fat molecules in your cells

• Optimize the elimination of fat from your body

• Protect fat molecules from oxidation

Smoking

While it is known that smoking dramatically increases the risk for

cardiovascular disease, the underlying reason is often unclear.

Cigarette smoke contains millions of free radicals, which are

aggressive molecules that damage the cells of our blood vessels

and other organs and accelerate biological rusting. Free radicals

and other toxic substances in cigarette smoke reach the blood-

stream via the lungs. These noxious substances can damage the

blood vessel pipeline along its entire length of 60,000 miles.

In the body’s defense against these aggressive molecules, antioxi-

dants are used up. Among all antioxidants, vitamin C is the first

one to be destroyed. With the body’s vitamin reserves depleted,

cardiovascular disease starts in the blood vessel system — just as

in early scurvy.

It is important to understand that certain vitamins are literally

used up in the degradation process of these fat molecules. For

every molecule of cholesterol, whether it is produced in the

body or comes from the diet, our bodies use up one molecule

of vitamin C in an enzymatic reaction in the liver.

In this way, high cholesterol and triglyceride levels can con-

tribute to chronic vitamin depletion in the body. Thus, it is

important to understand that an increased cardiovascular risk

is not primarily the result of too many fat molecules in the diet,

but is primarily due to the systematic depletion of the vitamin

reserves in our bodies from an overburdened fat metabolism.

As a consequence of chronic vitamin depletion, the artery

walls are weakened and cardiovascular disease develops.

Now we understand why atherosclerosis in smokers is not lim-

ited to the coronary arteries and why damage occurs in the arter-

ies and capillaries throughout the body. “Smoker’s foot” is typi-

cal, requiring toes or a foot to be amputated.

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9 EXTERNAL AND INHERITED CARDIOVASCULAR RISKS

My Cellular Health recommendations include numerous

antioxidants, which are able to neutralize free radicals con-

tained in cigarette smoke and help prevent damage to the

artery wall and other body tissues.

My recommendations:

Try to find time to relax. Schedule time to unwind just as you

schedule your professional appointments. In the case of severe

emotional problems, you may also benefit from professional

consultation. Irrespective of these steps, make sure that you

supplement your body’s reservoir with vitamins and other

components of my Cellular Health recommendations.

My recommendations:

If you still smoke, it is worth the effort to stop. Perhaps this

chapter will help you become aware of how much damage

you actually cause in your body by smoking. For smokers and

ex-smokers, my recommendation is the same: optimize your

daily intake of natural antioxidants, preferably in the form of

my Cellular Health recommendations.

Hormonal Contraceptives

and Estrogen Replacement Therapy

Stress

Long-term intake of estrogen and other hormones — both as hor-

monal contraception and hormone replacement therapy during

menopause — cause a depletion of vitamins and other cellular

nutrients in the body. This is the reason why women taking these

hormones have an increased risk for heart attacks, strokes and

other forms of cardiovascular disease.

Chronic physical and psychological stress increases the risk for

cardiovascular disease. What is the underlying biochemical

mechanism for this phenomenon?

Several studies show that women taking hormonal contraceptives

(“the Pill”) significantly increase their risk for cardiovascular dis-

ease. In 1972, Dr. Briggs reported in the scientific journal Nature

that women taking hormonal contraceptives had significantly

lower vitamin C blood levels than normal. In another study, Dr.

Rivers confirmed these results and concluded that vitamin C deple-

tion was associated with the estrogen hormone. The fact is that

long-term use of hormonal contraceptives decreases the body pool

of vitamin C and other essential nutrients, such as B vitamins and

calcium. Thus, it is not the birth control pill itself that increases the

risk for cardiovascular disease, but the associated depletion of the

vitamin body pool, which weakens the blood vessel wall.

During physical or emotional stress, the body produces high

amounts of the stress hormone adrenaline. For every molecule

of adrenaline produced, the body needs one molecule of vita-

min C as the catalyst, and these molecules are destroyed in this

process. Thus, long-term physical or emotional stress can lead

to a severe depletion of the body’s reservoir of vitamin C. If vit-

amin C is not supplemented in the diet, the cardiovascular sys-

tem is weakened and atherosclerosis develops.

These facts also explain why spouses frequently die soon one

after another. The loss of a partner results in long-term emo-

tional stress and fast vitamin depletion in the body, thereby

increasing the risk for a heart attack. We have to understand

that it is not the emotional stress itself that causes the heart

attack, rather, it is the biochemical consequence of the deple-

tion of the vitamin reserves in the body.

It came as no surprise that the largest clinical study designed to

show the possible benefits of hormone replacement therapy con-

ducted in more than 16,000 women had to be prematurely

stopped because of the significantly increased risk for heart attacks,

thrombosis and other complications.

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My recommendations:

Prescription drugs can also deplete the body’s reservoir of cer-

tain essential nutrients by interfering with the natural produc-

tion of these essential nutrients in the body. “Lovastatin,”

“Pravastatin” and other cholesterol-lowering drugs in the statin

category inhibit the production of cholesterol in the cells of the

body. Unfortunately, they also decrease the production rate of

important natural molecules, such as coenzyme Q-10

(ubiquinone).

If you have been taking hormonal birth control pills or have

undergone hormone repacement therapy, make sure that you start

following my Cellular Health recommendations to re-supplement

your body’s vitamin pool and prevent its future depletion.

Pharmaceutical Drugs

Karl Folkers, MD, of the University of Texas at Austin, reported

that heart failure patients with low baseline coenzyme Q-10

levels could experience life-threatening cardiovascular com-

plications when taking these cholesterol-lowering drugs

because of a decrease of coenzyme Q-10 in the body.

Almost all the prescription drugs currently taken by millions of

people lead to a gradual depletion of vitamins and other essen-

tial cellular nutrients in the body. Drugs are generally syn-

thetic, non-natural substances that we absorb in our bodies.

Our bodies recognize these synthetic drugs as “toxic,” just like

any other non-natural substance.

Diuretic Drugs

Thus, all synthetic drugs have to be “detoxified” by the liver in

order to eliminate them from our bodies. This detoxification

process requires vitamin C and other cellular nutrients as

cofactors. Many of these essential nutrients are used up in bio-

logical (enzymatic) reactions during this detoxification

process. One of the most common ways for eliminating drugs

from our bodies is called “hydroxylation.” The strongest

“hydroxylating agent” in our bodies is vitamin C, which is liter-

ally destroyed during this detoxification process.

Taking diuretic drugs can significantly increase your risk for

cardiovascular disease. Diuretics flush not only water from the

body, but also water-soluble vitamins and other essential nutri-

ents. I described this mechanism in detail in Chapter Five. The

importance of regular supplementation of these vitamins and

other essential nutrients in patients taking diuretics cannot be

overemphasized.

My recommendations:

Thus, long-term use of many synthetic prescription drugs leads

to a chronic vitamin depletion in the body, a form of early

scurvy and the onset of cardiovascular disease.

If you are taking any prescription drugs, I recommend that you

begin immediately with my Cellular Health recommendations.

If you are on diuretic medication, the daily supplementation of

water-soluble vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients

is imperative. Follow the recommendations in this book, and

inform your doctor about it.

Another way in which certain prescription drugs, such as the

cholesterol-lowering agent “Cholestyramine,” contribute to vit-

amin depletion is their binding to vitamins in the intestine. This

prevents optimum absorption of vitamins from the digestive

tract into the bloodstream and body.

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