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Tue, 10 Jun 2003 14:35:35 -0500

WC Douglass

The BP boogey-man

 

Daily Dose

 

June 10, 2003

 

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Blood pressure baloney - part 1

 

Everyone knows I hate to say, " I told you so. " Honestly, I

do. All it means is that nobody in the mainstream listened to

me the first time (or the fiftieth time) and in many cases,

people are dead because of it. All the same, I wish I had a

dime for every article I've written that contains a variation

of the phrase:

 

" I've been warning people about this for over 30 years! "

 

Here's another 10 cents in my pocket: For more than three

decades now, I've been telling anyone who'll listen that high

blood pressure DOESN'T CAUSE HEART DISEASE.

 

Yes, you read that right. Despite what " unbiased "

conventional medicine - which generates millions from the

treatment of hypertension, mind you - maintains, evidence

showing a conclusive linear link between elevated blood

pressure and the incidence of heart disease is almost non-

existent. In fact, the data from most studies on the subject

suggest that hypertension is a symptom of cardiovascular

disease (CHD), not its cause.

 

Just about everyone in the medical community agrees that CHD

is due in large part to a buildup of plaque in the arteries,

reducing their diameter - which in turn causes the blood

which flows through them to increase in pressure. Here's a

good analogy: When you turn on the spigot outside your house,

the water shooting out of your garden hose squirts 30 feet or

more. Why? Because it's under a lot of pressure after being

forced into a tiny 1-inch hose...

 

But what would happen if that hose were, say, a foot in

diameter? The exact same volume of water would slosh out at a

very low pressure.

 

It's the same way with your heart and arteries. Your blood

pressure increases in response to arterial constriction - it

doesn't cause the constriction. Elevating the blood's

pressure is your heart's way of compensating for clogged

up " hoses " to make sure your organs, brain and extremities

are adequately supplied with blood. When you look at it this

way, it just doesn't make sense to try to artificially lower

your blood pressure using expensive, potentially harmful

prescription drugs.

 

Unfortunately, this entirely natural process is treated by

mainstream medicine as a " cause " of CHD, while the real

causes of arterial clogging - things like dietary trans-fatty

acids in the bloodstream or chlorine " scarring " of the

arterial walls - often go untreated...

 

With deadly consequences, unfortunately.

 

(I'll have more to say about the fads, fashion, and facts of

hypertension drugs in the next Daily Dose.).

 

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The new " buzz " on stroke damage control...

 

I've told you before about the benefits of consuming moderate

amounts of alcohol and caffeinated beverages (like coffee),

but this latest slice of mainstream vindication is almost too

good to be true: It seems that researchers have recently

discovered that a new medication made from a " cocktail " of

caffeine and alcohol can actually reduce the severity of

stroke-related brain damage by up to 80 percent.

 

According to recent article in New Scientist, a specific

combination of these two " vices " has been demonstrated to

function in a powerful neuro-protective capacity when given

to laboratory animals following artificially induced

strokes...

 

But success on rats and success in people are two different

things - mainly because humans are sometimes unable to safely

tolerate the same levels of experimental medicines that

animal studies have shown effective. However, neurologists

from the University of Texas-Houston Medical School have

initiated a small pilot study using smaller doses of the

new " caffeinol " drug in human patients who've suffered

ischaemic strokes - and the findings are very encouraging.

 

Does this mean stroke victims can simply slurp an Irish

coffee every day - and enjoy a nice caffeine and alcohol buzz

while they stave off further brain damage? I don't think so.

But it does mean that at least some mainstream scientists are

looking at ordinary substances many of us consume every day

in a new light...

 

Next thing you know, they will be saying tobacco is good for

you. Well, they - and I - have already done that. In an

earlier Daily Dose ( " Not just blowing smoke, " 11/1/02), I

wrote about " Angiogenix, " a nicotine-based treatment that

appears to grow new blood vessels in the heart...

 

Looking out for what's really harmful,

 

William Campbell Douglass II, MD

 

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