Guest guest Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 I have both angina " and " hi blood pressure, as do most angina patients. But then, what is hi blood pressure. My systolic number hovers around 150, at this time. That's way too high, though it's defined as moderate hypertension. This leaves me in a hopeless situation vis a vis, vitamin E. I'll just risk it, and aim for, ultimately, close to about 1,800mgs of E, in increments of 200mg every week or so, from my present 400mg use. JP ( My suggestion is to take the daily dose in divided parts around the clock. That is the way that we were designed to take in nutrients. F.) - " Frank " <califpacific <alternative_medicine_forum > Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:12 AM Angina > http://www.doctoryourself.com/angina.html > > Angina > > And when you get better, remember. > Samuel Hahnemann, MD > > > It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my > 67-year-old father about his sex life. > > " I'm on this medicine, Andrew, " he said. " It's for > angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and > they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is > that it causes impotence. " > > I let that image sink in for a minute, as he > continued. > > " Is there any one of your natural remedies that will > substitute for the angina medicine? " he asked. > > Historically, it was an unusual event for my dad to > ask my view about anything. One of his mottoes was, > " If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. " So I > was duly impressed with the gravity of the situation. > > " Vitamin E, Pa, " I said. " High doses of vitamin E > have been used to treat angina since the early 1950's. > Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute, who were both brothers > and cardiologists, gave patients somewhere between > 1,600 to 2,000 International Units of vitamin E daily > and it eliminated angina symptoms in hundreds and > hundreds of documented cases. " I fully expected him > to ridicule the idea, and I was surprised and not a > little gratified when he thoughtfully nodded his head. > > " OK, " he said, and we gratefully moved on to another > topic. > > My dad started at about 400 IU a day, gradually > working up to 1,600 IU over a period of a few weeks. > I've always maintained that the body likes " gradual. " > This goes for decreasing drugs as well as for > increasing vitamins. Pa's G.P. was an open-minded > man, quite British and quite willing to offer my > father a dosage-reduction schedule for his > medication. > > And that is all it took. > > Pa called a couple of weeks later. > > " Is it all right to take this much vitamin E? " he > asked. > > " How much are you up to, Pa? " > > " Uh, 1,200 a day. " > > " Is it the natural, D-alpha form of E that I > suggested? " > > " Let me get the bottle, " he said, and I heard the > phone drop and bang on the table. > > A long-distance minute later, he was back. > > Yep, D-alpha tocopherol, " he said. > > " That's the one. So how do you feel? " > > " Pretty fair, " he said. " I'm practically off the > medication now. " > > " Any symptoms? " I asked. > > " No. " > > " Why don't you go to 1,600 with no drugs, " I said. > > " OK. " > > The subject did not come up again for months. What > can I say? This is how our family did things. > > " So Pa, how's that angina? " I asked one day. > > " What angina? " he said. > > " Your angina, Pa, your angina. " > > " I don't have angina. " > > " Used, to Pa. Maybe a year ago. " > > " I never had any angina, " he said. > > " Two doctors said you did, Pa. They had you on > medication, remember? " > > " Oh, that. I haven't had any sign of that since I > took the vitamin E. " > > " OK. Keep taking the E, Pa. " > > " I do. 1,600 every day. " > > And that was that. He never had angina symptoms > again. > > " Angina? What angina? " > > That was nice. > > > Usually the fur really flies when you bring up the > Shute brothers' vitamin E treatment for cardiovascular > disease. This has been a controversial area of > medicine for 60 years. Most textbooks state that " E " > is of no value here. Textbooks have said for years > that E is a quack's cure in search of a disease. > There is considerable evidence that the texts are > wrong, and that the Shutes were right. > > Consider intermittent claudication, which is calf > muscle pain upon walking. Even banal nutrition > textbooks acknowledge scientific proof of this > successful treatment with vitamin E. " This therapy > helps reduce the arterial blockage, " says Williams, > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, Seventh Edition (Mosby, > 1993, p 186), a standard dietetics work. > > Is there something so special about the arteries > between the knee and the ankle? What about " reducing > the blockage " in other arteries? This is the whole > idea of using Vitamin E for circulatory diseases. > > Medical doctors Wilfrid and Evan Shute of London, > Ontario successfully treated well over 30,000 > cardiovascular disease patients with up to 3200 IU of > vitamin E daily. For that achievement, they were > ostracized from their medical society. Here are the > principles of the therapy: > > 1) Vitamin E has an oxygen-sparing effect on the > heart, enabling the heart can do more work on less > oxygen. The benefit for recovering heart attack > patients is considerable. 1200 to 2000 IU daily > relieves angina very well. > > 2) Vitamin E moderately prolongs prothrombin clotting > time, and has a limited Coumadin/warfarin effect. > This is the reason behind the Shutes' using vitamin E > for thrombophlebitis and related conditions. Their > dose? about 1000 to 2000 IU daily. > > 3) Vitamin E dilates and promotes collateral > circulation and benefits diabetes patients or anyone > threatened with gangrene. Dose: tailored to patient; > about 800 IU or more. > > 4) Vitamin E strengthens and regulates heartbeat like > digitalis (foxglove) and its derivatives at a dose > adjusted between 800 to 3000 IU daily. > > 5) Vitamin E reduces scarring when frequently applied > topically to burns or sites of lacerations or surgical > incisions along with a daily oral dose of 800 IU. > > 6) Vitamin E helps gradually break down clots at a > maintained dose of between 800 IU and 3,000 IU. > > 7) Vitamin E is vastly safer than drugs, as doses of > up to 56,000 IU per day fail to harm adult humans. > Gradual dosage increase is advised, and patients with > congestive heart failure, rheumatic hearts or high > blood pressure need careful medical supervision > > So why hasn't vitamin E been more highly regarded in > medicine? Ambiguous results from a rather small > number of highly publicized, poorly controlled > studies, that's why. The most common reason for > irreproducibility of successful vitamin E cures is > either a failure to use enough or a failure to use the > natural (D-alpha) form, or both. Such studies must be > weighed against the Shute's 30,000 cured patients and > their four books: Complete Updated Vitamin E Book > (Keats), Health Preserver (Rodale, 1977), Vitamin E > for Ailing and Healthy Hearts (Pyramid, 1975) and Your > Child and Vitamin E (Keats, 1979). > > And vitamin E is safe, remarkably non-toxic. In > fact, " toxicity symptoms have not been reported even > at intakes of 800 IU per kilogram of body weight > daily for 5 months " according to the Food and > Nutrition Board. This demonstrated safe level would > work out to be around 56,000 IU daily for an average > adult, some 5000 times the RDA! > > Here is an example. Overexposure to oxygen has been > a major cause of blindness in premature infants. > Oxygen-tent retina damage is now prevented by giving > preemies vitamin E, a natural antioxidant. Williams, > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 6th ed, indicates the > dosage as 100 mg E per kilogram body weight. That > dose (around 200 IU for a preemie) is equivalent to an > adult dose of about 7,000 IU for an average-weight > adult. " There have been no detrimental side effects, " > said the New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 3, > 1981. Nevertheless, the nutrition textbook advised > that " healthy persons stand the chance of developing > signs of toxicity with the megadoses that are > recommended in these studies. " That statement is not > true. > > In less than healthy persons, there are some valid > cautions in giving large doses of vitamin E. Among > hypertensive patients, sudden large vitamin E > increases cause temporary increases in blood pressure. > The solution is to increase the vitamin gradually, > with proper monitoring (which hypertensive patients > should have anyway). To avoid any possible risks of > an asymmetric heart contraction, patients with > rheumatic hearts or congestive heart failure need > small doses (around 75 IU) and increases under medical > supervision. It is best to inquire about all of these > conditions when taking or submitting a patient > history. For additional information, it is most > worthwhile to contact the Shute Institute, London, > Ontario, Canada or read any books by Wilfrid or Evan > Shute, M.D.. If their books are hard to find, try > Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at any public library. > > Why supplement with vitamin E? Our need for vitamin > E increases with increased age, exposure to toxins > (smoking, air pollution, chemical oxidants), pregnancy > and lactation. Even an increased consumption of > polyunsaturated fats requires more vitamin E to > protect the unsaturated fatty acids from free radical > attack. For most healthy adults, an optimum daily > amount of vitamin E would probably be about 600 IU. > It must certainly be higher than the US RDA of only > about 10 or 15 IU. > > It is true that many foods contain vitamin E, such as > milk products, eggs, meats, fish, whole-grain cereals > and whole-grain breads, wheat germ, and leafy > vegetables. However, the vitamin is present in these > foods only in very small quantities. Americans do not > get enough vitamin E in their diet, and it is > impossible to get even 100 IU per day from even the > finest of diets. This is at least partly due to the > widespread milling of flour since the start of the > twentieth century. Coincidentally, heart disease has > also been on the steep increase since 1900. Very > likely there is a connection here. > > The New England Journal of Medicine published two > papers in the May 20, 1993 issue (Vol. 328, pp > 1444-1456) which both supported vitamin E megadoses, > reporting an approximate 40% reduction in > cardiovascular disease. Nearly 40,000 men and 87,000 > women took part in the study. The more vitamin E they > took, and the longer they took it, the less > cardiovascular disease they experienced. > > And the Shute brothers, those quacks, pointed it out > first... sixty years ago. They said: " We didn't make > vitamin E this versatile. God did. Ignore it at your > peril. " > > And ignore it we have. Even in the very issue > carrying the two very favorable, major vitamin E > studies mentioned above, was an editorial article > advising doctors not to use it. > > Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul, > Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Hi John: Here's the best advice around. I started doing Chelation IV's they get rid of heavy metals in the body and clean out the whole vascular system of build up. When I started I was having trouble breathing, had angina, shooting pain behind my eyes, episodes of twitching in my face, pain the arteries in my neck, leg muscle pain and numbness in hands and feet. After twenty six IVs all these symptoms just disappeared. Looks Like everything is reversed or reversing. My breathing has improved 50%. Walt - John Polifronio Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:49 AM Re: Angina I have both angina " and " hi blood pressure, as do most angina patients. But then, what is hi blood pressure. My systolic number hovers around 150, at this time. That's way too high, though it's defined as moderate hypertension. This leaves me in a hopeless situation vis a vis, vitamin E. I'll just risk it, and aim for, ultimately, close to about 1,800mgs of E, in increments of 200mg every week or so, from my present 400mg use. JP ( My suggestion is to take the daily dose in divided parts around the clock. That is the way that we were designed to take in nutrients. F.) - " Frank " <califpacific <alternative_medicine_forum > Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:12 AM Angina > http://www.doctoryourself.com/angina.html > > Angina > > And when you get better, remember. > Samuel Hahnemann, MD > > > It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my > 67-year-old father about his sex life. > > " I'm on this medicine, Andrew, " he said. " It's for > angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and > they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is > that it causes impotence. " > > I let that image sink in for a minute, as he > continued. > > " Is there any one of your natural remedies that will > substitute for the angina medicine? " he asked. > > Historically, it was an unusual event for my dad to > ask my view about anything. One of his mottoes was, > " If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. " So I > was duly impressed with the gravity of the situation. > > " Vitamin E, Pa, " I said. " High doses of vitamin E > have been used to treat angina since the early 1950's. > Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute, who were both brothers > and cardiologists, gave patients somewhere between > 1,600 to 2,000 International Units of vitamin E daily > and it eliminated angina symptoms in hundreds and > hundreds of documented cases. " I fully expected him > to ridicule the idea, and I was surprised and not a > little gratified when he thoughtfully nodded his head. > > " OK, " he said, and we gratefully moved on to another > topic. > > My dad started at about 400 IU a day, gradually > working up to 1,600 IU over a period of a few weeks. > I've always maintained that the body likes " gradual. " > This goes for decreasing drugs as well as for > increasing vitamins. Pa's G.P. was an open-minded > man, quite British and quite willing to offer my > father a dosage-reduction schedule for his > medication. > > And that is all it took. > > Pa called a couple of weeks later. > > " Is it all right to take this much vitamin E? " he > asked. > > " How much are you up to, Pa? " > > " Uh, 1,200 a day. " > > " Is it the natural, D-alpha form of E that I > suggested? " > > " Let me get the bottle, " he said, and I heard the > phone drop and bang on the table. > > A long-distance minute later, he was back. > > Yep, D-alpha tocopherol, " he said. > > " That's the one. So how do you feel? " > > " Pretty fair, " he said. " I'm practically off the > medication now. " > > " Any symptoms? " I asked. > > " No. " > > " Why don't you go to 1,600 with no drugs, " I said. > > " OK. " > > The subject did not come up again for months. What > can I say? This is how our family did things. > > " So Pa, how's that angina? " I asked one day. > > " What angina? " he said. > > " Your angina, Pa, your angina. " > > " I don't have angina. " > > " Used, to Pa. Maybe a year ago. " > > " I never had any angina, " he said. > > " Two doctors said you did, Pa. They had you on > medication, remember? " > > " Oh, that. I haven't had any sign of that since I > took the vitamin E. " > > " OK. Keep taking the E, Pa. " > > " I do. 1,600 every day. " > > And that was that. He never had angina symptoms > again. > > " Angina? What angina? " > > That was nice. > > > Usually the fur really flies when you bring up the > Shute brothers' vitamin E treatment for cardiovascular > disease. This has been a controversial area of > medicine for 60 years. Most textbooks state that " E " > is of no value here. Textbooks have said for years > that E is a quack's cure in search of a disease. > There is considerable evidence that the texts are > wrong, and that the Shutes were right. > > Consider intermittent claudication, which is calf > muscle pain upon walking. Even banal nutrition > textbooks acknowledge scientific proof of this > successful treatment with vitamin E. " This therapy > helps reduce the arterial blockage, " says Williams, > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, Seventh Edition (Mosby, > 1993, p 186), a standard dietetics work. > > Is there something so special about the arteries > between the knee and the ankle? What about " reducing > the blockage " in other arteries? This is the whole > idea of using Vitamin E for circulatory diseases. > > Medical doctors Wilfrid and Evan Shute of London, > Ontario successfully treated well over 30,000 > cardiovascular disease patients with up to 3200 IU of > vitamin E daily. For that achievement, they were > ostracized from their medical society. Here are the > principles of the therapy: > > 1) Vitamin E has an oxygen-sparing effect on the > heart, enabling the heart can do more work on less > oxygen. The benefit for recovering heart attack > patients is considerable. 1200 to 2000 IU daily > relieves angina very well. > > 2) Vitamin E moderately prolongs prothrombin clotting > time, and has a limited Coumadin/warfarin effect. > This is the reason behind the Shutes' using vitamin E > for thrombophlebitis and related conditions. Their > dose? about 1000 to 2000 IU daily. > > 3) Vitamin E dilates and promotes collateral > circulation and benefits diabetes patients or anyone > threatened with gangrene. Dose: tailored to patient; > about 800 IU or more. > > 4) Vitamin E strengthens and regulates heartbeat like > digitalis (foxglove) and its derivatives at a dose > adjusted between 800 to 3000 IU daily. > > 5) Vitamin E reduces scarring when frequently applied > topically to burns or sites of lacerations or surgical > incisions along with a daily oral dose of 800 IU. > > 6) Vitamin E helps gradually break down clots at a > maintained dose of between 800 IU and 3,000 IU. > > 7) Vitamin E is vastly safer than drugs, as doses of > up to 56,000 IU per day fail to harm adult humans. > Gradual dosage increase is advised, and patients with > congestive heart failure, rheumatic hearts or high > blood pressure need careful medical supervision > > So why hasn't vitamin E been more highly regarded in > medicine? Ambiguous results from a rather small > number of highly publicized, poorly controlled > studies, that's why. The most common reason for > irreproducibility of successful vitamin E cures is > either a failure to use enough or a failure to use the > natural (D-alpha) form, or both. Such studies must be > weighed against the Shute's 30,000 cured patients and > their four books: Complete Updated Vitamin E Book > (Keats), Health Preserver (Rodale, 1977), Vitamin E > for Ailing and Healthy Hearts (Pyramid, 1975) and Your > Child and Vitamin E (Keats, 1979). > > And vitamin E is safe, remarkably non-toxic. In > fact, " toxicity symptoms have not been reported even > at intakes of 800 IU per kilogram of body weight > daily for 5 months " according to the Food and > Nutrition Board. This demonstrated safe level would > work out to be around 56,000 IU daily for an average > adult, some 5000 times the RDA! > > Here is an example. Overexposure to oxygen has been > a major cause of blindness in premature infants. > Oxygen-tent retina damage is now prevented by giving > preemies vitamin E, a natural antioxidant. Williams, > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 6th ed, indicates the > dosage as 100 mg E per kilogram body weight. That > dose (around 200 IU for a preemie) is equivalent to an > adult dose of about 7,000 IU for an average-weight > adult. " There have been no detrimental side effects, " > said the New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 3, > 1981. Nevertheless, the nutrition textbook advised > that " healthy persons stand the chance of developing > signs of toxicity with the megadoses that are > recommended in these studies. " That statement is not > true. > > In less than healthy persons, there are some valid > cautions in giving large doses of vitamin E. Among > hypertensive patients, sudden large vitamin E > increases cause temporary increases in blood pressure. > The solution is to increase the vitamin gradually, > with proper monitoring (which hypertensive patients > should have anyway). To avoid any possible risks of > an asymmetric heart contraction, patients with > rheumatic hearts or congestive heart failure need > small doses (around 75 IU) and increases under medical > supervision. It is best to inquire about all of these > conditions when taking or submitting a patient > history. For additional information, it is most > worthwhile to contact the Shute Institute, London, > Ontario, Canada or read any books by Wilfrid or Evan > Shute, M.D.. If their books are hard to find, try > Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at any public library. > > Why supplement with vitamin E? Our need for vitamin > E increases with increased age, exposure to toxins > (smoking, air pollution, chemical oxidants), pregnancy > and lactation. Even an increased consumption of > polyunsaturated fats requires more vitamin E to > protect the unsaturated fatty acids from free radical > attack. For most healthy adults, an optimum daily > amount of vitamin E would probably be about 600 IU. > It must certainly be higher than the US RDA of only > about 10 or 15 IU. > > It is true that many foods contain vitamin E, such as > milk products, eggs, meats, fish, whole-grain cereals > and whole-grain breads, wheat germ, and leafy > vegetables. However, the vitamin is present in these > foods only in very small quantities. Americans do not > get enough vitamin E in their diet, and it is > impossible to get even 100 IU per day from even the > finest of diets. This is at least partly due to the > widespread milling of flour since the start of the > twentieth century. Coincidentally, heart disease has > also been on the steep increase since 1900. Very > likely there is a connection here. > > The New England Journal of Medicine published two > papers in the May 20, 1993 issue (Vol. 328, pp > 1444-1456) which both supported vitamin E megadoses, > reporting an approximate 40% reduction in > cardiovascular disease. Nearly 40,000 men and 87,000 > women took part in the study. The more vitamin E they > took, and the longer they took it, the less > cardiovascular disease they experienced. > > And the Shute brothers, those quacks, pointed it out > first... sixty years ago. They said: " We didn't make > vitamin E this versatile. God did. Ignore it at your > peril. " > > And ignore it we have. Even in the very issue > carrying the two very favorable, major vitamin E > studies mentioned above, was an editorial article > advising doctors not to use it. > > Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul, > Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 26, 2004 Report Share Posted August 26, 2004 Hi Walt. I'm one of those people for whom IV Chelation doesn't work. I've had over 50 Chelation treatments, but unfortuately, there was no detectable improvement in any symptom. On the other hand, when I first went to a Chelation doctor, I was in desperate shape., my heart was so unstable, my nervous system was so agitated, I was in a state of near panic. The Chelation doctor, not knowing what to do about my current condition at the time, suggested I relent, and have an Angioplasty, if I was a candidate for the procedure, which he told me, would " save my life, " and give me time for the Chelation. For whatever reasons, I decided to take the risk, and start the Chelation treatments without first trying for Angioplasty. If there is anything that might be said for the Chelation treatments, it was that, shortly after starting them, the serious instability I felt, graduall went away. It could have been the Chelation, it could have been other things. I don't know. Thanks Walt JP - " Walt " <kortron Thursday, August 26, 2004 7:17 AM Re: Angina > > Hi John: Here's the best advice around. I started doing Chelation IV's they get rid of heavy metals in the body and clean out the whole vascular system of build up. When I started I was having trouble breathing, had angina, shooting pain behind my eyes, episodes of twitching in my face, pain the arteries in my neck, leg muscle pain and numbness in hands and feet. After twenty six IVs all these symptoms just disappeared. Looks Like everything is reversed or reversing. My breathing has improved 50%. > > Walt > - > John Polifronio > > Thursday, August 26, 2004 8:49 AM > Re: Angina > > > I have both angina " and " hi blood pressure, as do most angina patients. But > then, what is hi blood pressure. My systolic number hovers around 150, at > this time. That's way too high, though it's defined as moderate > hypertension. This leaves me in a hopeless situation vis a vis, vitamin E. > I'll just risk it, and aim for, ultimately, close to about 1,800mgs of E, in > increments of 200mg every week or so, from my present 400mg use. > > JP > > > ( My suggestion is to take the daily dose in divided parts around the clock. That is the way that we were designed to take in nutrients. F.) > > > > > - > " Frank " <califpacific > <alternative_medicine_forum > > Wednesday, August 25, 2004 6:12 AM > Angina > > > > http://www.doctoryourself.com/angina.html > > > > Angina > > > > And when you get better, remember. > > Samuel Hahnemann, MD > > > > > > It was a bit odd to have a conversation with my > > 67-year-old father about his sex life. > > > > " I'm on this medicine, Andrew, " he said. " It's for > > angina. My doctor sent me to a heart specialist, and > > they both agreed I have to take it. The problem is > > that it causes impotence. " > > > > I let that image sink in for a minute, as he > > continued. > > > > " Is there any one of your natural remedies that will > > substitute for the angina medicine? " he asked. > > > > Historically, it was an unusual event for my dad to > > ask my view about anything. One of his mottoes was, > > " If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you. " So I > > was duly impressed with the gravity of the situation. > > > > " Vitamin E, Pa, " I said. " High doses of vitamin E > > have been used to treat angina since the early 1950's. > > Drs. Wilfrid and Evan Shute, who were both brothers > > and cardiologists, gave patients somewhere between > > 1,600 to 2,000 International Units of vitamin E daily > > and it eliminated angina symptoms in hundreds and > > hundreds of documented cases. " I fully expected him > > to ridicule the idea, and I was surprised and not a > > little gratified when he thoughtfully nodded his head. > > > > " OK, " he said, and we gratefully moved on to another > > topic. > > > > My dad started at about 400 IU a day, gradually > > working up to 1,600 IU over a period of a few weeks. > > I've always maintained that the body likes " gradual. " > > This goes for decreasing drugs as well as for > > increasing vitamins. Pa's G.P. was an open-minded > > man, quite British and quite willing to offer my > > father a dosage-reduction schedule for his > > medication. > > > > And that is all it took. > > > > Pa called a couple of weeks later. > > > > " Is it all right to take this much vitamin E? " he > > asked. > > > > " How much are you up to, Pa? " > > > > " Uh, 1,200 a day. " > > > > " Is it the natural, D-alpha form of E that I > > suggested? " > > > > " Let me get the bottle, " he said, and I heard the > > phone drop and bang on the table. > > > > A long-distance minute later, he was back. > > > > Yep, D-alpha tocopherol, " he said. > > > > " That's the one. So how do you feel? " > > > > " Pretty fair, " he said. " I'm practically off the > > medication now. " > > > > " Any symptoms? " I asked. > > > > " No. " > > > > " Why don't you go to 1,600 with no drugs, " I said. > > > > " OK. " > > > > The subject did not come up again for months. What > > can I say? This is how our family did things. > > > > " So Pa, how's that angina? " I asked one day. > > > > " What angina? " he said. > > > > " Your angina, Pa, your angina. " > > > > " I don't have angina. " > > > > " Used, to Pa. Maybe a year ago. " > > > > " I never had any angina, " he said. > > > > " Two doctors said you did, Pa. They had you on > > medication, remember? " > > > > " Oh, that. I haven't had any sign of that since I > > took the vitamin E. " > > > > " OK. Keep taking the E, Pa. " > > > > " I do. 1,600 every day. " > > > > And that was that. He never had angina symptoms > > again. > > > > " Angina? What angina? " > > > > That was nice. > > > > > > Usually the fur really flies when you bring up the > > Shute brothers' vitamin E treatment for cardiovascular > > disease. This has been a controversial area of > > medicine for 60 years. Most textbooks state that " E " > > is of no value here. Textbooks have said for years > > that E is a quack's cure in search of a disease. > > There is considerable evidence that the texts are > > wrong, and that the Shutes were right. > > > > Consider intermittent claudication, which is calf > > muscle pain upon walking. Even banal nutrition > > textbooks acknowledge scientific proof of this > > successful treatment with vitamin E. " This therapy > > helps reduce the arterial blockage, " says Williams, > > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, Seventh Edition (Mosby, > > 1993, p 186), a standard dietetics work. > > > > Is there something so special about the arteries > > between the knee and the ankle? What about " reducing > > the blockage " in other arteries? This is the whole > > idea of using Vitamin E for circulatory diseases. > > > > Medical doctors Wilfrid and Evan Shute of London, > > Ontario successfully treated well over 30,000 > > cardiovascular disease patients with up to 3200 IU of > > vitamin E daily. For that achievement, they were > > ostracized from their medical society. Here are the > > principles of the therapy: > > > > 1) Vitamin E has an oxygen-sparing effect on the > > heart, enabling the heart can do more work on less > > oxygen. The benefit for recovering heart attack > > patients is considerable. 1200 to 2000 IU daily > > relieves angina very well. > > > > 2) Vitamin E moderately prolongs prothrombin clotting > > time, and has a limited Coumadin/warfarin effect. > > This is the reason behind the Shutes' using vitamin E > > for thrombophlebitis and related conditions. Their > > dose? about 1000 to 2000 IU daily. > > > > 3) Vitamin E dilates and promotes collateral > > circulation and benefits diabetes patients or anyone > > threatened with gangrene. Dose: tailored to patient; > > about 800 IU or more. > > > > 4) Vitamin E strengthens and regulates heartbeat like > > digitalis (foxglove) and its derivatives at a dose > > adjusted between 800 to 3000 IU daily. > > > > 5) Vitamin E reduces scarring when frequently applied > > topically to burns or sites of lacerations or surgical > > incisions along with a daily oral dose of 800 IU. > > > > 6) Vitamin E helps gradually break down clots at a > > maintained dose of between 800 IU and 3,000 IU. > > > > 7) Vitamin E is vastly safer than drugs, as doses of > > up to 56,000 IU per day fail to harm adult humans. > > Gradual dosage increase is advised, and patients with > > congestive heart failure, rheumatic hearts or high > > blood pressure need careful medical supervision > > > > So why hasn't vitamin E been more highly regarded in > > medicine? Ambiguous results from a rather small > > number of highly publicized, poorly controlled > > studies, that's why. The most common reason for > > irreproducibility of successful vitamin E cures is > > either a failure to use enough or a failure to use the > > natural (D-alpha) form, or both. Such studies must be > > weighed against the Shute's 30,000 cured patients and > > their four books: Complete Updated Vitamin E Book > > (Keats), Health Preserver (Rodale, 1977), Vitamin E > > for Ailing and Healthy Hearts (Pyramid, 1975) and Your > > Child and Vitamin E (Keats, 1979). > > > > And vitamin E is safe, remarkably non-toxic. In > > fact, " toxicity symptoms have not been reported even > > at intakes of 800 IU per kilogram of body weight > > daily for 5 months " according to the Food and > > Nutrition Board. This demonstrated safe level would > > work out to be around 56,000 IU daily for an average > > adult, some 5000 times the RDA! > > > > Here is an example. Overexposure to oxygen has been > > a major cause of blindness in premature infants. > > Oxygen-tent retina damage is now prevented by giving > > preemies vitamin E, a natural antioxidant. Williams, > > Nutrition and Diet Therapy, 6th ed, indicates the > > dosage as 100 mg E per kilogram body weight. That > > dose (around 200 IU for a preemie) is equivalent to an > > adult dose of about 7,000 IU for an average-weight > > adult. " There have been no detrimental side effects, " > > said the New England Journal of Medicine, Dec. 3, > > 1981. Nevertheless, the nutrition textbook advised > > that " healthy persons stand the chance of developing > > signs of toxicity with the megadoses that are > > recommended in these studies. " That statement is not > > true. > > > > In less than healthy persons, there are some valid > > cautions in giving large doses of vitamin E. Among > > hypertensive patients, sudden large vitamin E > > increases cause temporary increases in blood pressure. > > The solution is to increase the vitamin gradually, > > with proper monitoring (which hypertensive patients > > should have anyway). To avoid any possible risks of > > an asymmetric heart contraction, patients with > > rheumatic hearts or congestive heart failure need > > small doses (around 75 IU) and increases under medical > > supervision. It is best to inquire about all of these > > conditions when taking or submitting a patient > > history. For additional information, it is most > > worthwhile to contact the Shute Institute, London, > > Ontario, Canada or read any books by Wilfrid or Evan > > Shute, M.D.. If their books are hard to find, try > > Interlibrary Loan (ILL) at any public library. > > > > Why supplement with vitamin E? Our need for vitamin > > E increases with increased age, exposure to toxins > > (smoking, air pollution, chemical oxidants), pregnancy > > and lactation. Even an increased consumption of > > polyunsaturated fats requires more vitamin E to > > protect the unsaturated fatty acids from free radical > > attack. For most healthy adults, an optimum daily > > amount of vitamin E would probably be about 600 IU. > > It must certainly be higher than the US RDA of only > > about 10 or 15 IU. > > > > It is true that many foods contain vitamin E, such as > > milk products, eggs, meats, fish, whole-grain cereals > > and whole-grain breads, wheat germ, and leafy > > vegetables. However, the vitamin is present in these > > foods only in very small quantities. Americans do not > > get enough vitamin E in their diet, and it is > > impossible to get even 100 IU per day from even the > > finest of diets. This is at least partly due to the > > widespread milling of flour since the start of the > > twentieth century. Coincidentally, heart disease has > > also been on the steep increase since 1900. Very > > likely there is a connection here. > > > > The New England Journal of Medicine published two > > papers in the May 20, 1993 issue (Vol. 328, pp > > 1444-1456) which both supported vitamin E megadoses, > > reporting an approximate 40% reduction in > > cardiovascular disease. Nearly 40,000 men and 87,000 > > women took part in the study. The more vitamin E they > > took, and the longer they took it, the less > > cardiovascular disease they experienced. > > > > And the Shute brothers, those quacks, pointed it out > > first... sixty years ago. They said: " We didn't make > > vitamin E this versatile. God did. Ignore it at your > > peril. " > > > > And ignore it we have. Even in the very issue > > carrying the two very favorable, major vitamin E > > studies mentioned above, was an editorial article > > advising doctors not to use it. > > > > Copyright C 1999 and prior years Andrew W. Saul, > > Number 8 Van Buren Street, Holley, New York 14470. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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