How to Keep From Having a Heart Attack: Do Less Aerobic Exercise!

December 2, 2007

How to Keep From Having a Heart Attack:

Do Less Aerobic Exercise!

By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.

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That title certainly runs against the grain of everything we've been

conditioned (brain washed) to believe in the last 30 years! After 30 years of

lowering cholesterol, avoiding salt, taking an aspirin a day and running, what

have we got to show for it? Heart disease is still the #1 killer disease in

America. Plus, we now have Alzheimer's, electrolyte depletion, renal damage,

intestinal hemorrhage, and severely worn joints to show for our efforts! So if

all this hasn't worked - what is the real culprit behind heart disease?

Harvard's' Framingham study in 1966 told the world that if you lowered

cholesterol to below the then hallowed 244 mark everything would be all right.

At

the same time, one of their scientists was coming up with a different theory

but since Framingham had taken so long to do and cost so much money, that

particular Ph.D.'s findings were swept under the rug. In fact, they were so

swept under the rug that he was fired for having the tenacity of insisting that

he was right. What does a Ph.D. know when all of the learned MD's insisted

they knew better? (Without getting into the turf fight between Ph.D.'s and

MD's I'll simply say that it's the Ph.D.'s who tell the MD's what they can

and can't do and what science really says).

Well guess what? It turns out that the Ph.D. was right after all. (Harvard

has even quietly apologized to him but have they apologized to us for

leading us down a wild goose chase the last 30 years?) Part of the reason his

work

was suppressed was that it was not likely to bring about the development of

anti this or anti that drugs to combat the things Framingham said were wrong.

Financial gain over physiological truth. Financial gain at the cost of

peoples lives. Well, that's the way the system works.

OK, enough preaching - so what really causes heart disease and what can you

do about it? Lately, medical statistics have admitted a trend.....Healthy,

exercising " 30 Something's " are having heart attacks. On examination their

arteries were clear, no major blockages. Their cholesterol levels were

picture perfect - just what the docs want them to be. By gosh these folks

even

did aerobic exercise several times a week! And still there they were in

hospital beds and mortuary slabs; felled by heart disease. The lab work showed

one

common factor: Inflammation of the blood vessels.

For the last 30 years we've had the notion that it was only arterio

sclerosis that blocked up our blood pathways. Those dams in our arteries were

visible

and removable either by surgery or chelation treatments. But there was an

insidious culprit that could block off an artery as completely as the

sclerotic plaque then disappear and not be found on examination. Inflammation.

When

blood vessels swell, the size of the opening that the blood has to flow

through decreases. If this decrease is significant enough then whatever tissue

that vessel feeds is cut off from life giving blood. If that swelling

happened in one of the arteries feeding the muscle of the heart that area dies

and

we have an MI, Myocardial Infarction or heart attack.

It turns out that this inflammation is easily and cheaply dealt with.

That's why the Framingham boys wanted to reject the inflammation study. It

would

produce no money for the drug companies in the form of patentable medicines.

Several things are needed to reduce vascular inflammation:

1. Vitamin B 12

2. Folic Acid

3. Proteolytic Enzymes (Vitalzym)

4. Decrease in physical stress

5. Decrease in mental stress

Also very helpful for heart health is:

1. Magnesium (the heart beats irregularly without it)

2. Potassium (the heart bast without enough)

3. CoQ10

4. Vitamin E

5. Selenium

Lets quickly go over what these nutrients can do for you and get them into

what the title lured you here for in the first place. Folic acid and B 12

were found to significantly reduce blood vessel swelling. The FDA has been

hedging on granting vitamin companies the right to advertise this as it would

hurt sales of the " patented " heart medications. Protein eating enzymes are

superior ways of reducing inflammation, eating away at the fibrin that forms

arterial plaque and reducing c-reactive protein levels (markers for

inflammation).

The anti oxidant nutrients listed above, Vitamin E, CoEnzyme Q 10, and the

mineral Selenium keep the blood slick, the heart regular and prevent

degeneration of tissues. Magnesium is super important because it regulates

muscular

relaxation and must serve as a counter ion to the calcium that causes

muscular contraction. Calcium channel blockers drugs keep calcium from getting

into magnesium sites of the heart and causing a Contraction - Contraction

reaction instead of the usual Contraction - Relaxation reaction. Would it not

make

more sense to have enough magnesium in the first place so that the proper

channels were filled with the proper minerals and the contractions would not go

awry? What natural docs have been advocating for 30 years has now caught

on. Our old friends at Harvard are now IV fast push injecting 2000 mg of

Magnesium into heart patients during periods of irregular beating and guess

what?

The problem stops! (Don't let the MD's claim to have invented that one, as

they have with nearly every natural therapy they have " Integrated " into

their system).

Potassium keeps heart beat appropriate to the task; without it folks

especially women, have episodes of rapid heart beat. Now stress reduction

we've

heard before so I won't beat that dead horse again. But heart disease as a

result of exercise is a new one most people outside of cardiology or exercise

physiology have not heard about.

When runners, especially marathoners, tell me that they are running to

attain healthy hearts I sound off that " Jim Fixx is dead " ! For those of you

who

may not be old enough to remember the high guru of the manic compulsiveness

known as distance running; Fixx was a god. His leadership inspired millions

to take to the roads running. His training recommendations were law and his

advice the pronouncements of the running lord most high. Then one day

something funny happened to him in the middle of a run - he keeled over and

died!

Of a heart attack no less!!! Running fanatics world wide were in shock. How

could this happen; maybe he had some thing congenitally wrong with his

heart; sure that it was something mechanically wrong with his heart from birth.

But then other marathoners began to follow, a famous doctor from a renowned

running magazine went plotz followed by so many runners that even the MD who

popularized the term " Aerobics " and advocated distance running, Ken Cooper

took notice.

All of the running aficionados thought more was better. The longer the

workout...the healthier the heart. (They were actually making excuses for being

compulsive but we won't go there). Dr. Cooper reworked his data, did more

tests and low and behold what did he say: " The heart stops conditioning at

about 24 minuets " and " anything over 3 miles- 3 times a week is done for

reasons

other than fitness " . Other than fitness! Heresy; the running world was

aghast, it could not be so! But so it is. Too much aerobic exercise of any

type,

causes the blood vessels to inflame from the overstress. This inflammation

leads to scaring of the internal portions of the vessels and this scaring is

where the fibrin begins to build, onto which accrue the other components of

arterio sclerotic plaque. If the inflammation is serious enough in itself,

from the exercise and combination of the other factors, then the decrease in

the

lumen (diameter) of the blood vessel from the swelling can in and of itself

cause a heart attack. Let's work out the numbers as concerns aerobic

exercise.

The true dean of cardiovascular exercise and father of cardiac stress

testing was a Scandinavian exercise physiologist named Karvonen. (There go

those

uppity Ph.D.'s again)! His definitive work in the 50' and 60's showed that the

heart began getting stronger (conditioning) after a mere 7 to 8 minutes

worth of work. Cooper's early research also found that 8 minute mark. So we

have 8 minutes as the minimum we can do cardio vascular (CV) exercise for and

gain a positive training effect on the heart! The idea that we need 16 to 20

minutes plus to attain CV conditioning came from a mis reading of research

done by Tom Cureton, Jr. Ph.D. (another giant in exercise science). That

research found that the plaque in the arteries began to be worn down and the

lipids (fats) therein used as fuel in between 16 to 20 minutes of aerobic work.

The research did not mean that the heart did not condition before 12 minutes.

But many non-experts in exercise field (IE. MD's, personal trainers and

television stars with workout videos to sell), understood it to mean just that.

Dr. Coopers follow up research set the celling for CV conditioning at 24 to

26 min. After that he said the heart stopped getting an exercise effect from

the work. We will add insult to injury here by relating the statistic that

after 20+ years of the " aerobics " craze, the couch potatoes are living as

long or longer than their marathoning cousins. Heart disease and severely

suppressed immune systems are killing the runners.

So; with all of that said and done let's set the parameters for safe and

productive aerobic exercise.

Remember we mean to strengthen our hearts, clear our vascular systems and

build miles of new blood vessels to lower the blood pressure. We don't mean to

reduce manic compulsiveness or other psychological needs by these exercises.

CV work - minimum 8 minutes, top off at 24 minuets. Do CV exercise no more

than 3 times a week. Period. Recumbent cycles, semi recumbent cycles, orbital

steppers and swimming produce less arthritis causing joint wear than the

usual running, stair climbing, ski machines, dance or karate aerobics and

rowing. For most, running should be out of the question as it destroys the

knees,

hips and lower back. Treadmills are actually worse than road running as it

only mimics running and is producing a slew of lower back injuries. Think of

it; in true running you are propelling yourself across a surface. In

treadmill running you are trying to keep form falling on your nose. While the

movement looks the same, biomechanically it uses the opposite muscles for

different reasons and hence the injuries. Ski machines concentrate work

primarily

in the flexor muscles of the hip creating a lordotic or " ass backward " duck

posture and creating the conditions for injuring the lower back.

When it comes to aerobic exercise less is more and when combined with the

nutrients and lifestyle conducive to a healthy heart and a healthy mind then we

have a complete package for a healthy life.

December 3, 2007

Listen to your body. It will tell you how much exercise you should do

on a daily basis. No matter what the exercise is. Probably better to

do a specific regimen of exercises each day than to overdo it. Each

day of exercises adds up to good physical and mental health.

December 4, 2007

Dear William Wong, thank you for your e-mail, I am so pleased thier is someone

else who holds the same convictions as myself. I have been trying to give the

same advice to patients for years. Ten years ago I was warning footballers of

using a treadmill for thier training, and runners too. I always cite the

training of racehorses, which takes the form of short distances at a time. The

first time they run a full distance is in a big race! I would like to use the

article as a reference to support my beliefs, because being a reflexologist and

injury specialist doesn't carry the same weight,

thanking you, for taking taking the trouble

, Mike Maskery

" surpriseshan2 " <surpriseshan2

MCS-Canada

Monday, 3 December, 2007 12:40:05 AM

How to Keep From Having a Heart Attack: Do

Less Aerobic Exercise!

How to Keep From Having a Heart Attack:

Do Less Aerobic Exercise!

By: Dr. William Wong, ND, PhD.

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