On Wednesday 12 March 2014 03:01:47 Gregg Eshelman did opine: > On 3/11/2014 10:27 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > But, there are also arterial plaques in the aorta an inch away that do > > not want to be disturbed for obvious reasons. > > Start popping Coenzyme Q10 aka CoQ10, Qunol brand.
That isn't a brand available locally that I am aware of. > My 75 year old father > takes that and it's helped a lot, especially after a triple bypass and a > stent. Docs said his arteries are good but were undersized and rather > twisty in his heart. > > Some people cannot take statins at all. Look up statin myopathy. Causes > nerve and muscle damage. I have, since then, scary. > One side effect/symptom of statin intolerance can be constipation and > very stinky farts. They'll also give some people cancer. One of my aunts > got intestinal cancer from Lipitor, had a couple of feet of guts removed > and she was lucky the football sized tumor had only surrounded but not > invaded her descending aorta. They gave her 20 units of blood during the > operation. Been cancer free for some years now. Good for her. > Creatine monohydrate, a common muscle builder used by body builders, in > significantly lower doses than they use, will help repair damage in most > muscle tissue, including the heart. Follow the same on and off schedule > as when used for bodybuilding, don't take the creatine continuously. That I believe can get at GNC, we have one of those here. > Don't bother with types other than the monohydrate, they're less > effective because they break down and excrete faster. > > Creatine is one of the beneficial and vital chemical compounds in red > meat, so are the B vitamins humans' omnivore biochemistry cannot > produce. I'm already heavy there because the metformin hydrochloride flushes it out of you. I am a heavy meat eater, but very little "red", lots of port, fish and chicken until I got allergic to chicken about 3 years ago. Nothing new, food allergies have come, and gone with me for 70 years. And I think I have about gotten over that again. > > What set me firmly against a vegetarian or vegan diet was an article I > read in a medical journal about a doctor (who should have known better, > must have failed biochem!) who was a strict vegan and suddenly started > having symptoms of early onset dementia. Fortunately there was a fresh > out of school doctor who recognized the symptoms of B vitamin deficiency > (apparently remembered his biochem classes) and gave him a big B-complex > shot. Unfortunately for the vegan doc, his "healthy" diet gave him some > permanent brain damage and he was unable to continue medical practice. > The experienced doctors never thought to check for vitamin deficiencies, > even after learning the patient was eating a strict vegan diet, because > in the USA they never see such things since so much food is processed > and spiked with vitamins. > > A truly healthy diet is one that matches our chemistry and physiology. > IMHO, any parent feeding their kids a vegan or vegetarian diet should be > charged with child abuse, even if they're also giving them vitamin > supplements. There we agree violently. Thanks Greg. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
