Just a little helpful info I hope

I do quite a bit of studying on the chemical workings and nutritional needs of the heart and body and just thought this info might be helpful to some. This is taken from a book titled "Reverse Heart Desease Now" written by a "new cardiologist" named Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra:
"Every cardiologist should be interested in the following benefits of fish oil:

Decreases Lp(a), triglycerides, and blood pressure

Increases HDL

Reduces arterial wall inflammation

Improves endothelial function

Makes blood less stickier and less likely to form clots

Stabilizes and maybe even reverses plaque, and prevents plaque rupture

Soothes heart rate variability, which counteracts arrhythmias

Contributes to the bioenergy of the heart muscle

Fish oil helps control eicosanoids, tiny, hormonelike substances produced by all your cells. these chemicals have a regulatory influence on inflammatory and immune responses, the integrity of blood vessels, and much, much more. Just like cholesterol, some eicosanoids are considered good and others bad.
The good news: you exert a good deal of control over eicosanoids by what you eat. Foods such as partially hydrogenated fats (trans fats ) and refined carbohydrates trigger the production of harmful eicosanoids and promote inflammation. Omaega-3s benefit just about every tissue in the body.
Fish oil is rpeventive and terapeutic for all arrhythmias. Atrial fibrillation patients on fish oil leave the hospital sooner following bypass surgery and are at reduced risk for bypass graft closure. They can walk farther on a treadmill test. And those who are taking nitroglycerin need less of it.
We have prescribed fish oil aggressively to patients for more than a decade. Every patient with plaque gets fish oil. They do better. And it is an incredibly nontoxic substance."

Anyone interested in the book that can't find a copy, let me know and I will post and address and website where it can be purchased. (Blake, if there's any kind of problem with this posting, please do let me know. Not my intention to be advertising on here.)

Pete

6 Comments

LOL

by Pete K - 2008-04-30 06:04:21

Thanks Harley. Thats why they're calling this the "new cardialogy". Dr Sinatra is the one who first put the news about CoQ10, L-Carnitine, and D-ribose out on the market.
Pete

Love the information!!

by harley63 - 2008-04-30 06:04:27

Hi Pete~
Thanks for the information! I take fish oil and CoQ10. My cardio MD does not buy into the "nutritional" portion of heart function. But I sure do and it's my belief that I feel much better since I began the fish oil and CoQ10 on a routine basis.

Have a wonderful day.. I'm sending lots of dirt your way from windy West TX!!! :O)

Harley63

Omega 3 ultra-purified

by Papaguy - 2008-04-30 10:04:08

Thanks Pete for the information. 3 years ago, I stopped taking Zocor 40Mg because of the bad side effects that I had to support for many years. I consulted another cardiologist in Montreal and I told him of my decision. He agreed with my action and suggested to me to forget all cholesterol pills and replace it with Omega 3 highly distilled 1000mg/day. My doctor told me lately that my last blood test showed that my cholesterol test was good but my triglicerides was a little high and I had to cut down on my wine consumption from 2 glasses of wine per day to 1. I followed my family doctor's advice and I am now using 1 larger glass.
Omega 3 is a life saver to me.
Please send me Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra coordinates at:
papaguy1@videotron.ca

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by Pete K - 2008-05-01 01:05:01

Hi Janet,
Good going! The fish oil should also help with your tendonitis too and you might see if the nurse doesn't suggest some magnesium for it too. If you do have any of the "belch" trouble, there also is "no odor fish oil" that might help too. Thanks for the tip tho, will remember the freezing idea if I or others do have any trouble with it.

Me Too

by janetinak - 2008-05-01 03:05:20

Hi All,

I have a lot of pain (tendonitis) when I take statins so my Cardio suggested I go on CoQ10 & Fish Oil every day. Then my Nurse Practioner recommended I do both twice a day, Fish Oil to help with the Cholesterol & LDL problems & CoQ10 to see if helped my tendonits. Too soon to tell but can't hurt & I figure easy to do if helps. By the way, my Nurse Practioner suggested that if the fish oil came back on me (as in belch) to freeze the capsules. So I do that anyway, wh needs to belch fish oil. Hah!

Thanks for info, Janet

Available

by Pete K - 2008-05-02 01:05:58

Ah, after writing about the book, I discovered that you can get paperback copy of it and several of Dr. Sinatra's books on Amazon.com It has to do with near all kinds of heart problems.

Pete

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