At The HEART of It All...

I think the thing that “gets” to me the most is seeing or hearing about my loved ones (and even strangers) suffering with so many symptoms and side effects of medicines!

My father-in-law had to be hospitalized in the Veterans Hospital many times since last February when we rescued him and he now lives with us. He had a heart attack. He was rushed in to surgery where several stints were put in. Later they had to go back in only this time he died on the op table for 8 minutes. They did not send him home with much hope! But I had a STRONG determination to change that! He was also diagnosed with coronary artery disease from his legs to his jawbone.

I started immediately searching www.lef.org (see my Aug 4th post for detailed info on them). Anyways here is some important links I found just in case you need some:

Heart & Circulatory: or click here
Anemia
Arrhythmias
Atherosclerosis
Blood Clots (Thrombosis)
Blood Disorders
Cholesterol Management
Congestive Heart Failure
Coronary Artery Disease
High Blood Pressure
Homocysteine Reduction
Pulmonary Insufficiencies
Raynaud's Phenomenon
Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease

So many Statin drugs are given to patients with heart and arterial disease, and I discovered there are “other, alternative” ways to heal, repair and stop it without all the side effects. Just click on some of the articles (links) above and you will see studies, research, testing etc proving this time and time again! However, we the public are not hearing about it we have to find out about it ourselves – and that is where LEF comes in.

Long story short after seeing so many patients while in the hospital, our Veterans who fought for us, gave their lives for our protection are being thrown 4, 6, 10 bottles of different pills and sent on their way! When I would talk to these families and hear horror stories of how their loved one is back in the hospital because of all the side effects of all the pills they are taking- I had an “a ha moment” as Oprah puts it!

So, after hours and hours of reading all I could find on the subject, I ordered several of the recommended vitamins/supplements from LEF. Super Ubiquinol CoQ10 especially! Within days – days, my father in law was making milestone improvements! I would like to say he continued on this path of healing and taking the supplements. But once a doctor got a hold of him and started pumping him up with pills and ideas in his head he started doubting him self and what we had experienced. It was not long before he wound up deathly sick and back in the hospital. Well once again he is back to taking the supplements and this time WOW!! He is doing great! His doctors are amazed, and shaking their heads and telling him “well I guess we were wrong, keep doing and taking what you are taking” well duh!

This got me thinking…

What I read time and time again was how heart disease goes thru steps of symptomatic issues like if you trace the steps (aka symptoms) it reads like this:

9. Heart Attack
8. Coronary Artery Disease and Atherosclerosis
7. Prostate Issues
6. Hearing
5. Eyes & Vision
4. Snoring
3. Cognitive Issues
2. Can’t Sleep
1. Weight gain, esp belly fat, baldness, turning gray, etc.
All this coupled with no exercising, not eating right, etc.

It’s like our bodies are running along having an imbalance, throws us a minor symptom and waits. We don’t pay attention to it so it throws another symptom, and another and another until BAM we have a serious symptom or worse yet disease!

In every instance hormonal imbalance like a drop, decline, increase or resistance seems to be running through it all. Testosterone, & Dhea have been proven to always be lower in Congestive Heart Failure patients. The thing is facts show women suffer from heart disease after they are menopausal at a scarey rate! This is all because they are not replacing their hormones. This too leads to breast cancer. In my case I have no way of producing hormones with my ovaries gone - so I need all of them replaced if I don't want a chain of events such as my father in law has experienced! But that is me, and every woman and every situation is different.

In other words Andropause menopause for men is being experienced by my father in law. He had all these symptoms trying to “yell” at him to pay attention. When he didn’t, no doubt because he couldn’t find a doctor that would offer more than a pill, his body slipped more and more into disease! Just like mine!

Now I will not forget the fact that my father in law has a long time family history of death from heart attacks. And there is so much more going on that I don’t want to simplify heart attacks and coronary artery disease!!

Could we fight off all diseases at the symptom level or hormonal level? Could we just take the proper blood tests, and find the right kind of doctor and STOP diseases from every happening? Right kind meaning - alternative, cutting edge, anti-aging, etc. But how and where do we find one?

So I ask this…. At the Heart of it all – is it an imbalance of hormones?