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Atherosclerosis at 30
At age 30, every second young person has already developed early
forms of atherosclerosis in their coronary arteries. This disease
develops over many years without us knowing it. If nothing is done,
this process will sooner or later lead to a heart attack. It was
our goal to develop a natural therapy to stop this dangerous process
in its early stages. We knew that if we were successful in halting
atherosclerosis, we would ultimately prevent the occurrence of heart
attacks, and the eradication of heart disease would become reality.
The natural health program that we developed is composed of vitamins,
amino acids, minerals and trace elements, and it has become the
world's leading cardiovascular health program. The following clinical
study took a further step on this way. We tested our vitamin program
in a clinical study with 55 patients with different stages of coronary
heart disease. To measure the degree of coronary artery deposits
we used the most advanced diagnostic technology in the world, the
Ultrafast Computer Tomography, the so-called mammogram of the heart.
The computer automatically measured the size of
the deposits within the arteries by multiplying the area and the
density of the deposits. From these data the coronary sclerosis
factor was obtained. The larger this sclerosis factor, the more
advanced was coronary artery disease. Because of its importance
for the health of every human being, I have completely documented
this important study in my new book, "Why Animals Don't Get
Heart Attacks." The most important study results are the
following:
First, we evaluated how fast the atherosclerotic
deposits develop in coronary heart disease patients without any
vitamin therapy. We measured that every year the coronary deposits
increase on average by 44%. Thus, without any vitamin therapy,
the deposits increased at an accelerated speed, every year they
increased by half of their previous size. Untreated coronary atherosclerosis
does not develop in a linear fashion towards a heart attack, but
at an accelerated speed. This is the first time that the actual
growth rate of coronary sclerosis has been measured.
Subsequently, the patients started with our vitamin
program. Under this therapy the development was reversed, and
the growth rate of coronary deposits substantially decreased.
Subsequently, the patients started with our vitamin program. Under
this therapy the development was reversed and the growth rate
of coronary deposits substantially decreased.
For patients with early coronary heart disease
the process could be stopped within one year. In individual cases
this vitamin therapy led to the complete disappearance of coronary
artery deposits in a natural way. The existing deposits, in the
picture on the left-hand side, have totally disappeared after
one year on our vitamin program. The explanation for this picture
is logical: the ingredients of the vitamin program have stimulated
a natural healing process of the artery wall. This study marks
a turning point in medicine and in health awareness on a worldwide
scale. It confirms that heart attack is the direct consequence
of vitamin deficiency. Coronary atherosclerosis, the cause of
heart attacks, can be stopped in its early stages.
This study also confirms that the natural reversal
of coronary sclerosis is possible and that, in the future, bypass
surgery and angioplasty will be the exception. We now also know
that the worldwide cardiovascular epidemic can be controlled at
a fraction of the previous cost. However, the most important fact
is that this medical breakthrough can be used immediately by millions
of people worldwide. The application of these findings will lead
to a significant reduction of heart attacks and strokes and, during
the next century, essentially to their eradication. This study
also confirms that the following statistic is not a coincidence:
vitamin C consumption in the United States has increased several
fold over the last three decades. Exactly in parallel, the frequency
of heart attacks and strokes as the cause of death has been cut
in half.
Our study now paves the way for similar successes
in Europe and other parts of the world. How urgently this development
is needed can be seen from the following statistics: While heart
attack and strokes have decreased by 50% in the United States,
in Europe and other parts of the world people continue to die
like flies from this epidemic. In Western Europe, the frequency
of heart attacks has remained constantly high, while the frequency
of heart attacks and strokes in eastern European countries still
increases. Our study also provides an explanation for this phenomenon:
every second person in America takes vitamins on a regular basis.
In Europe, these are fewer than 5%. |
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