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This book is intended to help you eliminate heart attacks. This chapter will offer information not available anywhere else that, should you choose to act on it, I am convinced will add many years to your life and should virtually eliminate heart attacks for you and your loved ones. All of the chapters in this book contain clearly useful, up to date information about which there is little real controversy. Unfortunately it seems that many of us ignore good advice, often until it seems to be too late and some hospital is suggesting heart surgery for you.

Fortunately I have been there and I will share in this chapter my knowledge and experience. This information will help you survive even if you, like many people, are somehow ignoring the obvious lifestyle, dietary, and exercise habits that can help you live a longer and healthier life.

The fact is that you might be the world's expert on many of today's proven vital risk factors from hypertension and diabetes to high cholesterol, and it is still extremely likely you will die of a heart attack.

The fact remains that heart attacks are still the leading cause of death followed by cancer in America. So what is my program based on?

I have practiced medicine for over 50 years and have been deeply involved in heart disease research for more than 40 years because of my strong family history for heart disease reinforced by my own significant heart problems from childhood on which developed into disabling heart disease with angina by age 29.

I therefore am highly motivated to think "out of the box" regarding solutions to heart disease and other degenerative diseases. I thoroughly evaluate every alternative form of therapy or conceivable concepts that might lower the risk of dying from heart attacks or strokes.

My program that I will be describing to you in some detail in this chapter is based on my professional experience. I believe that my recommendations are more effective than anything you can read about anywhere else since I have not heard of a single fatal heart attack or stroke occurring in anyone following my program for over 20 years. Obviously we all have to die sometime and when my program is tried by millions, there will be some whose time had come and nothing I can offer them is going to change that.

Strongly Motivated Patients

It must be understood that only those patients who already believed in my program have chosen to follow its precepts, often because they knew someone that it had helped. Also since my entire program has never been covered by insurance—including office visits and lab tests—these patients were clearly willing to take personal responsibility for their health. Since my practice is solely devoted to alternative medicine, their regular doctors and friends would have repeatedly warned them not to follow my program. Indeed, they likely would have suggested that if my program was so good, everyone would be following it. Yet, thousands have seen fit to bet their life that I am the answer they have been seeking.

Once someone makes that kind of commitment, even if they don't stop smoking or drinking or start exercising, they undoubtedly try to do something better, like maybe just cutting back on sugar and fat and eating a few more fruits and vegetables. Certainly if millions follow my program without putting their heart in it, so to speak, it cannot continue to be as good as it now is. Nonetheless, the information that I will share with you here has to my knowledge stopped fatal heart attacks in well over 95 percent of all patients. In fact, I am not aware that anyone following my program during the past 20-plus years has suffered a single fatal heart attack or stroke.

Since pollution and stress levels are worse today, I have had to add enzymes like boluoke and/or nattokinase to my basic Beyond Chelation Improved (BC-I) program which has been successful alone for over 20 years. With increasing reasons for blood to clot, like antibiotic resistant infections in everyone today, however, I feel safer recommending the enzymes with the BC-I particularly for those with known heart disease with blockages in their coronary or carotid circulation. That additional nutritional supplement can double the cost of the program, unfortunately, so in deciding whether it is worth it, end users must weigh that expense against the cost of a heart attack in lost income and medical expense.

Since my patients are living longer because they are not having fatal heart attacks and strokes, I now also research anti-aging therapies. I have concluded there is no point in being alive without enjoying use of all of our faculties as we age, like memory and vision and freedom from broken bones, etc. This provides an improved quality of life which I think we should aim for during the added lifespan which elimination of heart attacks and strokes provides us.

Chelation Therapy Success Revealed

More than 35 years ago, I was one of the first to seriously evaluate the often dramatic benefits being reported following the intravenous procedure of chelation therapy for heart disease. My research revealed that there had apparently been a massive cover-up to attempt to discredit this clearly life-saving breakthrough in medicine. I found that almost without exception I could improve circulation to legs, eyes, brain, and heart in my patients. Yet the mainstream medical literature pretended that chelation had initially seemed promising but later was abandoned.

I tried unsuccessfully to get the doctors who claimed that it later was shown to be worthless to appear on a podium in front of the hundreds of doctors that I was training and working with who were finding astonishing results, to come and tell us why they had abandoned the same therapy we were having such success with. Of course, one admitted he has been paid by a large medical insurance company to help destroy the therapy. And naturally, none of those doctors would ever appear on any podium. They had simply sold out. I have researched the subject for the past 35-plus years to learn more about how chelation therapy was working.

I personally benefitted dramatically from i.v. chelation therapy and so at first I thought I had found the answer to reversing arteriosclerosis. It turns out that things in medicine are not always that simple. You can improve blood flow dramatically and not have reversed that plaque seen on angiograms. Or you can save a leg, vision, or memory and even cancel the bypass but the improvement may be mediated through nitric oxide and the plaque can still be there.

I could not imagine a molecular explanation for the dramatic successes I had in documenting improved blood flow in my patients, even those with gangrene, memory or vision loss, or inoperable blockages in their coronary blood vessels. Also, I found after taking my eighth i.v. chelation treatment that for the first time in my life I felt like Superman.

Helping Others Feel Super

Now many years later I have been able to help develop another way to get that effect without the expense of putting things in the vein. Today it is possible to get an exceptional detox effect with aggressive levels of my famous advanced heart disease oral chelation program augmented with an all new form of MHZ (micronized hydrocolloidal zeolite). Now I can confidently expect to eliminate most fatal heart attacks. In addition, with some newer developments based on the addition of MHZ, I also expect to see millions enjoy the feeling of limitless energy I got years ago after those i.v. chelation treatments helped get the lead and mercury out of my body. Now I am prepared to help millions achieve that level of high health and not live on needless heart medications.

After the eighth i.v. EDTA (ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid) chelation treatment, I started to have boundless energy and could actually run up a steep mountain without either shortness of breath or chest pain, even exhausting a 2-year-old Irish setter in the process. Due to early onset of a heart condition, I had never been able to tolerate strenuous physical exertion before that. Now with the help of more advanced all-oral products, millions will be able to enjoy that level of health. The time has come to get the lead out of everyone wanting high health.

Unfortunately I did not know about the adverse effects of lead on everyone so I incorrectly assumed that EDTA must have some magical roto-rooter effect and it must have somehow cleaned all of my arteries. I now know that although my i.v. chelation protocol has safely treated over 10 million patients in the past 35-plus years, the explanation for why over 85 percent of all chelated circulation impaired patients report substantial benefits is far more complex and may be far more related to getting toxins like lead out.

Most of the estimated 10 million-plus, chelation patients over the last 30-plus years have been treated following the basic protocol I developed which was then formally adopted by ACAM (The College of Advancement in Medicine). I had required doctors providing chelation therapy and using the ACAM protocol to maintain medical records which documented that over 85 percent of adequately treated patients showed clearly measurable clinical improvement, both in reduced symptoms and objective measurements of improved blood flow.

After over 35 years I can state that the real explanation for their improved health is far more complex. The good news is that now I can offer those circulation benefits to everyone in the world affordably and conveniently by mouth. More importantly, we can now eliminate over 90 percent of those needless 2 million-plus annual blood clot-related deaths with the synergy provided by oral chelation combined with natural heparin-like compounds found in the sea. This means no more living on Coumadin (widely used as rat poison) or other dangerous and toxic drugs that offer only partial protection anyway.

Part of the success of chelation-related blood flow improvement is attributable to getting the lead out. But although i.v. chelation is more concentrated and therefore more rapid, the fact is there is no one that can take the main stores of lead out of bones any faster than they are remodeled, which is 15 years for adults. Therefore, everyone who wants to enjoy optimal health and longevity should maintain the lowest possible levels of blood lead throughout life.

Lead Levels Up 1,000 Times

Since we are all born with at least 1,000 times more lead in our bones coming from our mothers than was found a few hundred years ago, there is a clear need for a convenient lifelong oral detoxification program. Until recently, EDTA has been the logical ideal candidate to fulfill this lead removal need.

Now with the increasing pollution of our planet from many sources including coal-burning power plants, I find there is a need to add a new advanced form of Zeolite that is more effective than EDTA in dealing with several other toxins including mercury.

I will always want my patients on EDTA also since it is a key element in my advanced cardiovascular support formula that helps the heparin-like seaweed-based material which we discovered provides key synergistic blood thinning effects. It is that effect that I believe has eliminated fatal heart attacks for my patients.

This becomes complex as there are different factors as work here. First, preventing fatal blood clots is a vital contribution to the elimination of deaths from heart attacks and strokes. But in addition to not dying, we need to also have energy to do things and feel good while we are alive. That is where the removal of all toxins becomes another goal and no one approach can handle both goals with optimal effectiveness. That is why the convenient nine-pill package of Beyond Chelation Improved has been such a success. It includes a broad spectrum of herbs, homeopathics, vitamins, fatty acids, amino acids, minerals, and mucopolysaccarides and polyphenols that help EDTA provide effective nutritional support against heart disease and aging.

The literature today is replete with proof that optimal health is compromised in everyone unless toxins such as lead and mercury are kept as low as possible since there is no safe level for these heavy metals.

Once you read a book such as Diagnosis Mercury, you will overreact and be afraid to eat fish even though they do offer proven health benefits. We cannot eat, drink, or breathe anywhere on Earth today without taking in toxins.

Rather than run scared to live on this planet, I choose to help my patients learn how to arm themselves by taking in detoxifying substances that will cause them to always be removing more of these toxins than they are normally taking in. The rare exceptions would be in cases where they are being poisoned at work or home by a source that may need identification and removal.

The scientific literature makes it clear that all causes of morbidity and mortality are related to how low you keep your blood lead levels throughout life.

Achieving A Toxin-Free Body

Once you familiarize yourself with the literature on toxins like lead, etc., you will want to enjoy the health benefits of a lead-free, mercury-free, toxin-free body; you will realize that this is only feasible with the ingestion of a daily oral detoxification substance.

This can be as simple as taking higher doses of ascorbic acid, or specialized forms of fiber, but with current pollution levels you really need to add substances like EDTA and today we even seem to need the help of other chelators. I have recently helped identify an exciting new Zeolite product that removes a number of toxins, many even before we have assimilated them. If this is ingested continuously so that it is always present in our intestines, it will bind many toxins even before we start to absorb them while enhancing the removal of all heavy metals. This apparently even works with organic toxins like VOC (volatile organic compounds) from PCBs and dioxins to toluene and formaldehyde, which are now being found in advanced blood tests in virtually everyone on Earth today.

Thus the same program I use to eliminate heart attacks has many other benefits. That is because the immediate or proximate cause of fatal heart attacks is the blood clot. However, there is a series of events that precede that sudden clot formation. The story is something like the tale of how the kingdom was lost "all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

Now it is believed that chronic inflammation leads to the formation of these fatal blood clots. Experts today a

many of the benefits seen from statins are not due to lowered cholesterol but to lowered inflammation, which may in some patients be measured with tests such as the C-reactive protein test. There is, however, more to inflammation than meets the eye. If you go to meetings about infections and health you will become convinced that a living microbe is always involved in the events leading up to fatal heart attacks. In fact, the plaque on our arteries where we focus excessively on the cholesterol content always contains living microbes. When fatal blood clots form, that plaque will be clearly warmer than the surrounding tissue. That is caused by the infection becoming activated.

These infections—which experts agree are present to some degree at all times—can be viral, bacterial, or even fungal and generally are resilient, returning to pre-treatment levels soon after antibiotic treatment is stopped. Many experts focus on one or more of the following as being related to plaque inflammation: chlamydia, herpes, mycoplasma, cosackie, and so on, but more infections are being identified in humans all the time.

This is where it becomes important to maintain a balance between these infections and our immune system's ability to control them. In his book, Beyond Antibiotics, Michael A. Schmidt, PhD, explains that we will never be able to eradicate all of these infections. Part of the book, therefore, focuses on how to control these now increasingly antibiotic-resistant infections with improved immunity which underscores the need for a healthier body.

I have recently incorporated my interest in advanced therapies for autoimmune disease patients into the concept of my F.I.G.H.T. program. This program goes far beyond elimination of heart attacks and empowers you to deal more successfully than ever with almost the entire spectrum of degenerative diseases we worry about today, from Alzheimer's and cancer to arthritis and aging, including all of the epidemic of over 100 illnesses today now known to be autoimmune-related.

A Plan to FIGHT Disease and Aging

My F.I.G.H.T. program, particularly when combined with the other information in this book, should provide the ultimate protection plan for anyone seriously interested in living out their maximum intended useful lifespan.

My F.I.G.H.T. program will do much more than help eliminate your fear of suffering an unexpected premature end to your life from a heart attack or stroke. I am confident that it can help prevent and even reverse a host of the degenerative diseases we are all plagued with today, while also even slowing your rate of aging.

But let's get back to the total elimination of heart attacks. I confidently predict that over 90 percent of all heart attacks can be prevented with my very simple supplement program. Based on my extensive experience and research, I am convinced that over 85 percent of 10 million patients receiving i.v. chelation therapy were clearly benefitted.

In the past 35 years I have collected most of the world's literature regarding chelating agents, initially focusing particularly on EDTA, and now more recently on Zeolite. There are over 6,000 references to EDTA in the scientific literature alone. EDTA and other chelators are known to help the body eliminate heavy metals such as lead, cadmium, and mercury. Many believe that this must be given intravenously but I have placed 507 abstracts on my website www.gordonresearch.com taken from some of my accumulated scientific literature just on the oral use of EDTA in heavy metal-exposed workers etc.

I have also reviewed thousands of articles regarding the adverse effects of heavy metals and other toxins in our environment and their relationship to all causes of death and or disability including heart disease. I have also co-authored two books on chelation—The Chelation Answer and the latest, Detox with Oral Chelation. I also co-authored the book, The Omega 3 Miracle, since no one should try to eliminate all fatal heart attacks without supplementing with this crucial nutrient. I know this from my personal experience of losing my assistant researcher on chelation. He had been having heart trouble, but when I sent him BC-I as a gift, he sent it back saying he could not take it because he was a vegetarian. A few days later, he died of a heart attack.

I have been so fortunate in keeping people alive who will take the nine pills twice a day, even those who I often start on the program when they are already in an advanced condition. I have had experience with many patients who were already considered inoperable, such as the first patient to whom I gave an i.v.

To give you an idea why I use ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid to stop heart attacks, think about the last time you had a blood sample taken. If your doctor wanted to keep the blood from clotting, he or she would have added a few drops of EDTA to the collection tube. Amazingly, a little EDTA might be all you need in your supplements every day to help prevent blood clotting. I have successfully helped develop a safer but far more effective EDTA-based nutritional approach that replaces aspirin and anti-clotting drugs with the heparin-like activity we found in seaweed-based mucopolysaccarides.

I know that this simple approach can help us largely eliminate blood clots, or arterial or venous thrombosis, which is now known to be the leading cause of over 2 million deaths each year.

Stopping Blood Clots Naturally

Those health professionals who fail to keep up with this complex area in medicine significantly contribute to these needless deaths by telling millions that aspirin, or Coumadin, or Plavix are the best answer to blood clots without even considering non-toxic natural approaches from garlic and ginkgo to omega 3 supplementation.

The truth about blood clots involves inflammation, infection, environment, and genetics, and is therefore far more complex than believing that an aspirin a day is sufficient preventive treatment for this major cause of death and disability. You will see cholesterol is not the main culprit it has been made out to be. That overly simplistic answer is being sold by vested interests and it makes lots of money for a few, but with less benefit than we are being told and with greater harm than is widely appreciated.

In fact, there are about 750,000 deaths from coronary artery thrombosis each year, according to Rodger L. Bick, M.D., PhD, FACP, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Pathology Director, and founder of the Dallas Thrombosis Hemostasis and Difficult Hematology Clinical Center. Of these coronary thrombotic events, 67 percent involve patients who harbor a coagulation blood protein or platelet defect leading to thrombosis. Fifty percent of these coagulation protein or platelet defects will be hereditary, thus emphasizing the importance of defining the presence and type of defect in survivors of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks). Defining the defect will also allow one to optimize antithrombotic therapy for secondary prevention; this is the best way to make sure appropriate therapy can be delivered to decrease, as much as possible, another (potentially fatal) event. If the defect is hereditary, appropriate family members can be assessed and, when indicated, treated to potentially prevent the first event (heart attack).

I hope all of this information helps you understand that the medicine I lecture about worldwide and teach at the American College of Advanced Medicine, the academy I co-founded more than 35 years ago, is really, as the name says, advanced medicine.

I encourage you to use a search engine such as Google to pursue your own study on the internet of this major contributor to death. The cost and complexity of this treatment are two prime reasons that it is being ignored. For example, it costs $6,000 to have the panel of blood tests needed to determine if you have a genetic contributor to having a blood clot such as Leiden 5. Furthermore, since 67 percent will fail the test and 50 percent of those should have their relatives checked, testing all of your family for this defect can bankrupt any health care system. And what's more, the costs of the recommended drugs will often be more than $ 500 to $ 1,000 a month, and all of them have serious side effects.

So let's get down to business. I have been able to find a way to deal with the real cause of death in heart attacks at a cost that most of us can afford even if we will need to consume this daily for life. I say that because in over 20 years now, I have not been informed of a single fatal heart attack or stroke in anyone relying on just my basic program which is just nine capsules or tablets consumed preferably twice a day. This has been my recommendation now for more than 20 years to all my patients even when they have a strong history of heart disease in the family and/or have high cholesterol, hypertension, and/or diabetes. Many of my patients were already known to have serious arterial blockages in the coronaries or other parts of their bodies, and often they already have had a heart attack or two and/or have already had stenting and/or bypass surgery.

A Plan Free of Known Side Effects

My advice to my patients for years has been to always plan to continually take at least my minimum basic program of the nine pills twice a day. These are found in individually wrapped packets of 30 to a jar and supplied as a product widely known as Beyond Chelation Improved. I have not heard of a single fatal outcome occurring while on this program. Of course there are many other choices for the consumer to consider but I find that all other programs have known serious potential side effects, from statins to stenting and clearly a higher known rate of failure.

I would expect that BC-I will start to have more failures when we start to treat millions with this concept. It clearly is better when patients adhere to the suggestions contained in this book. But masses of people today want something that permits them to continue smoking and, often, drinking excessively and consuming excess fast foods and sugar while not exercising. Those types of patients are not typical to my practice and so those patients with more risky lifestyles will not be adequately protected with just two packets a day of BC-I.

Furthermore, the world is rapidly becoming more polluted and our food less nutritious. That makes me realize that just swallowing nine pills twice a day cannot be expected to totally continue with the success we have had to date in eliminating fatal heart attacks.

Today, not only are we living with more pollution and greater stress, we also have some genetic changes (epigenetic) occurring apparently as a direct reaction to some of the toxins we currently find in everyone. One such example is bisphenol A, which has changed a key gene involved in methylation—a chemical process that is vital to assist us in detoxification. As a result, we are exposed more and we are becoming less able to detoxify these exposures without special nutrient programs. That is why I have had to develop the F.I.G.H.T. Program as my response to the increasing severity of illnesses we are encountering today in our population. Thus we are going into more polluted times and more complex and hard to treat conditions are becoming frighteningly epidemic today. (See The Autoimmune Epidemic by Nakazawa—29 million people have genetic issues behind these newer illnesses.)

Fortunately, even though we have much more pollution and stress contributing to our poor health, our knowledge of nutritional and complementary alternative medicine has also been expanding. Therefore, I continue to be optimistic that, although programs will necessarily become more complex and the needed nutrient supplements more diverse and expensive, we are learning rapidly enough that those who will make the extra effort to use this knowledge to maintain or improve their health will continue to enjoy better results than any drug-based approach to health can hope to offer.

I am confident that in addition to eliminating most fatal heart attacks and strokes, my more comprehensive F.I.G.H.T. Program can provide superior benefits more cost effectively and far more safely than allopathic mainstream medicine in over 90 percent of chronic illnesses from autism to Alzheimer's disease seen today. The main area where we must continue to use our drugs and surgery will be in the treatment of acute critical care conditions, particularly trauma where there is no question that American mainstream medicine offers unparalleled success.

Going 'Beyond Any Multiple'

My personal program for my own heart disease is based on the foundation of taking BC-I, since those nine pills also meet all of my basic nutritional needs. The nine pills include three tablets in each packet, or six a day. This is your advanced daily multiple vitamin. These six tablets substitute Beyond Any Multiple (BAM) for all of the completely inadequate multiple vitamin mineral supplements you might be taking now.

Briefly, there are no multiple vitamin products available on the market today that even try to compare with this since it was not intended to compete in the mass market, but was designed to keep me and my patients alive and slow the aging process. It has more vital nutrients at required levels than any multiple you can find, including Resveratrol, the exciting breakthrough in anti-aging medicine that works on the sirt 1 gene to increase life span. There are also the highly vital tocotrienols, which have largely replaced vitamin E in advanced heart research, and vitamin K2. Vitamin K-2 is the key to avoiding hardening of the arteries. Without this vital nutrient, we gradually lose bone calcium and increase calcium in our blood vessels.

BAM also is very strong on minerals since magnesium deficiency is so prevalent and is a key to any heart treatment program. The 500 mg found in six BAM pills will not assure optimal magnesium levels and I often will increase that intake with extra magnesium supplements such as magnesium malate, or taurate, or orotate, getting as much as an additional 500 mg of elemental magnesium a day. A word of caution, though, because that can lead to loose bowels and in some patients magnesium is easily lost due to stress or diuretics, even coffee. Therefore, some patients never achieve optimal magnesium levels without relying for a time on injectable magnesium, either i.v., as in a "Myer's Cocktail" that nutritional doctors are familiar with, or even self-administered IM injections of magnesium on a doctor's order until adequate intracellular magnesium has been restored.

Low levels of magnesium are major contributors to the epidemic of arrhythmias that patients are being diagnosed with today. Magnesium can be tested with a magnesium loading test for white blood cell magnesium levels, or a sublingual intracellular test using x-ray fluorescence with an electron microscope. I have found this test, known as Exatest by Intracellular Diagnostics, to be even more sensitive in finding patients who need much more magnesium. Treatment often starts with lifestyle and diet changes to stop the wasting of magnesium and also includes taking more magnesium as supplements. It must be realized, though, that it can be hard to absorb and may make bowels loose.

Besides BAM as your basic vitamin mineral supplement to take for life, also in the nine-pill packet, you will receive three capsules of Essential Daily Defense. These are the detoxing and blood thinning parts of the formula. They are essential as these days we are born with already seriously elevated heavy metals such as lead and mercury. This capsule can be given to babies in their formula, one cap per 20 pounds of weight. This includes high quality garlic for its many benefits but also has EDTA to activate the carrageenan (polysaccharide) from red algae (seaweed) that provides the heparin-like action to help deal with our excessive clotting tendencies which we call hypercoagulation.

This came out of Dr. Lester Morrison's $10 million in research efforts to eliminate heart attacks and prevent and reverse arteriosclerosis. He authored three books describing his research, with the one for the public entitled Dr. Morrison s Heart Saver Program, published by St Martin's press. That is the research that led to the development of BC-I.

A Simple, Powerful Improvement

I worked with Dr. Morrison, and we determined that when we added my EDTA to his formula, it instantly made it far more powerful. This enabled it to be compressed into the nine pills we use today instead of the hard-to-take large quantity of powder it had been. His research had demonstrated that there was a 91 percent decrease in heart attacks among patients with known heart disease after taking his formula. The addition of EDTA and the essential oils like omega 3 and primrose oil to his formula appears to have brought us closer to the 100 percent decrease we all want. It appears that we succeeded in both simplifying and improving the answer to heart disease that he had worked so hard to develop for more than 20 years.

The nine pills also includes two capsules of essential oils, primrose, and omega 3. This is because taking just omega 3 is no longer considered optimal as we must maintain balance with the essential omega 6 oils. Then the crucial last capsule is phosphatidyl serine with gingko biloba. This helps to preserve your memory when you are 90 and also assists in preventing sticky platelets that contribute to hypercoagulation.

Then I also take boluoke—one cap twice a day—and endokinase—one twice a day. These are the natural non-prescription enzyme products that I am certain should replace the excessive reliance on blood thinning drugs such as Coumadin, aspirin, and plavix today. Such drugs are dangerous, expensive, and less effective than these enzymes. Although these enzymes are expensive, they are well worth the cost if you can afford it. Those who cannot will have to settle for relying just on BC-I taken twice a day. Ongoing research on the subject of biofilm may lead one day to far broader understanding of why consuming these enzymes offers benefits that make them well worth their cost.

Boluoke, which is also known as lumbrokinase, comes from earthworms. It takes almost a ton of earthworms to get 1 kgm of lumbrokinase. Endokinase comes from fermented soy called natto and although not as strong as boluoke, it again offers significant blood thinning power. To understand these two natural oral products better, learn about TPA—tissue plasminogen activator. This is the treatment today that hospitals provide for heart attacks and strokes to dissolve the clot but only if you get to the hospital within three hours of the event. The cost is over $3,000 per injection and most require more than one injection, plus, of course, other hospital charges.

Nattokinase alone has been reported to help dissolve a clot even two days after a stroke or heart attack. I submit that everyone needs to keep one or both of these clot-busting natural enzymes in the home. They will do far more for you than the aspirin that many have been told to rely on when they think they may have had a heart attack. In any event, having everyone take BC-I twice a day seems to eliminate most fatal heart attacks anyway.

The advantage of taking these enzymes can be an improved quality of life. Staying alive is great, but some of us want it all. We want full functioning memory and high energy and we want to slow the aging process too. It seems clear that specialized enzymes such as boluoke, endokinase, and wobenzym will improve nutrient assimilation in the intestines and nutrient delivery to the cells. This, in turn, will enable most of us to obtain the nourishment we need to optimize heart function from the food we eat and the nutritional supplements we take.

Optimizing Heart Function

Now that we understand that my program largely eliminates the risk of sudden death from heart attacks and a little bit about why it works so well, we can move on to the topic of optimizing heart function in patients with most of the standard heart disease problems encountered today.

One such problem is hypercholesterolemia, and my position is that the non-drug options that abound today in health food stores and on the internet should be the first choice. This is because I always focus on a simple concept; it is called the benefit to risk ratio. I will not recommend something with a 5 percent so-called benefit if there is a known risk as we have with statins, which I can avoid with alternative approaches. Since patients of mine who have elevated cholesterol levels, diabetes, hypertension, arrhythmias, and even mitral valve prolapse, aortic stenosis, and heart failure all do well with my basic approach, I am loathe to recommend many of the standard medications used for these conditions.

I have alternative approaches to all of those problems which I have written about to the over 1,800 health care professionals in my FACT Discussion group (FACT stands for Forum on Anti-aging and Chelation Therapy). This provides free written suggestions for management of most health problems for any licensed health professional. Those years of accumulated questions and answers constitute a free library of advanced alternative medicine for health professionals which goes into considerable depth. The general public can also learn a great deal on many subjects by searching by topic on my www.gordonresearch.com website.

Patients who want expert assistance with finding an alternative approach to their health care problems are advised to suggest that their health care professional join the FACT group. That person can then post a question and get an answer from other health care professionals through FACT at no charge—in effect getting a free "curbside consultation" with myself or other FACT members regarding any heart disease problem.

Everyone is expected, however, not to ask the same questions that already have been asked and answered numerous times, like "How does oral chelation work?" (answer: like nitric oxide), or "How does lead increase blood pressure?" (lead diminishes nitric oxide production). To avoid repetition, everyone is required to first search for related information both on my www.gordonresearch site and then in the FACT database to see what has already been covered on the topic they are concerned about. This could be on alternative approaches to managing hypertension or it could deal with enhancing heart function in athletes. I am confident that my group can supply better outcomes for any heart patient by combining our collective nutritional and alternative medicine-based knowledge. There is virtually no heart patient for whom my group, using my nutritionally based alternative approaches, cannot supply better outcomes than mainstream drug or surgically based therapies.

Now we understand that there is a real alternative approach for most heart issues. My experience gives me confidence that any heart disease problem can be treated more effectively than the drug or surgical approaches except for those patients who are not willing to drastically alter their lifestyle, to adopt a regimen of exercise, clean up their diet, lose some weight when needed, live on great supplements, and avoid fast food like the plague.

Committing To Better Heart Health

Those patients who are not into all this will not get the full benefits they could have, and I prefer to let them deal with cardiologists and take the latest drugs. In my opinion, all drugs are poisons, since an overdose of them will generally kill you, and the list of side effects is never as comprehensive as it should be. As a result, if you follow this course you are not likely to extend your lifespan since you are not dealing with the causes but are merely masking the symptoms with another toxic substance.

My approach is to focus on long-term detoxification to get all the lead out, and that takes at least 15 years of continual non-stop oral chelation like BC-I, Heavy Detox, or Zeo Gold. I confidently state this new breakthrough in Zeolite technology will change the life of everyone that takes it. It gets at toxins that are present in everyone today that nothing else available anywhere at any price is able to do. Those who realize that today's epidemic of ill health is related to the increasing pollution of our water, food, and air will add Zeo Gold to the rest of the program I have outlined here and enjoy a level of health they may never have dreamed was possible.

My book, Detox with Oral Chelation, has described what was possible for many years using oral chelators, and that included the ability to lower blood pressure, raise IQ, increase energy, and avoid needless memory loss, etc. Now since Zeo Gold became available, we can all expect to achieve greater longevity as Zeo Gold addresses many more of the toxins that are keeping us all from enjoying optimal health and all of the products for heart disease I have covered in this chapter will be working even better than before.

My earlier Book, The Chelation Answer, was one of the first published that brought the idea to the public that chelation works on many levels. In fact, over 30 different benefits have been identified in the thousands of papers published regarding EDTA. It was only more recently recognized that there is no safe level of lead or mercury and that part of the benefit from lead removal detoxification treatment is the restoration of normal blood flow due to increased internal production of nitric oxide. This is because our diet includes arginine and citrulline, amino acids which must be converted by enzymes in our body into nitric oxide to maintain healthy blood flow. Toxins like lead interfere with the efficiency of enzymes. At all times a good multi vitamin like BAM and extra vitamin C can help in the production of nitric oxide, the natural alternative to drugs for heart disease.

Vitamin C and Silver

In fact, my standard recommendation for all of my patients is to take at least 8,000 mg of a highly absorbable form of vitamin C called BioEnergy C. A teaspoon of this uniquely well-tolerated powder taken twice a day will deliver that Linus Pauling-type of dose every day of your life. Vitamin C reduces the oxidation in blood vessels and may cause an increase in nitric oxide, partly due to its ability to help rid the body of toxins like lead. Furthermore, high intakes of vitamin C have been shown to reduce arterial plaque. To learn more about the value of aggressive vitamin C supplementation read Vitamin C, Infectious Diseases, and Toxins by Levy and/or Vitamin C, the Common Cold and Flu, by Pauling.

It turns out that experts today agree that inflammation is a key contributor to chronic heart disease and arteriosclerosis. There also is consensus that infections are found in all plaque, thus extra vitamin C is one way to help keep your level of the pathogens like herpes, chlamydia, mycoplasma, and other infections under better control at all times. Recently, a new form of colloidal silver called Advanced Cellular Silver ACS 200 has been developed and become a major new improvement in managing heart disease. One of the reasons for its effectiveness is that there is no antibiotic resistance to silver so it is safe to take continuously in addition to extra vitamin C. This helps to keep our total body burden of all these pathogens—which mainstream medicine ignores—under control. This way, we are treating the causes and not just the symptoms, as opposed to the conventional medical approach of simply giving you a drug to deal with the inflammation.

Fiber

I always have patients take Beyond Fiber, the most advanced EDTA containing stabilized rice bran product in the world which includes artichoke to provide the perfect ratio of soluble to insoluble fiber for all functions in the body. This helps to lower blood pressure and raise the good cholesterol HDL. Plus, with the vitamin C you are also preventing oxidation of cholesterol, and research has shown that it is primarily the oxidized cholesterol that has adverse effects.

Greens

I strongly advise everyone to augment their daily intake of nutrients with the special benefits available from a wide spectrum of organic greens from both land and sea. These provide nutrients not found elsewhere and enhance our ability to neutralize toxins, such as the hormone disruptors found in everyone today, while also increasing the efficiency of toxin removal. I also like the glucosinolates for their detoxification effects. Maca is another great source, like broccoli, but with maca we also see hormone balancing benefits including in-creased levels of free testosterone in men, which is vital to healthy heart function.

Herbs

The puresterol in HRT-plus is a major part of long-term heart health particularly for women, as this is a S.E.R.M. (selective estrogen receptor modulator) of the beta receptors. Thus it helps protect bones and blood vessels since if we have strong bones at 90 we will have softer, less calcified arteries. So part of my heart healthy program is to deal with the adverse effects of calcium accumulating on arteries as we age. Toward that end I strongly advocate the use of vitamin K-2 in therapeutic levels as found in Beyond Bone. This actually should have been called Beyond Bone and Heart, as vitamin K-2 is vitally needed not just for healthy bones but for soft arteries that otherwise gradually become hardened in everyone with the accumulation of calcium.

Note that the aorta in everyone at age 80 has 140 times more calcium than at age 10. Thus any real anti-aging heart healthy program must deal with keeping bones strong, so I advise everyone from age 45 on to take one Beyond Bone a day. I also suggest taking 5000 units of vitamin D daily as well as the 500 mg of calcium found in BAM— the multiple vitamin in BC-I. In addition, everyone needs hormone support with maca and the GH support found in Beyond GHS, plus, ideally, the SERM beta found in HRT-plus.

Note that you should never take more calcium than magnesium in supplements and that the current recommendation for calcium supplements is unhealthy and clearly excessive. Calcium is not the only answer to strong bones. See the Beyond Bone formula to obtain realistic bone health and only use 500 mg of supplement of calcium a day as found in BAM, which comes with the mandatory 500 mg of magnesium needed to balance that calcium dose.

A million and a half individuals in the U.S.A. will have an acute myocardial infarction each year; 50 percent of these incidents will be fatal and 50 percent will be a premature/precocious event. Thus, there are about 750,000 deaths from coronary artery thrombosis per year. Of these coronary thrombotic events, 67 percent of patients harbor a coagulation blood protein or platelet defect leading to thrombosis. Fifty percent of these coagulation protein or platelet defects will be hereditary, thus emphasizing the importance of defining the presence and type of defect in survivors of acute myocardial infarction (heart attacks).

Defining the defect will also allow one to optimize antithrombotic therapy for secondary prevention; this is the best way to make sure appropriate therapy can be delivered to decrease, as much as possible, another (potentially fatal) event. If the defect is hereditary, appropriate family members can be assessed and, when indicated, treated to potentially prevent the first event (heart attack).