Clean Out Blocked Arteries Naturally

Blocked arteries are not a death sentence or a life sentence to using heart drugs.  There are natural alternatives to expensive and dangerous drugs.  So called cholesterol drugs – statins are actually dangerous and rob your heart of vital coenzyme Q10 or CoQ10.  Coenzyme Q10 is necessary for cell energy and your heart needs lots of it.  Why would you take something that robs your heart of CoQ10?

Cholesterol is not the heart disease factor it is made out to be.  Inflammation, free radicals and fibrin are much bigger problems as far as blocked arteries goes.  Arteries are damaged by free radicals, cholesterol and fibrin are the body’s attempt to repair the artery.  It is when the cholesterol patch to the arterial wall is hardened by oxidizing from more free radicals or calcified by too much calcium in the blood and/or fibrin not dissolving after it’s short term patching function .   Calcium needs to be balanced with magnesium to be utilized effectively by the body and not combine with cholesterol.

Two natural alternatives to pharmaceuticals are nattokinase and serrapeptase.  These two enzymes dissolve fibrin and cholesterol, clearing the arterial wall throughout the body and brain.  Fibrin is used in the body as a short term patch – scabs are made of fibrin.  The problem is when the body’s natural process to remove the fibrin does not kick in, it builds up.

Nattokinase is a potent fibrinolytic enzyme extracted and highly purified from a traditional Japanese food called Natto, a fermented cheese-like food that has been used in Japan for over 1000 years for its popular taste, and as a folk remedy for heart and vascular diseases. Now, after many centuries in secrecy, nattokinase is finally available in America. Natto is produced by a fermentation process by adding Bacillus natto, a benefical bacteria, to boiled soybeans. The resulting nattokinase enzyme is produced when Bacillus natto acts on the soybeans. While other soy foods contain enzymes, it is only the natto preparation that contains the specific nattokinase enzyme.

By eating this powerful enzyme, the Japanese keep their blood vessels clear and free of dangerous blood clots. Plus, there’s an amazing side effect; because blood flows more freely through your arteries, less blood pressure is required. In fact, a blue ribbon study in Japan showed a 10.9% drop in systolic blood pressure and a 9.7% drop in diastolic blood pressure with nattokinase supplementation.

Doctor Hiroyuki Sumi discovered nattokinase in 1980 while working as a researcher and majoring in physiological chemistry at Chicago University Medical School. After testing over 173 natural foods as potential thrombolytic agents, Sumi found what he was looking for when Natto was dropped onto artificial thrombus (fibrin) in a Petri dish and allowed it to stand at approximately body temperature. The thrombus around the natto dissolved gradually and had completely dissolved within 18 hours.

Blood clots (or thrombi) form when strands of protein called fibrin accumulate in a blood vessel. In the heart, blood clots cause blockage of blood flow to muscle tissue. If blood flow is blocked, the oxygen supply to that tissue is cut off and it eventually dies. This can result in angina and heart attacks. Clots in chambers of the heart can mobilize to the brain. In the brain, blood clots also block blood and oxygen from reaching necessary areas, which can result in senility and/or stroke.

Doctor Hiroyuki Sumi had long researched thrombolytic enzymes searching for a natural agent that could successfully dissolve thrombus (fibrin) associated with blood clots associated with heart attacks and stroke. Sumi named the newly discovered enzyme “nattokinase”, which means “enzyme in natto”. Sumi commented that nattokinase showed “a potency matched by no other enzyme.” Since then, Nattokinase has been the subject of 17 studies.

It has recently been revealed that thrombotic clogging of the cerebral blood vessels may be a cause of dementia. It has been estimated that sixty percent of senile dementia patients in Japan is caused by thrombus. Thrombotic diseases typically include cerebral hemorrhage, cerebral infarction, cardiac infarction and angina pectoris, and also include diseases caused by blood vessels with lowered flexibility, including senile dementia and diabetes.

Don’t you think these inexpensive, natural alternatives make sense and are worth a try?  As always, you will need to check with your doctor if you are on pharmaceuticals for cholesterol, high blood pressure, blood thinners…

Dr. Wright is one of the doctors I follow.  I subscribe to his natural health newsletter.  Here is his general advice for dissolving blood clots (not patient specific – seek the advice of your doctor, unless he recommends a statin).

Dr. Wright: Presently, my recommendations for breaking up clots are:

• Nattokinase — two 138-milligram capsules every four hours to start. Then, as your condition improves, you can taper off to one capsule every four hours, eventually taking only one capsule three times daily.
• Fish oil — 1 tablespoon three times a day to start, tapering off to 1 tablespoon, twice daily after some progress is made. Eventually, you will be able to take a general maintenance dose of 1 1/2 tablespoonful daily.
• Vitamin E (mixed tocopherols) — 400 IU, three times a day to start, tapering down to 600 IU daily.
• Vitamin C — 2 grams, three times daily to start, then taper down to 1 gram, three times daily. Vitamin C isn’t a “clotbuster” itself, but it should always be included when your body is under stress.

Also see: Reversing Heart Disease

PS – Also works on fibrin based joint pain.  Clear your blocked arteries and eliminate joint pain – nice bonus.

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What Are Enzymes?

Enzymes are energized protein molecules that carry the body’s life force. They are involved in every action and reaction that occurs in every single function and cell of the body. We cannot live without enzymes. If we suffer from enzyme deficiency, our health deteriorates. Degenerative diseases are a direct result of insufficient enzyme levels. All other nutrients such as vitamins, minerals and also hormones need enzymes to carry out their functions. Enzymes are the body’s labor force. The life energy of enzymes is what sets enzymes apart from all other nutrients.

Types of Enzymes

Enzymes fall into three basic catagories of enzymes:

1. Metabolic Enzymes – These reside in your body and their function is to build and repair cells and tissues. They are also a large part of our immune systems. Metabolic enzymes carry out the body’s work.

2. Food Enzymes – These enzymes reside in raw food (not cooked or processed). Food enzymes aid in the digestion and assimilation of the food’s nutrients. Heat of over 118 degrees fahrenheit will destroy live enzymes.

3. Digestive Enzymes – These enzymes assist in the breakdown of cooked (or dead) food. Cooked food has no live enzymes to assist in the breakdown of the dead food so the body must supply the enzymes. Digestive enzymes are limited in the body and if pushed beyond their reserves will borrow from the metabolic enzymes which sets the cycle for degenerative disease.

Diagram Human Digestive System

As you can see in the above diagram, The human digestive system is very complex. There are many parts with different functions that all contribute to the desired final result – complete digestion and absorbtion of the nutrients from the food we eat. With todays “modern” foods, it is obvious as to why we need to supplement with a digestive enzyme formula. This digestive system blend must contain at least, the 7 main digestive enzymes to ensure complete digestion and utilization of food nutrients. Without it, we are destined to suffer from digestive system problems.
Why Supplement with Digestive Enzymes?

If you eat cooked or processed food, you need additional digestive enzymes. Our bodies were not designed to eat dead food. The act of eating dead food places an additional workload on the body’s stores of digestive enzymes and after some time, will be required to “borrow” from the body’s metabolic enzymes. By depleting the metabolic enzymes, you are now setting yourself up for degenerative diseases.

There are only two animals on earth that suffer from degenerative disease and premature death – mankind and our pets. This is a direct result of our “dead food” diets and digestive enzyme deficiency. Aside from cooking food, irradiation, pasturization (which is cooking = dead milk), processing and chemical food additives all destroy enzymes. You can see why our bodies cannot keep up with their repair and rebuild functions.

It is estimated 65 million Americans suffer from digestive problems. Antacids, laxatives, fiber, prescription and over the counter medications are used to mask the real problem – insufficent digestive enzymes and incomplete digestion of food. These products alone fill an entire isle in the grocery and drug stores. Antacids are actually the worst thing you can take as far as digestion of food. It neutrilizes your stomach acid which is an essential part of the digestion process. Now the body has to work even harder “trying” to breakdown the food in the intestines (food is supposed to be mostly broken down before it hits your intestines). Incomplete digestion causes many ailments further down the line (intestines) and affects the entire body’s health.
Seven Digestive Enzymes and What They Aid

1. Protease (digests proteins): anxiety, low blood sugar, kidney problems, water retention; depressed immunity, bacterial and viral infections, cancer, appendicitis, bone problems such as: osteoporosis, arthritis, and bone spurs.
2. Amylase (digests carbohydrates): skin problems (rashes, hives, herpes, canker sores), liver and gallbladder disease.
3. Lipase (digests fats): high cholesterol, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular problems, high blood pressure, chronic fatigue, spastic colon, and dizziness.
4. Cellulase (digests fiber): gas, bloating, acute food allergies, facial pain or paralysis, candidiasis (yeast infections).
5. Sucrase (digests sugars): lung problems, asthma, bronchitis, seizures, hyperactivity, mood swings, insomnia, depression, chronic diarrhea, and dizziness.
6. Lactase (digests dairy products): Relieve discomfort caused by lactose intolerance
7. Invertase (breaks down sugars): Splits sucrose into glucose and fructose – an acidic environment occurs without the action of Invertase.

In Europe, martial artists use enzymes to speed up recovery from injuries. On average, the recovery time is cut in half. An injury that would sideline an athlete for 2 weeks would now only take 1 week before they are healed! Enzymes are the “repairers” of the body. Enzymes taken on an empty stomach go straight to the blood to digest undigested food particles in the blood and tissues, repair tissues, attack parasites and more.

The best digestive enzymes (most potent and effective) I have found

Protease 120,000 HUT
Amylase 18,000 SKB
Bromelain 1,500,000 PU
Invertase 225 Sumner
Lipase 8,000 LU (800 FIP)
Cellulase 1050 CU
Lactase 225 ALU
Ionic Trace Minerals 20 mg

also see Reversing Heart Disease

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Natural nutrition supplements are the best form for your body. Our bodies were created to receive our nutrition from food. Unfortunately, today’s food is devoid of the nutritional levels they once had. Farmland soils are depleted of minerals. Modern farming methods destroyed the ecosystem of the soil. Microorganisms that assist the breakdown and absorption of soil nutrients to the plants root systems have been destroyed.

Man made vitamins (chemical form), while basically similar in atomic structure to the natural form, are missing the natural co-factors that accompany the natural form. A good example is, our bodies need salt. What we buy in stores as salt is actually highly refined into sodium chloride. Natural salt contains every mineral our bodies need. You can be sodium chloride toxic at the same time lacking all the naturally accompanying salt minerals. Not to mention the balance / lack of balance of minerals (especially sodium/potasium or magnesium/calcium balance).

The human body is an amazing creation of interdependent systems that performs millions and millions of functions (chemical, electrical, mechanical…). It is a self repairing machine if it has the required nutrients and is not compromised by toxins and pollution. It even has the ability to repair damaged DNA!

Unfortunately we live in a toxic environment and our food supply no longer provides all the nutrients we need.
Processed foods with man-made chemicals in the form of preservatives, artificial flavoring, artificial colorings, artificial sweeteners and more is poisoning our bodies. This is adversely affecting every bodily function. The toxic chemicals in our food, water, air, in our homes, cars and workplaces is continuously assaulting our bodies. I wonder why there are so many “dis-eases”, “afflictions”, “conditions” that did not even exist a hundred years ago?

By providing our bodies with what is required, our bodies can repair themselves as they were divinely designed. I am going to provide a very basic description of the needed nutrients for vital wellness.

Macro-nutrients of our food are: proteins, carbohydrates and fats. I believe everyone has the basic concept of what each of these are and do. I will not go into explaining the functions of these here. All you need to know at this point is all three are required for fuel, growth and repair.

• Vitamins – Required for virtually every metabolic process in the human body – conversion of food to energy, bodily repair, growth… Vitamins for the most part must come from food or supplemental vitamins must be taken with food (the body can only produce a few vitamins of it’s own). Vitamin’s functions alone could (and does) comprise many books.

• Minerals – People know less about minerals than vitamins but they are every bit as important (you can not live without them). They are essentially the catalyst of just about every chemical reaction in all of the bodily systems. Minerals must be supplied through food and supplements as the body cannot make it’s own minerals (it can rob minerals from another part or system of the body – NOT GOOD). Minerals that the body can use are plant based and our soil is devoid of minerals therefore lacking in our food.

• Antioxidants – Anti-oxidants scavenge and reduce the rate of oxidation (burning or rusting). It does this by neutralizing free radicals that rob electrons from molecules. Certain vitamins, enzymes, phytonutrients, polyphenols, xanthones… are antioxidants.

• Phytonutrients – Less is known about phyto-nutrients but their importance is being proved every day. The FDA says they possess anti aging and cellular repair properties. Phytonutrients consist of many other classifications of nutrients, anthocyanidins, bioflavonoids, Flavanols, OPC, ellagitannins, Resveratrol, proanthocyanidins… Some of the beneficial properties that these amazing phytonutrients possess are – anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-mutagin, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-tumor… Get the idea?

• Water – Water is probably next to oxygen in importance to the living body. The human body is mostly water. Our water supplies are polluted and even municipal water systems cannot remove all the toxins. Chlorine added to municipal water is estimated to cause 10,000 bladder cancer deaths each year. Chlorine is hard on our arteries and blamed for much of the arterial scarring and plaque buildup as a result. Most water is clustered too large to enter cells and therefore almost everyone is dehydrated at the cellular level.

• Enzymes – Responsible for every single reaction in the body. Most enzymes come from food – problem is, cooking foods kills all enzymes. Processed foods are also totally devoid of enzymes. The digestion of food requires enzymes (which are lacking in our diets). If the enzymes required for digestion are lacking in our food, they are taken from our body’s store of metabolic enzymes (used for growth and repair). Most digestive problems are the result of the incomplete digestion of the food we eat. Heartburn, acid reflux, indigestion are common symptoms of lack of enzymes. There is a finite amount of metabolic enzymes in our body (pancreas and liver mainly) once completely depleted, our bodies rapidly deteriorate.

• Super foods – Superfoods are not a particular type of nutrient. Super foods are food sources in nature that contain extraordinary amounts of nutrients. Super foods can consist of all of the above nutrient catagories in one food source or a combination of many super-foods working together synergistically.

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In summary, today’s food is devoid of the nutrition it once contained due to farming methods used that have left our soils “dead”. Minerals have been used up and not replaced in our soils. Pesticides and herbicides have killed beneficial soil based organisms (bacteria, fungus / mycelium, worms and other symbiotic organisms) that assist in plants assimilating minerals and other nutrition from the soil. To achieve required levels of nutrition (far higher than the RDA which is actually the minimum requirements) we need nutrition supplements.

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