Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!

Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!

Attention: If you or someone you know is stricken with diabetes along with low thyroid, known as hypothyroidism, then you MUST read this article.  Your life may already be hanging on by a thread, a thread that your doctor doesn’t even know may be unraveling quickly.

Research has shown that diabetic patients are commonly found to have concurrent thyroid disorders.

In comparison to the normal population, diabetics have over 30% more hypothyroid disease, an 11% increase in postpartum diabetes and studies have shown that diabetics have over 5 times the incidence of sub-clinical hypothyroid disease compared with the normal population!

An autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis accounts for between 70%-80% of all hypothyroid disease cases in American adults.  It is the most common cause of hypothyroid in the adult population. In people with hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune disease it has been found that they have, as a group, multiple other conditions along with the hypothyroidism.

It is known that patients with one organ-specific autoimmune disease are at risk of developing other autoimmune disorders, and because thyroid disorders are more common in females, it is not surprising that so many female diabetes patients have thyroid disease.

One problem that arises with having these two conditions together is that, due to the diabetic state of glucose dysregulation, glucose is inefficiently transported to the cells and the metabolism of glucose is diminished. This results in an increase of glucose in the blood stream.

As a result, the body will convert the excess sugar to triglycerides to be stored in adipose tissue for use as energy when it may be needed.

Because hypothyroidism decreases the overall rate at which you burn calories (Think of the thyroid as your body's furnace) and low thyroid also slows down hormone production, your triglycerides are more likely to remain in your fat cells because of the lowered energy needs of the body, this is one reason many people with low thyroid have cold hands and / or feet because the byproduct of energy production is heat, so if the bodies “furnace”, is functioning below what is required, one symptom could be those cold hands and feet.

Hypothyroidism may also increase your LDL levels (low density lipoproteins, which are wrongly called our “bad” cholesterol) by increasing the absorption of cholesterol through your liver, preventing it from effectively eliminating excess cholesterol.

So you see, diabetes causes you to make more triglycerides and then hypothyroidism helps you to keep them around, either stored as fat because you don’t utilize them for energy or within the bloodstream.

High triglyceride blood plasma levels are one marker used to show increased risk factor for heart disease, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and stroke. 

In fact two studies found that increased triglycerides were a more reliable marker for future strokes that LDL or that so called “bad cholesterol”.

Prior to these two studies elevated LDL levels were always deemed the prime suspect in the development of stroke.

In the first study that was done, spanning over 4 years, researchers at UCLA collected data on more than 1,000 patients who were admitted to the medical center for TIA’s.

All of the study patients had fasting lipid panels drawn the day following admission to the hospital. After comparing the lipid panels, researchers found that patients with the highest triglyceride levels were 2.7 times more likely to suffer a stroke than those with low triglyceride levels.  

LDL levels, however, showed no correlation to stroke risk.

A 2001 study reported similar results. An Israeli team of scientists’ analyzed more than 11,000 patients, all of whom had coronary heart disease but had never suffered a stroke. 

During an 8-year follow-up period, 487 of those study patients had a TIA or full-blown stroke.

In studying these patients’ findings along with those whom had high triglycerides, researchers determined that diabetics with thyroid conditions who had triglyceride levels of 200 mg/dL or more had a 30% greater risk of having a stroke than patients with normal triglyceride levels.

This information has been around for over 10 years, and if your triglycerides have always been an issue in your blood panels, has your doctor ever explained this to you?

If the doctor does any reading of research at all they should know this connection between Diabetes, Hypothyroidism, Glucose, Triglycerides, Heart Disease and Strokes.

If they don’t acknowledge this and, instead continue to prescribe you statins for your supposed high cholesterol, then maybe it’s time for you to find a doctor that does actively search out the newest, life saving research.

You deserve to have a health care provider that actually provides “health improving care”, not just  “keep you from dying care”. 

Think about the definition of medicine: The prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease.

Knowing that definition would you say that, in your opinion, the doctors you see for your health, have they prevented any of your diseases? Have they cured you of any of these disease conditions?

 I bet the your answers to those 2 questions is a profound “No!”.  In fact, when you have your blood chemistry tested and a blood chemistry result comes back on your test that is out of range the doctor probably tells you "We'll watch it.", not giving any explanation or a limited explanation at best about what they are watching and waiting for.

Well let me clue you in, this “watch and wait” is really a code for “We need for your health to become worse because, in reality, you aren’t sick enough for the type of care that we provide.”   

That's Not Health Care, That's Sick Care!

This is why you continue to deteriorate as the years go by because no one is trying hard enough for you! They aren't getting to the root cause of your problems.

You need a health provider who is willing to investigate your health in order to find what the cause of all these problems you are saddled with. A health-rejuvenating clinician that doesn’t blame your "Bad Luck" for what you are going through.

Saying a person with your health is just unlucky is a cop-out. It is a lazy doctor’s excuse to be incompetent. It's their way of dealing with their inadequate and falsely labeled “health care” treatment.

The best that you get from the medical doctor is an attempt to alleviate your symptoms, but even then they are ignoring this huge elephant in the room that I just went over with you, which is:  

Triglycerides, Not Cholesterol, Is How You Assess The Risk Factor Of A Future Stroke In Those Patients With Both Hypothyroid Disease And Diabetes!

You are invaluable to your family, friends and loved ones, don’t you think you are deserving of a doctor who’s life mission it is to contribute to his patients allowing them the opportunity to achieve the most optimal health imaginable?

A doctor who will look at your health as a whole so that you are afforded the very best care by using his knowledge of the human body and all it's systems to find the common cause of your multiple health system issues! That doctor would then need to know what to do for you so that you are no longer burdened with that always present fear that comes with the uncertainty of not knowing when the next “health crisis” shoe will drop causing you to become even more ill.

To live is to be able to enjoy your life as it was meant to be, it's not just going through the motions of the day unable to do the things that you love because of your poor health. Isn't it time to stop beating your head against the wall and change the direction of your life? Well then you are going to have to find someone that knows how to look at hypothyroidism and diabetes from a functional perspective.

Has your doctor even tested you for an autoimmune thyroid? If not, how does that doctor know what in the world is really going on in your body?

The doctor you entrust your health, and ultimately your life with needs to look beyond the labels of hypothyroidism and/ or diabetes so that they are able to do some real, health improving detective work to find the root cause(s) of your specific issue(s).

Do you get blood work results that are out of range and yet your doctor doesn’t seem to concerned with those pathological findings, telling you that we’ll just watch those results and see how they are on the next follow-up and when that time comes the doctor does the same thing again?  Worse yet, does your doctor not even acknowledge the negative results and instead tells you that your blood work is fine, making up some lame excuse like it’s ok for your age and weight?

If that's the case it is imperative that you find someone who understands the interaction between Hypothyroidism, Diabetes and the rest of your body's systems.

The combination of these two diseases in one individual is a deadly serious problem that cannot be swept under the rug and ignored, you must find a doctor that fully understands the gravity of this situation and will give it the attention it deserves by analyzing all the facts from a functional medical perspective.

Fortunately, I have spent many countless hours on these specific disease processes. I have the background, knowledge and desire it takes to get to the root of your problems so that you don’t become a statistic of an ever increasingly cold and incompetent health care system.

Patients often times are forced to blindly travel down the path of poor health as it meanders along due to a doctor that is either far too busy, too lazy or just too damn stubborn to stay up to date with the most current scientific research.

Chronic health conditions such as these are given the most inadequate of care in our current health care system and a huge reason is the health insurance companies. You see, they are the controller of the money and they dictate what care a patient will receive; many times a doctor is unable to exercise their full clinical skills due to the fact that they wouldn't be reimbursed by the insurance company as well as they dare not go against what has been set as the "Standard Of Care" for a particular health condition even though that Care is generic in that it is based on the diagnosed condition and not based upon an individual patient's uniqueness.

Unfortunately our health care system for the chronically ill patient is broken and patient care is no longer based on the individual but instead, it is has become an assembly line of “cookie cutter” treatment protocols that do not deviate much from patient to patient within the same diagnosis.

If you have been in the medical system for any length of time, you know this to be the case.

You are expected to wait, sometimes hours after your appointment time to see the doctor, then, when you finally get into your exam room, the doctor asks you a few questions, may or may not order blood work and then write you a couple of prescriptions for Synthroid^®to cover the hypothyroid and Metformin^® for your diabetes.

They can’t take the time to explain why your blood work is the way it is, nor will they have an answer as to why you continue to feel as you did before beginning your thyroid replacement hormones and the diabetes support medications.

Don’t you think you deserve better than what you have been getting in regards to your healthcare?  

Isn’t your life as important as anyone else’s?

Shouldn’t the doctor you employ to recover your lost health make it his fundamental duty to do all that is within his God given talent and power so that you no longer continue on the downward spiral of decreasing health in which you find yourself now?

If you are finally sick and tired of being sick and tired and you want to find someone that cares as much about your health as you do, then call my office at 281-812-8101 and set up a free, no obligation Health Recovery Workshop so you may see for yourself that there is hope and you are not destined to live a life of misery.

My door is open for those that want to take responsibility for their own health and stop relying on some profit driven, corporate health insurance company with their doctors that feed into this international profit driven machine at the expense of their patients’ health and many times the patient pays the ultimate cost by losing that same health and life that they and entrusted with the doctor to protect, nurture and improve.

If you have any questions or just want to sit down and talk about the possible solutions to your health issues, then please give my office a call at: 281-812-8101.

If you want to learn more please go to my website at:

http://LifeChangingCareHouston.com

http://FixMyThyroidNow.com 
http://FixMyDiabetesNow.com

In Health,

Dr. Walter K. Crooks DM (P), DC, CCCN

Increased Risk Of Stroke for Thyroid and Diabetes Patients!

Attention: If you or someone you know is stricken with diabetes along with low thyroid, known as hypothyroidism, then you MUST read this article.  Your life may already be hanging on by a thread, a thread that your doctor doesn’t even know may be unraveling quickly.

Research has shown that diabetic patients are commonly found to have concurrent thyroid disorders.

In comparison to the normal population, diabetics have over 30% more hypothyroid disease, an 11% increase in postpartum diabetes and studies have shown that diabetics have over 5 times the incidence of sub-clinical hypothyroid disease compared with the normal population!

An autoimmune disease known as Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis accounts for between 70%-80% of all hypothyroid disease cases in American adults.  It is the most common cause of hypothyroid in the adult population. In people with hypothyroidism caused by autoimmune disease it has been found that they have, as a group, multiple other conditions along with the hypothyroidism.

It is known that patients with one organ-specific autoimmune disease are at risk of developing other autoimmune disorders, and because thyroid disorders are more common in females, it is not surprising that so many female diabetes patients have thyroid disease.

One problem that arises with having these two conditions together is that, due to the diabetic state of glucose dysregulation, glucose is inefficiently transported to the cells and the metabolism of glucose is diminished. This results in an increase of glucose in the blood stream.

As a result, the body will convert the excess sugar to triglycerides to be stored in adipose tissue for use as energy when it may be needed.

Because hypothyroidism decreases the overall rate at which you burn calories (Think of the thyroid as your body's furnace) and low thyroid also slows down hormone production, your triglycerides are more likely to remain in your fat cells because of the lowered energy needs of the body, this is one reason many people with low thyroid have cold hands and / or feet because the byproduct of energy production is heat, so if the bodies “furnace”, is functioning below what is required, one symptom could be those cold hands and feet.

Hypothyroidism may also increase your LDL levels (low density lipoproteins, which are wrongly called our “bad” cholesterol) by increasing the absorption of cholesterol through your liver, preventing it from effectively eliminating excess cholesterol.

So you see, diabetes causes you to make more triglycerides and then hypothyroidism helps you to keep them around, either stored as fat because you don’t utilize them for energy or within the bloodstream.

High triglyceride blood plasma levels are one marker used to show increased risk factor for heart disease, atherosclerosis, metabolic syndrome, transient ischemic attacks (TIA) and stroke. 

In fact two studies found that increased triglycerides were a more reliable marker for future strokes that LDL or that so called “bad cholesterol”.

Prior to these two studies elevated LDL levels were always deemed the prime suspect in the development of stroke.

In the first study that was done, spanning over 4 years, researchers at UCLA collected data on more than 1,000 patients who were admitted to the medical center for TIA’s.

All of the study patients had fasting lipid panels drawn the day following admission to the hospital. After comparing the lipid panels, researchers found that patients with the highest triglyceride levels were 2.7 times more likely to suffer a stroke than those with low triglyceride levels.  

LDL levels, however, showed no correlation to stroke risk.

A 2001 study reported similar results. An Israeli team of scientists’ analyzed more than 11,000 patients, all of whom had coronary heart disease but had never suffered a stroke. 

During an 8-year follow-up period, 487 of those study patients had a TIA or full-blown stroke.

In studying these patients’ findings along with those whom had high triglycerides, researchers determined that diabetics with thyroid conditions who had triglyceride levels of 200 mg/dL or more had a 30% greater risk of having a stroke than patients with normal triglyceride levels.

This information has been around for over 10 years, and if your triglycerides have always been an issue in your blood panels, has your doctor ever explained this to you?

If the doctor does any reading of research at all they should know this connection between Diabetes, Hypothyroidism, Glucose, Triglycerides, Heart Disease and Strokes.

If they don’t acknowledge this and, instead continue to prescribe you statins for your supposed high cholesterol, then maybe it’s time for you to find a doctor that does actively search out the newest, life saving research.

You deserve to have a health care provider that actually provides “health improving care”, not just  “keep you from dying care”. 

Think about the definition of medicine: The prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease.

Knowing that definition would you say that, in your opinion, the doctors you see for your health, have they prevented any of your diseases? Have they cured you of any of these disease conditions?

 I bet the your answers to those 2 questions is a profound “No!”.  In fact, when you have your blood chemistry tested and a blood chemistry result comes back on your test that is out of range the doctor probably tells you "We'll watch it.", not giving any explanation or a limited explanation at best about what they are watching and waiting for.

Well let me clue you in, this “watch and wait” is really a code for “We need for your health to become worse because, in reality, you aren’t sick enough for the type of care that we provide.”   

That's Not Health Care, That's Sick Care!

This is why you continue to deteriorate as the years go by because no one is trying hard enough for you! They aren't getting to the root cause of your problems.

You need a health provider who is willing to investigate your health in order to find what the cause of all these problems you are saddled with. A health-rejuvenating clinician that doesn’t blame your "Bad Luck" for what you are going through.

Saying a person with your health is just unlucky is a cop-out. It is a lazy doctor’s excuse to be incompetent. It's their way of dealing with their inadequate and falsely labeled “health care” treatment.

The best that you get from the medical doctor is an attempt to alleviate your symptoms, but even then they are ignoring this huge elephant in the room that I just went over with you, which is:  

Triglycerides, Not Cholesterol, Is How You Assess The Risk Factor Of A Future Stroke In Those Patients With Both Hypothyroid Disease And Diabetes!

You are invaluable to your family, friends and loved ones, don’t you think you are deserving of a doctor who’s life mission it is to contribute to his patients allowing them the opportunity to achieve the most optimal health imaginable?

A doctor who will look at your health as a whole so that you are afforded the very best care by using his knowledge of the human body and all it's systems to find the common cause of your multiple health system issues! That doctor would then need to know what to do for you so that you are no longer burdened with that always present fear that comes with the uncertainty of not knowing when the next “health crisis” shoe will drop causing you to become even more ill.

To live is to be able to enjoy your life as it was meant to be, it's not just going through the motions of the day unable to do the things that you love because of your poor health. Isn't it time to stop beating your head against the wall and change the direction of your life? Well then you are going to have to find someone that knows how to look at hypothyroidism and diabetes from a functional perspective.

Has your doctor even tested you for an autoimmune thyroid? If not, how does that doctor know what in the world is really going on in your body?

The doctor you entrust your health, and ultimately your life with needs to look beyond the labels of hypothyroidism and/ or diabetes so that they are able to do some real, health improving detective work to find the root cause(s) of your specific issue(s).

Do you get blood work results that are out of range and yet your doctor doesn’t seem to concerned with those pathological findings, telling you that we’ll just watch those results and see how they are on the next follow-up and when that time comes the doctor does the same thing again?  Worse yet, does your doctor not even acknowledge the negative results and instead tells you that your blood work is fine, making up some lame excuse like it’s ok for your age and weight?

If that's the case it is imperative that you find someone who understands the interaction between Hypothyroidism, Diabetes and the rest of your body's systems.

The combination of these two diseases in one individual is a deadly serious problem that cannot be swept under the rug and ignored, you must find a doctor that fully understands the gravity of this situation and will give it the attention it deserves by analyzing all the facts from a functional medical perspective.

Fortunately, I have spent many countless hours on these specific disease processes. I have the background, knowledge and desire it takes to get to the root of your problems so that you don’t become a statistic of an ever increasingly cold and incompetent health care system.

Patients often times are forced to blindly travel down the path of poor health as it meanders along due to a doctor that is either far too busy, too lazy or just too damn stubborn to stay up to date with the most current scientific research.

Chronic health conditions such as these are given the most inadequate of care in our current health care system and a huge reason is the health insurance companies. You see, they are the controller of the money and they dictate what care a patient will receive; many times a doctor is unable to exercise their full clinical skills due to the fact that they wouldn't be reimbursed by the insurance company as well as they dare not go against what has been set as the "Standard Of Care" for a particular health condition even though that Care is generic in that it is based on the diagnosed condition and not based upon an individual patient's uniqueness.

Unfortunately our health care system for the chronically ill patient is broken and patient care is no longer based on the individual but instead, it is has become an assembly line of “cookie cutter” treatment protocols that do not deviate much from patient to patient within the same diagnosis.

If you have been in the medical system for any length of time, you know this to be the case.

You are expected to wait, sometimes hours after your appointment time to see the doctor, then, when you finally get into your exam room, the doctor asks you a few questions, may or may not order blood work and then write you a couple of prescriptions for Synthroid^®to cover the hypothyroid and Metformin^® for your diabetes.

They can’t take the time to explain why your blood work is the way it is, nor will they have an answer as to why you continue to feel as you did before beginning your thyroid replacement hormones and the diabetes support medications.

Don’t you think you deserve better than what you have been getting in regards to your healthcare?  

Isn’t your life as important as anyone else’s?

Shouldn’t the doctor you employ to recover your lost health make it his fundamental duty to do all that is within his God given talent and power so that you no longer continue on the downward spiral of decreasing health in which you find yourself now?

If you are finally sick and tired of being sick and tired and you want to find someone that cares as much about your health as you do, then call my office at 281-812-8101 and set up a free, no obligation Health Recovery Workshop so you may see for yourself that there is hope and you are not destined to live a life of misery.

My door is open for those that want to take responsibility for their own health and stop relying on some profit driven, corporate health insurance company with their doctors that feed into this international profit driven machine at the expense of their patients’ health and many times the patient pays the ultimate cost by losing that same health and life that they and entrusted with the doctor to protect, nurture and improve.

If you have any questions or just want to sit down and talk about the possible solutions to your health issues, then please give my office a call at: 281-812-8101.

If you want to learn more please go to my website at:

http://LifeChangingCareHouston.com

http://FixMyThyroidNow.com 
http://FixMyDiabetesNow.com

In Health,

Dr. Walter K. Crooks DM (P), DC, CCCN

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WORLD RENOWNED HEART SURGEON SPEAKS OUT ON WHAT REALLY CAUSES HEART DISEASE

WORLD RENOWNED HEART SURGEON SPEAKS OUT ON WHAT REALLY CAUSES HEART DISEASE

A MUST READ FOR EVERYBODY!!!

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience and having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.

I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.



 Inflammation Inflammation Inflammation
 
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that:  

The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

From Dr. Walter K. Crooks: "What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Immune reactions to plant proteins such as Gluten (wheat, barley and rye) Casein (dairy) Soy. Also dietary yeast and eggs are known to cause these same reactions in susceptible individuals.

Simple sugars also cause chronic inflammation due to their influence on insulin, which is also inflammatory.  When highly refined foods are consumed they cause a spike in insulin production which caused global body inflammation."

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

Sweet Rolls Ain't Good For Your Sweetie's Health! 
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?

Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.

When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell – they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.

Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.
Processed Foods Will Kill You
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef (Don't consume butter if you are reactive to dairy- Dr. Crooks).
Saturated Fats Are Your Friends
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.
Dr. Dwight Lundell's Bio:
He is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping large corporations promote wellness.

WORLD RENOWNED HEART SURGEON SPEAKS OUT ON WHAT REALLY CAUSES HEART DISEASE

A MUST READ FOR EVERYBODY!!!

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience and having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to right the wrong with medical and scientific fact.

I trained for many years with other prominent physicians labeled “opinion makers.” Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

It Is Not Working!
These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

Despite the fact that 25% of the population takes expensive statin medications and despite the fact we have reduced the fat content of our diets, more Americans will die this year of heart disease than ever before.

Statistics from the American Heart Association show that 75 million Americans currently suffer from heart disease, 20 million have diabetes and 57 million have pre-diabetes. These disorders are affecting younger and younger people in greater numbers every year.



 Inflammation Inflammation Inflammation
 
Simply stated, without inflammation being present in the body, there is no way that cholesterol would accumulate in the wall of the blood vessel and cause heart disease and strokes. Without inflammation, cholesterol would move freely throughout the body as nature intended. It is inflammation that causes cholesterol to become trapped.

Inflammation is not complicated — it is quite simply your body’s natural defense to a foreign invader such as a bacteria, toxin or virus. The cycle of inflammation is perfect in how it protects your body from these bacterial and viral invaders. However, if we chronically expose the body to injury by toxins or foods the human body was never designed to process, a condition occurs called chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is just as harmful as acute inflammation is beneficial.

What thoughtful person would willfully expose himself repeatedly to foods or other substances that are known to cause injury to the body? Well, smokers perhaps, but at least they made that choice willfully.

The rest of us have simply followed the recommended mainstream diet that is low in fat and high in polyunsaturated fats and carbohydrates, not knowing we were causing repeated injury to our blood vessels. This repeated injury creates chronic inflammation leading to heart disease, stroke, diabetes and obesity.
Let me repeat that:  

The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine.

From Dr. Walter K. Crooks: "What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Immune reactions to plant proteins such as Gluten (wheat, barley and rye) Casein (dairy) Soy. Also dietary yeast and eggs are known to cause these same reactions in susceptible individuals.

Simple sugars also cause chronic inflammation due to their influence on insulin, which is also inflammatory.  When highly refined foods are consumed they cause a spike in insulin production which caused global body inflammation."

Take a moment to visualize rubbing a stiff brush repeatedly over soft skin until it becomes quite red and nearly bleeding. You kept this up several times a day, every day for five years. If you could tolerate this painful brushing, you would have a bleeding, swollen infected area that became worse with each repeated injury. This is a good way to visualize the inflammatory process that could be going on in your body right now.

Regardless of where the inflammatory process occurs, externally or internally, it is the same. I have peered inside thousands upon thousands of arteries. A diseased artery looks as if someone took a brush and scrubbed repeatedly against its wall. Several times a day, every day, the foods we eat create small injuries compounding into more injuries, causing the body to respond continuously and appropriately with inflammation.

Sweet Rolls Ain't Good For Your Sweetie's Health! 
While we savor the tantalizing taste of a sweet roll, our bodies respond alarmingly as if a foreign invader arrived declaring war. Foods loaded with sugars and simple carbohydrates, or processed with omega-6 oils for long shelf life have been the mainstay of the American diet for six decades. These foods have been slowly poisoning everyone.

How does eating a simple sweet roll create a cascade of inflammation to make you sick?

Imagine spilling syrup on your keyboard and you have a visual of what occurs inside the cell. When we consume simple carbohydrates such as sugar, blood sugar rises rapidly. In response, your pancreas secretes insulin whose primary purpose is to drive sugar into each cell where it is stored for energy. If the cell is full and does not need glucose, it is rejected to avoid extra sugar gumming up the works.

When your full cells reject the extra glucose, blood sugar rises producing more insulin and the glucose converts to stored fat.
What does all this have to do with inflammation? Blood sugar is controlled in a very narrow range. Extra sugar molecules attach to a variety of proteins that in turn injure the blood vessel wall. This repeated injury to the blood vessel wall sets off inflammation. When you spike your blood sugar level several times a day, every day, it is exactly like taking sandpaper to the inside of your delicate blood vessels.

While you may not be able to see it, rest assured it is there. I saw it in over 5,000 surgical patients spanning 25 years who all shared one common denominator — inflammation in their arteries.
Let’s get back to the sweet roll. That innocent looking goody not only contains sugars, it is baked in one of many omega-6 oils such as soybean. Chips and fries are soaked in soybean oil; processed foods are manufactured with omega-6 oils for longer shelf life. While omega-6’s are essential -they are part of every cell membrane controlling what goes in and out of the cell – they must be in the correct balance with omega-3’s.

If the balance shifts by consuming excessive omega-6, the cell membrane produces chemicals called cytokines that directly cause inflammation.

Today’s mainstream American diet has produced an extreme imbalance of these two fats. The ratio of imbalance ranges from 15:1 to as high as 30:1 in favor of omega-6. That’s a tremendous amount of cytokines causing inflammation. In today’s food environment, a 3:1 ratio would be optimal and healthy.

To make matters worse, the excess weight you are carrying from eating these foods creates overloaded fat cells that pour out large quantities of pro-inflammatory chemicals that add to the injury caused by having high blood sugar. The process that began with a sweet roll turns into a vicious cycle over time that creates heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and finally, Alzheimer’s disease, as the inflammatory process continues unabated.
Processed Foods Will Kill You
There is no escaping the fact that the more we consume prepared and processed foods, the more we trip the inflammation switch little by little each day. The human body cannot process, nor was it designed to consume, foods packed with sugars and soaked in omega-6 oils.

There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef (Don't consume butter if you are reactive to dairy- Dr. Crooks).
Saturated Fats Are Your Friends
Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labeled polyunsaturated. Forget the “science” that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet.
Dr. Dwight Lundell's Bio:
He is the past Chief of Staff and Chief of Surgery at Banner Heart Hospital , Mesa , AZ. His private practice, Cardiac Care Center was in Mesa, AZ. Recently Dr. Lundell left surgery to focus on the nutritional treatment of heart disease. He is the founder of Healthy Humans Foundation that promotes human health with a focus on helping large corporations promote wellness.

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