Heart Failure: Leading Medical “Experts” give 6 Strategies to Improve Relusts

“Anyone who has read Health Alert for longer than 6 months knows I have always maintained that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. And that for a majority of heart disease patients, beriberi* of the heart is the underlying cause of their disease. Few people in the world of medicine – even fewer in the world of cardiology – have taken the time to even consider, no less test, this theory.

I have personally tested it and found it to be true in tens of thousands of heart patients over a period of more than 35 years.”

*( beriberi, nutritional disorder caused by a deficiency of thiamin (vitamin B1) and characterized by impairment of the nerves and heart.)

Without understanding the underlying cause of heart disease and heart failure, medical experts have been “throwing the book” at the disease for decades. There have been endless low-fat diets, low-salt diets, cholesterol-lowering with statins, blood pressure lowering with drugs, angiography, stents, bypasses, angioplasty, cardiac ablation, and more. Based simply on statistics, none of it has worked.

After 30 years of medical interventions, more people have heart disease and die from heart failure than ever before. The reason is simple and glaring – these medical heroics, for the most part, treat the symptoms of heart disease while the underlying cause is ignored and seething just below the surface. It’s like putting a piece of tape over your car’s emergency red light when it comes on – and then just waiting for disaster.

The latest thinking from medical experts, found in the July 2013 issue of Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, involved 6 strategies to improve dismal medical heart treatment results. The assumption was that one of the best ways for medics to measure their success with heart failure patients was to keep track of their readmission rates. Less readmission to the hospital, better results, and vice versa. Indeed more than one million people are hospitalized with heart failure each year and more than 250,000 will be back in the hospital within a month!

Hence the new plan was called “6 Strategies to Reduce Readmission Rates in Heart Failure Patients.” Since 250,000 people are readmitted to the hospital in less than a month, reducing the readmission rate by even 2% would save $100 million a year! The strategies consisted of:

1) Coordination of care between hospitals. This resulted in about a 1/3 of 1 % reduction of

2) Coordination of care with the private physician or physician group. This also resulted in a

3) Hospital staff following up on test results that come in after the discharge from the

4) Sending discharge result summaries directly to the doctor (isn’t this always done??). This

5) Scheduling follow-up appointments before hospital discharge. This also resulted in about

6) Giving nurses the responsibility of keeping all the medications straight. This resulted in

Amazingly 4 other parts of the same strategies resulted in increased hospital readmission rates. These were:

1) Electronic inpatient and outpatient prescription records. This caused about 1/5 of 1 % readmissions. 1/3 of 1 % reduction in hospital. This resulted in about a 1/4 of 1 % reduction. resulted in about a 1/5 of 1 % reduction of readmissions: a 1/5 of 1 % reduction. about 1/5 of 1 % reduction of readmissions. increase in hospital readmissions.

2) Providing a written emergency plan on discharge. This resulted in close to 1/2 of 1 %

3) Alerting the outpatient physician of the patient discharge within 48 hours. This resulted in

4) Providing follow-up calls with additional education for discharged patients. This resulted

What Heart Experts Say About All This

Lots of honesty resulted from these dismal test results. An admission that the most striking feature of the whole thing was how ineffective it all is at reducing readmission rates. That hospitals should not selectively implement the strategies that were “helpful” because there is “considerable overlap” between helpful and harmful. And the summation – the findings were “quite discouraging” considering all the money and time spent designing and implementing the strategies.

Naturally none of these strategies did anything good because none did anything about the real disease cause. That remained ignored, uninvestigated, untreated, and fomenting. And the reason why some of these strategies made things worse is that they got doctors more involved. That generally means more drugs, more interventions, and more symptom treatment. Remember, history has shown us that the only time the death rate in New York City drops dramatically is when doctors go on Cure Your Heart Disease!?

I’ve said it dozens of times. For jaw-dropping, utterly shocking, world-changing, hospital-closing, and heart clinic-shutting heart disease results, forget all the statin trials, the low-fat trials, the aspirin trials, the low-salt trials, the newest drug and surgery trials, and the latest strategies to reduce hospital readmission for suffering heart patients. Take the same million people and put them on the nutritional protocol to resolve the underlying cause of their heart disease – namely beriberi of the heart and inflammation of the linings of their coronary arteries – for 120 days. The results would be nothing short of astounding. If this is you, just what is that protocol? Simple:

 

1. Dr. Kimberly’s Anti-Inflammatory diet.

2. Lots of pure water.

3. Celtic sea salt in place of table salt.

4. Cardio-Plus®, Cataplex® B, Neuroplex®, Min-Tran®, all from Standard Process.

5. Standard Process® Cod Liver Oil.

6. Followed by moderate exercise as soon as comfortable.

7. Get muscle-tested to specifically determine which broad-spectrum Omega 3-6-7-9 Essential

Fatty Acids you need (Dr. Kimberly administers muscle testing in her office at Comprehensive Health and Chiropractic Centre)

8. And a slow-weaning from debilitating heart drugs by your prescribing physician as soon as you begin to get better.

Is this the same protocol for everyone? No. But it is definitely the basics and dramatically addresses beriberi of the heart and coronary artery inflammation to help any heart patient. There are particulars for some folks with some specific heart problems. For folks with severe coronary artery inflammation, we recommend Cyruta-Plus® from Standard Process, which has high levels of rutin, quercetin, and other flavonoids. For people with coronary artery plaque, we recommend a quality essential fatty acid high Vitamin K2 content. There are many types of oils containing essential fatty acids that are unique for each person. The best way to know which oils each patient needs is an individualized muscle testing.

(If it is all too confusing, call our staff at (760) 736-0286 and make an appointment to come and so

we can clear it all up for you!)

Health Alert, Vol. 30, No. 12