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    User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements
    User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements
    User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements
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    User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements

    By Michael Janson, M.D. and Jack Challem

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    In this concise Users Guide, Michael Janson describes the best nutritional and herbal supplements for preventing and reversing heart disease. Some of these supplements, such as coenzyme Q10 and hawthorn, many be less well known than others, but they are still powerful, natural health-promoting substances. Dr. Janson also provides clear guidelines for how to use these supplements safely.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 1, 2004
    ISBN9781591206743
    User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements
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    Michael Janson, M.D.

    Dr. Janson's health and nutrition articles appear in many health magazines and professional journals, and he is quoted in many health books and columns. Dr. Janson is the author of the following books:The Vitamin Revolution in Health Care (Arcadia Press, 1996), Dr. Janson’s New Vitamin Revolution (Penguin-Putnam-Avery, 2000), User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements (Basic Health Publications, 2004), User's Guide to Saw Palmetto and Men's Health (Basic Health Publications, 2002), Chelation Therapy and Your Health (Keats Publishing, 1998), All About Saw Palmetto and the Prostate (Avery Publishing, 1999), and the audiocassette album, Lifestyle Medicine (Arcadia Press, 1997). He has written articles on chelation therapy, dietary supplements such as minerals, vitamins, herbs, and amino acids, vegetarian diets and other topics. He has been a consultant for Rodale Press, and he has been quoted in TIME, Newsweek, and many health magazines and online health sites. He is also the publisher of a monthly newsletter, Dr. Michael Janson's Healthy Living.

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      User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements - Michael Janson, M.D.

      INTRODUCTION

      Heart disease (specifically arteriosclerotic heart disease, or ASHD) is the number-one killer in the United States and other developed countries. Quite often, sudden cardiac death from a heart attack is the first indicator that a problem exists, so it is important to take preventive measures before the first sign of a problem. Most of the time, heart disease is the result of poor lifestyle choices, such as smoking, excessive alcohol intake, poor diet, lack of exercise, and high stress levels. This is actually good news, because it means that it is something that you can influence by making the right choices.

      When I was in my first year of college in 1962, I was asked to undergo a routine evaluation by a cardiologist because I had had a heart murmur all of my life. I had always been told that the murmur was routine or functional, and not significant for heart function. As it turned out, my prior evaluations were incorrect, and my heart murmur was indicative of a leaky valve that I had probably had since birth. Needless to say, this was quite a shock to both my parents and me.

      At that time, the cardiac surgeon told my parents that he wanted to do surgery to replace the leaky valve that was causing the murmur. Although I had absolutely no symptoms, he said to them that if I did not have this done, I would likely have heart failure in ten to twenty years, when the heart muscle could no longer keep up with the increased burden created by the leak. He also urged me to give up any exercise, even though I was a very active teenager and participated in many sports.

      We did not take his advice. However, it did stimulate my interest in heart health, and medicine as a career, and in later years my interest in alternatives to conventional treatments (and how to take better care of my heart). This personal interest has kept me aware of the most important developments in the management of heart disease for myself and my patients. While it is true that genetic makeup contributes to the development of heart disease, this is far less important than lifestyle choices over which you have a large measure of control.

      Even if you have a family history of heart disease (or almost any other chronic, degenerative disease), do not feel that you are inevitably going to have the same problem. Extensive research shows that diet, exercise, stress, and many other influences play a role in maintaining a healthy heart or contributing to its decline, depending on the choices that we make. In addition, the scientific literature is quite clear that many dietary supplements are valuable as either complements to conventional care, or in many cases as substitutes for medications and even surgery.

      CHAPTER 1

      NORMAL HEART FUNCTION

      In order to appreciate the value of dietary supplements for the heart, it is helpful to understand the basic structure and function of the heart. After all, your heart pumps all day every day of your life, and it cannot take a breather at any time, so it is well worth a few minutes to review how it does its work. However, it is not essential to understand how the heart works in order to benefit from the dietary supplements and other lifestyle changes presented later in the book. If you want to skip to the section on the valuable supplements for heart disease, you can always come back to the basics later.

      Heart Anatomy and Function

      The heart is a muscle much like any other muscle in your body, with some microscopic differences. This muscle, or myocardium, is a specialized sac with four interconnecting chambers. The right atrium and left atrium chambers receive blood that is coming back from the body and the lungs, respectively. Blood that has given up some of its oxygen to the tissues and picked up some waste products of metabolism comes into the right atrium from the vena cava, the largest vein in the body. From the lungs, blood that has picked up oxygen comes back to the left atrium through the pulmonary vein.

      The left atrium then pumps some blood through a valve called the mitral valve into the left ventricle (although most of the blood actually passes through without the need for the pumping action, the atrial contraction does contribute significantly to the blood in the ventricle). The left ventricle then pumps oxygenated blood out through the aortic valve into the aorta, the largest artery, and then to the rest of the tissues and organs of the body (other than the lungs). While the left ventricle contracts (an event called systole—pronounced "sis-tuh-lee"), blood is prevented from going back into the left atrium by the mitral valve. When this blood passes through the kidneys and liver, waste products and toxins are removed.

      Blood that comes into the right atrium passes into the right ventricle through the tricuspid valve, and during systole the right ventricle contracts sending blood to the lungs through the pulmonary valve and the pulmonary artery. In the lungs, the blood picks up oxygen that you have breathed in, and delivers carbon dioxide to be exhaled when you breathe out.

      Just past the aortic valve in the aorta are the openings for the coronary arteries that supply blood to the myocardium. During systole, the open aortic valve covers these coronary entrances, but when the valve closes during the resting phase of the cycle, called diastole (pronounced "die-ass-tuh-lee"), the blood in the aorta fills the coronaries. The two coronary openings lead to the right and left coronary arteries. The left main coronary artery immediately branches into two (the circumflex toward the back of the heart and the left anterior descending toward the front). They all then go on to have many branches that interconnect with each other and supply the entire myocardium, plus there is some supply to the inside of the heart directly from the blood in the chambers.

      Myocardium

      The muscle tissue of the heart, similar to other muscles but contracting independently and regularly.

      The entire heart is covered by a connective tissue sac called the pericardium. The lining cells inside the heart are called the endocardium, and these cells also cover the heart valves.

      Arteries and Veins

      The arteries are the channels that supply blood from the heart to the tissues. The veins return blood to the heart. The arteries start with the aorta, and then branch out and become smaller until they become small arterioles and then a vast network of microscopic capillaries and venules that transfer oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and remove waste. The venules start the return journey of the blood to the heart, joining with each other like small rivulets converging,

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