A severe heart attack is devastating both in immediate effects and long term effects. Life-long drug therapy and life–long stress caused by fear of the next, potentially lethal heart attack. Amazingly, the cause of heart attacks has never been proven. In fact, there is a theory that has become so accepted by medicine and the general public that it is never even questioned. Dr. Angel Keys made the current theory in the 1950's.

He proposed that excess cholesterol circulating in the blood caused plaque in the coronary arteries. This theory has maintained itself over decades with the help of the pharmacutical industry – to the point that it is treated as fact. So now a heart attack is referred to as a coronary which pronounced as the cause of a heart attack almost 60 years ago.

If this accepted theory is true it means coronary arteries become blocked with cholesterol. That means the heart muscle is then starved for oxygen and a heart attack results. This theory was rejected by most cardiologist 50 years ago. In fact most of the material found in plaque is not cholesteral but inflammatory debris, meaning it is debris caused by inflammation in the heart muscle.

Today almost all medical treatments including stents, bypasses, cholesterol drugs, low-fat and low cholesterol food and diets, are based on the theory that blocked arteries cause heart attacks. It was found by research that blocked arteries are not found in most heart attack patients.

There is a national medical secret regarding the care of heart disease patients. This secret ensures the continuance of the heart disease industry, which includes physicians, surgeons, hospitals and pharmaceuticals. Without knowing the secret, the public continues to gobble up billions of dollars worth of useless bypasses, surgeons, angioplasties, stents and drugs.

So what does cause heart attacks? The real cause of heart attacks is a deficiency of nutrients and "cardiotonics" that protest the tiny blood vessels and the heart muscle from damage. Disease and damage of the heart muscle as well as even the smallest blood vessels have specific causes. They include a deficiency of cardiotonics, diabetes, chronic stress and adrenal exhaustion, smoking, infections, and some prescription drugs. These can all damage heart cells by causing a lack of oxygen.

Because heart cells are extremely active, they cannot withstand a lack of oxygen for long. When nutritional deficiencies, stress, diabetes, etc., damage small vessels and rob the heart muscle of necessary oxygen, heart cells go to an emergency backup system to produce energy. This system is called anaerobic fermentation – a way to make energy without adequate oxygen.

The problem is that this system produces lastic acid as a by product, It is the same system that kicks in when you exercise too hard or too much. Then your muscles become amazingly sore the next day.However you can rest these muscles, but you cannot rest your heart muscle. Therefore the lactic acid continues to build up and causes such great damage to the heart muscle cells that the cells die. Without relief the next step is a heart attack.

To lower your odds of having a first or subsequent heart attack you must get your blood sugar under control. If you smoke, you need to stop due to the capillary damage caused by smoking. You will need to start exercising, at least moderately. You will need to avoid commercial liquid vegetable oils and salad dressings because of the capillary damage they cause. And you will need to avoid low-fats diets and follow a nutrient dense diet. To lower your odds of a heart attack, you must also get your stress under control.

So aside from getting blood sugar and stress under control, the major emphasis in preventing heart attacks and reversing heart disease should be the steady flow of cardiotonics into the body's system. Cardiotonics are not just the compounds your adrenal glands make from cholesterol. They are also the small vessels protectors, such as whole vitamin C complex, bioflavornoids, and minerals that include copper. They are also the heart muscle strengthener, such as whole vitamin B and E complexes. And they are the fatty nutrition from the whole vitamin A and D complexes.

It is too bad that the public does not know the real truth about what it takes to have a healthy heart. The real truth is that a proper diet, stress management, exercise and nutritional supplements always seem to be the secret for having and maintaining a healthy body. It's a shame that most doctors don't make you aware of this. The typical medical schools usually teach very little about nutrition. Consequently doctors don't have much of an idea what kind of nutrition to offer to their patients.

It looks like the only way the average person is ever going to find out about the benefits of nutrition is they have read it in special reports such as this.

Sonny Julius

Sonnyj@TheSunnySenior.com