Recommended treatments for heart patients often “not grounded in rigorous scientific data”……The Wall Street Journal

April 22, 2009 0 Comments

They go on to say that just 11% of treatments approved by conventional cardiologists are actually supported by high quality testing and according to a recent JAMA study about half of the medical recommendations are the subjective viewpoints of the physicians who are often not in agreement. Yale University School of Medicine Cardiologist Harlan Krumholz says that physicians should let patients know about the strength of evidence behind the treatments they re com mend. “Treatment decisions are often made very dogmatically even when the level of evidence isn’t very strong,” he says.

Why is the field so muddy? Because routinely, the studies are funded by the same companies that manufacture the drugs. According to the JAMA article, the real goal of clinical trials is not to determine how best to treat the patient, but instead to win approval for the treatment or to gain market acceptance. This introduces conflicts of interest and bias.

Speaking honestly, Pierluigi Tricoci, a cardiologist at Duke University ‘s Duke Clinical Research Institute and lead author of the study, “In most situations that we encounter when we see patients, it isn’t so clear what is the best thing to do.”

The reason these treatments so often cause more problems than they solve is that they do not target the real cause of the situation. Cardiovascular disease in most is a lifestyle disease. One chooses a lifestyle that lifestyle causes the condition. If one chose a different lifestyle one would get a different, and healthier out com e.

Here are my suggestions for lifestyle security. They are not impossible, but they are different than what most do. That is what we want.

1 Eat as organic as possible, fruits, vegetables, nuts, eggs, and lean meats.

2 Avoid all grains and dairy and simple sugars.

3 No fast food. No artificial sweeteners, colorants, preservatives.

4 Drink enough water so that you urinate every 3-4 hours.

5 Make sure you have at least one BM per day.

6 Get 30 minutes of sunshine per day

7 Check your vitamin D level and keep it in the high normal range 70-90.

8 Sleep 7-9 hours per night and take a 30 minute nap in the afternoon.

9 Exercise one hour per day.

10 Maintain your high school waist measurement.

This basic program for no heart disease works well for most. If you want to avoid having your doctor break his brains on what he should give you when you’re having chest pain, and he can’t decide because the science behind all the drugs he wants to use is useless, do him a favor and get on this program. You will get the benefit of good health and he won’t have to hospitalize another poor soul who reacted poorly to his medicines.