Last newsletter, we worked through the anatomy of the heart - mainly to lay the groundwork for this issue. Things that can go wrong with the heart: using what we learned in the last issue, by now we can find. Medical treatment. Limitations inherent in some of those remedies might be. You can change the equation. Incidentally, if you have not read past newsletters, heart anatomy, you might want to do now. It is not absolutely necessary, but for a more rewarding experience as you will read the newsletter. epicardium of the problems as you remember, epicardium lining that surrounds the heart muscle can - inside and out. Inside, it is called endocardium, and the outside is called the pericardium. Epicardium's looking at starting our discussion about the problems of the heart - not because the heart is the most important part, but because it is a simple place to start and gives us deep into the subject before plunging into the water your Dip toes.
Problems with the lining of the heart may be too much physical damage fall into two categories. Inflammation caused by infection. Easy to understand the physical damage, and is usually easy to repair. You're driving in your car, you get into an accident. You are slammed against the steering wheel or airbag. Your body but your heart suddenly stops, is driven by inertia move (an object in motion tends to stay in motion) and the pericardium tear to rest before bouncing back and holds it in place . The pericardial sac, the heart and the chest wall and lungs serves as buffer between the causes of bleeding. Excess (blood) pressure expanding the bag under the pump fluid in the bag, squeezing the heart barrier. If the pressure is relieved, the point where it constricts the heart stops beating so that it can create. Herbs and Neutraceuticals are not much use here. Fortunately, medical intervention to be effective in these cases is simple. Catheter inserted into a bag to drain excess blood and relieve the pressure usually will do the trick - with stop bleeding.
(Medical terminology as "I." known) swelling a little more complicated. Heart lining inflammation leading cause of infection, both the viral and bacterial. Depending on which part of the lining is affected, the pericarditis, endocarditis, or epicarditis will be called. Swelling, chest pain, difficulty pump, or fever may be. These symptoms lightweight, fast, or too old can be. Standard treatment includes the use of antibiotics and antivirals. The "usually" effective until the underlying infection, your doctor's disposal is a growing problem that is resistant to the arsenal of drugs. Fortunately, natural garlic, olive leaf extract options including, oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, etc., that even in the case of drug-resistant infections can work. With heart valve problems, as we discussed last issue, your heart valves or heart muscle tendons of the presentation to keep them from opening too far, like parachute cords are built. Its role under the blood to flow from atria to ventricle, and then sealed off so that the ventricles pump blood in the atria are allowed to back up, but instead out in the main pulmonary artery from the aorta or right ventricle to left ventricle force . Valve is easy to understand with the problems and are generally fall into two categories.
Backflow, or regurgitation, ugly or damaged valve or tendons to hold the valve in place are caused by ruptures. These things because of incomplete valve to seal with each heartbeat, thus allowing backflow into atria. Stenosis, or valve, due to illness or old age prevents hardening of the valve is fully open. The flow of blood in the ventricle so that they are fully open a second valve can not fill in part of range. Since the ventricle chamber partly empty when the pump now, it's each beat, that eventually the amount of blood that flows through the body generates at least pressure. There may be many reasons for both problems. - Either you were born with a problem. It could be genetic or nutritional problems in the diet of their parents (either before or you fancy, while you were gestating) may be the result. - Over time, aging and poor nutrition, valves shrink and change shape as a result. - Transition to the valve so excited that he has caused now completely sealed.
- Rheumatic fever and sore and stiff valve diseases like syphilis. - Valvular heart tissue as a result of a heart attack in the same way as in the muscle tissue may be damaged. - Valve tendons rupture, the valve remains in place no longer means the essence of backpressure created by the ventricle may be. The bottom line is that the pumping process becomes less efficient and harder and your heart to pump faster to compensate. Treatment ranging from doing nothing, to use drugs to surgery with artificial valve to replace damaged valves can reduce infection and inflammation. Anything you may ask? Absolutely! In most cases, the doctors do. Why? Heart has tremendous reserve capacity. Last issue we mentioned that 70% blockage of your coronary arteries and may never experience any outward symptoms. It does not stop there. Your heart pumping a tremendous potential and is reserved when asked to increase production 5-8 times if needed. For example, mitral valve prolapse (a condition in which the mitral valve "falls down", allowing for backflow in the right atrium or left ventricle far prolapses) in, there's usually some symptoms or any problems. In most cases, doctors simply have to focus and look for any changes.
On the other hand, sometimes there are symptoms. These can include: - The old standby, chest pain. - Fatigue and / or dizziness. - Shortness of breath. - Low or high blood pressure, depending on which valve is affected. - Irregular heartbeat because of the palpitations. - Even migraine headaches. In those cases often valves are replaced with mechanical valves. At one time, you actually hear a slight clicking sound mechanical valves as they can be opened and closed 70-80 times a minute. It's crazy some people have when they try to sleep at night. Newer models have overcome the problem and are silent. Now after the valve is the nature of the problems with the nutrition and supplements than to solve them would not play a role that might have been mechanical. If so, you'd be wrong. Most medical doctors are not aware of this fact, but there are many studies showing nutritional point - and indeed supplementation valve function can change the mechanical aspects. For example, it has been shown that magnesium plays a role in mitral valve prolapse.
Therapeutic effect in patients with a magnesium salt mitral valvular prolapse and latent tetany are suffering from. Mitral valve prolapse in the pathogenesis of Magnesium deficiency. This is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, optimal nutrition and supplementation can play a major role in maintaining heart health - and even behind many chronic heart problems. We'll talk about it later, but for now the problems are within the coronary arteries to detect. Communication problems before aortic blood vessels of two coronary arteries, which then feed into several branches that are separated from the heart. Through these arteries, arterial plaque build the barrier is one of the most common causes of death. The net result is ischemia, which means "low blood supply." As I mentioned last issue, because there are so much redundancy in the branches of the coronary arteries, you can have 70% blockage and still no obvious symptoms. At some point, though, you have a heart attack, it will be known as myocardial infarction. Is called the myocardium of the heart muscle, and infarction "means death of tissue." In other words, a heart attack, heart muscle blood flow, which causes the death of heart muscle tissue damage results. Is determined by the severity of the attack:
What part of muscle damage. (Some parts are more important than others.) How extensive the damage. In some cases, people really do not die from their first heart attack. Can no longer take the load each remaining heart muscle tissue, killing the attack with far greater - in most cases, however, attacks are progressive. Depending on the amount of damage, the standard medical treatments include: such drug,: - beta blockers to slow heart rate and decrease blood pressure - thus the demand for oxygen at heart. - Nitroglycerin coronary arteries open and reduce oxygen demand of the heart. - Calcium channel blockers on coronary arteries to increase blood flow to the heart muscle to open. - Angiotensin-converting enzyme from the blood flow to the heart more easily permit, reduce the workload on the heart. - Angioplasty balloon inflated inside a blocked artery uses the plaque against the artery walls Press, blockage clearing the way - at least temporarily.
- Stents are like angioplasty on steroids. Instead of simply pressing the plaque against the artery wall, the balloon against the arterial wall using a wire mesh to the press keep the artery open. - Bypass surgery, a vein (usually taken from the leg) literally to use the full area around the coronary artery to create a bypass is included. Heart transplant. None of these options is perfect. Angioplasty and bypass surgery (even if they have been in use for years) really (those who think of you all in therapy is supported by peer reviewed studies to) unproven are. In fact, recent studies indicate that they really only an extension of life with the minor may give temporary relief - not to mention an increased risk of stroke. Both stents and angioplasty (and even for that matter, bypass) quickly re-plug, a problem called restenosis, and periodically need to replace or redone. new forms of stents for restenosis slow down, but they come with their own set of problems are coated with drugs. Bypass surgery, stroke, infection, and deep depression creates a dramatically increased risk. And heart transplant immunosuppressant drugs you forced to stay for the rest of your life.
Far and away the biggest problem with all of these treatments, however, is not only a manifestation of the problem, treating the underlying cause - the fact that the arteries are blocked in the first place. Here the alternative medical excellence - both short and long term. For example: dietary changes as can a number of supplements in reversing coronary heart disease can have a profound impact. Omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid balance transfer eliminate a major source of heart attacks can. Hawthorne berries are tonic for the heart, for the relaxation and dilation of coronary arteries and blood and to support and increase the flow of oxygen to the heart working. In effect, Hawthorne berries have a lot of work to do drugs but without side effects. Another aspect of coronary heart disease, blood clots is a blood clot or thrombus. (If it becomes dislodged and floats free, it is called embolus.) Major arteries, a clot to stop the blood flow. Small arteries, it can completely block it. Feet, where they again Thrombi most often form in the veins of the boat (now called emboli) and finally lodging in and blocking small arteries of the heart, lungs and brain. There can be many triggers for the formation of clots and emboli, deep vein thrombosis, but more interesting one - the result of prolonged sitting in airplanes and cars as the formation of blood clots.
Prevent blood clots stroke, heart attack and pulmonary embolism is low risk. standard treatment for those at risk of embolisms heparin or warfarin (a form of rat poison), which the development of existing and formation of blood clots are disrupted as anticoagulants involves the use of such drugs. But these drugs are dangerous and require constant watching and regulation since they can be internal bleeding. Far safer (and better because they dissolve arterial plaque in arteries and help to promote tissue repair) proteolytic enzyme nattokinase formulations are included as specific enzymes. Problems with the heart muscle - heart muscle - the myocardium at the end, when you're talking about heart, it mostly comes down to the myocardium. Risk of coronary heart disease, for example, it starves the myocardium of oxygen and kills it. The risk of a valve problem is that it forces the myocardium to the hard work. Bio-electrical/conductivity risk of a problem that throws out the rhythm of the heart muscle to beat and to reduce its causes, or fibrillate. (Fibrillation occurs when a heart cell "quivers" due to an abnormally rapid rhythm and can no longer pump blood well in atrium fibrillation atrial fibrillation is called. Ventricle it is called ventricular fibrillation ventricular fibrillation is usually die to ..) '90 's paraphrase the Clinton campaign, "the myocardium is all about."
For the most part problems in atria, atria in the problems are not life threatening. Even if the two atria pump or weak for them to completely lose the ability to balloon out, maybe 30% of your total lost heart function. Gravity pump, and still the blood in the ventricle bring down without suction. Of course, sometimes your doctor to solve the problems, but for the most part, you work for years with barely atria can. Ah ventricles with no problem, but the ventricle is a different story. Goes into the left ventricle fibrillation, we are talking about cardiac arrest. It's time to pull out the electric paddles. So what kind of problems are we talking about? Myocarditis, or inflammation of the heart, cardiomyopathy is a form of ("heart muscle disease as" the literal translation). Here the problem is that blood has an enlarged heart, which increases the likelihood of blood clots flows through it more slowly. In addition, cardiomyopathy people with arrhythmia and / or the risk of sudden cardiac death are often. cardiomyopathy results in a significantly enlarged heart, the mitral and tricuspid valve is properly closed , resulting in rumors may not be able to. There are many causes, including viral infection of myocarditis can be. Common culprits include: influenza, herpes, Epstein Barr, hepatitis, and salmonella.
Ischemic cardiomyopathy due to insufficient oxygen delivery to the myocardium of the heart muscle being the most common cause of a coronary artery disease, with weakness. (Ischemia just "low blood flow means.") Anemia, sleep apnea, and hyperthyroidism may contribute to the ischemic myocardium. Really infarction "means death of heart muscle tissue." Since the heart muscle does not grow back, it's a snowball effect. If you have a heart attack that part of the heart muscle of oxygen so that it starves dies, the scar tissue that is not right. More heart muscle damage and increase the possibility of a third attack, leading to - now that you have a weak heart and is more likely to suffer a subsequent attack. And so on. It is not hard to see where this leads - long-term damage to heart muscle activity and chronic heart failure. Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a condition in which all of his weak heart out now that it can pump blood flow. CHF 65 for those over the age of the most common cause of hospitalization. The U.S. health care system costs more than $ 50 billion per year, kills more than 50,000 people a year. Like other heart muscle. When it is weakened, it is enlarged and inefficient. The crowd moves to tone muscle and soft. In fact, it can lead to prolapse of the heart, the heart really goes to the original position in his chest. "Appoint a stethoscope to listen to the common area when a weak heart 3-5 inches below the required is not unusual.
Unfortunately, modern medicine comes up short when it comes to the problems of the myocardium. Mostly it deals only with the latter. If the heart stops beating, electric paddles used to get it going again. If you have any paddles, a nitroglycerine pill pop. Perform a coronary bypass to try and prevent any further damage. nitroglycerine pills to use in an emergency open arteries and prevent a heart attack. When the muscle is, some do not! As luck would have it, here is where alternative medicine will shine. - Vitamin B all, but especially vitamin B-4 are essential for heart health. - Congestive heart failure is strongly significantly lower blood and tissue levels of CoQ10 tied to. - CoQ10 supplementation with literally change shape and size of the heart. - Studies have shown that high concentrations of heavy metals like mercury acute coronary events directly correlate to the high incidence. Regular heavy metal detoxing directly reduces the risk of eventually eliminates.
- Studies also periodontal disease and acute coronary events have shown a direct link between. avocado soy unsaponifiables, proteolytic enzymes, immune boosters and pathogen destroyers can reduce the risk of regular use. - Incidentally, the only thing electric paddles that heart muscle can get going again are not. Red pepper in an emergency can move. A glass of hot water every fifteen minutes can raise the dead took a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. - And finally, the heart is a muscle, and like all muscles respond to exercise. Cardiovascular exercise, especially interval training, skill and strength can improve your heart. An abnormal heart rhythm disorders, heart organ. It has millions and millions of cells, each cell has the potential for electrical activity. Normal heart these electrical impulses occur in regular intervals. When something goes wrong with the heart's electrical system, the heart does not beat regularly. Unlike most organs in the body, all cells in the heart so that a single cell with a premature or late fire will be activated if the neighboring cells are wired and mistimed a wave will travel to the heart. A rhythm disorder, or irregular heartbeat results in arrhythmia.
Quickly review the previous mark. Each heartbeat sinoatrial (SA node) node located in the right atrium begins. SA node "smart" and the body adapts to the total need for blood and increases the heart rate during exercise as required. The way electrical impulses through the atrioventricular node special event (AV, node) in the SA node and travels to the heart to leave. AV Ventricular node and the aim is to provide a pathway for impulses from atria. The delay in the atria the driver creates a ventricle. First the atria contract delay to allow for ventricular filling with blood before they themselves contract allows. At the appropriate time delay so that the first contract in the cell is fully ensures the time to fill. ventricles and then - AV Node, indicating a group of fibers travel down through the center of the heart called bundle branch. So what can go wrong? Due to natural aging or disease, begins to lose SA node function and no longer produce the correct number of signals at reasonable rates.
AV Node through which the electrical impulse of normal cells can visit a group. However, due to aging or heart disease, conductive to the AV node cells of two or more groups to develop possible. Additional conduction path due to higher than normal at the time your heart may beat quickly. Bundle branch (see above) as a result of a heart attack "locked" is within the heart muscle and nerve damage. The AV Node to the ventricles prevents the signal from traveling. Left to their own devices, ventricular them about 20-40 beats per minute, set up its own rhythm. It is even more weakness, fainting, very slow to health outcomes, and shortness of breath. Valve stenosis (stiffness) atria causes the increased pressure (since never completely clears the blood), one or atria (aka atrial dilation), both causes ballooning of the walls. The atrium is now larger, it increases the signal to travel the distance. Increased distance means it takes longer to sign your final destination which throws the pacing of the heart rate to reach.
Medical treatment, specific medical treatment drugs like adenosine, calcium channel blockers (eg, diltiazem verapamil), short-acting beta-blockers (eg, esmolol), and digitalis is involved. Another option, of course, is the pacemaker. Heart pacemaker the SA node to take over control of the heartbeat uses electrodes attached to. Pacemaker installed in the computer is powered by a small body. Modern pacemakers are externally programmable for individual patients to select the optimal pacing mode to allow. Nothing can regulate themselves and as stress or strain to adapt to changing needs. And a pacemaker and defibrillator combine in one device. Drugs and heart pacemaker to be working well enough, but still a solution after the fact. In mind that most cases fall through the heart rhythm was lost hold on nutrition or disease. Do not install a pacemaker not solve the problem, it only bypasses. On the other hand, the nutrition to reverse many of those conditions and thus it is possible to reverse many of the problems.
Options calcium, sodium, magnesium, potassium deficiency, especially in minerals and trace minerals have a profound effect on many of the heart's electrical potential, as they may be responsible for running it. Supplements with minerals and liquid trace minerals can a profound difference. Supplementing with CoQ10 significantly improved energy levels in the heart of each cell can thus respond to your promotion of an electric and timely manner to its neighbor to improve the ability to pass on the signal. Omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acid balance transfer is a major source of potassium imbalance, which can trigger heart attacks could end. Conclusion Let's take a break, and next issue we discover what happens in your doctor's office will end our discussion by heart: - What your doctor does not run test? - What they mean? - You can tell them? - Questions you should ask your doctor to see the results? For now, though, it is an important concept worth reviewing:
However, many problems with the heart of the nature and scope of nutrition and supplements, it is imperative that can not really look beyond the biomechanical. As we have seen: - Magnesium supplementation can change shape and size of the heart valves. - Vitamin B can help rebuild the heart. - CoQ10 in the heart and literally every cell reenergize after the onset of congestive heart failure and heart-shaped can remold the shape. - Omega-3 fatty acids can reverse the damage caused by NEFAs use. - Proteolytic enzymes help to provide nutrients to your body as it repairs out epicardial coronary arteries and surrounding tissue damage clean heart works. - Cilantro and chlorella an acute coronary event such as the use of heavy metal chelators can reduce the risk. - Made with a red pepper and Hawthorne berry tonic regular supplementation can rebuild the strength of heart. - Proper dental care and avocado soy unsaponifiables and use of proteolytic enzymes have periodontal disease, an acute coronary event can reduce the incidence of low potential.
