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Heart disease is still our number one killer, but how can you keep your heart healthy? Some cardiologists would like to put statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs in municipal water supplies, but there are patients who don’t tolerate them well. What are the alternatives? With so many risk factors relevant to heart disease, which ones do you need to worry about?
Guest: Peter Salgo, MD, is a practicing physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York Cityspecializing in the pre- and post- operative treatment of heart patients, heart transplant recipients, and artificial heart candidates. He maintains a full-time practice in Intensive Care Medicine in the Open Heart ICU at Columbia. He is Professor of Medicine and Anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He is the author of The Heart of the Matter: The Three Key Breakthroughs to Preventing Heart Attacks
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The medical treatment of heart patients is archaic. A method of clearing the arteries needs to be offered rather than the Heart By pass surgery. In 1999 I had a quintuple bypass. Today all five of those vessels are completely occluded. Now after four minor heart attacks I have 7 stents. Now the question is just where do I and other like myself go from here.So as said a much better procedure is needed to repair those vessels . This is what I would like to see answer for and not some special diet or drug to take. Yes I am aware of diets for this problem of cholesterol and triglycerides that need to be managed, but when that fails then what. For the average person like myself this is a lesson in futility. Any answer? Let me know!
I was impressed by Dr. Salgo's emphasis on prevention and just a few easy ways he gave the general public for using drugless & natural ways to reduce the risk of having heart problems.
1. Don't have fries with that meal.
2. Don't have that extra helping. We are eating too much food, and obesity causes a host of health problems.
3. Lose weight, if needed.
4. Do something active with your body.
He said if we just do these 4 things they will greatly decrease the risk of heart disease in this country and make an amazing difference.
The medical profession focuses on treatment and dealing with a disease once it is established. However, the American public likes "not" to exercise,and prefers eating the foods it likes even if it is not good for them. They are counting on the doctors to dive in at the last possible moment and bail people out.
(end of comments by Dr. Salgo).
Personally, I would encourage individuals who care about their health to read about the harm to all health problems when ingesting wine/alcohol.
Check: jrussellshealth.org where there are hundreds of referenced materials warning of the dangers of light and moderate use of wine/alcohol.
In 2000, our government declared alcohol as a class "A" human carcinogen, along with arsenic, asbestos, tobacco, etc., and that "any" alcohol increases the risk of cancer - and its presence in the body negates antioxidants. The 'French Paradox' was disproved years ago by WHO and other health agencies because of faulty data, and there never has been a clinical study that showed alcohol/wine to be healthy - only by observation/association (as in recent HRT studies being healthy for women!). Money and politics influence the messages you get on the media.
Wine/alcohol good for the heart? Check "Alcohol - Heart"
on jrussellshealth.org, on my website home page (or under "Alcohol" the dangers of light and moderate consumption).
June Russell- Charlottesville, VA 22901 jrussellshealth.org
russells@embarqmail.com
434-974-6595
Since I have Hepatitis C, I would not approve having statins in municipal drinking water. It could be harmful to the liver. There may be other ailments sensitive to statins.
The thought of putting pharmaceuticals such as statins directly into the water system is terrifying to me, particularly since the sane and rational approach is to eliminate harmful substances in our foods and to use simpler, gentler solutions such as those listed in this site. I watched the constant, cumulative diet of more and more prescribed pharmaceuticals (to address the latest round of side-effects) kill my husband. But of course, I cannot document this "fact." P.S. They changed his entire personality too, before he died.
I have experienced leg pain after taking Lipitor for about a year. I was changed to Pravastatin, but my LDL is not as high as my cardiologist would like, so I have been perscribed Zetia as well. I am concerned that I may be taking too many drugs and may damage my liver in the long term as I am only 56. Should I be concerned? Also, is there any evidence that coronary heart dis. can be misdiagnosed even after a heart cathetrerization? Thank you.
Am being treated with typical heart medications, i.e. toprolol, lisinopril and lipitor for a condition known as "apical ballooning syndrome." Suspected causes include stress, anxiety and/or depression... I wonder about the length of time I will need to take these drugs, as recent tests show that the heart has now corrected itself.
My cholesterol and/or blood pressure counts were within range, so assume meds are preventative.
Anyone taking statins for any length of time should have liver function tested frequently. How difficult could that get if statins were added to the water supply! Of course, insurance companies would not pick up that tab.
I am one of those people who has tried several statin drugs for elevated cholesterol and suffered extreme side-effects from all of them.
Zetia has proven effective for me--along with fish oil, fiber, low-fat diet, and exercise. Zetia is not free of all effects, but for me, they are tolerable.
It could be disastrous (and ridiculous) for many of us to find statins in our water supply.