Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks but People Do, Fourth Revised Edition

Book Description:

In Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks, But People Do, Matthias Rath, M.D., an internationally respected cardiovascular researcher, asserts that high cholesterol is not the actual cause of heart disease. Bears, for example, have average cholesterol levels of 400 milligrams per deciliter of blood, but they don’t suffer heart attacks. Why? According to Dr. Rath, it is because bears produce large amounts of vitamin C, which optimizes collagen production and ensures maximum stability of their artery walls.

Dr. Rath’s research identifies the true cause of heart disease as a deficiency of vitamin C and other essential nutrients in the cells composing the heart and coronary arteries – not high cholesterol. Once the artery wall is weakened by vitamin deficiency, the body responds by producing excess cholesterol in the liver and depositing it in the injured artery. If this process continues without nutritional intervention, the buildup of fats in the arteries will eventually lead to atherosclerosis, the cause of heart attacks.

Using easy-to-understand language, Dr. Rath explains what the reader can do to prevent heart attacks and other cardiovascular conditions naturally. He presents his ten-step program for achieving natural cardiovascular health, as well as his clinically proven Cellular Health nutrient recommendations for preventing and improving heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, heart failure, arrhythmia, diabetes and other conditions. Dr. Rath even provides clinical proof – complete with the Ultrafast CT scans of patient’s arteries – of the natural reversal of atherosclerotic deposits, without angioplasty or bypass surgery.

This revised edition of Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks, But People Do! has been updated with new research findings that corroborate Dr. Rath’s vitamin C deficiency-heart disease discovery, his cardiovascular presentation at Stanford Medical School, and information about the recent efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to suppress his medical breakthrough. Dr. Rath also exposes the pharmaceutical industry’s profit motives for pushing statin drugs, which do not target the true cause of heart disease and have dangerous side effects.

Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks, But People Do! is the blueprint for a new health care system based on the needs of patients, not profits from statin drug sales. The information contained on its pages will empower readers to take control of their cardiovascular health and end their dependency on pharmaceutical drugs.

About the Author

Matthias Rath, M.D. is an internationally respected cardiovascular researcher who worked closely with the late two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, Ph.D. Dr. Rath was appointed by Pauling as the first director of cardiovascular research at the Linus Pauling Institute, formerly located in California.

The author of four bestselling health books, Dr. Rath developed the scientific concept of Cellular Medicine, which defines the deficiency of nutrients at the cellular level as a root cause of chronic diseases. His research has been published in numerous scientific journals, including the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and the Journal of Applied Nutrition

Contents

 Foreword

    * Table Of Contents
    * Foreword
      
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Introduction

    * The Mission to Eradicate Heart Disease
    * How You Can Immediately Benefit From Reading This Book
    * Dr. Rath’s Ten Step Program for Natural Cardiovascular Health
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations Provide Biological Fuel to Millions of Cells
    * Cellular Medicine: The Solution to Cardiovascular Disease

Atherosclerosis, Heart Attack and Stroke

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About Coronary Heart Disease
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:
      - Documented Health Benefits in Patients
      - Documented Health Benefits in Clinical Studies
    * Scientific Background Information
      

High Cholesterol Levels and Other Secondary Risk
Factors for Cardiovascular Disease

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * Cholesterol Is Only a Secondary Risk Factor
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations Help Patients With Elevated Cholesterol Levels
    * Clinical Studies With Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations Document Their Effectiveness in Lowering Blood Risk Factors
    * The Cholesterol-Heart Disease Fallacy
      
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High Blood Pressure

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About High Blood Pressure
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:
      - Documented Health Benefits in Patients
      - Documented Health Benefits in Clinical Studies
    * Scientific Background Information
      

Heart Failure

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About Heart Failure
    * The Fatal Consequences of Incomplete Treatment of Heart Failure
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:
      - Documented Health Benefits in Patients
      - Documented Health Benefits in Clinical Studies
      
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Irregular Heartbeat (Arrhythmia)

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About Irregular Heartbeat
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:
      - Documented Health Benefits in Patients
      - Documented Health Benefits in Clinical Studies
      

Diabetes

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About Adult Onset Diabetes
    * How Diabetic Cardiovascular Disease Develops
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations:
      - Documented Health Benefits in Patients
      - Documented Health Benefits in Clinical Studies
      
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Specific Cardiovascular Problems

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * The Facts About Angina Pectoris
    * Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations Help:
      - Ameliorate Angina Pectoris
      - Patients After a Heart Attack
      - Patients Undergoing Coronary Bypass Surgery
      - Patients Undergoing Coronary Angioplasty
      

External and Inherited Cardiovascular Risks

Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations for Prevention and Adjunct Therapy

    * Unhealthy Diet
    * Smoking
    * Stress
    * Hormonal Contraceptives
    * Pharmaceutical Drugs
    * Dialysis
    * Surgery
    * Inherited Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease
      
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Cellular Medicine

Scientific Basis of Dr. Rath’s Cellular Health Recommendations

    * Cellular Health Depends on Cellular Bioenergy
    * The Principles of Cellular Medicine
    * Scientific Facts About Cellular Nutrients
    * Conventional Medicine vs. Cellular Medicine
    * Questions and Answers
        

Eradicating Heart Disease

    * Why You May Not Have Heard About This Medical Breakthrough Before
    * The Ten Laws of the Pharmaceutical Industry
    * Key Tricks of the "Business with Disease"
    * A New Era of Human Health Begins
    * Milestones Towards Eradicating Heart Disease
    * Principles of a New Health Care System
        

Documentation

    * The Lecture at Stanford Medical School
    * The Scurvy-Heart Disease Connection
    * "Health for All by the Year 2020™"
    * "The Hague Constitution"
    * Petition for Vitamin Freedom
    * About the Author
    * Clinical Study: Natural Reversal of Heart Disease
    * References