btw, feeling good up to a sudden point is no guarantee. you will tell yourself you feel good when subtle warning signs are there. I felt great up to 2003. Worked all day on claims lifting heavy drill 100 times a day. Next year I gained 35 lbs and hit a sudden wall. It was all over.
I ignored the fact that I could not keep up walking into claims to a man 5 years younger than me. I felt tired and had to sit down after accessing 1.5 kms of road. I know I was "out of shape", but ignore the far larger looming danger.
Beware. at 80% blockage you can have normal bp and don't feel a thing. At 95% it used to be too late. Death is, a that point I estimate, 5 years or less away unless drastic action is taken and lifelong impairment, even metal impairment after stints or angioplasty is done is to be avoided.
Now we know that it can be reversed. Whitaker, Rowlands, and Ornish are NOT wrong. I doubt that.
BTW you see where the new super Milano drug that Pfizer was developing was blocked? And there was such high hopes. They can still try again. 5% reduction of plaque in 3 months. fantastic.
BUT here is the condundrum. That reversing drug of Pfizer's worked by making a substance LIKE the GOOD HDL, (note I say good HDL not good cholesterol here -- there are two kinds with markedly different effects) -- that reversed plaque. So why does not natural increase in HDL, which we know exercise causes, and niacin, and B vitamins, -- cause an appreciable reversal of plaque that is well documented? I mean we know it prevents CVD and prevents further formation... I mean the two things, exercise and niacin together, but will it roll it back appreciably? The jury appears to be out. My father used niacin and exercised to an extreme degree all his life. He had high BP. But he could run a few miles on cross country skis in his 80's. He was not that badly off.
(BTW Walnuts they now know is the cause of Cretan's long life and low CVD.. the nuts do reverse plaque...)
Well, we DON'T fully know about exercise yet and its magic.. it is needed, will increase artery size, strengthen heart... etc..
We do know that Rowlands feels his secret formula, which he publishes so it is not a secret, WILL reverse plaque and he has pictures to prove it.
Bottom line is niacin increases HDL and probably according to Rowlands, Hoffman (discoveror of niacin's medicinal value with regard to cholesterol and CVD) and Cooper, (MD from Omaha who wrote Controlling Cholesterol in the 80's) ... reduces plaque.. not just controls its formation. But it cannot be THAT much. It will not knock 25% off in one year -- I don't believe that. And exercise may not do that either *IN SOME PEOPLE*.. perhaps.. Will it do it in others? Why DO marathon runners die of heart attacks with plugged arteries? Is it merely that high HDL is not enough? Is their diet crazy..? Too much carbs,, do they need more than just exercise..? evidently it would seem... is the increase in their HDL the wrong HDL to increase? Questions nag still..
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