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As one person's learning experience can often be valuable to others, we've posted below sample questions and answers about heart health and exercise or detoxification that Dr. Sinatra has received over time from patients and his Heart, Health & Nutrition newsletter subscribers. We hope they will provide insight for you, or someone you know, who may be experiencing similar issues. Links to more Q & A may be found on our "Ask the Doc" page.
Q: Exactly what kind of exercise do I have to do to get my heart rate high enough for cardio-vascular benefits? Many forms of exercise have a calming effect, but is it necessary to work up a sweat to actually help my heart?
My answer to this question never changes. The best exercise is the one that you will do. And for this reason, I recommend to my patients that they take up the simplest and most pleasant forms: walking and dancing. In fact, because the whole goal of exercise is to get out and move yourself around, think of walking and dancing as movement, not exercise.
Walking and dancing (by dancing I also mean simply putting on a tape or CD and dancing around your kitchen or living room) strengthen your heart and circulatory system, build stamina and improve your state of mind. For optimum health, I suggest you walk at least a mile a day (If you do this every day for 12 months without changing your diet you will loose 10 pounds). Enjoy the sensory pleasures while walking that you miss driving your car. Try to let parts of your body that are stiff or rigid relax as you stride along. It will be a very pleasurable experience, especially if you allow yourself to daydream, fantasize and let your feelings go.
A word of caution if you are a fanatical jogger, bicyclist, roller blader, etc. – you must take antioxidant supplements regularly. An increased metabolic rate associated with even these moderate types of exercise causes elevated levels of free radicals. Taking nutritional supplements prevents the oxidation of fats and neutralizes free radicals before they can damage your arterial walls. Supplements also help prevent DOMS (delayed-onset muscle soreness).
If you exercise more than 30 minutes per day, take at least the equivalent of 50 to 100 mg of coenzyme Q10, 200 to 400 IU of vitamin E, 300 to 600 mg of vitamin C, 5 gms of D-ribose and at least 200 to 300 mg of magnesium every day.
Q: I have heard many different opinions on IV chelation therapy. Could you please explain under what circumstances it would be a benefit?
Until the early 1980’s, I did not consider chelation therapy a suitable approach to coronary artery disease. This was due in part to my traditional training and because I had seen no double-blind, placebo-controlled studies in support of the effectiveness of chelation therapy.
I had a “change of heart” beginning in 1978. One of my patients, was going downhill with severe angina that worsened even on a high dosage of medication. I performed an angiogram, which showed that his major vessels were diseased and there were no strategic sites in the arteries to place a bypass. At that point, Joe asked me about chelation. I did my homework and after studying everything I could find on the process, I gave him the green light to try it.
Thirty years later, Joe was in his early 90’s - enjoying an active life, taking some medication and walking two to three miles a day. Joe underwent two intravenous chelation sessions of 30-60 treatments each over a 20-year period. It was very clear to me that this therapy had helped when I saw a computerized analysis of his angiographic films showing one of his major vessels had improved, while the two others showed no further progression of fat and cholesterol build-up (atherosclerosis).
I recommend chelation therapy if you are unhappy with your quality of life after combining conventional and complementary therapies to treat your coronary artery disease. I do not recommend chelation in place of bypass or angioplasty if you are a candidate for one of these procedures especially if you have any chest pain, angina or shortness of breath. You must then follow the conventional approach.
Q: Are oral chelators effective in reducing coronary heart disease?
Oral chelators are little more than sophisticated multivitamin/mineral formulas with powerful antioxidants such as L-glutathione. Some of these formulas may include hawthorne berry, bioflavonoid and lipotropic factors such as methionine. Although oral chelators provide nutritional support for your cardiovascular system, the claim that they remove toxic components from the blood can be misleading.
Chelating agents such as EDTA (ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid) remove heavy metals like lead, mercury, copper and cadmium from the bloodstream by making them soluble. Because toxic metals can cause internal inflammation (triggered by free radical injury to blood vessels), it has been postulated that chelating agents, while removing heavy metals, also remove the calcium content of plaque from artery walls. However, because there is no EDTA in oral chelating complexes, authentic chelation is not possible. Future nutritional research may reveal that newer oral agents may offer some advantages similar to chelating agents. For example, research shows that lipoic acid may have a chelating effect on some heavy metals.
For now, if you want to experience chelation therapy, opt for the real thing – the procedure rather than an oral substitute. This painless therapy, except for the needle stick, in which an intravenous EDTA solution is intravenously administered over a few hours, is performed on an outpatient basis and requires multiple sessions. Recent investigations have suggested that 1 ½ hour treatments may be as effective as three-hour sessions. I strongly urge you to choose a doctor trained in this specialty who follows the protocols of the American College of Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) 1-800-532-3688 1-800-532-3688, www.acam.org. For a listing of doctors, e-mail
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However, the most recent oral vitamin for reducing plaque is vitamin K2 which has demonstrated plaque regression in the animal model. Human research is presently in progress. I use 300 mcg of vitamin K2 – menaquinone – in my patients for at least three years and then do a non-invasive test to ascertain plaque reversal. You cannot take MK-7 if you are on Coumadin.
The above Q&A has been reprinted or adapted from Candid Advice About Your Heart, a Heart, Health & Nutrition supplement, with permission from Healthy Directions, LLC.
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D-ribose is a sugar molecule that your body naturally produces, and will not act like sucrose (table sugar) to "feed" cancer cells or raise blood glucose levels. In fact, supplementing with D-ribose will "feed" your heart more ATP (the fuel each cell burns for energy) allowing it to work better. D-ribose is very safe to use in your situation.