Metabolic Cardiology
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George's Metabolic Cardiology Success Story
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"'Let’s face it, George, you have a dead heart.' Imagine hearing your cardiologist say those words to you! In 1998, George was in the hospital in a desperate state. He had an ejection fraction* of 14 percent. His physician thought he had an infection in his heart, so George was placed on antibiotics, but it was soon determined that what George really had was congestive heart failure. George and his wife refused invasive surgery and signed him out of the hospital against the advice and protestations of his doctor.
On subsequent visits to two cardiologists, George was prescribed diuretics to rid him of excess fluids and a variety of drugs to help his heart beat more strongly. Even though the fluid was controlled, George’s heart continues to decline. Then one day he heard those harsh words that sounded like a death sentence: 'Let’s face it, George. You have a dead heart.'
It was at that point that his son-in-law, a chiropractor, jumped into the fray. Frustrated and disappointed with what traditional medicine had been able to do for their dad, he arranged for George to be put on a combination of L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10, and it was a good thing he did! Within weeks George felt better, especially after I increased his dose of coenzyme Q10. His quality of life has improved and an update on his last echocardiogram showed an ejection fraction of 62 percent. That’s within a normal, healthy-heart range! George and his wife are convinced that the combination of L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10 literally brought his heart back to life! I continue[d] to see George on a regular basis 5 years after he heard those dreadful words."
George's story has been excerpted from: The Sinatra Solution: Metabolic Cardiology, © 2005, 2008 Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., F.A.C.C.
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*Ejection fraction (EF) measures the amount of blood volume pumped from the heart with each heartbeat. Normal ejection fractions are about 50 to 70 percent, meaning that the left ventricle in normal hearts “ejects” about 55 to 75 of the blood with each beat and the rest just “sloshes” around. The lower limit of normal is 50.
