Metabolic Cardiology
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Helen's Metabolic Cardiology Success Story
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"Helen presents a similar story [to Mary’s] of surviving all odds. Helen had her first heart attack at age sixty-two, which was quickly followed by coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) in 1979. Helen was one of seven children, and tragically all of her siblings had died of heart-related causes. She was literally the sole survivor in her own family. Thanks to a second successful coronary artery bypass surgery in 1987 and several PTCA (percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty) procedures, Helen was enjoying her eighty-fifth year and a fairly good quality of life on a combination of medical and complimentary therapies. She’d taken phytonutrient supplements for years, and by April 1998 she was taking the equivalent of 600 mg per day of coenzyme Q10 to support her cardiac function and boost her energy.
Then the bottom dropped out! Helen suddenly felt exhausted, and fell into despair. Her vital life force and her energy were completely sapped. In fact, it became a Herculean task for her to just get up from bed and sit in her chair. After battling heart problems for more than twenty years, Helen finally resigned herself to the fact that she was going to give into her long battle against chronic heart failure and vital exhaustion, and just die. When she arrived in my office, her breathing was labored and she was short of breath. Her energy level was completely depleted, and she had a haunted look in her eyes when she said one thing to me: she needed a miracle.
Although coenzyme Q10 had been a literal lifesaver for Helen up to that point, it was clear that she now needed something else to provide that extra “spark” and help her come alive again. Her body required something even more powerful to battle the severity of her heart problems and the ravages of advancing age. So in April of 1998, I added L-carnitine to her game plan, and she began taking it along with the coenzyme Q10.
Just four weeks later you would have hardly recognized Helen! The color in her cheeks was much pinker, she was breathing easier, and she was able to move around freely for the first time in weeks. Soon after, Helen was active and mobile, puttering around her house. And before you could say, “Rumplestiltskin!” she was leaving her home, zipping around shopping malls, and getting her own groceries again. And if all that wasn’t enough, Helen was even able to reduce her dependency on some of her prescription drugs, particularly nitroglycerine! Obviously, advancing age is no longer a reason to throw in the towel…"
Helen'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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As a physician, I have seen people turn around who were in comas for weeks, when loved ones and doctors wanted to pull the plug and I would say, "don't pull the plug." I have had patients transferred to my hospital who were deemed terminal, where I would treat them differently, and they would recover and walk out of the hospital... even if patients have terminal metastatic cancer, I feel that if they are still breathing on their own, there is hope. As a physician, I always believe, as Yogi Berra said, "it's not over till it's over."
-Dr. Sinatra, as interviewed by Suzanne Somers in Knockout
