Metabolic Cardiology
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Tommy's Metabolic Cardiology Success Story
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"I’d like to share another miracle: Tommy, a forty-two-year-old real estate businessman, also heard a distant death knell. After an unexpected and severe case of possible myocarditis (infection of the sac and heart muscle), Tommy’s heart was badly damaged. His [ejection fraction*] was so low, and his heart’s pumping so ineffective, that the surgical team for the esteemed Dr. Michael E. DeBakey in Houston, Texas, advised him that his only hope was to hang on long enough for a heart transplant.
Then his devoted cardiac rehabilitation nurse, Kathy, heard me speak about coenzyme Q10 at a cardiology conference. After getting my advice about dosing, she convinced his cardiologists to give it a try. After all, Tommy had nothing to lose and everything to gain. Thanks to Kathy and his unbiased, willing-to-give-it-a-go physicians in Chapel Hill, South Carolina, Tommy’s heart recovered in only eight weeks. When he flew back to Houston for medical follow-up, the team agreed that Tommy no longer needed that heart transplant, and they, too, cleared him to go back to his real estate business and active lifestyle."
Tommy'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.
