OK. My mind is boggled. How'd you do that so fast? I'd still be stumbling around trying to find a copy of the book...
Hussey nailed it in your question #9, the main causes of heart attacks. Whereas cardiologists mainly focus on blockages (which I believe one source states accounts for only 17% of heart attacks), the more common reasons are nowhere on their radar screens (which is why it is so common to hear accounts of people having their docs tell them they are in great shape, only to have a heart attack two weeks later). In my instance, it was autonomic imbalance that was driving my health crisis. The notion of lactic acid buildup tracks perfectly with my experience. I suspect it is stress's (and not genes, the common view) impact on autonomic imbalance that has so many Type A personalities dying of heart attacks around age 50.
I have my suspicion that acid blocking drugs, which wreak havoc on your digestion, may actually play a role in delaying heart attacks for many people. Their "heartburn" might be quite literal - from their heart, not their stomach.
I was intrigued by a recent comment by AMD, where he stated that increased lactic acid production often precedes diminished stomach acid, since I developed chronic pancreatitis shortly after my heart crisis. CP is affected in part by low stomach production. Which makes me wonder if stress-related lactic acid production in the heart (which is very near the vagus nerve) is misinterpreted by the body as a sign to decrease stomach acid production? And that the body puts some of your stomach's acid-producing cells into hibernation as a result (the cell danger response). If so, the question is what signal is needed to tell the body to wake those cells back up?
Since Hussey brought up the topic of worthwhile health metrics, here's the short list of Dr. John Bergman, DC:
1. Thermography - it makes it possible to find inflammation lurking in your body, which can detect cancer up to about ten years early.
2. Live blood cell analysis - literally drawing blood and looking at it directly with a dark field microscope. It gives you a direct view of your zeta potential, the measure of how well solids are held in suspension in your blood. Getting your blood flowing correctly is the first step in resolving circulatory problems. If dark field microscopes of sufficient magnification didn't start at around $1500 I'd have for home use.
3. Heart Rate Variability - provides a means to objectively determine the balance of your autonomic nervous system with others in your age cohort. Low HRV scores mean you have issues that need to be uncovered and fixed right away. Improving HRV scores are a clear indicator of dialing back your biological clock.
If you have an interest in thermography, I can ask my thermographer if she'd have any interest in being interviewed. It's how I discovered my chronic pancreatitis, bypassing the need for blood and enzyme testing, an MRI or the like, seeing a specialist, and all the other unnecessary profit-generating tricks built into Standard of Care. I don't recall ever finding a decent book on the subject, at least not one written for the lay person.
Thank you for all that and for your original share trigging this fantastic article and review!
Would you mind if I asked what type of NO supplementals you’ve been using? I’ve been vaguely looking for a few years and tried one or two but not truly committed as I’ve not felt I’ve grasped the topic well enough. Many thanks
In Mark Sloan's The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue is a chapter on Nitric Oxide that leans heavily on the research of Ray Peat. He claims that NO is part of the stress response, and that it is CO2 that is the body's primary means of dilating blood vessels (which is why breathwork is so beneficial). He further suggests that chronic elevation of NO will eventually impair the cell's ability to take up oxygen. Having taken CM for six months now, I'm suspicious that Peat may be correct, though I'm in the process of trying to determine whether it has had that effect on me or not.
Most interesting, thank you for sharing. In serendipity I see Ray’s name in more and more places lately I must do some more reading and I shall look for Mark Sloan also.
I asked my functional med doc about the issue raised by Ray Peat. He speculated that it is just a problem with NO supplements based upon beets, and it is the oxalates from the beets that might be the issue. I don't see beets listed in Cardio Miracle.
OK. My mind is boggled. How'd you do that so fast? I'd still be stumbling around trying to find a copy of the book...
Hussey nailed it in your question #9, the main causes of heart attacks. Whereas cardiologists mainly focus on blockages (which I believe one source states accounts for only 17% of heart attacks), the more common reasons are nowhere on their radar screens (which is why it is so common to hear accounts of people having their docs tell them they are in great shape, only to have a heart attack two weeks later). In my instance, it was autonomic imbalance that was driving my health crisis. The notion of lactic acid buildup tracks perfectly with my experience. I suspect it is stress's (and not genes, the common view) impact on autonomic imbalance that has so many Type A personalities dying of heart attacks around age 50.
I have my suspicion that acid blocking drugs, which wreak havoc on your digestion, may actually play a role in delaying heart attacks for many people. Their "heartburn" might be quite literal - from their heart, not their stomach.
I was intrigued by a recent comment by AMD, where he stated that increased lactic acid production often precedes diminished stomach acid, since I developed chronic pancreatitis shortly after my heart crisis. CP is affected in part by low stomach production. Which makes me wonder if stress-related lactic acid production in the heart (which is very near the vagus nerve) is misinterpreted by the body as a sign to decrease stomach acid production? And that the body puts some of your stomach's acid-producing cells into hibernation as a result (the cell danger response). If so, the question is what signal is needed to tell the body to wake those cells back up?
Since Hussey brought up the topic of worthwhile health metrics, here's the short list of Dr. John Bergman, DC:
1. Thermography - it makes it possible to find inflammation lurking in your body, which can detect cancer up to about ten years early.
2. Live blood cell analysis - literally drawing blood and looking at it directly with a dark field microscope. It gives you a direct view of your zeta potential, the measure of how well solids are held in suspension in your blood. Getting your blood flowing correctly is the first step in resolving circulatory problems. If dark field microscopes of sufficient magnification didn't start at around $1500 I'd have for home use.
3. Heart Rate Variability - provides a means to objectively determine the balance of your autonomic nervous system with others in your age cohort. Low HRV scores mean you have issues that need to be uncovered and fixed right away. Improving HRV scores are a clear indicator of dialing back your biological clock.
If you have an interest in thermography, I can ask my thermographer if she'd have any interest in being interviewed. It's how I discovered my chronic pancreatitis, bypassing the need for blood and enzyme testing, an MRI or the like, seeing a specialist, and all the other unnecessary profit-generating tricks built into Standard of Care. I don't recall ever finding a decent book on the subject, at least not one written for the lay person.
Thanks klimer!
Yes, I'm definitely interested in thermography and would love to interview your thermographer is she is interested.
Thank you for all that and for your original share trigging this fantastic article and review!
Would you mind if I asked what type of NO supplementals you’ve been using? I’ve been vaguely looking for a few years and tried one or two but not truly committed as I’ve not felt I’ve grasped the topic well enough. Many thanks
Cardio Miracle. It's a little pricey, but it also replaced a few supplements that I was taking.
Thank you very much! I’ve had a quick look and I can see what you mean for us too it would replace several supplements which is a bonus.
In Mark Sloan's The Ultimate Guide to Methylene Blue is a chapter on Nitric Oxide that leans heavily on the research of Ray Peat. He claims that NO is part of the stress response, and that it is CO2 that is the body's primary means of dilating blood vessels (which is why breathwork is so beneficial). He further suggests that chronic elevation of NO will eventually impair the cell's ability to take up oxygen. Having taken CM for six months now, I'm suspicious that Peat may be correct, though I'm in the process of trying to determine whether it has had that effect on me or not.
Most interesting, thank you for sharing. In serendipity I see Ray’s name in more and more places lately I must do some more reading and I shall look for Mark Sloan also.
I asked my functional med doc about the issue raised by Ray Peat. He speculated that it is just a problem with NO supplements based upon beets, and it is the oxalates from the beets that might be the issue. I don't see beets listed in Cardio Miracle.
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Very interesting for an old CCU nurse.