The REAL Cause of Heart Attacks [Episode #19]

  The Real Cause of Heart Attack—Running for Your Life!   “Heart disease is on the rise”—we hear it all the time, don’t we?     “Every year about 735,000 Americans have a heart attack.” (CDC)   “About 15% of people who have a heart attack will die from it.” (CDC)   There is no doubt about it—heart attack is serious business.  Many people are at risk and countless lives are affected greatly by the repercussions of heart attacks.  But there are some things we don’t know—some forbidden truth being held back—that has the potential to better our chances and change the way we treat and prevent heart attacks.  We’re going to share that information with you today.  It’s up to you to put it into action.    First of all, let’s be sure we’re on the same page about what causes heart attack, because if we’re going to make a real difference, we need to be clear on what heart attack is and what the underlying problem is in order to address it appropriately.  According to the American Heart Association, the two main causes of heart attack are:  arterial blockage (also known as an “occlusion”) and arterial spasm.  It is important to note that arterial spasm can occur both in normal or blocked arteries.  It is also important to understand that only 40% of heart attacks leading to death are caused by occlusion, the other 60% by arterial spasm.     Also according to the American Heart Association, “We’re not sure what causes a spasm.”     I’d like to challenge that notion, if you don’t mind.     Just a brief lesson in basic biology—hang with me.  We have two main branches of the nervous system:  the central nervous system, which has to do with motor nerve control, enabling us to get up, walk around, and do all the voluntary things that we do with our bodies, and the autonomic nervous system, which is the automatic function, controlling things like digestion, sleeping, elimination, detoxification, growth, and all the other things that our bodies are doing without us having to think about them.     Now within the autonomic nervous system, there are two arms, known as the sympathetic, better understood with regard to our “fight or flight” response, and the parasympathetic, which runs our “rest and digest” mode.  These two arms work in union with each other, essentially speeding up and slowing down as needed, depending whether it’s time to run for your life or to just keep things relaxed and business as usual.     Here is the problem, folks.     We’re not getting out of “fight or flight” mode.  We are constantly “running for our lives,” in regard to work, kids, the mortgage, social situations—we are never just “resting and digesting.”  We are under constant attack from the demands of work and home, under constant oppression from environmental toxins, and what’s more, we’re not even feeding ourselves to appropriately fuel for all the craziness of life we have to endure.  We are running on empty.  This is 60% of the heart attack epidemic.  This is why it’s time to take control of what we can control, say no to the rat race, to the pressure to “keep up with the Joneses,” to the sleepless nights, and the madness of our modern, western lifestyles.  Take back real food.  Take back rest.  Take back that forbidden doctor within that knows exactly what you need when you need it.  You owe it to yourself.   For more information on heart attack and its causes, please refer to Episode #18. Download A Transcript Of This Show: Click Here