Natasha Campbell-McBride - Put your heart in your mouth!: what really is heart disease and what can we do to prevent and even reverse it

Put Your Heart in Your Mouth!

What really is HEART DISEASE and what can we do to prevent and even reverse it

Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD,

MMedSci (neurology), MMedSci (nutrition)

Natasha Campbell-McBride, 2016

Put Your Heart in Your Mouth!

ISBN 13: 978-0-9548520-1-6

First published in the United Kingdom in December 2007 by Medinform Publishing

United Kingdom

First printed in the UK 2007

First printed in the USA 2016

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Reviews

Another vintage Dr Campbell-McBride book controversial in its take on natural fats, but refreshing in her candid, no-nonsense style and approach to much needed lifestyle and dietary modifications.

Kenneth Bock, M.D., FAAFP, FACN, CNS
Author of the book Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies

The history of medicine is rife with practices that actually increased suffering and shortened life, such as bloodletting and treatment with mercury compounds. But nothing compares in detrimental effects to the unscientific cholesterol theory of heart disease, now being used to justify lowfat, low-cholesterol diets for the whole population. The theory is so blatantly wrong that a whole crop of literature has appeared to chronicle its faults. But unlike most of the debunkers offering alternative theories on the cause of heart disease, only Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride zeros in on the most likely causethe devitalized, additive-laden modern diet, especially the toxic processed vegetable oils that have replaced nutritious animal fats. Put Your Heart in Your Mouth! provides not only a well-written, easy-to-understand expose, but also a practical plan for preventing heart disease and regaining health, one that involves a return to traditional foods and an avoidance of environmental pollutants and common household chemicals. And her recipe section is fantastic! Put Your Heart in Your Mouth! is must reading for anyone interested in diet and health.

Sally Fallon, President
The Weston A. Price Foundation
Author of the book Nourishing Traditions

It has been my pleasure to read this book. The style of writing is both pleasing and easy to understand. Its organization is appropriate to the stated goal of keeping your body healthy. I particularly like the statement, If your body fails you where will you live? Dr Campbell-McBride has blended an abundance of information from the cause of atherosclerosis to a delightful assortment of old country recipes in such a manner that every word seems appropriate and flows evenly. And she even found room towards the end to seriously trounce the powers that be for getting us into our present nutritional mess. Obviously we cannot trust our leaders. After 40 years of anti-cholesterol brainwashing I have become thoroughly disenchanted with our leadership. I raised my family on the low cholesterol/low fat diet and counseled all my patients to do the same. I talked at professional organzations and classrooms of the dangers of whole milk, eggs and butter and have written thousands of prescriptions for what cholesterol buster was in vogue at the time. It is terribly difficult to know that because I followed national guidance, I was wrong all that time. Now I am angry at those who guided me and determined it shall not happen again. I thank you for this book and its cutting edge information

Duane Graveline MD. MPH, former NASA astronaut, aerospace medical research scientist, flight surgeon and family doctor.
Author of the books Statin Drugs Side Effects and Lipitor, Thief of Memory

Contents

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck (1949), German physicist, Nobel Prize winner

We all know somebody who suffers from heart disease or who has died from it, including members of our own families. Heart disease is our modern plague. We hear about it in the popular media, every time we see a doctor, every time we talk to friends and neighbours, and every time we buy our food. It has become a background noise for many of us, so we dont stop and think: what on earth is heart disease and should I be concerned about it?

People may suffer from many different heart problems, such as rheumatic fever, congenital heart defects, infections, tumours, heart muscle disorders, injury, damage from drugs and other toxins, genetic disorders, and heart failure. However, when people talk about heart disease, what they mean is Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). Why? Because it is the number one killer in the Western world: more than a third of people in developed countries die from CHD.

CHD is thought to be caused by atherosclerosis

What is atherosclerosis? It is a disease of the arterial wall that leads to narrowing and obstruction of the artery. The narrowing is due to the sclerotic deformation of the artery and the development of raised patches, called atherosclerotic plaques, in the inner lining of the arterial wall. Depending on which organ in the body the artery feeds, atherosclerosis in its walls will impair the blood flow to that organ.

Let us have a look at the organs that are most affected.

1.Atherosclerosis of the arteries feeding the heart (called coronary arteries) results in our most common cause of death Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) the disease this book is about.

2.Atherosclerotic damage to the arteries feeding the brain causes strokes our third most common cause of death (after cancer).

3.Atherosclerosis of peripheral arteries causes Peripheral Vascular Disease with symptoms of painful muscles, cold extremities, ulcers and gangrene.

4.Atherosclerotic damage to kidney arteries can lead to high blood pressure and kidney failure.

5.Atherosclerosis of intestinal arteries can lead to severe abdominal pains and digestive abnormalities; it may also result in gangrene of the intestines.

Wherever atherosclerosis develops it impairs blood flow, and hence the function of the organs and tissues fed by that artery.

The two major forms of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) are angina pectoris and myocardial infarction (heart attack).

Angina pectoris develops when the lumen (the space inside) of the coronary artery is narrowed, but not closed up. So, when a person is resting the heart can cope with the lowered blood supply. But when the person does some physical activity and the heart muscle has to work harder, the atherosclerotic artery cannot supply enough blood to feed the heart muscle. The result is a very typical gripping chest pain behind the sternum, usually radiating to the neck and left arm, rarely the right arm. The pain disappears with rest in the initial stages. As the disease progresses the person has to take medication (glyceryl trinitrate or other nitrate drugs), which dilates the artery and improves the blood flow, so the pain stops.

Heart attack, or myocardial infarction, happens when the coronary artery closes up completely and the blood supply to the heart muscle stops. The result is the death of the portion of the heart fed by that particular artery.