Promoting a Healthy Heart

Well, hi there! Thanks for clicking on by today. It’s always a treat to see you. I hope you’re having a ‘caffo’ day. Help yourself to a big mug of delightfully refreshing coffee and a virtual carrot muffin... chock full of vitamin C. And while we’re on the subject of Vitamin C, I got another e-letter from my pal Dr. Al yesterday. Here’s part of it...

“I’ve decided to develop a heart health kit. It’s going to be a collection of proof and advice on things like how to keep your homocysteine down, why cholesterol is your friend not the enemy, how to cure the inflammation problem, the real dietary changes to make for heart health, and the real exercise you need to strengthen your heart.

Let me give you an example. It’s a simple heart cure that most people don’t know… because regular doctors don’t want me to tell you about it.

You see, collagen is the most abundant protein in your body. It’s how your body makes blood vessels, and the tissue of your heart.

Collagen is stronger than steel wire, and as part of a network of an elastic-like substance called elastin, it makes up the connective tissue that holds you together.

That means that without collagen, you would literally fall apart. Your joints would disintegrate, your blood vessels would break open, and your heart would fail.

And do you know how you make collagen?

From vitamin C.

That means your heart would fail without vitamin C.

Cardiologists hate when I talk about this. They would rather you take drugs for your heart.

Yet in one clinical trial after another, researchers find links between low levels of vitamin C and risk of stroke. And people who get the most vitamin C show a dramatic decline in death from heart disease. Vitamin C even helps prevent plaque from being deposited in your arteries.

And here’s a shocking study you’ll never read in the mainstream media. Researchers looked at group of mice that, like people, couldn’t make their own vitamin C.

As these mice without vitamin C grew, they were exposed to normal stress for only an hour a day. Their heart cells died, and the mice were dead within two weeks.

But researchers also took a group of these mice and gave them vitamin C as they grew. The researchers wrote, “All of the findings in vitamin C-[deficient] mice were completely prevented by the supplementation of a sufficient amount of vitamin C.” 

Medical professionals continue to claim that it’s bad to supplement with nutrients, especially vitamin C. And the RDA for adults is only 90 mg for men and 75 mg for women.

But here’s the thing… animals that make their own vitamin C produce between 3,000 mg and 10,000 mg a day. That’s over 100 times more than the RDA!

Unfortunately, we only get a small amount of vitamin C from our food. The foods with the most vitamin C include dark green, leafy vegetables, and “superfruits” like the acerola cherry.

Peppers, parsley and watercress are all little-known but rich sources of vitamin C… but you’d have to eat a lot of them to get enough for heart protection.

That’s why I recommend you supplement with 1,500 mg twice a day if you’re healthy. If you’re under a lot of stress, or if you are sick, you can take as much as 20,000 mg per day. Your heart will thank you for it.

This is just one simple recommendation for heart health that goes against everything you hear from standard medicine. There are many more and I’m going to put them all together in my Doctor’s Heart Health Kit. When it’s ready, you’ll be the first to know all about it.

To Your Good Health,

Al Sears, MD

Now where did I put that bottle of Vitamin C. It’s in the back of this cabinet somewhere... Maybe it’s time for me to buy a new, large bottle if it’s half as good as Dr. Al says it is. Besides it's the start of the winter six month long cold and flu season Aah..aah...choo!!!

See ya, eh!

Bob