Heart scan

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

Anyone have the scan of heart where they can tell you how much calcium is in your arteries , I can have a free one next week, but to scared to hear what they find,

Had stress test and echo they were fine, this test will show as little as 15 percent block

What ya think

[ed34]

80mg of lipitor daily because I have hypercholesterolemia

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

do you take a station, i take liptor, but i forget it so i need to start taking everyday.

worries me because i have heard it can cause alztimers my mom passed from that and i have 50/50 of getting it without helping it alone lol

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

lol well glad you read all of that , let me know what you do, i might follow lol. i have flax seed and its in a grain form i put it in drinks, glad you told me how good it is for my heart

[ed34]

After so much reading, I've only just pieced it all together. I will be talking with my pharmacist next week to discuss Vitamins B12 and D supplements. I will also be discussing Omega-3 and if there is no supplement without omega-6 incorporated then I will be looking at flax seeds.

[heartfluttersflyawayplz]

Wow you really know your stuff ,lol thanks again for all info,


So what if any vit do you take to help with heart

[ed34]

What is important to realise is that all the dietary alterations can make the body much more efficient but it will not remove existing disease. Well, it certainly hasn't been seen in any research. All the changes will certainly make heart disease a much more difficult thing to occur though. When an artery is damaged and inflames, blood cells of many types get trapped in the artery wall, including cholesterol. This is where the immune system kicks in and white cells are sent to the area for investigation. Their job is to basically keep the site clean for repair to take place. Some white cells turn into macrophages which gobble up the cells stuck in there and then when they are full, they die. Normally they will have digested broken body cells or infection, breaking them down but in this case they also consume cholesterol lipids. When the macrophages die, pure fat remains and because blood is mostly water, the fat has nowhere to go. Fat will not dissolve in water, so it stays in the area. Eventually calcification takes place, forming a cap over the damage. Nothing in the body will come and remove that fat, there is no process to do this. So when I see reports or claims about statins actually reversing disease, I wonder what they base this on. Perhaps the inflammation has decreased, giving better blood flow and the appearance of regression. It's all very well claims being made, but the chemistry needs to be explained with it, which of course they never do.