The end of heart bypasses

By Garry Gordon, M.D.

I am glad to report that I find real progress is being made in our understanding of heart disease and meanwhile many are beginning to appreciate the serious limitations of surgery and drugs. (28, 34)

Plus thousands of people are researching the CAM approaches (1, 70), so this knowledge is becoming widely available. For example, knowledge about what vitamin C can do (19, 41, 46, 47, 48, 68) and I assist those searching for more information about the alternatives I have developed for the treatment of heart disease to eliminate heart attacks utilizing the past 50+ years of my medical practice. Now I will take this opportunity to help you gain access to my thinking.

I recently wrote a chapter for a new book- “Miracle heart health secrets” (17) called “the end of heart attacks is near.” You can see it at this link; it provides details that space limitations preclude me presenting it here: http://gordonresearch.com/articles_various/end_of_heart_attacks_is_near.html

I also published a major review, a 17-page article with 189 references entitled “EDTA and chelation therapy: History and mechanisms of action, an update” (61) and a reprint of medical literature on chelation therapy. (27)

These articles and many more support my approach to cardiovascular disease and are available on my website; www.gordonresearch.com– once there you can choose either health topics or presentations to access thousands of pages of information on heart disease, chelation, heavy metals, etc.

I also write 3 daily posts that go to the over 2000 Health Professional members of FACT. For more than 5 years I have contributed thousands of posts providing vital references that support the advanced medical approach to cardiovascular disease and other health issues including cancer- that I have developed along with input from colleagues in alternative medicine from around the world.

This information may enable health professionals to have more ‘fun’ practicing medicine and have more confidence in approaching complex cases. And, even offer ‘second opinions’ for patients seeking alternative approaches for their cardiovascular disease or other degenerative diseases including diabetes. (3)

I have routinely helped my patients avoid needless invasive treatment such as stents or bypass surgery, which in spite of negative studies showing they provide little real benefit, are still done routinely and daily.

PET Scans (35) often show 80% obstructing lesions are meaningless, as the area is well collateralized, but that is not seen with outdated angiograms, which we can now replace with far better diagnostic procedures.

All invasive procedures carry significant risk, which, in my opinion, lack adequate proven benefits to offset those risks. I have successfully kept my patients out of hospitals for many years with my lifetime oral health program. It has little or no risk and restores most patients to high level functioning, as it safely provides heparin-like activity, this is important because vulnerable plaque with inflammation and infection lead to fatal blood clots for over 2 million patients each year. (24, 44)

You can view a 5 minute Video at: http://gordonresearch.com/Video/viscosity.htm (62) to see how fatal blood clots are formed. Standard treatment approaches in cardiology are inadequate to deal with elevated blood viscosity and or chronic inflammation and its associated hypercoagulability through current diagnostics. (12, 62)

My experience has enabled me to develop a highly successful, primarily oral based, health restoration program that includes oral chelation. It has provided extremely low morbidity and mortality for cardiovascular disease patients even with patients already scheduled for surgery due to their ‘well documented, advanced’ disease.

I am the 75 year old co-founder of ACAM, The American College of Advancement in Medicine. ACAM helped bring IV chelation therapy to the world. Now, 35 years later, I find that the standard 3 hour chelation (16, 49, 50) increases circulation and helps lower lead but does not predictably reverse plaque. I often prefer a rapid, 10-minute IV injection of calcium EDTA that removes more lead; it’s painless and saves everyone time.

My opinions are based on my unique professional and life experiences. It includes 50+ years of medical practice and formal training in radiology. I was a co-founder of ACAM. I was President then Board Chairman for 6-years; in addition I was ACAM program Chairman for many years. I was Medical Director of MINERALAB, a trace element testing lab with offices in Asia and Europe that was later acquired by Doctor’s Data, putting on conferences around the world about trace elements.

I have been officially in charge of peer review of chelation therapy for all homeopathic licensees. I was also a board member for 9 years.

I also have extensive litigation experience. It became necessary to continue my use of chelation therapy in the United States and, for ACAM to survive, for me to challenge the misguided authorities against chelation. I successfully sued organized medicine and later the Medical Board of California. I have served as an expert medical witness on many trials and have testified in front of several medical boards regarding chelation therapy and the rights of patients of ACAM members to receive it without their interference.

I had a unique practice in northern California with a huge number of motivated patients for many years that have enabled me to develop and continually refine my FIGHT (described below) program. For 45 years I have been known as the Nutrition Doctor. However my patients were cut off all insurance reimbursement and I was forced to become a cash practice. This provided me the freedom to test patients as needed and tell patients exactly what I believed was their primary diagnosis and I was free to provide the best possible treatment from my International studies. This freedom permitted me to develop my advanced protocols, which are now available at no cost to FACT members.

As a lecturer and writer about chelation therapy, my practice attracted hundreds of cardiovascular disease patients, many of whom had been told they urgently needed bypass surgery or stents and/or were told to stay on many toxic or dangerous drugs. My extensive experience enables me to offer my program to all patients. I have routinely recorded all my consultations for 30+ years now (and always supply a copy to the patient). This eliminates confusion from miscommunication and increases trust on the part of the patient.

My personal health history motivated me to think outside the box, as I had suffered from ill health that culminated in a disabling heart condition that forced me to close my practice before the age of 30. Therefore, I have always been strongly motivated to study all approaches to health restoration, not just allopathic medicine. My protocols incorporate knowledge gained from my world-wide studies and have enabled me to virtually eliminate fatal heart attacks and strokes for 20+ years without needing bypass, stents, angiograms, Coumadin®, statins etc. The patient’s heart function invariably improves rapidly and that permits discontinuing most standard heart medications over time.

Patients are not compliant with any major health promoting program requiring major diet changes and exercise commitment, or out of pocket expense, such as my FIGHT Program, unless they understand that they are at risk but are excited when they learn their condition can be improved. The latest, insurance reimbursed, test that helps by providing that information quickly and conveniently is the Multifunction ECG www.premierheart.com (63). My own personal report at age 75 is perfect, in spite of my early years of serious disabling heart disease. That makes me confident that others can also follow my program and reduce their risk of dying of a heart attack, as dramatically as I have done. The test is done in minutes, in office, painlessly, safely and accurately for about $450.

There are other tests (23, 31) including segmental blood pressures, thermography and even a new vascular age test that determines the stiffness of arteries, www.bioclip.com where those with marginal results have 90% mortality unless they take appropriate measures. What we have takes 20+ years off the biological age of patients who comply. Due to economics some patients settle for just taking Beyond Chelation Improved once or twice a day. This has provided excellent protection against heart attacks and strokes although those with more risk factors deserve a more aggressive program.

Average bone lead levels at birth today are a thousand times higher than a few hundred years ago. Recently, Harvard School of Public Health has published papers linking bone lead to cataracts and later they reported that higher lead levels in bones increased heart attacks six fold. (4) Therefore, environmentally aware physicians need to recommend some form of long-term, safe, affordable detoxification measures that patients can follow for years. (4, 14, 15, 49, 52, 56, 74)

A short video on Google entitled ‘Ten Americans’ may enlighten you www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5n4HhQr25Q as will these references. (20, 22, 24)

Chelators help lower bone lead levels especially if taken for 15 years, which is the time needed for adult bone to remodel, although chelators do little for organic toxins. I now recommend Beyond Fiber, Organic Best of Greens, Longevity Maca and Zeolite with all R Lipoic.

Bio En'R-G'y C is the best tolerated most powerful oral vitamin C available anywhere, as it is a total vitamin C delivery system with methylation support. Most consume 2 teaspoons daily (approximately 8000 mg) taken in a ‘power drink’ with stabilized rice bran in Beyond Fiber with beta sitosterol, as a bile acid sequestrant, to carry out toxins. Many require Silver to lower total pathogen load, as found in everyone adequately tested for stealth and other widely present but generally ignored infections that contribute to chronic inflammation.

My FIGHT program provides similar benefits even if someone cannot obtain the intravenous chelation since this fight against body burdens is a life-long process for most of us anyway. There is no question from the over 307 published reference abstracts on my website that oral EDTA alone lowers lead but we also need the lowering of blood viscosity that Beyond Chelation Improved provides and thus, I also routinely show enhanced blood flow. I like to add enzymes like Boluoke twice a day for at least a few weeks or longer whenever hypercoagulability is a presenting problem and for everyone wanting to discontinue Coumadin or other blood thinning drugs. (64, 65, 66)

However, IV EDTA also adds a useful ‘kick start’ for faster results. Neither oral nor IV chelation alone predictably removes plaque, so enzymes such as Nattokinase/ Boluoke/ Wobenzym can be very beneficial. But, since Beyond Chelation Improved is basically taken- ideally for life, it will still be working to prevent blood clots long after the benefits of IV EDTA have dissipated.

Harvard has documented that lead is tied to heart attacks, and others report it is also tied to all causes of morbidity and mortality. (4, 29, 38, 52, 59) Lead removal improves nitric oxide syntheses function, leading to improve NO that helps heart disease (69) but that is only one way of over 30 ways that EDTA can enhance function, as I have explained in my two extensive review articles.

Beyond Chelation Improved was shown with rheological testing to lower blood viscosity to the level of menstruating women who seldom have fatal heart attacks. This is from the combined effect of the Omega 3, Primrose, Multivitamin and oral chelation (EDD) altogether providing powerful but safe anticoagulant effects. In addition, studies show that a good hi-strength multiple vitamin-mineral supplements like Beyond Any Multiple in the packet of 9 pills alone do more to improve lipid parameters than statins offer, but with Beyond Chelation Improved, we detox and lower viscosity too.

I worked with Lester Morrison M.D., Ph.D., former Director of the Arteriosclerosis Research Institute (36, 39, 40) to develop Beyond Chelation Improved. It is based on their documented 91% reduction in fatal heart attacks with their institute formula due to a heparin-like effect they discovered with their $10 million published research summarized in three books. I knew from the thousands of articles I had amassed to file my FDA protest that EDTA made Heparin (30) work by mouth. When we added EDTA, it significantly enhanced their anticoagulant and blood viscosity lowering effects and made the formula able to be given in these convenient packets of 9 capsules.

Harvard Medical School has recently reported that CMV (the cytomegalic virus) is present in virtually everyone and is contributing to inflammation of plaque and it is therefore involved in arteriosclerosis. This is a pathogen that must be addressed. Lowering the total body burden of pathogens (10, 24) is an area that I address in my webinars.

My FIGHT program is an easy way to remember the arenas for education, specifically:
Food
Infection
Genetics
Heavy metals (and hormones)
Toxins

This then educates patients about the multifactorial nature of all chronic degenerative diseases. It synergistically incorporates information I have gleaned from my over fifty years in medical practice combined with knowledge from my attending hundreds of conferences around the world, as both speaker and attendee and from my serving as Trainer and Program Chairman for ACAM for nearly ten years.

It is intended to illustrate, for example, that ignoring any aspect such as consuming wheat if they are sensitive to it can sabotage the rest of their program, wasting our collective time and energy, while denying them the optimal health they seek. (2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 32, 33, 37, 41, 43, 46, 54, 57, 58)

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