Bombshell: Explosive Medical Secrets That Will Redefine Aging (37 page)

GG:
Yes, and we all know that the real problem with arteriosclerosis is inflammation and toxicity. I have not had a single patient die of arteriosclerosis in over ten years while taking my oral chelation formula twice a day. I have little interest in lowering my patients’ cholesterol, since cholesterol is
essential
for all our cell membranes and maintaining healthy hormone function. Elevated cholesterol levels indicate an underlying problem, where the body is producing more of it as a protective measure. Lowering it or stopping the body’s production is actually causing further harm.

SS:
I hear this from doctor after doctor; that statins mask the problem until so much damage is done that the patient eventually experiences the catastrophic event.

GG:
Correct. I recommend canceling stenting and bypass surgery on almost all my patients, as my background in radiology taught me that what looks like a serious obstruction in a blood vessel on the angiogram often has already made collateral vessels not visible on angiograms, so it’s missed. Most cases do just as well with medications. I tell my patients that I feel they should cancel their heart surgery for blocked blood vessels and get on my program. My program has not harmed anyone, and it carries low to nil risk. We have documented improved blood flow in at least 85 percent of patients with IV chelation, and once patients are out of the woods and back to an active life without symptoms, they can go on my oral program. They have no need for any prescription blood thinners, even if they have skipped beats, arrhythmias, or even atrial fibrillation, and now with a new hydrogen supplement, many find their heart rhythms become rock solid over time.

SS:
That is spectacular information, an all-natural way to clear out obstructions in the blood vessels! So many people my age are on blood thinners like Coumadin. What do you think of these drugs?

GG:
Patients with arrhythmias are usually told that they must take anticlotting drugs like Coumadin. Anyone on Coumadin needs to know that it is rat poison.

SS:
Really?

GG:
Yes, really. They need to learn the published side effects, like bleeding into the brain and calcification of blood vessels. The number of people admitted to the hospital with bleeding and other
complications from using Coumadin makes it one of the most dangerous drugs prescribed by doctors. It is never needed by any of my patients who are on BC-I.

When I have someone on Coumadin, I always recommend that they switch to far safer and even more effective enzymes such as Boluoke (lumbrokinase), which helps the body break down and digest blood clots safely. This is an all-natural enzyme extracted from a Chinese earthworm and it specifically targets fibrins in the blood. Another similar and beneficial enzyme called nattokinase, is derived from fermented soy that the Japanese call Natto. Nattokinase is a slightly weaker alternative to Boluoke, but it is effective and more affordable. I put all my patients on EDTA and my BC-I regimen so they are getting the anticlotting effects. It was proven in research that came out in the 1960s that the ingredients in my BC-I were more than adequate to stop most fatal heart attacks.

Today we live in an even more polluted world due to hundreds of new power plants in China, plus toxic dusts from the wars overseas, and these toxins and pollutants are still blowing all around the atmosphere. With the added pollution from this and other sources, the nutritionally depleted, pesticide-ridden foods we consume today, and the increased stressors we all deal with, I feel that if patients can afford to add either nattokinase or Boluoke to my basic BC-I program, then they have moved from 90 percent protection against fatal heart attacks or strokes to more than 98 percent protection.

Dr. Roger Bick, a pathologist at the University of Texas and author of the definitive medical textbooks on blood clotting, has lectured at my conferences, stating conclusively that statins were useless because people die of blood clots at least in 85 percent of all vascular deaths, so lowering cholesterol is not as important as they pretend, unless it is oxidized cholesterol, where the antioxidants we put in BC-I are helping.

SS:
What about the benefits of turmeric (curcumin) as an antioxidant and anti-inflammatory?

GG:
Turmeric is a powerful anti-inflammatory, and it is also included in my BC-I formula along with vitamin K
₂
, which helps lower the levels of calcium in the arteries. Vitamin K
₂
is so valuable that when patients take 90 mcg of it daily, I no longer need to keep them on my standard three-hour IV chelation protocol that I developed thirty-five years ago when I cofounded ACAM, although that chelation protocol
has had an amazing track record and has safely helped many, many patients avoid heart surgery, strokes, even amputations.

But now that we have vitamin K
₂
to help us have strong bones and soft arteries, even when patients are old, they can change from the three-hour recommended treatment time for IV chelation to a five-minute treatment time by using
calcium
EDTA instead of sodium EDTA. This approach is even better for lowering lead levels in the body, and it has the advantage that it is painless.

SS:
Well, and frankly, most people don’t have three hours to spend in a doctor’s office having regular IVs.

GG:
Right, and we no longer need to do that. IV chelation treatments do help give a deeper cleansing. The IV treatment is all absorbed, while oral is only 5 to 15 percent absorbed, but since we can take it twice a day for life, this is a great preventive approach and enough to save lives. Also, the oral approach helps millions who cannot locate a chelation doctor in their area. The older three-hour chelation treatment has helped thousands of patients, and it is still the preferred method if you have seriously calcified tissues.

However, I believe everyone today needs vitamin K
₂
, at least 90 mcg a day, if you hope to avoid the hardened, calcified arteries that we see in nearly everyone by age eighty. By this time in our lives, our aorta, which is the main blood vessel coming out of the heart, has turned to stone! We have, on average, 140 times more calcium in the aorta than was present at age ten, while at the same time our bones are getting weaker and losing calcium. Vitamin K
₂
is one of the keys.

SS:
What else can we do?

GG:
Since my patients are not dying of heart attacks or strokes, they are going to be alive well into their eighties, when Alzheimer’s can affect 50 percent of those over eighty-five. So I also include phosphatidylserine in the nine-pill BC-I packets, telling my patients that with phosphatidylserine, they will still be able to find my phone number when they are eighty-five. This provides an essential component of cell membranes, helping prevent age-related decline in mental function, and it even improves athletic performance.

Also I recommend my patients implement a one-to-one ratio of calcium to magnesium, not two-to-one as everyone else is using, which is too much calcium without enough magnesium. When you don’t have enough magnesium, you will end up with more rapid pathologic accumulations of calcium in tissues, and hardened arteries
lead to hypertension. Americans are taking far too much calcium, I advise at most 500 to 700 mg of calcium daily, but always with the same amount of magnesium to control the calcium.

SS:
That’s very interesting, because in my earlier years when I was taking calcium alone, I felt sick all the time. Then I added magnesium, and I felt great.

GG:
Magnesium is essential to balance the calcium. Also, if you really study the American diet, people are getting more phosphorous than calcium. Now if you were to do that to horses or humans for very long, they will develop secondary hyperparathyroidism and that leads to abnormal calcification of the tissues. As an antiaging doctor, I know that by age eighty the average human aorta has a 140 times increase in calcium. It can be plainly seen on x-rays. As we age, our tissues are calcifying while we are losing the calcium from our bones. That is why I feel so strongly about preventing bone loss with the natural support of some form of bioidentical hormone therapy, which you have done such a good job of educating the public about, Suzanne.

SS:
Thank you.

GG:
I have found a plant in northern Thailand called
Pueraria mirifica
, or Thai kudzu, and it is from this plant that we make HRT. Plus, HRT stands for Herbal Remedy from Thailand, and
Pueraria mirifica
is the reason that northern Thailand has the lowest level of breast cancer in the world. It seems that this plant stops the proliferation of breast cancer cells because it acts as a SERM beta, or selective estrogen receptor modulator of the beta receptor, which stops bone loss and helps prevent heart disease and breast cancer at the same time.
Pueraria mirifica
is far more specific than soy or red clover for the estrogen receptor—and it is the
beta
receptor that we want to modulate to stop vaginal dryness, depression, insomnia, and bone loss, and it’s even beneficial in maintaining a healthy prostate in men. It really is a miraculous healing herb. These natural products are key to my osteoporosis program, where I safely reverse osteoporosis with no drugs.

SS:
Interesting; my oncologist, Julie Taguchi, wrote me about
Pueraria mirifica
recently as being important with my supplemental program, since I once had cancer. Now you are saying you are reversing osteoporosis. Is this because your supplementation program stimulates osteoblasts, which are what produces bone building and formation?

GG:
Yes, along with other nutrients, such as aggressive doses of vitamins D and K
₂
, all work particularly well if used concurrently with my BC-I oral chelation formula. By constantly assisting the lead-removal processes of the body, we help bones and arteries restore their capacity to repair themselves. Today we have the ability to stop bone loss and prevent osteoporosis and the associated pathologic fractures in everyone, again without the need for prescription drugs.

SS:
What else do you give your patients?

GG:
I give garlic, which is vital for heart health. One form I recommend is Kyolic liquid garlic from Japan. They have done studies at UCLA proving it reverses arterial blockages in coronary vessels. A high-quality garlic is a major component for detoxing and heart protection, and garlic is one of the components included in my Essential Daily Defense (EDD) formula in my BC-I.

Also, I mentioned a sulfated mucopolysaccaride from carrageenan, which comes from a particular type of seaweed, and it looks to the body like heparin. It is a natural extract I incorporated to help prevent blood clotting, although it barely works alone, and for effectiveness, it must be used in concert with EDTA, which is also in my EDD formula. EDTA is so important to stop blood clotting. For example, in order to draw blood for a complete blood count, clotting must be prevented, so the tube used to draw the blood in every lab around the world contains a tiny amount of liquid EDTA in the bottom of the tube. It’s in there for a reason … so the blood won’t clot.

This BC-I formula is what I use to thin the blood instead of drugs like Coumadin, Plavix, or even aspirin, which kills over three thousand people a year due to internal bleeding. Those drugs are very weak at preventing fatal heart attacks, and they have so many negative side effects.

SS:
Yet millions of people are taking these dangerous and harmful drugs blindly because their doctor says so. This is why I keep stressing with my readers … get informed! Take charge of your health. Learn how your body works! It’s your body and it’s your life! For
instance, you mentioned aspirin, and I know many people think that taking some aspirin every day helps prevent heart attacks. Why do you believe otherwise?