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If you are a 55 year old man or a 65 year old woman there is no point in reading this blog because if your future contains a ‘heart attack’ there is probably nothing you can do at this stage to avoid it. You may be able to prolong its happening but it is going to happen. If you are a 25 year old man or a 35 year old woman you might want to read this blog because if your future at present contains a ‘heart attack’ you may still be able to prevent it. If you are a...

The first three things that developed from the 1950s epidemic of Heart Attacks were: 1. Identifying that it started in young people 2. Research into why it happened in some people and not in others; the causes and risk factors. 3. The understanding that 60% of the deaths from Coronary Thrombosis occurred within the first hour of the symptoms, and therefore before the patient had even reached hospital As a result of the third, we saw the invention of the “Cardiac Ambulance” in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Professor Frank Pantridge originated the first so-called ‘Paramedics’ by putting DC Defibrillators in an Ambulance...

The 9 principal causes of CAD and how to fight against them. Heart Attack and Stroke caused by Atherosclerotic hardening of the arteries was relatively rare up the 1900s but after the First World War things changed. People started smoking a new product called cigarettes and stopped walking and cycling and riding and started using motorized vehicles to get places. Also the common foodstuffs which came straight from farms and gardens became adulterated by mass production. This resulted in more endothelial laceration and the physiology of the plaques in everyone’s arteries changed: they became unstable with liquid cores. Ergo: the...

The underlying disease causing heart attack and stroke is called arteriosclerosis. Greek physicians in the 4th century BC called it atherosclerosis or ‘hardened porridge’. That is what it looked like when a dead person’s heart was autopsied. The process can cause narrowing and clogging of all the arteries in the human body, (which if laid end-to-end would stretch over 60,000 kilometres —and if weighed ‘en masse’ would be 4 ½ kilos —-not an inconsiderable organ.) All these arterial tubes are lined by a one cell thick layer of tissue called the endothelium which is the site of very complex physiological...

  The reason it is not being eradicated is because we are targeting the wrong people. Atherosclerotic hardening of the arteries, or Arteriosclerosis Heart Disease (ASHD), begins in childhood. Yes! The disease that causes a heart attack or Coronary Artery Disease, (CAD), in a person’s 40s and 50s began in that individual before they were 10 years old. In many cases the damage done to the hearts’ artery walls before the age of 25 is irreversible and in some cases no what changes are made a future heart attack is just waiting to happen. Many studies: Bogalusa, Muscatine, PDAY, Turku...