Heart Attack/Coronary Artery Disease

Heart attacks are most often caused by blood clots that block a coronary artery that has been thickened (hardened) and narrowed by years of coronary artery disease in which plaque builds up on the arterial walls. (Coronary artery disease is also called "Hardening of the

Arteries" and "The Silent Killer"). Other causes of heart attacks are arrhythmias and aneurysms. A wonderful gentleman in Florida read my # 18 newsletter and generously loaned me his only copy of Solved.- The Riddle of Heart Attacks by Broda O. Barnes, M.D., Ph.D. and his wife Charlotte W. Barnes, A.M., 1976 (out of print). Dr. Barnes wrote that low thyroid hormones (well known for causing a weakened immune system) cause infections in childhood and heart attacks in adulthood. He stated that eating cholesterol-containing foods does not cause hardening of the arteries; that high cholesterol is caused by low thyroid hormones and that one way to tell if your thyroid gland is not producing enough thyroid hormones is if you have high cholesterol! (Dr. Barnes also wrote Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness, 1976 - in print.)

I have enclosed a simple Temperature/Treatment Log for you to use to learn if your body, by it's lower-than-normal temperature, is silently trying to tell you something.

According to Dr. Barnes (Solved.- The Riddle of Heart Attacks) and Dr. E. Denis Wilson (The. Wilson Syndrome Doctor's Manual) hardening of the arteries is closely related to both Hypothyroidism and Wilson Syndrome. (Dr. Barnes saw the beginning of hardening of the arteries in the autopsies of three-month-old babies! - they had died of something else.) If you have Hypothyroidism and/or Wilson's Syndrome and have not been taking prescription thyroid medicine, the arteries of your heart will be in a weakened state (they will be harder than they should be because of plaque build-up on the arterial walls). So, anyone with a heart problem should be very careful if they decide to take prescription thyroid medicine. If you believe you have Hypothyroidism (low T4 production) and/or Wilson Syndrome (low T3 production) tell your doctor about any heart problem you may have or have had in the past. You can reverse damage to your heart that was caused by low thyroid hormones with thyroid medicine, but to protect your heart you must begin with a small amount of the thyroid medicine and gradually increase it until your TSH blood test is normal and your temperature is 98.6° F.