Tag: heart attack
INFLAMMATION PART FIVE: RESPONSE TO INJURY
THE RESPONSE TO INJURY HYPOTHESIS Finally I’ll expand on the last and most accepted theory on atherosclerosis which nicely ties in the above concepts. This very concise article was taken from the emedicine website. I have paraphrased much of it for simplicity. ENDOTHELIAL INJURY AS THE MECHANISM OF ATHEROSCLEROSIS[1] Response to (vascular/endothelial) injury theory. According […]
INFLAMMATION PART FOUR: THOSE DARN YOUNG PLAQUES
HELLO EVERYONE. WELL, FINALS ARE FINAL AND I CAN GET BACK TO POSTING OUR CONTINUED DISCUSSION ON INFLAMMATION. Right now we’ll go over blood vessel inflammation since it’s prevalent in most diseases of the first world. First I’ll cover briefly what happens when an unstable plaque ruptures. We’ll cover the the two main competing theories […]
FOOD AS MEDICINE IN PREVENTING HEART ATTACKS
BOTTOM LINE FOR SECONDARY PREVENTION I thought I would simply give you the summary of statin therapy in the prevention of a second cardiac event in those who have heart disease which is termed secondary prevention. For primary prevention the last several articles demonstrated that statins confer no demonstrable decrease in all-cause mortality. In other […]
The brain destroying effects of the SSRI’s and the AAP’s
THE CASE OF POOR JIMMY Below I am giving you a case which I will pick apart to show you how utterly inappropriate this patient’s management was, and how appalling his physician’s behavior became when he was confronted with new and innovative therapy. It demonstrates the powerful life-altering and brain destroying effects of the SSRI’s […]
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