Table of Contents
| ALKALINE DIET |
| FOODS TO AVOID: WORCHESTER SAUCE |
| SUPPLEMENTS, YOGA |
| TABASCO SAUCE |
| YOGURT |
Atrial Fibrillation Remedies
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"Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib) is a cardiac arrhythmia (abnormal heart rhythm) that involves the two upper chambers (atria) of the heart. It can often be identified by taking a pulse and observing that the heartbeats don't occur at regular intervals, but a conclusive indication of AF is the absence of P waves on an electrocardiogram (ECG). AF is the most common arrhythmia; risk increases with age, with 8% of people over 80 having AF. In AF, the normal electrical impulses that are generated by the sinoatrial node are overwhelmed by disorganized electrical impulses that originate in the atria and pulmonary veins, leading to conduction of irregular impulses to the ventricles that generate the heartbeat. The result is an irregular heartbeat which may occur in episodes lasting from minutes to weeks, or it could occur all the time for years. The natural tendency of AF is to become a chronic condition. Chronic AF leads to a small increase in the risk of death.[1][2]" Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrial_fibrillation
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1 BETTER BUT NOT CURED
[BETTER BUT NOT CURED] 03/03/2009: RON from TAVERNIER, FL writes: "AS YOU KNOW I HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE WITH MANY HIT AND MISS THEORIES ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN MY BODY. I HAVE STUMBLED ACROSS SOME INFORMATION AND COMPARED IT TO MY CURRENT CONDITIONS ASIDE FROM THE ATRIAL FIB AND THINK I HAVE FOUND THE KEY. IT IS MY BELIEF MY ATRIAL FIB WAS CAUSED BY A TOXIC SUBSTANCE IN MY BLOOD. I HAD BEEN FOUND AS HAVING LEAKY GUT SYNDROME SOME TIME AGO AND HAVING A TOXIN IN MY BLOOD BY THOSE THAT DO BLOOD WORK WITH A MICROSCOPE. I THOUGHT LITTLE OF IT THEN AND NOW I AM STARTING TO PUT PIECES TO TOGETHER. THOSE PIECES ARE ANTIBIOTIC USE IN THE PAST, A POOR GUT FLORA, FUNGUS UNDER MY TOENAILS, POOR DIGESTION, MALABSORBTION, SINUS PROBLEMS, POST NASAL DRIP, BLOWING MY NOSE AFTER EATING, CONSTIPATION AND OR DIARREA, ITCHY SKIN RASHES THAT COME AND GO FOR NO REASON, AND SOME OTHER IRRITAIONS NOT ENOUGH TO WORRY ABOUT ALONE BUT THEN AS A WHOLE HAVE INDICATED I NEED PROBIOTICS TO REPAIR THE LEAKY GUT THAT IS LEAKING TOXINS INTO MY BLOOD STREAM. AND TO CORRECT THE OBVIOUS CANDIDASIS IN MY BODY.
SINCE TAKING THE PROBIOTICS I HAVE NOTICED SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN MY BODY AND REALIZE IT CAN TAKE SOME TIME TO CORRECT THE ISSUES BUT I APPEAR TO BE ON TRACK TO CORRECTING WHAT AILS ME. FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME I THINK I HAVE REALLY HIT ON THE ROOT SOURCE OF THE ATRIL FIB PROBLEM AND THAT THE ATRIAL FIB IS A SYMPTOM OF OTHER THINGS GOING ON AND NOT THE CAUSE OF THE OFF BALANCED BODY. MY BODY CAN NOT BECOME ALKALINE WITH FOREIGN BODIES AND PATHOGENS LIVING INSIDE.
NO CHRONIC CONDITION CAN BE CORRECTED UNTIL THE BODY BECOMES ALKALINE AND THAT BODY CAN NOT BECOME ALKALINE IF THE GUT FLORA IS DOMINATED BY PUTRID TOXIN CREATING BACTERIA AND THAT BODY CAN NOT CORRECT ITSELF WITH CANDIDA CAUSED BY THE MEDICAL PROFESSION GIVING OUT ANTIBIOTICS LIKE CANDY. I HAVE FOUND OUT MORE AND MORE WITH EACH PASSING DAY THAT IF ONE WANTS TO LIVE A GOOD LIFE AND A LONG LIFE THEY NEED TO STAY AWAY FROM DOCTORS UNLESS THEY HAVE HAD AN ACCIDENT OR STAB WOUND OR SOMETHING SIMILAR BECAUSE OTHER THAN THAT THEY ARE PRETTY MUCH KILLING US WITH DRUGS."
EC: Thank you for the update, Ron!
07/28/2009: Soyjim from East Alton, Illinois replies: "I came across your post under fibrillation. My mother has this condition and is under a medical doctors care. I also thought that fungal infections might have an impact on this condition. She and I have splotches on our skin. My sisters have them also. They all think they are just age spots and I am puffing in the wind when I suggest they are fungal related. The five doctors I have been to for the condition have humored me somewhat giving me some medications that helped some but did not cure me. Antibiotics, prednisone, Lamisil pills, Nizaral pills, and one other anti fungal pill that the name escapes me. I have calloused red feet that I believe is a moccasin type Fungal infection. If I could get rid of that I now think my problem would be solved. For several years nothing has been able to eliminate this but it is not intolerable. I believe your ph balance theory is a good idea. The three things I have done that I believe have been most effective for what I believe is a systemic fungal infection are listed next. started drinking the borax water about a month ago, have used vinegar solution soaks off and on for several years. recently added peroxide to this which I think may be better. Thirdly I grow a pro biotic culture in a warm brewers yeast and tap water solution. I have been drinking this for about ten months. Good luck and post If you find something that solves a long standing fungal problem."
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FOODS TO AVOID: WORCHESTER SAUCE
[WARNING!] 12/04/2009: Heather from Miami, Florida writes: "Over the summer I found a great turkey cumin burger recipe online. We made the burger at least once a week and I always used soy sauce even though the recipe also called for lea and perrins worchester sauce (1/2 soy, half lea & perrins). Towards the end of the summer I finally bought a bottle of lea & perrins to test out in the recipe. Well, within 10 minutes after eating my burger, my heart started to beat erratically. A loud thump and then rapid heartbeats. I figured it might have something to do with the L&P, but to make absolutely certain, I added it again to the recipe a week later. Shortly after eating my burger, my heart started the same erratic racing. I didn't add it to the recipe after that and I had no more issues. Well get this...Today my mother calls me and tells me that she was in the hospital yesterday and they had to restart her heart twice because of atrial fibrillation issues which were triggered shortly after eating. I asked her to go over what she ate shortly before the meal and she said, "scrambled eggs with salt, pepper, milk and a very small amount of lea & perrins". I screamed when I heard that and told her that the sauce had to be the culprit. We went over the lea & perrins ingredients...vinegar, molasses, high fructose corn syrup, anchovies, water, onions, salt, garlic, tamarind concentrate, natural flavorings, chil pepper extract. I jumped online and researched "natural flavorings" and what do you know, it is often a cloaked term for MSG!!!
Anyone with erratic heartbeat or a racing heartbeat should carefully examine the ingredients in the food they ate shortly before the episode. Maybe with the Lea & Perrins it was a combination of the MSG plus the corn syrup that caused a problem with the heart. Who knows. They now want to put a Pacemaker in my mother. Wow!"
12/07/2009: Kathleen from San Antonio, Texas, United States replies: "While I would never defend MGS as a good thing, it may not be the culprit in this case. Unless you and your mother have a known problem with MSG, it is not likely that you have only had an issue with it in this one product (unless the MSG level is particularly high in this product). Unfortunately MSG and high fructose corn syrup are added to MANY products. You might want to consider some of the less common ingredients such as the anchovies or tamarind, maybe even the chili pepper extract."
12/07/2009: Lisa from Thousand Oaks, Ca, USA replies: "I do understand you are not defending msg, on the other hand I find it highly unlikely that anchovies, tamarind or chili pepper would be that offensive. These are all foods that are good for you. MSG is well-known to have lots of side effects and many people don't even recognize that it is one of the causes of their certain problem, whatever that may be. I, as a child, used to have a severe reaction to it whenever we would visit a particular Chinese restaurant. I would go extremely dizzy, my heart would feel faster, my body would feel numb and I would feel very strange and out of control. I was a very slight child so perhaps my size even contributed to the extreme reaction. My dad would always say I was over exaggerating. That was looong before they began to publicly inform everyone about msg and it became a practice for many Chinese restaurants to state in their menus that there is no msg in their food. I would have to say that I think Heather is onto something in this case for her and her mom. Kudos to you Heather for sleuthing this out!"
12/07/2009: Heather from Miami, Florida replies: "Thank you Kathleen and Lisa for your response.
To respond to Kathleen, I don't know about my mother, but I eat tamarind, hot peppers and anchovies without a problem.I have been researching this subject the past couple of days and have found some interesting links......
Atrial Fibrillation and MSG
http://www.afibbers.org/faq.htm#trigger
http://www.msgtruth.org/atrial.htm
Here's a good page on MSG:
http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html
I also found references to corn syrup and racing heart on Earth Clinic!
http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/corn-syrup-side-effects.html and http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/heart_palpitations.html"
12/07/2009: Jane from Passadena, Ca replies: "Interesting links, thank you Heather. I found one of the website's you linked to about MSG and Taurine Deficiency very insightful.http://www.msgtruth.org/atrial.htm
"Taurine is the body's heartbeat regulator. Deficiency states can be induced by MSG because glutamate competes in the body with another sulfur-containing amino acid - cysteine. The body uses cysteine to make taurine - another sulfur-containing amino acid used as a neurotransmitter. A major complaint of MSG symptom complex sufferers is irregular, fast heartbeats, - atrial fibrillation. The same symptom also occurs from taurine deficiency."Maybe you and your mother can try supplementing with Taurine?"
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1 YEA
[YEA] 04/11/2009: Heather from North Little Rock, Arkansas, USA writes: "My mother has atrial fib and is 87 years old and is doing well on taking a magnesium supplement 100mg, CO enzyme 10 - 100 mg and Calcium tables twice a day. She is on a low dose beta blocker and a blood thinner as well. Her sister is 88 years old and on the same medications and vitamins listed above with atrial fib and still uses a bicycle to get around in Germany. In addition, I found a yoga exercise used for cardiac problems that is supposed to help reverse atrial fib. The exercise is to cover your left nostril of your nose with a finger of your left hand and slowly release any air in your lungs. Then switch to close the right nostril with the same left finger and breath in slowly with your left nostril for a count of 5-7 secs, then alternate and let the air out of the right nostril - continue to do this for about 10 tries. And try to do this on a daily basis or when stressed."
04/11/2009: Pareetp from Los Angeles, CA replies: "This yog pranayam that your mother is doing is called anulom vilom pranayam. This pranayam is especially beneficial for people with heart, high BP problems, asthama,menstrual problems and the list goes on.....I poste s few days back stating having problems with my menstrual cycle.....i wasnt getting them for ever.......i did yoga for 2 days and there my periods were.....I am an Indian and my own parents and family members have used these teshniques for years now....It is very important that heart patients do anulom vilom very gently .....there are a total of 7 important pranayams.For all others i would recommend doing all 7 pranayams in order....just look up the web for the seven essential pranayams....
Kapalbhati pranayam another greaty pranayam assures of getting rid of all skin ailments, heart, high bp, diabetes,even cancer and helps a great deal with psoriasis....I have been doing yoga for 10 days now.....7 pranayams,7 asanas........aaaaaaaamaazing results........I have started believing in the power of yoga.....My grandmom is 104 yrs old....is pretty fit compared to her age.....her secret yoga...she reads newspaper with her own eyes.....has her own teeth intact......I will comeback and post in more details abnout the various asans and the precautions that should be taken ...as not everyone cannot do all the pranayams......."
04/12/2009: Lon from Stanhope, NJ replies: "Pareept, your post is interesting I have atrial tachycardia, and found yoga to be helpful, but I'm confused about the overwhelming amount of info about it and which asanas and breathing techniques are best for me. The terminology you used helps to guide my on line search for help. Thank you for posting it."
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11/12/2009: Grayfox88 from Colorado Springs, Co writes: "I had Atrial Fibrillation and whenever my heart got going real fast, I would take a teaspoon of tobasco sauce. I was taking the hydrogen peroxide in the morning and the tobasco sauce killed the taste. I did get the procedure but I still wonder if I could have got by without it. The tobasco sauce was because it was the only source of Cayene pepper I had."
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1 QUESTION
[QUESTION] 08/30/2009: Sid from Springfield, Mo writes: "Atrial Fibrillation, H. pylori bacteria, yogurt...
A close relative suffers from atrial fibrillation. I looked around for what information I could find, and on one website found this quote:
"Bacteria Linked to Dangerous Heart Rhythm Patients who have atrial fibrillation (AF) (rapid, irregular rhythm in the heart's upper chambers) are 20 times more likely than others to test positive for Helicobacter *pylori* bacteria. Self-defense: If you are diagnosed with AF, you should be checked for H. *pylori*. Controlling the infection using antibiotics reduces (or eliminates) the heart problem. Annibale Sandro Montenero, MD, director, arrhythmia center, and chair of cardiology, MultiMedica General Hospital, Milan, Italy. Overactive Thyroid Tied to Irregular Heart Rhythm" Anne R."
I am aware that some have used yogurt to control the H. pylori, by eating it twice daily over an extended period of time.
Has anyone had any experience with this, either having both atrial fibrillation and an H. pylori infection, or having used yogurt to treat an H. pylori infection with success?"
11/05/2009: Davee from Newark, De replies: "I had a persistent case of AF, which has largely disappeared since my severe case of H Pylori was treated with antibiotics. My doctor's effort to determine whether I even had H Pylori infection was prompted by an obscure article by Italian researchers who found that almost all of the AF patients were infected."
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