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risk of developing pneumonia.’ Surgeons and other physicians often do not hesitate to order blood transfusions because they do not realise the real danger of transfusion. These undesirable results are not limited to cancer patients and patients having hip replacement surgery. All transfusions are dangerous. The risk of serious infections goes along with transfusion therapy in general. risk of developing pneumonia.’ Surgeons and other _ therapy revealed that surgery was no better than drug physicians often do not hesitate to order blood therapy. Dr Eugene Braunwald, as chief of cardiology at transfusions because they do not realise the real Harvard Medical School and the most respected danger of transfusion. cardiologist in the USA, commented 30 years ago: These undesirable results are not limited to cancer __"...an industry is being built around this operation. It patients and patients having hip replacement surgery. is developing a momentum of its own, and as time All transfusions are dangerous. The risk of serious infections goes passes it will be progressively more difficult and costly along with transfusion therapy in general. to curtail it.""* In 1984, another large study involving 780 patients again disclosed no advantage for surgery Surgery and Drugs vs Natural Therapies over drug therapy. Coronary artery bypass surgery has long had Natural therapies are far more effective than drugs which are prominent detractors but has steadily grown in use to unable to reverse arteriosclerosis. Knowledge of the efficacy become a huge industry in the USA. However, this of natural therapies has been systematically type of surgery is one of the principal uses for blood suppressed by the powerful pharmaceutical industry transfusions. It has an unrecognised serious mortality, | which controls what is published in conventional as seen when patients are followed medical journals and by the news for 100 days for the full morbidity of media which conveniently ignore blood transfusion damage to the . . health breakthroughs that would hurt immune system to become manifest Reintroduction of the earnings of pharmaceutical (nine per cent deaths in women and ‘ companies. six per cent deaths in men aged 65 or blood into the Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling above),."” cerebral circulation proposed an effective therapeutic and 3.2 per cent of patients havea | after the bypass is | Ory Vicia c. thet. reverses stroke under anaesthesia during completed causes arteriosclerosis in six to eight weeks.” coronary artery bypass surgery.'! the rai id Yet this therapy remains largely Patients who have had bypass surgery p unknown to US citizens. have admitted to me that they were appearance of Coronary artery repair by not quite as sharp mentally as they ° angioplasty, stent placement an had been before the operation. oxygen-deprived coronary artery bypass are These problems are probably due blood containing procedures that have become © brain cell injury, the death o : . routine in the United States. The small emboli in the brain and free radicals which reason that surgery fails to reperfusion acidosis following can damage the improve the long-term results fat-containing brain cells. he surgery. may be that surgery is treating Reintroduction of blood into the symptoms of arteriosclerosis he cerebral circulation after the (chest pain, heart attack) but not bypass is completed causes the really reversing the causes of rapid appearance of oxygen- arteriosclerosis. deprived blood containing free The use of alternative health radicals which can damage the therapies would promptly heal at-containing brain cells. patients with arteriosclerosis. Propolis from honey can protect the brain from this These therapies include: eliminating toxic metals ype of injury by virtue of its strong antioxidant rom the endothelium with long-term oral chelation; effects,’? but is probably only rarely used in the United reating endothelial infections with turmeric; taking States where hospitals rely on pharmaceutical drugs. igh doses of vitamin C and lysine; supplementing A large population study disclosed that angioplasty with N-acetylcysteine and L-arginine; lowering the forced opening of narrowed heart arteries with a omocysteine values with pyridoxine, folic acid, balloon) performed three to 28 days after a heart vitamin B12 and trimethylglycine; taking vitamin K2 attack failed to prevent death, new heart attacks and which removes calcium from arterial plaque and heart failure. Furthermore, in a four-year follow-up of places calcium in bone); adopting a low glycaemic diet hese patients, there were more new heart attacks in the avoid foods that raise blood sugar rapidly, such as patients who received angioplasties than in the group __ pasta, corn, bread, rice, bananas, white potatoes and reated conservatively without angioplasties."* wheat); and curtailing sugar intake. Excessive sugar In 1977, the first extensive study of cardiac surgery _ intake is now regarded as the number-one risk factor or arteriosclerosis was conducted. This evaluation of or heart attacks in women and the number-two risk 596 patients treated with bypass surgery or drug actor in men." after the bypass is completed causes the rapid a oxygen-deprived blood containing free radicals which can damage the fat-containing brain cells. JUNE — JULY 2009 NEXUS ¢ 21 Reintroduction of blood into the cerebral circulation appearance of www.nexusmagazine.com