Mercola/Rosedale Case Studies, Part 3

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/07/14/insulin-part-one.aspx


This is part 3 of this series (part 1 is here:  http://fireofthegodsfitness.blogspot.com/2010/11/mercolarosedale-home-run.html).  Dr. Rosedale continues with his illustrative case studies, all of which seem unrelated.  He brings these stray threads together after describing these next two cases.
"Claudication, that is, severe angina of the leg when you walk, is characterized by pain in the legs after walking a certain distance.

"My stepfather had extremely severe claudication. It was a typical case; he would walk about fifty yards and then get severe, crampy pain in his legs. He was going to see the best doctors in Chicago, but they couldn‘t figure out what was wrong with him initially.  For example, he went to a neurologist who thought it might be neurological pain or back pain. Finally, he went to a vascular surgeon who thought it was vascular disease, so they did an arthrogram--sure enough he had severe vascular disease. They wanted to do the by-pass surgery that is typically done for this, and he was considering it because he had a trip planned to Europe in two weeks, and he wanted to be able to walk around.

"Ten years prior he‘d had an angioplasty for heart disease. At the time I’d told him to change his diet, but of course he didn‘t. This time, however, he listened. I said that if he did exactly as I told him, he could avoid the by-pass and be walking just fine in two weeks. Modulating this one aspect of his disease--I have never seen it fail--works very quickly to open up the artery."


"(regarding a patient with a family history of cancer) This patient had a mother and sister who had both died of breast cancer. I put her on the exact same treatment as the other cases I just mentioned, because they all had the same thing wrong with them."

"What would be the typical treatment of cardiovascular disease? First they check the cholesterol. To treat high cholesterol (over 200) they put you on cholesterol lowering drugs, which shut off your CoQ10. What does CoQ10 do? It is involved in the energy production and protection of little energy furnaces in every cell, so energy production goes way down.

"A common side effect of people who are on all these HMG co-enzyme reductase inhibitors is that their arms feel heavy. Well, the heart is a muscle too, and it‘s going to feel heavy too.

"One of the best treatments for a weak heart is CoQ10 (for congestive heart failure). But doctors have no trouble shutting CoQ10 production off so that they can treat a number (editor's note:  in other words, they are happy to give statins, including their side effect of shutting down CoQ10 production, to lower the LDL measurement, which is meaningless).

"The common therapy for osteoporosis is drugs, and the common therapy for calaudication is surgery. For cancer reduction there is nothing.

"But all of these have a common cause--the same cause as three major avenues of research in aging, one of which is called caloric restriction."