[Rowland Gale]

Over the last 4 months I’ve had 14 angina attacks. The first 7 were quite severe requiring nitroglycerin tablets. The next 6 were more mild and did not require nitro and these 6 occurred just after starting taking PEAK ATP and pomegranate juice pills and juice. I have had one minor feeling of breathlessness in the current month (after a prior angina incident frequency of one every several days) and have concluded the solution was the pomegranate and PEAK ATP. I can’t tell which of these 2 treatments was more responsible for the cessation of the attacks, but I will continue both indefinitely. Obviously, atherosclerosis took years to manifest itself in angina and I can’t expect it to disappear overnight, but this success so far is great news to me. The attacks are no fun at all. My mother suffered from angina for the last 10 or so years of her 90 year life. I sure wish I had known about this solution earlier so she could have avoided numerous 911 calls and trips to the ER. I’ve passed on this info to my kids and family members since it would be logical to assume they MIGHT be subject to this condition as well in the latter years of their lives.

The next step to be researched is whether this “thought to be solution to angina pains” is any better or worse than nitroglycerin – either in pill form or patches. My inclination is to believe it is better, but I’m open to additional info on this subject.

NOTE: About ATP
Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is the primary molecule used by all human cells as energy currency. ATP is stored in the organs and red blood cells, but is especially concentrated in the liver. A study measuring ATP levels in human red blood cells found that people in their seventies had about 50% less ATP than young adults in their twenties.61
For 40 years, scientists have worked to create an effective, orally ingested form of ATP that is able to boost endogenous ATP levels. Five years ago, they developed an orally administered ATP that can effectively raise pools of ATP throughout the body.62-64 Orally administered ATP expands ATP in the liver, red blood cells, blood plasma, and organs. Supplemental ATP improves blood vessel tone and relaxes blood vessel walls, increasing blood flow to the lungs, heart, and peripheral areas without affecting heart rate or blood pressure.


NEW FINDINGS:
The most famous person to use nitroglycerin was the late President Lyndon B. Johnson. Suffering from chronic heart disease, President Johnson relied on sublingual nitroglycerin pills to alleviate his constant angina pain. President Johnson became so reliant on nitroglycerin that he would be seen using it to get through his speeches. Upon retirement in 1969, Johnson was described as being "a worn old man at sixty." President Johnson suffered multiple cardiac episodes after retirement and died of a massive heart attack at 64 years of age
One newly identified risk factor, however, may also have contributed to Lyndon Johnson's early demise. It turns out that while nitroglycerin (and other nitrate drugs) provide temporary relief from angina, the regular use of these nitrate drugs may increase future heart attack risk.
This startling new finding came from a Japanese study that involved 518 patients with suspected coronary artery disease.3 The patients were categorized in groups based on their degree of endothelial dysfunction and use of nitrate drugs. (Endothelial dysfunction is a measurement of inner wall arterial damage.)
These 518 patients were followed for 45 months to ascertain what patients were more likely to suffer major cardiovascular events. As expected, patients with severe endothelial dysfunction suffered significantly more heart attacks, strokes, bypass surgeries, congestive heart failure, etc. The surprising finding, however, was that those who regularly used nitrate drugs were 2.42 times more likely to suffer major cardiovascular events. The doctors concluded that the effects of nitrate drugs accelerate atherogenic processes and endothelial dysfunction and that nitrate drug use causes future cardiovascular events.

MY CONCLUSION:
As long as my PEAK ATP pills and pomegranate juice work to eliminate angina pain, I’ll consider it preferable to taking nitroglycerin. I fully realize, we all have to go sometime, but my health (aside from on-the-mend angina and some hemiplegia deficits) is moderately good. So, you will all have to bear with me a little while longer.
A SPECIAL NOTE: To those with Peripheral Artery disease(PAD). I think you should research this treatment to see whether it might be beneficial for you. I’m thoroughly convinced it works for me. I also want to thank Dan Burdick for his post about atherosclerosis which started me down this road to success.

[Rowland Gale]

As an added piece of information about treatments for angina pain, you can read about EECP (Enhanced Exterior CounterPulsation) therapy on my web site under ATHEROSCLEROSIS. www.hemiplegiarecovery.com
This is an FDA and Medicare approved, non-invasive treatment for angina.

[wasabi]

I don't know much about angina, but I have looked into atherosclerosis some. Here is a good article on what Linus Pauling and Matthias Rath discovered about the role of vitamin C combined with L-lysine, and L-proline:

http://www.ourhealthcoop.com/pauling.htm

I also think that Neprinol with its ability to dissolve fibrin can also be helpful (as well as other nattokinase containing supplements - it's just that I am familiar with Neprinol)

Here are highlights from a talk giving one person's view of how atherosclerosis develops and what one can do about it:

http://smartlifeforum.org/2005/08/newsletter.html

Here's some food for thought - cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are different aspects of the same disease. How's that for making a connection between diabetes and heart disease? I can't seem to find the article that makes a case for this. If I do, I will post a link to it. With this idea in mind, omega-3 containing fish oil could also be as helpful for atherosclerosis as some people believe it is for diabetes.