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Can you reverse heart disease? That is a question to which many people who suffer from various forms of heart disease, especially the condition called atherosclerosis, would very much like an answer. To find an answer to the question I suggest we look to people whose extraordinary intelligence in scientific discovery enabled them to win the coveted Nobel Prize for their efforts. Several believe there is in fact a solution for reversing artery disease, therefore providing an answer to the question: Can you reverse heart disease?

The first to believe one could reverse heart disease was Linus Pauling. Pauling, a two time Nobel Prize winner (one in chemistry – 1954) said that heart disease could be cured and that he knew how to reverse heart disease. Pauling also stated that “ALL disease can be traced to malnutrition.” As a result proponents of mainstream medicine jumped all over Pauling claiming he was a radical quack that didn’t know what he was talking about. Yet Pauling won the Nobel Prize in Chemsitry: “for his research into the nature of the chemical bond and its application to the elucidation of the structure of complex substances” and this should deem him clearly qualified to indeed have a clear understanding of exactly the means by which one should be able to reverse heart disease or cure it altogether.

Louis Ignarro won the Nobel Prize in medicine (1998) for his work in regards to Nitric Oxide. Ignarro shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine with Ferid Murad and Robert F. Furchgott for the discovery of the signaling properties of nitric oxide. Ignarro also seems to believe that the answer to the question: Can you reverse heart disease? is yes as well.

The winners of the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2009: Carol Greider, Elizabeth Blackburn and Jack W. Szostack made key discoveries on how cells age. The 3 scientists all study telomeres, structures that act like caps on the ends of chromosomes and protect chromosomes when cells divide. Now, Blackburn is studying how diet, exercise and decreasing stress may reduce the risk of disease and even reverse damage due to coronary artery disease. Obviously she too thinks that certain diseases of the heart characterized by artery disease, also known as atherosclerosis, can in fact be reversed.

Linus Pauling believed that atherosclerosis, which causes artery blockages due to plaque build-up, was simply a modern day form of the disease called scurvy. He also clearly pointed out his reasons for his belief and of course easily came to a simple, effective and inexpensive solution based on chemical science to reverse heart disease.  However …

Mainstream medicine did not like what Pauling had to say about his proposed therapy to reverse heart disease. And why on earth would they? Pauling’s solution would end the revenue generation of a veritable cash cow. Angioplasties, bypass surgeries, prescription heart medications and testing are all part of a multi- billion dollar revenue stream. Can you imagine where mainstream medicine would be, profit wise, if there were no heart disease, diabetes, cancer, or various other cash cow diseases?

When one clearly understands the ramifications, for mainstream medicine, that “cures” for the major diseases would create, well, it does not take a Nobel Prize winning scientist to figure out why there are no cures, does it? If society knew how to easily reverse heart disease, or even cure it altogether, there would be a lot of medical professionals looking for new ways to create income wouldn’t there? Will mainstream medicine ever admit there are safe ways to reverse heart disease? Maybe, but I wouldn’t suggest holding our breath.