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WHAT HAPPENS IN THE HEART
Few people realize what a Trojan the heart is. Each day it contracts 100,000 times and pumps 4,300 gallons of blood (figures are from Chelation Can Cure and are therefore US gallons). This is the equivalent of 78 55-gallon barrels of blood, which in any measuring mode is a phenomenal performance.
Being a pump, the heart needs to be watertight and as such it cannot rely on the blood it is actually pumping for its oxygen and nutrients. This it receives from the coronary arteries which traverse its surface. These vital but little arteries are end arteries with few interbranching connections, which is a predisposing factor in coronary heart disease (the chief cause of heart attacks), because if one of them gets blocked there is a limited support network.
The heart's pumping action is a result of (1) the innate rhythmic contractability of heart muscle (samples of which will continue to contract rhythmically in a laboratory), and (2) its internal pacemaker which controls the rhythm of its beats. Two other factors which are essential for maintaining healthy heart function are an adequate supply of blood to pump, and an adequate supply of oxygen and nutrients to support its muscular activities. The correct functioning of the valves which let blood in and out of its pumping chambers is also important.
If any one of these factors fail to meet the physical demands made upon them (usually but not always due to arterial disease) the heart may begin to show signs of strain, though this may not happen until the disease is far advanced (which is why so many first heart attacks are
fatal - about two out of five).
Pain (angina) normally felt in the chest, arms and throat is often the first signal that the heart is in difficulty and it is at this point that the sufferer ends up either with a full-scale heart attack, if the condition is severe enough, or with a painful warning that all is not well.
What happens next is critical, because it can either set the sufferer on the road to recovery, or begin a process of spiralling debilitation due to (1) life-draining, purse-draining surgery, and (2) suppressive drug therapy which does not cure the condition but does control the symptoms, making the sufferer believe they are better when they are not. (NB: drugs, such as those which control high blood pressure, may be vital to manage symptoms while one is getting to grips with their cause, but they are not a cure. The condition will worsen unless dramatic diet and lifestyle changes are made)
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