A TALE OF TWO HEARTS
Dr. George M. Wolverton
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us […].
—Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens wrote these words in the mid 1800s about characters in London and Paris during the period of the French Revolution. He compares two very different men, one from each city, and the way their lives intersect during those fateful days. In a loosely similar vein, I would like to share the stories of two of my patients with significant heart trouble and the ways alternative treatments have helped them.
The First “Heart”
The first patient is a concrete worker who came to me with Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) and angina pectoris. So severe was his chest pain that as a concrete contractor he could not lift the heavy forms or smooth out the very heavy concrete without chest pain.
I suggested that he take Chelation Therapy twice a week until he was 85% better of body, mind, and spirit. I recommend Chelation treatments in fairly significant amounts until patients are significantly better in all modalities of reckoning.
Listening to a tape recording we made of our discussion recently, I was reminded of what this patient said:
Dr. Wolverton, I have sent you perhaps as many as 100 patients because of what has occurred in my own life. I got so much better after ten Chelation treatments that I could go back to work contracting in concrete and lifting heavy forms. But after four years the symptoms started to recur, and I had to come back and get quite a few more Chelation treatments. Now the chest pain has gone away again. Now I have had 91 treatments and plan to take them once a week for the rest of my life. I believe I can be doing even better than I am now doing.
He is now free of any noteworthy heart disease.
The Second “Heart”
I will now relate the story of a second patient, a woman from a little town 30 miles beyond Hazard, Kentucky. She went to her local physician with a weak heart a number of years ago. She had experienced a heart attack, was on oxygen 24 hours a day, and was essentially bedfast as well. Cardiac catheterization had shown that two of her three coronaries were completely blocked, and the third was 50% blocked.
Being an inquisitive person with good reading abilities (“He who will not read has no advantage over him who cannot read.”), she determined that she would greatly benefit from Chelation Therapy for her extensive heart disease. So she went to see Dr. X in Berea, Kentucky, who administered several of these treatments to her.
Dr. X died at age 91, and our office was the next closest place where she could receive Chelation Therapy, which she had found to be extremely effective in her case. This patient began making the four-hour trip to our office to receive the IV’s. She developed a routine wherein she would drive up to our office for a Chelation treatment and then stay overnight at her daughter’s house. So far, she has had approximately 131 Chelation Therapy treatments at our office.
In addition to her IV’s, this patient also receives EECP (External Enhanced Counter Pulsation) treatments at our office. This therapy augments the effects of Chelation, helping to eliminate anginal chest pain and providing a strong deterrent to Congestive Heart Failure. EECP increases coronary artery blood flow during diastole of the heart, which is the resting cycle of the cardiac cycle when the heart is filling for the next contraction, by as much as 20-40%, according to radio-isotope studies that have been done on the subject. The process involves diastolic millisecond sequential contraction of a cuff on the lower leg, thigh, and hips. Thus, with EECP the heart receives increased blood in the coronaries during diastole. Though this treatment is not covered by most insurance providers, Medicare pays for up to 35 treatments of EECP for patients who qualify. I have performed hundreds of EECP treatments on patients and have found it extremely effective for many of our heart patients.
This patient, who had formerly not been able to do anything around the house, improved approximately 40%. She still has occasional heart episodes but believes that she has lived much longer, with much better quality of life, than she would have without Chelation and EECP treatments.
This patient has been able to go to the beach and swim. She lost a total of 45 pounds. For each pound of body weight she lost, she reduced ¾ of a mile of blood vessels that her heart did not have to pump blood through every 17 seconds for the rest of her life. She now is on oxygen only at night. She does all of her own housework and shopping. In addition, she has been able to make the four hour journey each way to and from our office; the strain of such drives is generally a great taxation on people with heart disease.
A noted cardiologist in Louisville did coronary artery catheterization on her about the time she started coming to our office for Chelation and EECP treatment. This test, done approximately five years ago, showed two blocked vessels and one partially blocked. This cardiologist studied her the other day with coronary angiography and found that all three vessels were open. He told her she should continue doing whatever she was doing! As is frequent with cardiologists, he had originally told her not to have Chelation Therapy.
Further Discussion
At 21st Century Medicine we have now chelated 8,000 people since 1967. According to Dr. Julian Whitaker, 85% of people on Chelation Therapy who were headed toward coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG) have not had to go through this procedure. With CABG surgery, 6% of all patients on the table die in the operating room, while another 6% die post-operatively of either stroke or kidney failure in that first week. It is interesting to note that, of the Chelation Therapy patients in our office, only 15% still had to have CABG surgery, and only one of those patients who had the surgery died.
In 1911 Dr. Alexis Carol won the Nobel Prize for keeping the heart of a laboratory animal with a life expectancy of two years beating for 21 years in a particular nutrient solution. You might ask why the heart stopped beating at the end of 21 years. Actually, Dr, Carol stopped daily changing of the solution of the heart preparation that was keeping the heart alive for 19 years longer than it naturally would have if it had been in the body of the particular animal eating the particular food it was given.
We have enough stressors in our genetics, lifestyle, and environment that we believe it is imperative to do what we can to detoxify and keep our bodies as healthy as possible. We believe that it is important to live a healthy lifestyle. We also recommend Chelation Therapy and EECP. It is one thing to be vegetating, ill or in a nursing home. It is quite another thing to be living a full life and having quality and much greater quantity of life, as cited in the “Tale of the Two Hearts.”