88 Achieving pH Balance to Treat Specific Ailments
necessarily correlate with a high level of infl ammation. Only when the
arteries are infl amed should an elevated CRP be taken seriously.Heart Disease and Hormonal Imbalance
There is a relationship between heart disease and hormonal imbalance
that is worth noting. Excessive acid waste in the blood from anxiety or
poor diet triggers the rise of the stress-promoting hormones estrogen
and cortisol. At unacceptably high levels, these hormones trigger heartDIRK MAKES A COMPLETE RECOVERY FROM
A HEART ATTACK
Dirk Collier was forty-eight years old and president and CEO of a
Fortune 500 fi nancial services company when he had a heart attack.
He had just fi nished playing a tennis match when he felt a sharp pain
around his heart and numbness in his left arm. His tennis partner
called an ambulance, which delivered him to the nearest hospital.
Tests confi rmed that Dirk had had a coronary occlusion. Dirk
couldn’t believe that he was sitting in bed with a damaged heart,
pain in his chest, and out of breath, when, for the past ten years he
had jogged every day and taken a multiple vitamin and mineral
complex, a B complex, and vitamin C. There was one vitamin he had
overlooked, however, and that was vitamin E. The 50 units of E in his
multivitamin was not enough to prevent his blood from clotting if he
lacked the antithrombin (anticlotting) factor. Dirk began taking 800
units of a vitamin E supplement that included all the tocopherols.
After six weeks he had not regained his energy, so he doubled
the dosage to 1,600 units. A month later Dirk felt a return of his
strength and noticed the pain in his chest had vanished. Now,
twenty-seven years later, in retirement in Scottsdale, Arizona, he
feels well enough to play tennis three times a week. He continues
to take vitamin E—in the form of a whole-food vitamin E
supplement called Cataplex E2—along with the other supplements
he had taken before his heart attack.