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energy. Once again full of vigor, Sam no longer swayed and tottered
when he walked, and his voice lost the gravelly sound typical of people
with advanced heart disease.
Sam’s return to health, however, was short-lived. The fi rst symptom
indicating his cardiovascular problems had returned was the slowing of
his heartbeat. This is t ypically caused by an increase in estrogen (a sign
that his testosterone levels had become defi cient). Too much estrogen
in the blood causes the veins carrying blood back to the heat to expand
too much. This delays the return of the blood to the heart with the
result that the heartbeat slows its pace. Within six months the inside
walls of his arteries were once again encrusted with calcifi ed plaque.Acidic Waste and Cardiovascular Problems
What caused Sam’s arteries to harden after they had been cleared of
cholesterol, calcium, and various other kinds of debris? A question more
to the point is, why did they harden in the fi rst place? As usual, scientifi c
researchers have looked in the wrong direction. Ignoring the true cause
of the calcifi ed plaques lining the arteries—injuries infl icted on the
arteries by sharp crystals of acidic waste—they have come up with a
culprit called cytomegalovirus that invades the body and implants itself
inside the walls of the arteries.
Several studies support the connection between the presence of this
virus and the regrowth of plaque. In one study of seventy-fi ve patients
who had had an angioplasty, fatty plaque recurred in 75 percent of those
patients who were infected with the cytomegalovirus, while only 8 per-
cent who were not infected had a recurrence of plaque. Another study
shows that patients with no symptoms of heart disease who were taking
tetracycline were 30 percent less likely than those who were not taking
antibiotics to have a heart attack.^1Virus and Bacteria from Acidic Waste
Cause Arterial Hardening
This would seem to be solid evidence that the cytomegalovirus is the
cause of artery hardening. The fact is, however, that the presence in the