Research and clinical data proves that whole nutrition and nutrients are needed to maintain a healthy heart and to strengthen a weak heart.  The most clinically important nutrients were the whole food form of Vitamins A, B, C, and E.  These were taken directly from food and were completely different from the fractionated form of what most manufacturers call a “Vitamin”.  Some examples of these might be labeled on a commercial (store or internet-bought) vitamin names such as “beta carotene”, “ascorbic acid” or “alpha tocopherol”.  These fractionated forms (synthetic) fail to maintain or heal heart tissue.

We know that the heart is the most responsive organ in our bodies to nutritional therapy.  A healthy heart needs a crucial supply of whole nutrient complexes.  These whole-food complexes have demonstrated, when properly applied, to heal people even with advanced or end-stage heart problems.

Please note that whole vitamin complexes (also known as “Phytonutrients”) are made from whole food.  These whole food constituents contain such vitamins as B4, which has anti-spasmodic and anti-paralytic properties.  Most of the so called “B complexes” do not contain this part of the B complex that is in many of the formulations that we use in our practice.  The real whole food version of B complex is derived from whole, cold-processed foods such as liver, nutritional yeast, and the germ of wheat.  If heat is involved in the processing of vitamin B, some of the fractions of the vitamin such as some of the enzymes and co-enzymes will be lost.  If you have heart disease, especially heart rhythm problems, tachycardia, fibrillation, bradycardia, CHF (congestive heart failure), and what appears to be a “paralyzed” heart with very low coronary output, then you will do well in your recovery with the whole food form.  But if you rely on the synthetic (which most “vitamins” are), then you will not make progress in your health improvement or ill-health recovery.

Imbalances and Deficiencies

Many times it is not a mere deficit of a nutritional complex, but an imbalance, which is especially true of the B complex.  Examples of supplement-induced imbalances are large amounts of ascorbic acid (a vitamin C fraction) producing a copper deficiency and high doses of calcium or zinc which yields a magnesium or copper deficiency.  Most patients are not consuming in their diet high amounts of raw liver, nutritional yeast and wheat germ which are recognized by the body as real, utilizable B complex.  It is for this reason that our patients do well on the whole food formulations that we use in our practice.