Our family has a history of cardiovascular disease and I was wondering what alternative health therapist is best to contact for reducing the risks and/or to reverse it?
I can't seem to find anyone in the directory listed specifically for heart disease/cardiovascular health?
Thanks
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
Jason,
The three biggest risk factors for cardiac disease (angina, heart attack, heart failure, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis) are: (in order)
- Smoking
- Poor diet
- Lack of excercise
So you need to be specific with what exactly you require.
Which form ofcardiovascular disease specifically "runs" in your family? (Remembering that unless there is a specific genetic link, anything that "runs" in the family is due to environmental factors.)
To speculate, therefore, I would suggest:
- Hypnotherapy +/- EFT for smoking cessation
- Nutritional advice for a healthy eating plan.
- Hypnotherapy can also help to give up various unhealthy foods / alcohol.
- Excercise
If I missed out specifically the type of cardiovascular disease please reply being more specific.
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
Hi Jason. I don't know about particular therapists, but I know that L'Arginine is something a lot of people take. It's a vasodilator (opens up your arteries), and also helps to clean the plaque from your arteries as well. The science behind it is sound as well, as the discovery of what it does won the Nobel Prize in 1998. Hope that helps mate.
Simon
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
May be worth taking up something like tai chi.
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
Thanks for the information Simon. I've done some research but is it wrong for you to make claims that you can cure heart disease?
L'Arginine isn't a drug and in the U.S and the U.K. a disclaimersuchas this is evident by companies and indviduals selling natural products:* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
Jason - has a complementary/alternative therapist told you that they can cure heart disease? I get the impression that you think Simonthedragon is recommending L'Arginine as a cure - he isn't - but L'Arginine is used by many people as a supplement (it is an amino acid) to support their cardio-vascular systems.
Everyone else has given good advice - to increase exercise/improve nutrition/give up smoking (not that I am assuming you do!) and reduce stress.
RE: Best Alternative Health Therapist For Cardiovascular Health?
I would say that the best therapist is the best fit for the individual. As stress reduction and exercise are both high priorities in reducing heart disease, the best therapist may well be yourself. Take yourself along to your local gym, swimming pool, park where your therapist will clean out the fur in your arteries by waking up your body with exercise. Take yourself along to meditation classes where you can learn how to release the stress that makes your head-ache and your heart pound. Take yourself along to the greengrocers where your therapist will buy you a healthy diet and then make sure that your therapist spends time and care on making you appetising and healthy meals. And make sure your therapist knows how to turn on the tap in the kitchen so that you get to drink plenty of water. Then your therapist should know when to turn off the tv, and surrender to a good night's sleep in comfortable surroundings
Sharon