Chapter Six
Life Flow One
The Solution For Heart Diseaseby
Karl LorenSection Three:
What Causes Heart Disease?Doctors are fond of telling you that no one knows what causes heart disease. When MY mother died of heart disease, her doctor told me that "no one knows what causes it!" At the time I was completely ignorant of heart disease data, and accepted the doctor’s words as truth. Later I became suspicious, looked for some books on the subject, and found that there were plenty of people who had useful insights into the actual causes of heart disease. This information has been available for decades, but not usually very easy to find.
They will tell you of various risk factors, but most of them still don’t admit to any specific understanding of how heart disease develops.
One thing has been proven true: Heart disease starts young.
When the Army ordered autopsies done on soldiers who had died in battle, during the Korean War, they found considerable evidence of heart disease in these young men -- many of them 20 years old.
Autopsies on otherwise healthy Americans, killed in battle, where the average age was 22.1 years showed that 75% of them had gross evidence of coronary heart disease.
Korean doctors would testify that heart disease is virtually unknown among Korean people (who don’t get fancy chlorinated water to drink).
More recently, autopsies of soldiers who died in Vietnam show an even higher percentage of men with heart disease.
I, myself, have lectured on this subject for almost ten years, and even I have had to change my perception of the truth about heart disease. It is false that no one knows what causes heart disease. That lie has been exposed for many decades and has not changed in any basic way, but it continues to prevail!
The arteries which carry the blood from the heart are constructed with three layers. The middle of these three layers is a muscle-layer. This muscle helps control the amount of blood that moves along. There are chemical messages which cause this muscle to open and close, thereby increasing or decreasing the amount of blood that moves through that artery.
It is within this muscle-layer of the artery that heart disease starts becoming serious. But, before the serious problem starts in that muscle-layer of the artery, there is damage to the inner layer -- the inside layer of the artery -- the part of the artery which is next to the blood moving through.
This inner lining can be damaged and the body will repair itself -- many times. What could damage that inner lining?
The primary cause of damage to both the inner and the middle lining of the artery is the action of something called a free radical.
Since a free radical is so important to your health, I’m going to take some time and space to explain it.
First, a free radical is something very small. It is invisible to the eye or even a microscope -- for instance, it can be something as simple as a single atom of hydrogen. Let me start with that form of free radical.
Hydrogen is a very common element in our universe. Years ago people filled balloons with hydrogen -- the balloon would rise in the air, of course. Then a giant air ship Hindenburg, filled with hydrogen, exploded and burned, causing many deaths. Hydrogen is a very reactive gas. These reactions are the actions of free radicals -- rushing to get out of their reactive condition.
The great bulk of the mass of our sun is made up of hydrogen which is "burning" in about the same way that a hydrogen bomb "burns." We have a great deal of hydrogen here on earth. For instance, every drop of water is made up of two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen. Some of our most important foods are called carbohydrates, which simply means that the food contains carbon (carbo-) as well as hydrogen combined with oxygen (-hydrate).
The physics instructor would tell you that the smallest unit that an element can take is an atom. So, there can be a single atom of hydrogen, or a single atom of oxygen. The formula H2O says that there are two hydrogen atoms connected to one oxygen atoms -- forming water.
A simple way to understand an atom is to look at a model of an atom. There will be a round ball in the center and smaller balls going around the center ball -- like planets going around a sun. The center ball is called the nucleus and the small balls circling around the nucleus are electrons.
The atom of hydrogen, prior page, has a nucleus, like all atoms, and it has only one electron circling around it. The atom of helium has one nucleus and two electrons (see figure to left). Hydrogen atoms often gather in groups of two atoms -- thus having two electrons in the outer ring of the combination.
The atom of oxygen has a similar nucleus -- except that it is bigger than the nucleus in an atom of hydrogen. Also, the atom of oxygen has eight electrons circling around the nucleus. Furthermore, these 8 electrons are in layers -- with two electrons in the inner layer, four electrons in the middle layer and two electrons in the outer layer.
You can now notice that the hydrogen atom has an odd number of electrons in its outer ring -- it’s only ring actually. Strangely enough, you can take an atom of hydrogen, strip away that lone electron, and it’s still considered hydrogen. In other words, it’s the center of the atom that gives it the most basic characteristic. Most of the time a hydrogen atom has a central nucleus and one outer electron, but it can lose its electron, and still be an atom of hydrogen. I don’t want to get in over your head, or mine, for that matter, but I’m describing some very basic terms of physics here.
Now, let’s look at an atom of oxygen -- one of the most important elements in our life. An atom of oxygen has those eight electrons -- two, then four, and then two in the outer ring.
While the atom in the figure to the left is not drawn to show the different layers of electrons in their proper places, you can count, carefully, and see that the oxygen atom there has one central nucleus and a total of seven electrons in circles around the center. If those electrons are seen as two in the layer closest to the center, then a layer of four, and a final outer layer with only one electron, you have pictured a free radical form of the oxygen atom.
The atom of oxygen (and the atom of helium) normally has an even number of electrons in its outer ring. You could say that the atom is "balanced" because it has an even number of electrons on each ring.
Above, it has lost one of the electrons in the outer ring yet it is still an atom of oxygen.
So, when oxygen loses one of the electrons in the outer ring, that oxygen atom becomes a free radical form of the oxygen atom.
When any atom has an odd number of electrons in its outer ring it is called a free radical. You could also call it an "unbalanced" atom. Then several atoms could join together, in various combinations, and if the total package of atoms has an odd number of electrons in the outer ring, then that combination is a free radical.
That is an accurate and simple description of a free radical.
Why is a free radical so important within the subject of health?
Because nature seems to dislike odd particles, or unbalanced atoms.
It’s OK for a couple to dance together on the floor, but it’s not OK for a single man or a single woman to dance alone. It seems unnatural. It would be more natural for a woman to join a single man on the dance floor. That way neither of them is odd! They have formed an even-numbered group. Likewise, a threesome on the dance floor would not be nature’s way.
That is obviously a silly example, but perhaps it will serve. Whenever you have an atom, like hydrogen, it is looking to combine with something else so that there won’t be an atom with an odd number of electrons.
Dr. Elmer Cranton is the source I’ve found best for the actual explanation of chelation therapy and he uses a similar analogy.
When hydrogen and oxygen combine, the odd electrons in each atom of hydrogen bind to one of the electrons on the outer ring of oxygen. The whole combination now is nicely balanced. That is why water is considered such a stable substance.
The hydrogen in water is well-connected with the oxygen. Each atom of hydrogen connects up with one of the electrons in the outer ring of the oxygen and thus, as far as that hydrogen atom is concerned, it has a mate! It is no longer an odd electron circling about -- looking for trouble.
You could learn a lot more about free radicals, but the above will do for the purpose of this Book.
A free radical, again, is any atomic sized particle with an odd number of electrons in the outer ring. It could be a single atom, like hydrogen, or it could be a complex molecule where there is some part of the structure with an odd electron sticking out!
A free radical persists in time for as little as one one-millionth of a second. It is highly reactive and it can cause a whole chain reaction by hitting some other atom, absorbing an electron and becoming neutralized by that action. But, that action makes the new atom into another free radical, itself, and it, in turn, is then neutralized an instant later, only to create another free radical. A chain reaction like this can occur in a small fraction of a second and involve the creation and neutralization of millions of individual atoms.
As this chain reaction goes along it might, or might not, do some serious damage. It is possible for two free radicals to collide and neutralize each other. But, it is also possible for one free radical to hit a bit of rancid fat in your body (from margarine, for instance) and cause millions of free radicals to be instantly created.
There are times when the chain reaction is stopped. The substances which do this are NOT drugs, but are called "free radical scavengers."
Where Do They Come From?
What’s an example of a free radical?
The chlorine they put in your drinking water is full of free radicals. You drink the free radicals when you drink the water.
The smoke that comes out of a cigarette is full of all sorts of different free radicals. You breathe in the free radicals when you smoke.
The smog that fills the cities is full of free radicals. You breathe in the free radicals just by breathing the air.
One of the worst sources of free radicals is from rancid fat or heated oils. Every time you eat deep-fried foods, like French Fried potatoes, you are swallowing gobs of free radicals.
Once we look inside the body, there are many natural actions of the body which produce free radicals. Immune system cells, for instance, kill bacteria by deliberately producing free radicals which instantly attack the bacteria and kill it. So, there are many important and beneficial sources of creation of free radicals within the body.
But, there are also free radicals being produced within the body far in excess of what is needed for proper function of the body.
One of the greatest sources of free radical production inside the body is the tiny particles of metals, the size of a few atoms, which get into your body. This includes metals like toxic lead and cadmium, abnormal copper and iron. These materials don’t get eliminated by the normal cleansing process of the body. These elements, in a special form called ions, act as catalysts to the production of free radicals.
The older you get the worse these tiny bits of metal in your body become. You can’t remove them except with some chelation process. They even lodge in your bones. As they accumulate with age, your free radical production also increases. I’ll repeat this comment later, but the primary reason why chelation therapy "works" is that it removes these metal pieces, not because it removes calcium from the arteries. As chelation removes these tiny toxic metal particles, the production of free radicals decreases to much less than one millionth of what had been going on!
There are many more sources of these free radicals.
Oxygen is a very common type of free radical -- but all that means is that the normal stable form of oxygen, with an even number of electrons in its outer ring, has somehow lost or gained an electron, become reactive. But, the free radical form of oxygen would be tame by comparison with the free radical form of toxic mercury in your body.
We often hear the word "oxidized;" one of its meanings is that some substance has lost an electron. When iron gets rusty, it oxidizes -- the iron has combined with some oxygen and the resulting molecule has an odd number of electrons, thus making it a free radical.
I haven’t tried to present a complete story about free radicals. These ARE the most likely cause of almost every type of disease and of aging itself. These are NOT handled with drugs. Free radicals are toxins to the body, usually. Most drugs create free radicals instead of neutralizing them. For a description of the vitamins which neutralize free radicals see the Appendix starting on page *.
One very common source of free radicals is the margarine which your doctor is telling you is so much better for you than butter. The process of manufacture of margarine involves heating oils to very high temperatures. (See page 60.) That high temperature guarantees that the oils will be converted into free radical forms.
I can’t imagine a worse substance to put into your body!
One of the best foods you can eat is an egg. The yolk of the egg contains about 250 milligrams of a special amino acid (cysteine) which gets rid of free radicals.
Now, what do you think of a doctor who tells you to stop eating eggs (which can help your body get rid of poisons) and, instead, eat margarine (which will put more poison into your body)!!!
This Book is not just a guide to how you can live a more healthy life -- this Book should be a trumpet call to awaken you from a slumber. You’ve been asleep while sinister forces plotted to take your money and give you poison in the place of honest food.
This Chapter introduced the term, free radical, as the cause of heart disease. I haven’t completed the explanation of how a free radical causes heart disease. That is coming up in the next couple Chapters. But, if you will take some time to study this Chapter well, and understand what a free radical is, you will know more than thousands of doctors who have never, ever, studied free radicals in any medical school, and who haven’t the slightest idea of what they are.
This has been a very heavy, technical Chapter, and I would encourage you to go back and re-read it if you really want to understand heart disease well!
Endnotes
Chapter 6
Radical: the root or cause of something. Radical surgery is surgery directed at the root of the problem. In chemistry a radical is a group of atoms which enters into and goes out of chemical combination without change, and which forms one of the fundamental constituents of a molecule. A free radical caries an unpaired electron and is extremely reactive. It has a very short half-life (10 -5 seconds or less in an aqueous solution).
Atom: A unit of matter, the smallest unit of an element, consisting of a dense, central, positively charged nucleus surrounded by a system of electrons, equal in number to the number of nuclear protons, the entire structure having an approximate diameter of 10 -8 centimeter and characteristically remaining undivided in chemical reactions except for limited removal, transfer, or exchange of certain electrons. American Heritage Dictionary.
Carbohydrate: A substance containing carbon and water, plus other elements which differentiate one carbohydrate from another. They are so named because the hydrogen and oxygen are usually in the proportion to form water, (CH2O). The most important carbohydrates are the starches, sugars, celluloses and gums. ALL carbohydrates are digested into sugar when they enter the body.
Hydrate is any compound of a radical with water. Medical Dictionary.
Note that in the First Edition of this Book, this data was given incorrectly as the oxygen atom having 16 electrons. It actually has only 8.
"Chelation is nature’s marriage ceremony: It weds two substances from totally different chemical worlds -- the organic and inorganic -- into a compatible working partnership.
"Chlorophyll, the plant-greening pigment, is a chelate of magnesium. Hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment of red blood cells, is a chelate of iron. The chelation process is involved in the formation and function of many enzymes -- the protein catalysts that control most of your body’s vital biochemical functions." [quoted from page 55 of Dr. Cranton’s book, Bypassing Bypass.]
Scavenger: a substance that influences the course of a chemical reaction by ready combination with free radicals. Medical Dictionary.
Chlorine is a free radical, but that is also exactly why it is used to purify water. Because the added chlorine is a free radical, it eagerly looks for other atomic particles, such as organic material (bacteria). When it finds these other materials, it takes away an electron, or gives up one, making the toxic material less toxic, or even killing the bacteria. There is no doubt that chlorine does its job, but it does it so thoroughly that it causes damage inside your body as well as killing the bugs in the water. It is a mixed blessing!
The following are some of the sources on this subject referenced by Dr. Cranton in his revised Bypassing Bypass:
1. Demopoulos, H. B., Petronigro DD, Flamm ES, Seligman ML: The possible role of free radical reactions in carcinogenesis. Journal of Environmental Pathology and Toxicology 1980;3:273-303.
2. Harman, D: The aging process. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1981;78:7124-7128.
3. Dormandy, T. L: An approach to free radicals. Lancet 1983;ii:1010-1014.
4. Ames, B. N: Dietary carcinogens and anticarcinogens. Science 1983;221:1256-1264.
5. Dormandy, T. L: Free-radical oxidation and antioxidants. Lancet 1978;i:647-650.
Iron and copper are also essential to body health, but the copper and iron that cause free radical production have abnormalities which differentiate them from the useful forms.
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