The Whitaker Wellness Institute can provide you with a well-designed nutritional supplement program, combined with a good diet and regular exercise, that can replace the need for many of the drugs you may be taking for any type of cardiovascular disease.

The Conventional Approach to Heart Disease

According to the American Heart Association, approximately 80 million Americans have some form of cardiovascular disease. These include coronary artery disease, heart failure, hypertension , and stroke, and all told, they’re responsible for nearly 900,000 deaths per year.

The first line of conventional treatment is medication, and many patients with heart disease are prescribed one drug after another. Although these drugs may improve signs and symptoms of heart disease, they often fail to improve patients’ overall health, thanks to their unpleasant and sometimes deadly side effects.

Patients with heart disease are also often pushed unnecessarily into angioplasty or bypass surgery. More than a million of these procedures are performed every year, yet for the vast majority of patients, they are completely unwarranted. Except in a small, easily identified subgroup of patients, bypass and angioplasty do not save lives or prevent heart attacks. Scientific studies have shown that patients treated with a more conservative course do just as well as those who undergo invasive procedures.

Natural Treatments for Heart Disease

At the Whitaker Wellness Institute, we help our patients implement natural treatments for heart disease that, unlike drugs and surgery, address the underlying causes of heart disease. As a result, our patients have the potential of actually reversing their coronary artery disease, heart failure, hypertension and other cardiovascular problems. We also specialize in second opinions for patients who have been recommended to have angioplasty or bypass surgery.

Personalized Lifestyle Program for Heart Disease

Eat a Heart-Healthy Diet
There is a well-recognized relationship between diet and heart disease. Saturated fat from animal foods and trans fats from processed oils raise cholesterol, impede blood flow, and contribute to the buildup of plaque in the arteries. Fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes, raw nuts and seeds, and cold-water fish, on the other hand, contain vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids that nurture the cardiovascular system.

During your stay at the Back to Health Program, you will not only have the opportunity of eating heart-healthy meals, prepared three times a day by our personal chef, but you will also receive instruction in shopping, cooking, and sticking with this diet once you return home.

Strengthen Your Heart With Exercise
If you have heart disease, exercise is a must—but it is important that you go about it in the right way. Our exercise physiologist will determine your exercise capability and give you specific instructions in how to exercise within a safe yet therapeutic range. We will also help you with one of the biggest challenges for most of our patients: staying on track with a regular exercise program after you leave the clinic.

Nutritional Supplements for the Heart...
A cornerstone of our protocol for treating heart disease is nutritional supplementation. Antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, B-complex vitamins, magnesium, fish oil, coenzyme Q10: these and other nutrients play specific, well-studied roles in the treatment and prevention of heart disease. Your Whitaker Wellness physician will prescribe an individualized nutritional supplement program that addresses your particular condition.

...May Replace the Need for Drugs
One of the best things about our approach is we are able to help our patients get off their prescription drugs. To do this, we prescribe them nutritional supplements that accomplish essentially the same results—without all the adverse side effects. For example, niacin, flaxseed, and red yeast rice safely lower cholesterol. Magnesium and arginine relax the arteries and improve blood flow. Fish oil effectively thins the blood, reduces inflammation, and protects against cardiac arrhythmias. And coenzyme Q10 addresses heart failure far better than any drug.

A well-designed nutritional supplement program, combined with a good diet and regular exercise, can replace the need for many of the medications you may be taking for any type of cardiovascular disease.

Unique Therapies for Heart Disease

EECP: A Natural Bypass
Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) is a mechanical therapy that rhythmically directs blood from the legs and lower abdomen toward the heart, delivering oxygen- and nutrient-rich blood to the heart muscle and alleviating chest pain. It also stimulates the growth of collateral arteries around blockages of the coronary arteries—making it the closest thing going to coronary artery bypass without the trauma and potential complications of surgery.

The Whitaker Wellness Institute was one of the first clinics to offer EECP, and it remains one of our most popular and effective treatments for coronary artery disease and heart failure.

Improve Circulation With Chelation
Free radical damage and poor circulation are hallmarks of heart disease, and we offer an intravenous therapy that addresses these concerns. EDTA chelation is a synthetic protein that, when infused into the blood, attaches to minerals (including lead and other toxic metals as well as excess calcium) and carries them out of the body in the urine.

Both of these therapies improve the health of the arteries and dramatically increase circulation throughout the body, making them excellent treatments for any type of cardiovascular disease.

Real-Life Success Stories

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Additional Information

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Contact Us

For more information on the Whitaker Wellness Institute’s treatment of Heart Disease, contact a Patient Services Representative at (800) 488-1500 or click here.