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Powerful alternatives to treat the heart

12 September 1996

In the view of modern medicine, heart disease is its deadliest and most intractable adversary, one that can only be vanquished by the most powerfully suppressive drugs, the most sophisticated surgery, the greatest state-of-the-art technology. Attempting to treat this - still the number one killer in the West - by alternative medicine, in the view of most doctors, is akin to attempting to cure cancer with a facial.

But this world view of heart disease ignores clear scientific evidence demonstrating that many alternative remedies are far more potent in preventing or treating heart disease - heart attacks, arterial disease, high blood pressure - than all of medicine's most sophisticated armaments put together.

Dying of a broken heart
Modern medicine has never convincingly answered the question: what causes heart disease in the first place?

Dr Dean Ornish, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the School for Medicine, Universi...

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