Arterial Plaque Clean Up - Your Advantages and Benefits with Us by Dr. Arlo Gordin

You’re likely reading this because it’s been determined, usually by specific test results, that you need to clean up plaque in your blood vessels.  This problem of clogging up your blood vessels with plaque continues to be the number one cause of death in the world and in the USA as well.  Clogged arteries hold the position constantly as the main cause of heart attacks and strokes, the number one killers of humankind.

Medicine has its way of “dealing with” this problem.  Cardiologists (heart specialists) and most all other MD’s have their drug ways of “dealing with” plaque.  Because it is known and acknowledged that this is the most serious of health arenas and problems, the medical field “must” offer something.  It would be nicest if that something actually helped in a big way. Hospitals can sometimes do GREAT when you’ve HAD a devastating heart attack or stroke IF you can get REALLY FAST (minutes) to a properly equipped hospital. However, many doctors, scientists and experts, including myself, are aware of the crippling limitations Medicine has in dealing with the main underlying cause of those calamities.  (By the way Covid era has added new heart attack and stroke incidences but they still don’t come remotely close to rivalling the ones caused by arterial plaque.)  MD’s are notoriously bad at doing anything at all to reduce the plaque a person has accumulated that is clogging their blood vessels.  They have drugs (often “Statins”) which have side effects and “questionable” ability to help at all, although they can make your Cholesterol on a lab test appear to be in a better range.  Studies have been published, however, that Statins do not extend human life by a single day.

Reading this it is likely that we have put you on a supplement with studies proving that it successfully dissolves plaque, over time.  It is an incredible bargain for the invaluable service it can provide, but still is not the least expensive nutritional product.  We stock and sell it to our patients who need it, and at a price slightly lower than the best price you can get it at, since you don’t have to pay the full sales tax since it is part of health treatment. Additionally, we use the money generated in providing it to you to help cover the professional expertise and time that it takes to order testing, review and report to you, with interpretation of the results and our recommendations.

Note that we now also instruct most of this type of patient on two other effective ways to stop adding to arterial plaque. So that as you are dissolving the plaque you’ve accumulated, you are not adding new plaque to replace it!

Oftentimes the test that may be used to assess your presence or absence of plaque, and which gives us an actual score as to how good or bad it is, is the CAC or also called Calcium Scoring of the Heart.  We have negotiated low “cash” prices at the Imaging facility that is required to perform the test.  CAC provides images and also grades the amount of calcified arterial plaque that you have/don’t have.  It can be re-done after enough treatment with the right approach, to see how much plaque has been removed and is reduced. Expect that if you had plaque at levels that were best reduced on your first test, that we will be recommending retest(s) to show the job is being achieved and when it’s done. Some people are completely plaqued up (and to their surprise at times) and tempting death; some have no plaque detectable at all. And some are at various points in between. I have tests returned to me in all of those three categories.

For many of you, professional time and expertise needed for administering, advising, explaining, testing, retesting, we allow to be compensated by your buying the products recommended directly from us.  That is a way to save you money.  If, however, for purposes of convenience, or any other reasons you choose to purchase the products recommended from another source, then this form of “exchange” or “compensation” is not made to your doctor here. Or you will be asked to pay directly for the professional time and expertise needed for those functions.

Actually, this is our policy on Nutritional Supplements generally.  When you, our patient, buys them from us, we take this as a large part of compensating for the time, expertise, direction, monitoring, and revising that supplement programs often require.  But if a person will buy from another source the supplements that we carry and have recommended to them for a particular defined problem, then we must charge for the “professional component” of performing their nutritional services. (This of course also reflects the years of training, always ongoing, and experience that we bring to the arena and allow us to get results when other nutritional programs had failed.)

It is a great service to save lives of patients with this type of testing and health corrective program.  The case could be made that this is one of the most valuable health services any doctor could provide, as it could impact both the length and quality of your life immensely. Incapacity, heart bypass surgeries, surgical insertion of arterial stents, hospital stays, and bottles of prescription drugs are all some of the costly, potentially crippling, and risky ways that arterial plaque are medically treated.

Just minutes ago today one of my patients told me how his quality of life and energy and well-being had been hugely changed by this approach.

It is also worth noting that the Heart Sound Monitor testing, which can identify the exact nutritional needs that affect electrical function and cellular health of this important organ may be recommended to you.  We perform that test directly seated in our office.

I hope this write-up enhances your understanding of this critical arena of health and our services that address it, and helps you also to get the help you wish in the most cost-effective manner.

Recommended:  Read also the write-up entitled, A Tale of Two Blood Flows

A Tale of Two Blood Flows: Health or Organ Dysfunction, Heart Attack & Stroke by Dr. Arlo Gordin

Blood is the lifeline of your body.  It carries all the substances, fuel, oxygen for life, and the construction materials to build, repair and rebuild everything in your body. That means to all your cells, tissues, organs, muscles, ligaments, cartilages and joints too. Your blood also carries away the waste materials, carbon dioxide from utilized energy and used oxygen, that is necessary to keep the cells and organs from succumbing to toxins and poisons of life’s activities.  If blood is cut off altogether from an area of the body, it will die rapidly from lack of oxygen.  That’s something a lot of people may know.  But the fact that reducing the blood supply to any area causes it to function poorly, the less blood getting there the worse it is, is little known or thought about by most people or their doctors.

One little known fact of blood flow has been observed, known and utilized in Chiropractic since the early days of our science. Early Chiropractic scientists noted that areas where there were “subluxations”, spinal vertebra malpositioned and pinching the nerves that emit from the spine, had areas next to them that were measurably COLDER than the other areas nearby.  That led to the development and use, as early as the first 1900’s, of heat measuring devices that would, as you dragged them down along a patient’s spine, go HOT HOT HOT COLD HOT HOT HOT.  And the colder spot would show you where the pinched and malfunctioning nerve was located.  That is where the Chiropractic adjustments were needed.

The reason that this occurs is a remarkable fact:  Every artery in your body is controlled by moment-to-moment control by your nerve system of that artery’s current diameter, and thus how much blood it is carrying.  You may have learned a bit about this if you knew of the two automatic (subconscious) nerve systems named the Sympathetic and the Parasympathetic. When you are being chased by a bear (or even in your mind, chased by a tax audit or by an irate spouse) your body subconsciously activates the Sympathetic Nervous System.  That is known as the Fight or Flight nerve action arrangement.  It will usually call on your Adrenal Glands (which hopefully are not exhausted like so many patients arrive to me in pain, inflammation, auto-immune, allergic and may be somewhat tortured) to give you Adrenaline to power up your Fight or Flight power and speed.  Also nerve control on a Macro level in Sympathetic, Fight or Flight, mode opens up the arterial diameter to get more blood and thus power function and get-more blood to your Lungs, Heart and Skeletal muscles.  Why?  To get you power to fight the bear, hit him hard, and/or to run away with plenty of blood, energy and oxygen to survive.  That is done by nerves opening all those major arteries, at the same time SHUTTING DOWN arterial blood flow to your gut and digestion.  You won’t need to Digest that much when in a fight for your life.

The opposing side of the Automatic (“Autonomic”) nerve system is the Parasympathetic.  It does essentially the opposite to the Sympathetic.  It is the “Vegetative” activation mode of your nerves on a Macro basis.  It is activated when you’ve comfortably finished a meal, and now will relax.  The blood flow is relatively reduced to all the fight or flight areas of your body, and the arteries are opened to get more blood to your digestive system, stomach, organs of digestion, intestines. They are now getting the lion’s share of your blood, and the areas needed to Fight or Run and Respond Fast are getting a reduced amount.  Nerves are opening the arterial size (diameter) of blood flowing to your gut, and relatively closing, reducing the blood to your muscles, heart and lungs.

That’s one area of Nerve/Blood Flow dynamics that is useful to understand and which is important.  But on a more “Micro” level, all individual limited arterial lines are under moment-to-moment control as to how much blood is being delivered.  When a nerve is interfered with, generally after a time if it stays that way, the blood flow to the area the nerve serves is diminished.  The reduction is so important that it reduces the health of the area served. The organ getting the blood gets interfered with and begins going downhill, eventually resulting in a nameable disease.  The bone being served can be weakened. The tissue being served can be failing and even die also.  This is serious.  It can affect a lung, an intestine, a hand or fingers, a hip ball joint.  There are as many failures as there are nerves, and areas in your body served by them and by blood vessels.  Which means everywhere in your body.

I have been called to treat thousands of patients with this problem being the cause of their misery.  An external and visible example is the woman who came to me, saying she knew she was dying, who had been diagnosed at Kaiser only with Raynaud’s Disease. Googling: Mayo Clinic “Cold fingers or toes.  Areas of skin that turn white then blue. Depending on your skin color, these color changes may be harder or easier to see.  Numb, prickly feeling or stinging pain … most commonly affects fingers and toes. But it also can affect other areas of the body, such as nose, lips, ears and even nipples.”  “In Raynaud's disease, smaller arteries that supply blood to the skin narrow.  Primary Raynaud's is caused by disruptions in how the nervous system controls blood vessels.”

This woman had so little blood supply reaching her right hand that the flesh on three fingers was literally rotting off of her.  Even under her fingernails the flesh was just mush.  White mushy junk, which before had been supple skin and muscle, was now just dying and useless.  Painful.  Exceptionally cold, freezing hand to my touch. They diagnosed Raynaud’s but aren’t chiropractors, so could not actually restore the neck nerves (at the lower neck, brachial plexus, arm-shoulder-hand network of nerves) to normal by adjustment (or by any other way).  I thought we’d save her life, but at first I did think she would lose the rotten fleshed fingers.  In one week of chiropractic and spot on supplementation, her hand was as warm as life.  And over a couple months the dying tissue that I expected would die gangrenous, all grew completely back.  Early in treatment, I sent her back to Kaiser to get from them at no charge the test I wanted to run on her arteries blockage from plaque.  That was a failure too, with some arteries nearly completely blocked, without blood.

Which brings us to the second of the Tales of Two Blood Flows.  Which is the blockage of arteries with plaque, the number one killer, cause of death, in America and on the whole planet.  It is the cause of Heart Attacks and of Strokes.  Those two kill more people than any other causes, and by a wide margin.  It was discovered in the 1950’s that arterial gook, plaque, made up with a bunch of cholesterol in it, clogged arteries. When a chunk of that junk broke free and floated down the blood stream to block an entire tree of arterial blood supply, the area starved of oxygen died quite quickly (in a few minutes).  If that area of blood vessels went to the Heart:  Heart Attack, Cardiac Arrest.  If it went to a part of the Brain, then starved for oxygen and suddenly the brain cells died, a Stroke.  An actual area of dead brain tissue caused by stopped blood delivery.  Only recently has the Medical field learned and all now are agreed: INFLAMMATION is a key ingredient to the Plaque, Heart Attack, and Stroke universe.  So you smart ones must think again: “How are my Adrenal Glands doing?” Are they chronically exhausted, worn out, and causing wide-spread Inflammation?

The obvious first idea that doctors had was to stop eating food that contained cholesterol. No meat, butter, dairy, eggs, animal fat. That seemed logical; it just was false.  The population generally ate less of those foods to limit cholesterol, and cholesterol levels, plaque, heart attack and stroke actually got even worse! And people got even fatter too! It wasn’t until the 1980’s that some of the most aware doctors learned the hard fact that your body, your liver, makes the cholesterol that is high in your blood, and will gum up and block your arteries out of Carbohydrates. Out of Bread, Cola, pasta, potatoes, rice, beans, sweets, desserts, sugar.  OUT OF TOO MUCH CARBOHYDRATES, which is the deadly error most people make in their eating.  Remember too:  Too much carbs is the other main reason that your Adrenals burn out!

For the woman with Raynaud’s Disease, with interfered neck nerves to her hand, arm and shoulder nerve problems, who ALSO had obstructive arterial disease, plaque, which was killing her, we had to DISSOLVE HER ARTERIAL plaque.

We often send our patient to get a Calcium Score Test (CAC) to find out how much, a numeric evaluation of, the plaque that is blocking his/her arteries.  Then we have to do 4 things that most all normal (and her Kaiser) doctors couldn’t even think of, let alone do.

In brief, we have to DISSOLVE (gradually is the way of it) the plaque already blocking their blood lines.  And we have to Stop making new plaque.  Both are done nutritionally.  Precise Chiropractic Adjustments help the troubled organs recover.

1. AN UNUSUAL SPECIALIZED NUTRIENT TO DISSOLVE PLAQUE (with both published studies showing plaque removal, and my own experience demonstrating it on my patients on objective image testing).  

2. TWO SPECIFIC NUTRIENTS TO REDUCE FUTURE CHOLESTEROL IMBALANCES AND PLAQUE FORMATION.

3.  A precise and little known nutritional supplement that corrects FATTY LIVER DISEASE.

4. A NEW WAY FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND AND CORRECT YOUR EATING so that each meal or snack isn’t making new Cholesterol in your liver, that will end up clogging your arteries and stopping blood from flowing. 

Voila!  Like my (shown on the CT scan I ordered on him) Severe Artery Blocked, Brain Fogged, Mentally and Physically weakened, patient said to me yesterday after only a week and a half of treatment: ”I WAS DYING AND DIDN’T REALLY WANT TO CARRY ON OR HAVE THE ENERGY TO LIVE. I DON’T KNOW WHAT SUICIDAL IS, BUT I THINK I WAS.  NOW I’M ALERT, ALIVE AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE.”  YUP.