[.ca] The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease ... (ISBN 1594111014)

Living with "The Calcium Bomb":
I am living with 'the calcium bomb' in my body. My family did not live with it. My father had his first heart attack at 45, died at 51. My mother had her first heart attack at 30, died at 47. My kid brother, a superb athlete in the Red Sox farm system, had his first heart attack at 29 and died seven years ago at 54. I am 68 years old and in February of 2000 an angiogram revealed a 98% blockage in the main artery in the front of my heart, and an 85 % blockage in the main artery in the back of my heart. The doctor gave me 2 weeks max to face a massive heart attack and irreparable damage to my heart. I am not a disinterested or merely curious reader of 'The Calcium Bomb," because I find its story to be a macrocosm of the microcosm of my own heart story. Too late for my parents, but not quite so late for my brother, I investigated chelation therapy. Dr. Robert Willix, who had abandoned his heart surgery practice in favor of chelation, introduced me to chelation. After ten major heart interventions the surgeons of world-renowned heart hospitals of Boston felt my brother was too far gone to put on a heart donor list. They sent him home to die. With chelation therapy his life was extended for another five years-with quality: he coached his college baseball team to the NCAA division III championship game before dying peacefully in his sleep. When I got tightness in my chest while exercising in November of 1999, because of my family history, I knew where I was headed. While waiting for my angiogram, I started 10 sessions of intravenous chelation therapy treatment. After a successful implant of 2 stents on February 8, 2000, I continued with 30 treatments of chelation therapy followed by a once monthly maintenance program. My cardiologist was enraged that I was doing chelation therapy. He called me, "a damn fool," who was "throwing his money away" on an "unproven, untested method of treatment," a "snake oil operation." I told him I was following all his directions of medication, vitamins and anti-oxidants, diet, meditation, exercise, and life-style reform. Following implant of my stents, my cardiologist said, "You're cured." I took exception: "My blocked arteries are open, but what have we done to prevent the systemic calcification that is causing the blockage?" We agreed to talk about everything except chelation therapy, which I would pursue with my alternative family doctor, who is both a 'standard medicine practitioner' and a 'preventive medicine specialist.' When the NanobacTX protocol, as described in the book, became available, my 'alternative' doctor suggested we try it. I have been on the NanobacTX protocol for over two years, and three CT scans of my heart have revealed, in independent evaluations, a 40% reduction of calcification in my heart. I am biking 10 miles a day and leading a full life in retirement. This lengthy background will explain why I am so enthusiastic about "The Calcium Bomb." The struggle against the "standard medicine" establishment that I have lived through has been vindicated. This book presents an assessment of the 'calcification' problem by two highly qualified independent journalists. Their investigations have revealed an overview of the struggle to establish the validity of Chelation therapy. They set the calcification problem in its historical perspective. They are scrupulous to present a full discussion of the clashes in the development of this therapy, both between "standard" and "alternative" medicine, and within the chelation research community. "The Calcium Bomb" shows that more and more, the standard medical world is beginning not only to take chelation therapy seriously, but better yet, is beginning to conduct the research and produce the studies and statistics that will bring this therapy into the mainstream. Untold numbers of suffering heart and cancer and diabetic patients could benefit. And health care costs could be cut beyond our wildest dreams. More and more mainstream practitioners are turning to chelation therapy as a safer, long-term, less intrusive treatment than angioplasties and surgical bypass. Of course, acute care is necessary in critical cases. I would not have been able to reduce my blockages in two weeks! For that I thank my cardiologist. Would that this even-handed, comprehensive and accessible book had come along sooner for my family. With another CT scan in July I hope to see further progress. That this book has come in time for me causes me to give it to my children, my family and my friends. I am deactivating the 'calcium bomb' in my body. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. The story it tells is for me "a matter of life and death." I can't help but believe this book will help so many others. See for yourself.