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Introduction
You are reading this document because you asked for it. You are either suffering from
heart palpitations, and want to nd out how others cured the problem, or you are
conducting research on how to x the problem for yourself.
I wrote this guide so that you can benet form the experience of other who have already
traveled this road ahead of you.
If you nd this document interesting, it will be because you recognize so many situations
that are so close to what you have been experiencing. I also wrote this guide as a pro-
forma response for the thousands of emails that I receive in this topic every year.
I used to eld questions one at a time in the early days, but it seems there is no end to
the number of you that suffer from palpitations. At the same time, it is also universally
true that many of your doctors will rarely get to the bottom of what it happening to you.
We know that doctors are smart people, so the way I see it, is there are three
possibilities:
1. doctors dont fully understand the digestive system and hence failt to make identify
your issue, and fail to refer you to an gastroenterologist
2. doctors believe that there is a problem with your hearts electrical system and hence
proceed in that direction - prescribing beta blockers and other toxic
pharmaceuticals
3. doctors realize that 99% of people will never change their habits. They want the
magic pill and will not change old habits to create a new well being. In this case you
get told that its in your head; your life has too much stress, and you should cut out
caffeine and get more exercise.
Dont get me wrong here. Im not blaming doctors. My own experience is that most
people will not change their ways. It took me 6 years to realize why doctors just
prescribe the drugs rst. Its almost paliative care at this point.
Before I get into the essence of this discussion, there are some things I want make very
clear. I am not a doctor. You should make sure that your own doctor is fully apprised
of what you are doing regarding your own health. Nothing I say has been evaluated by
the US FDA. Everything you read here is just the results of 12 years of personal
testing. I will reference the supplements that I use. You should do your own research to
see if any of them are suitable for your own use.
That said, you should also examine the health care system where doctors have no
professional incentive to nd cures. Imagine the nancial catastrophe that would ensue
if they did nd cures! They would be burning their own nests. If a doctor cures you of a
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condition, he loses the revenue from your visits for that condition for life! His masters in
Big Pharma lose the revenue from the drugs he will prescribe to you - FOR LIFE!
You will nearly always nd that your doctor will simply tell you that you are ne.
Hell tell you that its in your head. Maybe the result of anxiety or stress? In the end,
all you will get out of your doctor is a prescription for a pharmaceutical beta blocker that
is highly acidic and only compounds the problem down the road.
Background
Does your heart seem to keep having extra beats and sometimes has some really
"heavy" beats? Perhaps you can feel your heart beating in your throat! It's scaring
you - right?
Maybe you feel dizziness associated with this irregular heart rhythm. You might even
feel as though you're going to pass out. You feel like the extra beats are taking your
breath away. You are afraid to go to bed at night because the minute you lay
down, it starts! It starts to take over your life, and you really dont like that!
As I mentioned, going to bed at night can be problematic as your heart is likely to
feel like it is skipping and uttering, especially if you lay on your left side! If you
didnt have anxiety before, you certainly will know! Even when you bend over to pick
things up, your heart can start acting up. The anxiety builds with every episode. You feel
like you have a buzz going on in your chest. You nd it hard to explain to people. It
doesnt feel right and you know it! Eventually, you realize that you really can't live with
this feeling, so your quest for solutions begins by going to your doctor.
If your "attacks" are bad enough, you might even check into the "ER" for some
emergency care. And if you don't have medical coverage, you might be as unlucky as
one young lady that I spoke with not too long ago. She thought she was dying. Her ER
bill cost her $6,100!
This could go on for several months as you try desperately to nd a solution. You start
Googling the problem. You visit blogs and sites related to the issue but nd little
help. Everyone you nd is thinking inside the box and it does you no good at all. You
are at your whits end. But suddenly, for some reason, you type the secret words into
the search engine, and you nd my site. When you do, its like you found a whole new
world. The site will reveal everything that I have learned about palpitations! If you read
between the lines, it will also tell you why most of us never get any help. Some of you
wont like the opinions, because I am not not very endearing toward the political forces
that are keeping us sick.
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Possibilities
What if I told you that my x was as easy as making some small changes to my
lifestyle and environment, and possibly spending a few bucks on some essential
supplements?
What follows is the shortened version of my own story. In 2002, I suffered palpitations
that scared me silly. I had attacks every single day that made me think I was dying. I
knew that I could not go on living this way. The anxiety alone was enough to drive me
over the top. But I'm a full time computer analyst and researcher - and Irishman (with no
reverse gears!), so I decided to put my skills and determination to work. It took almost 6
years of testing and networking with others all over the world, but I was nally able to
nail enough of the risk factors to take a bite out of my palpitations. Today, I am
palpitation free and have never felt better in my life!
There are a couple of things that must understand about palpitations before one takes
any action. If your doctor has thoroughly diagnosed you and he/she has given you a
clean bill of health, but maintains your palps are related to anxiety or drinking too much
coffee or something along those lines, then you may be in the same category that I was
and you should keep reading. Your doctor might even tell you that your job is too
stressful and that you need to chill out a bit and relax. Get some exercise and take life a
little slower. This is all good advice. But keep reading!
In another scenario, your doctors diagnosis is that you have some physical defect in
your heart. It might be a prolapsed mitral valve, or maybe defective purkinje bers in the
heart that cause improper electrical conductivity, or you have heart disease. If this is
you, then put this document down and walk away. You are in dire need of
professional medical care! If you are the one described in scenario #1, then keep
reading. Chances are you will learn enough to work with your doctor and to x your
issues in the next few days.
My Theory Regarding Chronic Inammatory Palpitations (CIP)
At birth we are alkaline. Our mothers transfer alkalinity to us as babies throughout the
pregnancy. This is why pregnant women experience morning sickness and why they
experience special food cravings. The body is reacting to the loss of alkaline material
and the mind makes women crave food substances that are likely to be alkaline. There
are numerous tests where pregnant women were given high alkaline water to drink
during pregnancy. In most cases, they suffered NO morning sickness. I have personal
experience with this fact in my own family.
From birth forward nearly everything we do tends to deplete our mineral stores (in our
bones) that help to keep us alkaline. The body must maintain a pH of 7.365 in the
blood, give or take a very small margin. So when you drink any carbonated
beverage (cola, beer, cider etc.), unless you drink 32 eight ounce glasses of high
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alkaline water, then you will not have neutralized the damage done by that single
bottle of cola.
That said, the human body is incredibly strong and adaptive. It can take 40 years to
wear yourself down through self-abusive dietary habits. You might have four or ve
colas per week and feel just ne. However, in the long run, you are going to be writing
to me for help when suddenly you nd your body has given up. You will begin to notice
things like arthritis and joint pain. These are the early warning signs.
The solution to losing minerals from our bones can be a bit complex since there is a
cascading effect to depleting your mineral base. When you are decient in just one
mineral, then there will be a process in your body that suffers. It will mean that you
dont get to make that enzyme or hormone that you really need - and so the rst domino
falls.
My friend Dr. Jim LaValle wrote a great book called Cracking the Metabolic Code. I
highly recommend it if you really want a good insight into the human digestive and
endocrine system, you check this book out.
Dr. LaValle calls the process that I am talking about - Dysbiosis. If you go to Youtube
and search his name, you will nd a lot of videos that he has done. He teaches other
doctors and lectures all over the world.
By the time you reach my website, who knows where you are in terms of a dysbiosis?
You really have to study the material and work with your doctor to determine exactly
where you are on this road.
My Story As An Example
I had a fair bit of "stress" in my life from 1999 to 2002. I found a young man hanging
from a support in his bathroom. He was just 20 years old and had committed suicide. I
cut him down and tried unsuccessfully to revive him. In the six months that followed, my
father-in-law died of cancer and my own father died, in my arms, also from cancer.
I was in the middle of a career change and had purchased some land to build a house
near my new job, when suddenly things changed. My new work location was going to
be somewhere else, so I had to turn around and sell the property only a week after
buying it. I had also listed my principle residence. We had several showings per week.
At the same time, I had a rental house a few miles away. The renter suddenly took off
without notice and had ruined the inside of the house. I had to rip the carpets out and
put new toilets, gyproc, carpets and lino down. Meanwhile my own house sold and I had
to nd a new one to live in quickly. I found a new one and had to hit the road running in
order to meet the closing dates. All that and my work wouldn't give me the extra time I
needed to move, so I worked during the day and worked all night loading mobile
containers with our stuff. I did this for three days. Zero sleep.
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I got everything moved in and was breathing easy as I drove down the road to return the
rental truck to the dealer. I remember approaching an intersection where the lights were
just going to red. I saw this little girl on the sidewalk next to the road. She was about 3
or 4 years old and morbidly obese. Her mother was also morbidly obese and she was
smoking. I remember thinking, "OMG! Society isn't smart enough to survive!" That is
when it hit me. Suddenly I felt as though I was going to pass out. My heart was
racing and I was dizzy. I slammed the truck into park, fearing that I would lose
consciousness. But by the time the light went to green, I had snapped out of it. I got
across the road ne and returned the truck.
On the way home, it hit me again. I pulled over for ve minutes. Then I started to drive
again, but my anxiety level was through the roof. I went directly to the ER, where
fortunately here in Canada I can do that without cost! I was in ER for four hours. My
heart rate was 220 beats per minute.
Over the next few months, I was in and out of the ER about ten times. I was beginning
to be afraid to go out of the house. I thought I might lose my job. I was afraid to do
anything strenuous. I went to see cardiologists and other specialists and had
dozens of tests including echo cardiograms, treadmill test, Holter monitor and
others. When all was said and done, the doctors told me I was ne. They said
there was nothing wrong with my heart. They told me to stop drinking coffee and
to get more exercise.
All of that did me no good. I only got worse. Eventually the doctors put me on a drug
called - "Propaphenone" - also called Rhythmol. I used it for about three months. I really
didn't like the side effects. The situation was scaring the daylights out of me. Anxiety
became a real issue for me. I was desperate. I could not live like this. That is when the
"Irish" in me kicked in. There was no way I was going to let this issue beat me. If I'm in a
battle and I'm still breathing, the battle is far from over!
I immediately went to work on nding the root cause of my problem. I scoured the
globe for three years - talking to doctors and researchers everywhere about the issue. I
created a database of people who had suffered from palps. I wrote down everything
they would tell me about themselves and this issue. In four years I logged nearly 7,500
hours of research. My ndings made me angry, cynical, and doubly determined.
My big break came in about 2004. I accidentally discovered the disease connection to
INFLAMMATION! Internal inammation, it turns out, is the root cause of many health
issues for most of us.
It's a very long story how I discovered the secrets to beating inammation, and this is
already a long story, so I'm going to skip to telling you exactly what I did.
As a side note here, you should be aware that just about all of the good healthy stuff
that is advertised on TV is advertised as "highly anti-inammatory"! Have you noticed
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that? Look at the blueberry ads that always push the fact that blueberries are full of anti-
oxidants. Anti-oxidants prevent inammation. Inammation is the key.
To that end, I realized that I needed to create an environment where Chronic
Inammatory Palpitations cannot exist. Essentially, it is like my software and
computer business. I just reverse engineered the problem. The bullets that follow are a
very abbreviated version of my road to being palpitation free.
I had to Learn about the pH scale and about acidity and alkalinity
I had to cut out all sh oil - Fish oil has too much mercury that affects the heart.
I conferred with the research of Dr. David Duncan in the North Atlantic who found
that even two meals of salmon raised his mercury levels beyond the safe limits.
I eliminated all sources of mercury in my diet and environment. Mercury is
extremely toxic and triggers inammation. I had all of my amalgam dental
llings taken out.