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Its Not Just For Sex!
How the Nobel Prize and a 5 capsule can prevent strokes, cancer, memory loss, and heart attacks
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Disclaimer: This eBook is for educational purposes and is not intended to treat, diagnose or cure any disease. You have freedom of choice when it comes to your health. You have the right to use safe alternatives. As one physician said to me, Its not alternative medicine its real medicine. You have the right to ask your doctor about arginines health effects of course, he wont know but you can ask. The scientific research community already knows about Arginine and Nitric Oxide. The drug makers do, too. But Arginine and Nitric Oxide are not patentable. So the drug companies have invented expensive synthetic drugs, including Viagra, Levitra and Cialis. None of those $10 drugs can do all the things that they know 5 Arginine can do. Thank goodness you get to choose.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Table of Contents Preface: A medical scandal that could kill you.... 5 Chapter 1 A Brief Overview. 11 Chapter 2 Brief Overview, continued..........16 Chapter 3: A brief timeout to swear at doctors...... 21 Chapter 4: How It All Began: The discovery of NOs role in relaxing arteries... 2 Chapter 5: Arginine, Cholesterol and hardening of your arteries....... 28 Chapter 6: Arginine and High Blood Pressure.. 38 Chapter 7: Do I Want To Keep Bleeding If One of My Arteries Springs a Leak? 42 Chapter 8: If Your NO Is Low, You Can Forget About It..... 45 Chapter 9: Stickem Up: Nitric Oxides Role In Slaying Bacteria and Yeast 47 Chapter 10: Erections, Desire and Lubrication.. 50 Chapter 11: More Ways That Arginine Can Improve Your Life Dramatically... 57 Chapter 12: Contraindications & Cautions. 63 Chapter 13: Frequently Asked Questions 66 Chapter 14: More Huge Health Secrets... 72
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Its Not Just For Sex!

Preface: A Medical Scandal That Could Kill You
This year scientists proved definitively that in men, NO translates sexual excitement into potency by causing erections. Science Magazine, 1992, p.1861
It does everything, everywhere! You cannot name a major cellular response or physiological effect in which it is not implicated today. Dr. Jonathan S. Stamler, Duke University, New York Times
Its Not Just For Sex is more than just a provocative title. It reveals several spectacular scientific breakthroughs that could change your life dramatically.
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com For instance, this little book discusses a Nobel Prize winning discovery on a natural substance that also restores libido and performance in both men and women. The natural substance is nitric oxide or NO. You body makes it when it has enough arginine, an amino acid. The discovery of nitric oxide was used by Pfizer to invent Viagra. Ditto for Bayers Levitra, and Lillys Cialis. But the original source, arginine a five-cent capsule does more than Viagra, Levitra or Cialis. Because in addition to restoring sexual function in both men and women, arginine heals hearts and blood vessels. You can buy arginine in any health food store and most grocery stores and drug stores. I purchase mine from Swansons Health Products for less than five cents a capsule! Arginine lowers blood pressure while it prevents bad cholesterol from forming. It gives ammunition to your Natural Killer Cells, which kill bacteria and cancer cells before the invaders can do any harm. Arginine also improves lung function. It also plays a role in keeping your muscles lean. So its not just for sex. But I must admit, the amazing arginine does play a key role in sexual desire and performance. Thats because the arginine can give men hard erections even if they were previously impotent. It can increase desire and lubrication even in women who have lost interest in sex. This knowledge is an open secret among researchers. But the same secret is still kept from you by the drug industry and sometimes by your doctor. It is not a secret to the $165-billion drug industry. Do you suppose for one moment that the drug makers arent familiar with the highlighted quote from Science magazine above! For instance, the Physicians Desk Reference for Nutritional Substances is quite clear. They say that arginine has had significant positive effects with these two major medical conditions: High cholesterol High Blood Pressure
The same reference book also plainly states that supplementing with same amino acid has also been helpful in those with angina pectoris [chest pain]. oral [supplementation] can help some men with erectile dysfunction [impotence.] It should be noted here that the study they were refering to used an average of only 2.8 grams of arginine for two weeks, in men who had been impotent for 10 years. Other experts recommend 4 to 6 grams a day, and to stay with it. That higher initial dosage worked for me. I get the same results now with one or two grams. If I had used only two or three grams to start, it might have taken a lot longer before I saw any results. Also the impact of arginine increases with usage. So a two-week trial barely begins to touch its power. By the way if you are ready to run out and order your first bottle, keep this critically important facotr in mind. Arginine works best when taken on an empty stomach. If you take it with food, the arginine is likely to be converted into another amino acid, so you wont get the NO effect. You can order on-line from www.Swansonvitamins.com (They are not responsible for this eBook. I buy from them, too.) This eBook reveals it all. The fact is that by 1998, more than 10,000 peer-reviewed articles were published on NO and arginine. The scientific evidence is overwhelming. But no one has time to read 10,000 jargon-filled studies. With this eBook youll have what you need to take advantage of all the profound research. This book tells you how much of arginine doctors and researchers are recommending that you take to improve your health and love life. Most likely your family doctor has not told you about these scientific breakthroughs. It is outrageous! And why hasnt the American Heart
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Association recommended the amino acid as a first line of treatment for cardiovascular disease! Here is why. Could it be that the American Heart Association is heavily beholden to the $$$ it receives from the drug industry? There are certainly no pharmaceutical-sized profits in a 5 capsule. Nor do you need a $75 appointment with your doctor to get permission to use it. Thats why you wont see a $100,000 booth at any American Heart Association convention to promote the amino acid. Nor will there be any multimillion dollar TV campaigns to Ask your doctor if arginine is right for you. Even if the amino acid is responsible for a Nobel Prize. Which it is. Picture the present health care crisis, including the soaring costs of prescription drugs. These 5 capsules could go a long way towards reducing the nations health care crisis. But you dont have to solve the nations health care crisis to benefit from this information. Just solve the crisis for you and your family! Because by accessing the information in this book you automatically participate in solving the national health care crisis for you. I dont work for the American Heart AssociationAnd I dont work for the $165-billion drug industry. So I dont care if the cardiologists, surgeons and drug companies dont like the competition. Thats tough for them. But its good for you. I work for you! With this eBook you could be saving yourself anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000 in medical expenses. Which might mean the ownership of your home doesnt get taken over by your surgeon or your local hospital! The people at Pfizer and Bayer would rather sell pills that cost $10 a piece to pump up your sex life temporarily. And charge you another four dollars per pill, per day, for your heart medication. Plus another pill or two or three to counteract the harm done by their other pills. Cardiologists and heart surgeons would rather get a big slice of their risky $20,000 to $100,000 surgical procedures.
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com That is why those 10,000 published studies and the Nobel Prize havent done much to change medicine. The research if put into practice by doctors would cut into their bank accounts. Nor will 10,000 additional studies help much either. Not when a 5 capsule conflicts with their $100,000 surgeries and a $165 billion revenue stream from drug sales. The drug makers dont fear studies. They dont even fear 10,000 studies. What they do fear is widespread publicity for 5 capsules that can outdo their boutique-priced pills. Here is a fair warning. If you own any pharmaceutical stocks, you might want to dump them. Better yet, you might buy some stock options that sell short. Why? Because every five cent capsule is another knife to the drug bizs heart. Cardiac anesthesiologists are already weeping. It is no wonder that this book scares all of them: with this information you have another choice. By investing two nickels or two quarters each day, you can actually help to change the history of medicine. Can one book heal you and change medicine forever? Yes, one book can do what 10,000 studies no one has read can do. Yes. Publicity has changed medicine before. Back in the 1950s Jonas Salk, M.D., ended the brick wall of resistance against his polio vaccine. Doctor Salk did it through publicity. Dr. Salk already had the evidence. But there was tremendous resistance to his vaccine from his peers. To break through the wall, he needed to convince the American people. So Dr. Salk went around the drug makers by going directly to the people. He invited the TV cameras in, to see a classroom of children he had vaccinated. His opponents complained about his publicity-seeking methods, probably because he slam-dunked them. As a direct result, parents who were fearful of the paralysis of polio clamored for the vaccine. The people spoke. Voil. Almost every parent and child in America was inoculated as a result. Iron lungs were no longer needed. Make no mistake, it was the
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com publicity that brought success to Dr. Salk and parents everywhere. Had he waited for the approval of the drug companies, his vaccine might not have ever seen the light of day. Its much the same thing with the secret youre about to discover. Except that so far, the drug companies have held the upper hand. But this book has the evidence to crack their stranglehold. Plus, youll have your experience to rely on. Even if this book fails to shake up the medical industry, you will come out the winner. It could be firmer erections or greater lubrication. It could also lower your blood pressure if need be. The drug companies might not like it. But you will! Because once you feel the difference for yourself, the drug companies wont be able to take that away from you! The drug makers want you to continue supporting their old way of doing things. Five-cent amino acids arent part of their plan. But it can be a part of yours. Which makes this book dangerous to their future. You might even start to wonder if their agenda is harmful to you. But it doesnt stop there. Once you have experienced the truth for yourself regarding arginine, youll want to find out about other huge health secrets that just might blow your mind. As my gift to you, Ill be sending you more Huge Health Secrets absolutely free! Doctors and the drug industry want you to think the keys to health are extremely complicated. The most important one is simple: a healthy heart and arteries makes every organ and gland and your skin work better. Id like to bet you 5 that you can have a healthier heart. When you do, all your organs, glands and skin will thank you immensely and quickly. So hold on to your seat; your adventure begins now.
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Chapter 1
A Brief Overview
NO is produced by all the tissues of the body and plays very important roles in the cardiovascular system, the immune system and nervous system. NO is formed from L-arginine. [emphasis added] The PDR For Nutritional Supplements, p.249
Science Magazine names Nitric Oxide the Molecule of the Year. Science Magazine, 1992
You are about to discover that you rely on a simple compound that sticks its NOse into almost every aspect of your biological life, including your sex life. It is Nitric Oxide, or NO for short. NO plays a major role in the performance of both your large and small arteries. It is also absolutely essential to having a vibrant sex life.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com In your lungs, NO pulls the carbon dioxide out of your blood so you can exhale the carbon dioxide. Nitric Oxide also kills bacteria in a most ingenious way. The NO is shot out like water from a squirt gun against the bacterial invader. Squirt, squirt and you have one dead bacterial infection. This next benefit I am about to tell you about is simply astounding. Nitric oxide a gas lays down your long-term memory! Imagine making a solid, lasting substance just by swirling the air. If you could do that, you might be considered the greatest of magicians or a God. Yet you do make a solid substance from gas every time you lay down long-term memory in your brain and nervous system. You are a powerful creator. You just need to have the proper amount of material in your body to create it. That substance is arginine, an amino acid. Arginine can also help you to make more lean muscle. Muscles are your fat burners. With more lean muscle you will naturally tire less easily and burn more fat. Thats because muscles have ovens in them called mitochondria. So every time you add a lean muscle cell, you are making it easier to lose excess fat. NO is also essential for successful sexual intercourse. It does this by improving the health of your arteries in two ways. First, NO relaxes your arteries. Secondly, NO comes from arginine which repairs damaged arteries. You can do all of the above for 5 a capsule. Viagra, schmiagra who needs it? Viagra doesnt help improve your memory, and it doesnt increase your lean muscle either. Nor does Viagra repair your arteries. Viagra and the rest of those impotence pills dont have a bacterial squirt gun with NO inside. For ten bucks a pill they ought to shine your shoes. Dont waste your money. Lets take a quick look at your heart and arteries. As you know, your heart provides the driving force that pushes your blood through your blood vessels. Every organ and gland in your body depends on your blood vessels
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com a 75,000 mile river of life. If you spend $50,000 or more for bypass surgery, you are fixing a mere six inches of your problem. Your large and small arteries have smooth muscles that expand or contract as needed to make sure that the proper amount of blood gets to where it is needed most. If your heart or your arteries arent performing they way they should, one or more of your organs could get dehydrated. Thats not good. Having clogged fuel injectors could reduce your gas mileage, so to speak. If the situation worsens, you can throw a rod and your engine dies. I am not just talking about your heart, because it is not just your heart that is threatened when your smaller arteries arent working quite right. Even a subtle impairment of your small arteries can hurt you because every one of your organs and glands are counting on those smaller arteries all the time. I could mention an endless list of diseases that are caused or worsened by inadequate blood flow. Rather than checking to see if your ailments are listed, however, it might be more helpful to ask yourself this question, Which of my ailments is helped by impaired circulation and dehydration? The answer is none of course. You simply cant be healthy if your organs are cheated of the liquid and nutrients they need. Now ask yourself, Which of my ailments could be made worse by impaired circulation? You know the answer to that one, too: all of them. What is the first thing that happens when there is subtle impairment and dehydration? Tiredness. Do you tire more easily than you did when you were 15? If your doctor says to you that tiredness is just a natural part of aging, you might ask him what aging is, and why you age more on some days than others. Speaking personally, I have noticed that there have been occasions in my life where it seemed that I had aged a year or two in one night. On those morning, I felt tired, puffy faced, baggy-eyed, and just plain looked older. On those days, I felt really tired. Maybe you have had a similar experience.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com On other occasions I have awakened, only to discover that I have deaged a year overnight. On those occasions I feel energized, my eyes shine, and my cheeks look more alive. I am a day older, but my body feels a year younger. On those days I felt great not tired. My experience tells me that aging isnt related to my age. It is tiredness that causes aging not aging that causes tiredness! So what is probably the #1 cause of tiredness? The answer could be subtle, or not so subtle, impaired circulation. In extreme cases, people have described that they were overcome by fatigue, and a week later they have a fatal heart attack. Fatal heart attacks occur over one-million times a year in the US, so even though it is extreme, fatal tiredness is not necessarily rare. This doesnt mean that if you have unexplained tiredness that your are going to have a heart attack tomorrow. But unexplained tiredness might mean you are going to die of a heart attack in twenty years. Meanwhile, the impaired flow of blood could cause all manner of illness to any organ. It could also mean you are going to have more bouts of fatigue during those twenty years. If you dont want to feel more and more tired for the rest of your life, any unnatural tiredness you experience ought to be addressed. What do I mean by unnatural tiredness. Let me answer that in a radical way. If you dont feel like a healthy 18-year old, you are probably experiencing some subtle impairment of your arteries. Of course, all of us have probably lost a bit of the arterial flexibility we had when we were eighteen. Can we get back to the way we felt when we were 18? That depends if youre 28, 38 or 88. Meanwhile, the surprising news is there are too many eighteen-year olds today whose arteries arent functioning the way they should either. The number of teenagers with clogged arteries is increasing daily. Besides, the goal neednt be to live forever with the arteries of a eighteen-year old. But we can increase the number of nights where we deage overnight, rather than suddenly age. Wouldnt it be great if you could grow two days younger every night? You can.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com For instance, I am 54. When I was 42, I felt like I was 54, going on 64. Today, I feel like I am closer to 42. I would like to get back to how I felt when I was 35 or 30. Most days I seem to be headed in that direction. I should tell you that I am not the perfect example because I still eat junk food more than I should. But despite my mediocre eating habits and lack of exercise, my health is better than it was at 42. At that time, I had significant daily and nightly pain. I awoke each night in pain. I slept no more than four hours a night. That is when my sexual function started to slow down. Over time, I became at least partially impotent. My desire for sex also slowly decreased. Both conditions worsened over time. (The lack of desire was actually a blessing. I cant imagine what why life would have been like if I had a strong desire but little ability to perform.) Today, I use arginine. By taking it regularly, sometimes I can have sex twice in one night and every night if I want to. When I dont take it regularly, my deisre and ability drop. But more importantly, my organs arent being starved of the fluid and nutrients they need. So I sleep a little better. Fixing my impaired circulation is a major key to making my organs and me feel younger. I thank God that there is the natural amino acid called arginine that helps to make both possible. Arginine has helped repair my arterial tissue. It is also my #1 donor of NO, which is directly involved in allowing healthy sex to happen.. So lets take a closer look at arginine and NO.
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Chapter 2
Nitric Oxide [is] found ubiquitously in mammals. [An] effector molecule synthesized from arginine that participates in many diverse biological actions, including neurotransmission [nervous system], vasodilation [blood pressure], cytotoxicity of macrophages [immune system], and inhibits platelet aggregation [clogged arteries]. Merck Index, 12th Edition 1996, pg. 1131
The quote above is from the leading drug industry publication. They know about arginine. They know it! But they havent tell you that, have they? As was mentioned before, your arterial smooth muscles have the ability to open up some arteries while simultaneously contracting others. For instance, if you walk up a couple flights of stairs, the arteries in your legs will open up to get extra oxygen to your leg muscles. Meanwhile, the arteries in your digestive system might stay contracted, in order to allow more blood to travel to your leg muscles. Plus, your heart will help out by pumping harder to make sure that your blood can cover more territory in the same amount of time. On the other hand, after a meal the arteries of the digestive system will widen while the arteries in your extremities will probably narrow down a bit. Despite the complexity of the circulatory function, your body usually handles this process exceedingly well. It all seems so easy, yet it happens
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com with great precision. What could possibly be responsible for opening and closing so may arteries simultaneously? The process is able to work smoothly due to Nitric Oxide, a simple gas. When NO is released into an arterial muscle, that artery relaxes. When NO is not released, the same artery stays more contracted. The crucial role of NO wasnt known by medical science until 1988. In fact, only a few people knew about it back then. Oftentimes within the scientific community, new scientific news travels slowly or is mightily resisted. Yet, NO has received a tremendous amount of attention and widespread acceptance from scientists in the last decade or so, due to its monumental importance in human health. By 1996, the 12th Edition of the Merck Index, the technical Bible of the pharmaceutical industry, noted the following biological properties of Nitric Oxide: Nitric Oxide [is] found ubiquitously in mammals. [An] effector molecule synthesized from arginine that participates in many diverse biological actions, including neurotransmission [long term memory], vasodilation [relaxes arteries], cytotoxicity of macrophages [kills bacteria, etc.], and inhibits platelet aggregation [stops clogged arteries]. Merck is a big drug company. They produce billions in drug revenues each year. They probably know what is in their own book. So does the rest of the industry. But that surge of awareness in NO within the scientific community hasnt found its way very much into the awareness of the general public as yet. Nor has it seeped into the awareness of your family doctor or cardiologist yet. This book was written to help correct all that. There are two parts to the medical community. The first part is the research community. The second part is the one your doctor belongs to. The two groups travel in different circles, crossing paths only occasionally. The knowledge garnered by the first group doesnt reach the second group if there is no money to be made on it. The research community talks to the drug makers, not to the practicing physician. The drug makers stay in contact with your doctor through salespeople called drug
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com reps. Probably all of your doctors rely on drug reps rather than the scientific literature to prescribe treatments. Oh sure, there are medical journals that the doctors subscribe to. But the doctors then rely on the drug makers to use the published research to make drugs. The drug companies are all too happy with the arrangement. Except during the Internet stock bubble which promptly burst, the drug industry has been the perennial top dog when it comes to profitability, according to Fortune magazine. In at least one year, that industry was #1 out of 33 different industries in all three of the ways Fortune measured profitability. I can guarantee you that there is no drug rep praising arginine as a solution for anything. Hed be broke if he did. There is little danger of drug reps informing the doctors on their beat about arginine and NO, because the drug reps probably dont even know about arginine and NO. I do. So I am telling you. The scientific news is so recent, and so little is known by the public, that if you or he had heard about NO at all, it was probably for its negative role in air pollution and acid rain. We wont be talking about that nitric oxide. What we will be talking about is the nitric oxide that your body makes out of the food you eat. Our foods dont actually contain NO, or at least they shouldnt unless youre eating your meals sitting behind an idling truck. But many foods contain the amino acid called arginine. One of the ingredients in arginine is nitrogen. Arginine is our main donor of nitrogen. Our bodies then convert the nitrogen into nitric oxide. The great news is that arginine is also available in supplemental form. Here is more good news arginine is cheap. You can get arginine almost anywhere including from Swansons Health Products. I have bought it from them for as little as $4.19 for a bottle of 100 capsules. Here is their web address again: www.swansonvitamins.com .
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com But the best news of all is that arginine and the NO it makes can reverse decades of damage in your body. So even if you already have high blood pressure, hardening of your arteries, high cholesterol, impotence or certain lung problems, there is real hope for you. The scientific literature is chock full of patients with advanced health problems such as high blood pressure who were helped immensely. In many cases their high blood pressure returned to normal in just a few weeks! When we think of heart and arterial health, it is quite natural to think in terms of preventing heart attacks and strokes. But I cannot emphasize too much that we need to think in new ways about arterial health. Long before a person has a heart attack, impaired circulation can cause your organs and glands to suffer. So you can suffer with any number of seemingly unrelated health conditions due to impaired circulation. If you come away from this book with only one thing memorized, let it be the following: Impaired circulation always makes any health problem worse. Improved circulation aids in your recovery from any and all health problems. For starters, if your heart starts pumping, but your arteries wont open up sufficiently, tiredness will appear prematurely. Thats because your muscles and organs wont get enough oxygen, water and nutrients. But there is more. I have held back one of the miracles performed by nitric oxide. NO physically transports oxygen into the capillaries, the thinnest arterial vessels. Without the NO, the oxygen would move passively at best. But the NO gives the process a boost. The nitric oxide also actively makes the exchange between oxygen and carbon dioxide. So you get more oxygen in and more waste material out. Alleluia! It is easy to see why then, that when your organs and muscles are deprived of NO, sluggishness is pratically guaranteed. Continued deprivation results in organ impairment, pain and disease over time.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com The person doesnt necessarily die they just become impotent. Or they run out of gas before a typical day ends. Both literally and figuratively. Why? Because the persons liver, pancreas, spleen, colon, intestines, brain, uterus, penis, thymus, or whatever is frequently being shortchanged and dried out. That is exactly what the problem is for many people with chronic high blood pressure and hardened arteries. Their arteries and arterioles just wont widen the way they are supposed to. Plus, the oxygen/carbon dioxide handoff isnt made into and out of your cells. Without the exchange, your cells can become a storage house for too much carbon dioxide. If we were potted plants, an added amount of carbon dioxide might be lovely. But we arent potted plants. So too much carbon dioxide in our cells is a bad thing. After a few decades of subtly increasing fatigue due to inadequate arginine and NO, a heart attack finally shows up. The heart attack is often the final signal of many signals that the victim was short on NO for years, if not for several decades. That scenario is not something that only happens to men. The leading cause of death for women is not cancer but heart disease! Strokes also cripple or kill hundreds of thousands of women each year. The NO epidemic strikes both sexes. Sometimes it kills. More often it produces sexual failure for both men and women.
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Chapter 3
A BRIEF TIMEOUT TO SWEAR AT DOCTORS
Your doctor definitely wont want to read this. But if you could indulge me for a minute, I would like to b****slap almost every family physician and heart surgeon in the US. Not your doctor of course, just all the other doctors except yours. Still you might feel it is unfair for me to cuss the other doctors out. Furthermore, your doctors are probably kinder people than a curmudgeonly crank like me. Who am I to criticize? So if you want to skip this part, please feel free to go on to the next section. It is worthwhile, nonetheless, to thrash physicians with more than a hairbrush at this point. Because the story of NO and arginine is a clear indicator of just how rotten modern medicine is. A thorough overhaul is needed, but until we understand the depth of the corruption, we might continue to accept the status quo. Most doctors are dedicated, and yes, kind to their patients. Doctors truly want to alleviate their patients ills. Not one doctor goes to the office thinking, How can I make my patients sicker today. But they do it anyway they make their patients sicker. Not just one or two patients are made sicker, but just about every one of them. Including you.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Please keep in mind that reducing your symptoms is not the same thing as making you well. For example, medical doctors think they can cheat heart disease by performing bypass surgery. I will bet you that there are chest-crackers who have done a thousand heart surgeries or more without ever treating a single one of their patients with 5 capsules of arginine first. If you think for even a moment about that cut first approach used by most doctors, you will quickly realize just how pathetic modern medicine is. Their knives wont relax arteries deprived of NO, and their saw blades wont correct any long-standing impaired circulation in their patients other organs. Some doctors might try to defend themselves by arguing that their patients failed to get better on FDA-approved drugs. So surgery was the only remaining option for them to undertake. That defense doesnt pass the laugh test. The major peer review journals have repeatedly published articles that have pointed out how effective nitric oxide and arginine are in reversing all sorts of arterial diseases. Yet your doctors never prescribe it. Why? Here are a couple of scenarios that might help to answer that question. Scenario #1. You go to the cardiac surgeon with a serious heart problem. He reviews your angiogram and prescribes five or six grams of arginine a day for you. After six weeks you return to the same doctor feeling a little perkier. He finds that your blood pressure and cholesterol have returned to normal. He reduces the arginine to four grams and tells you to come back in six weeks. You do. This time he reduces his recommendation to three grams. You tell him that your wife wants to start taking some to keep up with you. He suggests two grams for her. He earns maybe $1,200 for your three visits. Scenario #2. You go to a cardiac surgeon with a serious heart problem. He is wonderful and kind. He reviews the identical angiogram as above and prescribes an immediate, complicated bypass surgery. Like 96% of his
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com patients, you dont die in the first 24 hours after surgery, although you do end up with bypass memory a common condition among bypass patients. Bypass memory is a loss of memory. Your ribs hurt like hell, so your sleep is affected. You surgeon collects for his services and purchases a Lexus on his way home from the office. Six months later, you develop another blockage because your doctor only fixed six inches of your 75,000 miles of blood vessels. You know you are still alive because your ribs remind you of that fact every day. Plus, now a whole foot of your 75,000 mile circulatory system is fixed. Meanwhile, not even the 12 inches that were replaced are producing any more NO than before to protect and relax your arteries. So your disease continues. Your various organs continue to suffer the effects of impaired circulation. Because of your emotional investment in the surgeries, you tell everyone about your surgery and your wonderful doctor. But you do cancel your plans to buy that home in Florida, not just because of the extra medical costs you incurred. You just dont feel up to it anymore. Your wonderful surgeon buys a brand new boat this time. The beat goes on.
Why would a doctor prescribe an effective 5 capsule when he can peel off $70,000 for a single surgery? The truth is simple: surgery pays better. Id like to know what it feels like to have an additional twenty to seventy grand in my wallet after a hard days work, wouldnt you? Just so you know it, I am all for you owning a Lexus and the biggest, best boat you can find. You ought to have one of each. You should. You might even invite your doctor out for a Sunday sail on your boat. When is the last time your doctor took you out on his? Here is a news flash to every doctor who cuts first: You know better. Shame on you.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Here is another news flash to you, the reader: Dont be a six-inch surgical sucker. Arginine can do more to repair your arteries than the sharpest scalpel. As for going the drug route, there is not one ACE inhibitor, one statin, one diuretic, one beta blocker, etc., etc., etc., that will provide even one gram of arginine for your body. But your doctors drug reps thank you anyway. You have miles and miles of arteries. As you get older, they need more help. Neither surgery nor drugs can heal your damaged arteries. Arginine can. Shouldnt it be your first choice?
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Chapter 4
How It All Began: The discovery of NOs role in relaxing arteries
Not much research was conducted on arginine until about sixteen years ago. There was almost research on NO until 1988. Almost nothing was studied concerning NO and humans. In fact, it was quite a shock to the scientific community to learn that a simple puff of a lowly gas could do so much. In 1980, Dr. Robert Furchgott discovered that there was an unknown substance contained in the tissue that wrapped around the inside of the arteries which enabled those arteries to relax. Not much was thought of that inner lining. That inner lining is called endothelial tissue. Furchgott was unable to identify the mysterious substance in the tissue, but he was able to demonstrate that the substance responsible for arterial relaxation was located there. His proof was simple. In the lab, when the endothelial tissue was still present in rabbit arteries, those arteries still had the ability to expand. But when the single-layered endothelial tissue was removed, those arteries were unable to expand. By 1988, three scientists isolated this relaxing factor for arteries. They discovered that it was Nitric Oxide, and the race was on.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Why a race? Because the simple processes of relaxing and contracting the blood vessels is so critically important to proper health that it just couldnt be set aside. Also, the discovery was so unexpected, it simply stunned the scientific community. No one would have predicted that a simple gas made from a mere two chemical elements that remain intact for a mere five seconds could have such a profound effect on human physiology. The result of that race produced over 10,000 studies on NO and arginine during the first eight years of the 1990s. As early as 1992, the highly respected journal Science Magazine called Nitric Oxide the Molecule of the Year. (Thats quite an honor considering how many thousands, if not millions, of compounds they had to choose from.) In 1996, two scientists, Drs. Furchgott and Ferid Murad, were singled out for their research on NO by being honored with the prestigious Lasker Award. Many believe, including Science Magazine, that this award is the highest scientific honor one can receive, other than the Nobel Prize itself. Two years later the same two researchers would be selected by the Nobel Committee as well as their recipients of the Nobel Prize in Medicine. (The Nobel Committee included a third researcher by the name of Dr. Louis Ignarro.) Meanwhile, researchers around the globe have been tweaking almost every possible organ in the body to see if NO has a role in additional functions. Of course, since NO plays such a key role in making sure that blood gets to every organ in adequate amounts, one could say that there is no organ, gland or system that doesnt depend quite heavily on the proper amount of NO in our smooth muscle tissue. That means the brain, heart, kidneys, lung, liver, pancreas, adrenals, vagina, uterus, penis, prostate, eyes, ears, bones, intestines and so on are counting on your body to have enough NO where it is needed in those smooth muscles. But it turns out that NO is indeed found in every tissue of the body, according to the PDR for Nutritional Substances: NO is produced by all the tissues of the body and plays very important roles in the
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com cardiovascular system, the immune system and nervous system. NO is formed from L-arginine. The PDR for Nutritional Substances is put out by the same publisher as the original Physicians Desk Reference. Once again, it becomes clear that in the research literature arginine and NO are recognized by the drug industry to be effective agents for ensuring your health. But do you imagine that your doctors are taking that book to bed with them at night? Not likely. Their attitude is generally this: Why should I? If there is something important, the drug manufacturers will isolate it and offer me free four-star dinners to inform me of their discovery.
It is all very cozy. Your doctor gets a fantastic dinner for free paid for by you know who, plus the doctor continues to be needed by his patients who can only get their prescriptions from a licensed physician. Everybody wins, so long as you are either a drug company salesman or a prescribing physician. It is no accident that Yachting Magazine has a lot of subscribers who are physicians. But those days are numbered. Many years ago, it was the 5 Pepsi that put Coca-Cola on the run. Today, 5 arginine is about to flatten or perhaps deflate the profits of more than a few pill companies. On the upside, the same 5 solution might enable more non-medical people to enjoy the yachts and luxury cars they have often dreamed of having. That is allowed, isnt it? I mean, you dont have to be a surgeon to own a sleeps six boat, do you? If you arent paying $500 a month or more for pills, plus $10,000 for your deductable for surgery, the new car or the boat becomes greater possibility, doesnt it? Oh, I am sorry; there I go kicking the poor doctors and the big time pill pushers. It is a shame they have all that education, only to waste much of it unintentionally hurting people.
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Chapter 5
How Much Arginine Do Doctors Recommend?
In a moment, well discuss some of the particulars of how NO helps us in so many ways. But first youll want to know that a healthy American diet provides about 5.4 grams of arginine each day, according to the 1986 report in the Journal of Nutrition. It doesnt need to be pointed out that in this day of fast-food restaurants, Super Fries, and 32-ounce diet soft drinks, our typical diets might not provide all of the arginine that we need. In more recent years the average daily intake of arginine has declined to far less than five grams per day. In fact until recent days, much of the dietary advice that we often hear tells us to avoid or reduce the foods which contain the most arginine. The foods with the highest levels of arginine are meats, poultry, fish, dairy products, and eggs. Nuts and seeds also contain substantial amounts of arginine. Other than fish, we are constantly being told to limit our intake of those higher fat foods. Protein-rich diets such as Atkins, South Beach, and others do promote the intake of those arginine-rich foods. It is with little wonder that Drs. Robert Fried and Woodson Merrell, co-authors of the book, The Arginine Solution, have suggested
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com supplementing the diet with 4 to 6 additional grams of arginine each day. You will discover that in some studies, supplementation with those amounts and less have produced some fairly remarkable results. On the other end of dosing, Fried and Merrell point out that many weight lifters have used levels of arginine supplementation far in excess of four to six grams without apparent harm. One study using 17 grams per day by weight lifters was well tolerated and appeared to increase secretion of pituitary growth hormones associated with increasing lean muscle mass and loss of fat. So far, the FDA has established no recommended daily allowances for arginine or for any amino acid. While the FDA does keep a record of adverse reports on nutritional products, they have reported only two cases singling out arginine thus far. The FDA has not confirmed that arginine was actually responsible for either of the two alleged adverse reports. In comparison, aspirin generates thousands of adverse reports and causes thousands of deaths each year in the US. It is almost too funny, except that thousands of deaths are involved. Meanwhile, Bayer keeps advertising the benefits of aspirin for heart health. It would seem those darn aspirin are killing a heck of a lot of people with healthy hearts. Meanwhile the FDA is mum about the deaths caused by aspirin and mum about arginine.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Chapter 5
Arginine, Cholesterol and hardening of your arteries
Nitric Oxide formed from supplemental L-arginine can play a major role in the possible anti-arthergenic [anti hardening of your arteries] activity of L-arginine. Nitric Oxide inhibits cell adhesions [sticking together], platelet aggregation [clumping].All are part of the process of [hardening of your arteries.] L-arginine may also have [anti-hardening of the arteries] activities independent of its role in the enzymatic formation of Nitric Oxide. The Physicians Desk Reference For Nutritional Supplements, p.250
The first specific area of benefit we should look at is in the way NO protects the blood vessels from hardening of the arteries. Thats because a hardened artery contributes to and is the leading cause of high blood pressure. There are several steps that occur which results in hardened arteries, with the final step being calcium deposits in the blood vessels. Picture a sea shell for a moment. It has lots of calcium in it. Thats great for the rough and tumble world of the ocean, but not so great for making your arteries pliable so that they can expand and contract. The calcium deposit is just the last step in a negative biological process. The first step to ruination is the presence of bad, or oxidized, cholesterol.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Youve probably heard about good and bad cholesterol before. The good stuff has a high density, whereas the bad has a low density. The PDR for Nutritional Substances calls low density cholesterol LDL. To be even more specific, the actual culprit appears to be low density cholesterol that has also oxidized, or extra low density LDLs. The PDR for Nutritional Substances identifies those extra low density LDLs as oxLDL. When it comes to oxLDL and L-arginine, the PDR for Nutritional Substances pulls no punches: L-Arginine has been found to inhibit the oxidation of LDLs to oxLDLs. The oxidation of LDL to oxLDL is believed to be a pivotal early step in [hardening of the arteries.] [underline added]
Oxidized means its unstable. We know how unstable people act; they often cause trouble. Unstable cholesterol molecules are the troublemakers of the arterial realm. Oxygen atoms like to be married to another oxygen molecule. But oxidized cholesterol has an unmarried oxygen atom. I like to think of them as an oxygen Adam and Eve. Those oxygen Adams can scratch the interior surface of the vessel walls while looking for an oxygen Eve. One area of the body where oxidation damage is well recognized by the medical community is in the eyes. It is a major contributor to blindness in the elderly. Any substance that can halt oxidation in the eyes would also rescue many elderly from loss of their eye sight. The reason that the eyes are the first areas for oxidative damage to be recognized is that the eyes are far easier to observe than interior blood vessels. Once oxidation happens anywhere in the bloodstream, an arterial rescue committee steps in. The first members of the rescue committee are called platelets, because they are tiny, and their shape resembles plates. They swoop in to
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com repair the mess left by the oxidized cholesterol. The platelets are followed up by other patching cells called foam cells. The final patching ingredient is calcium. As the number of injuries to a specific location increases, so does the amount of calcium. The excess calcium makes the arteries hard. Thus the name hardening of the arteries. I recently read about a heart surgeon who had a surgical patient whose artery was so hardened that the doctor was unable to make an incision with his scalpel! If that is difficult to imagine, picture what it would be like to cut a clam shell with a scalpel. In the process of fixing the leak, the patched up arterial wall also becomes thicker. The thickening can create congestion and lead to a blocked artery. When that occurs, the blood supply to the heart is compromised and a portion of the heart tissue can start to die. Now it would be easy to gripe about the thickening produced by the platelets, but without their stop-gap measures, you or I could end up springing a leak in our arteries. When that happens near the brain, a stroke ensues. Elsewhere, it could produce internal bleeding. Sometimes the internal bleeding results in death. This happens more often than people realize. Too many aspirin or other pain relievers can be the prime cause. So a few extra platelets in the vessel wall is the far better choice of the two alternatives. But getting back to the calcium: According to the medical textbook Cardiovascular Medicine, the average 45-year-old mans arteries have typically lost about 50% of their interior diameter due to the repeated process of patching up the damage. Due to the thickening walls, the thin endothelial tissues which cover the interior of your arteries can also be damaged. Plus, fewer nutrients can pass through the thickened membrane into the endothelial tissue. Endothelial tissue is a major nitric oxide manufacturing site. If your endothelial tissue suffers due to a lack of oxygen or nutrients, your NO will either be of poorer quality or less abundant in that area of the artery. Without an adequate supply of NO the blood vessels can lose their
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com ability to relax the way they should. Which means higher blood pressure. As a result, a hardened artery suffers in at least two ways: A hardened, calcified artery restricts the ability of the artery to expand when needed even in the presence of NO. The subsequent starvation of the inner tissue impairs the production of NO, which would otherwise chemically relax a healthy artery when needed.
You probably remember the story of a war that was lost because a horse lost a nail from its shoe. The battle for health and life can also be lost from a simple deterioration due to the bad oxidized cholesterol. Not only does the oxidation process produce clogged and brittle arteries, it also contributes mightily to high blood pressure since the main source of arterial relaxing factor (NO) is depleted. But there is good news lots of it. Nitric Oxide is the good sheriff of the blood stream. Nitric oxide helps in two ways. It protects both the inside of your arteries. NO also helps to prevent the LDL cholesterol from turning into oxLDL. Keep in mind that the ox- form is the one that starts the whole dwonhill process. Here is a critically important point to note: It is only by correcting the oxidized cholesterol problem at the beginning that the final danger can be avoided. And as discussed before, NO is also the chemical that enables your arteries to relax when needed, according to the Nobel Prize winning scientists. In fact, that discovery is what caught the eyes of the Nobel Committee. Prescription medications dont nip the problem at the source, which means your problem doesnt really get solved. Yet millions of people each year are treated for the problem with prescription drugs. Certain medications do act to lower your blood pressure and others have demonstrated their ability to reduce cholesterol for many. Millions upon millions of people have chosen that solution to varying degrees of success. But the real disease continues.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Arginine appears to offer an even better solution for most of those people if the studies are to be believed. For example in 1997, researchers from Hanover Germany, led by Dr. Rainier H. Boger, did a head-to-head comparison of arginine supplementation against lovastatin (Mevacor.) Mevacor was considered at that time to be the best, the latest, and the greatest of the heart drugs for reducing cholesterol. The researchers used rabbits for their study since its unethical to stuff humans with cholesterol to see how theyll react. (That type of study is reserved for the millions of weekend, couch-potato-chip sports fans.) Surely, the highly touted statin drug would trump a simple amino acid in a head-to-head test. But that was not to be the case. As was published in the August of 1997 issue of Circulation, the authors of the study wrote, lovastatin had a weaker inhibitory effect on carotid plaque formation and [vessel wall] thickening of the aorta than did the arginine fed rabbits.1 [Emphasis added.] In regular English, the expensive drug lost. More calcium deposits were seen with the statin drug. Thicker walls were also observed. Both outcomes are bad. But it doesnt end there. According to the study, the lovastatin excited the oxidizing process. Excited the oxidizing process!! That is the last outcome that a patient wants if they require a cholesterol lowering drug. If you excite the oxidizing process, you are promoting cell wall injury which leads to calcium deposits. Of course, the NO from arginine acts to quiet oxidation. Without question, the last thing that a person with elevated cholesterol wants to do is to excite the activity of any oxidizing cholesterol they might have. Does this mean someone will drop dead immediately if they continue ingesting lovastatin? Probably not, but it ought to be obvious that taking a drug that can increase calcium deposits might not be the wisest approach. If there were no such thing as NO, then lovastatin might be the way to go because it does reduce cholesterol readings. But even that accomplishment is questionable. Research has shown that 50% of all heart
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Boger, R.H., Bode-Boger, S. M., et al Dietary L-Arginine Reduces the Progression of Atherosclerosis in Cholesterol Fed Rabbits: Comparison with Lovastatin, Circulation , 96 (1997), 1282-1290. 34
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com attack victims had normal or low cholesterol readings. If you reduce a meaningless cholesterol number, but you increase plaque production in your arteries, are you healthier or less healthy? Doesnt it make sense to use the best medicine available. The German study points away from lovastatin and towards arginine. Nevertheless, we can be reasonably certain that not one lovastatin drug rep is bringing the results of that study to the attention of practicing cardiologists and general practitioners. One could argue that Dr. Bogers lovastatin study doesnt mean all that much because we arent rabbits. The good news is there are human studies which demonstrate that arginine reduces cholesterol levels in humans who already have advanced heart disease. For example, The Lancet reported in 1991 that arginine injections resulted in an improved ability of arteries to relax in patients with advanced disease and elevated cholesterol. The authors reported that the arginine injections had much the same effect as did the cholesterol drugs.2 The New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study in 1993 with similar results. The patients in that study suffered from high cholesterol, high blood pressure and advanced arterial disease. Injections of arginine produced lower cholesterol for up to 12 hours after only a week of slow-drip injections.3 It should be noted that injections typically produce faster responses and also wear off more quickly. Hence the reduction of cholesterol might have lasted longer had the patients been provided oral doses. Additional studies have demonstrated that to be the case. In another study involving an elderly population, 17 grams of arginine were provided each day for two weeks. The patients experienced lower cholesterol readings. Despite the high dosage amongst seniors, no harmful effects were observed. One of the important positive findings of that study is that patients low density
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Stroes, E.S.G., Koomans, H.A. et al, Vascular Function in the Forearm of Hypercholesterolaemic Patients off and on Lipid-Lowering Medication, The Lancet, 346 (1995) 467-471. 3 Korbut, R., Bieron, K. et al, Effect of L-Arginine on Plasminogen-Activator Inhibitor in Hypertensive Patients with Hypercholesterolaemia, the New England Journal of Medicine, 328 (1993), 287-288. 35
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com cholesterol dropped while their high density cholesterol readings were not affected.4 (Improving the ratio between the two types of lipids is considered to be an important consideration in any cholesterol treatment.)
In 1995, Circulation published a study in which long-term oral doses of arginine reduced the thickness of the arterial walls! That study would indicate that arginine has the ability not to just reduce symptoms but to reverse the previous tissue damage caused by oxidized cholesterol. Those results were achieved in patients who suffered from both high cholesterol and hardening of the arteries.5
Circulation reported on a study in 1996 in which seven grams of oral arginine helped to improve blood flow amongst elderly smokers.6 Smoking damages the endothelial tissues, so it is striking that arginine could slow that process down and even reverse it. Seven grams of arginine taken orally also improved arterial dilation in a group of young men who had both high cholesterol and coronary artery disease. The improvements showed up in as early as three days!7 It is truly remarkable that one substance, namely arginine, could do so many positive things. There is not one heart drug that can equal arginine in that way. Furthermore, all the prescription drugs also produce harmful effects. Meanwhile is the word getting out? The drug reps who call on doctors are not paid to bring those stunning studies to the attention of
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Hurson, M., Regan, M.C., et al, Metabolic effects of Arginine on a Healthy Elderly Population, Journal of Parenteral & Enteral Nutrition, 19 (1995), 227-230. 5 Bokelman, T.A., Wallhaus, T.R., et al, Oral L-Arginine Augments Abnormal Endothelium-Dependent Skeletal Muscle Vasodilation in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease, Circulation, Supplement I, 92, (1995), 20. 6 Zeiher, A.M., Schachinger, V., et al, Long-term Cigarette Smoking Impairs Endothelium Dependent Coronary Arterial Vasodilator Function, Circulation, 92 (1995) 1094-1100. 7 Clarkson, P., Adams, M.R. et al, Oral L-Arginine Improves Endothelium-Dependent Dilation in Hypercholesterolemic Young Adults, Circulation, Supplement I, 92 (1995), 366. 36
by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com physicians. Nor are you likely to find an Arginine booth at the annual cardiologists conventions. You would find Pfizer, Glaxo Wellcome, Squibb, Merk, Bayer, etc., spending tens of thousands of dollars for their elaborate convention hall booths and freebies. Ironically, the drug company sponsors are also likely to be providing plenty of free arginine-rich food like roast beef, buffalo wings, nuts and cheese to those who attend. But now that you have the information, you could ask your doctor to assist you in a program to wean yourself from any cholesterol medications you might be taking. It is my hope that every single person stop using these inferior FDA approved drugs with the aid of their prescribing physician. The FDA-approved heart drugs are all inferior to arginine for the following reasons: None of the drugs increase arginine levels. None of drugs increase Nitric Oxide levels. None of drugs repair the interior walls of arteries. All of the drugs have harmful effects, such as kidney and liver damage
A definite word of caution is in order at this point. It is almost never a good idea to stop taking a heart medication, including lovastatin without working closely with your doctor. With many heart drugs, stopping suddenly can hurt you. As you to switch to arginine, do it with your doctors supervision.
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Chapter 6
Arginine and High Blood Pressure
You know know how arginine can protect you from oxidized cholesterol. That bad cholesterol can lead to high blood pressure due to its tendency to cause hardening of the arteries. Arginine also acts directly to lower elevated blood pressure. Just as oxidized cholesterol can indirectly cause high blood pressure, high blood pressure can contribute to damage inside the arterial walls which starts the cycle of clogging. Thus bad cholesterol and high blood pressure are like an evil tag-team from professional wrestling. When you try to treat one without factoring in the other, the other one is likely to sneak up on you and thump you in your chest or head. It could also kick you in the groin to leave you impotent or with diminished lubrication. As you will recall, arginine is your main supplier nitrogen for making NO. Much of the NO that your body makes resides in the layer of tissue called the endothelial tissue of the arterial smooth muscles. Its job is to relax your arteries when needed. As long as your arteries can do that, high blood pressure shouldnt be an issue for the vast majority of people. The initial discovery was made in 1980 by Furchgott, who subsequently won the Nobel Prize. Furchgott didnt actually identify NO as the compound responsible for the arterial relaxation response. Instead, he determined that the compound, whatever it was, was to be found in the
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com endothelial tissue. He called it the Endothelium Derived Relaxing Factor, or EDRF for short. Eight years later, Moncada and Higgs were able to show that the EDRF that Furchgott described was in fact NO. (Furchgott also made the same discovery about the same time, but Moncada and Higgs were the first to be published.) Since that time, the major pharmaceutical companies have attempted to design profitable drugs that take advantage of the Furchgott, Moncada and Higgs discoveries. Since the drug companies cant patent arginine, they needed to come up with something else. Viagra and Levitra are examples of applying the knowledge about the NO mechanism in an indirect, if inferior, manner. There is a multitude of drugs that attempt to reduce blood pressure. In many cases, the prescribing physician needs to have his patient try different medications before an effective one is found. Although these drugs often lower blood pressure, they often cause problems of their own. For many men and women, they can produce a feeling of tiredness. There is that word again: tiredness. Isnt feeling tired something that happens when we age? Which means those blood pressure pills can make you feel and look older. Blood pressure medicines can also cause a of loss of sex drive. For men it can mean less frequent, softer, shorter-lasting or nonexistent erections. For women it could mean less lubrication. Lest we men forget, lubrication is essential to having a satisfactory sexual experience for both parties. Sex isnt the only casualty of high blood pressure medications. Headaches, constipation, dizziness, loss of mental ability, and arthritis are just a few of the problems associated with them. In the case of calcium blockers, there is some evidence that they might increase your chances of a second heart attack. In November of 1997, P. Pangotta and his associates presented a paper to an American Heart Associations (AHA) meeting on the effects of
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com two grams of arginine per day taken orally. The title of the report is self explanatory: Oral L-Arginine Supplementation Improves Essential Arterial Hypertension. The dosage was far below what Drs. Fried and Merrell suggest in their book, The Arginine Solution, yet the researchers found that the treatment lowered the participants blood pressure significantly. The paper was subsequently published in the AHA journal Circulation.8 The Journal of the American College of Cardiology chimed in with their own article in 1998. Fourteen patients experienced an average drop in their systolic pressure of 20 points. The drop took place in one week, again with a mere two-gram oral dosage.9 In yet another study, where the average participants blood pressure was about 155 over 95, they experienced about a 30 point drop in the first number and a 22 point drop in the second. That means that their blood pressure was almost perfectly normal. That study was conducted by injection, so the pressure drop was almost immediate.10 It takes longer for oral administration to take effect, but the results appear to be longer lasting. From the studies mentioned above, the time line for achieving the desired effect from injections and oral supplementation might mean the difference between minutes and a week or two. Thus it might be useful for physicians to provide intravenous arginine injections for patients experiencing an acute high blood pressure episode, especially if they are in the danger range. Meanwhile, oral arginine appears to be the medicine of choice for chronic high blood pressure. It cant be stressed enough that, thus far, arginine supplementation hasnt produced the types of side effects so commonly seen with prescription medications. It also appears to work simultaneously on lowering blood pressure and in lowering cholesterol. In the Journal of the American College of Cardiology study the authors noted that arginine appeared to improve the
Pangotta, P., Germano, G., et al, : Oral L-Arginine Supplementation Improves Essential Arterial Hypertension, Circulation, Supplement I, 96 (1997), 3014. 9 Rosano, G.M.C., Panina, G., et al, L-Arginine Improves Endothelial Function in Newly Diagnosed Hypertensives, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Supplement A, 31 (1998), 262A 10 Hishikawa, K., Nakaki, T., et al, L-Arginine As An Antihypertensive Agent, Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Supplement 12, 20 (1992) S196-S197.10 40
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Chapter 7
Do I Want To Keep Bleeding If One of My Arteries Springs a Leak?
Millions of men and women take an aspirin each day to thin their blood. What they are actually doing is not thinning their blood at all. In fact, the description is highly erroneous. Your blood doesnt get one bit thinner by taking aspirin. Aspirin merely makes your platelets malfunction! Your platelets have the same electrical charge as your arterial walls. Like magnets repelling each other, your platelets avoid contact with the walls. But when the arterial wall is injured by oxidation, the wall changes its electrical polarity. Your platelets, are instantly drawn to do their assigned job and immediately attempt to heal the injury. Aspirin merely prevents your platelets from performing properly. So you end up bleeding from your interior arterial wall and with malfunctioning platelets platelets that are unable to do the job they were designed to do. That approach just might be the stupidest solution ever devised by medicine. Which means that recommending aspirin for your heart just might be one of the stupidest ideas ever unless you wanted to sell more aspirins. If you have a clogged artery problem, it makes no sense to create a second problem.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Please remember that bleeding arterial walls can be a serious condition. It can kill a person. If I may, let me express that in a more direct way: bleeding arteries due to aspirin intake kills several people every day. This usually occurs without previor symptoms. Before you take that harmless aspirin, please ask yourself, Do I want to keep bleeding if one of my arteries springs a leak? The reason so many people take aspirin is due to a couple of highly publicized studies. In one study, several thousand physicians took an aspirin a day for several years. Sure enough, they experienced fewer heart attacks and fewer deaths by heart attacks because they had less clogging of their arteries. But what wasnt so widely publicized is that they didnt live any longer. They died of such things as bleeding ulcers, bleeding into their brains and kidney failure. To this day, Bayer continues to promote aspirin as a way to reduce heart disease. You wouldnt break your plates at home. Dear Bayer, why do you recommend we damage the little plates in our bodies? It might also be worth noting that the only aspirin studies which resulted in fewer heart attacks were the ones using aspirin buffered with magnesium! It is thought by many that it was the protective effects of the magnesium that prevented many of the heart attacks and not the aspirin. Magnesium is vital to regulating heart beats. According to Dr. Howard B. Wayne, author of How To Protect Your Heart From Your Doctor, irregular heart beats are far more dangerous to the heart than elevated cholesterol. He writes that 75% of heart attacks are due to irregular heart beats, not clogged arteries. By the way, after treating over 10,000 patients as a board certified cardiologist, Dr. Wayne found that only a half dozen of his patients needed bypass surgery. One of the causes of an irregular heart beat is due to developing an enlarged heart which is a thickening of the walls of the heart. An enlarged heart occurs because the body is trying to compensate for a weak heart beat. The added muscle thickening is a stopgap measure.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com The downside to having a thickened heart is that it can throw off the timing of the heart beats. The beat needs to happen all at once. If different parts of the heart beat at different times, the heart loses its ability to push your blood with enough force to properly feed your organs. Arginine appears to prevent cell proliferation which is how the heart gets thickened, according to the PDR for Nutritional Supplements. Arginine has also been shown to reverse the interior thickening of arteries, so it probably also reverses enlarged hearts.
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Chapter 8
If Your NO Is Low, You Can Forget About It
Now that we seen arginine do wonders for the heart, lets take a look at its ability to help your brain retain its memory function. In the first place, we know that arginine opens up blood vessels and helps prevent clogging. Those abilities in themselves have to be beneficial when it comes to brain function. Your brain uses about 30% of your total bloods circulation even though the organ might weigh only three pounds. It also sucks up about 70% of the glucose supply. So, surely, keeping the blood flow from being impaired to the brain is critical to its optimal function. But there is something else that NO does that is absolutely spectacular! The NO a gas, mind you lays down tracks along the nervous system. Those tracks, which are used to communicate from the brain and to the brain, appear to be how long-term memory takes place. Without those tracks you can forget about it! That incredible function is in addition to the functions in the circulatory system observed by researchers. Between ensuring proper blood circulation to the brain and laying down tracks between the nerve cells, the importance of NO in brain function just cant be over emphasized. Although we cant promise arginine will
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Chapter 9
Stickem Up: Nitric Oxides Role In Slaying Bacteria and Yeast
Another equally spectacular talent of NO is in its immune system role. Your body has quite a few different types of immune cells, each capable of different assignments. So far, three types of immune type cells have been identified that use NO as their secret weapon. Those immune cells are macrophages, fibroblasts and certain liver cells. These cells have one thing in common: the ability to shoot-out puffs of NO gas at bacterial and yeast invaders! The nitric oxide gas can kill several Latin named bad guys: salmonella, E coli, helicobacter pylori, chlamydia and candida albicans. Salmonella is a common bacteria associated with food poisoning, especially from improperly cooked chicken. E coli is best known for killing some children who ate undercooked hamburgers. It is a common cause of food poisoning. Helicobacter pylori is the bacteria that can cause stomach ulcers. Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause sterility. Candida albicans, when in excess, can produce a variety of irritating symptoms from vaginal infections to more systemic conditions.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Since we cant always be 100% sure that every bite we eat will be safe, its important to maintain a strong immune system. The newly discovered cellular squirt guns that use NO as their ammo are a part of that system. The NO works in two ways. One is by simple poisoning. The nitric oxide gas interferes with iron utilization and suffocates the bug. In addition the gas has the ability to block DNA replication thereby killing off any would-be progeny. There may be a role for the gas in preventing the start of cancer as well. There is some indication that multiple myeloma, and Kaposis sarcoma are caused by a type of herpes virus. Since arginine has been found to strengthen the immune system against bacteria, some researchers decided to use it to strengthen the immune system of rats exposed to a known carcinogen. Another group of rats, the ones well call the unlucky ones, received no arginine supplementation. The unlucky rats produced tumors thirteen times more frequently than the arginine fed rats. Furthermore, most of the arginine-fed rats developed benign tumors whereas the unlucky group developed the highly malignant form of cancer known as adenocarcinoma.11 The study indicates that arginine has at least some protective powers against cancer as a preventive measure. Researchers on a separate path found in 1987 that some immune cells produce a substance that fights cancer cells. They named it Tumor Necrosis Factor or TNF. Although TNF hasnt been found to be the total solution the researchers had hoped for, it may play a role in the final answer. Meanwhile, a year after TNF was discovered, researchers in France and the U.S. determined that NO encourages the production of TNF both by lymphocytes and macrophages. At Cornell University researchers demonstrated that macrophages squirt cancer cells with NO. If the NO is able to enter the cancer cell it interferes with the cancer cells ability to replicate.
Takeda, Y., Tominaga, T., et al, Inhibitory Effect of L-Arginine on Growth of Rat Mammary Tumors Induced by 7,12 Dimethylbenzanthracene, Cancer Research, 35 (1975), 2390-2393. 48
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com One aspect of cancer cells is that they develop an ability to seal themselves off from attack by immune cells. So it may be that arginine would have little if any effect once that impervious state is reached by the tumor. Nevertheless, it could be that nitric oxides role is that of an effective stop-gap defense against early-forming cancers. Since many people now believe that our bodies are frequently fighting off would-be cancers, it may be that arginine and NO play a vital role in the constant defense process.
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Chapter 10
Erections, Desire and Lubrication
This year scientists proved definitively that in men, NO translates sexual excitement into potency by causing erections. Science Magazine, 1992, p.1861
The connection between arginine and sexual performance is quite clear. Erections are produced by smooth muscle relaxation of small arteries at the gateways to the penis. The hardest of erections is produced by fluid, namely blood, trapped in the penis. When the gateways relax, blood seeps or pours into the penis, into collection tubes called the corpus cavernosa or body cavern. As the caverns expand they pinch off the veins and slow down the blood that would otherwise return to the heart. A major key to initiating an erection and maintaining it until after ejaculation is a constant supply of nitric oxide. As far back as 1985, the National Institutes of Health estimated that some form of impotence affects 30 million Americans. More recent estimates claim 40 million men. Impotence can be the inability to achieve an erection, or the inability to maintain one. A slower recovery time can be an indication that impotence could be around the corner.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Leading researchers in the field now estimate that 80% of all impotence is directly attributable to some form of NO failure.12 The old notion that impotence is all in the head is dead. Or it should be. (Of course, previous failure to achieve an erection can certainly add to the equation.) Nearly one in four male users of heart medications suffers from erectile dysfunction. Smokers are twice as likely to become impotent. Diabetics also experience higher rates of impotence. For smokers and diabetics the problem can be directly linked to damage to the endothelial tissue. If you or your partner have been effected by this condition of insufficient ability to perform sexually as you would like, take heart. It appears that arginine is probably all most men might need to bounce back. As Dr. Arthur L. Burnett of Johns-Hopkins concluded in The Journal of Urology: Nitric oxide exerts a significant role in the physiology of the penis, operating chiefly as the principle mediator of erectile function. Alterations in the biology of nitric oxide likely account for various forms of erectile dysfunction.13
Science Magazine was even more definite when it announced its selection of the Molecule of the Year in 1992: This year scientists proved definitively that in men, NO translates sexual excitement into potency by causing erections.14 Its already 2004! Have you seen any ads for arginine on TV? One test of 30 impotent men might demonstrate the power of low supplemental doses of arginine over a short time period. The men were divided into two groups of 15. One group was given a mere 2.8 grams of
Rajfer, J., Aronson, W.J., Ignarro, L.J., et al, Nitric Oxide as a Mediator of Relaxation of the Corpus Cavernosum in Response to Nonadrengenic, Noncholinergic, Neurotransmission, The New England Journal of Medicine, 326, (1992), 90-94. 13 Burnett, A.L., Nitric Oxide in the Penis: Physiology and Pathology, The Journal of Urology, 157 (1997), 320-324. 14 Koshland, D.E., The Molecule of the Year, Science Magazine, 258 (1992), 1861-1863. 51
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com oral arginine for two weeks time. Six of the men who were given this minimal dose experienced significant improvement in their ability to achieve an erection. None of the men in the placebo group showed any sign of improvement. It is perhaps ironic that the title of the article described the treatment as Large Doses.15 Weightlifters are known to use 10-20 grams a day for indefinite periods of time. In my own case, I was taking 4-6 grams a day for several days before I experienced a return of normal sexual function and libido. (Now I get the same effect with two grams.) One humorous event dramatically illustrates the power of nitrogen donor compounds in producing erections. A man who had been impotent was prescribed nitroglycerine patches for his heart condition. He found that the patches caused headaches, so he began to place the patches on his legs. He became concerned however that the thick skin on his legs might reduce the absorption which could result in more angina attacks. So the resourceful man placed a patch on his penis. Within five minutes he experienced an erection. Soon afterwards he had sex with his wife for the first time in a very long time. That is where the humor might end. She subsequently developed a bad headache! The entire story was related in the Annals of Internal Medicine.16 Although it wasnt understood at the time, the nitroglycerine proved to be an excellent nitrogen donor for the manufacture of NO. Eleven years later, a group of men who were at least 60 years of age and who had been impotent for at least five years were given nitroglycerine patches. Every single one of the men was able to achieve an erection! Some did experience headaches. That study indicates once again that nitrogen donors can definitely play a role in restoring sexual function to men. The anecdotal evidence is also interesting, to say the least.
Zorgniotti, A.W. and Lizza, E.F., Effect of Large Doses of Nitric Oxide Precursor, L-Arginine, on Erectile Dysfunction, International Journal of Impotence Research, 6 (1994) 33-36. 16 Talley, J.D. and Crawley, I.S., Transdermal Nitrate, Penile Erection, and Spousal headache, Annals of Medicine, 103, (1985), 804. 52
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com As reported in the book Better Sex Through Chemistry, by John Morgenthaler and Dan Joy, one arginine user noted, "It almost doubled my staying power." Another commented, I definitely have stiffer erections and more erections. After I quit taking arginine for a while, I noticed that my [erections] were not as big or as hard or as frequent. The book also reports that, Some women have been reported to have given Larginine to their husbands who had lost interest in sex and soon found a they had a re-aroused mate on their hands. Arginine also appears to improve the motile function of sperm. Rather than going into all the details, a story of two infertile couples who started taking arginine might illustrate it best. In both cases the husbands had low sperm counts. The account comes from a 1991 newsletter by Durk Pearson and Sandy Shaw called Lifenet News: "They were about to spend a lot of money on an attempt at in vitro fertilization. One month after starting on the arginine, the wives had both become pregnant! One of the mens doctors, surprised at the pregnancy, had asked for a sample of the mans sperm and, after examining it, accused our friend of giving him bull sperm, because, he said, the sample had too high a percentage of well-formed, motile sperm to be human sperm!"
Arginine is the most natural way to introduce nitrogen into the body. Patients do not experience headaches from its use, indicating that it is a more acceptable form of nitrogen. We would be remiss if we didnt discuss the potential benefits to women from arginine when it comes to sexual lubrication. There is less research in that area. But there is plenty of tantalizing evidence, nonetheless. Its well known that healthy men experience penile engorgement several times a night while sleeping. We already know that engorgement is directly tied to NO production. Women also experience engorgement of their vaginal tissues several times a night while sleeping as well. Both the vagina and clitoris produce Nitric Oxide. If you have nitric oxide, you have the potential for increased
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com blood flow to the clitoris and vagina. That increased blood flow can be translated into increased stimulation and increased lubrication. Clearly, proper circulation is the key for women if they are to have healthy sexual function. Vaginal lubrication requires adequate blood flow to the urogenital arteries, for example. Since we already know that NO is the key to male engorgement, isnt it likely that NO would also do much the same for women? Its more difficult to assess women than men in this area because with men you can point to the erect penis and t ejaculation. But how does a scientist measure increased desire? Or increased lubrication? Although we dont have enough scientific data to answer that definitively yet, there is experiential data. Since arginine is so safe to use, it is well worth trying for a month or two until the science catches up. Meanwhile, well just have to depend on the stories swapped by arginine users. The following three accounts come from Better Sex Through Chemistry: One extremely athletic woman related, My doctor almost fell off his chair when I told him how many times a night I do itsix times, she said. Hes definitely taking arginine now, too. In women, L-arginine has been reported to increase the intensity of sensation during sex. For me it has always been intense, said one long-time arginine fan, but with arginine, its even more intense. Both men and women have remarked about the way L-arginine seems to increase their libido, or desire for sex. Exclaimed one woman when asked about arginine, My god, that stuff! I had to stop taking it. I was doing it with every guy that came along!* *The author does not encourage that type of behavior. Get married. Its better that way.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Many men have quit using Viagra despite its effectiveness, perhaps due in part to the cost. But many men have also complained that they didnt like the way it made them feel. A few men who were also using nitroglycerin simultaneously along with Viagra died when their blood pressure dropped precipitously. Another factor to consider is that if the cause of a man (or womans) inability to perform sexually is due to impaired circulation, then it would be far better to correct the circulation problem than to merely circumvent it in the name of sexual activity. If there is a bare spot on the wall, one could cover it by placing a picture frame over it. When it comes to covering up a circulation problem with Viagra, however, the risk of a heart attack or stroke exists not so much from the pill itself but from allowing a serious problem to go untreated. Furthermore, it is now recognized by more and more doctors, especially urologists, that impaired sexual performance is usually a sign of cardiovascular disease. In cardiovascular disease it is the micro-circulation which usually breaks down first. Smaller vessels have less room for error a few extra platelets getting stuck together might be all it takes to clog them completely. So for example, a mans penis shuts down because the smaller pathways are clogged. That negative event is a good sign that clogging is beginning to occur or has been occurring in the arterioles of the heart. Thus the negative condition can be transformed from not being able to get it up, to not being able to get up at all. So thats why we say, Its Not Just For Sex! Its for your life. If you had a deep gash on your finger with arterial bleeding, youd definitely want to stop the bleeding. Its not just for your finger, but for your life. When your sexual plumbing is misfiring or clogged, its a warning that your life is taking a turn towards death. It might not be the final turn, but its not the first turn either.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com In one sense the start of impotence or lost lubrication is a real blessing. The blessing comes from the fact that it can be a real attention getter that something isnt quite right with your health. The good news is that in most cases we now know how to turn that slide downhill into a new mountain top. If your penis isnt working like it used to, or youre not lubricating like you did when you were 25, it is time to act now. Your body depends on circulation. Without good circulation you slowly tire and die. Death is natural. So lets focus on the slowly part. We now know that arginine is an essential factor to having good circulation. Plus, it just might put the oomph back into your life as well.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Chapter 11
More Ways That Arginine Can Improve Your Life Dramatically
Diabetes L-arginine was credited with significantly reducing lipid peroxidation in patients with diabetes mellitus. PDR for Nutritional Substances, pg. 251
Arginine is especially important if youre diabetic. It seems that a high sugar content in the bloodstream is corrosive to the blood vessels. As noted above, science has found that arginine is at least partially protective in diabetic patients against the creation of those wild oxLDLs that can do so much harm. In diabetic patients the destruction of the circulatory system is so severe that amputation of toes, feet, and legs is sometimes indicated. Anything that can naturally slow down the process significantly, as stated in the PDR for Nutritional Substances, ought to be the first line of defense. Diabetes also damages endothelial tissue, and it contributes to high blood pressure, although the mechanism isnt fully understood as yet. (Recent evidence indicates it might be damaged endothelial tissue and lack of sufficient NO that are the mechanisms involved.) Thus arginine could be all that much more important to helping slow down the damage being done.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Higher dosages of arginine might be required due to the accelerated level of damage that diabetes can cause. In addition, recent research indicates that arginine could have a specific role in the pancreas. It appears that NO might increase the production of insulin by the pancreas. If so, that might help lower blood sugar levels. More needs to be done to confirm the earlier study. Meanwhile, arginine could be an excellent way to minimize the circulatory damage that elevated blood-sugar levels typically bring.
Lung Health
One of the major findings in regards to NO is that it works hand in glove with hemoglobin to transport oxygen to the capillaries and in bringing carbon dioxide back to the lungs! The New York Times described the findings in terms of the elation experienced by scientists who first discovered it. They said it was akin to discovering life on Mars. Few expect to find life on the red planet. Even fewer expected to learn that nitric oxide would be found attached to hemoglobin ready to jump into action at a moments notice. The discoverer, Dr. Jonathan Stamler of Duke University, told the Times: [Nitric oxide] does everything, everywhere. You cannot name a major cellular response or physiological effect in which nitric oxide is not implicated today. Since NO plays an all-important role in releasing carbon dioxide from the lungs, it stands to reason that it would be an essential factor in lung health. Sure enough, many of the lung-inhalers used by patients with serious lung disease contain NO or a compound designed to maximize the utilization of NO.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com It looks a bit like the Viagra story. The drug companies recognize its NO, so they went ahead and developed expensive drugs to handle the situation instead of using arginine. Arginine supplementation might be a wonderful alternative for those whose condition hasnt gone too far.
Hemorrhoids
The estimates on hemorrhoids are that approximately 70 million Americans have them at one time or another. Although arginine hasnt been tested as to their effectiveness against hemorrhoids, a few nitrogen donors have been. The results have been stunning in some cases. Hemorrhoids that were thought to require surgery stopped burning and eventually healed themselves. In one study, within two weeks, ten patients healed completely. All patients became pain free. The patients were all determined to have needed surgery prior to the inception of the trial. It is interesting to note that these severe cases of hemorrhoids were described as being Benign Anal Disease.17 It turns out that NO is once again at the center of the action. The internal sphincter muscles relax when there is adequate NO present. If there is a deficiency of NO, however, the muscles chronically contract when they should be relaxing. During the strain of bowel movements, ruptures can occur. It looks like once again that arginine could come to the rescue.
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Human Growth Hormone: Sipping From the Fountain of Youth
Yet another task that arginine can carry out with aplomb is the release of Human Growth Hormone (HGH) from the pituitary. Human Growth Hormone accomplishes many things. For one it burns up fat. It also enables us to lay down more muscle tissue if we exercise. In addition, it helps to improve bone density. In one study, men between the ages of 61 and 87 were given shots of HGH. It had previously been determined that the participants HGH levels were low. The results from six months of injections three times a week were nothing short of astonishing. The subjects bones increased their density by 1.6 %. Their skin thickened 7.1%. They gained 8.8% in muscle mass, and their fat tissue dropped 14.4%. The control group showed no improvements in any of the categories.18 Of course injections of HGH are not without risk. Hormones are powerful substances. There is some association between HGH injections and accelerating the growth of prostate cancers. Most adults have plenty of HGH stored in their pituitary, but it seems to be a virtual prisoner. A group of young men between the age of 20 and 35 were to take oral doses of arginine in divided doses totaling 17 grams per day. This was done for one week. The subjects increased their amount of night time HGH released by 58%!
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com The Lancet reported back in 1960 on a trial where women were given injections of 30 grams of arginine. The women increased their release of HGH by 1,100%.19 In a magazine called The Doctors Prescription for Healthy Living, an article about restoring ones youth looked at arginine: L-arginine is the primary amino acid for coaxing the pituitary gland into releasing [HGH].an accepted and widely used medical test for the function of the pituitary gland is the intravenous administration of l-arginine. The response is then measured by serum HGH levels. In other words, arginine is known to release the hormone that burns fat and lays down lean muscle. The same article also noted a study published in 1981, by an Italian researcher at the University of Rome. When arginine was used in combination with the amino acid l-lysine, it was ten times more effective in releasing HGH.
That study demonstrates three important points: The power of inexpensive amino acids can be quite extraordinary. Arginine might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the natural cures that doctors are telling us about. Although it took higher doses of arginine to release HGH in studies, it appears lower doses of arginine combined with lysine would prove to be extremely effective if looking and feeling younger is your goal.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Pregnancy
One of the most dangerous events for a pregnant woman and her baby is the condition of eclampsia, which is just a fancy way of saying a potentially deadly high blood pressure in pregnant women. Blood volumes in pregnant women increase by up to 40%. That could place a tremendous burden on the arteries if the blood vessels didnt expand to accommodate the extra volume. It turns out that pregnant women produce extra NO for the occasion. At this point there is little if any research that tells us for sure that arginine supplementation would help to ensure adequate NO for pregnant women. But the future looks bright for that line of study, based on what weve seen so far. It may also prove to be that arginine by injection would stave off attacks of eclampsia, although we have little to go by on that front as yet.
Wound Healing
In rats, arginine speeds up wound healing. In humans, 25 grams of oral arginine improved post surgical recovery time by a factor of three. The patients began taking arginine prior to the surgery and continued to take it for seven days after surgery.20 Arginine supplementation also appears to reduce hospital stays, something only equaled by having a membership in an HMO.
Braverman, E.R., Pfeiffer, C.C., The Healing Nutrients Within, (New Canaan, CT; Keats Publishing, Inc. 1987)) 62
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Chapter 12
Contraindications & Cautions
Before we get too carried away, arginine wont heal everything. In fact, there are conditions where it appears to be contraindicated. Here is a list of conditions suspected to be made worse by excess arginine or excess NO: It appears to make migraines much worse. Auto-immune disorders, such as rheumatoid arthritis AIDS* Breast cancer Cirrhosis of the Liver Kidney or liver failure -- exercise caution (Source: PDR for Nutritional Supplements) Hyperkalemia (A rare but dangerous condition of excess potassium levels in the blood, usually associated with kidney disease or alcoholism) Septic shock During the acute phase of a stroke. Herpes Simplex (anecdotal. Source: PDR for Nutritional Supplements)
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Users of organic nitrates, if taken concomitantly Simultaneous use of Viagra and arginine. (The combination could produce dangerously low blood pressure.) *The NO in arginine might be quite helpful in one respect due to its antibacterial properties. On the other hand there is some evidence that the NO might also cause collateral damage to the nerve cells of the brain, which could produce AIDS-related dementia. Although the authors of The Arginine Solution propose that arginine might be contraindicated for depression, I have personally experienced otherwise. The basis for The Arginine Solution caveat comes from a drug trial that raised serotonin levels in depressed patients (a good thing for depressed patients) and lowered NO levels at the same time. The patients also reported improvements in their depressive symptoms. The authors leaped to the conclusion that serotonin levels are increased by the lowering of NO levels. It is more likely that the lowering of NO by the drug was a deleterious side effect. Especially since it is well known that most drugs used in the treatment of depression can cause impotence and loss of sex drive. The effect of raising serotonin levels can have such powerful mood-elevating effects that it would be improper to assume that subjective improvements in mood were in any way tied to lowered NO levels. Until more is known, it might be premature to include depression as a reason to avoid NO, especially based on a drug study that wasnt measuring the biological effects of lowered NO levels. While no one substance can cure everything, it is quite exciting to see a humble gas rise to the occasion for so many different physiological processes. The decade of the 1990s has proven itself to be a remarkable one in the field of arginine/NO research. If you or your partner is dealing with any of the conditions weve touched on in this report, I hope that you will check with the appropriate health practitioner to see if you might benefit from arginine supplementation. (Of course, your doctor is likely to be clueless.)
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com You might also consider eating more arginine rich foods, especially fish that isnt fried. No pill will correct a rash of unhealthy habits. But I hope that once you see how powerful a single amino acid can be in reversing so many of lifes ills, it will provide new hope to you as to the value of implementing more good habits. With this new information there is little reason to become depressed over a fading sex life, but there is reason to rejoice in knowing that in healing your sexual organs you will also be rejuvenating your entire circulatory system all 75,000 miles of it! Truly, Its Not Just For Sex! Be well.
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Chapter 13
Frequently Asked Questions
How much Arginine should I use? Different researchers have achieved positive results with differing amounts of arginine. Drs. Merrill and Woodson, co-authors of The Arginine Solution, recommend 4-6 grams a day. In some studies, two grams of arginine taken daily reversed serious circulatory conditions. In a study on impotence among men who had been completely impotent for years, an average of 2.8 grams was used. Within two weeks, six of the men experienced significant improvement. Why the study was done for only two weeks is a mystery. Since arginine has been demonstrated to improve Endothelial function, it would seem appropriate to allow much more time. In my own case, it initially took five to six grams a day for several days to reverse the impotence. The funny thing is I was initially unaware of its effects on the libido and penis. I was taking it because I worked for a vitamin supplement company. They gave it to me and a few other employees for free. After about three or four days, a vice-president in his mid fifties stopped by my desk and asked me if it was working for me because it was
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com working for him. He didnt specify what he meant. I didnt understand the glint in his eyes until a couple of days later. Now one or two grams works for me just as well as the original six grams did. Apparently my endothelial tissue is at least partially repaired.
Is Arginine safe to use? According to the FDA adverse reports, there are only two instances of possible harm. Neither adverse report was confirmed by the FDA. There are conditions where supplementation is not advised. Please check the Chapter 14 on Contraindications and Cautions. Compared to Viagra, Lipitor, Alacer and a whole host of other drugs, arginine is exceedingly safe. Thats not surprising because arginine is a natural amino acid that your body requires.
Where can I buy Arginine? Any health food store will carry arginine. You can also find them in many drug stores and grocery stores. Prices vary. I prefer capsules to tablets. I buy mine through Swansons catalogue, their phone number is 1-800-4374148. Their website is www.swansonvitamins.com The last time I ordered from them the price was $4.19 for 100 capsules. They charge $4.95 shipping, but I order several items, so adding arginine to the order adds no extra cost.
I am taking medications. Can I take Arginine? Based on the FDA reports, it would appear that you can. But to be on the safe side, you might want to check with your physician. It is generally advisable not to quit any prescription drugs cold turkey. If your doctor who will be clueless about arginines health effects says he doesnt want you to take it, ask him how it might harm you. If he says hes not sure of its safety or its effect on the meds you are taking, let
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com your doctor know you are trying to get off the meds because arginine is safer than the drugs are.
Is Arginine better than prescription drugs? I believe it is. What drug will heal the interior of your arteries? Which drug will simultaneously lower bad cholesterol and lower blood pressure? Which drug reverses impotence for men and improves lubrication for women? Which prescription drug will also transport carbon dioxide out of your tissues and transport oxygen into your cells? Which FDA-approved drug also lays down long term memory for you?
Arginine does all of those things. Arginine also provides some of your immune cells with the Nitric Oxide ammo it needs to squirt and kill bacteria and yeast. Arginine certain out performs Viagra, Levitra and Cealis, as well as any high blood pressure pill or cholesterol pill.
My doctor says I need to have heart bypass surgery tomorrow, or I could drop dead of a heart attack any day. He says Youre a ticking time bomb. Is that true? Those kinds of fear tactics are outrageous, and completely unsupported by the evidence, yet they are common ploys used by heart surgeons. They have no empirical evidence to make those hex-like claims.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com In the first place, when you hear a doctor claim there is a 90% or 100% blockage, he is full of it. The determination is made by eyeballing a two dimensional x-ray. No measurement is taken. Yet the scare mongers will tell you a vessel is 75%, 80%, 85%, 90%, 95% blocked. Please pardon the expression, but that is not scientific. Secondly, the most common angiograms dont reveal the full picture. For instance, after an artery becomes more than 50% blocked, arteries will grow peripheral vessels to compensate for the blockage. Those peripheral vessels dont show up on standard angiograms. So your doctor is acting like he knows more than he does. The fact is that there is no study anywhere that says you will increase your life span by having bypass surgery. In other words, whether you just say no or go ahead with the surgery, the longevity statistics are the same. Sometimes a doctor will claim that the surgery can rid a person of angina pains. That only happens because the nerves involved that with that pain get severed. So your heart is still oxygen starved you just dont feel it due to the surgical damage!! Angioplasties are another pathetic scam that can result in your requiring heart surgery. Whenever an angioplasty is done, it is required that a full heart surgery team be on standby. The reason for that is quite simple. Angioplasties and bypass surgeries cause heart attacks quite frequently. Your real danger of having a heart attack comes if you surrender to your doctors dangerous recommendation. So the next time a doctor tells you that you risk a heart attack without immediate surgery or immediate angioplasty, you might kick him in the shins to wake him up. Hes on automatic pilot with the scare tactics and could repeat them in his sleep. If you have already scheduled the surgical appointment, wouldnt it be awful if you called in sick! I cant tell you how many times I have heard people who go ahead with a surgical procedure because the surgery is already scheduled.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com Well, excuuuuse me! The same person wouldnt think twice about canceling an appointment to purchase a car or a house. But cancel an appointment to let someone take an electric saw to their ribs heck no! If your doctor tries to scare you into an angioplasty or heart bypass surgery, tell your doctor you want daily injections of arginine instead. Meanwhile, you can take oral doses of arginine to your blood pressure and correct any clogged arteries. Lower blood pressure reduces the chance that any clogged artery will cause a problem. That might take three days. Arginine doesnt cause heart attacks like surgery and angioplasties do, so you are much safer. If he doesnt have an injectable arginine, get the heck out of his office before he kills you with his ignorance and his pathetic scare tactics.
I have to die from something. If I reduce my risk of heart disease, wont I be increasing my risks for cancer or Alzheimers disease? That is a great question! Impaired circulation increases your chances of getting sick in every organ of your body, including your brain. For instance, if you have any wrinkles on your face thats a process that is made worse by impaired circulation. If your outside is wrinkled from impaired circulation, what might be happening inside to your brain, your breasts, your lungs, or your liver? So ask yourself, Would impaired circulation increase or decrease my chances of getting cancer or Alzheimers disease? That is why people with heart disease have a higher incidence of cancer. So if you are afraid of cancer, take care of your heart. A healthy heart provides an additional level of protection against all disease including cancer, Alzheimers and yes, wrinkles. In addition, arginine helps your Natural Killer Cells to prevent cancer, according to the research. So there is no need to fear having a healthy heart and healthy arteries. A healthy heart does not cause cancer or wrinkles.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com In the next chapter, Ill show you how you can drop any fear you might have of cancer for the rest of your life.
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Chapter 14
More Huge Health Secrets
I hope that this eBook has been helpful to you. As you have discovered, Arginine and Nitric Oxide are two natural powerhouses. Like an escapee from Platos Cave, you have seen the light of a new day. You are no longer a prisoner, chained to drug-based medicine. Arginine is just the first of quite a few health secrets I am writing that youll want to know about. For instance, there is a pregnancy test not found in stores that is about 97% accurate in diagnosing cancer. The same test can discern cancers up to a year before x-rays and other diagnostic tests. The test freaks out the drug makers. They wouldnt want you to know about it, because the test leads to a secret that could absolutely destroy the drug makers reputations. Most importantly the secret would enable many cancer patients to treat themselves rather than relying on doctors or prescription drugs. I call the book My $10 Cancer Cure because in the same book I will tell you how I cured my own rampaging Stage IV cancer more than five years ago for about $10 in about three weeks! That could definitely upset the drug makers. Thats too bad for them. But its so good for you. By the time you finish reading My $10 Cancer Cure, you will probably fear colds more than you fear cancer. Meanwhile, the chemo
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com makers and the radiation equipment manufacturers might fear me more than an earthquake. This report is so powerful that I will send it to you for free when it is completed. Cancer cells vanish. Cancer cells hate this stuff! But youll love it because its so darn effective even it if does make you dance around hyper-ventilating for a minute or two. The report is just too important and too effective to keep it from anyone. So its my free gift to you! I mean it cancer is easier to eliminate than a cold if you know how! Youll also be receiving my free newsletter. The newsletter will help to keep you abreast of the latest breakthroughs, as well as some old fashioned cures that usually puts the latest scientific research to shame. I also have a recipe called MagicSinus. Look for the offer coming soon. Its the recipe for a fantastically effective natural product that was sold in hundreds of health food stores. But with the recipe, you can make MagicSinus in about a minute for 1% of the cost of the retail product! Thats not a misprint its only one percent of the retail price!
It has been a pleasure to make this eBook available to you. As more people discover this eBook, it could make a tremendous difference in their life. It might also help to solve the present health cost crisis. The information contained here could exert a downward pressure on health care costs. How is that so? If you replace a series of $100,000 heart bypass surgeries with a few 5 capsules, well wow! With $100,000 you could purchase 2,000,000 capsules of arginine! Or if you dont need that many, you could buy a house, or a boat, or whatever suits your fancy. As more people start to rely on arginine and other huge cures that costs almost nothing and carry almost no risk maybe health insurance rates will drop, too.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com But even if none of that happens, it thrills me to be able to assist you in this way. Thank you for the opportunity. If you want more people to have access to this eBook, please click www.itsnotjustforsex.com to join the affiliate program. Youll automatically earn $10 each time through your affiliate someone does what you did, which is to order this eBook. There is no limit to your income potential.
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Your Free MagicPainGone Recipe!
Congratulations! You have in your hand what just might be the most phenomenal pain relief spray recipe ever invented!!
The reason this recipe works so well is that I originally invented this for my own pain. So I wasnt about to skimp on the ingredients. For instance, when I looked for a massage oil to add to the recipe, I selected one that cost twice as much as others on the shelf. (Dont worry, it retails for about $9.00, and will probably last you for at least year.) The oil, named Miracle Oil, had a long list of awsome ingredients. The aroma alone might cure what ails you. Nor will you find alcohol, added water or harsh chemicals in the MagicPainGone recipe. I also use a pure, pure, pure aloe vera made by Georges. It doesnt have any additives in it at all. None, nada! You wont find these ingredients in WalMart, K-Mart or your corner grocery store. Youll need to go to an independent natural foods store to get these ingredients. Or you could order them online. If you substitute any of the ingredients, you risk not getting rid of your pain. Its that simple. The only exceptions are the NOW brand essential oils. I used them because I already had them on hand. NOW makes low-end essential oils. Yet they work.
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com On the othe end of the spectrum are Young Living essential oils. They are organic and the raw ingredients are picked at their most potent time. Young Living oils cost more, and they are worth it. So you might want to use them in place of the NOW oils. Here is the recipe for MagicPainGone youve been waiting for: Dont worry about the measuring units. Some of the measurements are in ounces and teaspoons. Others are in mgs and grams. Thats because youll find scoopers in the vitamin C powder and MSM powder that are measured in mgs. A gram is equal to 1,000 mgs. 1 Georges Aloe Vera juice: 2 Vitamin C powder 3 MSM powder, 99.9% pure: 4 Sage Oil (NOW brand) (Young Living) brand: 5 Eucalyptus Oil (NOW brand) (Young Living): 6 Miracle Oil: 16 1,600 3 ounces mg grams
teaspoon teaspoon 2 teaspoons
1 Add the Georges aloe vera juice (dont get the gel form) to MSM and Vitamin C. Stir until thoroughly dissolved. If you add the dry ingredients to the juice, it is more likely to clump up. 2 Add oils, and mix. 3 For your convenience, the blue highlighted words above will take you directly to web sites where you can order the ingredients. You might find all the ingredients at your local health food store. 4 If you use Young Living brand eucalyptus be sure it is eucalyptus globulus #3539. The stock # for Young Living sage oil is #3632.
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Keys to Making the Best MagicPainGone Possible 1) The first two ingredients you mix are the dry ingredients MSM and Vitamin C. Only then do you add the aloe vera juice. If you add the dry ingredients to the juice, it is more likely to clump up. 2) Last add the oils. 3) Make sure you buy MSM made by OptiMSM. It is guaranteed to be at least 99.9% pure. Any heavy metals, including mercury, are removed. OptiMSM is found is found under many different brand names. Buy the powdered form, not capsules, unless you like breaking open a whole lot of capsules. 4) Store the mixture in a dark, glass container. If you store it in a plastic container, it will eventually eat away at the plastic. If you store it in a clear glass container, the light can also ruin your mixtures potency. 5) Whenever you transfer the mixture to another container, stir it vigorously immediately before pouring. Failure to do this can easily result in making a weak solution since the oils tend to separate from the aloe vera juice. 6) Always shake the solution immediately before each use for the same reason. If there is one drawback to MagicPainGone, it is that it can stain your clothes. So massage it in and let it dry before letting your clothes come into contact with it. This takes only a minute or two. I put mine into a 2-ounce plastic spray bottle. (Be sure to stir vigorously prior to putting yours solution into the bottle. It takes a few months before the plastic gets distorted by the mixture. So keep your main supply in the dark glass bottle.)
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by William Kelley Eidem, Huge Health Secrets www.ItsNotJustForSex.com I promise you that your MagicPainGone Recipe just might be your pain miracle! It has made even the worst chronic and acute pain go poof. Your pain could be next! I am heartened to learn when yet another person is pain free. Together a new way to fixing national health care crisis is possible one person at a time! Please email me to tell me your success story! kelley@bewellkel.com
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