Can HRT cure Congestive Heart Disease?

[1cc]

Originally Posted by pmgamer18

Nothing I take is helping with the Heartburn I tried the licorice, Betaine Hydrochloride With Pepsin, NOW® Super Enzyme and Anti acids. No help.

Ask your Dr. for Prevacid 30mg. Take it on empty stomach with water in morning 1 hour before eating. This is the only thing that helped me. It may take a few days to start working, but it works well. Do not accept prilosec as a substitute for the prevacid. They do not work the same, no matter who says that they do.

[carbonium]

Originally Posted by Katrina Eden

Hi...

Treatment of congestive heart failure (CHF) depends on the severity of the disease. In general, CHF is the result of a weakening of the heart over a long period of time, and consequently, there is usually no "cure" for the condition. Treatment typically focuses on relieve the symptoms of CHF and treating diseases or conditions that may be causing CHF. ....

Trusting your average cardiologist will put you in a slow downhill battle. The meds will eventually kill you. I had over a decade of declining Cardiac functioning. For years I was on oxygen just to walk up a hill or I would desaturate. I even needed 2-3 Liters per minute in conjunction with my BIPAP machine just sleeping. I had a pulse oximeter with an alarm that would wake me when I dropped below 80% SPO2. Enlarged left ventrical with thickening, Low ejection Fraction. Tricuspid Valve regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse. I could go on but why?When I started TRT and hormone replacement therapy everything slowly repaired itself. My last blood Tests were spot on, my 12 Lead EKG looked perfect baffling my cardiologists. My valves stopped leaking. My Cardiac 64-slice CT scan shows a ZERO calcium score. My Echocardiogram was perfect. My blood tests are spot on ( 16 vials of blood for the tests). I no longer need Heart meds at all. My asthma is gone. I have zero allergies now. My diet is a paleolithic diet with the juice of about 8-10 pounds of mostly green vegetables added in per day.

These last 3 months I've been training. I can jog several miles with a 250+ pound body weight. I need to burn off about 15-20 pounds of muscle. I bought a Trek Madone 5.2 racing bike and I'm pushing 30 miles per day and burning 2700 calories per workout doing hill climbs. My resting Pulse is 46. My 5 second sprint is over 2000 watts. I still hit the gym and now I'm starting to swim again as I'm building my base so I can start doing Olympic Distance Triathlons in a year or so. An Olympic triathlon is shorter and requires a 1.5 kilometer swim, a 40 kilometer bike race, and a 10 kilometer run. Just finishing the race is my goal. Heck I'm 45 years old.

[pmgamer18]

I knew going on TRT helped the heart but wow this was a dam big help and I am very happy this all worked out for you. This is just great goes to show you low T takes it's toll on muscles I know it did for men when I was on gels I was house bound for about 3 yrs sore joints and muscles. At the H2 group I posted about this I was in so much pain I could hardly walk when I got up they did MRI's on my back and nothing. One of the guys Norton got back to me that this happened to him for some reasion being one gels for some of us the T does not support the joints qnd mucles. When I switched to shots it all went away.

Originally Posted by carbonium

Trusting your average cardiologist will put you in a slow downhill battle. The meds will eventually kill you. I had over a decade of declining Cardiac functioning. For years I was on oxygen just to walk up a hill or I would desaturate. I even needed 2-3 Liters per minute in conjunction with my BIPAP machine just sleeping. I had a pulse oximeter with an alarm that would wake me when I dropped below 80% SPO2. Enlarged left ventrical with thickening, Low ejection Fraction. Tricuspid Valve regurgitation and mitral valve prolapse. I could go on but why?When I started TRT and hormone replacement therapy everything slowly repaired itself. My last blood Tests were spot on, my 12 Lead EKG looked perfect baffling my cardiologists. My valves stopped leaking. My Cardiac 64-slice CT scan shows a ZERO calcium score. My Echocardiogram was perfect. My blood tests are spot on ( 16 vials of blood for the tests). I no longer need Heart meds at all. My asthma is gone. I have zero allergies now. My diet is a paleolithic diet with the juice of about 8-10 pounds of mostly green vegetables added in per day.

These last 3 months I've been training. I can jog several miles with a 250+ pound body weight. I need to burn off about 15-20 pounds of muscle. I bought a Trek Madone 5.2 racing bike and I'm pushing 30 miles per day and burning 2700 calories per workout doing hill climbs. My resting Pulse is 46. My 5 second sprint is over 2000 watts. I still hit the gym and now I'm starting to swim again as I'm building my base so I can start doing Olympic Distance Triathlons in a year or so. An Olympic triathlon is shorter and requires a 1.5 kilometer swim, a 40 kilometer bike race, and a 10 kilometer run. Just finishing the race is my goal. Heck I'm 45 years old.

[pmgamer18]

My problem is low stomach acid and from reading about this at STTM web site Low hydrochloric acid is common for thyroid patients. I was just reading up on this and I was not taking enouh of the Betaine Hydrochloride With Pepsin to help this. I just took what the bottle side one or two tabs. This morning I took more this morning until I felt a burn in my stomach after reading on how to take this I think it's helping. So of the ant acids make this worse I don't need less acid I need more. It looks like I need 4 to 5 tables with each meal.
Betaine HCL supports stomach function and protein digestion

Originally Posted by 1cc

Ask your Dr. for Prevacid 30mg. Take it on empty stomach with water in morning 1 hour before eating. This is the only thing that helped me. It may take a few days to start working, but it works well. Do not accept prilosec as a substitute for the prevacid. They do not work the same, no matter who says that they do.

[JanSz]

Originally Posted by pmgamer18

My problem is low stomach acid and from reading about this at STTM web site Low hydrochloric acid is common for thyroid patients. I was just reading up on this and I was not taking enouh of the Betaine Hydrochloride With Pepsin to help this. I just took what the bottle side one or two tabs. This morning I took more this morning until I felt a burn in my stomach after reading on how to take this I think it's helping. So of the ant acids make this worse I don't need less acid I need more. It looks like I need 4 to 5 tables with each meal.
Betaine HCL supports stomach function and protein digestion

Phil;

I am using 4-600mg Betaine HCL w/Pepsin from Country Life, I do that 2x/day, total 8 tabs
also
1 pill/day Primal Defense Ultra, probiotic formula
also
2 pills/day Super Enzymes

I do that for quite a while so I am stabilized.

I just got my NutrEval test done and stool analysis.

HAN is studying this as we speak, so he will figure things out,
but from what I see

I do not use enough of all three of the above.

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[pmgamer18]

I started doing more read I was on doing enough from this link. I now take it up to feeling a burn in my stomach. I am doing 3 tablets with lunch and dinner and at morning meal I so 2 Super Enzymes Tomorrow I will try 4 tablets CL.

[carbonium]

A Quick update. I did a Triathlon on Sunday with my 17 year old Son(he had the flu so I started off about 8-9 minutes behind the leaders. My 14 year old Daughter also competed).

I averaged over 23 mph on the bike section. I'm 245 pounds at race time and nobody passed me but I passed at least 80 people including many 20-30 year old pro Triathletes that weigh about 150 pounds. We ended up in 7th place. Not bad considering over 1000 triathelites competed in this race. This was also our first Triathlon and we competed in the open division so it was pretty cool to have a 245 pound 45 year old dad and a 14 year old daughter pulling a 7th place against collegiate and pro triathletes.

I know I was pushing at least 17-18 METS at 45 years old so yea my heart is in better shape then 99% of people my age. 3 years ago I was on oxygen just to walk up a hill or mow my lawn. I don't need to get into the fact that a Truck hit me 14 months ago and I also have 5 titanium plates in my head. I trained by doing endless Hills climbs, long distance rides, jogging, bodybuilding and lap swimming.

A never ending quest for Knowledge and a will to better yourself is what most people are lacking.

In my case HRT did cure my Congestive Heart Failure.

Here's a link to my race with some pictures at the bottom.
Tinsel Triathlon

[lovevixen]

Their ahve been a lot of studies on Asma that show that increaseing sodium intake helps people with tis condition in some cases reversing it. I ahve a cousin that suffered frm birth and now he has no problems since he started saltinghis food. He jsut's add salt to everything just about and his problems are gone. It doesnot work for all but helps many as does exercise with ionized air like swimming. The chlorine inthe water inozies the air around the pool and this helps a lot of people wit this condition. So ionizing your air at home might also help with the bbreathinging issues. Last bbutnot lweast deep breathing like square breathingin Yoga will lower your blood pressure and will help with heart problems. Their is even an FDA approved non-medication blood pressure regulation device now that works on teachingyou to breath in a square manner. It has been proven to reduce blood pressure 15-30 inch's of meceury in 6 weeks or less useing it 15 minutes a day. The fact that it is FDA approved to treat high blood pressure says a lot about breathing and learning to manipulate it to control those things normaly not with in your direct control like pulse rate and blood pressure!

HRT does not fix heart dissease so much as it fix's the underling cause of your specific metabolic syndrome. If your heart condition is caused from insulin,GH and Test and Estrogen being out of ballance then replaceing some of them and controlling the other's together can reverse the metabolic condition that lead to all the disease states in the first place. Their is not a medicine or drug on the planet that can heal or cure anything at best whenyou get things in the right amounts it allows the body to heal itself. If you just add medications with out doing much else seldom does a cure happen.

In this case the medicine is fixing metabolic errors that have gone so deep that the body can not hope to pull it self out of the pit onit's own. So as you take this medication combo you are also exerciseingmore and changeingyour diet...All of these things work together to help your body repair it's self. At some point if you lose enough fat you will either need very little medication to remain healthy or none at all. If you where not takeing changing your diet and gettingmore exercise in addition tothe medications you wouldnot be experinces the huge benifit you would just slow your spiral decent into death. So keep up all the exercise and diet changes and go in for regular blood work to best manage your new medications. What ever you do do not stop taking blood pressure medacation or any inhaled steroids for lung conditions all of a sudden it is normaly best to ween off of these types of medications.

[HeadDoc]

Originally Posted by sadaf

I am a 32 year old woman with borderline, hypothyroidism, I take 50 mg. of Synthroid a day. I have low blood pressure 85/60, low body temp, 97.0 and a slow hart rate 58-60 beats perminute. Every day after I eat super, my heart will race to about 120 beats per minute, and I “ll have palaptations. Some days my heart will become so slow that it feels like it actually stops beating for couple of seconds. Is all this related to the hypothyroidism? Should I see an endocrinologist or a cardiologist?

what is your primary care doctor advising you to do?

[JanSz]

Originally Posted by sadaf

I am a 32 year old woman with borderline, hypothyroidism, I take 50 mg. of Synthroid a day. I have low blood pressure 85/60, low body temp, 97.0 and a slow hart rate 58-60 beats perminute. Every day after I eat super, my heart will race to about 120 beats per minute, and I “ll have palaptations. Some days my heart will become so slow that it feels like it actually stops beating for couple of seconds. Is all this related to the hypothyroidism? Should I see an endocrinologist or a cardiologist?

Go to any doctor and ask for these tests,
you will either get some advice from your doctor
or just post tests results here.

:

5 --------- Iodine
6 --------- Iodide
7 --------- Selenium
8 --------- Copper, serum
9 --------- Zinc
10 --------- Magnesium
18 --------- Ferritin
23 --------- VITAMIN A, E, B3, B12
24 --------- Vitamin D, 25-Hydroxy,
25 --------- T3, Total
26 --------- T4, Total
27 --------- T3, Free
28 --------- T4,Free
29 --------- T3, Reverse
30 --------- Ultrasensitive TSH
31 --------- Thyroid Peroxidase and Thyroglobulin Antibodies
35 --------- DHEA Sulfate
36 --------- Aldosterone
37 --------- ACTH, Plasma
38 --------- Cortisol Binding Globulin (Transcortin)
39 --------- 8AM/4PM/10PM---Cortisol, Free and Total, LC/MS/MS
6 Magnesium
7 Potasium
9 Sodium
.
.
You probably have very low TotalT3
but there may have been mant reasons for it,
and different way of correcting defficiencies.

Have you had some traumas, high stress?