Unfortunately, there are no established medical research processes or procedures to evaluate "non-drug" remedies, and for a reason. There is still little medical evidence that vital substances (nutrients) required for life in small amounts can have great healing effects in larger amounts.
Simply put, the medical scientific establishment doesn't know how to evaluate a drug-free approach to health problems.
It stands to reason that any safe approach to a life-threatening disease, such as atherosclerosis, no matter how low the probable success rate, should be vigorously investigated. Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide would benefit from it. For example, if only a few surgical operations are avoided, the savings is a thousands of dollars. And the loss of life is incalculable.
Anecdotal and empirical experience regarding the nutritional approach to atherosclerosis has existed for almost 20 years. While reasonable people do not expect 100 per cent success for any therapy, thousands of them can say that they have experienced a remarkable improvement with this approach.
Isn't that why we have science, to investigate methods such as nutritional arterial cleansing? It is beyond comprehension that scientific medical studies neither refute nor support the nutritional approach.
To understand why the nutritional arterial cleansing has not been investigated, you need to realize that there is no special interest or economic incentive to provide proof, only a large counter-incentive not to do so by those with the means to run such a study.
In other words, the only incentive is a general, rather than a special interest. So, if governments won't conduct a study on behalf of their people to verify inexpensive methods already available, who will, especially if it would cost a company millions? And why bother?
Should nutritional arterial cleansing not work, it has been shown to be harmless. Furthermore, a large study isn't going to do the average person much good.
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The best way to find out whether nutritional arterial cleansing can work for you is for you to try it. Then you can find out what others learned years ago: it can halt the progression of atherosclerosis and reduce buildup of arterial plaques safely.
Unfortunately, no effort what-so-ever has been made by the medical scientific establishment to investigate, much less verify, this approach.
Therefore, up to date, there haven't been the outcome studies to document that the nutritional arterial cleansing doesn't work. They don't exist because the regulators and others are opposed to doing the research - because so many people have discovered that nutritional arterial cleansing does work!
It's time then for true studies to be done on outcomes of the patient. The medical gold standard of research - the double blind, placebo controlled, crossover study - was great -- but only for infectious diseases. As it's impossible to hold all variables the same, this standard has become outmoded for today's outcome studies; it should go the way of the monetary gold standard.
It's also time for medical establishments to place the patient foremost and to understand that doing "no harm" should be the only treatment.
Evidence: Observational Vs. Formal
We recommend nutritional measures aimed at controlling atherosclerosis. And we do so on the basis of evidence gained from observations in thousands of users of our Arterial Cleansing Formula supported by basic dietary and lifestyle changes.
But not everybody, including medical establishments, agrees that the evidence is enough to act upon. Until formal proof is established, this matter remains a legitimate question of judgment, which varies from one person, or institution, to another.
However, the only way to obtain scientifically acceptable proof of the association between nutritional means, such as targeted nutritional supplementation, and atherosclerosis would be to
- take a large number of persons from the same population,
- put half of them on a artery-cleansing formula and a diet, and
- see if that half develops less atherosclerosis than the rest.
Such critical test should be performed in a three-to-five-year, $75-million study conducted, for example, by the American Heart Association. The conclusive evidence would be published as a formal proof of the role played by nutrition in the process of controlling atherosclerosis.
Unfortunately, such a multi-million study has not been run yet.
Should we wait then for "conclusive" evidence, which may be years away and too late for some of us? Can we accept probable evidence?
We need to realize that not taking a stand, insisting on waiting until all the evidence is in, is itself - a position and a recommendation! Not taking a stand is not really the neutral position it is made out to be.
On the other hand, physicians like to pretend, and many have kidded themselves into believing, that whatever they espouse has been "scientifically proved." Nonsense!
A great deal of what established medicine recommends today with good conscience is not formally "proved"! In other words, in medicine it is not uncommon to recommend measures for which only substantial evidence exists.
Example No. 1:
Many doctors have for years been recommending the lowering of blood cholesterol because this would probably help prevent coronary heart disease, but this was not "proved" until 1984, and then for only a selected category of patient.
And only in early 1985 did a panel of 13 experts convened as part of a National Institutes of Health "consensus conference" conclude "beyond a reasonable doubt" that lowering elevated blood cholesterol levels would reduce the risk of heart attacks.
"Beyond a reasonable doubt" in fact means "with a high order of probability." Surely this is not formal proof. It's a consensus decision.
Example No. 2:
The health benefits of exercise: the formal proof on that is not yet in, yet practically all physicians recommend it. And they are right to do so, because the probable evidence is excellent.
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The key question for much good nutritional advice is not whether proof is at hand, but what is the order of probability that the advice is correct.
Existing evidence indicates - not absolutely but with a very high order of probability - that the nutritional arterial cleansing can halt and reverse the atherosclerotic processes in the body.
Overcoming 'Psychosclerosis'
Nutritional arterial cleansing is all about the change. As your cardiovascular system has not been functioning at its optimum, something needs to be changed; in this case - your attitude toward the diet, lifestyle and nutritional supplementation.
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