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The Optimal Prevention and Protection Complex of our time! ! !
PureCardio® Daily Pack
A complete and powerful complement to a drug-free cholesterol management program*
to help support overall cardiovascular health
The PureCardio® Daily Pack contains three products that work safely and synergistically
to maximize the lowering of unhealthy LDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels
while elevating healthy HDL cholesterol levels.
Red Yeast Rice
Phytosterols
Optimum Omega-3 Fish Oil.
Take the first step towards helping improve your cardiovascular health with the Matol
PureCardio® Daily Pack.a nutritional miracle capable of
transforming our entire health experience.
*This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to
diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
The Matol PureCardio®
product line was developed by
Dr. Eric Stocker, M.D., F.A.C.C.,
a Board Certified Cardiologist.
Dr. Eric Stocker, M.D., F.A.C.C., the newest member of Matol’s Health and Nutrition Board,
is a certified specialist in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease. For many years,
Dr. Stocker has been helping his patients by advising them to take small, manageable steps
towards a healthier lifestyle. He was concerned about the reactions and aversion some of
his patients had to prescription drugs. He is using what he has learned in his years of
seeing people struggle with weight and cholesterol and combining that with the extensive
research he has done into obesity, diet, and exercise.
Phytosterols
Plant sterols/stanols, also referred to as phytosterols, such as beta-sitosterol,
campesterol, stigmasterol and brassicasterol, reduce the amount of intestinal
absorption of cholesterol into the body. They have been shown to reduce bad
cholesterol levels by 5–15%.† The evidence is so convincing that, in September
2000, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) authorized use of the health claim
that plant sterol or stanol esters may help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
Red Yeast Rice
Used in China and other Asian countries for centuries as a traditional medicine.
Red yeast rice naturally contains sterols, isoflavones, and monounsaturated fatty acids,
or “healthy fats.”
Optimum Omega-3 Fish Oil
Omega-3 fi sh oil is recommended by the American Heart Association based on favorable
data from randomized clinical trials. Beneficial cardiovascular effects include lowering
of triglyceride and raising of HDL (good) cholesterol, as well as anti-flammatory
and blood thinning effects. Matters of the Heart
Heart disease is the number one killer in America. But despite this,
the striking fact is that it is preventable and depends very much on
awareness of family history of the disease, early awareness of the diseases
that lead to its development, and adopting a lifestyle that enables you to control it.
Lifestyle is the Culprit
Today, it is generally accepted that two forces come into play with the formation
and progression of plaques in arteries. One is the oxidation of LDL cholesterol,
the catalyst for instability in the cells that line our blood vessels. Fat build-up
occurs
in these cells, toxic contents are produced, and then the “healing” process occurring
within the cell creates an even bigger blockage. The second is an imbalance between
the body’s natural clotting and declotting mechanisms. The typical American sedentary
lifestyle combined with fast food and smoking, causes LDL cholesterol to oxidize and
tips the balance toward the clotting process and away from de-clotting.
As a result, these micro-clots that form each time a micro-injury occurs on the
surface of a plaque are not balanced by an adequate de-clotting mechanism that
would limit the size of the clot. Blockages, therefore, progress faster. The
ultimate price to pay from this clotting system imbalance occurs when a large
plaque rupture occurs. The clotting response is so aggressive, just as if you
developed a large cut on your leg, that the clot totally blocks the artery causing
a major heart attack.
The Bad Guys
There are a number of “Bad Guys” in the heart disease equation and you should be
aware of them:
LDL (especially the small dense kind):
LDL, the most evil of the “Bad Guys” has received the most attention from the
medical community over the past two decades and is the major instigator of not
only the plaque-building process, but also the rupturing process, which leads to
a heart attack or stroke.
Low HDL:
A number of years ago, HDL began to receive a lot more attention in the medical
community. Data from landmark trials even suggest that having low HDL is worse than
having high LDL. A low HDL level is most often seen with a high triglyceride level,
though they are independent risk factors for heart artery disease. Together, however,
the risk is magnified.Supports vascular systems, helping to maintain and support healthy
blood flow.
Triglycerides/VLDL:
Triglycerides are actually what is absorbed from the intestine when one eats fat.
It is packaged in chylomicrons, which deliver it around the body to be used for energy.
“Unused” triglycerides make their way back to the liver and are packaged into VLDL
particles. It is the VLDL particle that is broken down in the body to eventually form
LDL cholesterol.
Taking Care of Your Heart
Knowing about risk factors, how heart disease progresses, and how to go about getting
a more advanced cholesterol test are steps in the right direction for taking care of
yourself and your heart. The standard cholesterol panel has withstood the test of
time as a good assessment of risk for the general population. But for many individuals
Dr. Stocker believes it can be valuable to look at cholesterol in a
way that goes far beyond the information a standard test provides. The standard test in
many cases does a poor job predicting an individual’s true risk, so an advanced test can
often reveal “the truth” as to whether you are prone to a heart attack or not.
Risk Factors
While certain risk factors, such as age and family history cannot be controlled, other
critical contributing factors can. You can control high blood pressure, abnormal
cholesterol and triglyceride levels. You can also control diabetes, smoking, obesity
and a sedentary lifestyle
Obesity has become an epidemic in this country because of our poor eating habits and
lack of exercise. It has become the focal point of a dangerous combination of risk
factors called the Metabolic Syndrome, present in as many as one in four Americans.
Obesity markedly increases your chance of future cardiovascular problems.
From the medical point of view, it is clear that once you develop one or two of
these factors, the others become much more likely to occur – a snowball effect.
In fact, they propagate each other and create an inflammatory condition now thought
to be the basis for formation of plaques that lead to heart attack and stroke.
The typical American high-stress lifestyle and diet high in processed foods,
along with lack of exercise, help promote this inflammatory condition in our
blood.
Cardiovascular Disease – Early Start, Steady Progression
What most people do not realize is that Cardiovascular Disease begins in childhood.
Even as babies we already have a “fatty streak” in our aortas that represents the first
sign of plaque formation in our arteries. Though initially harmless, but starting in our
teenage years, plaque formation slowly progresses in the majority of people. Studies show
that plaque covers 10-30% of the surface area of aortas in all 15 year-olds, growing
to 20-50% by age 35. Even more unnerving, such plaque is present in the heart arteries
of 75% of men and women by the age of 35.†
It is important to know you do not have to be overweight
to be at risk of developing hardening of the arteries.
Obesity, cholesterol problems, diabetes and high blood pressure have always been
separated as different disease processes. Lack of exercise, high stress and diets
high in saturated fat, and refined carbohydrates (sugar and starch) promote
obesity. This leads to an inflammatory state in the bloodstream that involves
numerous unhealthy proteins that create a “snowball effect” leading to the
development of disease states that lead to the Metabolic Syndrome. Though
obesity has reached epidemic proportions, it is important to know you do not
have to be overweight to be at risk of developing hardening of the arteries.
The Truth about Cholesterol
The “truth” about cholesterol is that knowing only what your standard cholesterol
levels are (total cholesterol, LDL (bad), HDL (good), and triglycerides) is very
limiting. These levels fail to recognize over half the people who develop a heart
attack or stroke at a relatively young age.
Advanced cholesterol testing is the best way to tell you the truth about your risk
of a future heart attack or stroke.
There are currently three different kinds of
advanced cholesterol testing panels that divide LDL, HDL and VLDL
(marker for triglycerides) into subcategories based on their size. Though a
standard cholesterol panel has withstood the test of time as a good screening
test for the general population, advanced lipoprotein testing does a much better
job of assessing your individual or true risk.
†Source: American Journal of Cardiology, July 4, 2005.
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