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Presentations recorded at Wise Traditions Annual Conferences from 2008-2016. Includes audio, slides, and videos on a USB flash drive - play MP4 video files on your computer, tablet or smartphone.
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INCLUDES ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS:
The Oiling of America
Sally Fallon Morell, MA
Format: Audio
Year: 2008
The history of the cholesterol theory of heart disease and its devasting effects on the American diet. This talk will focus on fraud and manipulation in studies used to justify the cholesterol theory, roles of cholesterol in the body, dangers of cholesterol-lowering drugs and the many alternative theories on what causes heart disease.
What Causes Heart Attacks: Cardiotonics and the Heart
Thomas Cowan, MD
Format: Audio
Year: 2008
Building on his earlier lectures, which present the concept that “The Heart is Not a Pump,” Dr. Cowan presents a novel theory of heart disease developed by Dr. de Mesquita, a cardiologist in Brazil. He will present evidence that heart attacks begin with acidosis of the heart, and not with the blockage of the arteries, and can be prevented with the use of certain cardiotonics such as digitalis, which strengthen heart function. The supporting role of cholesterol and adrenal function in heart health will be discussed, as will the role of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
Put Your Heart in Your Mouth: What Heart Disease Really Is and What We Can Do to Prevent and Even Reverse It
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD
Format: Audio
Year: 2008
Many risk factors have been identified that are thought to contribute to the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. However, what people hear the most about are cholesterol and dietary fats. We have been waging a war on cholesterol and fats for the last 50 years. Yet, people in the Western world are having just as many heart attacks and strokes as before, despite following “heart healthy” diets. So, are we doing something wrong?
Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride will be talking about what heart disease really is, what causes it, how it develops and what nutrition really has to do with it.
Heart Rate Variability: A New Vital Sign
Beverly Rubik, PhD
Format: Audio
Year: 2008
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a newly accepted clinical test that gives a measure of the resilience and dynamic range of the heart and autonomic nervous system. It is used mainly in holistic medicine to monitor stress and certain disease states and conditions. In short, the greater the HRV, the healthier the heart is with less chance of a heart attack. HRV was used to monitor a variety of patients and others, before and after various interventions, including yoga, qigong, meditation, phototherapy, nutritional supplementation, prescription drugs of various types, and smoking. A variety of cases will be shown. Data from a study on yoga and heart rate variability will also be shown. Yoga and other Eastern practices are seen to improve the heart and autonomic nervous system balance.
The True Cause of Heart Attacks
Thomas Cowan, MD
Format: Audio
Year: 2010
This session explores the true cause of heart attacks and angina, along with the the use of carditonics, in particular ouabain, in the treatment of cardiac disease.
The Heart is not a Pump
Thomas Cowan, MD
Format: Audio
Year: 2010
This session looks at the function of the heart, and the development of the theory that the heart is not a pump. Describing it as such has led scientists and doctors astray for many years.
Heart Disease and Molecular Degeneration: The New Paradigm
Chris Masterjohn
Format: Audio & Slides
Year: 2010
When researchers first produced atherosclerosis in rabbits by feeding them cholesterol, they argued that atherosclerois was of an “infiltrative” rather than “degenerative” character. That is, cholesterol was so abundant that it infiltrated the blood vessel wall. Over the decades it has become clear, however, that atheroclerosis is an attempt to protect the lining of the blood vessel from toxic waste generated by the degeneration of vulnerable lipids. The process of molecular degeneration can be likened to breaking glass, and the formation of atherosclerosis can be likened to the process of cleaning up the broken shards. The danger is not gone forever, though, because these toxic waste management sites (or barrels of broken glass) can eventually burst and spill their contents into the blood, leading to clotting, oxygen starvation, and the death of local tissue that can result in a heart attack or stroke. The key to preventing heart disease according to the new paradigm is preventing the molecular degeneration in the first place.
Fat Myths
Chris Masterjohn
Format: Video and Slides
Year: 2011
Good Fats, Bad Fats: Separating Fact From Fiction
In the modern era, the nutritional establishment has created the tall tale of a mythical transition from a low-fat diet associated with poverty to a high-fat diet associated with affluence and has considered this mythical increase in fat intake to be the scourge of modern, disease-producing diets. The establishment has likewise promoted the use of polyunsaturated vegetable oils to supply our needs of "essential fatty acids" and to lower blood cholesterol. Others have maintained with equal vigor that using large amounts of fat is necessary to displace harmful carbohydrates, and that this is the key to vibrant health. Traditional, health-promoting diets, however, varied widely in their composition, some being very low in fat, others deriving over 50 percent of their calories from saturated fat alone. Healthy, non-pregnant, non-lactating adults require essential fatty acids in infinitesimal amounts. Growing children, pregnant or lactating women, and adults who are recovering from injury or suffering a degenerative disease require greater amounts of these fatty acids, but acquire them best from animal products. The use of vegetable oils likely promotes heart disease despite lowering cholesterol. Saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids play essential roles in our bodies, but we can synthesize them from carbohydrate, an option on which many healthy groups have relied. Fats provide essential nutrients and aid in the absorption of nutrients from other foods. It is the overall nutrient density and nutrient bioavailability of the diet, however, and not the specific content of fat, that produces health.
Beyond Cholesterol: Fat-Soluble Vitamins in the Prevention of Heart Disease
Chris Masterjohn, PhD
Format: Video and Slides
Year: 2013
Weston Price observed that fat-soluble vitamins were richest in dairy fat during periods when pasture was the most lush and grew the most rapidly, and that heart disease mortality was lowest during these periods. Our understanding of heart disease has made incredible advances since Price’s time, which has made the role of fat-soluble vitamins in preventing heart disease much clearer than Price could have imagined. “Heart disease” is really a group of related but different diseases. The fat-soluble vitamins cooperate to prevent this array of diseases and support a robust state of health in our cardiovascular tissues in many ways that will be discussed in this presentation.
The 20th Century Attack on Wholesome Foods and the 21st Century Food Revolution
Chris Masterjohn, PhD
Format: Audio & Slides
Year: 2014
- Learn how the post-World War II fascination with antibiotics undermined interest in the anti-infective power of the fat-soluble vitamins.
- Discover how “the Green Revolution” undermined the nutrient density of common foods.
- Understand how the diet-heart hypothesis purged foods rich in fat-soluble vitamins from the menus of ordinary Americans under the guise of preventing heart disease.
- Learn to defend nourishing foods against these attacks with modern science.
- Strengthen grassroots community initiatives to protect the 21st century rediscovery of nourishing, nutrient-dense foods from being undermined by government regulatory agencies.
Cardiovascular, Periodontal Disease and Sugar Metabolism: The Oral-Systemic Link: How Much Do We Know?
Thomas Lokensgard, DDS, NMD, ABAAHP
Format: Audio & Slides
Year: 2014
This session will show the connection of the underlying causes of periodontal disease, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and sugar dysregulation. The connection between oral inflammatory mediators and CVD is now firmly established. The presentation will include ways to control oral inflammation and give you the dietary template for a healthy mouth and a healthy heart.
Saturated Fat Does a Body Good: Exploring the Biological Roles of These Long-Demonized Yet Heroic Nutrients
Chris Masterjohn, PhD
Format: Video & Slides
Year: 2015
Saturated fat has long been demonized as the energy source most likely to raise “bad cholesterol” and thereby contribute to heart disease. Only recently is this beginning to change in the mainstream. Despite this, the disciplines of biochemistry and of cellular and molecular biology have been elucidating the positive and essential biological functions of saturated fatty acids for decades. Among these are included the following: regulating the fluidity of cellular membranes, anchoring proteins to membranes, and ensuring that proteins properly interact with one another and thus that proper communication takes place within and between cells. A number of specific saturated fatty acids also provide energy in unique ways that aid in improving body composition and intestinal health. Saturated fats, in fact, are so important that we synthesize many of them in large amounts from carbohydrate. This talk will explore the specific biological roles of saturated fats and conclude by discussing the health implications that these rules suggest for consuming saturated fat in the diet.
Heart Rate Variability, What Does It Reveal?
Beverly Rubik, PhD
Format: Audio & Slides
Year: 2015
Heart rate variability (HRV) is a clinical test that gives a measure of the resilience and dynamic range of the heart and autonomic nervous system. It is used in holistic medicine to monitor stress and certain disease states and conditions. HRV measurements can predict the likelihood of a heart attack or other chronic illness. A variety of cases will be covered showing before and after various interventions, including yoga, qigong, meditation, phototherapy, nutritional supplementation, prescription drugs, cell phone use, and tobacco smoking. You will also learn how you can improve your heart rate variability and autonomic nervous system balance for increased vitality and wellness.
Blood Flow and Cardiovascular Disease: A New Perspective
Stephanie Seneff, PhD
Format: Audio & Slides
Year: 2015
Cardiovascular disease is often portrayed as a passive system whereby excess fat and cholesterol in the blood accumulates like sludge in the arteries supplying the heart, eventually becoming so thick that they impede blood flow. The truth is the exact opposite: cholesterol is actively accumulated in atherosclerotic regions in order to assure adequate blood flow through the capillaries supplying the heart. Rather than a cholesterol excess problem, cardiovascular disease is a cholesterol sulfate deficiency problem. Sulfate is normally attached to sugar chains in the capillary walls, and is essential there for maintaining the water in the blood in a healthy state and for promoting smooth transit of red blood cells through the capillaries. Red blood cells also maintain their negative charge through their own supply of cholesterol sulfate, and this creates an electromagnetic field that promotes blood flow. When supplies run low, there is danger of a no-flow situation, and the plaque can rescue the heart from catastrophe in an emergency situation. Ironically, a heart attack itself can improve the vascular flow by renewing sulfate supplies from stored taurine. In this talk, Dr. Seneff will present her latest understanding of the science behind cardiovascular health and disease.
The Adrenal Heart Connection Parts I & II
Tom Cowan, MD
Format: Audio
Year: 2016
Dr. Tom Cowan will explore some of the main themes in his new book Human Heart, Cosmic Heart. In particular there is a saying in Chinese medicine that the adrenals nourish the heart. Cowan will examine this old theme in a new light and describe the amazing strategy that the human body uses to protect the heart through its intimate connection with the adrenal gland.
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