Voeding belangrijk bij behandeling hart- en vaatziektes*
Recent medisch wetenschappelijk onderzoek laat zien dat bepaalde voeding bij hart en/of vaat operaties van essentieel belang is. Zo hebben mensen met een hart en/of vaataandoening al uiterst hoge waarden
aan vrije
radicalenschade en lage waarde aan de lichaamseigen antioxidant, glutathion. Operaties verhogen de oxidatieschade nog eens zodat het belangrijk is de patiënten antioxidanten voor en de na een operatie te geven. De meest belangrijke antioxidant die het lichaam zelf aanmaakt is glutathion. Glutathion in een pilletje innemen is zinloos omdat dit het spijsverteringssysteem niet overleefd en dus niet in de cellen terecht komt belangrijk zijn dan voeding rijk aan ingrediënten die de aanmaak van
glutathion in het lichaam stimuleren.
Cardiac Patients Recover Better With Heart Surgery Nutrition
It is called heart surgery nutrition and this is an easy way that cardiac patients can do something effective to improve their medical outcomes. Recent medical research is now showing that heart surgery nutrition is a very important way to protect a patient from damage that can be caused by the oxidative stress that goes along with angioplasty, coronary bypass, thrombolysis (using medication to dissolve blood clots), and the injury that results when oxygen is once again supplied to tissues that were oxygen
deprived.
In fact, medical researchers are taking the important step of recommending that people take proactive, protective measures to combat the heavy oxidative stress that goes along with heart attacks, strokes, and heart surgery.
There are two important elements that researchers have found:
1. An extremely high level of free radical damage
2. An absence of glutathione (the body’s own antioxidant) in people who are experiencing cardiac problems.
Both of these elements accompany heart disease and both occur when -
1. Blood flow to the heart is obstructed by a blockage of a coronary artery
2. Or there is a sudden, severe blockage that brings on a heart attack (myocardial
infarction)
The good news is that heart surgery nutrition can easily be implemented and added to a patient’s medical treatment to improve outcomes and even protect against further damage.
How To Prevent Further Cardiac Damage
A team of Canadian and Japanese heart researchers suggest now that the use of antioxidant therapy before a cardiac procedure such as angioplasty, coronary bypass, and thrombolysis may help prevent
complications.
Without making sure that there are adequate protective mechanisms in place to combat free radicals our vascular systems can be overcome by
atherosclerosis.
A Research team at Birmingham University examined over two thousand patients who had confirmed coronary artery disease in a randomized clinical trial. The results
were:
* Patients who took antioxidant supplements reduced their risk of cardiovascular disease by 47%.
* Cardiologists in Italy conclude that significant glutathione depletion occurs after cardiac
ischemia.
* A study in the Japan Heart Journal measured the red blood cell glutathione of 21 patients with heart attacks. They found evidence of glutathione depletion and this indicates that this condition presents a major demand for glutathione.
How Your Body’s Own Antioxidant Protects You
The principal antioxidant in our cells is glutathione (GSH). It protects all cells. It has been shown that there is a connection between cholesterol levels, glutathione levels, and plaque formation in the aorta. It has also been confirmed that GSH levels decrease as we age and this contributes to the formation of atherosclerosis.
Antioxidants like vitamins C and E are important and beneficial but the naturally occurring antioxidant in the cell is GSH. GSH changes these other antioxidants into their functionally active form.
Unfortunately, taking glutathione in pill form is not effective, because it is merely digested and does not get to the cells. To benefit from glutathione you need to add it as a nutraceutical both as pre- and postoperative
nutrition.
(Oktober
2008)
