I have always maintained that aspirin is a poor choice. Aspirin will short circuit the beneficial prostaglandins. In most people, the good prostaglandins are already in short supply with a horrendously distorted omega 6:3 ratio.

Nearly half of all Americans die of heart attacks. Yet it was not always so. Despite the supposedly heroic efforts of the medical establishment, CVD has progressed from almost a non-entity a hundred years ago to the leading cause of death in America today.

That the medical profession has completely missed the boat on treating and preventing CVD is further illustrated by the scientifically unsound treatment protocol that is routinely prescribed. For example, a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated that Digoxin, the most universal treatment for heart disease, is totally impotent. Its performance is no different than a placebo in preventing heart attacks.

Calcium channel blockers are one of the most prescribed medications for treating hypertension, angina, and cardiac arrhythmias. Studies have shown that calcium blockers, while being very effective at lowering blood pressure, actually increase a patient's chance of having a stroke. The pharmaceutical industry was still reeling from this finding when further studies proved that calcium blockers also increase the incidence of heart attacks.

Literally millions of people are taking aspirin presumably for protection against CVD. Yet, like the calcium blockers, aspirin actually exacerbates CVD. A study done at the University of Sidney and reported in the Medical Tribune in 1992 showed that patients with some degree of blockage of arteries to the brain are three times more likely to have a stroke if they are taking aspirin, and that that increased risk was from as little as half a tablet a day. Other research done at the University of California and reported in the British Medical Journal showed that elderly men and women who take aspirin every day almost doubled their chances of developing ischemic heart disease. The study also showed that there was an increased death rate in aspirin users from hemorrhagic stroke, not to mention the morbidity associated with intestinal bleeding and an increased incidence of both kidney and colon cancer.

Dr. Moore
 

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