From the Desk of Carolyn Dean MD ND
According to a new study of 67,000 records of AFib cases in Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology, Atrial Fibrillation is more common and risky in people under 65. Instead of a mere 2%, more than 25% of patients studied were under 65. Also, AFib is over 12 times more common than previously thought.
What accounts for this increase? Besides the fact that the Apple Watch can measure your pulse and tell you if you have a heart arrhythmia!
Sidebar: Is that causing overdiagnosis?
The paper cited lifestyle risk factors that are increasing in an under 65 population that are at fault. They include diabetes, smoking, obesity, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, alcohol use, high levels of stress, high blood pressure, thyroid disease, sleep apnea or poor sleep hygiene.
The Main Trigger
I acknowledge these risk factors but I think the main trigger for AFib is mineral deficiency – mostly magnesium and potassium. These mineral deficiencies are never addressed because doctors learn nothing about nutrition in medical school. Because I studied vitamin and mineral nutrition, I recommend stabilized ions of picometer magnesium and potassium in a liquid solution as the primary approach as well as all the basic nutrients that create healthy cells. A picometer multiple mineral, whole food vitamin C, and vitamin D.
Risk Factors and My Recommendations
But let’s look at how allopathic medicine addresses these risk factors and what I recommend?
- Diabetes: Allopathic Rx – Metformin to force more insulin out of the pancreas to push glucose into cells. If that doesn’t work, insulin shots are offered.
I recommend: Stop eating sugar and take picometer magnesium and picometer multiple minerals.
- Smoking: Allopathic Rx – Nicotine patches and Nicotine gum.
I recommend: Being fully nourished can even remove the craving for nicotine which is a stimulant.
- Obesity: Allopathic Rx – GLP-1 Injections like Ozempic and Wegovy that cause fat and muscle weight loss.
I recommend: Basic nutrients: picometer minerals, food-based vitamins and omega-3 algae oil. If your body had the proper nutrients, you don’t crave food and overeat trying to find those nutrients.
- Unhealthy diets: Allopathic medicine doesn’t address diet.
I recommend: Avoid sugar, gluten and dairy in case your AFib is caused by yeast toxins from yeast overgrowth.
- Physical inactivity: Allopathic medicine will encourage you to exercise, as would I.
- Alcohol use: Allopathic medicine does recommend mild consumption but does not limit coffee drinking according to recent studies.
I recommend: Avoid both alcohol and coffee consumption and increase picometer magnesium and picometer potassium to get heart rhythm under control.
- High levels of stress. Allopathic medicine only has drug solutions for stress that leads to anxiety and depression.
I recommend: Picometer magnesium and multiple minerals and food-based vitamins to replace the nutrients that are lost due to stress and lead to anxiety and depression.
- High blood pressure: Allopathic Rx includes diuretics, calcium channel blockers and ACE inhibitors that deplete so magnesium, they cause high cholesterol and high blood sugar.
I recommend: Picometer magnesium and picometer potassium help prevent and treat high blood pressure that is due to smooth muscle contraction in blood vessels that causes high BP.
- Thyroid disease: Allopathic medicine waits for the thyroid to be completely depleted and then uses thyroid replacement therapy to treat hypothyroidism.
I recommend: Nine picometer minerals that make thyroid hormones, that are in picometer multiple minerals.
- Sleep apnea: Allopathic medicine puts people on a C-Pap machine to help their breathing.
I recommend: Weight loss and picometer magnesium.
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Carolyn Dean MD ND
The Doctor of the Future