[Moonman62]

Three years after my aortic valve was replaced, I was told I had severe stenosis due to calcification and would need it replaced again. I was on Coumadin. I started taking Vitamin K2.

I had to see the cardiologist every three months and every time he asked me if I was ready to go to the surgeon. I told him I wanted to wait for my next echo results. He told me that would do me no good. He also told me to stop taking K2. I refused.

A year after the diagnosis I got my next echo and it showed the calcification was gone and the valve was performing normally.

It’s four years later, I still take K2 and my valve is still good. My cardiologist pretends the episode never happened.

[ConservativeMind]

Your cardiologist is just another of 99+% of medical professionals who don’t stay educated on their area of expertise.

To be fair, when you see patients all day long, you don’t have time to read random journals.

That is how you can have more relevant, useful ground-breaking knowledge than any of your specialists.

I thank God we have access to such knowledge outside of our doctors!

[Wuli]

The medical profession’s greatest ignorance seems to be the connections be dietary intake and cause or improvement of medical conditions. That ignorance ignores how the natural method of the body obtaining what it needs, for maintenance or improvement is through it’s natural intake process - diet. What is a dietary “supplement”? A natural substance added to the diet.

Your cardiologist would have done better service, to you and to themselves, telling you to go home and drastically increase your intake of Vitamin K. Why not do that? That does not require doctor’s prescription.

[Ragnar54]

In a similar vein (as it were), I was diagnosed as being in heart failure (average life expectancy of 5 years). I decided to follow the recommendation of Dr. Stephen Sinatra and maintain a COQ10 blood level above 3.5 mg/L. I got my level up to 4.5 and mentioned it to my cardiologist, who told me to stop taking it (ubiquinol) immediately.

I ignored that advice. After a few years, he told me that I was doing better than he had expected.

It has now been 12 years since diagnosis, and my heart is stable. I am usually able to bike 100 miles a week, unless it's a windsurfing week. I still take 400mg of ubiquinol daily.