A Smart Approach to Heart Health

A little bouquet of Vitamin C and grape seed for instance?  Or a red heart shaped box like chocolates come in?  Or maybe it's sufficient to look into purchasing something for someone (or yourself) and having it shipped as a gift.  (I'd imagine Robin can facilitate that if anyone's interested.) 

Personally, I really appreciate this information, Robin. It's really wonderful that you get such inspiration from Lumigrate's Yenta and Beth Patterson -- I feel you give so much to us at Lumigrate with the quality of information you provide as well as the manner of your posts, so it's nice to know we're contributing back to you with content. And this is my first Valentine's Day in my 50 years without my dad and I appreciate in some ways the time we had to realize his life was coming to it's conclusion, so I kept my Valentines from him for the last many years.  He always would put a little money in them.  In recent years it was enough to go out to dinner with, as he was a generous guy.  (Though once I found a bag of mail on the side of the road and called the police; when the officer came out to collect it, he said Valentine's is a day lots of mail theft occurs because of people sending a little money, unlike bigger holidays when checks are sent.)

As for cardiovascular and supplementation as you've described here, I know in the past I had quite a lot of issues going on related to my arteries and circulation. At one time it wasn't just the small ones, it was not working for me to get vitamin and mineral IVs seven years ago (that's how I jump-started my fibromyalgia recovery, Myers Cocktails but they're virtually impossible to get for most people due to lack of providers who do them.) 

Right now I'm not experiencing any symptoms that I'm aware of, but sometimes you get so used to your feet and fingers being a bit or a lot numb that an improvement might seem to me to be 'back to normal' and really it's just 'better'.  At my age and with the things I know I have going on in my body, it likely would be benefical for me to get back to grape seed. I know I studied up on it and took it in the past, but this is news to me about the combination effect.  Very neat it was presented to the AHA. 

In my many conversations with people who have taken supplementation to heart (pun intended!) related to fibromyalgia, we try so many things and get rather fatigued with the costs and maybe get off onto something else and away from things which were helpful.  So this was a good reminder for me.  Thanks!

I'm also going to cut and paste and email this to someone I know who is not on facebook to see the prompts I post there, nor a regular checker at Lumigrate.  It's the least I can do on Valentine's Day for someone I care about! 

And also, my mother, who died of a brain anurysm at age 62, was found via the autopsy to have had a heart attack at least six months prior to her death.  I/we recalled a Mothers Day she did NOT look good and had experienced an episode the night before where she actually felt like she was being 'possessed' inside, she said. She was visibly WAY off her baseline and I suggested she go to the doctor and she refused.  An avid smoker, she knew you could counter the damage of cigarettes with high doses of vitamin C, but it upset her stomach unless she chewed it.  So the only health care expenses she had, ironically, in her whole life were getting all her teeth capped.  But the dentist was a neighbor so at least the money stayed in the neighborhood!  Moral to the story: sometimes a little knowledge can be dangerous!  So thank you, Robin, as your vast knowledge and background with science leads you to writing invaluable information here.  And your healthy perspecive about humor and spirituality, as you point out about your enjoyment of Lumigrate, is a wonderful example to us all. 

Happy Valentines Day to you and all, so glad we had parents we learned so much from! ~~ Mardy

Dear Robin--

This did my heart good!  Thanks for the tip of the hat to the posts I have been making as well here on Lumigrate--much appreciated!

Are you familiar with Stephen Harrod Buhner's work on the heart as an organ of perception? Although I can't find a direct article on his website about his work, it might be of definite interest to you. 

Secret Teachings Of Plants:
The Intelligence of the Heart in the Direct Perception of Nature
http://gaianstudies.org/Bookstore.html

Thank you for this great info and processing, Robin!

Beth, thank you for your support of your colleague here at Lumigrate, and I appreciate the tip about the book.  I have had the pleasure of meeting you in person now (as you know but those reading likely don't know), when you came through Grand Junction on a trip.  You're definitely a wonderful reader of people and situations and from what I know of Robin, you're RIGHT ON about this book.  

I was just reviewing and reposting something from July of 2010 that Yenta wrote about reading different things than a person normally reads from time to time (it's in a piece titled Traveler's Lament, from July of 2010 -- you'll find Yenta in the Forums in the big section about fibromyalgia, in a forum titled "It Can't Hurt! - Our Bubbie, Yenta...".  Yenta initially started posting in the spirituality forum where Beth's posts typically are made, as she's a spirituality coach, but her focus and forte had to do initially with our similar medical condition that has to do with chronic pain/fibromyalgia, so that's where she's found her niche on Lumigrate.  

It is so very beneficial when providers do just as you did, Beth, and 'cross pollinate' the information in the Forums, as people who might not normally know a spirituality coach exists in the world would find out about such things from starting out wanting to read about heart health.  So again, THANK YOU, and I'm sure Robin appreciates as well.  ~~ Mardy

 Mardy let me know about this piece (printed and hand delivered it when we met earlier today) and I look forward to collaborating in the future on similar pieces for increasing patient education on this important topic. 

Liz

 Nice to meet you, Liz.  Yes, I'm looking forward to connecting with you, too.  

Robin