Can you cure heart disease without cleaning the plaque out of the arteries?

What a lot of the pharmacuetical drugs are doing is trying to defeat the symptoms of the underlying damage of the arteries and the plaque build up in the arteries. For example some of the drugs relax blood vessels; vasodilation. When blood vessels are held tight the heart has to push with more force to circulate the blood to all the cells of the body. Some substances that are commonly used like cigarettes have a vasoconstrictive affect on the blood vessels. This is a big part of why cigarettes increase the chance of a heart attack, especially constant high useage(there is more to it than that, this is just a brief summary).

So on one level, yes for a person who is in real immenent danger of a heart attack, relaxing their blood vessels is going to reduce the chances of that immenent heart attack. On the other hand we have to ask ourselves a simple question. If having our blood vessels relaxed is so beneficial why do our bodies ever allow vasoconstriction? Well the reality is a healthy body has healthy supple blood vessels which constrict or relax depending on the needs of the organism as a whole. So you see 40 year olds going on blood vessel relaxing drugs and you wonder what the long term implications of that will be. One thing is for sure, before many moons have past they will need to be taking some other drug for some other health problem that develops from it.

Now there is a further complication to this reasoning. The body needs a healthy balance of certain micro-nutrients to normalize its own blood vessel constriction levels. Sadly in our modern society the population is outright deficient in some of these micro-nutrients, and others the population is getting an excessive amount. Or to put it more succinctly, the population is getting an imbalance on a number of basic micro-nutrients. Solve that imbalance and the body is able to regulate its blood vessels on its own accord.

Another drug class commonly used to treat high blood pressure is diuretics. There is some spirited debate in the scientific community on how diuretics lower your blood pressure. The lowering often is not huge, ~6 points on the systolic measurement. One argument I have been persuaded by is a simple argument. By dumping a bunch of water weight, your bodyweight is lower overall. And it has also been shown in studies that simply losing 10 pounds can knock 10 points off the systolic reading in your average hypertensive patient. So it is certainly conceivable that shedding 5 pounds of waterweight can drop the blood pressure by 6 points. Especially when you look at some of the nutritional imbalances that cause much of the population to hold more water than they should be.

The problem with these approaches is they are not dealing with the underlying causes. Say there is enough plaque build up/calcification on the arteries , that it is actually starting to restrict blood flow. So the heart is having to push harder to move the blood through the system. Diuretics and blood vessel relaxing drugs can lower the blood pressure in the short run(with consequences like reduced oxygenation to tissue), but unless that process of plaque formation/calcification is stopped the underlying condition is going to worsen.

As more plaque builds up inside the arteries, as the arteries become stiffened by calcification along their walls, it is blatantly obvious that the patient’s underlying condition is worsening.
I do not want to come across as too negative on the drugs used. Many of these drugs do show real hard evidence of reducing the chances of heart attacks. Even ones as simple as the diuretics. My problem with the drug approach is that the disease is still progressing behind the scenes, and each drug comes with its own side effects.

Luckily there are ways to outright reverse the plaque in the arteries. There are also ways to repair the arterial walls, which I will cover in another section. I have in my possession a number of scientific studies done decades ago in North America, and a number of studies done in Europe and Japan in more recent decades, that show scientific proof of how to clean out the plaque. Of course the substances used to do it are not patentable so there were no follow ups. I find it interesting how even the Universities have been captured by the commercial interest.