How to Get Yourself Infected by Chronic Good Health

By Carl J Hagelstam

This book is about one mans successful quest to reverse his cardiovascular disease and his wifes stage 3 lung cancer in their own home without mainstream pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, or radiation.
Most importantly he describes the value of addressing ones overall health condition at a cellular level in order to avoid the lurking threat of developing any number of other diseases and conditions.
While applying these therapies and procedures the only side effect ever noticed by the author and his wife appeared to be the gradual and steadily growing sense of good health.
Although the author is not a licensed medical doctor, the therapies he and his wife strictly followed for heart disease and lung cancer are described here in full detail. You decide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491865408

Carl J Hagelstam

Captain Carl Hagelstam spent 30 years making his own decisions as a Master on board oceangoing ships and would not accept what his Cardiologist told him after his open heart surgery. "Your Coronary Artery Disease is irreversible and you will be on medications for the rest of your life!" An extensive research of natural alternatives ensued and important lifesaving findings were put to use. This happened in 2009 and 2010. His wife Viola was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer (NSCLC - Adenocarcinoma) in May 2012. The verdict from the Oncologist was grim: "You have 4 months to 4 years to live!" A six month period of radiation and chemotherapy followed, but to no avail! Once again alternative remedies were put into use, resulting in success. Both Carl and his wife are now free of both heart disease and cancer thanks to alternative remedies that they applied at home without any fuss and fanfare. Quietly and with ease, at a relatively low cost, they reversed their conditions. They no longer suffer from any symptoms of their "irreversible diseases". Captain Carl made copious amounts of detailed notes while he researched alternative natural treatments, with the intention to spread all this newfound knowledge to his family and closest friends. His notes accumulated and eventually resulted in this book, which can hopefully help not only his family and his closest friends, but other people out there as well!

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© 2014 Carl J Hagelstam. All rights reserved.

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Published by AuthorHouse 03/21/2014

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6541-5 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6539-2 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-6540-8 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903242

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Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 A Reversal of Coronary Artery Disease: My Own Story

3 Stopping Lung Cancer in Its Tracks: Viola’s Story

4 Chronic Good Health? Bring It On!

5 The Cells in the Human Body

Health Begins (and Ends) on the Cellular Level

Nutritional Requirements for Human Cells and the Body

6 The Digestive System: A Simple Description

7 The Food and Health Connection

All these are bad for your health

Acid/Alkaline Balance within the Body

Healthy Food—In General

The New Gluten Protein

Fats and Oils

8 So What Should We Eat?

Allergies and Food Sensitivities

Listen to Your Body

How to Get Your Digestive Health Back

Foods Considered Healthy

Answers to the Question What Is a Healthy Diet?

9 Supplements

Vitamins

Minerals

Phytonutrients

Other Important Nutrients

Enzymes

Cancer-Fighting Compounds

10 Achieving a Healthy Weight

The Thyroid Gland

Insulin

Leptin

Grehlin

Adiponectin

Gut Bacteria

Sugar

High-Glycemic Carbohydrates

Wheat

Exercise

Sleep

The Health Connection

11 Aging and Premature Aging

Oxidation

Inflammation

Glycation, a.k.a. the Maillard Reaction

12 Maintaining a Chronic Good Health Condition

About the Author

About the Book

1

Introduction

My wife and I are both survivors. I had open-heart surgery in the summer of 2010 for ischemic heart disease due to coronary artery blockages. I am now completely symptom free, and I have not taken any pharmaceutical drugs for over two years. My wife, Viola, was diagnosed with dreaded lung cancer in May 2012. It was a 5cm x 4cm–sized tumor in her right lung, very close to her heart. A biopsy a couple of weeks later confirmed her lung cancer to be a non-small-cell adenocarcinoma. She did both radiation therapy and chemotherapy starting early in June 2012. Twenty-two weeks later, the third CT scan since her ordeal began showed not only no significant change to the tumor in her lung but also a new indefinable mass in her lower abdomen. At this point Viola decided to stop having treatments by the oncologists, since all they could offer was more of the same—apparently ineffective treatments. She started on alternative remedies at home instead. She is now, about a year later, seemingly doing fine. The earlier club nails on her fingers and toes are now growing and looking like normal nails again as well. She has regained her weight, from 88 pounds back to her normal 105 pounds. She has her color back as well as most of her strength and energy. A chest X-ray at St. Thomas Radiology confirmed that her lungs had cleared with no abnormality evident. She is currently on her second version of home treatments, with a third version planned… just in case. There are no side effects except improved health, so why not?

It seems to me that most people live their lives without much thought or interest in their own health. It also seems that younger people are the least interested in a healthy lifestyle. Not only is there genuine disinterest but an unfortunate dose of ignorance about health as well. This certainly applied to me and my wife until we got our wake-up call, when various age-related aches and pains started to intrude into our lives in quite a rude fashion. At that point, Viola was sixty and I was sixty-two. The year was 2007. We were both still smoking cigarettes, a habit we both had had since our youth, and each of us was puffing on about forty cigarettes (two packs) every day. Clearly neither one of us was particularly close to anything we could call healthy, but we are taking our health back little by little every day, and we hope to have a few more good years.

Viola developed some intense lower back pain, while I started to have joint and muscle aches, particularly upon getting out of bed in the mornings. Both of us also suffered from hypertension. Viola ended up having lower back surgery twice about a year apart, in 2007 and 2008, for the sciatic nerve, which was squeezed flat between two vertebrae.

I started to study alternative health in early 2009, even before I had my initial ischemic coronary artery incident. This interest in studying health issues gradually escalated, and it eventually became an all-consuming activity, when I wasn’t piloting vessels in and out of Charlotte Amalie Harbor. By profession I am a harbor pilot in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.

Looking back now, I wonder if my newfound interest in health could have originated in my subconscious mind—a premonition of some sort—because that same year I found myself in the emergency room at the local hospital in St. Thomas with myocardial ischemia, getting two stents inserted in one of my coronary arteries. This was June 8, 2009.

I stopped smoking cigarettes on May 26, 2010. My forty-eight years of nonstop smoking ended cold turkey that day. As a lad I smoked maybe ten cigarettes per day, and within a few years I was smoking about one pack, or twenty cigarettes per day. That eventually grew into two packs, or forty cigarettes, per day for the next forty years, which was about one cigarette every twenty-four minutes while I was awake. I really surprised myself by being able to stop smoking cold turkey, particularly since Viola continued smoking in our home and around me. Somehow I did prevail, and I have not had a cigarette since that day in May 2010. Two years later Viola stopped smoking, which was a major accomplishment, because it was not as easy for her. At that time she already knew something was wrong with her lungs, which made her able to make that extra effort. Only about three weeks later she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

I have a Merchant Marine Unlimited Master’s License, and I work in that capacity as a harbor pilot, which also requires a First Class Pilot License. Both of these licenses are issued by the US Coast Guard. The US Coast Guard requires annual physicals, and now, in my case, due to my coronary artery disease, also a more thorough heart stress test every two years. This test involves nuclear profusion blood flow images in combination with a Bruce protocol stress test, and it is a major half-day checkup. I had to have my first nuclear stress test of the heart in the spring of 2010. I failed this test, which turned out to be due to the fact that the inserted stents were now 100 percent blocked. An attempt to open up the blocked stents failed, and I was told that bypass surgery was the only option available to me.

On June 19, 2010, I had a quintuple bypass surgery (five bypasses) at the Florida Hospital in Orlando. The surgery was successful and without any complications. This surgery required many months of rehabilitation, due to the fact that I climb rope ladders up ship sides at work. It takes time for an opened rib cage with an overlay of muscles to heal well enough for climbing rope ladders. I did not return to my job until February 2011.

During my recuperation, I studied alternative ways to heal, while I also did daily walks and swam in the ocean at Coki Beach. I also took special care with my diet and incorporated certain supplements with the intention and hope of reversing my disease and removing the need for the pharmaceutical drugs that had been prescribed for me. In this endeavor I was certainly most successful, and I was able to drop the Lipitor, the Plavix, and the three different blood pressure medications one by one, until I was taking no drugs at all in early May 2011—ten months after the bypass surgery. I have not taken any pharmaceutical drugs (prescription or over-the-counter) since. In fact, I haven’t taken as much as a single pill.

The findings in my latest nuclear stress test of the heart, dated November 05, 2012, say, 1. Excellent exercise tolerance. 2. No evidence of ischemia at rest and stress. 3. Nuclear perfusion images showed no evidence of ischemic heart disease. It says further that I

received a total dosing of 15 mCi of technetium 99 Sestamibi at resting dose and stress dose of 36 mCi of technetium 99 Sestamibi. There was no evidence of active ischemia and patient remained clinically stable. The test protocol followed the Bruce protocol for 6 minutes and 45 seconds. Peak METs extended was 8.1. Peak heart rate of 181 beats per minute was achieved, representing 118% of the target maximum heart rate. Peak blood pressure was 160/80 mmHg and baseline blood pressure was 150/80 mmHg.

So it seems to me my previous coronary artery disease has been reversed.

Viola decided to go for the proven mainstream medical cancer treatments offered here in the United States. The only three accepted forms of treatment offered by American oncologists are surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, or any combination of those three. I call them cut, burn, and poison treatments. Surgery was out of the question because the tumor was very close to her heart, so she had the burn and poison carpet-bombing treatments for a few months, until the third CT scan since it all started confirmed that these treatments were not sufficiently effective. This made Viola change her mind and she was now ready to go for alternative treatment methods.

All my studying and copious note-taking helped us save our own lives. I am still reading, studying, and learning. In this book I will tell you what we did to get our health back. I have the right to tell anybody what we actually did. I have the right to report on what happened and on what I have learned about health. However, every reader of this book should be aware that I am not telling, or even suggesting, to anybody what they should do for themselves. That would require a license in medicine or another health profession. I am not a medical doctor, nor have I been involved in other official studies in medicine, biochemistry, or any other sciences concerning human health. In other words, I do not have a license to practice medicine, and I have no intention of doing so in this book or in any other way.

At this point I also want to underline another important fact about the contents in this book: I am not trying to prove anything. You will not find the text studded with those little referral numbers citing various scientific studies, even if the vast majority of my study material is based on thousands of scientific studies listed and found in PubMed (the database of the US National Library Of Medicine). I am merely writing about what I came to firmly believe, based on what I learned from material found in the sources listed below and, of course, also based on using my own judgment and common sense.

Sources:

The contents of my book come from quite a number of sources. Some of the contents come from books—more than eighty hard—and soft-cover, and another forty or so e-books purchased and downloaded online. Also utilized were various wellness reports and monthly newsletters from several medical doctors who specialize in alternative, holistic, and integrative medicine, and many online websites about health, natural medicine, and biochemistry. I have been searching, finding, and consulting my sources almost every day for more than five years. My interest in health is, at times, quite intense and time consuming. While I am immersed in these studies I tend to wear out Viola’s patience and understanding. Therefore, whenever I take time off for my real work, or when we are doing something together, we don’t talk health.

For general health questions, I have read and reread quite a number of reports, journals, letters, and books written by a variety of health experts, medical doctors, researchers, scientists, and reporters. I am very thankful for the valuable information all these people have provided, which helped educate me! Here are some of them:

Mike Adams, The Health Ranger, researcher and author; Jon Barron, researcher and author; Russell L. Blaylock, MD; Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS; David Brownstein, MD; Johanna Budwig, biochemist and MD; Hyla Cass, MD; Elmer M. Cranton, MD; Michael Cutler, MD; William Davis, MD; William Campbell Douglass II, MD; Isaac Eliaz, MD; Mary G. Enig, PhD, nutrition; Lee Euler, researcher and author (cancerdefeated.com); Owen Fonorow, author; Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS; Garry Gordon, MD; Elson Haas, MD; Thierry Hertoghe, MD; Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS ; Mark Hyman, MD; Malcolm Kendrick, MD; Robert Kulacz, DDS; Thomas E. Levy, MD & JD; Dwight Lundell, MD; Robert H. Lustig, MD; George E. Meinig, DDS, FACD; Joseph Mercola, MD; Ralph W. Moss, PhD; Gary Null, PhD ; Dean Ornish, MD; Linus Pauling, PhD; Fred Pescatore, MD; Weston A. Price, dentist, researcher; Mathias Rath, MD; Uffe Ravnskov, MD, PhD; Michael E. Rosenbaum, MD; Keith Scott-Mumby, MD, MB, ChB, PhD; Al Sears, MD; Frank Shallenberger, MD; Allan Spreen, MD; Mark Stengler, MD; Gary Taubes, researcher and author; Julian Whitaker, MD; David G. Williams, MD; Jonathan V. Wright, MD; and Robert O. Young, PhD.

For coronary artery disease I found absolutely critical information in Dr. Thomas E. Levy’s book STOP America’s 1 Killer!; in Dr. Dwight Lundell’s (who has performed more than five thousand open-heart surgeries) book The Cure for Heart Disease; Owen Fonorow’s book Practicing Medicine without a License? which contains the Linus Pauling therapy for heart disease; Dr. Uffe Ravnskov’s book Fat and Cholesterol are GOOD for You!; and Dr. Malcolm Kendrick’s book The Great Cholesterol Con. I also found invaluable information in Dr. David Brownstein’s monthly newsletters Natural Way to Health; Dr. Russell L. Blaylock’s monthly newsletters The Blaylock Wellness Report; Dr. Jonathan V. Wright’s newsletters Nutrition & Healing; and Dr. Stephen Sinatra’s report Reverse Your Deadly Heart Problems Now.

I generally followed the advice given in all the above-mentioned material rather closely. Another self-treatment regimen can be found in Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.’s book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, which I believe also contains an absolutely ironclad regimen for prevention and even reversal of heart disease—certainly as a short-term remedy for just about anybody, but may be a problem long term for people not suited to be vegetarians. A similar treatment alternative is also presented by Dr. Dean Ornish.

My cardiologists did follow the directions of the American Heart Association (AHA) . . . or maybe they followed the evidence-based directives given in Cecil Medicine, the medical textbook also called a Doctor’s Bible? The directions I got were all safe alternatives for the practicing doctors who won’t risk their licenses, nor risk being charged with a malpractice suit. So I figured that the follow-up directions and prescription drugs I was handed were good for my doctors but were not necessarily good for me.

A lot of research also went into finding suitable treatments for Viola’s lung cancer. I had already accumulated material, such as a few e-books and many downloaded newsletters. So more reading and searching ensued while Viola decided to start with mainstream medicine, saying, "Let’s give them a chance to show what