A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEART HEALTH

This week, Dr. Prather gives a preview of his upcoming free seminar about the Holistic Heart program at Holistic Integration.  In this episode, we talk about:

—The philosophy behind Holistic Heart and how it integrates Structure-Function Care and the medical model for the best patient outcomes.
—How our Holistic Heart program is designed to give our patients safe, non-invasive, and medically-sound cardiac care that is more than just stents and statins.
—The unique diagnostic tests Dr. Prather orders for patients that most cardiologists do not do.
—The shocking study from the National Institutes of Health study that revealed stents and bypass surgeries are NOT effective for long-term heart health outcomes.
—The External CounterPulsation (ECP) Therapy developed 60 years ago by Harvard and how it duplicates 5 years of marathon training for the heart in just 7 weeks. And the touching story of how Dr. Prather came to bring this treatment into his office.
—How Magnesium for men and Potassium for women are "absolutely critical" for those situations where a person dies suddenly and unexpectedly from a heart attack.
—Why high Cholesterol is NOT the underlying problem, but an indicator of Cardiovascular Disease. And why Dr. Prather describes Cholesterol as the firefighters showing up to put out the fire.
—How Chiropractic care helps with the Vagus Nerve, POTS (Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), and can play a big role for atrial fibrillation (AFib). Plus, the Acupuncture points that can settle down the EKG of a patient while they are having a heart attack.
—The Cardiac C-Reactive Protein Blood Test that is the biggest indicator of having a heart attack. And how Cardiologists are "amazed" by how Dr. Prather can quickly and effectively get positive changes in this measurement.
—How you can get our Autonomic Nervous System Test for just $49 (normally a $195 value) by attending our next free Holistic Heart seminar with Dr. Prather on Wednesday, July 30th at 6:30 p.m.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hi, I'm Lisa Prather and welcome to the Voice of
Health with our host, doctor Robert Praither of Holistic Integration,
where lives are changed every day through the natural approach
to healthcare. Where we're going to talk about holistic Heart.
We need to be focusing on our health right now.
Very important, very important, very important to keep our health up.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yes, a tremendous number of people are coming in with
high stress. These are stressful times and what are you
going to do about it? Because the stress will actually
make you more susceptible to heart disease, cancer, and even infection.
So you know, being aware that and taking the necessary

(00:56):
types of steps to help along those lines is very important.

Speaker 1 (01:00):
So let's talk about the heart. What is holistic heart.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
Holistic heart is a division of our office where we're
concentrating on cardiovascular disease. Now we're not just concentrating on
cardiovascular disease in the traditional sense, though that's a very
important part of it. It reflects our whole model, our
top tier. What our basis is holistic integration. So holistic

(01:24):
integration has the holistic part, which is the structure function.
Homeostasis is the basis of structure function. Which is the
balance and the healing and the improvement of health in
the body, and we look at the body in a
very holistic type of way. Integration is where we are
then connecting to the medical model that is presently dominant

(01:45):
in the United States and getting the best of both worlds.
Our philosophy is eighty percent of all treatment should be
structure function based, twenty percent disease care based, which is
pharmaceuticals and surgery. So with that we know that we
will get the best outcomes. So with the heart with
cardiovascular system, that is one of the major areas. So

(02:07):
we have a space along those lines now that we
are concentrating solely on that to help us to get
the best of both worlds.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
So what is the philosophy behind holistic heart?

Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, holistic heart.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
We are in transition in the whole cardiovascular system on
how we're actually treating it even medically. There's a big
shakeup that's going on. So we want to be on
the forefront of the new way of approaching cardiovascular disease
as well as all different types of diseases. But cardiovascular disease,

(02:42):
of course, is are number one killer and something that
we now really need to concentrate on and with that
we are getting behind that and seeing how these changes
can actually take place and become a standard part of
cardiovascular disease elimination.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
So how common is cardiovascular disease?

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Well, cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death
in the United States. One person dies every thirty six
seconds from cardiovascular disease in.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
The United States. In the United States, every thirty six seconds.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Every thirty six seconds someone dies, which is six hundred
and fifty five thousand people die from cardiovascular disease a year,
and it accounts actually for one in four deaths. Matter
of fact, one of the biggest things that was occurring
was a lot of the COVID nineteen deaths were actually
people who were in stage of cardiovascular disease, and those

(03:41):
people had a much higher mortality rate having the COVID
nineteen and really accounted for a lot of the deaths
that were counted towards COVID nineteen were people who were
probably going to die anyway from cardiovascular disease. It just
the COVID nineteen could have sped it up a little bit.
But this is something that is a major underlying problem

(04:02):
and if we didn't have the major problem with the
cardiovascular disease. Far few people would have died from the
COVID nineteen So this is a major The number one
health concern in America is this.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
So what diagnostics do you do for cardiovascular disease?

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Of course, we do all the standard types of tests,
so all the different types of things that you could
possibly do with the heart. Of course, the gold standard
is the echo, which is something that we have done
on our patients. So we do all the standards, but
we then also do quite a few different types of
things that most cardiologists don't do. So we look at

(04:40):
hair analysis because the minerals play such a big role.
We're much more thorough on looking at all the different
types of blood tests that could be done. We also
do a neutral valve where we can break down on
the deficiencies in the body and actually know what's going
on because truthfully, eighty percent of the problem with the
heart are really nutritionally based. You know, where there are

(05:05):
deficiencies that are going on that leads to the heart
having the problems that they're experiencing. You know, when you're
talking about the heart, how much work is done on that.
The average heart is about the size of an adult fist.
The heart beats one hundred and fifteen thousand times a.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Day, wow, one hundred and fifteen.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
One hundred and fifteen thousand times a day, and it
pumps out two hundred gallons of blood a day. So
you know, when you're talking about it's a working and
you can see where if things aren't optimally that you're
going to start to have some heart problems. So looking
at it as you know, our old faithful, you know

(05:45):
it doesn't give a whole lot of attention along those lines,
but it is something that we all know that we
absolutely need and there's only one of them. We don't
have a backup in there right, So how we take
care of that heart is very very important.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
So what has research shown about the common treatments for
cardiovascular disease.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, one of the biggest things that was a huge
part of treating cardiovascular disease is the surgical method and
that's what stints bypasses are kind of the standard type
of area and the National Institute of Health did a
very very thorough study over that over five years to
find out how effective and how much of a change

(06:27):
it makes to have the stints and the surgery is
actually done, and their conclusion was not so much. It
really doesn't make a whole lot of difference. The only
difference that it makes is if it's an emergency. So
emergency surgery is very, very beneficial. Which is one of
the things that we look at is that we find

(06:50):
that really where disease care shines through is in the emergencies.
So if you're having a heart attack, I would prefer
you to go to the emergence room, not to my office,
because they actually do a much better job. However, if
you're talking about long term health of the heart structure,
function care does the best. So the old model and

(07:14):
insurance companies are really looking at that whether they should
be paying for those anymore, and that really the idea
of the surgeries at this point is one of the
biggest money makers for hospitals, so there's a lot of
pushback from it. But the research that the National Institute
of Health actually did was pretty clear cut that the

(07:37):
results on that were zero.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
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(10:20):
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Why should a thorough cardiac workup need to be done
on men?

Speaker 2 (10:32):
Well, as you're looking at heart disease, it's the number
one killer. Then also not only do you have that,
but then you also have strokes as the number five.
You also have hypertension, and so getting a thorough cardiovascular
workup is something that we highly recommend. There's a lot
of things that we do within office that are not

(10:52):
usually done, so we can actually provide a picture of
what's going on with the health of the heart, very.

Speaker 3 (11:00):
Detailed type of way.

Speaker 2 (11:01):
We've had several people say that they got a much
more thorough picture on what was going on with their
heart than even going to the top cardiology hospitals. I
had one gentleman came in he said, you know, I've
got problems with my heart. You know I can feel it.
They agree, but they don't know what it is. We
found it at our little office.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
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(12:04):
Health with doctor Robert Prather of Holistic Integration, the most
comprehensive wellness center in the Midwest. Well, we're talking today
about the heart Holistic Heart, a program we have at
Holistic Integration. And you made a strong statement before we
went to break about.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
Bypass surgery and stints, and I actually didn't make that statement.
I'm quoting quoting that there was no difference. And what
they were saying is it's not that you ignore it,
but that medication actually has as much benefit with really
no changes. Having stints and bypass surgery on the longevity

(12:50):
or incidents of the cardiovascular disease from there and that
I was actually very surprised about that because I thought
that there would be some definite benefit and this National
Institute of Health from the research that they did.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
I just want to clarify that. Let's talk about the
ECP and how it can help with cardiovascular disease.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
External counter pulsation therapy that's something that's been around for
sixty years. Was developed by Harvard Medical University, and therefore
while every cardiologist in the United States had one because
what they were finding was that this really well, the
whole thing is if you look at the information on

(13:34):
treating what is the scientific information on what works on
treating the heart. They have quite a few different medications
that are very effective. It is now found that most
of the surgeries aren't as effective that they thought they were.
The medications, there's quite a few for different types of conditions.
But the one thing, the one thing that makes the
biggest difference on cardiovascular health is a erobic exercise. If

(13:58):
you take every single condition of the cardiovascular system and
you say, what is the common factor that makes the
biggest difference on heart health it's aerobic exercise. So that
is the big panacea for this problem. And one of
the main issues that we have with America today. Why
it's the number one killer is because people aren't doing

(14:20):
aerobic exercise on a regular basis. But when you get
someone in congestive heart failure, you know a lot of
the people who we sit there and say you need
to do aerobic exercise, they say, Doc, I can't walk
up the stairs. How am I going to do aerobic exercise?
So Harvard Medical University came up with a device, external
counterpulsation where you get the same effects as doing aerobic exercise.

(14:43):
A matter of fact, all the benefits except weight loss
for the cardiovascular system with this machine, and the machine
actually does it for you. So the big thing that
they say is that you get the benefit of five
years of marathon training in seven weeks doing ECP.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
So it's pretty dramatic.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
So what was your inspiration for starting ECP in your office?

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Well, I had a patient who came in and he
was having cardiovascular disease and I could see that he
was just really getting to a point. So I called
around all the cardiologists and said, you know, I had
some friends who are cardiologists and and said, you know,
I need this patient to get on ECP.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
I know that you have a unit.

Speaker 2 (15:33):
And at that time all of them did, none of
the cardiologists do now and he said, you know I can't.
And I said, you know no, this guy is willing
to pay for it. You know you don't have to
go through insurance. But he needs ECP otherwise he's going
to die. So I agree with you, but I can't
do it because the ECP has been classified as a

(15:54):
structure function device. Now how you become a structured function
device is that if the only way that you can
be classified as a disease care procedure or product is
if you have negative results that are associated with it,
So if it doesn't cause death and disease, then it

(16:15):
can't be classified as a disease care It can only
be classified as a structure function He says, I am
not classified as a structure function doctor, so I therefore
cannot do this procedure anymore. He said, and you are
a structure function doctor. You do it if you.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
Want it done.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
And so I went started the process, made sure that
there was something I could do, and got that on
board so that I could start to fulfill my calling
as a structure function doctor and provide that for the patient. Unfortunately,
it was too late for this patient. This patient had
already died by the time that it came in, which
was heart rending because everybody loved this guy. He was

(16:59):
just someone who was just amazing and seeing someone die
along those lines and not having that was something that
I really felt that I needed to change and start
to implement that in the office. And that's also why
we started holistic hert is because this is the number
one killer and I think that really the thing that
can turn this around where we can actually get probably

(17:21):
an eighty to eighty five percent improvement cardiovascular outcomes is
by implementing structure function care also into the heartcare system.

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Well, let's talk about different treatment structure function treatments also
for cardiovascular. How important are minerals in your treatment for
cardiovascular issues?

Speaker 2 (17:39):
Absolutely critical, great cardiologists already know and if you look
at the textbooks, balancing out the minerals is one of
the most important things because again, the heart is beating
so often, it's the mineral pathways on there that allow
the muscles to actually work. If those minerals get out
of balance, then you actually get abnormal heart rhythms. So
one of the quickest ways that you can improve function

(18:02):
of the heart is to balance out the minerals and
get the minerals to where they need to be so the.

Speaker 3 (18:06):
Heart has the tools to be able to work correctly.

Speaker 1 (18:10):
And we check minerals through a hair.

Speaker 2 (18:12):
Paranalysis and blood tests. The combination of the two really
gives us the picture that we need.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
So why is magnesium so important to heart health?

Speaker 2 (18:21):
Well, an example of that is I had a patient
who was under quite a bit of stress and his
wife insisted that he come into the office and get
checked out because there had been three people in his company,
which was going bankrupt, who had died from a heart attack.
She just had a feeling that he would probably be next.
So as we did his blood work, the lab actually

(18:43):
called me with an emergency and said, hey, yeah, you
need to get a hold of this guy.

Speaker 3 (18:48):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:49):
I said, why, Because his magnesium was so low that
he was going to fall over dead. Then I said, well,
you know, how soon do we need to get him
on the magnesium? They said, so hav him go to
a health food store and buy all the magnesiums there
and start taking them now, So we called him, got
him out there, made sure that the magnesium balanced out.

(19:11):
But the number one, you know, you hear about these
guys who are out on the golf course in their
fifties tennis courts fall over dead and they had a
sudden heart attack. Well what happened was that they had
been stressed out. Because men, when they're stressed, burn up magnesium,
and if the magnesium gets too low, then they're going
to have a spasm of one of the arteries. They're
going to have a heart attack, fall over dead. Now,

(19:33):
for women, it's usually potassium. So when women get stressed,
they actually get low on potassium. But the potassium goes low,
that's when a woman will fall over dead from.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
A heart attack.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
So looking at those numbers and being aware, as matter
of fact, if you're really good at it, you can
actually look at an EKG and look at it and say, ah,
this person is low on potassium, this person's low on magnesium,
this person is off on their calcium levels. Because it
shows up so much much in that electrical current that
goes on with the part with the different changes in

(20:05):
the minerals. So minerals are absolutely critical to avoid those
types of situations.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
So magnesium for men, potassium.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
For women are the main things, but there can be
add and balances in the calcium and the sodium levels.

Speaker 3 (20:20):
All those different.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
Types of things play a very big role in cardiovascular
health and have to be looked at very carefully, and
one of the things is that is not something that
cardiologists normally do. So this is why you know, we're
combining the structure functional care with the disease care model.
And again it's an integration because in those emergency situations,

(20:41):
the disease care model really shines through and there are
many times that this patient needs to be on a
beta blocker to actually get things under control. So there
are deffinite times that the pharmaceuticals are necessary and do
quite a bit in handling cardiovascular health.

Speaker 1 (20:57):
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Speaker 3 (21:24):
I'll tell you my trouble. Got the wrong doctor. You
know my doctor, doctor villibumask.

Speaker 1 (21:27):
My doctor about what you're going to move on?

Speaker 3 (21:31):
And I saw him last figure. I told him doctor.
Every day I wake up, I look at a mirror.
I want to throw up. What's wrong with me? He's
I don't know about your eyesight is perfect.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Cardiac issues are the number one cause of death every year.
If you would like to learn about a personalized heart
program that offers more than just drugs or surgery, join
us for our free Holistic Integration Seminar Holistic Heart, a
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thirty pm, you'll hear from doctor Robert Praither hosted The

(22:05):
Voice of Health Radio. Can you CP assist with athrosclerosis?

Speaker 2 (22:10):
Yes, I have had several patients who are referred by
cardiologists because the patient was not able to get surgery.
So I've had people with ninety nine percent blockage. One
person had ninety percent blockage on one side seventy five
percent blockage on the other was not able to go
through the surgery because they knew that they would die.

(22:32):
And afterwards it was completely clear there was absolutely no
blockage in the arteries. After that, people ask me, is
there a possibility of stroke? You know, if you're releasing
the black and the build up in through there. In
sixty years again of ECP doing it, that's never happened,
and there's several different studies and we've seen it in
our own office. There's a tremendous amount of reduction of

(22:53):
athoscrosis associated with doing ECP. We had a patient who
was brought to me because he had over a ninety
percent WI. I've had several who had over a ninety
percent blockage of their arteries. He was scheduled for surgery
because cardiologists came in and said, he will never get
up off the table even though he has ninety eight
percent blockage in some of those heart arteries.

Speaker 3 (23:13):
We started the ECP.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
After we had done it, they said that there was
less than ten percent blockage in his arteries. I had
another patient ninety percent blockage in her arteries. They were
doing the surgery. They did one side. She had a stroke.
They brought her in because they said that they couldn't
do the other side because of.

Speaker 3 (23:29):
Their stroke condition.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
We did the ECP on her had it measured afterwards,
priorities were actually clearer on the non surgical side than
on the surgical side. You can actually open up the
arteries and actually have a substitute for having a heart bypass.

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I'm Lisa Prather, and you're listening to the Voice of
Health with doctor Robert Prether of Holistic Integration where we
get to the root cause of your health issue. Well,
we're talking today about holistic heart that holistic integration and

(25:57):
doctor Praither let's talk about We talked about the importance
of minerals and we check that through a hair analysis.
What role does free radicals play in cardiovascular health?

Speaker 2 (26:10):
Sure, And what you're talking about is antioxidants are very
well known to help to prevent cardiovascular disease. That's something
that everybody pretty well says, including the American Heart Association.
But free radicals the reason that they have such a
big deal as they go out and damage the arteries
through the body. So oxidation process is where we make energy,

(26:34):
and if things don't go right, the oxygen molecules are
very unstable, they'll kick off an electron and that free
electron that travels through the body, travels through the blood
and causes damage is one of the major things that occur.
So being aware of that and trying to get that
under control is very, very critical, and the body has

(26:57):
a lot of different types of mechanisms to try to
control that. Because those free radicals actually damage the arteries,
that's when the body starts to lay down plaque. That's
when you start to get the fat build up is
because of the plaque, and that's when you get athoscrosis,
which causes damage throughout the whole system.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
Okay, so free radicals is not a good thing.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Pre radicals are not a good thing.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
Is lowering cholesterol enough?

Speaker 2 (27:23):
Well, A very interesting thing is one of the major
reasons that the body increases cholesterol level, it is because
cholesterol helps to absorb free radicals. And one of the
things is when I first started out in healthcare, way
back when the normal range that was considered by most
medical doctors is you could go as high as three

(27:45):
hundred on your cholesterol and be fine. And we were
talking at that time that cholesterol is a major indicator
of cardiovascular disease, and we were actually poo pooed by
a lot of doctors. Oh, you know, they're being crazy.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
Yeah, years ago.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Yeah, so it was a while ago.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Then all of a sudden they came up with, you know,
that cholesterol was such a big deal and that they
had cholesterol lowering drugs, and then everybody was all concerned
about cholesterol lowing. Now, the problem with that is that
cholesterol is actually not the problem. So what they did
is they did a big study and found that when
cholesterol goes up, then cardiovascular disease increases. So it's sort

(28:30):
of like saying that they did a study and found
out that when there's more firemen that there's more fires.
So if we reduced the firemen, fire should go down.
It didn't really work because our cardiovascular rate is actually
still increasing. So if this was very successful on cholesterol
lowering drugs, which so many people are on, then we

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would have seen a dramatic difference in cardiovascular disease. So
complete failure, and it's because they don't understand cholesterol is
extremely important. Are there times to go on cholesterol lowing
drugs if there's extremely high Yeah, we need to get
those down. We need to get those down now. But
that's not going to solve the problem. The solve problem
is underlying causes that kick off the higher cholesterol, because

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the cholesterol is the body's main way of protecting itself
either remaking cells because there's cellular damage, or there's low
enderconfunctioning because the cholesterol is the major component to make hormones,
or there's free radical damage to the r tail walls,

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and so the body needs to put out the cholesterol
to try to It's like a fire extinguishers for the arteries,
and it's the free radicals oftentimes that is underlying that
And the body's just making the cholesterol to try to
control the free radicals, so you're not really getting to
the root of the problem. And that's really where structure

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function really.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Shines through getting to the root.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Definite times where you need to lipid lowing medication, but
you have to understand that you're trying to get then
to the underlying problem to fix it, because ongoing cholesterol
medication is not going to be the answer.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Okay, well, let's talk about other treatments at Holistic integration.
Can chiropractic be helpful in cardiovascular disease?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Sure.

Speaker 2 (30:22):
One of the big things that we test on is
the vegas nerve because we have the cardiovagal nerve reflex
that's going on and we need to look at that
because that plays a big role in many different types
of cardiac conditions. We get quite a few patients with
post disease, which is a postural orthostatic Basically, people wind
up thinking because of their heart and we usually find

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the vegas nerve is involved in that. We get excellent
results along those lines. A FIP can be very much
a vegus nerve type of problem, and chiropractic plays a
very big role on that because we do pre imposed
chexts on that and we see a dramatic change. With
the practic we see a change in blood pressure, which
is actually had clinical studies that showed that there was

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an incredible improvement. And there's absolutely a strong connection between
the nervous system and the heart. The heart doesn't beat
one hundred and fifteen thousand times in the day just
on its own. The nervous systm is what's telling it
when and how to beat, and so dealing with the
nervous sysm is a very very critical part of that,

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and getting the nervous system working right is extremely extremely important.
Acupuncture acupuncture also we see some very excellent points. One
of the things is I have at times had people
come in with a heart attack, you know, when I said,
don't come into me. One of the first things that
we do is hit some acupuncture points and it actually

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always gets the EKG to settle down. So acupuncture points
have a very direct result. On one, we can have
excellent results on changing arrhythmias with acupuncture. We can also
have excellent results actually with hypertension. Hypertension very responsive to
accupuncture and something that should be looked at and utilized.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
How about herbals homeopathy erbals.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
Erbals are extremely important. We have digitalis, hawthorn, alfalfa, berberine, bilberry.
All these different types of things are very well known
to have a great effect on the cardiovascular system. So
as a matter of fact, there are actually quite a
few of the pharmaceuticals were based on rbs. So utilizing nerves,
knowing how to do that can have a very safe

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and very effective means of working with the heart. And
one of the things with homeopathy you asked about that, well, nitroglycerin, right,
Nitroglycerin is completely a homeopathic product, So if you are
on nitroglycerin, then you are using homeopathy. And homeopathy can
have an immediate effect on the heart and have some
very dramatic types of effects. We use quite a few

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things Cactus grandiphorous, we have a do you know all
those different types of things on a homeopathic level are
absolutely wonderful to get the heart under control. So there's
a huge repertoire when we're dealing with homeopathy and herbels
that pharmaceuticals have not really caught up with.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Right, And when we treat, we treat the individual.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
You can find out which ones are actually going to
work and which ones aren't.

Speaker 1 (33:22):
All right When we come back more on Holistic Heart.
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Wellness tip featuring patient success stories from Holistic Integration. Robin

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travels to our office all the way from Mississippi. Robin,
what first brought you to Holistic Integration.

Speaker 5 (34:15):
I was in a car accident back in the mid
two thousands and really walked around for several years in pain,
you know, just never really got better. Saw a lot
of different things where I was living at the time.
I was actually traveling up the coast in New Hampshire
to see a NUKA reper cervical chiropractor. I had some relief,

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but it was very limited. You know, It's almost like
I kept feeling like I was taking three steps forward
and five steps backwards. You know, I really just wasn't
getting good permanent relief. And then I came to Indiana
for work and found you all then and actually ended
up walking out my first pain free day and five years.

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It was pretty quick in fact, when I did come
in and see Doc for the first time and find
out from X rays because of the complexity of my misalignment,
and he even told me it was a very common
issue easily to happen that they were actually adjusting me
on the wrong side. And that's why I believe that,

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you know, once he identified that was able to adjust
me correctly, that I was able to get some pretty
quick and fast and lasting relief. So, you know, one
of the things early on, because we kind of looked
at this as a bigger picture, not just my neck,
I was having some other like generalized pain syndromes. The
word fibermyalgia was thrown out. One of the things Doc

(35:44):
did was he did some food sensitivity testing and I
found out that I had a gluten sensitivity and was
able to make some pretty big changes by avoiding and
sometimes eliminating gluten in my diet. I make a point
in coming in three or four times a year as
a matter of fact, and centralizing that trip around coming

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here getting adjusted. I've done the acupuncture treatments, the auricular therapy,
and of course I do the eds's make sure I'm
on the right supplements, and I'm a fan of homeopathics,
so I'm able.

Speaker 4 (36:20):
To get those as well.

Speaker 5 (36:22):
I've used some of the medical services here in the
past lab. I've done the nutritional consults and food allergy testing.
I've even done some of the therapies, including the ECP.
There was this one time where I was experiencing some
heart rhythm changes at really rapid heart rate. I was

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here at the office and I literally was walking down
the hall and met doctor Praether face to face, and
he took one look at me and was like, there's
something wrong, and he just looked at me for a second.
And I don't even remember how he touched me, but
he touched me, and my heart rate just completely normalized.
Like the excitability I was feeling completely stopped. He can

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just look at you and tell oftentimes what you need.
It's pretty amazing.

Speaker 1 (37:11):
And you also have had cranial sacraw therapy. What did
you think of that.

Speaker 5 (37:17):
It's really hard to stay awake when you have craniils acral.
It's so relaxing, so relaxing.

Speaker 1 (37:23):
You know.

Speaker 5 (37:23):
It really has helped me a lot with again relaxing
if I was feeling a little bit anxious or whatnot.
The other thing I noticed when I had it is
that I was having a little bit of tonight's ringing
in my ears and it was gone after I had
a session of cranial sacral therapy.

Speaker 1 (37:42):
Robin, what advice or encouragement would you give to someone
dealing with pain like you had when you first came
to holistic integration.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
First of all, I would hope that I could actually
have that conversation when someone wasn't having any issues, because
I think it's a great thing to tap into too
maintain your health and stay you know in that place
where you as you get older, you know you are
living your life to the fullest. But if there is
someone who is experiencing pain or having those troubles, especially

(38:14):
if you know they've sought help on the outside of things,
and I'll call it regular medicine and not had success
lasting success. I would say there's so much here that's available.
Healing and living pain free is available, you just have
to try it.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
Schedule your appointment at Holistic Integration three one seven eight
four eight eighty forty eight. That's three one seven eight
four eight eighty forty eight, or learn more on our
website at the Voice of Health radio dot com. You're

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listening to the Voice of Health, which Robert Prater of
Holistic Integration, where our mission is restoring hope to our patients.
We're talking this week about holistic Heart, which is the
focus of our upcoming free educational seminar at Holistic Integration
on Wednesday, July thirtieth at six thirty pm. What is

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holistic heart. What do you mean by holistic heart.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Well, holistic heart is we're trying to approach the cardiovascular system,
which is the number one killer in the world and
in the United States, in a very specific type of way.
But you know, there is a tremendous amount of disease
care for cardiovascular and that's what everybody thinks about because
it's a very serious condition and most people don't really

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start treating that until it is a serious condition and
disease care should be only about twenty percent of your
healthcare and structure function care should be eighty percent. So
no matter what level of cardiovascular disease you have, that
should be the split of what's going on. And quite frankly,
almost every person over fifty is developing cardiovascular.

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Disease, so that's a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Yeah, so really trying to go after that in a
very specific way. So we made its own division.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
So why does cardiovascular issues weren't a special section of
Holistic Integration.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Well, it's something that eventually we would like to kind
of split off and have it specialized so that people
know that they're getting the best care along those lines.
It is such an important part of our longevity and
our health that it deserves a special type of a care,
very focused type of care, and so we've made its

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own division within our Holistic Integration. Through this, we look
at the structure function and structure function is basically bringing
everything back into homeostasis. Homeostasis is from balance, and homeostasis
means health. So we're creating health in your cardiovascular system.

Speaker 1 (41:08):
And when we talk about structure function care, that's what
we do at Holistic integration, both structure effects function function effects.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
Structure right, and also integration. We know when to refer
out for different types of procedures. Again, it should be
about twenty percent of all your healthcare and twenty percent
of your cardiovascular overall care should be disease care, but
eighty percent and that's really why we're failing. We have
been dealing with cardiovascular health as the number one killer

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forever and we really haven't made a lot of progress.
And the missing piece on that is the structure function care.
With that, we could really turn this around and reduce
quite significantly cardiovascular death and disability.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
What will you cover in this whole stick hert open house.

Speaker 2 (42:01):
Well, we'll cover one, how we diagnose, What is it
that we really look at, What are all the different
types of aspects, What are some of the unique things
that we have that other people don't, which we really do.
We're very thorough on our blood test, you know, we
do screenings that aren't normally done. The biggest indication of

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having a heart attack is cardiacy reactive and that's actually
not very often done and.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
That's on blood work.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
That's on blood work, and it's something that cardiologists that
we've worked with have just been amazed at how quickly
we can take that down and how effectively, which when
you're really talking about the disease care model, they can't
do that. So the things that we can do within
holisic cart is not things that the disease care model,

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even the specialists, biggest, most expensive care you could get,
does not include that.

Speaker 1 (42:57):
And tell us again what that blood test is a.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Cardiac C reactive It just shows up the inflammation in
through the arteries.

Speaker 1 (43:05):
So who would benefit from coming to this open house?

Speaker 2 (43:09):
Well, quite frankly, everyone, especially anyone you know, males forty
five and above, females fifteen above, people who have very
serious cardiovascular diseases oftentimes aren't getting the results that they
could get if they were also implementing structure function care
into their healthcare regimen. One of the things that we

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have is external counter pulsation is something I'll be talking about,
and basically, aerobic exercise fixes almost every single problem that
you could possibly have with cardiovascular disease. So if you
can get the aerobic exercise up and basically ECP is

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an aerobic exercise machine, it does it for you. So
I'd sit there and tell people, you know, they go,
why should I do the ECP. I said, well, you know,
you don't have to just go out and run five
miles a day for seven years and you'll get the
same effect. And they go, I can't walk up the stairs.
I said, well, we can lay you down and get

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the same benefit of five years of marathon training in
seven weeks. So it's something that was developed by Harvard
Medical University. It's the number one cardiovascular treatment in Japan, China,
and India. And you're doing a royal big exercise laying down,
which is great.

Speaker 1 (44:32):
And this is something we provide as something.

Speaker 4 (44:34):
That we provide at Holistic Integration DOTJA Braither.

Speaker 1 (44:37):
For those who attend our July thirtieth seminar, we'll be
offering our Autonomic Nervous System Test for just forty nine
dollars normally one hundred and ninety five dollars value. What
is the ANS test?

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Well, what's great about the ANS test is a research
grade test. Researchers use that to evaluate the nervous system
and the circulatory system and the heart function. So it
can actually show up all three in a very precise
type of way, and we can see things that you know,
if you're getting evaluated, even by your top cardiologists, you're

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not getting that information. The closest place that has that
particular test is over in Saint Louis and it's at
a research hospital, but it is something that is extremely
complete and gives a tremendous amount of information. So the
closest place besides our place is in Saint Louis. So
we offer it here in Indianapolis at Holistic Integration. But

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it's going to give a picture on your cardiovascular health
and your nervous system health.

Speaker 3 (45:46):
Like nothing else.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
And how is the test done?

Speaker 2 (45:49):
That's the great thing people sit there and talk about.
You know, I hate all the tests. But it takes
less than fifteen minutes, and there's no invasive type of thing.
It's little patches that you put on your wrist and
your ankle, and you do have to stand up, you
have to hold your breath, but.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
That's about it lay down.

Speaker 2 (46:06):
So it's a very nice, non painful type of a
test and it's actually very.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
Very quick too.

Speaker 1 (46:13):
And what is it revealing.

Speaker 2 (46:15):
Well, first off, it's revealing everything that you need to
know about the nervous system, which one has a big
effect on your whole system. It can diagnose Pot's disease
postural orthostatic issues, So it's probably the best means of
actually measuring that. The vegus nerve is something that is

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a very critical part of all this.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
Yeah, let's talk about what is the vegus nerve and
why is it important to the heart?

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, and the ANS test specifically measures the function of
the vegas nerve and if it's off. And the vegus
nerve is the nerve that controls all the functions of
your heart, lungs, and digestive system. So if the vegas
nerve is interfered with, which can happen, which oftentimes does,

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then you're going to have heart problems that can actually occur.
So one of the things you want to do is
as you are looking at this whole process is if
you're having abnormal rhythms, check on your vegas nerve see
if there's actually an interference. And the way that we
fix that is through the Atlas adjustment Atlas skull and

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that has a huge effect. Matter of fact, if we're
testing someone and they have an abnormal vegas nerve test,
first thing we do is we check on the cervical spine. Specifically,
there's an Atlas interference with the vegas nerve, and oftentimes
as we fix that, then we actually get the vegas
nerve starting to work properly.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
And that Atlas I know, our listeners know, but I
want to make sure to clarify, is the first vertebrae.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Atlas kind of holds up the world, holds up the skull,
and we have a specialty on that.

Speaker 4 (48:02):
In our office and it holds up our head.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
Atlas orthogonal amazing type of a procedure. We actually get
quite dramatic changes in the vegas nerve and in heart function,
blood pressure, all those types of things.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Really is very, very critical.

Speaker 1 (48:20):
And you're the only board certified Atlas orthogonist in the
state of.

Speaker 4 (48:24):
Indiana, christ As I am.

Speaker 1 (48:26):
So it took extensive study. And so the Atlas orthogonal
adjustment and how it helps the vagus nerve. What about
the balance of the sympathetic and paarasympathetic nervous system.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
Also that can make a huge difference on how the
heartbeat is. So getting to normalized type of a heart beat,
Like one thing we did is we had a gentleman
who had aphip. Matter of fact, We've had a ton
of patients with ATHIV that were recommended to actually get
an ablacion, and he had forty two different types of incidents.

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As we were doing the heart monitor on him, we
got the ATLAS set, got the adjustment set, we also
did ECP and supplements. When we rechecked him on that,
then he actually showed up only two and they weren't
as serious.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
Two episodes.

Speaker 4 (49:18):
Two episodes, So he went down from forty one episode.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
Yes, down to two and they weren't the same, you know, issues,
So it was a huge difference. And basically they had
told him that if he didn't get an invelation he
would probably be dead within a year.

Speaker 4 (49:34):
He's a young guy, young guy.

Speaker 3 (49:36):
Probably wind up with a stroke.

Speaker 2 (49:38):
And completely cleared that up, so, you know, and we've
done that with quite a few different he was probably
one of the more severe ones we've cleared out the
atrial fib so it's quite remarkable. But when you start
to add structure, function care into this healthcare model that we.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
Have, so what are free radicals and why is that
important for cardiovascular health?

Speaker 2 (50:01):
Well, one of the biggest things that everybody is looking
at is our teosclerosis and athroscorrosis. But they sit there
and they go, well, you know, there's a belief that
it's the cholesterol that is the problem, and it's actually
not the cholesterol. Cholesterol is a free radical scavenger. It
actually helps to clear up. So what happens is free

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radicals go get into the blood stream and free radicals
are free electrons that get knocked off during the oxidata
process and they go through the bloodstream and actually cause
damage to the arteries. So as they cause damage to
the arteries, that increases the inflammation in there and the
body tries to repair it, and it does it through

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several different ways. One it lays down plaque to kind
of cover the soort area hardened areas so that you
start to get the hardening of the arteries, and then
it increases the clesterol, so the cholesterol can actually absorb
the free radicals and reduce them. So the problem isn't
the cholesterol that's causing the problems or even the plaque.

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It's getting to the original problem, which is the free radicals.
So getting those under control, which we're actually very good at,
is a very important step for solving our teoscross as nathroscrosses.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
Interesting, and what about insulin resistance? Why is that important?

Speaker 2 (51:24):
Well, insulin resistance also causes damage through the arteries and
actually throughout the entire body. So insulin resistance is something
that has to be looked at and actually dealt with
in people basically understanding, you have different types of diabetes,
and insulin resistance is not that you're not producing the

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insulin that you should. It's just that the cell wall
is actually saying I'm not interested in the insulin helping
to carry the sugar into the cell. So you start
to actually get a type two diabetes. And as you
check on the insulin resistance, that's a great indicator of
future type two diabetes. We can get going on that,

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and then as we test that, then we can actually see.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
That problem taken care of.

Speaker 2 (52:14):
The Other thing that is great that shows up in
the ANS test is left ventricular function and the left ventricle.
When that starts to fail, that's when you start to
have what we call heart problems. You know, that's when
you start to get in congestive heart failure, you start
to get into all sorts of heart problems that start

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to occur. That's the left ventricle, left ventricle, and that's
where people, you know, where the cardiologists get excited, is
when you start to have left ventricular disease. And what's
great about our means that actually we actually show what
is the power of the left ventricl also and ans

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test actually shows that up too, which is great.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
Yeah, it's a very thorough effective test, easy to do.

Speaker 2 (53:08):
One of the things, of course, is that we do
in our offices. We're able to treat congestive heart failure,
which is actually unheard of. So with the ECP and
supplements combination on that, we've had people who had hearts
twice the size of what they should. After ECP seven
weeks of that, the person's heart was at a normal size, which.

Speaker 3 (53:30):
Is supposed to be impossible. So it's just amazing what
that does.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
And once again the Holistic Integration Free Seminar Holistic Heart
a Holistic Approach to Heart health will be held on Wednesday,
July thirtieth. It's six thirty pm. You'll have a chance
to ask doctor pray through your questions and you can
attend in person or on zoom. Those who attend will
receive our Autonomic Nervous System test for just forty nine dollars,

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which is normally valued at one hundred and ninety five,
and you can reserve your spot on our website at
the Voice of Health radio dot com. We look forward
to seeing you there. Holistic Integration is located at eighty

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nine oh two North Meridian Street on the north side
of Indianapolis, just south of the I four sixty five loop.
If we can help you to achieve better health, we'd
love to hear from you. Connect with our office at
three one seven eight four eight eighty forty eight. That's
three one seven eight four eight eighty forty eight. Join
us again next week or anytime on our website at

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of Health with doctor Robert Prather.