METABOLE Clean Sweep Formulation and your Cardiovascular System

The cardiovascular system comprising the heart and surrounding blood vessels can be regarded as the most important system in the body.

Organs and tissues of the body are dependent on blood for their nutrient supply and for waste removal; any interruption of these processes can have disastrous consequences for the cells involved. It is therefore important to keep the heart and associated blood vessel network optimally healthy.

According to a book written by Dr Mathias Rath entitled ‘Eradicating a Heart Disease’, cardiovascular systems can be kept healthy by the correct combination of nutrients.

Dr Rath singles out a number of these nutrients needed for optimal cardiovascular health but the most important single nutrient is undoubtedly vitamin C (ascorbic acid) which consequently takes predominance in the Metabole’s nutritional formula.

Vitamin C and your Heart

Vitamin C is intimately involved in collagen formation and as such is responsible for maintaining the structure and integrity of the blood vessel walls, which used collagen extensively.

Shortages in vitamin C intake cause lesions to appear in the blood vessel wall; tiny cracks through which the blood can be lost. The body compensates for this lack of vitamin C by producing more lipoprotein which it uses to block the minute cracks in the blood vessel walls and stop the blood from leaking out.

Prolonged, the vitamin C shortages in the diet cause more and more lipoprotein production and deposits on the original lesion site causes a plaque to form, which can eventually restrict blood flow in the blood vessel.

Plaque formation in the coronary artery, the artery that provides nutrients to the heart, can gradually restrict blood flow sufficiently to start causing chest pain or angina. Complete blockage of the coronary artery can lead to heart attack and will necessitate a coronary bypass operation to prevent this.

Likewise, plaque formation in blood vessels in the brain will lead to the death of brain cells, cause a stroke and partial paralysis.

Supplementation with vitamin C will assure the use of collagen in blood vessel repair, and consequently reduce the need for lipoprotein production thus effectively halting the deposits at the lesion site and even reducing them somewhat.

Other Nutrients and your Cardiovascular System

Other nutrients in the formula, notably lysine and proline have been included as they have the ability to release the lipoprotein fat granules from the atherosclerotic deposits by reducing the stickiness and releasing them in the bloodstream for transportation to the liver to use for energy.

Other nutrients Dr Rath recommends in his book are an adequate supply of energy providing nutrients such as carnitine, coenzyme Q 10, and all the B vitamins to ensure that the heart cells function optimally.

The heart has muscle tissue different from body tissue and is rich in mitochondrial especially for energy production. Remember, the heart never stops beating and therefore has a higher energy requirement than any other muscle tissue in the body.

Also included in the formula are minerals such as calcium, magnesium, zinc, manganese, chromium, selenium and molybdenum which are required for many cell functions especially the electrical heart cells which initiate heart contraction. A deficiency in these minerals can give rise to irregular heartbeat.

Lack of vitamins and minerals can cause heart failure simply because of muscle weakness of the heart which impairs pumping action.

For further information one can read a book by Dr Rath or go to his website at

http://int.drrath.com/about-us/research-institute-tour.html