Atrial Fibrillation (AFib) Support Group

Hi - here is what I have experienced in my last 5 years of dealing with vagal afib;

I'm 57 now and this is how my afib got manageable with vitamins, how I cleansed my body from toxins, then cured the afib - without the heavy meds.

Here is what I wrote 6 months ago in my blog on this website – it includes the doses I take, or used to take. Now I still take all the stuff, about 5 days a week and I’ve cut down on the non-flush niacin to 250 mg and the same dosage for magnesium.

The only additional news is that to maximize my health (I’ve had no afib issues) I’m doing a heavy metal cleanse. Now, knowing what I do at this point, I say find yourself a good naturopath who uses kinesiology to do his diagnosis and treatment. The kinesiology is the key, don’t go to one who does not use. If you want the actual paper Dr. Hoffer wrote about vitamins, email me at doug.lanz@shaw.ca and I'll send it to you. Dr. Hoffer died a few months ago, the world has lost one of it’s true pioneers in medicine. It was his idea about vitamins that set me on this path.

Good luck,

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Do I have good news! I'm now, I think, totally cured - and it was a bio-electric method that a brilliant naturopath has that did it. It's going to take some writing for me to tell you how it was done, so here goes.

You may recall I wrote that 4 years ago, shortly after turning 52 and during a messy divorce (from a long marriage), I developed Afib. I got to the point that even the stress of even talking on the phone would send me into Afib. I went to the hospital, got the whole deal workup, Holter monitor, carotid artery scan, heart scan, brain scan, treadmill test and the Western medicine solution was to put on 150mg Rythmol every 8 hours. I read the side effects and decided I was not staying on that stuff. Did you know it changes the conductivity of your heart tissue? YIKES!! I was also told that it would only work for a while, then the medicine would need to get stronger, then that would have minimal effect, then do stronger yet, then some sort of invasive procedure would be needed, perhaps the ablation or something.

So I searched to find how to get off it the meds. I went to Western medicine doctors, naturopathic doctors, intuitive healers, acupuncture, Body Talk practitioners and others. I reasoned that Western medicine was not the only healing modality on the planet and that I was going to find whatever it takes to restore my health. The intuitive healer helped me identify that I had developed an allergy to wheat gluten products. The Western cardiac specialist had never heard of that. Never had it before (I could eat 2 pizzas, pasta, beer, go with 4 hrs sleep, cinnamon buns, tea, coffee - you name it) before then, but at the (approximate 52 year time and I had develped the afib, a pizza slice, slice of toast (which I used to just love for breakfast, and all the other triggers would send me into afib. The wheat gluten was obvious once the intuitive healer made the wheat / afib connection. What happens is that my adrenals react to the wheat gluten, they pump out adrenaline in excess quantities and the adrenaline triggers the afib. I watched what else triggered me and saw that alcohol, stress, coffee and other things would also trigger the afib. Sometimes only for a few to 30 seconds and I didn't need the pill, sometimes a long episode and after trying everything I could, cold baths, exercise, forced burping (that did work when I over ate), arms in cold water, laying still and meditating to do the big time relaxation and those didn't work, I'd reluctantly take a pill (Grrrrrrr). In my search I found Dr. Hoffer's advice about vitamins and especially niacin (the non-flush type). The vitamins made such total sense to me. Who on this planet gets the ideal nutrition. After 50 years or so, it makes sense that there could be some vitamin deficiency, and/or body toxic buildup that compromises one's health. I had the old amalgam fillings and when my blood was tested for mercury, it was high. I got the amalgam removed and did infrared saunas' to sweat out the heavy metals. The combination of vitamins I found solved me from having to take Rythmol every 8 hours, but I still had to have a "pill in my pocket" for those times that I pushed myself too far. Tried a little too much wheat, a beer or wine, not enough sleep, or too much stress otherwise which would trigger an episode of Afib that required me to use one dose of 150mg (sometimes a double dose 300 mg) of Rythmol to get my standard heart rhythm restored. I could go for a few months just fine, then sometimes when stressed (as above) as I have my own small company and client / job demands added up, I would need one or two a week.

Here is the vitamin regime I settled on and stayed with for the last 4 years:

4 capsules of 250mg Non-Flush niacin. Make sure it is non-flush or you will have "hot" flash problems big time. This is probably the single most important aid to take. You can't do with much less. I tried 1.5 grams for a while and that worked for about a year but found that going to the full 2 grams helped better.

4 capsules of 250mg magnesium (no analysis can tell you if you're deficient or not and many cases of Afib have been traced to this when biopsies are done after the fact).

60 mg of CoQ10. For heart health, there is nothing better (someone with more severe heart problems told me).
1000 iu vit C (for the water soluble antioxidants) 400 iu vit E (for the fat soluble antioxidants) A good multivitamin that has as many trace minerals as you can find.
The best B complex you can find. Allergic reactions are from your adrenal glands and this helps support them.


What I added for my personal case is:
Omega 3 oils, helps the joints and alleviates arthritis - if you have any. It's also good brain food.
Ginko Biloba. I used to get ocular migraines every 6 weeks for a 30min period. Now I get one only about 3 times a year.
Baby asprin. Highly recommended by all western doctors.

The reason for this vitamin regimen is that there is no one on this planet that can say they are getting all they need from their diet and a lifetime of diet can leave the body deficient in areas you can't even guess about. Modern medicine can only detect some vitamin deficiencies. I've been on this for the last 4 years. When I skip for more than 2 days, I get super sensitive, like too little sleep will trigger afib.

So that's it for the Western Medical techniques you can do to help your condition. All what I'm taking is supported by double blind, large population studies which I have looked at myself - and you should too, to decide if that is right for you.

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Now, in good faith to you and at risk of you thinking I'm some sort of "fruit-loops and wind chimes" nut, I have to point out the following IF YOU REALLY WANT TO HEAL THE UNDERLYING ISSUE instead of masking it:

It was not a trivial thing I put on the web site about the need to get to the real root of the problem by "spiritual" means, for lack of a better way to put it. If you know nothing about a "medical intuitive" such as Carolyn Myss, you should find out everything you can about her and others like her. There are many more health techniques other than Western medicine - as good as that is in some areas. Western medicine cannot find or operate on a chakra, yet they do exist. A former NASA PhD, Barbara Ann Brennan wrote a book called "Healing Hands of Light", I think. Look her up, check out the book and you will find her books and website. What she says and it is independently verified by many others, is that your experiences, emotional hurts and other lifetime issues are stored in your Aura and will, in time - especially if not dealt with, eventually manifest in your bodily tissue. The heart is especially affected by past stress and hurts. Therapy, believe it or not, helps here, but there is other work you need to do. Also look up Body-Talk as a good practitioner of this can help get at the emotional issues that are stored in tissues. For example, anger is stored in the liver.

Next you should check the You Tube videos by Bruce Lipton titled "The biology of Belief". It's a 18 part series each about 10 minutes each. I think you will be amazed. Essentially, your belief system either limits or enables your body and, in fact, you can heal yourself if you can get to your subconscious. How do you do that? Look up PSYCH-K.

It is a long journey that is full of learning about who you really are, where your place in the universe is, hidden dimensions of the universe and reality and what you are really capable of. This afib issue is really a wake up call, if you have the courage, open mind and initiative to really look into what the actual cause is.

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The bio electric feedback, with applied kinesiology (muscle testing) detection, treatment and cure.

So, I'm happily doing all the stuff above and managing quite well, knowing how far I can push and how to deal with it when I do push too hard and trigger an episode. I love butter tarts, the odd piece of pie and do have some sometimes. I also enjoy a beer from time to time, so I watched that and kept it to half a beer about 2 times a month. I could go for months without needing a pill and have perfectly normal health - just keep up the vitamins at least 5 days a week, sometimes 6 days a week, or even 7 if I felt like it. Also, I am reading and investigating all sorts of spiritual development stuff and I personally find there is a whole universe of energy and dimensions that I was totally unaware of, but is a part of reality nonetheless. I switched to a vegetarian diet in that I don't eat any kind of meat, no eggs, but I do eat seafood and cheese. Cleared the toxins out of my body, liver and colon cleanse, got the heavy metals out with numerous infrared sauna treatments (we bought one for the house) and stepped up my exercise. I do more tai chi and more biking, walking, etc. I get regular treatments from a very talented Body Talk practitioner who is working on clearing the past emotional injury type energies out of my body and auric fields and have been steadily improving, but I still had the sensitivities which triggered afib if I pushed my luck too far.

Then I heard about this naturopathic doctor in my area (Vancouver, BC, Canada) who has a reputation of being absolutely brilliant (Dr. Timothy Brown, in White Rock, BC), who has clients come as far away as LA to see him. He also had an open house the next weekend. My current spouse has some health issues who wanted to get help, (thyroid, energy, allergies, etc.), so we went to the open house. He has 4 or 5 doctors with different specialties working there. They really offer the full health assessment and restoration there. They also have an allergy specialist who has, what I think, is an amazing machine and technique. In the open house, one of the other resident Dr's, who specializes in allergies showed us the machine and discussed how it is applied. In essence, he said there are two kinds of allergies, those you are born with and those you develop. He can cure the ones you develop in life, but not the ones you are born with. Since I had done the toxin removal work, the vitamin restoration and other work, he said he'd demonstrate the technique on me. Here is how it went. I was put on my back and held my arms straight up, backs of my hands facing each other by about 4 inches. The machines is like a blood pressure wrap on your arms, but it is electric, not pressure. The machine is programmed with more than 100,000 bio signatures of alergines. With the different bio electrical signals applied and using applied kinesiology to test for weakness (strong adverse affect) or strength (no effect), he found it was not exactly the wheat gluten, but some other component in the wheat. The germ? Anyway, then he used the same machine to find out where the allergic reaction was affecting or stored. He told me, in my case, it was stored in the pericardium which is the sack of protective fluid around the heat. Did you know that different parts of your body store different things? See Barbara Anne Brenan's book, Healing Hands of Light as I mention above. Then, using another "counter-bio-signal" he activated that, used a combination of acupressure and breathing techniques to "release" the stored allergy.

I was instructed not to do much wheat for a day or two. That was 2 weeks ago.

Lately, I've had beer, pizzas, bread, you name it - no afib reaction. Frankly, I'm floored,as I thought I'd have this for the rest of my life.

Now I obviously don't know other's specific conditions or treatment needs - however, I always knew this could be beaten and I simply did not accept the Western medicine approach, there had to be some other way.

Hope this helps. Questions? email me direct at doug.lanz@shaw.ca

I noticed that when I eat a big meal its unusually bad and I don't have to wait until bedtime. Mine is chronic. However I noticed that if I take Xanax its better so I'm wondering if part of it is nerves. If I get really tired or stressed my heart is flipping all over the place. If I do very little and stay home and read or watch a movie its fine. I'm thinking of going to a shrink. I think that the Afib causes some kind of nervous reaction. I've been on 40 mg. of Prozac for 5 weeks and I still don't feel very different. Its so confusing. I wish you better luck than I'm having. Carol Miller