Heart disease and its complications are the major causes of death in the United States and have reached epidemic proportions throughout the Western world.  Heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular events related to atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), blood clotting tendency, and vascular spasm are responsible for roughly 43 percent of all deaths in the United States.  There have been many scientists and nutritionists that have researched the treatment of heart disease using flax seed oil and have found flax seed to be a great benefit to heart disease sufferers.  According to Dr. Johanna Budwig, many people will benefit from the treatment of heart disease by using flax seed oil.     

Causes of Heart Disease

Heart’s Function With Abnormality of Metabolism of Fats

The heart’s function is affected in three ways when there is any abnormality in the metabolism of fats.  The ingested fats are transported via the lymph system.  Before the blood, that is the venous blood which the body has variously utilized and which is low in oxygen/ before this flows into the right-hand ventricle of the heart, each heart beat deposits lymphatic fluid into the blood, that is body fat, directly from the digestive system.  The blood that fills the left hand ventricle comes from the lungs and is freshly oxygenated.  The electrical potential differences in the relation of the current between the newly fat-laden venous blood in the right-hand ventricle and the oxygenated blood in the left-hand ventricle are directly involved with the generation of the heart action currents.  This is immediately recognizable anatomically, and can be accurately measured.  If then, there is a lack of new electrical impulses during this recharging with fat and if the fat is loaded with inert and paralyzing fats, then the heart says “No!” –it rejects these fats which build up in the coronary vessels and then on the entire muscle. In addition as has long been proved scientifically, the heart muscle simultaneously suffers the lack of a substance which plays a leading role in oxygenation, breathing and the regeneration of the heart muscle itself.  This substance, I only mention it out of scientific interest, is known as cytochrom-oxydase’ and corresponds to the substance which Warburg called “das gelbe Atemferment” which means ‘the yellow respiration enzyme.”  Thus, when the hart by means of isolated, solidified fats, shows that the wrong kind of fats are being ingested, then there exists a lack of optimal fats essential for the heart action and functioning.  And it is exactly in this situation that highly unsaturated fats are also lacking in the blood.  Oxygenation of the blood via lungs is hindered and the heart is therefore forced to pump the same amount of blood through the body three or four times before the tissues are properly supplied with oxygen.  Now as a third element in this situation, there appears the fact that only natural fats can easily pulse their way through the finest of the capillary networks.  The solidified, inert bulk fats only act as further hindrances in the blood.  In America, it has been proved that fasting animals immediately release fats into the larger blood vessels, aorta and arteries, when their previous diet contained only saturated fats.  The condition known as “hardening of the arteries” has long been medically understood as an abnormality in the metabolism of fats—as an isolation of fat during fasting does not occur.  “Flax Oil As A True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and Other Diseases”  Apple Publishing Co. Ltd 1994 by Dr. Johanna Budwig