Reverse Congestive Heart Failure
Supplementation with what Dr. Sinatra nicknamed, the “awesome foursome,” is the most targeted way of sustaining your heart’s energy needs. Supplements enhance health at the cellular level and provide nutrients necessary for metabolic processes.
In some instances, congestive heart failure can be reversed according to studies. There are home remedies that have been known to help reverse congestive heart failure naturally. These natural remedies are magnesium, coq10, ribose, and carnitine.
How to Reverse Congestive Heart Failure Naturally
The “awesome foursome,” consisting of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), L-carnitine, D-ribose, and magnesium, individually and collectively help increase energy, or ATP, production in your body by supporting mitochondria within cells.
According to Dr. Sinatra, “everyone needs a sustained and healthy pool of ATP to fuel bodily functions.
Cells require large amounts of ATP to contract and relax the heart, maintain cellular ion balance, and synthesize macromolecules like proteins and fats. If the required supplements are taken, congestive heart failure can be reversed naturally.
Natural Remedies for Congestive Heart Failure
- I take Life Extension magnesium products because I have found them to be of quality and freshness. I also use Magnesium Taurate
from Cardiovascular Research
- This is the CoQ10 with BioPerine
that I take to heal my heart naturally. A plethora of studies have been done that prove the benefit of Coq10 for the heart. Coq10 should also be taken if someone is taking a statin.
- L-Carnitine
is an amino acid that is part of the “awesome foursome”. Carnitine supports the mitochondria.
- This is the Ribose
that I take. Ribose gives me so much energy. Ribose also supports the mitochondria.
that I take. Ribose gives me so much energy. Ribose also supports the mitochondria.Mitochondria require each of the “awesome foursome” to generate ATP. While CoQ10 and L-carnitine are fundamental to the ATP recycling process, D-ribose is necessary for ATP synthesis.
D-ribose helps fill the body’s gas tank while L-carnitine and CoQ10 help the body convert fuel to energy.
Literally, D-ribose is a structural component of the ATP molecule, and L-carnitine and CoQ10 help recycle ATP by transporting fatty acids across mitochondrial membranes and shuttling electrons back and forth between enzymes, respectively.
Co-Q10 then acts as an antioxidant to protect mitochondrial membranes from free-radical damage. Like a spark plug central to both processes, magnesium “turns on” the enzymes that drive the entire metabolic reaction.
Supplementation Helps Prevent “Revolving-Door Medicine”
Depending on the individual, supplementation with any or all of the “awesome foursome” may be the key to maintaining energy and supporting overall health.
At around age forty, endogenous production of CoQ10 and L-carnitine generally starts to decrease, explaining why people commonly associate lack of energy with “middle age.”
People suffering from coronary artery disease (CAD) often can’t keep up with the heart’s energy demands.
With CAD, the heart continually overworks to pump blood through inflamed and congested blood vessels and ultimately expends energy must faster than the mitochondria can produce it.
If you take pharmaceutical drugs for CVD, you should also supplement with some or all of the “awesome foursome” to prevent nutrient deficiency.
Beta blockers, for example, which prove effective in stabilizing people during emergency situations and improving symptoms, inhibit the production of enzymes necessary for CoQ10 synthesis.
Since their long-term use can impair your ability to make ATP, adjunctive supplementation with CoQ10 can counteract pharmaceutical side effects associated with energy depletion.
Most cardiologists want to avoid practicing “revolving-door medicine,” or repeatedly seeing the same patients come in with the same life-endangering problems. To make this happen, physicians and patients need to do something which moves beyond symptoms of the disease and gets to the “heart of the matter.”
Complimenting pharmaceutical treatments with nutritional supports is one way that practitioners can treat symptoms and make a real difference in the underlying pathology of illness (emotional work and stress management are additional means).
Already native to your body, any of all of the “awesome foursome” can safely and effectively be ingested in tandem with cardiac drugs like beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, nitrates, and ACE inhibitors.
Not only will taking energy-enhancing supplements to help alleviate negative side effects associated with these drugs, but it might eventually reduce, or even eliminate, your need for such medication.
Please note: although drug interactions are not likely, they are possible. Always consult with your physician before adding nutraceuticals to the program if you are currently taking pharmaceutical drugs for any cardiac condition.
How to Reverse Congestive Heart Failure Naturally
A healthy ATP energy pool can help keep you feeling youthful. While you can’t take ATP as a pill or vitamin, you can give your body the next best thing: substances with which it can make ATP.
Supplementing with the “awesome foursome” can help boost ATP production and support heart health. By directing nutrition to the cellular level, you can improve your quality of life, especially if you’re taking pharmaceutical medications and/or living with a cardiovascular condition.
People with heart disease often exhibit CoQ10, L-carnitine, D-ribose, and/or magnesium deficiencies. Failing hearts lack adequate energy to drive pump function.
As the heart is one of the most responsive organs in the body for targeted nutritional supplementation, practicing metabolic cardiology is a must.
By enhancing ATP synthesis and recycling, and promoting more efficient metabolism in mitochondria, the “awesome foursome” helps support heart health.
Taking some or all of the “awesome foursome” adjunctive to pharmaceutical treatment can benefit those with a broad spectrum of cardiac conditions like angina, congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmia, hypertension, and high cholesterol. Patients should always consult with their physicians before adding nutritional supplements to a pharmacologic program.
Each of these nutrients plays a fundamental role in cellular metabolism, especially in supplying the heart with the energy it needs to preserve its contractile force.
While each is independently effective in helping hearts work through the stress of disease, the “awesome foursome,” together, are synergistic.
Updated 5/1/2003
My name is Phyllis Robinson MSN, RN. I have been a Registered Nurse for 27 years in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. I am passionate about cardiac care and heart disease. I also want this blog to be an educational tool that people can refer to for traditional and alternative treatment. I will blog on heart disorders such as high blood pressure, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and high cholesterol.
I received my Nursing degree from Baltimore Community College.
I went on to receive my Masters in Nursing from Walden University
I have worked for almost 30 years in Critical Care with a focus on heart health. I am an advocate of preventive healthcare.
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How many tablets of each should I take?I have had surgery for flutter and have some irregular rhythm and get max pulse in 2 min.I am a 51 year old woman with normal weight.
Magnesium 300mg, carnitine 500mg, CoQ10’200 mg and ribose I tab every day.
My dad needs a bypass operation what food or sumplement best for him until do his operation please help thankyou
If his kidneys are in good function, I would recommend magnesium. Magnesium is gold to the heart.
Phyllis
Magnesium 400mg, Coq10 200mg, and carnitine 200mg.
Thank You for the info.
Having just gone thru a triple bypass and looking at my table that looks like a pharmacy (maybe a little exageration) but many more than I wish to take, I ask if the Awesome Foursome work with these meds and will help eliminate at least some?
Also what doses of the Awesome Foursome should be used?
Also is D-Ribose better than straight Ribose.
Thank You,
Larry Gossar
I have a congenital heart defect. I take 500 mg of magnesium taurate daily, 500 mg of carnitine twice a day, 200 mg of Coq 10 twice a day, And one tablet of ribose. Ribose is all the same.
Hi Nurse Robinson,
I’ve been having some major swelling (legs, ankles, feet, abdomen) and other symptoms of congestive heart failure as well as 7 months off of dialysis due to kidney failure. After a lifestyle change I haven’t had to go back but with this water retention I’ve been debating on what options I have. I’d like to try the awesome foursome and was curious on if they would aid in reducing/eliminating the edema? Thanks so much im advance and for sharing such vital content with us without asking anything in return! Hard to come by! Thank you!
Yes the awesome foursome will help your heart. I have also had luck with the keto diet. Give them a try! Have you been diagnosed with congestive heart failure ?
Oddly, I was diagnosed woth CHF years ago by another doctor in a different city and then when I moved here the doctor said I didn’t show any signs of it. But I’m starting to have some of those same symptoms from the past as well as edema… Which I’ve never dealt with before… Not even when I was on dialysis… Thanks so much again! Also, I noticed different dosages recommended, should I just go by what the bottle says to take?
in addition to the awesome foursome,3 grammes of taurine daily in 3 divided doses helped me with swelling of feet and ankles. but i never had water in my lungs, so i cannot help u here. God bless in my prayers.
Yes indeed. Taurine is great form the heart.
Also, will they help with the swelling and edema as well?
Yes they will help with the swelling. The best thing I have found to help with swelling is a low-carb diet.
Have congestive heart failure,hbp, high cholesterol. Take 4 prescription medications.Doctor has never mentioned supplements. Also never heard that keto could help.Can I take these supplements and try keto?
Yes I do keto and take those supplements.
Yes you can take supplements and keto diet. It has worked miracles for me.
beware of magnesium supplements if you have kidney failure. you have to work under professional guidance regarding daily dosages
Every single Kidney patient needs magnesium. Your heart can’t function without magnesium. Yes , you have to be a bit more careful because your kidneys don’t function.
Can I take the awesome four with the meds the Dr. Has me on for congestive heart failure?