Heart and cardiovascular diseases affect near 75 million Americans.  Disease such as hypertension, stroke, atherosclerosis, peripheral vascular disease and metabolic syndrome touch many of our lives.  Heart disease is the number one killer of men in this country.  The first symptom of heart disease in nearly 1/3 of men who have a heart attack is death – there is no warning symptom.  Many if not most patients who are developing heart disease are without any symptoms.

Physicians are, quite rightly, concerned about heart disease.  They monitor it carefully and often treat it aggressively, lest it slip out of control and quietly wreak havoc on your body.  If you blood pressure or blood sugar is high, your doctor will check it regularly, and most likely prescribe one or more of the numerous medications for treatment of hypertension, hyperlipidemia and blood sugar.  Your physician may also recommend improvements in your weight and increasing exercise, but the typical focus in on how many medications you should take to control your numbers.

In theory, this approach should be fairly successful – ad it may be for many people.  Unfortunately, due in large part to a poor understanding of heart and cardiovascular diseases along with the side effects and cost of the drugs, this approach is not nearly as successful as it should be. 

The Wycoff Wellness Center’s approach to the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease is radically different from conventional medicine.  Yes, we prescribe many conventional pharmaceutical drugs to help treat these problems, but we also take a different approach and try to find the real cause or causes of your problems.  We explore and emphasize a dietary approach that will improve not only your weight but reduce your risk of developing heart disease.  We look for specific nutritional deficiencies that may be contributing to your hypertension, high cholesterol, elevated blood sugar or cardiac arrhythmia symptoms. 

The Wycoff Wellness Center has a number of unique tests to help us sort out your specific issues including:

• SpectraCell Lipoprotein Particle Plus (LPP+) testing
• SpectraCell MicroNutrient Testing (MNT)
• Genova NutraEval testing
• Urine toxic (heavy)metal testing

The Wycoff Wellness Center has a number of unique treatments of help in the treatment and prevention of heart disease including:

• Heavy metal chelation (IV EDTA chelation)
• Detoxification treatments
• First Line Therapy Program
• Intravenous vitamin/mineral infusions
• Colon hydrotherapy
• Infrared Sauna therapy
• Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation

The Wycoff Wellness Center’s approach brings a bigger “tool box” to the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease.  Please search our web site for more detailed information about the treatment and services that we offer.