Re: BART Test Esselstyn

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From: Ricardo (Brazil) (201.12.109.6)
Subject: Re: BART Test Esselstyn
Date: June 2, 2008 at 3:17 pm PST

In Reply to: BART Test Esselstyn posted by Phil on May 29, 2008 at 9:13 am:

Phil,
I did not see a mention on Dr. Esselstyn´s book a mention to BART in his studies. What I was able to find is an interview transcript in the Internet, published as an acrobat file, that google returned when I entered: Bart and Esselstyn. Here is the URL address:

http://www.madcowboy.com/EssyInterviewFinal.PDF

As we could deduct is Dr. Esselstyn did not have BART at his studies, but Bart confirms his findings that western style do enjuries to endothelium (and plant based food does not), according to the following excerpt of the interview:

ESSELSTYN INTERVIEW: PART 2 Pg 8 of 16

M: "In your book you say that the first thing you ask of your patients is to remove the idea "this little bit can't hurt me" from their lexicon. Is this a tough concept to get across?"

C: "It really isn't any longer... it's almost a Litmus Test before I'm willing to counsel somebody... For instance, they can go to the website, now they can go to the book, and they can get comfortable for where I'm coming from... But, my intention when I'm asked to consul somebody with heart decease is for them to understand that my goal is NOT to continue to promote a smaller progression of the disease. My goal is to absolutely annihilate the disease, and that has to be a shared goal. Therefore the Litmus Test before I'm willing to see a patient is are they willing to forever give up the following phrase which is: "this little bit can't hurt."
Why do I say that? It's because now we have data from the Brachial Artery Tourniquet Test (BART), which really tells us that with every single Western meal, whether you're eating meat, whether it's dairy, whether it's olive oil, you injure your endothelium. That is the LAST thing that I want my heart patients to have to have --- any further injury to their endothelium. I want it to recover, I want it to be restored, I want it to blossom,
and that's why for patients who are completely compliant within two to three weeks we start getting rid of their heart pain and their angina, because their endothelium has recovered and when it recovers, it can once again make nitric oxide, which is the strongest vasodilator in the body. That is to say it opens the arteries and makes them relax."