1. Maintain good heart function. Keep the heart strong and toned with a regular cardiovascular exercise program—preferably daily, but at least three times per week. If you have not exercised regularly, contact your family physician first for him to give you the go ahead. Find an aerobic exercise, which keeps a sustained, elevated heart rate. The easiest and most popular is brisk walking or rebounding cellular exercise. If you’re starting from scratch, I recommend starting with one minute per day and adding a minute a day until you hit 30 minutes, then stay at that level. Follow this schedule as long as you’re not feeling tired or chest pain, pressure or palpitations. If in doubt, stay at your present level for three days, then increase one minute every three days, if you’re able. We don’t have to get in cardiovascular shape overnight (or over a month), but we do have to get in shape. Take your time and go at your own pace and follow your doctor’s recommendations.
2. Increase potassium and decrease sodium intake. Help your osmotic balance by consuming lots of fresh, raw fruit and vegetables and their fresh juices, using organic whenever possible. These foods and juices include tremendous amounts of potassium, which causes fluid to leave the tissues. Your cells will no longer be waterlogged and dying due to lack of oxygen and essential nutrients.
3. Progressively cut out animal products from your diet. Animal fat is the greatest cause of high cholesterol, which accumulates in blood vessels and narrows their opening. This leads to both ischemia (a lack of blood to tissue) and high blood pressure, which greatly increase the chances of heart attacks and strokes, the number 1 and number 3 killers in the United States. Most people with high cholesterol could be in the normal range in 30 days by eliminating animal products and eating only fresh, raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains, sprouts, sprouted seeds, nuts, beans and legumes. This would drop your cholesterol 100 points, and you would feel so much better.
Sound impossible? Again, do we eat to live or live to eat? If you think you live to eat, you’re controlled by your body’s desires. But self-control, a fruit of the Spirit, combines with your will to become totally healthy. You will be able to control what you eat. There are many excellent meat substitutes available to help you still enjoy eating.
Dr. Dean Ornish, a cardiologist, showed the benefits of such a diet. He put patients destined for heart bypass surgery on a vegetarian diet, had them exercise daily, and meditate or relax daily. As a result, none needed bypass surgery. Impressive, wouldn’t you say?
4. Get the proper nutrients in. You need 90-plus essential nutrients, along with complex carbohydrates. The best place to get these vitamins, minerals, enzymes, phytochemicals, oxygen and bioelectricity and all other essential nutrients is with a diet of live, raw food, especially, vegetables, sprouts, whole grains, seeds, nuts and some fruit. The second best placed to get them is SupremeFood, an organic vitamin-, mineral-, enzyme- and phytochemical-rich supplement. It is a balance of whole food that keeps you healthy. (SupremeFood was described in detail in Chapter 11.) For RBCs and WBCs to do their jobs effectively, you need the building blocks to keep producing these blood cells. If you’re deficient in just one area, the blood cells won’t function properly. It’s like a car without an engine; you have all the other necessary parts, but it doesn’t work without the one missing part. So eat more vegan (vegetarian with no animal product) organic whenever possible. And take SupremeFood once or twice a day.
5. Take cardiovascular specific herbs
As I have said, herbs are God’s medicine (Ezekiel 47:12), so we want to boost our cardiovascular system with God’s prescription:
               HERB                                       USE
                  Hawthorn                          Heart protector, healing aid
                  Motherwort                       Heart beat regulator
                  Red Clover                        Detoxifies blood, thins blood
                  Garlic                                 Thins blood, lowers cholesterol,
                                                             regulates blood pressure
                  Cayenne                             Increases circulation
                  Ginger                                Increases circulation
                  Ginko biloba                      Increases circulation to the brain
 
6. Practice deep breathing. Deep, complete breathing uses your chest and your diaphragm, and it moves lymph fluid through the lymphatic system quicker. This helps prevent blood proteins from accumulating in tissue, a cause of fluid retention and cell death. Deep breathing also circulates WBCs quicker for disease prevention, and it circulates more oxygen through RBCs to all your body’s cells.
To practice deep breathing, get in a comfortable chair or on your back. Inhale slowly through your nose to the count of 10, fully expanding the lungs; this may hurt a bit if you aren’t used to it. Hold to the count of 2, and then exhale slowly to the count of 10, fully deflating the lungs. During this exercise, hold one hand on your abdomen, right below your breastbone. As this hand moves out away from your body, you’re inflating the lower lobes of the lungs, an indication of complete breathing of both chest and diaphragm types. Do this 10 times, and do it three different times throughout the day. It’s also wonderful to meditate and have quiet time in communion and communicating with God while doing your breathing exercises.
7. Do rebounding exercises daily. Rebounding exercises are done on a rebounder by gently vibrating up and down (health bounce). This triples the circulating white blood cell count by tripling the movement of the lymphatic fluid. Brisk walking or running in place can also be done (aerobic bounce) for cardiovascular fitness and weight loss. This can be part or all of your recommended 30 minutes per day of cardiovascular exercise (see Item 1 above). If you can exercise at an intense level where you’re breathing deeply, you’ll receive the benefits of cardiovascular exercise and deep breathing at the same time. Rebounding is also good for people who aren’t very physically fit, because one can exercise at their own level and it is the least stress on the joints (see rebounding section.)
8. Castor oil hot packs. Many great natural healers say lymphatic circulation increases when Castor oil is applied with heat. This is ideal for specific areas like the armpit, which is the lymph drainage of the breast. Cotton or flannel cloth is dipped in Castor oil and applied to the area. A hot water bottle or moist heating pad is placed over that, and left on the area for 15-30 minutes per night.
9. Eat low fat meals. This is the vegan diet. The fat from both animal and plant sources causes the red blood cells to clump together and decrease the oxygen getting into the cells. The white blood cells also move slower causing a decrease in immune system response. This reduction of blood flow is up to 20% for up to 12 hours after a meal. The animal fat, however, causes cholesterol build up in the blood vessels. This narrowing causes heart attacks and strokes, whereas the plant fat contains no cholesterol and does not cause blood vessel narrowing.
Apply these nine recommendations to your circulative health and see how your total health improves.

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