Research Studies that discovered the causes of blockages
Dr. Bimal Chhajer, MBBS, MD is a medical doctor who does not believe in surgical procedures for coronary blockages – for the simple reason that now proven methods are available to achieve the reversal of blockages and saving them from heart attacks. While working as a resident in Cardiology in Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi in 1986 he found that without change of food habits, exercise, lifestyle change heart patients treated with medical drug treatment patients still die of heart attacks. During his MD studies at KG Medical College, Lucknow he started his research on how to implement lifestyle changes in heart patients and patients with High BP and Diabetes. He combined Yoga with diet and education to treat heart patients while they continued on Allopathic medicines. He found that the medicines can be gradually reduced as the effects of lifestyle came into effect. Post MD he worked at the AIIMS, New Delhi for six years (1989-1995) where he developed a unique program for treatment of heart patients where the Lifestyle and diet were combined with Modern medical management (Optimum Medical Management). His findings showed that heart patients could reverse their risk score, angina, as well as dosage medicines and could easily avoid operations like Bypass Surgery or Angioplasty. In 1995 January he organized an International Conference on Lifestyle and Health which highlighted his success and brought all the researchers with similar background under the same platform. Dr. Dean Ornish’s study was also represented in this conference and a workshop on “Reversal of Heart disease” was organized during this conference. In 1995 Dr. Chhajer resigned from the post of Assistant Professor at the AIIMS, New Delhi to start his public Clinic which was aptly named “Science and Art Of Living” or SAAOL. In the last 25 years (1995-2020) his clinic has spread over to 95 locations in India and Abroad and treated more than 250,000 heart patients who have been trying to avoid Bypass surgery or Angioplasty and heart Attack. Saaol combines guided lifestyle change with optimum allopathic medical management and has seen the success of 98%. A study on 5000 heart patients followed for a minimum of 5 years have been recently published in a reputed international journal showed that Saaol’s success rate was 98% - which was better than that predicted by Interheart Study. The lifestyle changes recommended by Saaol include complete education of heart patients, zero oil coking, avoiding animal foods, daily walk, stress management training and Yoga. To increase the efficacy of lifestyle change, Saaol has created a simple but unique chart called Saaol Safety Circle which guides the heart patients to follow the risk factor lowering to the maximum level so that reversal happens. Saaol adds Modern Allopathic drugs to the treatment to assure more safety to the heart patients. The drugs include Anti angina drugs, thinners, and lipid lowering drugs and other Blood Pressure or sugar medicines. They can be called Saaol’s Optimum Medical Management. Both guided lifestyle treatment combined with medical management has shown reversal of heart disease in more than 2.5 lac patients in the last 25 years.
Natural Bypass/ EECP/ECP
Saaol also adds a new scientifically proven medically effective non invasive therapy for its heart patients called Natural Bypass Therapy or EECP/ECP. This therapy opens the second set of tubes, parallel to the coronary arteries in the heart. These extra tubes called Capillaries are existing in every body’s heart but lie unutilized except for the sportsmen who run regularly to open this second circulation. This therapy is approved by the American FDA (Food and Drug Administration) and European Community (CE) for treatment of heart disease and has now become very popular as this does not need any hospitalization, is safe, non invasive and effective. More than 200 research studies were done to prove that ECP is a highly effective therapy for Coronary Heart disease. A multicentre Randomized Controlled Trial called EECP MUST was instrumental in convincing the US Government
Medicare to approve and start reimbursing this mode of Treatment in USA. In this therapy, cuffs wrapped around the lower limb muscles of the patients are squeezed during every diastole increasing the flow of blood into the coronary arteries. Thirty five to forty one hour sessions of this therapy helps to open the second set of tubes in the heart – this helps in reducing angina, protecting against heart attacks and often improve the EF (pumping power of the heart. This therapy is called Counter Pulsation as it leads to flow opposite to pulse and since this pulse is induced externally it is called External Counter Pulsation or ECP. A company, which made it popular, patented this name as Enhanced ECP – so it is also known as EECP. This therapy gives double protection to the heart patients and is considered as a replacement of Bypass surgery.
Detox treatment and Oxidation prevention
Pollution, oxidative stress and toxins are gradually being implemented as the major cause of Coronary heart disease. Oxidation of Cholesterol in the body makes it more vulnerable to create blockages. A unique bio chemical called EDTA was used by the medical science to remove toxins from the body. EDTA is an Indian Government and US FDA approved medicine for Detoxification. A huge number of studies have shown that IV or oral EDTA helps to reduce the mortality and morbidity of heart patients. Recent US Government sponsored study called TACT Trial published in Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2013 have conclusively proved that drips of EDTA helped to reduce deaths and hospitalization of heart patients significantly. Saaol’s findings show a huge number of heart patients have been able to reduce the blocks by a combination of EDTA, Anti oxidants, lifestyle and Aggressive Medical Management.
Aggressive Medical Management
Saaol stands for Science and Art Of Living (S-A-A-O-L) and includes Aggressive Medical Therapy with allopathic drugs. By using allopathic medicines we reduce the major risk factors of heart disease – serum Cholesterol, serum Triglycerides, Blood Pressure and Blood Sugar in patients who join us – to reduce the risk of heart attacks from the very first day. We add blood thinners and anti angina medicines immediately to enable the patients to perform Yoga and walking which give additional protection to the heart patients. Our diet program and cooking training cuts down both Cholesterol and Triglycerides drastically and increase the intake of fruits and vegetables also help in the reversal program. We try to put all the risk factors to the best levels so that reversal starts immediately and the chances of heart attack reduce to almost zero. Our allopathic medical therapy is called Aggressive (as compared to the Optimum Medical Therapy) as we look to achieve the best level of the risk factors and nothing short of that. For example if the level of Cholesterol is 130-200mg/dl – Saaol wants to achieve a Cholesterol level of 129mg/dl. It is already proven that the best combination of diet, lifestyle change and Optimum Medical Therapy leads to reversal of heart disease and is better than Bypass surgery or Angioplasty. This reversal protects the heart patients against heart attack and gets the patients back to work, routine life within a few days.