The XXL Syndrome: Obestiy, Diabetes, Heart Attacks: Potassium Can Change Everything

by Rombi, Max

• ISBN13: 9782359340426
• ISBN10: 2359340425
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-01
• Publisher: Innovative Logistics Llc

Summary

It is impossible to repress a shudder at the epidemics of diabetes, hypertension, obesity, cardiovascular disease,osteoporosis or asthma that affect or threaten

Author Biography

Dr Max Rombi is the creator of the Laboratoires Arkopharma, which have since become world leaders in phytotherapy and alternative medicine. Dr Rombi believes that people must always be informed so that they can take their own health in hand.

Table of Contents

A Word from the Author	p. 5
Introduction	p. 7
The XXL Syndrome	p. 12
The Fight for Life	p. 12
Castaways: their tragedy	p. 14
Chemically, what is salt?	p. 15
I'm sodium, you're potassium	p. 16
Too much sodium, not enough potassium	p. 18
Sodium's real danger to our cells	p. 20
Metabolic blockage under the magnifying glass: why does excess sodium cause cells to swell?	p. 22
Metabolic blockage under the magnifying glass: why do swollen cells live in slow motion?	p. 24
Exchanging sodium for potassium: the Na/K pump	p. 26
The XXL syndrome	p. 28
The XXL Syndrome Illnesses	p. 30
Hypertension, a silent disorder	p. 30
Guilty of causing hypertension: salt	p. 32
The ultimate proof: DASH	p. 34
Strokes and heart attacks	p. 36
Cardiac insufficiency and left ventricular hypertrophy	p. 38
Bad news for the arteries	p. 40
Menopause: the start of heart problems	p. 42
Obesity, a weighty problem	p. 44
Obesity: the XXL syndrome in the dock	p. 46
A galloping epidemic: diabetes	p. 48
A concatenation of nervous disorders	p. 50
Respiratory tract exposed to asthma	p. 52
Salt and cancer: the evidence	p. 54
Fatigue and lack of energy: think of potassium	p. 56
Osteoporosis and brittle bones: a matter of pH	p. 58
All that salt, it ages you	p. 60
Health Programme	p. 62
Your health is in your own hands	p. 62
How to optimise your sodium and potassium intake	p. 64
How to take less salt in your food	p. 66
Potassium for my cells	p. 68
Potassium as salt or in capsules	p. 70
Watch your magnesium	p. 71
Acid-base: a crucial equilibrium	p. 72
Other benefactors: omega-3 fatty acids	p. 74
Your health regimen	p. 76
Hypertension	p. 78
Diabetes (Type 2)	p. 80
Excess weight	p. 84
Cholesterol	p. 86
Depression	p. 88
Fatigue	p. 90
Menopause	p. 92
Osteoporosis	p. 94
Ageing	p. 96
How Did We Get to this Point?	p. 100
Conclusion	p. 103
Index	p. 104
Bibliography	p. 105
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