Not long ago, an older male patient presented with annoying symptoms of excessive PVCs and a "fluttering" feeling in his chest. Off he was sent to his primary care doctor and then to the cardiologist for an echo cardiogram, a stress echo cardiogram, lots of blood work and an analysis of all the tests. The upshot of it was that nothing of any organic origin showed up and, since he had none of the risk factors of stroke or heart disease, the cardiologist decided not to recommend any pharmaceutical treatment.
He came back to me armed with this information, but didn't like the symptoms he was experiencing: fatigue, muscle cramps, weakness, heart flutter, chest discomfort (not pain, just annoying symptoms), depression and tiredness. This was a formerly very active and energetic man. We did pass the following treatment by his cardiologist and her response was a shrug and a, "It couldn't hurt."
I started him on the recommended protocol by Standard Process for nutritional heart support and while his symptoms improved, he still didn't feel back to his old self (no pun intended), yet. He had an additional blood work series done, this time, a "real" Vitamin D test was run. (Often calciferol levels are checked, but the better test is for 25 OH Vitamin D levels). These levels were very, very low. Immediately, he started on a SP Vitamin D supplement. Within two days, he noticed a significant improvement. After one week, he told me he no longer had any of the symptoms and feels great! Wow.
There have been numerous studies as to the efficacy of Vit. D on preventing heart disease. This may be only one case, as most cardiologists aren't as broad minded as this one, but I think it's a significant result, if only for one person.
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