The Healthy Heart Programme

A Comprehensive Heart Recovery Programme from the Light Centre

based on the world’s most successful heart rehabilitation programme

Studies by Dr Neal Ornish in the US have categorically proved that people with high blood pressure and cholesterol levels can recover their heart’s normal functioning by undergoing a programme of lifestyle changes.
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The US government and now most of the US health insurance companies are turning to Dr Ornish’s programme, as it requires no medications and massively improves the long-term health outcome for its participants.

It can surely not be long before all doctors are advised to refer patients to a programme such as this one before prescribing life-long medications.

Evolutionary research now explains how modern lifestyles have led to an epidemic of heart disease in the developed world. It also suggests that, if caught early enough, removing these lifestyle stresses can allow the heart to recover its normal functioning. Simply putting a patient on medication only serves to manage and not deal with the problem itself. It also exposes them to side-effects and merely delays the serious consequences of heart disease.

The Light Centre’s Healthy Heart Programme starts with a thorough health and lifestyle assessment to work out why your heart is struggling. We then help you to put together a personal rehabilitation programme that will reduce the stresses on your heart and get you back to good health.

Important to this programme is your diet and nutritional levels, any mental stresses you are under and your levels of physical wellness.

To start a Healthy Heart Programme simply make an appointment for your first consultation (£60) and healthy heart assessment (£98). We’ll then take you through the rest.

To set up an appointment send an email to our Healthy Heart programme leader, Mark Thompson D.O., N.D. (mark@lightcentre.com) giving your name and a brief outline of the heart problems you are having.

Not convinced? Want to know what the research says?

Why Everyone Should Do This Programme

Seperate studies by Dr Neal Ornish and Dr Caldwell Esselstyn in the US have clearly showed that undergoing an ‘extensive’ lifestyle improvement programme, including adopting a ‘natural’ diet, increasing exercise and reducing stress levels, not only stops but reverses heart disease.

Every year new studies emerge showing that degenerative changes in the body can be arrested and reversed through ‘significant’ lifestyle change.

As these studies emerge it is becoming clear that the majority of  lifestyle advice given by doctors and health authorities is too moderate and too disjointed to have a significant impact on people’s’ chronic health problems.

The modern healthcare system has become a ‘firefighting’ operation’, unable to provide the level of education and support needed to use lifestyle change as a first line treatment approach. It thus continues to rely on medication in order to manage rather than reverse chronic problems.

People should know that there IS an alternative to a deteriorating body and the use of chronic medications. But to realise this alternative they must accept responsibility for their own problems and take a hold of their own lifestyle patterns.

The best time to undertake a lifestyle restoration programme is BEFORE doctors and medication is needed. This will ensure that you remain bright, healthy, happy and athletic beyond the expectations of medicine and the other people around you.

This isn’t just a programme for those with identified heart disease, its a programme for everyone!