What causes hardening of the arteries and frequent chest pains?
Hardening of the arteries, like other diseases, has its basis in Toxemia. If a person becomes enervated (The First Stage of Disease), he soon becomes toxic (The Second Stage of Disease) and irritable (The Third Stage of Disease). If a person is toxic, a condition of chronic Inflammation (The Fourth Stage of Disease) commences in various tissues of the body, including the arteries. Chronic Inflammation causes a deposition of fibrous tissues within the walls of the artery. Fibrosis is the Induration, hardening process, The Sixth Stage of Disease. Triglycerides and cholesterol are also deposited in the walls of large arteries as a defense process, to prevent substances floating in the blood stream from damaging the arterial walls too greatly. This process is similar to the formation of a blister. Fasting is efficacious in removing triglycerides and cholesterol (atheromatous plaques) from the walls of the arteries. It may take three or four long fasts with proper between-fast-living to wit
