OPEN HEART SURGERY CONTROVERSY

GROOTE SCHUUR SURGERY

"The Economist" newspaper interview with Hamilton Naki reported in its obituary section, that Mr. Hamilton Naki was an assistant in the first human heart transplant in which he removed the heart from the donor, Denise Darvall. This account of the story came directly from the horses mouth, in Hamilton Naki's very own words.

Hamilton Naki the black laboratory assistant who assisted white cardiac
surgeon Christiaan Barnard in South Africa under apartheid.

But according to a controversial documentary entitled "Hidden Heart", Doctor Marius Barnard, brother to the world renown Dr Christiaan Barnard removed her heart. Dr Christiaan Bernard openly admitted in this docy, and I quote, “given the opportunity, Mr Naki would have been a better surgeon than me”. However, Dr Christiaan Barnard also goes to great lengths in this documentary to describe Mr Naki's skill and abilities as a surgeon even though they would never have been acknowledged under the apartheid system. But the most remarkable thing about this denial or deception, is that an honorary degree was conferred on Naki by the University of Cape Town. Thabo Mbeki, the then president of South Africa even paid tribute to Naki's achievements with a handshake.

Hamilton Naki at his capping.

Hamilton Naki comes from Ngcingane, a small village outside Centani in the Transkei interior. Initially he was employed as a gardener at Groote Schuur Hospital South Africa, where he later requested to take-up an available position to tend to the animals at the university laboratories. To Naki's surprise the animals in question was not sheep, cows, and goats as expected which he tendered as a boy but rather dogs, rats and guinea pigs.

Despite his lack of education, formal medical training, and official credentials his technical abilities were recognized. Hamilton  quickly learnt the techniques of operations, anesthesia and post-operative care and as a consequence obtained permission to continue research in the laboratory. However, being black, he would never have become a surgeon during the Apartheid era since it was illegal for a black man to touch a white patient. But in the laboratories he performed numerous heart transplants on animals assisted by specific members of the elite first heart transplant team. Naki proved his competency daily, hence Christiaan's remark above. But under the apartheid system, no black was allowed to hols a scalpel in his hand nor claim to be a physician or for that matter a surgeon without the necessary qualifications / credentials.

This is but one of the heinous injustices dished out by the apartheid system. Karren Barnard daughter of Dr Christiaan Barnard is up in arms about the fact that neither her dad nor Naki was still alive to confirm or deny the truth of this apparent lie and fraud committed under the banner of apartheid. The controversy regarding this issue continues. Once again one of the proudest moments in South African history may have been one of its most shameful and a source of controversy 365 days per year!

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CONTROVERSIAL MEDICINE

THE FIRST HEART TRANSPLANT

A controversial documentary called Hidden Heart  flighted on TV, preempted the fallout of the world's first successful human heart transplant, perhaps an attempt to soften the blow of possible credibility theft. The question is why? Is there perhaps more to it than meets the eye? An elite team of medical professionals at Groote Schuur Hospital were all human heart transplant trained and on standby, waiting for the event of the century, in which to partake. Training was done, meaning similar procedures had already been done before albeit on animals (pigs and rats) and everyone involved, attained proficiency thereat, hence on standby -waiting off line.

The operating theatre was also on standby since it was never before used for a heart transplant procedure, even the custom manufactured and tested but never used electronic heart and lung machine was on standby. Louis Washkansky a 55 year old dentist who already suffered three heart attacks was lying in hospital since November (a month early) waiting for the heart, promised to him by Chris, so he was also on standby.

Suddenly it all happened, a suitable candidate appeared out of nowhere. Denise Darvall was young and healthy, she had the correct blood type, she was the correct tissue type and according to Dr Chistiaan Barnard, she was brain dead from a car accident, yet her heart was pumping. Peculiar isn't it? Declared dead with heart activity. The team allegedly even got Duvall's and her father's consent, both agreeing to the transplant,  even though neither was consulted about a transplant prior to the accident. Be that as it may, the entire team eagerly waited for her heart to stop beating and within 12 minutes they got the go ahead. Question is, did her heart stop on its own or was it medically induced?

Denise Anne Darvall and Louis Washansky

Louis Washkansky eventually did get the controversial heart promised to him by Chris. Coincidental? Even more peculiar, Denise Darvall who met the necessary medical criteria with flying colours, just happened to get knocked in a motor vehicle accident and killed hardly a kilometer from Groote Schuur Hospital itself, were everything and everyone, you guessed  it, were on standby. This just reeks of controversy -an elaborate plan made by someone for someone- worked out in detail, to the point of having Denise Anne strategically knocked down, as a means to and end. This raises the 5 million dollar question, Did one of the proudest moments in South African history just turn into one of our most shameful or is what follows in the next controversial blog even worse?

HEART TRANSPLANT

VITAL ORGAN HARVESTING

It was the year 1967, in fact more precisely it was on the 3 December of 1967 when Dr Christiaan Barnard, the world renown South African cardiac surgeon firmly placed Groote Schuur Hospital as well as the City of Cape Town on the map with the first successful human heart transplant.

However, even though this was a magnificent feat, Dr James Hardy of Mississippi Medical Center, beat Christiaan to the punch some three years earlier. Unfortunately the donor chimpanzee heart transplanted by Dr Harvy stopped beating within 90 minutes of the transplant, whilst inside the recipient's chest. The transplant was a failure and declared unsuccessful.

Organ transplants and its type of surgery wasn't at all what it was made out to be, because Barnard's patient - Louis Washkansky, died within 18 days of the heart transplant. The cause of death was blamed on double pneumonia even though Washkansky braved rejection medication and steroids. However, the heart transplant was considered a success globally, taking into account the patient survived unaided by electronic apparatus for this length of time.

The Human Heart

The name Dr Christiaan Barnard shot to world fame trailing along with it the theatre of Groote Schuur Hospital, but that wasn't the only thing it dragged behind. Suddenly there was a host of unanswered questions and issues of unethical medical behavior, prejudice, racism, deceit, lies and a cover up perhaps even murder.

Barnards medical achievement paved the way for the future for the multi million dollar human organ transplant industry that followed. This gave rise to numerous fascinating stories of young girls waking-up in a bath of blood stained ice water after a blind date only to find that she was minus one kidney. Numerous children were also found dead in fields with their liver or other vital organs missing which was subsequently blamed on Sangomas and African Witch Craft, but we all can imagine what may really have happened. Organ harvesting has become big business among unethical medical professionals since. Be assured these are not urban legends but newsworthy events. Apartheid South Africa was not the place to be if you were non-white nor just be there at that point in time, with its abundant stories of numerous persons arrested by white police never to be seen again - perhaps harvested. South Africa even had its own medical doctor called "Dr Death" during the apartheid era. Can you imagine that?

Anyway, this brings me to the controversy that snaps at me when looking at the facts of the world's first successful human heart transplant. The players are, Louis Washkansky, Denise Darvall, Hamilton Naki, Dr Chris Barnard, Dr Marius Barnard and the heart transplant team.
The question that begs to get answered is, Is there a remote possibility that Dr Chris Barnard and his team perhaps colluded to murder Denise Darvall for the sake of name and fame? Or is it all just coincidence.

Continued in my next blog...

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GLYCONUTRIENTS

THE BEST MEDICINE EVER

There always seems to be controversy, Controversy 365 days per year, between those who live healthy and those who abuse their health, regarding the need to take vitamins and minerals, in fact, each and every person today really needs to take some form of vitamin supplements because our fresh produce, both fruit and vegetables do not have the nutritional value it contained just 20 years ago.

Pesticides and green harvesting has ruined its nutritional value and is the reason why so many of our foodstuffs contain some form of toxins. Even our grazing animals are all fed some sort of fish-meal mixed with their food, which we end up eating. Look at what happened during the Mad Cow epidemic, those poor cows were fed processed cow and sheep proteins which caused them to go mental. Just think of how many people there may be today who ate the controversial crazy meat, who didn't die of the toxins, but who are now subject to DNA changes which will affect their offspring and future generations. Virtually every person alive today has a compromised immune system even those who, eat organic food. Remember the old adage, "you have to watch what you eat", because "you are what you eat".

ENTER GLYCONUTRIENTS

Phytonutrients (plant nutrients) and Glyconutrients (Sugar nutrition) are available from numerous suppliers that promote wellness, but the best quality Glyconutrients, Phytonutrient, vitamins, minerals and trace elements are supplied by companies who grow their produce in hydroponic gels, impregnated with high levels of minerals and trace elements that produce composites from which these products are manufactured. These are generally much more expensive than the garden variety of vitamins and minerals on the market today but then again, I am sure you only deserve the best.

These products are essential nutrition since our bodies cannot synthesize them, and once consumed, will restore balance to the immune system, enhance inter-cellular and intra-cellular communication and promote overall health.

They are extremely rich in antioxidants and flavonoids for optimal health, that nothing on the market today can rival. They have been known to cure cancer, diabetes, Weber's syndrome, auto-immune diseases and so many others, eventhough this is not a medication but rather food in the same form we were designed to eat, our bodies are thus capable of healing itself from these nasty sickness and diseases.

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SUGAR AND SPICE AND ALL THINGS NICE

Of late, my partner has been packing some extra weight, leading us to have a conversation about how she could slow down her horizontal growth. She was desperate to fit unto those snazzy outfits that hardly a month ago fitted like a glove. So, I happen to mention her love for sweet things and her total daily sugar intake. But as expected and which is quite normal for most people, she also takes offence when criticized. No one that's guilty of packing, likes to be accused of overdoing it in the food department especially if its absolutely true. 

With the huge varieties of fresh cream cakes, desserts, toffees, chocolates, sodas, chocolate chip cookies, etc and all those other sweet... "feel good food" on offer, who can blame anyone for always wanting to have a little more.

Besides the sweet things in life, there is also the salty "feel good foods", you know, those always available and easily accessible fast foods, like potato chips, french fries, those 40cm puffy pizza bases buried under a mountain of cheese and meats, along with its fellow toppings, and all those other related pastas. Not to mention the deep fried chicken, kebabs on a stick, flamed grilled ribs, spicy biryanis, hot curries and tasty samosas etc...

Yep, I know its easy to loose your cool and self control around all those deliciously edible offerings, especially if eating is your crutch, to suppress those other issues you are trying so hard to hide. But issues aside, I need to revisit the sugar intake story. She also loves coffee, black strong and sweet, and she has at least 4 cups per day. So I did the math, 3 teaspoons sugar per cup, 4 times per day, totals 12 teaspoons of sugar daily. After counting out and discovering that 25 teaspoons of sugar fulls a regular tea cup, I concluded that she consumes no less than 3 cups of sugar per week in fact almost 4. That is a serious amount of sugar but it excludes the sugar found in all those previously mentioned chocolates and confectioneries.

All the sugar she consumes aside, she is a very sweet girl, so I needed to do my utmost to help her to roll-back to that sexy shape she had, prior to becoming a "shape shifter". Together we decided that two cups of coffee per day would have to suffice to satisfy her caffeine addiction and that 3 sugars per cup would have to reduced to 2. So, once again I did the math, 2 sugars per day trice daily totals 4 teaspoons of sugar, extrapolated to less than 1 cup of sugar per week. Wow, what an improvement!

Anyway, this is how the other part of the sugar story goes. Our bodies needs sugar but any surplus sugar not use daily, cannot however be stored for later use in the form of sugar. Instead our bodies converts this surplus sugar into fat. Our bodies are very efficient at making and storing fat because it can convert the fat back to sugar when it needs to, however because most of us replenish our expended sugar daily, our bodies has no reason to convert stored fat to sugar instead it just takes the excess sugar consumed daily and stores that too.

Fat is not a bad thing, the body needs fat, all our vital organs are cushioned in fat but its the excess fat that becomes a problem. Our bodies systematically store fat as a subcutaneous layer almost evenly spread throughout the body, now having done this, and having run out of space to store more fat, it starts storing fat as a second layers then a third, then a fourth, then a fifth, etc... Resulting in your waistline going from, say 28cm to 29cm to 30cm to 32cm etc, and where it stops is entirely upto you. By reducing your sugar intake by half, and assuming this new sugar intake level is below what the body requires daily, it will then be encouraged to convert the stored fat to sugar. This process causes weight loss, resulting in the waistline going in the other direction. Happiness is....

Optimal health is your greatest asset in life, so try to avoid sugar. Refined sugar (white sugar) is one of the worst forms of sugar we can take, so rather substitute sugar for honey as its sweeter than sugar and you'll also end up using less. By the way, sugar is not the only food stuff stored as fat, even a large baked potato (carbohydrates) if eaten when the body already has stored surplus fat, will not make use of that baked potato for energy but convert it into fat and guess what... one large potato is in fact equivalent to a cup of sugar.

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COLLAGEN PREVENTS WRINKLES

RESVERATROL

Grapes are but one of the fruits mentioned in the Bible, and in ancient Greece, it was called the food of the gods. Today with all the other fruits abound, grapes has taken second place to many. But ever since the discovery of the resveratrol and proanthocyanidins compounds in the skin and seeds of red grapes by scientists, there has been much hype about the protection it affords against cardiovascular disorders. Grape seed extract quickly became the the treatment for heart diseases such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol.

However, somehow these scientists didn't pay much attention to the flesh of the grape, in fact it was completely overlooked, since the flesh colour was fairly translucent, their attention was directed solely at its skin because of its anthocyanins -the red pigment in the skin that differentiates it from the white variety.

But soon thereafter it was discovered that this initial assumption that resveratrol and proanthocyanidins only exist in the skin and seed of Red Grapes, wasn't exactly correct. But that the flesh of the grapes also contain equivalent nutritive compounds with equivalent protection against stroke and heart attack, even though it does not contain any anthocyanins.

Resveratrol can be found in grapes of various colours

Some years later and a closer look by some other scientist, concluded that White Grapes are in fact just as beneficial as the Red variety and also affords the same exact identical protection against cardiovascular disorders. The common flavonoids found in red and white grapes are quercitin and resveratrol both of which are key nutrients necessary for maintaining good skin health. These promote the creation of collagen, which has long been known to keep our skin firm and healthy.

A lack of collagen will most certainly lead to premature wrinkles and sagging. Dr OZ on Opera spoke very highly of the anti aging effect of Grapes. So ladies don't forget the grapes, fresh grapes, please not the bottled kind.

Flavonoids, the enzyme that gives grapes its distinctive flavour function as antioxidants to maintain capillary walls and protect against infections. Antioxidant in grape is the natural pigments which protects us against molecular oxidation and free radicals. Meaning that grapes are not only good for you but beneficial to your overall health. It contains an abundance of Vitamins, minerals and other trace elements and is far more nutritive and tasty than its resveratrol extracted tabs.

FOOD SUPPLIMENTS

FOOD SUPPLIMENTS

The old saying "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" needs a serious revision if what medical science, is to be believed. Proponents in the scientific space says Vitamin Supplements is a load of nonsense. So lets retain our sanity and look at their implications and draw our own conclusions. Every medication out there manufactured by scientists either in tablet or capsule form has an active ingredient that gives it its efficacy, or at least science claims that. However, is its ridiculed that a vitamin C chewable for example, with ascorbic acid as its active ingredient, is frowned upon as useless and ineffective.

It must be understood that every substance consumed by the body which it cannot synthesize itself has an effect on it, some to a larger degree than others. Meaning if the active ingredient in an anabolic steroid taken orally is 2000 milligrams it will have a pronounced effect on the body over time and conversely if a 1 gram vitamin B1 (thiamine) is the active ingredient in a tablet taken orally, there seem to be no noticeable effects but that doesn't mean it doesn't work or done what it was meant to do. That's the difference between pharmaceutical and nutriceutical compounds.

So the reason why some voices in the scientific space is knocking vitamin supplements could be two fold, either they fear that the popularity of vitamin supplements is going to erode their profit margins when their clients retain good health and therefore have no use for their medications or that for fear of being exposed as liars and cheats for keeping the truth about health away from the masses for so long. This is exactly the sentiments of Dr. Matthias Rath, a pro nutritionist, who says in one of his arguments against pharmaceutical drugs, “The Third World War is a global misinformation war lead by the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical investment business with disease against all mankind.”

Our bodies are amaizing bio-chemical engines but cannot make vitamins, so a deficiency of vitamins presents itself as an illness in the human body, either as a skin rash, headaches, stomach cramps or pain etc... in order for us to take notice and do something about it. But instead of looking towards better nutrition we look towards pharmaceutical concoctions that suppress our immune systems thereby removing the symptoms described above but it fails too heal us. In fact no doctor can heal you, your body heals itself if given the essential and necessary ingredients to do so, only found in whole foods.

Vitamins and minerals are present in whole foods like fruits and vegetables and the other food groups but because of modern farming practises destroys vitamins, we do not get sufficient vitamins and minerals in our diets. But, all is not lost, we have two options to get a sufficient amount of vitamin we need. We can either eat seven helpings of fruit and vegetables each and every day without fail or we can take vitamin supplements in tablet form for optimal health. If we don't we will essentially be like cows ans spend the better part of our day chewing.

Vitamins and minerals are tiny chemical molecules found in whole foods which react with our living cells to create some 55 000 enzymes in our bodies for its proper functionality. Amongst which are salivary glands for pre-treatment of food to make chyme, digestive enzymes in our Gastro Intestinal track for breaking down our food and metabolic enzymes for our organs, blood and other body cells and endocrine system to proper hormone production.