Integrative Cardiology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. The Basis of Integration

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Herbal Medicine in Cardiology

      • Ivo Bianchi

      Pages 3-18

   3. Homeopathy and Cardiovascular Disease

      • Ivo Bianchi

      Pages 19-26

   4. Low-Dose Therapy for the Treatment of Low-Grade Chronic Inflammation

      • Massimo Fioranelli, Marco Del Prete, Jahaira Carolina Aracena, Maria Grazia Roccia, Carlo Dal Lin, Claudio Tomella

      Pages 27-38

   5. Acupuncture in Cardiovascular Diseases

      • Giuseppe Lupi, Manuela Cormio

      Pages 39-52

   6. Metabolic Cardiology

      • Massimo Fioranelli, Mara Piccoli, Maria Grazia Roccia, Veronica Di Nardo, Andrea Lozzi, Claudio Tomella et al.

      Pages 53-59

   7. Medicinal Mushrooms

      • Ivo Bianchi

      Pages 61-65

   8. Microbiome and Cardiac Health

      • Enrico Biffi

      Pages 67-97

   9. Endocrine System and Cardiovascular Disease

      • Carlo Maria Rotella, Ilaria Dicembrini, Laura Pala

      Pages 99-107

   10. Cardiovascular Aging

       • Leda Galiuto, Gabriella Locorotondo

       Pages 109-120

   11. Nutrition and Cardiac Health

       • Claudio Tomella, Veronica Di Nardo, Massimo Fioranelli

       Pages 121-138

   12. Psycho-neuro-endocrino-immunology Paradigm and Cardiovascular Diseases

       • Francesco Bottaccioli, Anna Giulia Bottaccioli

       Pages 139-151

   13. The Role of Stress and Emotions in Cardiovascular Disease: Stress Management and Meditation Programs in the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease

       • Anna Giulia Bottaccioli

       Pages 153-163

   14. Ozone Therapy as a Complementary Treatment in Cardiovascular Diseases

       • N. Dardes, V. Covi, G. Tabaracci

       Pages 165-172

3. Integrated Approach to Cardiovascular Disease

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173

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   2. Integrated Approach to Dyslipidemia

      • Mara Piccoli, Massimo Fioranelli, Maria Grazia Roccia, Veronica Di Nardo, Claudio Tomella, Carlo Dal Lin

      Pages 175-184

   3. Integrated Approach to Hypertension

      • Carlo Dal Lin, Marco Silvestro, Raffaele Migliorini, Francesco Tona, Massimo Fioranelli

      Pages 185-201

   4. Integrated Approach to Coronary Artery Disease

      • Carlo Dal Lin, Marco Silvestro, Raffaele Migliorini, Francesco Tona, Massimo Fioranelli

      Pages 203-221

   5. Integrated Approach to Heart Failure

      • Carlo Dal Lin, Marco Silvestro, Raffaele Migliorini, Francesco Tona, Massimo Fioranelli

      Pages 223-235

This book is a detailed guide to a new integrative approach to the prevention and treatment of various cardiac disorders and risk factors, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. This approach combines various strategies, including metabolic cardiology, low-dose medicine, exercise programs, stress management programs, evaluation for inherited risk factors, and various other healing modalities. Metabolic cardiology focuses on the prevention, management, and treatment of cardiovascular disease at the cellular level through biochemical interventions with nutritional supplements that can promote energy production in the heart. Low-dose medicine, on the other hand, interprets pathological phenomena as an imbalance in intercellular signaling that may be corrected through the administration of low physiological doses of messenger molecules. Therapies outside of mainstream medicine may also be deployed in integrative cardiology, for example acupuncture, herbal medicine, and homeopathy. Integrative Cardiology will be of interest to all practitioners wishing to learn about an approach that incorporates the incredible advances in medication and technology with a focus on nutrition, lifestyle, and mind–body influences.

• Acupuncture
• Cardiovascular aging
• Herbal medicine
• Inflammation
• Integrative therapy
• Low-dose medicine
• Medicinal mushrooms
• Metabolic cardiology
• Microbioma
• Nutrition
• Ozone Therapy
• PsicoNeuroEndocrinImmunology

“The book is designed to provide additional tools for physicians to use in their therapeutic intervention strategies in often complex pathological situations in cardiovascular disease. … The book is well written, easy to read, and uses numerous color graphs, figures, and tables to supplement the text. This tool for practicing clinicians provides a complete source of information about the use of complementary therapies in treating the whole patient with cardiovascular disease.” (Joseph A. Randy Englert III, Doody’s Book Reviews, June, 2017) 

• Department of Nuclear Physics, Guglielmo Marconi University, Rome, Italy

  Massimo Fioranelli

Massimo Fioranelli is Associate Professor of Physiology at the Marconi University in Rome, and Director of "Centro Cuore" at the "Mater Dei" Clinic in Rome since 2006. After graduating in Medicine in 1984 and specializing in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in 1993, he worked at the Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, directed by Prof. Jacob Shani, and has taught at the Punjab Technical University, Punjab, India, between 2010 and 2014. He is Editor in chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Microinflammation and  Journal of Integrative Cardiology. He edited various books with Springer, targeting both academic, high-level professionals in Cardiology and Physiology, and readers of popular science. Currently his main interests focus on low dose medicine, topic often addressed during various symposia held annually about integrative medicine.

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