The Body Invaders: Heart Attack (24 of 28)

The Body Invaders: Heart Attack

The Recchino lasagna recipe has been specifically modified so there is almost no fat in it.
Tracy uses fat free soy instead of beef.
She mixes the soy with saturated fat free tomato sauce.
And finally she layers it with low fat cottage cheese instead of ricotta.
And non fat parmesan.
Here we go.
Here's dinner.
Oh.
Wow! Looks great.
On a day to day basis.
Life is good.
And we want to just kind of keep it that way.

I'm at a point where any blockages that I might have had or anything.
Should be reducing because of being able to keep my cholesterol so low.
It 's not fun sometimes but I'm alive.
And.
And you know.
It 's worth the sacrifice.
Each year.
Thousands of people with coronary artery disease join the ranks of the so-called no option patient.
They have blockages so severe that they cannot be treated by medications.
Angioplasty or even bypass surgery.
Hope for these patients lies in research aimed at stimulating the heart to grow new vessels.
When our hearts experience angina.
Pain from lack of oxygen.
The body naturally releases chemicals that stimulate new vessel growth.
But some people don't grow these vessels well or don't grow them at all.
For these patients.
A controversial procedure may help.
It 's called transmyocardial revascularization or TMr. Here.
A high energy laser blasts holes or channels into the heart muscle.