Dilated (congestive cardiomyopathy). This is the most common form of the disease. The heart cavity is enlarged and stretched (cardiac dilation), which results in weak and slow pumping of the blood, which in turn can result in the formation of blood clots. Abnormal heart rhythms (arrhythmias) and disturbances in the electrical conduction processes in the heart may also occur. Most patients with this type of cardiomyopathy develop congestive heart failure. There is also a genetically-linked cardiac disease, Barth syndrome, that can cause dilated cardiomyopathy. This syndrome affects male children, and is usually diagnosed at birth or within the first few months of life. Pregnant women during the last trimester of pregnancy or after childbirth may develop a type of dilated cardiomyopathy referred to as peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic With this type of cardiomyopathy, the muscle mass of the left ventricle enlarges, or hypertrophies. In hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM), the septum (wall) between the two heart ventricles (the pumping chambers) becomes enlarged and obstructs blood flow from the left ventricle. The thickened wall can also distort one leaflet of the mitral valve, which results in leakage. HOCM is most common in young adults. HOCM is often hereditary, caused by genetic mutations in the affected person's DNA. The disease is either inherited through one parent who is a carrier or through both parents who each contribute a defective gene. HOCM is also referred to as asymmetrical septal hypertrophy (ASH) or idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (IHSS). In another form of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, non-obstructive cardiomyopathy, the enlarged heart muscle does not obstruct the blood flow through the heart.

Restrictive This is a less common type of cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle of the ventricles becomes rigid. Restrictive cardiomyopathy affects the diastolic function of the heart, that is, it affects the period when the heart is relaxing between contractions. Since the heart cannot relax adequately between contractions, it is harder for the ventricles to fill with blood between heartbeats. This type of cardiomyopathy is usually the result of another disease.

No matter what type of cardiomyopathy you have, signs and symptoms tend to get worse unless treated. Drugs usually do a decent job on symptoms for a while, but do nothing to stop the progression of the disease.

The fact that you are looking into alternative therapy, indicates you have noticed that the more pills you take over the years, the worse your heart condition becomes. This is true for 100% of cardiomyopathy patients, exactly as outlined by Dr. Linus Pauling, America’s leading medical scientist of the 20th century:

“Everything in the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases which is not natural to the human body will fail. The mechanisms of our bodily systems are unwilling in the medium term to react cooperatively to substances which are toxic to the human body. 

Orthodox medicine will attempt to compensate for its disregard of this maxim-which is born out of narrow-mindedness and ignorance of the laws of nature — by spending vast sums of money, by commissioning research on a gigantic scale, and by propaganda.

The attempt will fail, but it will cause a tremendous explosion in health cost, which will lead to a serious social upheaval and economic and political crisis. Even industries that merge into vast conglomerates in order to be able to finance non-biological ‘medicines’ will fail. No amount of money in the world will ever make it possible to imitate the development of effective substances over hundreds of millions of years of bio-functional adaptation.”

Stem cells are your body’s tool kit to heal, and are the best possible example of the Pauling dictum. Stem cells from your body, NOT embryonic stem cells which are worse even than drugs at killing those treated, something you would know if there was an honest embryonic scientist or honest newspaper in North America, not under the complete control of drug-pushing Pharma.