Many people who are looking for alternatives to cholesterol lowering medications my see information on such things as red rice yeast. When looking for a natural ingredient Shaklee tested Red Rice Yeast as an ingredient for lowering Cholesterol–the studies that showed this was a great cholesterol lowering ingredient only went for 9 weeks. Shaklee repeated [...]
If your Doctor recommends you take statin drugs for chronic heart failure you may want to give it a second thought. In a study conducted by Gruppo Italiano per lo Studio della Sopravvivenza nell’Infarto Miocardico Heart Failure (GISSI-HF) trial and released for early online publication in the Lancet August 31, 2008. It showed that Omega [...]
One of the supplements that everyone should take is CoQ10. Technically CoQ10 is not a vitamin. Coenzyme Q10 (or CoQ10) is a natural chemical compound that we make in our bodies and consume in our diets, primarily from oily fish, organ meats such as liver, and whole grains. It resides in the energy-producing part of [...]
Simply blowing up a blood pressure cuff around a person’s arm when they’re having a heart attack can reduce the amount of permanent heart muscle damage by up to half, the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has found. It is exquisitely simple, cheap and apparently safe. It involves inflating a standard blood-pressure cuff on [...]
Canadian researchers say that combining prebiotics (this is the product that you take before you take the probiotic to make the Probiotic (friendly bacteria) multiply and soy protein may lower cholesterol levels and boost heart health. Consumption of a soy-food-based diet, providing soy protein and isoflavones in combination with 10 g per day of oligofructose-enriched [...]
Everyone who has had a sore throat, rash, hives, or a sprained ankle knows about inflammation. These are normal and appropriate responses of the immune system — your body’s defense — to infection and trauma. This kind of inflammation is good. We need it to survive — to help us determine friend from foe.The trouble [...]
