Featured Topics: Cardiovascular Health
Flaxseed Oil May Lower Blood Pressure
Written by Marcia Egles, MD. Participants who supplemented with flaxseed oil experienced an 8% drop in systolic blood pressure and a 10% drop in diastolic blood pressure. A recent study from Greece reports flaxseed oil to be of benefit in lowering blood...
Elevated Homocysteine Levels Reduced with Low-Dose Folic Acid
Written by Marcia Egles, MD. Homocysteine is an amino acid product formed during the folate-mediated metabolism of methionine, an essential amino acid. Several prospective studies have shown homocysteine to be associated with cardiovascular events. (1) Research is...
Pycnogenol Helps Heart Health in Diabetics
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Research studies show that Pycnogenol may help maintain heart health in diabetics. Type 2 diabetes (TD2) affects over 7% of the US population (20 million Americans), is expected to increase by up to 70% in the next 25 years (1) and...
Fish or Fish Oil?
Written by Marcia J. Egles, MD. The study concluded that both fish and fish oil capsules are equally useful in bolstering omega-3 concentrations in the body. Omega-3 fatty acids, also known as n-3 fatty acids, are important nutrients which the body needs and cannot...
Blood Pressure Found to Increase Disability Later in Life
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Researchers found that high blood pressure increases the risk of disability by 36%. In the United States, more than 50% of people older than 65 years of age have limitation in greater than one functional activity. Regarding these...
Study Revisits Cholesterol Health Benefits of Oats
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. The researchers concluded that “the consumption of oats and oat-based products should be encouraged as part of an overall lifestyle …approach for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.” More than a decade ago, the US Food and Drug...
Review Finds Vitamin D Beneficial for Heart Health
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. Study promotes increased vitamin D intake as a way to help increase heart health. Atherosclerosis is the process in which deposits of fatty substances, cholesterol, cellular waste products, calcium and other substances build up in the...
Quercetin May Reduce Hypertension
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD, Biochem. This double blind, randomized, crossover study demonstrates how quercetin supplementation reduced systolic blood pressure in 22 stage 1 hypertensive patients. This reduction decreases death from stroke by 14% and death...
Fish Oil Improves Blood Vessel Health in People with High Blood Pressure
Written by Greg Arnold, DC, CSCS. This study showcases the ability of fish oil to help improve blood vessel health and potentially help maintain healthy blood pressure levels. As a worldwide epidemic (1) and the third-leading cause of disability in the U.S. (2)...
Long-Term Use of High Doses of Vitamin E are Needed to Reduce Oxidative Stress
Written by Susan Sweeny Johnson, PhD., Biochem. Conflicting reports on the efficacy of Vitamin E in preventing stroke or cardiovascular events (1) have been puzzling, since vitamin E is potentially a powerful antioxidant that appears to inhibit lipid oxidation and...
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