Cardiovascular Conditions
“Looking” Inside Your Blood Vessels Part One of this article examines the many influences affecting the numerical value that represents your own unique blood LDL-cholesterol level. This, added to uncertainty about the accuracy of cholesterol lab tests, reveals the need for additional ways to quantify the health of your blood vessels. In other words,…
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The Problems with Cholesterol Testing When it comes to health, cholesterol is a much discussed subject. It is often given a negative connotation but cholesterol is not inherently bad. In fact, this waxy substance is necessary for life and our bodies are able to make all they require for well-being. Cholesterol is carried by the…
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Omega-3 fatty acids are a hot topic of conversation among those interested in nutrition these days. Over the past few decades the scientific world has cycled through several different recommendations for Omega-3s. During the 1980s, studies found that eating fatty fish seemed to cause a 29% reduction in cardiovascular death (1). Subsequent studies refuted this…
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A quick search of the internet will reveal an astonishing number of diseases and conditions for which coconut oil is claimed to be helpful. Some of the touted benefits include improving weight loss, possibly through increased fat burning, reducing hunger and reducing belly fat; treating bowel diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome and Crohn’s disease;…
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Erectile dysfunction (ED) is the” inability to get and keep an erection firm enough for sex” (1). Although the origins of ED in older men were once thought to be mostly psychogenic or nerve-generated, the evidence now clearly shows that the predominant causative factor of ED originates in the blood vessels (2,3,4,5). ED is not…
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