Using Nutrition for Heart Health for Prevention or Recovery after a Heart Attack or Stroke
Everyone knows that heart health has to do with diet such as eating less salt and different fats.
But much of the typical heart health advice does not take into account the discoveries of the last 20 years for heart disease prevention:
New research about nutrition and nutritional supplements is showing us how to use food as our medicine for heart disease prevention, AND for stroke recovery AND for plaque reversal after a heart attack.
People are using nutrition and supplements to reverse heart disease and they are using scans to check to see how well they are doing. For instance, Steve started his own blog after successfully
reducing artery buildup,
naturally.
Heart Health Discoveries You Need to Know
Does the advice that you have been given about heart disease prevention -- or reversal -- include the following health discoveries?
VITAMIN D and K:
Is any mention being made about the role of
vitamin D and K in heart disease?
Can vitamins and vitamin Supplements keep you from getting dementia?
ANTIOXIDANTS & HEART DISEASE:
The body has its own powerful
Antioxidant System
for preventing and reversing the conditions underlying heart disease.
Has anyone told you about using special proteins that will improve your ability to fight disease including heart disease?
Low-grade inflammation is now considered by medical researchers to be the basis of heart disease, and this can be lowered naturally with whole food supplements.
Is your doctor regularly checking blood levels of CRPs (C-reactive proteins) as an indicator of inflammation?
Whats Wrong Heart Meds for the Rest of Your Life?
Medicine was developed to give you a pill for a short time, so that you would get better and then stop the medication.
Take this pill for the rest of your life is a gold mine for drug companies, but not for your health. Instead, nutrition and supplements will get you healthy again for the longer term.
Here are some of the down sides of using statins like Lipitor, or coumadin, e.g Warfarin for the rest of your life: