Category: Heart Health
Is the Risk of Statin Medications Greater than the Reward?
When I start talking with patients about optimizing their heart health, the conversation will often turn to statin medications, prescribed to fight ar [...]
Women! Let’s Discuss Your Heart Health
The CDC stated recently that women are at an all-time high for heart disease, cardiovascular disease or CVD, and that men were actually on par or lowe [...]
Mega Boost Your Health with IV Vitamin Therapy
Intravenous (IV) therapy, also known as “Myer’s Cocktails,” has been used for decades, but for many of us, we need to go back to the basics and unders [...]
Cholesterol, Just the Fats!
By design, everything our body does has a purpose. So, why would it produce so much cholesterol if it were bad?
What is Cholesterol?
While many [...]
Lowering Your Cholesterol May Not Prevent Heart Disease: Part 2
Dietary factors and therapeutic lifestyle changes have no side effects. They should be considered the first line of defense in preventive cardiology. [...]
Lowering Your Cholesterol May Not Prevent Heart Disease
In the “old” days LDL was considered “bad” cholesterol . . . . HDL, on the other hand, was traditionally believed to be “good” cholesterol . . . The p [...]
Women’s Health: A Matter of the Heart
There is an old saying: “We don’t know what we don’t know.” This phrase may be far more true than people know. Medicine today has descended into a wo [...]
New Risk Detection Strategies for Heart Disease
As a seasoned natural medicine practitioner, I have observed over the years the baby boomer population and how they age. There is an angst that comes [...]
Curcumin From Turmeric: Great Potential for Multiple Conditions Part 2
Curcumin has a surprisingly wide range of beneficial properties, including anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, chemopreventive and chemotherapeutic activi [...]
You Are What You Eat: The Truth Behind Metabolic Syndrome
There is nothing short of an epidemic silently sweeping the United States. According to the American Medical Association, 34% (more than one [...]
Curcumin From Turmeric: Great Potential for Multiple Conditions, Part 1
Curcumin has been shown to exhibit antioxidant, anti-inflammatory,
antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities and thus
has a pote [...]
The Healing Benefits of Olive Oil
There are many different kinds of fats: saturated, polyunsaturated, and monounsaturated; and our body needs a mixture of healthy fatty acids in the d [...]
Heart Health: For Women Only
Vicki Kobliner MS RD CD-N
It is not breast cancer but heart disease that claims the lives of the greatest number of women every year. Whi [...]
Curb Blood Vessel Inflammation to Decrease Cardiovascular Risk
Kara Burkhart, ND
Cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer in the United States. Classic risk factors for cardiovascular di [...]
Cold and numb Numb hands Hands and Feet; Raynaud’s Phenomenon… How to Treat
Ashley Burkman, ND
Raynaud’s (pronounced rey-nohz), named after the French doctor who first described this certain set of symptoms, is ch [...]
Proven Ways to Protect Your Heart
Paul D. Tortland, D.O.
As the name implies, Preventive Medicine strives to be proactive, rather than reactive, with regard to health. Re [...]
Debunking The Cholesterol – Heart Disease Myth
By Paul D. Tortland, D.O.
The Cholesterol “Problem”
Most everything we’ve been taught about cholesterol and heart disease is wrong.
The secon [...]
The United States of America – An Overmedicated Society
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - AN OVERMEDICATED SOCIETY
by Dr. Henry Sobo
Here are two important facts that you should know:
#1. Medication sid [...]
Statin Drugs
Instead of giving my personal views on statins, let’s quickly review some of the studies done on these drugs and allow you to form your own educated o [...]
Cholesterol – Why We Can’t Live Without It
Written by Deanna M. Cherrone M.D., owner of Natural Health & Healing a Functional Medicine practice in Avon, CT.
Cholesterol is a fatty subs [...]
Tran Fats: not good, but bad and very ugly – By Kelli Swick B.S.
Heart disease, the number one cause of death in the United States for men and women has been attributed partially to the types of fats Americans consu [...]
Heart Health – By Dr. Renee Mammone, N.D
The heart works hard beating about 100,000 times a day and keeps blood pumping throughout your body. Some easy ways to evaluate the health of your hea [...]
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