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To Prevent Heart Disease, Rely on Natural Medicine

It was another bad week for standard medicine. Two main treatments for heart disease protection — cholesterol-lowering statins and blood-thinning aspirin — were found to cause more harm than good — except in those who already have angina or a personal (not family) history of strokes or heart attacks.

Safer alternatives that show dramatic benefits in preventing heart disease? Optimizing thyroid function — which is associated with a 69% lower risk of death from heart attack. And in men, optimizing testosterone when they enter andropause is important. In the Research Briefs section of my January 25, 2012 newsletter, I also go through a number of studies that show the benefits of nuts, red wine and exercise as natural ways to prevent heart disease.

These dramatic improvements in heart health by optimizing hormones are just two of the reasons why I recommend that both men and women get a major "Holistic Tune Up" when they turn 45. If you're over 45 years old and haven't had your tune up, you're overdo — and you deserve it, because you deserve to be optimally healthy, whether you're young, middle-aged or in your golden years.

For gender-specific info on getting your "Holistic Tune Up," see:

What about statins and aspirin for those who already have known heart disease? In that relatively small subset, these statin medications can be very helpful. And an aspirin should be chewed up at the first sign of a suspected heart attack.

But for both prevention and treatment of heart disease, natural treatments are at the top of my list — and simple, natural treatments can dramatically improve heart efficiency and function, and routinely gives people with heart disease their lives back.

If you have heart disease (and that includes many people with CFS or fibromyalgia), you need to read "Treating Heart Problems Naturally" to learn about my heart-healing natural regimen. If you know anyone with heart disease, email it to them.

In this article, you'll read about the six key treatments for heart problems I use in my practice. These nutrients energize and protect the heart:

  1. Ribose (Corvalen brand): 1 scoop (5 grams), 3 times a day.
  2. Coenzyme Q10 (use Smart Q10 from Enzymatic Therapy or Vitaline brand chewable WAFERS): 200 to 400 mg/day.
  3. Magnesium: 200 mg/day
  4. B Complex: 50+ mg/day
  5. Acetyl-L-carnitine: 500 mg, 2 times a day, for six weeks, then 500 mg/day.
  6. Magnesium orotate: 6,000 mg/day for one month, followed by 3,000 mg/day for 11 months. (If the label dosing is based on the magnesium content, like the KAL brand, this translates to two 100 mg tabs twice a day for 1 month, then once a day.)

Whether you have heart disease, or CFS/FMS, these simple treatments can dramatically increase energy, and give you your life back!

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Some information on this site is from the book From Fatigued to Fantastic! Third Edition by Jacob Teitelbaum MD, copyright 2007 by Jacob Teitelbaum MD. Used by permission of Avery Publishing, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.