New way to protect your heart....

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New way to protect your heart....

High blood pressure, damage to your heart from heart attacks you survived, and lack of the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 caused by aging or taking statin drugs, each tend to cause congestive heart failure.

Congestive heart failure is truly dreadful stuff because as your heart gets weaker, you gradually become unable to move about and begin to drown in the fluid in your lungs.  It’s progressive and currently fatal.  And it’s hideously expensive to treat!

Preventing heart failure is worth some strong extra effort!

(I’ve seen this first hand.  My Dad basically died of it.)

1.  You can of course use lifestyle upgrades to a health supporting diet and add safe exercise every week to lower your blood pressure and protect you from its bad effects. 

A recent study found that for lower levels of high blood pressure this was more protective than taking drugs and that adding the drugs added no further protection.  (See the DASH II diet and the Mediterranean diet for what TO eat.)

2.  You can prevent heart attacks by adding low levels of niacin and taking sterol supplements besides those life style upgrades instead of taking statin drugs. 

The diet upgrades include completely stopping any hydrogenated oils and cutting back dramatically on foods made with sugar, refined grains or oils high in omega 6 and completely stopping foods made with high fructose corn syrup and stopping all soft drinks.  Research shows stopping these heart attack starters is one of the most heart protective things you can do. 

Completely avoiding tobacco smoke also belongs on this list.  Tobacco smoke causes blood vessel damage and heart disease in ALL smokers – no exceptions. And, tobacco smoke also triggers heart attacks in people who would have escaped them otherwise!

3.  You can also take the ubiquinol form of CoQ10 as a supplement to help make sure your heart has enough.

4.  This new study shows that there is yet another way to prevent heart failure!

You can make your heart dramatically less easy to harm and help it recover more easily.

In  The Better Brain Book: The Best Tool for Improving Memory and Sharpness and Preventing Aging of the Brain by David Perlmutter and Carol Colman (Aug 2, 2005),

he describes how the extremely powerful antioxidant glutathione is a key to keeping good health and protecting your brain.

He relates how he has saved very sick patients who had very low levels of glutathione by administering glutathione directly.

And he cites the studies showing that taking NAC, n-acetyl-cysteine, supplements causes strong glutathione release in the body such that people taking NAC give their brains very strong protection and slash the risk of mental decline.

This new study shows that eating grapes boosts glutathione in your heart.  And, having high levels of this very powerful antioxidant, they found, prevents heart failure.

Grape seed extract has been separately shown to help reduce endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease and somewhat decrease the related high blood pressure.

But if boosting glutathione is the way these effects are produced, that's extremely useful news!

That's because the supplement NAC boosts glutathione quite strongly.

In addition, if someone has recently had a heart attack, their blood levels of glutathione can be measured.  And if their their blood levels of glutathione are low, it can be administered directly as a treatment.  This research suggests that doing so will reduce the lasting damage from the heart attack!

This may also be a reason that eating organic wild blueberries and taking bilberry extract are health and heart protective.

And, it may be another reason red wine in moderation is heart protective.

Using all these methods, you can make getting heart failure very unlikely in your case!

Adding this new method that helps prevent your heart from being damaged can be a huge help!