Tyrosine may help prevent or reverse heart failure....Today's post:  Tuesday, 7-3-2018

Heart failure can kill you.  The current medical treatments for it make it worse and are expensive.

Many of the things that cause heart disease also tend to cause heart failure directly. 

And many of the people who don’t actively stop the actions that cause heart disease and add those that prevent it, have small heart attacks they survive.  Such heart attacks cause heart failure from the damage they do to your heart.

Statin drugs and beta blockers cause heart failure.  (Mercifully there are better and safer ways to prevent heart disease than taking statins; and other ways that cause physical calming without this dreadful side effect from beta blockers.)

Given how pervasive and widespread these causes of heart failure are, it would be great if there were a way to prevent heart failure that you could do easily.

What if you found one that also looked likely to help block or slow Alzheimer’s disease?

Research shows there may be one!

A week ago yesterday on Monday 6-25 Medical News Today had the research suggesting this is the case:

Targeting 'microtubules' could prevent heart failure

A study from the Perelman School of Medicine investigates an interesting new target for the prevention of congestive heart failure: microtubules.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/322192.php

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Taking tyrosine may help keep microtubules in your heart flexible and active instead of stiff.

When they are stiff, just after the heart beats the overall chamber fails to relax to allow enough inflow and outflow.

I once showed some evidence of that.

Now that I've been taking vitamin K2 longer and added NattoMax and have stopped excessive stimulants and I am currently less stressed, this may have gotten better.

My blood pressure is much closer to optimum and I have dramatically fewer premature beats.  Both of these things worsen and may cause heart failure but are now far less. 

What this article adds is that these microtubules exist and have these effects and that taking tyrosine may help your heart walls stay flexible or become more flexible!

This is great news because taking tyrosine first thing each morning has such high benefits otherwise.  So I’ve taken it for years.

And, because those are established, if you take tyrosine because it might help prevent heart failure, you know it will do those things for sure.

The amino acid tyrosine is a precursor for both dopamine and thyroid hormone.

Many years ago one of the US Armed Forces, the Air Force I think, found that having their front line combat people take 1,000 mg of tyrosine as two 500 mg capsules each morning enabled them to be more proactive and resilient and perform better.

I’ve taken it ever since I read that.

Clearly this provides a mild but real antidepressant effect.  And keeping a high enough thyroid level provides both mental and physical energy plus it helps prevent excess fat gain.

It’s always nice to find that something you already do has even more benefits!

Lastly, the article seems to suggest that taking tyrosine also prevents the clumping and build up of beta amyloid that causes the nerve damage of Alzheimer’s disease!