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Eric Bakker Naturopath » Articles » Heart And Circulation Health

Your heart is constantly working for you, even if you don't realise it. Because it pumps blood and oxygen to all of your organs, the heart is the most vital muscle in your body. In this category we will be looking at common heart and circulatory health conditions. I'll explain about cholesterol, blood tests, as well as the right and wrong foods to eat when it comes to the heart. You'll learn about stress and the heart too, important to know.

Blood Tests For Heart Disease

There are many different kinds of blood tests you can do to assess the state of your heart and circulatory system. Has your doctor informed you of the availability of specialised tests as well? Likely not, unless he or she...

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High Blood Pressure – Statistics, Drug Treatments and Causes

High blood pressure is one of the most serious of health problems; frequent symptoms such as mild headaches, dizziness, a sensation of dullness and difficulty thinking often go ignored. Some sufferers never even experience warning symptoms. And as a result,...

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Natural Treatment For High Blood Pressure

High blood pressure is a potentially fatal disorder that damages the heart. It affects one out of every three Americans and one billion individuals worldwide. High blood pressure, if uncontrolled, increases your risk of heart disease and stroke. However, there...

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Cholesterol Lowering

While cholesterol is a molecule, what it's bound to while circulating through your blood is more crucial to know than how much of it there is in total. The amount of each type of blood fat in your blood is...

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Lowering Cholesterol – Statin Drugs and Side Effects

  An interview with Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, expert in cholesterol metabolism.  Uffe believes the cholesterol-lowering hypothesis to be useless in preventing heart disease. “This kind of treatment is meaningless, costly, and has transformed millions of healthy people into patients”.  ...

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Homocysteine

Have You Ever Had Your Homocysteine Levels Checked ? Homocysteine is a normal and unavoidable by-product of the breakdown of the essential amino acid methionine within the body. It is naturally occurring, and represents an intermediate step in the chemical...

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