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CoQ10 Lowers Blood Pressure
High blood pressure is a major risk factor for both heart attacks and strokes, and so managing it is of critical importance. People with high blood pressure tend to have lower levels of CoQ10. For an article published in the Journal of Hy...
Stress Hampers Women’s Recovery
We already know that younger women have a more difficult time recovering after a heart attack. A new study shows that stress may be a key reason. Although 35,000 women under age 65 experience a heart attack each year in the United States, th...
Dr. Chauncey Crandall Scam Explanation for Various Foods
Food SCAMS: Dr. Chauncey Crandall Warns of Fat-Free Scam When you are confronted with two packages of identical foods in the supermarket and one says “fat-free” and the other does not, which do you choose? Like most people, you probabl...
What Is Heart Disease What Are Some Risk Factors
To best explain heart disease, allow me to tell you a bit about how your heart works. As you probably know, your heart is a pump. Its one and only job is to pump blood to the rest of your body. But what you may not know is that to do this, ...
Testing for Hardened Heart Arteries
The so-called “gold standard” of testing for atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) in the heart is called a coronary catheterization or coronary angiogram, which is an invasive test that involves injecting dye into the coronary arteri...
6 Habits That Are Damaging Your Heart
You know that eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly are important habits for a healthy heart. But did you know that you could still be undermining all your efforts with some surprisingly common bad habits? “A number of activities ...
What Do Probiotics Do?
Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotics have been a tremendous boon to human society. These drugs wipe out bacterial infection and they’ve saved millions of people. But because antibiotics eliminate all bacteria, they destroy both t...
Arthritis Can Bring On Chest Pain
Although arthritis is usually spoken of as a single ailment, the term actually refers to about 100 different forms of the condition. Of those, two specific types can cause cardiac-like pain: osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. Osteoarth...