Cholesterol
Managing your cholesterol levels is critical to maintaining good cardiovascular health. There are good and bad types of cholesterol. Lifestyle and diet changes can help balance your good and bad cholesterol levels.
How to jump start your next doctor visit to improve heart health
Do you prepare for visits to your heart doctor? …or do you just show up and wing it? I hope you answered “yes” to the first question because having a dialogue with your doctor shows that you are interested in participating in your health care and you realize that your time together can be an educational […]
7 powerful reasons to eat more of nature’s tiny trees of health
When Italian horticulturalists developed broccoli from cabbage, they probably didn’t realize what a powerful treat they were creating. We like to think of broccoli as a multi-purpose vegetable, because it improves your health in so many areas. From fighting cancer and improving eyesight, to helping your heart and detoxing your body, broccoli does it all. […]
Timing is key when taking medications
When you are prescribed a medication, the instructions on the bottle usually provide very generic instructions. “Take one pill once a day” is a typical directive. Rarely does the bottle (or the more detailed instructional pamphlet, for that matter) tell you exactly when or what time to take the drug. And it turns out, this […]
Low LDL may increase stroke risk
A reader named Steve recently wrote in to tell us how much he loved CoQMax. Taking it, along with other health supplements every day, he said, had really improved his cholesterol. He shared that after six months, his levels—particularly LDL—were down significantly. He went on to say that his excitement turned to concern when he […]
Drink to your gut health!
Wine lovers: Here’s another reason to rejoice! It turns out that having a little merlot or pinot noir once in a while may do your tummy good. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Let me explain… It’s widely known that red wine has properties that protect your heart. This is courtesy of compounds called […]
Fight Periodontal Disease with CoQ10
Coenzyme Q10 (or CoQ10 for short) is a vitamin-like antioxidant naturally produced by your body. It mainly resides in mitochondria—organelles in each and every cell responsible for breaking down nutrients and turning them into energy. This energy is especially important for the heart: the hardest-working muscle in the body. Because the heart beats 24/7 without […]
Plant Sterols Benefits for Cholesterol and Prostate Health
There is a white, waxy, naturally occurring substance found in many whole foods, including vegetables, nuts, seeds, and legumes that shows tremendous promise both for its ability to lower cholesterol (in studies it was just as effective as statins) AND reverse benign prostatic hyperplasia. It’s inexpensive, easy to find and works wonders without a single side effect. Get the whole story here.
Understanding Your Blood Tests: Cholesterol
If we’re serious about taking charge of our own health, we need to know the tools that help us understand it. Chief among them are blood tests. Each one gives us an invaluable look into the amazing inner workings of our bodies. There are far too many to cover in this space, so today, we’ll […]
Are these cholesterol drugs worth the cost?
Two new cholesterol drugs, FDA-approved in 2015, promised big—to just maybe put an end to LDL “bad” cholesterol-related heart disease and heart attack fatalities. As always, I compared Big Pharma’s “solutions” to nature’s home-grown gifts. Two years of testing and study recently gave us scorecards. Mission accomplished? Not at all…but sort of. It gets complicated […]
Bring your cholesterol levels under control with this natural trio
Once, there was just cholesterol. It was believed to make you fat and cause heart attacks, so everyone tried to get rid of it. Now, we know there’s both good and bad cholesterol, so everyone wants less bad, and more good. So how does one accomplish this? Well, there are two kinds of solutions: the […]
