Give Your Heart What It Needs
By Al Sears, MD
To produce its extraordinary energy output, your heart needs a few key nutrients - and most people aren't getting them. I believe this is the main reason heart disease continues to be the number one killer in America.
Many people have never even heard of these nutrients. What's worse, most doctors will prescribe drugs before even considering them. Today, I will tell you about one of the most important superstars for natural heart health:L-arginine.
A new study, released recently in the International Journal of Sports Medicine, reaffirms something I've known for some time: L-arginine improves the physical fitness of heart-failure patients by boosting their exercise endurance. Athletes and bodybuilders have long known about the ability of this amino acid to build muscle and increase lean muscle mass.
L-arginine is a precursor of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide plays an important role in the health of the endothelial cells that line your heart and blood vessels, because it helps those cells dilate. Without nitric oxide, your blood vessels narrow. And in the presence of arterial plaque, the vessels become rigid and blood flow is restricted.
Conventional doctors often prescribe aspirin or dangerous statin drugs to counteract this effect. But L-arginine increases the elasticity of your blood vessels, which gives you a much safer alternative. With my patients, I find that 500 mg once a day does the trick.
(Resource: Reuters)
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Malversation
"Malversation" (mal-vur-SAY-shun) - from the French for "to misbehave" - is misconduct in public office.
Example (as used by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in Time magazine): "The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government."
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1805, 08-11-06], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
To produce its extraordinary energy output, your heart needs a few key nutrients - and most people aren't getting them. I believe this is the main reason heart disease continues to be the number one killer in America.
Many people have never even heard of these nutrients. What's worse, most doctors will prescribe drugs before even considering them. Today, I will tell you about one of the most important superstars for natural heart health:L-arginine.
A new study, released recently in the International Journal of Sports Medicine, reaffirms something I've known for some time: L-arginine improves the physical fitness of heart-failure patients by boosting their exercise endurance. Athletes and bodybuilders have long known about the ability of this amino acid to build muscle and increase lean muscle mass.
L-arginine is a precursor of nitric oxide. Nitric oxide plays an important role in the health of the endothelial cells that line your heart and blood vessels, because it helps those cells dilate. Without nitric oxide, your blood vessels narrow. And in the presence of arterial plaque, the vessels become rigid and blood flow is restricted.
Conventional doctors often prescribe aspirin or dangerous statin drugs to counteract this effect. But L-arginine increases the elasticity of your blood vessels, which gives you a much safer alternative. With my patients, I find that 500 mg once a day does the trick.
(Resource: Reuters)
______________________________
Word to the Wise: Malversation
"Malversation" (mal-vur-SAY-shun) - from the French for "to misbehave" - is misconduct in public office.
Example (as used by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in Time magazine): "The Inspector General Act was designed to protect patriotic whistle-blowers who seek to reveal malversation in government."
Michael Masterson
__________________________________________________
These articles appear courtesy of Early to Rise [Issue #1805, 08-11-06], the Internet's most popular health, wealth, and success e-zine. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com/.
posted by Oak Stone at 6:45 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home