STROKES happen to more than 100,000 people every year in the UK, and up to 30 per cent of sufferers die within a month. However, adding almonds to your diet could prevent one, as well as reducing your risk of heart attack and coronary heart disease, by lowering your cholesterol. According to the British Heart...
Cholesterol Build Up Cholesterol is a frequently used health term but do you know what it actually means or how it can affect you? Check out my series of quiz questions below – the answers may surprise you! 1) Where does cholesterol build up inside the body? a. The heart b. The intestines c. The...
There’s no doubt that you’ve heard of good and bad cholesterol. It’s been the leader of the “low-fat” campaign since its inception. Now with the rise in the high-fat diet, there’s question about fat’s true impact on cholesterol. And there’s news that not all LDL cholesterol is bad. What Does Cholesterol Do? It serves many...
Factors that can cause high cholesterol There are many factors that can cause a person to have high cholesterol levels. Here are some of them: Family history Irrespective of whether you follow a healthy lifestyle or not, familial hypercholesterolaemia can run in a family and is an inherited condition. Diet Diet plays a major role...
Many of my patients are on CoQ10 for energy and to help with avoiding statin myopathy or liver issues if they’re on statin medications for high cholesterol. What’s interesting about CoQ10 is that it’s so multifunctional that we are only starting to understand what it truly can do in multiple health areas. For example, we...
June is National Safety Month and a great time to rethink your drink. Energy drinks are the most popular dietary supplement next to multivitamins and could have some serious health effects if not consumed responsibly. There are more than 500 energy drink products on the market and they are being marketed to our youth. Emergency...
HIGH cholesterol can raise your risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke, and can be caused by eating too much saturated fat. It’s found in many foods deriving from animals, such as fatty meats, butter and full-fat dairy – including cheese. However, it can also be present in popular health foods such as coconut...
CoQ10 supplement may boost ‘semen parameters’: Study A daily 200 mg dose of CoQ10 was associated with reductions in levels of oxidative stress, wrote researchers from Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Iran in the peer-reviewed journal Andrologia. “The semen of most [infertile] men is accompanied with increased oxidative stress, which impairs semen parameters and...
Nine foods that lower bad cholesterol As many as 75% of older British adults have high cholesterol levels. Lowering the level of LDL (bad) cholesterol in your blood is important as too much can cause fatty deposits to form in the arteries, increasing your risk of heart attack and stroke. If you have high cholesterol...
Statins beneficial for the heart, beyond just lowering cholesterol In recent years, statins have come under fire with indications side-effects from these drugs could potentially outweigh any benefits in low-risk patients. While several follow up studies showed the negative side-effects of statins to be relatively minimal compared to their benefits, new research has revealed that...