The Powerful Anti-inflammatory Astaxanthin’s Benefits List Keeps Getting Longer 

Astaxanthin comes from a microalgae which produces it to protect itself from ultraviolet light. While it’s important as an anti-inflammatory to protect again joint problems such as rheumatoid arthritis and tennis elbow, it’s benefits have expanded dramatically. Astaxanthin has now been found to help prevent and treat cancer, metabolic syndrome, diabetes, diabetic nephropathy, gastrointestinal diseases and liver disease. It will even pass through the blood-brain and the blood-retinal barrier (which relates to the eyes).

Even this list of the benefits from taking astaxanthin doesn’t include all the things it’s capable of. I use it to also prevent sun burn while still allowing Vitamin D to be produced through my skin. If you are an athlete, you can take additional astaxanthin to improve your athletic performance, too! So…you can start by taking 4 mg per day and build up to 8 mg per day.

(Reported Mercola.com, February 20, 2017)

The Problem With Doctor Rating Sites

Because of the internet, we can now rate our doctors and read the online reviews before selecting a doctor, a surgeon or a specialist. Great idea, right? Well, maybe not as great as it sounds. A study done by New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery compared the ratings of 275 randomly selected sports-medicine doctors on three popular review sites. The researchers found little consistency. On one site a doctor could have five stars and on another have only two stars. So, which site has the true rating. And that’s the problem, you don’t know.

In addition, there are companies that now specialize in boosting a doctor’s online ratings. One company even claimed that it increased the comments about doctors by 900% and increased their star ratings by 24% in just six months. So, does this mean the doc really got so much better in those six months or that they were effective in gaming the system? Maybe not.

So, what should you do? When you look at ratings, review several rating systems, such as, Health grades, RateMDs, Amini, Yelp and Angie’s List to see if there is a consistency in the ratings as well as the overall satisfaction with the doc you are researching. You can also email your friends to find out if they have had an experience with the doctor you’re considering using.

(Reported Prevention.com, July 2018)

High Blood Pressure Medication Having Adverse Reactions

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center as reported in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society found that two-thirds of adults over 65 have high blood pressure (hypertension) and the initial medication recommended for them is thiazide diuretics. This med is designed to eliminate sodium and water from the system to decrease blood pressure.

The researchers examined 1,060 adult veterans with hypertension who recently began taking thiazide diuretic and compared them to a control group. During a 9-month period, 14% of those taking thiazide developed a metabolic adverse event verses 6% of the controls. A metabolic event includes low sodium or potassium levels in the blood and a 25% decrease in kidney function. The researchers also found that only 42% of those on the drug were being monitored for these adverse events. So…once again medications may not be the best route to go to handle health problems. Read the next blurb for an option.

Herbal Option to Regulate Blood Flow, Blood Pressure and Heart Rate

So what can you do lower blood pressure? You could explore taking an herb called Hawthorn. Its berries are used to strengthen and tone the heart, as well as, regulate blood flow, blood pressure and heart rate. Hawthorn berries can do even more things in the body, such as, increasing oxygen uptake, reducing an enlarged heart, It will even reduce cholesterol and blood lipids. Be sure to consult with your doc before you start taking Hawthorne for hypertension.

(Reported New Earth Natural Wellness, February 21, 2014)

Another Heart Health Option – A Dog

Petting a dog for a short period of time can have a measurable positive effect on heart patients’ cardiac function and stress levels. How about as short a time as 12 minutes. That’s right 12 minutes. This was from a study reported at a conference of the American Heart Association.

The researchers had 76 patients with heart failure assigned to a 12-minute visit from a dog, a human or both. The control had no visit. The dogs were specially trained and placed on the patient’s bed, so they could pet the dog. The researchers found a 5% drop in systolic pulmonary artery pressure during the dog only visit and a 5% drop after the visit. In addition, a stress hormone dropped 17%. Finally, the dog visitor had 24% less anxiety. So…bring on the dogs for patients with heart failure!

(Reported Katie Cole, American Heart Association) 

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