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High Blood Pressure and Endothelium Part 2!

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High Blood Pressure

Learning how to properly repair and nourish your endothelium is foundational to helping you gain better control over your high blood pressure issues. The following statistics will help you understand why this is so critically important: 

77% of Americans treated for a first stroke had high blood pressure!
69% of Americans who experienced a [...]

High Blood Pressure and Endothelium Part 1

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High Blood Pressure

To make significant improvements in your high blood pressure you need to repair the organ that directly controls your blood pressure. Most people think that organ is your heart. It’s not. Instead, it’s an organ that most people have never heard of and most physicians never treat. Yet, the 1998 Nobel Prize in [...]

Alzheimer’s and Cardiovascular Disease Part 2!

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As we’ve seen from the previous post, there is a natural connection between Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease. In your skull is a 3 pound wonder that has 100 billion neurons sending each other electrical and chemical signals in an orchestrated pattern that creates memories and allows for learning. 

Each nerve cell communicates with many other neurons [...]

Alzheimer’s and Cardiovascular Disease Part 1!

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Alzheimer's and Cardiovascular Disease

The connection between Alzheimer’s and cardiovascular disease is real. Learning about this connection also becomes the key to preventing both of these diseases.

The educational videos on this page (and in my next post) will help you understand this connection and provide you with a game plan for prevention!  

It’s normal to experience [...]

High Altitude Training!

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High Altitude Training for Mountain Biking

My friend Bert Middleton asked me to produce a series of videos on high altitude training specific to cardiovascular health and function. Why? Because he’s always looking for ways to improve his legs and lungs to get the most out of his mountain biking and powder skiing.

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Complications of Diabetes – Part 2!

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As we learned in the previous article Complications of Diabetes – Part 1 there is a one-celled thick organ called the Endothelium that is constantly being damaged by high blood sugar levels. This damage to the endothelial cells reduces their ability to proper produce Nitric Oxide the master signaling molecule of your entire cardiovascular system. [...]

Complications of Diabetes – Part 1

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Complications of Diabetes

Diabetes has grown to epidemic proportions. With this increase has come an increase in the complications of diabetes. Most of these complications center on poor cardiovascular health.

According to the June 26th issue of The Lancet, diabetes appears to double the risk of dying from a heart attack, stroke, or other heart conditions.

10 Major Risk Factors for Heart Disease!

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For the United States it is estimated that heart disease causes approximately 1.2 million heart attacks per year. More than 40 percent of those initial heart attacks will result in death. According to the World Health Organization, cardiovascular disease results in 17.5 million deaths worldwide. Heart disease is the single greatest cause of death in [...]

Vitamin D and Heart Disease!

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Vitamin D has long been associated with bone health. However, over the last seven years new research, especially research by Dr. Michael F. Holick, has shown that this vitamin is essential in the prevention of heart disease and a host of other illnesses. For example, research now shows that vitamin D has an active role [...]

Atherosclerosis and Osteoporosis Link!

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Atherosclerosis involves the calcification of your vascular tissue. Osteoporosis involves the decalcification of bone tissue. Could there be a link between the two?

Here is a medical fact that few physicians know and even fewer in the general population have ever heard about. As you age your endothelial cells, which line all of your cardiovascular system, [...]