Nutrients in the news this week...

Study links heartburn drugs, broken hip...
CHICAGO - Taking such popular heartburn drugs as Nexium, Prevacid or Prilosec for a year or more can raise the risk of a broken hip markedly in people over 50, a large study in Britain found.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_he_me/heartburn_drugs_3


Big bellies tied to greater heart disease risk ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The more your belly sticks out, the greater your risk of developing heart disease, a new study shows.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061227/hl_nm/heart_disease_obesity_dc


DNA Is Not Destiny...
The new science of epigenetics rewrites the rules of disease, heredity, and identity.
http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-06/cover/


Comment: Drugs that prevent heart burn do that by stopping Hydrochloric Acid levels, which brake down proteins and minerals. Instead of doing this, solve the problem by taking digestive enzymes that contain added HCL and don't eat fats with refined carbs. Belly fat is a sign of Hyperinsulinemia, which is the underlying cause of many diseases as well as obesity. Lastly, the DNA article tells us that what we do today, nutritionally effects offspring yet to be born.



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Five Keys to Longevity ...

An anti-aging program is true preventive medicine... Here are some key elements to consider.

General good health. This can usually be achieved with some combination of disciplined effort, a healthy diet, regular exercise, and good luck (including a favorable genetic makeup).

Start by understanding what the Ideal Diet for humans is.

Slow down Free Radical activity in the body. Suppressing free radicals can be achieved through good nutrition, including nutritional supplements. I recommend a high potency Multi-Vitamin-Mineral supplement to help control free radicals and keep insulin sensitivity up.

Caloric restriction. This can be achieved by eating less high glycemic carbs that raise insulin and cause an abnormally big appetite. Forever Changes Weight-Loss & Longevity Lifestyle Program.

Taking specific supplements that have been shown in studies to slow down the aging process.

These are:
Resveratrol. This ties everything together by conferring numerous health benefits. Red wine is well known for its cardioprotective and other health-promoting benefits. Researchers believe resveratrol, which is highly concentrated in the skin of grapes and abundant in red wine, is the compound responsible for these benefits. Resveratrol is produced by plants in response to injury or fungal infection. It also protects plants from UV radiation and other harmful substances. Resveratrol is believed to provide similar protective benefits for humans. Its antioxidant activity, or ability to neutralize free radicals (unstable molecules that attack healthy cells and damage membranes and DNA), may account for its cardioprotective effects. Resveratrol appears to promote healthy blood composition and circulation, and may also have anti-inflammatory properties. A recent landmark study from Harvard Medical School, published in the medical journal Nature, found that ultra-high doses of red wine extract with resveratrol allowed obese mice to eat a high fat diet and still live a long and healthy life. Researchers discovered that the liver and other systems in obese mice remained healthy and fat-related deaths dropped 31 percent for those taking a resveratrol supplement.
For more information on this study.

and alpha lipoic acid and acetyl-L-carnitine. Alpha lipoic acid (ALA), known as the "universal" antioxidant, is present in almost all tissues of the body. It plays an important role in generating energy from food and oxygen in mitochondria (the "power plants" of cells). ALA may provide protective benefits against oxidative processes believed to contribute to degenerative diseases and aging. ALA is both water- and fat-soluble, meaning it can easily cross cell membranes, and may provide both interior and exterior cellular free radical protection. Alpha lipoic acid is believed to regenerate itself and other essential antioxidants, such as vitamins C and E, and coenzyme Q10. ALA may also increase levels of the antioxidant glutathione, found in the brain. Insufficient levels of glutathione have been linked to the increased risk for certain neurological conditions. ALA may also promote liver health. Acetyl L-carnitine (ALC) is similar in form to the amino acid L-carnitine, and also has some similar functions, such as being involved in the metabolism of food into energy. Studies indicate ALC promotes a healthy nervous system and memory. One of the major causes of aging is the deterioration of the energy-producing components of the cell which results in reduced cellular metabolic activity, accumulation of cellular debris, and eventual death of the cell. One of the most effective nutrients to maintain youthful cellular energy metabolism is Acetyl L - Carnitine, which functions via several mechanisms to protect cells. ALC assists in the transport of fat through the cell membrane and into the mitochondria within the cell, where these fats are oxidized to produce the cellular energy ATP.Acetyl L-Carnitine is absorbed into the bloodstream more efficiently than L-carnitine. It passes more easily through cell membranes, and is utilized more efficiently in the mitochondria of the cell. Read anti-aging webpage.


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Nutrients in the news this week...

Dark chocolate beats fatigue, study...
12/20/2006 - Further evidence of the health benefits of chocolate has come to light in a new study – giving manufacturers yet another route into the functional food niche.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72894&m=1NIUD20&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Vitamin D may fight multiple sclerosis ...
CHICAGO - An abundance of vitamin D seems to help prevent multiple sclerosis, according to a study in more than 7 million people that offers some of the strongest evidence yet of the power of the "sunshine vitamin" against MS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061219/ap_on_he_me/vitamin_d_ms_1


Weight may be linked to type of bacteria ...
WASHINGTON - The size of your gut may be partly shaped by which microbes call it home, according to new research linking obesity to types of digestive bacteria.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061220/ap_on_he_me/diet_obesity_microbes_1


Comment: I do believe there is a connection with Vitamin D and MS. As for the bacteria in your gut effecting weight, this is the first study I have seen on it, but most people could use help with intestinal health because of the over use of anitbiotics. It's worth a shot.

NSI Probiotic 15-35 with NutraFlora FOS (15 strains - 35 billion CFUs per serving - #1 probiotic) -- 120 Vegetarian Capsules


NSI Vitamin D3 -- 1,000 IU - 200 Capsules



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Nutrients in the news this week...

Bad diets leading to earlier prevalence of metabolic syndrome...
12/6/2006 - Health conditions that were once almost exclusively associated with the elderly are now being increasingly diagnosed in children, according to a new report, which calls for immediate dietary intervention.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72591&m=1NIUD06&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Vitamin K may reverse artery hardening, suggests study...
11/12/2006 - A high-dose vitamin K supplement reduced calcium precipitates associated with hardening of the arteries by 37 per cent in rats, scientists from The Netherlands have reported.
http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?n=72666&m=1NIED11&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Resveratrol could counter metabolic diseases, animal study...
12/15/2006 - Resveratrol, the phenolic derivative found in red wine and certain plants, may play a role in protecting against diabetes and obesity, suggest the results of an animal study.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72818&m=1NIUD15&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Resveratrol

Vitamin K2


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Vitamin D news - BIG...

In addition to this study below, Dr. Consuelo Wilkins of the Washington University School of Medicine found that elderly patients with the lowest vitamin D levels were 11 (eleven!!!) times more likely to have symptoms of depression than were patients with the highest vitamin D levels. John Jacob Cannell, MD, The Vitamin D Council...


Vitamin D in the Spotlight
This critical nutrient builds bones, helps fight infection and may protect against some cancers. Do we get enough?
By Meir J. Stampfer, M.D., DR. P.H.
Newsweek

For many years, vitamin D was boring—even to doctors. Because it was considered good for bones and not much else, multitaskers like vitamin A, B vitamins and vitamin E hogged all the press. But recent studies have thrust this long-neglected nutrient into the spotlight. Scientists now think vitamin D may affect everything from diabetes to cancer. They're also finding that many people don't have enough of it.
When vitamin D was discovered a century ago, it solved a major public-health problem: rickets, a disease caused by vitamin D deficiency in which bone development is delayed and deformed. When a synthetic version of vitamin D was added to milk, rickets virtually disappeared, as did any concern about vitamin D deficiency. For most of the 20th century, scientists defined a person's daily requirement of vitamin D—called the recommended dietary allowance, or RDA—as the level needed to prevent rickets. Nearly everyone in the developed world was thought to be taking in a healthy amount.
But new research suggests that the RDA may not be sufficient to protect people against several diseases other than rickets. Studies link low blood levels of vitamin D to type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, tuberculosis, colon cancer and even the flu. High levels of the vitamin may help fight HIV infection. And the vitamin's role in bones extends way beyond preventing rickets. Levels higher than the RDA offer older adults protection against fractures, through strengthening muscles as well as bones.
Many people living in this country and northern Europe have levels of vitamin D that are low, based on the latest evidence. Why is that? Unlike most other vitamins, vitamin D is found in only a few foods. Instead, we get most of it from the action of sunlight on our skin. In retrospect, we recognize that rickets became a problem in the early 20th century when increasing urbanization and air pollution in cities caused less sunlight to strike the skin.
A century later, almost every aspect of modern life seems designed to lower our ability to produce vitamin D. Compared with our ancestors, we spend a lot more time indoors, wear more clothes and use sunscreen. If applied adequately to protect against sun-induced skin damage and to reduce the risk of skin cancer, sunscreen lowers the skin's ability to form vitamin D by more than 95 percent. More of us are older and fatter; age and obesity also reduce the amount of vitamin D we produce. An average 70-year-old can produce only about a quarter of the vitamin D of a 20-year-old. Obese people generally have substantially lower blood levels of vitamin D.
No matter what your age or size, the time of sun exposure, the season and geography all affect how much vitamin D you produce. The closer it is to noon, the more vitamin D your skin makes. The angle of the sun is critical, and since that changes with the seasons, vitamin D levels fluctuate drastically. For example, in Boston between November and March, the ultraviolet radiation from the sun is insufficient to produce vitamin D, even with abundant skin exposure on a sunny day. The farther you go away from the equator, the greater the effect. One study found that among white girls in Maine, 48 percent had low vitamin D blood levels at the end of the winter, while only 17 percent were deficient at the end of the summer. Clothing can play a big role as well. Vitamin D deficiency is rampant among women in Saudi Arabia, despite the sunshine, because the traditional clothing nearly completely covers their skin.
Skin pigmentation also affects the way we process vitamin D. Melanin, the pigment that provides a darker tint, acts as a sunscreen, so darker-skinned individuals require at least five times as much sun exposure to form a given amount of vitamin D, compared with a very light-skinned person. Indeed, the majority of African-Americans have low levels of vitamin D.
Finding ways to counteract these barriers to getting enough vitamin D is the next challenge. We have only three ways of boosting our blood levels of the nutrient: increasing sun exposure, increasing our intake of vitamin D-rich foods or taking vitamin D supplements. Because of the risk of skin cancer, getting a lot more sun exposure is not a healthy way to raise blood levels of vitamin D. The only foods with high levels of vitamin D are fatty fish and certain kinds of mushrooms. The other main dietary source is fortified foods: dairy foods (milk has 100 IU per cup), some brands of orange juice and fortified breakfast cereals.
That's why there's growing agreement among experts that a daily vitamin D supplement makes good sense. Among nutritionists working on vitamin D, there is general agreement that the current recommended intake of 400 IU per day (600 for those over the age of 70) is too low, and should be re-evaluated. Most believe that 1,000 IU per day would be a reasonable dose for a typical adult in the United States, and I agree. Certain people might benefit from taking even more, such as those who avoid the sun or live in northern regions. The elderly and African-Americans are especially vulnerable to vitamin D deficiency, and I think supplementation (preferably with the natural form, vitamin D3, cholecalciferol) should be routine for these groups. And even though we need vitamin D, too much can be toxic. The current official upper limit is 2,000 IU, although many experts think this is too low and should be raised, perhaps to 4,000 IU. For comparison, a light-skinned person in a bathing suit can produce more than 10,000 IU with a half hour in the sun. So stay tuned: there is much more to be learned about how this once "boring" vitamin can protect our health.
Stampfer is professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and professor and chair of epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.
For more on vitamin D from Harvard, go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.



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FYI for parents with young children

Received this today from Dr. Garry Gordon MD, by e-mail...

Thiomersal again is being injected into children under 3 years of age in California for largely worthless flu shots so we will have more autism just when it looked as though we had turned a corner. And by now you understand that many children have gene defects that do not permit them to handle any extra mercury particularly when it is injected and there is always a big risk of some thiomersal in the flu vaccines. When will they ever learn?? Read this and don't let them give flu vaccinations to the children of your patients; even the CDC admits the benefits for the children are not there!! Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H) President, Gordon Research Institute www.gordonresearch.com

#1: California officials announce plan to inject infants with mercury-laced vaccinesFriday, November 03, 2006 by: Jessica Fraser (NewsTarget) California health officials announced today that children younger than 3 will be temporarily allowed to receive flu shots containing a mercury-laced preservative called thimerosal, after physicians statewide said mercury-free vaccines were running short. Earlier this year, California passed a state law banning vaccines containing thimerosal from being injected in pregnant women and children under 3 years old, but reports of flu shot shortages have temporarily overruled the law. The exemption applies only to children under 3, and will last six weeks to give the pediatric vaccine maker -- Pennsylvania-based Sanofi Pasteur -- enough time to ship an additional half million doses. "We feel it is important to offer this short-term alternative to parents and health care providers in order to ensure young children are protected from the potentially severe effects of the flu," said Kim Belshe, secretary of the California Health and Human Services Agency, in a statement.
Dr. Randy Bergen, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Kaiser Permanente, said young children and the elderly are most vulnerable to seriously complications from influenza, and children under 3 who are getting their first flu shots will actually need two doses to receive full benefits. The mercury preservative thimerosal -- which is roughly 50 percent mercury by weight -- has been used in U.S. vaccines since the 1930s to help prevent fungal and bacterial contamination. However, in the 1990s parents and physicians brought awareness to thimerosal's possible link to rising child autism rates. Last year, anti-thimerosal lobbying groups successfully banned vaccines containing the preservative from being given to young children and pregnant women. However, the law can be waived if mercury-free vaccines are in short supply. Four California medical groups -- the California branch of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the California Medical Association, the California Academy of Family Physicians and Kaiser Permanente -- recently asked the state to temporarily waive the law after some clinics reported running short of the mercury-free kids' vaccine.

#2 National Autism AssociationA Poisonous Move for Kids by CDC, by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/a-poisonous-move-for-kids_b_16899.html
On February 22, CDC announced that it is dramatically expanding America's flu vaccination program to include all children between six months and 5 years and their siblings and caretakers. But, guess what CDC forgot to mention? There is not nearly enough thimerosal-free flu vaccine to go around. Vaccine makers produced fewer than 8 million thimerosal-free flu doses this season, which doesn't bode well for the more than 17 million children designated to receive flu shots under CDC's new protocol. Thimerosal is the mercury-based preservative that has been linked to the epidemic of neurological disorders including speech delays, language delays, hyperactivity, attention-deficit disorder, and autism in American children born after 1989. CDC recommended the removal of thimerosal from children's vaccines by 2001, but most flu vaccinations still contain 25 micrograms of thimerosal in every 0.5ml dose. Under CDC's new recommendations, every American child under five will be injected once each year, with a double dose for first-timers. By his fifth birthday, a child whose parents cannot obtain the child-safe vaccine will have received up to 100 micrograms of thimerosal, which is half ethyl mercury. A recent scientific study indicates that many children will retain the tissue-destroying toxin in their brain and organs for years. CDC has moved aggressively to cut funding and derail follow-up studies that examine the impacts of retained mercury in children's brains.In its announcement, CDC admitted that the health risks from flu to children do not justify the dramatic expansion of the vaccination program. For the first time in history, CDC rationalized the new protocols by arguing that the inoculations will spare parents and the health care industry significant lost work time now spent taking care of sick children. Although framed as a recommendation, CDC's new protocols function as mandates, since they establish the standards of care for the medical profession. Doctors who fall short of that standard are liable if a patient were to die from flu.Since CDC is not requiring production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccines, its expanded recommendations are bound to provoke a scramble among parents, pediatricians and HMOs to get their hands on the limited stashes of thimerosal-free flu vaccines.CDC's new protocols contemplate inoculating 185 million Americans with influenza vaccines. The industry shipped only 81 million doses this year, so even before CDC announced its new requirements, the battle to secure flu vaccines was ferocious. When vaccine manufacturer Sanofi Pasteur opened its phone lines to accept pre-orders on January 31, it was flooded with calls from physicians, hospitals and HMOs desperate to reserve vaccines. During the first 30 minutes Sanofi got 40,000 phone calls and over 200,000 calls within eight hours, collapsing its communications system. By week's end it had received 400,000 calls -- more than the company customarily receives in a year.Mercury-free flu shots are in particularly short supply. Sanofi, the only commercial supplier of thimerosal-free pediatric influenza vaccines, produced only eight million children's doses this year. CDC's announcement increases the pool of targeted children by over 11 million kids, ages 2 to 5 years old. Only about one-third of America's children under age five will be lucky enough to get the child-safe vaccines. While CDC's Director of Immunizations Dr. Lance Rodewald assured me he expects no shortage of thimerosal-free vaccine, doctors and medical groups are telling a different story. Those who customarily give their patients only thimerosal-free flu shots are already finding that the industry cannot fill their orders for the 2006-2007 season. Pediatrician Lawrence Rosen, Director of Pediatrics at Pascack Valley Hospital in Westwood, New Jersey, told us that his eight-doctor family medical practice had been informed by Sanofi that the company was unable to fill his order for next season. "It was like trying to get tickets to a Rolling Stones concert," he said. Sanofi will give him only 300 of the 900 thimerosal-free doses he needs. "The only other shots I can get contain thimerosal, and I'm not going to do that." According to Rosen, the problem is widespread across the country, with very few practices able to fill their orders for flu shots. "The gist is there's not enough safe vaccine. The government wants us to give more shots, but there's no supply. They are leaving millions of kids between the ages of 3 and 5 with no option -- millions of kids. "Sanofi has said that the company was prepared to double production of thimerosal-free children's flu vaccine, but that there were no requests from CDC or the State Health Departments that it do so. Indeed CDC has ordered 3.5 million doses from Sanofi for its Vaccines for Children Program, which provides vaccines to economically disadvantaged children mainly in minority communities. Only a fraction of these will be thimerosal-free, according to Rodewald. He refused to disclose the precise number.Why will CDC inject millions of minority kids in America's poorest neighborhoods with poison proven to kill brain tissue and cause learning disorders when child-safe vaccines are available? CDC's spokesperson Glen Nowak explained to me the agency "doesn't have a preference for thimerosal-free vaccines" despite its repeated statements to the contrary since 1999. CDC also admitted it has no efforts underway to further educate the public about thimerosal, or to encourage manufacturers to move more quickly toward 100 percent mercury-free vaccines. CDC's recommendation to vaccinate millions of additional children without assuring any additional capacity of thimerosal-free vaccines is a bad one. It will almost certainly encounter stiff resistance as skeptical parents and pediatricians balk at injecting young children with a known brain poison by order of bureaucrats that they increasingly don't trust.


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Certain Fatty Acid May Cut Dementia Risk

Sunday, December 3, 2006


DHA seems to offer protective effect in the brain, researchers report...
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter(HealthDay News)

Adding further weight to the theory that fish may be brain food, new research found that people with diets rich in fish have a significantly lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease. The key appears to be docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid that appears to affect dementia risk and to be important for the proper functioning of the central nervous system. "If you have a high level of DHA, a fatty acid found in fish, it reduced your risk of dementia by about half," said study lead researcher Dr. Ernst J. Schaefer, senior scientist and director of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer U.S. Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston. It's known that omega-3 fatty acids protect the heart and the circulatory system. "Just as fish is good for your heart, it's probably good for your brain as well," Schaefer said. Fatty fish like mackerel, lake trout, herring, sardines, albacore tuna and salmon are high in DHA. The study findings are published in the November issue of the Archives of Neurology. In the study, Schaefer and his colleagues collected data on DHA levels and dementia in 899 men and women who were part of the Framingham Heart Study. Over nine years of follow-up, 99 people developed dementia, including 71 with Alzheimer's disease. The researchers found that people with the highest blood levels of DHA had a 47 percent lower risk of developing dementia and a 39 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer's, compared with those with lower DHA levels. Levels of DHA in the blood vary by how much the liver converts alpha-linolenic acid, an essential fatty acid, to DHA and also by the amount of DHA in the diet, the researchers noted. People with the highest blood levels of DHA said they ate an average of two to three servings of fish a week. People with lower DHA levels ate substantially less fish, the researchers reported. Schaefer thinks the same benefit can be realized by taking fish-oil supplements. "Everything that we know suggests that supplements would be as effective as eating fish," he said. "Since low fish intake appears to be a risk factor for developing dementia, either eat more fish or use one or two fish oil capsules a day." However, Schaefer added that a randomized clinical trial is still needed to see if DHA really protects the brain from dementia. Martha Clare Morris is an epidemiologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and author of an accompanying editorial in the journal. "This is the first study to link blood levels of DHA to protection against Alzheimer's disease," she said, adding that recent animal studies have shown that DHA reduces amyloid plaques -- a hallmark of Alzheimer's -- in the brain and also improves memory. "There is a lot of animal and biochemical evidence to support what this new study shows," Morris said. But, she said, she's not sure there is enough data to suggest the value of fish oil supplements. "It looks like the protective benefits from omega-3 fatty acids are at a very low level. There is very little evidence that you get better protection from higher intake," she said. "Whether fish oil supplements are protective is yet to be seen." Another expert thinks clinical trials are needed to see if DHA really protects against Alzheimer's. "This shows in a prospective study that DHA is the only plasma lipid to cut the risk for developing dementia a decade or more later," said Greg M. Cole, a neuroscientist at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System and associate director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. This apparent protection is associated with eating fish, Cole said. "Other studies have pointed to fish intake as protective but have been far less clear that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish were the factor associated with risk reduction," he said. "This matters because if it is the fat, you could take fish oil supplements and avoid mercury contamination issues."

BRAIN HEALTH


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Nutrients in the news this week...

Vitamin D deficiency common in IBD kids...
11/29/2006 - Children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of vitamin D deficiency and could benefit from supplements to avoid the health problems associated with not getting enough of the vitamin.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72394&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Low selenium, B6 + B12 linked to daily difficulties...
11/29/2006 - Researchers from Cornell University have linked low serum concentrations of selenium and vitamins B6 and B12 to age-related difficulties in conducting in daily activities, leading them to conclude that nutritional status is a key factor in helping people live an active life for longer.
http://www.nutraingredients-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=72404&m=1NIUN29&c=wcrclzgqdhtlgsk


Berry extracts stop cancer cell growth in the lab...
28/11/2006 - Antioxidant-rich extracts from a wide range of berries, including blueberries, strawberries and raspberries, could inhibit cell growth and spread for a wide range of cancers, researchers from UCLA have reported.


Nutritional Treatments for Cardiomyopathy, CongestiveHeart Failure, and Ventricular Arrhythmias ...
This report will review evidence published primarily in peer-reviewed medical journals outlining the use of nutritional supplements and other dietary modifications to treat cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure (CHF), and ventricular arrhythmias. Some nutritional supplements presented in this report (e.g. Coenzyme Q10, magnesium) have proven so effective they should be considered a mandatory part of any treatment protocol for cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, and/or arrhythmias.
http://www.wellnessreview.com/reports/cardiomyopathy




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