I take coumadin.I don’t like that it restricts me from taking many beneficial supplements and foods that interact with the coumadin. Is there a natural therapy that works as well? I am impressed by your explanation re: medication and hypertension; have there been similar studies re: stroke and coumadin?
I don’t like Coumadin because it is so effective at reducing clotting that it may cause a life-threatening bleed in the head after a head injury or internal bleeding that can’t be stopped.
Coumadin’s purpose is to stop the formation of clots inside your blood vessel walls. The first step to stopping clotting in the blood vessels is to stop all foods that cause inflammation-all processed foods, including sugar, trans fatty acids, caffeine, aspartame. Then basic multivitamin and essential oils with high doses of anti-oxidants are critical.
I recommend the use of Nattokinase, an extract from soy that interferes with the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, one of many cascades in the proper clotting of blood. Baby aspirin, 81 mg every other day, interferes with platelet aggregation, which is another way for blood to clot. Neither of these will so completely interfere with the clotting process that the body cannot stop bleeding after a head trauma or internal bleeding. If you have atrial fibrillation for days as your arrhythmia, it is very important that clotting be controlled so as to not form a clot in the atrium with a subsequent stroke or pulmonary embolus.
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing:
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1 Sara Groves // Mar 31, 2010 at 8:12 am
Your advice to “chew,chew,chew” has been a
True blessing to me against acid reflex.
It is worth the try.
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