Stan Gardner M.D.
Stan Gardner M.D.
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Magnesium

September 9th, 2011 · 10:02 AM

Magnesium. What kind of magnesium-taurate,chloride,aspartate,citrate,glycinate,malate OR orotate?
It’s in regards to a heart related article I read on Dr.’s site. Thank you.
In order for magnesium to be better absorbed, it needs to be combined with another ‘chelate.’  You have listed quite a number of potential chelates.  Each of the chelates imparts an additional component of treatment, [...]

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Heart Disease

May 2nd, 2011 · 1:51 PM

My friend, who recently had a quadruple bypass, said her sister told her a symptom of heart disease is that a line forms on your earlobe. She also said that since her surgery, and recovery, the hair on her legs grows faster, and her fingernails no longer have ridges on them.
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More on Stents

November 18th, 2008 · 5:32 PM

Eight companies are joining forces to launch a $100 million study intended to determine how best to protect heart patients from clots after stent placement, reported the Wall Street Journal on October 16, 2008.  The article states that occurrences are rare, but the 1 in 14 chance of having a clot within a year that [...]

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Fewer Stents May Be Better For Patients

October 22nd, 2008 · 8:36 PM

Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2008

Two studies on stents were recently presented at a cardiology conference. The first found that many patients are being given stents without adequate documentation of ischemia (inadequate oxygen). They are doing it based on visualization of arteries that appear blocked on X-ray, and not on documentation of ischemia as recommended in [...]

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Ten Medical Myths

July 8th, 2008 · 7:30 PM

Author’s Note: Recently I received a couple of responses to my article on cholesterol that asked some good questions and were thought-provoking. I want to share with you those questions, as well as the answers I gave to them. This is a good way to enlarge on some of the principles that [...]

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