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 [...]
More on Stents
November 18th, 2008 · 5:32 PM
Tags: blood clots, chelation therapy, heart disease, prevention, stents, vascular disease
Low Thiamine and Diabetes
September 15th, 2008 · 8:33 PM
A Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency may be the cause of the serious vascular side-effects found in diabetics. Concentrations of this vitamin were 75% lower in the group with diabetes compared to placebo. Thiamine works by helping to protect cells against the effect of high glucose levels, which may be why it is used up [...]
Tags: diabetes, thiamine, vascular disease, vitamins
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: