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    User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol: Learn about the Many Safe Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease
    User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol: Learn about the Many Safe Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease
    User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol: Learn about the Many Safe Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease
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    User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol: Learn about the Many Safe Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease

    By Mark Stengler, N.D., CHT, HHP, N.M.D.

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    Millions of people have elevated blood levels of cholesterol, a major risk factor for coronary heart disease. Yet many supplements and foods can effectively - and safely - reduce cholesterol levels. This User's Guide to Polycosanol and Other Cholesterol-Lowering Nutrients explains what you have to do to reduce your risk of heart disease.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateMar 1, 2003
    ISBN9781591206538
    User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol: Learn about the Many Safe Ways to Reduce Your Cholesterol and Lower Your Risk of Heart Disease
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    Mark Stengler, N.D., CHT, HHP, N.M.D.

    Mark Stengler, N.M.D., is a licensed naturopathic medical doctor, the coauthor of Prescription for Drug Alternatives, and an expert in nutrition, herbal therapy, vitamin therapy, homeopathy, and integrative medicine. Dr. Stengler is the author of one of our most popular health newsletters, Bottom Line Natural Healing; his website is www.markstengler.com.

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      User's Guide to Policosanol & Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol - Mark Stengler, N.D., CHT, HHP, N.M.D.

      I NTRODUCTION

      Heart disease. We all know someone who either lives with it or who has died from it. Perhaps you have been told that you have heart disease, often referred to as cardiovascular disease (a term that recognizes the involvement of the entire heart and circulatory system).

      More than 960,000 Americans succumb to cardiovascular disease each year. This staggering statistic accounts for approximately 41 percent of all deaths in the United States.

      While cholesterol-lowering drugs and surgery are the favored therapy by conventional doctors, these alone are no longer considered the best medicine.

      Tens of thousands of American health professionals are increasingly recommending dietary and lifestyle changes, which have been proven to make a dramatic impact on one’s cardiovascular health, as well as nutritional supplements to prevent and reverse heart disease.

      Does this natural approach work? You bet. And the risk of side effects is virtually nonexistent when compared with pharmaceutical and surgical options.

      High cholesterol levels have long been vilified as the cause of most cases of heart disease. It’s true that elevated levels can increase a person’s risk of heart disease. Yet the potential toxicity of many cholesterol-lowering drugs have encouraged many to seek a better way to normalize cholesterol levels.

      Specific nutritional supplements have been discovered that can work as well as highly publicized cholesterol drugs. Although your doctor may not recommend these natural cholesterol-lowering nutrients, many have substantial scientific studies to back up their effectiveness and safety.

      One such natural supplement that effectively normalizes cholesterol levels and other markers for heart disease is Policosanol. And it works without the potentially fatal side effects you see with some cholesterol medications.

      Because so much has been made of the issue, it may be surprising to learn that elevated cholesterol levels are only one small piece of the puzzle of why people develop heart disease. For example, in medical circles, it is a well-known fact that 50 percent of those who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels!

      The User’s Guide to Policosanol and Other Natural Ways to Lower Cholesterol was written to help people understand and effectively combat the causes of heart disease.

      In Chapter 1, you will learn the mechanisms of how heart disease develops. I will also discuss the many risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease and what we can do to prevent them.

      Chapter 2 focuses on the breakthrough supplement Policosanol. You will learn about the many ways it helps prevent and reverse heart disease. Included in Chapter 3 are numerous human studies that demonstrate its mechanism of action, effectiveness and safety, and how to use it.

      Chapter 4 addresses the importance of dietary and lifestyle approaches in preventing and reversing heart disease.

      The final chapters provide important recommendations on a variety of heart-healthy supplements to meet your individual health needs.

      I hope you will be as enthusiastic as I am about the information in this book: it can improve the quality and length of your life. Enjoy.

      CHAPTER 1

      U NDERSTANDING

      HEART DISEASE

      The heart, without a doubt, is one of the most incredible organs in the human body. This fist-sized organ pumps enough blood through the blood vessels to nourish and sustain all the trillions of cells in your body. Some experts believe that, under ideal circumstances, the heart can maintain its incredible pace for up to 120 years!

      Providing proper nutrients is the key to a healthy heart and circulatory system, enabling them to work efficiently. In addition, one should avoid harmful lifestyle choices such as eating unhealthy fast food and smoking, which put undue stress on the heart.

      However, there are also independent genetic risk factors that research has shown to greatly increase the odds of a cardiovascular disease. These genetic factors can be fatal even if one is following a healthy diet and lifestyle.

      What Is Heart Disease?

      Heart disease simply refers to a disorder of the heart. Many people use this as a general term to refer to the entire heart and circulatory system. A better term to cover the entire system of the heart and blood vessels is cardiovascular disease.

      Concomitant with cardiovascular disease is what is commonly called hardening of the arteries, that is, arteriosclerosis. In this condition, artery walls thicken and lose their flexibility, interfering with circulation. The most common type of arteriosclerosis is known as atherosclerosis. This is an accumulation of fatty deposits along blood vessel walls, resulting in a thickening and hardening of the medium to large artery walls.

      Forms of Cardiovascular Disease

      Many different conditions fall under the category of cardiovascular disease. These conditions are discussed below.

      Myocardial Infarction

      This is the medical term for a heart attack. This occurs when too little oxygenated blood reaches the heart, resulting in the death of heart tissue. Arteries that have become clogged with fatty deposits or a blood clot that has lodged in the heart may cause a heart attack.

      Characteristic symptoms include a squeezing or sharp pain in the chest or upper abdomen. The pain may radiate down the left or right arm and into the neck, back, or shoulders. Shortness of breath, faintness, nausea, and excessive perspiration are also common symptoms. It’s possible to have a heart attack and mistake it for indigestion, as the symptoms can be very similar.

      Hypertension

      One of the biggest risk factors for heart disease is hypertension, also known as high blood pressure. This refers to the pressure inside the artery walls. A normal reading is 120/80 mm/Hg. Systolic blood pressure (the first number) that is 140 and higher, and diastolic readings (the second number) of 90 or more are considered to be elevated. If on three separate occasions you have an elevated reading, your doctor will confirm a diagnosis of hypertension.

      Stroke

      This refers to brain damage caused by a lack of

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