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"BLOOD CLOTS • Exercise a Solution We 've long known that workouts are good for the heart, but only now are researchers focusing on what exactly makes heart vessels narrow, leading to dangerous blood clots and heart attacks. One of the answers is inactivity. When 44 men and women over age 65 were placed on a thrice-weekly walking or jogging program for six months in a recent study, they were markedly less likely to suffer blood clots than those who only did flexibility exercises." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Today's revision of this theory is that the younger, smaller plaque is prone to developing abnormalities that allow for blood clots to form. The blood clots break off and do their evil downstream, blocking blood flow to the heart muscle and causing infarction. The large, mature occluding plaques develop slowly enough to allow for collaterals to compensate. This revisionist theory is responsible for a new wave of experimental pharmacology. However, the occluding-plaque theory drives current practice." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"They found that these patients were 7 times more likely to develop blood clots known as venous thromboembolisms than drug-free study participants. Lead researcher Dr. Gwen L. Zornberg said in an interview with Reuters Health, that doctors have been noting for decades that antipsychotic drugs seem to trigger blood clots in some patients. She also notes that, despite accumulating evidence, blood clots are not listed as a potential side effect of antipsychotic drugs. Further information on other harmful side effects was reported by the Alliance For Human Research Protection, (http://www.ahrp." - Dr David W Tanton, Ph.D., Antidepressants, Antipsychotics, And Stimulants - Dangerous Drugs on Trial (Get the book.)

"When blood cell walls do not have sufficiently low viscosity, they can clump together in an unhealthy way that contributes to blood clots. A simple way to describe this is to call it sticky blood. If you have sticky blood, you have very unhealthy blood and you will be suffering from not only blood clots but many other disorders as well, including impaired nervous system function and poor circulation to tissues and organs. In conventional medicine, blood clots are typically treated with prescription drugs and blood thinners like aspirin." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"The body stores lipids as energy and burns them when needed, macrovascular disease: Any disease that affects the large blood vessels and is characterized by an accumulation of fat and blood clots in those vessels. The three types of macrovascular disease are cerebrovascular disease, coronary disease, and peripheral vascular disease, metformin: The generic name for an oral antidiabetic medication (trade name Glucophage) that decreases the amount of glucose manufactured by the liver and helps make the body's cells more sensitive to insulin. mg/dL: Milligrams per deciliter." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"In the December 1999 issue of the American journal of Clinical Nutrition, Danish researchers reported that olive oil worked better than canola oil at inhibiting blood clots after a fatty meal. Even Dr. Vogel, who found the 34 percent endothelial constriction, suggested that when olive oil is combined with the eating of antioxidant-rich fruits and vegetables, the vessel-constricting effect disappears." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Research also indicates that high-fructose corn syrup interferes with the heart's use of key minerals like magnesium, copper, and chromium, in addition to being implicated in elevated blood cholesterol levels and the creation of blood clots. All of these factors contribute to cardiovascular disease—the leading cause of death among diabetics. High-fructose corn syrup has also been found to inhibit the action of white blood cells so that they are unable to defend the body against harmful foreign invaders.38 There are not any real accidents here." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Occasionally, they have persistent chest pain, blood clots, kidney disease, or nervous system disease. The most typical course of lupus is a start-up during female adolescence or childbearing years when female hormones are cycling. Lupus is rare in postmenopausal women and in men. Estrogen and progesterone probably play important roles in the development of lupus. Estrogen combined with interferon spurs D-cells to develop into activated inflammatory cells rather than staying naive and tolerant." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "On the contrary, you need adequate vitamin K to prevent blood clots. The factors in your blood that are most sensitive to vitamin K are your natural blood thinners that prevent blood from clotting. You can get plenty of K from green, leafy vegetables such as spinach, kale, Swiss chard, and bok choy. Tea, especially green tea, is rich in vitamin K. Make sure to take a daily multivitamin that contains 75 to 100 percent (80 to 120 micrograms) of your DRI for vitamin K." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"It is believed that moderate consumption of alcohol may protect the brain by inhibiting inflammation and blood clots. In 2006, 2,258 Medicare recipients in Manhattan not diagnosed with a form of dementia were evaluated over a fourteen-year period. After adjusting for potential confounding factors (age, sex, ethnicity, education, genetic risk factor), the third who were most faithful to the diet were 39 to 40 percent less likely to develop AD than the third who were least faithful, while the third who were moderately compliant were 15 to 21 percent less likely to develop AD." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"Garlic can lower blood pressure enough to reduce the risk of a stroke, coronary disease, and blood clots. And just as you should go out of your way to load up on these healthy foods, you should be just as vigilant about avoiding certain foods, especially these: • Fish, especially larger types that may contain high levels of mercury (see page 59). • Alcohol (see page 62) • Table salt and excessively salty foods • Highly processed foods, food additives, and foods high in trans fats and chemicals. Meat." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Contrary to common assumption, a heart attack does not occur as a result of blood vessel obstruction, but rather because of blood clots and/or soft fragments of atherosclerotic deposits making their way into the heart. The blood clots and soft pieces of cholesterol implicated in triggering heart attacks are almost never released from the rock-hard structures of the more occluded sections of an artery, but tend to be released from newly created lesions and their protective cholesterol patches." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"It is believed that the pathogenic sequence of chemical and oxidative reactions is then initiated, encouraging the formation of blood clots. Studies show that homocysteine is a prime causative agent in 20 to 40 percent of patients with arterial disease. It is especially treacherous in the company of high Lp(a), which we will discuss next. They both promote plaque initiation, progression, and rupture. Lipoprotein(a) As we have discussed, Lp(a) performs basic repair duties in the arterial walls." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Some preliminary genetic studies, for example, seem to show that the red blood cells of an unusually high proportion of Blue Zone centenarians are smaller than normal, providing both a resistance to malaria and a lesser chance of dangerous blood clots. But genetic and cultural isolation go hand in hand, Francalacci said, putting down his wine glass and clasping his hands. "When you put the two together you get a very interesting result." Francalacci and I stayed up well past midnight that night and continued our conversation later via e-mail." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The council's leaders urged people to go to their local hospitals and be screened for blood clots. The "council" was little more than the creation of a marketing team at Aventis Pharmaceuticals, the manufacturer of a blood thinner called Lovenox. In Iowa it had gotten to the point that if there was a conference involving health care, there was a better than even chance that the pharmaceutical industry would be footing at least some of the bill." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Omega-3 fatty acids, on the other hand, especially those found in fish, may reduce the risk of blood clots, lower triglyceride levels, and promote normal blood pressure. There's also some evidence that omega-3s may lower heart disease risk, and scientists continue to study their role in reducing cancer risk. Great sources include fish (especially coldwater fish like salmon, tuna, mackerel, trout, herring, and bluefish), ground flaxseed, and canola oil. Plant food sources include broccoli and other green leafy vegetables, kidney beans, cantaloupe, walnuts, soy, and pecans." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "According to the American Heart Association (AHA), homocysteine may play a role in atherosclerosis (blood plaque deposits in the arteries) by damaging the inner lining of arteries and promoting blood clots. According to a report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, high levels of homocysteine may be significantly associated with an increased risk of stroke in people who already have coronary heart disease. Two things are thought to influence homocysteine levels: genetics and diet." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"The CT scan can detect tumors, blood clots, or strokes, while blood tests are designed to detect metabolic disturbances or endocrine deficiencies. Expensive neuroimaging is the latest craze in the Alzheimer's field. Standard CT and MRI scans are a part of routine practice, although there is some controversy about when to use each. However, advanced and expensive neuroimaging techniques have been promoted extensively over the last quarter-century, promising much, but delivering relatively little. Imaging is categorized into two approaches: structural and functional." - Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.)

"By lowering high blood pressure, cutting cholesterol, and reducing the risk of blood clots. But first, here's a quick review of the main types of stroke: An ischemic stroke, the most common type, occurs when a blood vessel in the brain gets clogged with plaque or a wandering clot lodges in the artery supplying blood to the brain. A hemorrhagic stroke is less common but more likely to end in death because, in this case, the weakened blocked vessels burst. A TIA, or transient ischemic attack, is a ministroke that often serves as an early warning of a more serious stroke." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Lp(a) also promotes the formation of blood clots on top of the forming plaque. This narrows the vessel and worsens symptoms. If the clots are large enough, they can occlude an artery. We now know that most heart attacks are due to a large clot developing in vessels with moderate narrowings. Therefore, with Lp(a) present, even 50 percent blockage can make this situation dangerous. Low-Density/High-Density Cholesterol: What Does It Mean? Twenty-five years ago, blood cholesterol was simply blood cholesterol. We didn't know about lipoproteins and "good" and "bad" cholesterol." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"When taken between meals, their role changes significantly; they assist with immune imbalances, heavy metal toxicity, inflammatory conditions, circulatory disorders, skin problems, constipation, water retention, inappropriate blood clots, heart disease, stroke, and cancer, among other health problems. The use of proteases for these conditions is the second most popular use of enzyme therapy after digestive applications. The logical reasons for their popularity are their many applications and the direct connection between proteins and illness." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Warfarin (more commonly known by its brand name Coumadin) is widely used in cardiology to prevent blood clots from forming or growing larger. We prescribe it for certain types of irregular heartbeat, when ultrasound determines a thrombus (clot) in the heart, and following placement of a mechanical heart valve. Coumadin blocks the action of vitamin K, the body's naturally occurring fat-soluble vitamin essential for blood clotting. Vitamin K contributes to the production of a protein in the liver involved in the clotting process." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"It regulates the menstrual cycle, reduces PMS symptoms, deepens sleep, lessens anxiety, reduces blood loss during menstruation, protects against blood clots, helps to maintain bone strength, enhances sleep, and prevents uterine fibroids and ovarian and breast cysts from forming. It also prevents hyperplasia and cancer from forming. Without enough progesterone, estrogen runs wild, producing angry tempers, insomnia, anxiety, bloating, and heavy, unpredictable bleeding. A woman deprived of progesterone will have tender, swollen breasts and a thickened uterine lining." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Other findings were a 50 percent increase in blood clots (18 more cases) and a 41 percent increase in stroke (8 more cases). The good news was that there were fewer bone fractures and less colon cancer, and despite the increases in cancer and clots, the mortality rate was actually lower in the Prempro group compared with the placebo group. The WHI study was meant to provide information about the use of hormones in menopause, but instead it generated more heat than light. Unfortunately, after the Prempro arm of the study was ended prematurely, mass hysteria ensued." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Additional bad news was an increase in blood clots in the veins of the legs and the lungs and a small increase in stroke. So kiss your Prempro good-bye. The Million Women Study recruited 1,084,110 women living in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2001. This was actually not a controlled clinical study, but a survey of women's hormone use and outcome regarding breast cancer. The women taking hormones were using either oral contraceptives, Prempro, Premarin alone, or Tibilone (a synthetic drug that mimics both estrogen and progesterone)." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "This prevents high levels of hormones in the liver and reduces the risks of blood clots. • Take a twenty-four-hour urine test each year to see how well your hormones are breaking down in your body. You want to make sure that you have plenty of 2-methoxyestrone and not too much 4-OH or 16-OH estrone. In the near future there will also be a urine test to measure quinones, the harmful hormone metabolites that predispose to breast cancer. • Avoid or limit caffeine, alcohol, food additives, preservatives, trans fats, and multiple prescription medications." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"To deal with these injuries or lesions, the body attaches protective plaque, including cholesterol, to the interior of the artery wall in order to prevent dangerous blood clots from escaping into the bloodstream and triggering a heart attack or stroke. Venules and veins, on the other hand, always remain free of plaque because their basal membranes are not exposed to the damaging proteins. For this reason, heart surgeons are able to 15 More details about the protein self-sufficiency of the body in the section on vegetarianism of Timeless Secrets of Health and Rejuvenation." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "This multiplies the chances of blood clots and the build-up of fatty deposits, which can lead to heart disease. Researchers at Harvard Medical School, who observed 85,000 women over eight years, found that those eating margarine had an increased risk of coronary heart disease. A Welsh study linked the concentration of these artificial trans fats in body fat with death from heart disease. The Dutch government has already banned any products containing trans fatty acids. Why is an increased risk of heart disease so important in the consideration of cancer?" - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Its side effects include high blood pressure and an increased risk of blood clots. Used as a complementary therapy with chemotherapy, anti-angiogenic drugs may be effective as a cancer treatment. Research has shown that this type of therapy is useful in prolonging survival and preventing growth of cancer tumors rather than in shrinking the tumor. Generally safe, anti-angiogenic agents show effectiveness against non-solid tumors like lymphoma and leukemia, as well as for less-advanced cancers." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

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