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Thank you for posting @holbein81.

Excellent article regarding health as it relates to heart attacks.

Appreciated the illustrations. Cheers.

Thanks for the nice comment @bleujay

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@cleverbot I can get with a 15% reduction.. Exercise and I started a 30 day vegetarian challenge. Hopefully it will reduce the high blood pressure along with 25 mg of IC Hydrochlorothiazide a day. @steemprice

Seems like a bit of everything helps...

Having said that, I am drinking beer right now and getting ready to tuck into a huge lasagne. At least I don’t have a cigarette on the go...

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I did this same research myself and some top ways I found for risk reduction:

  • Don't smoke
  • Vegetarian diet
  • Red Yeast Rice or Statin to keep non HDL cholesterol very low.
  • Pine Bark Extract for artery health
  • Avoid processed oils
  • Avoid processed sugar
  • Consume nitrates such as beets daily to boost nitric oxide
  • Consume garlic

If you follow these and keep your non-HDL cholesterol very low, like under 60, then you'll probably not have a heart attack according to the Framingham risk assessment. Your risk will be less than 1% over 10 years.

A few things to note from what I found in my studies is that diet while it does play a role does not play the main role in terms of cholesterol plaque formation. Inflammation seems to play the main role which diet exacerbates but something like smoking cigarettes seems to be worse than eating fast food. This isn't to say it's a good idea to eat McDonalds on a daily or even weekly basis but to say that it's not necessarily the food which causes the plaque or the unstable plaque (which is one of the main causes of heart attack). Certain supplements promote plaque stabilization and these are good and keeping a very low non-HDL cholesterol level even promotes plaque regression which is very good.

Thanks for the thoughtful comment!!

Hopefully one day someone will discover a master switch that controls it all, but I guess until then a multi-pronged approach of covering diet, lifestyle and BP/lipid management will be the way forward, with incremental advances

I have to ask - when you say "I did this same research myself", what do you mean? I presume not a 4 year 10,000 patient multi-centre RCT? ;-)

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15% is a good start and hopefully this research will lead to even better options

But I did have s chuckle with this line maybe just a little understatement
Well, they are important because the heart is pretty important – most people struggle without on

Tip!

Haha thanks - I think you have to joke a bit, even if it’s a serious topic! Thanks for the tip as well!

Yes I do believe that is very true
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Thank you for this. I'd better watch my diet and cut down on smoking.

this is really helpful..good to have you..upped

No problem - hope it was useful, I try to write at least one mainstream healthcare topic per week

Thanks for the comment and upvote - here's one back

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15% reduction is excellent. I believe that science will progress and that even better results will be achieved.

No doubt - it is just a question of when?

Thanks for commenting

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Thank you - I am following you too - especially as you are in Dundee.
My grandfather was a surgeon there many years ago

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This is a good video for ways to a healthy heart.

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Take one crystal of Himalayan salt every morning. You will keep your blood in balance. In three month my cholesterol went from 290 to 260, My sugar from 7.0 to 6.0
In summary see salt has more than 85 minerals. “They” took all of them and gave you two on the food salt. The rest “they” sell it you as a drug.
If you have time you can listen to this dr.

Who are 'they'?

Power hungry, well organized, controlling “elites without borders” who have no name.

ok, all sounds a bit dark, but I still don't know who you are referring to.

It depends on the industry in question. In the US The council of foreign relation has over 5000 thousands members in all aspects of life. In other nations they are known with different names. And they are in every nations.

Ok, get it

To go back to your original reply - you said that a 'crystal of Himalayan salt would keep my blood in balance'

I love salt - too much salt I would say - but I have to admit that this sounds a bit, well, un-scientific. You mind me asking:

Why Himalayan salt? What is different about it? What does 'blood in balance' mean?

I don't mean to knock your theories, but I am curious to find out where they come from

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Himalayan salt is richer than sea salt and cleaner. It has 95 minerals. Sea has a lot of pollution as you know. The doctor on the video got my attention when he said that in battle field when a solder looses a lot of blood they inject ocean water into his blood stream. Because ocean water has everything in the blood plasma. I investigated to find out that is true. So I studied the subject. When I got enough convincing arguments, I decided to try it. I got the results I mentioned. I will do another test in three months. The key word here is balance in the blood components.