Browsing articles in "heart disease"
Also see: Protect the Mitochondria Thyroid Status and Cardiovascular Disease “Normal” TSH: Marker for Increased Risk of Fatal Coronary Heart Disease The Cholesterol and Thyroid Connection High Blood Pressure and Hypothyroidism A Cure for Heart Disease Hypothyroidism and A Shift in Death Patterns High Estrogen and Heart Disease in Men Unsaturated Fats and Heart Damage [...]
Also see: Lactate Paradox: High Altitude and Exercise Altitude Improves T3 Levels Protective Carbon Dioxide, Exercise, and Performance Synergistic Effect of Creatine and Baking Soda on Performance Ray Peat, PhD on Carbon Dioxide, Longevity, and Regeneration People who live at very high altitudes live significantly longer; they have a lower incidence of cancer (Weinberg, et [...]
Isr J Med Sci. 1996 Nov;32(11):1134-43. Diet and disease–the Israeli paradox: possible dangers of a high omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet. Yam D, Eliraz A, Berry EM. Israel has one of the highest dietary polyunsaturated/saturated fat ratios in the world; the consumption of omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) is about 8% higher than in the [...]
By Martha Rosenberg Want to increase your chances of getting node-positive breast cancer and dying from it? Take hormone therapy. Pharma’s lucrative estrogen plus progestin combo is already known to increase the chance of getting breast cancer by 26 percent. But an article in this week’s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows hormone therapy [...]
British Medical_Journal, 1975, 2, 245-248 Oral Contraceptives and Death from Myocardial Infarction J. I. MANN, W. H. W. INMAN We investigated 219 deaths from myocardial infarction in women under the age of 50. Their histories were compared with those of living age-matched controls selected from the same general practices. The frequency of use of oral [...]
Arteriosclerosis. 1986 Jul-Aug;6(4):418-21. Sex hormone levels in young Indian patients with myocardial infarction. Sewdarsen M, Jialal I, Vythilingum S, Desai R. The finding of abnormal levels of sex hormones in men with coronary artery disease has led to the hypothesis that alterations in sex hormones may represent an important risk factor for myocardial infarction. In [...]
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1997 Oct;82(10):3421-4. Both hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism enhance low density lipoprotein oxidation. Sundaram V, Hanna AN, Koneru L, Newman HA, Falko JM. Hypothyroidism is frequently associated with hypercholesterolemia and an increased risk for atherosclerosis, whereas hyperthyroidism is known to precipitate angina or myocardial infarction in patients with underlying coronary heart disease. We [...]
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 26: MAY 1973, pp. 524-555. Saturated fat in the diet and serum cholesterol concentration: a critical examination of the literature Raymond Reiser, Ph.D
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Jun;91(6):2126-32. Epub 2006 Mar 14. Subclinical hypothyroidism, arterial stiffness, and myocardial reserve. Owen PJ, Rajiv C, Vinereanu D, Mathew T, Fraser AG, Lazarus JH. CONTEXT: Subclinical hypothyroidism (SCH) is associated with increased risk of cardiac disease; its impact on arterial function is less clear. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study [...]
Actually, twelve years before, Dr. L.M. Hurxthal at the Lahey Clinic in Boston had clearly shown that thyroid secretion controls cholesterol level in most patients. In patients with hyperthyroidism, or excessive thyroid activity, he had found, the cholesterol level in the blood was below the average normal level. After surgery on the excessively active thyroid [...]
