Lp(A) Levels and ApoE4 Allele Predictive of Coronary Events in Men The Lp(a) marker has been used in many functional medicine lab’s coronary risk profiles for years now. And to that homocysteine, cholesterol, CRP, fibrinogen and several others and you get a very good picture of cardiovascular risk. Remember that many of today’s chronic diseases […]
High-Dose Vit E Reduces Serum Levels of CRP in Diabetes It is not surprising that Vit E may have the potential to lower the risk of heart disease in diabetics. What is surprising is that this study actually used levels considered therapeutic by researchers…1200 IU/day. Free Radic Biol Med 2000;8:790-792 Results of a new study […]
CRP, Interleukin 6, and Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Inflammation plays a key role in many of today’s chronic diseases and lifestyle changes to lower overall inflammatory burden will cut across disease risk for a variety of diseases. Identifying and avoiding food allergies, choosing a more plant based diet over animal based, adequate […]
Physical Activity and Inflammation in Middle-aged and Older US Adults This study finds that exercise lowers overall levels of CRP, a marker of chronic inflammation. This is really not an unexpected result;moderate exercise is a key component to a natural approach to any disease process since most diseases have an inflammatory component. Relationship Between Physical […]
CRP binds both oxidized LDL, apoptotic cells through common ligand CRP is now widely accepted as an independent risk factor for heart disease (at least it is by those of us that don’t rely on the drug companies as a sole source of continuing medical information….), but whether it was a marker or played a […]
