Folate intake, lifestyle factors, and homocysteine concentrations As far as the research community is concerned, homocysteine is well established as an independent risk factor for heart disease. Unfortunately, clinicians have not quite caught up. This is unacceptable based on the evidence that simple supplementation with folic acid, B12 and B6 can reduce levels. AJCN — […]
Heavy coffee consumption and plasma homocysteine I know I’ll get shot for this one, but the evidence is mounting that coffee may increase your risk of heart disease through homocysteine. Can’t give up your coffee? Try increasing your intake of whole grains to up your B vitamins to lower that homocysteine level. AJCN — Abstracts: […]
Homocysteine and Risk for Congestive Heart Failure. Well, while mainstream medicine is deciding whether homocysteine is really a risk factor and if it is, whether it is cost effective to test, patients are dropping left and right from heart disease due in part to elevated homocysteine. Do yourself a favor–insist on having your homocysteine and […]
’5-a-day’ fruit and veggies or folic acid-fortified foods on plasma folate and homocysteine. This study is an important idea for the clinicians who have said that multivitamins were unnecessary because we get all the vitamins we need from our diets. First of all, these clinicians need to ask their patients if they are getting the […]
Folic Acid Improves Endothelial Dysfunction in Patients With CAD The evidence pointing to homocysteine as an independent risk factor for heart disease and stroke, and the evidence suggesting that folic acid, vitamin B12 and B6 can lower levels is now reaching incredible levels. Every person worried about cardiovascular disease needs to have homocysteine levels checked. […]
