Published June 10, 2009

Are you taking the wrong type of CoQ10?

Coenzyme Q10 is one fantastic nutrient. Your body typically makes plenty of it in your liver. But when your body doesn’t make enough, it is hard to replace. That’s because CoQ10 isn’t absorbed very well. Fortunately, there’s one type of CoQ10 that’s easily absorbed. And it can work wonders on your heart.

Researchers recently gave a group of rabbits one of three infusions: CoQ10 laden liposomes, empty liposomes, or saline. Then they closed off a coronary artery for 30 minutes (occlusion). And then the researchers opened the artery to blood flow (reperfusion). The risk area to their main left ventricle was 20% of its mass. It’s well known and accepted that when a blood vessel occludes, its reopening can lead to yet more injury called “reperfusion injury.”

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Published June 5, 2009

Lower your cholesterol with a daily glass of juice
(but not fruit juice)

How would you like to drink a glass of juice every morning and watch your cholesterol numbers drop like a rock? Well, you can do just that, but it won’t happen with regular fruit juice.

A new study found that drinking kale juice may be cholesterol’s bane.

The researchers gave 32 men 150 mL of kale juice daily for 12 weeks. At the end of the study, the juice increased their hard-to-raise HDL cholesterol by 27%. The HDL:LDL ratio improved by 52%. And it decreased their LDL by 10%. The atherogenic index, a measure of vascular risk, dropped by 24%.

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Published June 4, 2009

Don’t read that ingredients label!

I recently read a book on anti-aging which was 315 pages long. Everything in the book was about taking hormones and vitamins, and getting exercise. The entire discussion of food was limited to one paragraph. And this basically just recited the “keep fat intake below 30% and cholesterol intake below 200 mg” mantra. This is a sad state of affairs, because nothing is going to keep you young more than what you eat.

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