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Testosterone may be beneficial as a treatment for CAD because testosterone can improve conditions that contribute to heart disease, such as diabetes, obesity, high cholesterol, and triglycerides. Testosterone improves conditions that contribute to heart disease by: dilating the arteries, improving circulation, and lowering blood pressure in most studies (Dubey et al. 2002). Because some people get an increase in blood pressure with testoster...

Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) is a major contributor to CAD, but not the only cause. Risk of getting CAD can be reduced by approximately 20 to 40 percent if you can get your LDL down to optimal range. This sounds good until your realize that we still have 60 to 80 percent available for further risk reduction. This is where the benefits of raising HDL come in. Cardiac risk is thought to drop by 2 to 3 percent for each 1 mg/dL increase ...

Exercise is a prevention strategy as well as a treatment. According to the Centers of Disease Control (CDC) statistics, more than 64 percent of the U.S. adult population is overweight, and roughly 31 percent of American adults are obese. That translates to approximately 59 million American adults that are obese. Incidence of adult obesity has increased sharply since the 1970s. In 2001, the CDC estimated that more than 300,000 deaths per year wer...

CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME  Although newly defined and currently popular, CFS is not a new disease at all. References to a similar condition in the medical literature go back as far as the 1860s. In the past, chronic fatigue syndrome has been known by a variety of names including, among many others: •   chronic mononucleosis-like syndrome or chronic EBV syndrome •   Yuppie flu •   postviral fatigue syndrome •   post-infecti...

Stephen W. Parcell, N.D. NatureMed Integrative Medicine Boulder, CO   Lumbrokinase: Acute conditions 2 capsules three times day 30 minutes before meals for 3-4 weeks. For maintenance and prevention: 1 capsule 1-3 times per day 30 minutes before meals. Lumbrokinase is a fibrinolytic enzyme purified from the earthworm Lumbricus rubellus. The effect of lumbrokinase is related to the inhibition of the intrinsic coagulation pathway and the activ...