Sentences with phrase «cholesterol plaques like»

Additional causes include: atherosclerosis (cholesterol plaques like humans get) associated with hypothyroidism, hypertriglyceridemia (elevated blood fat levels) in miniature schnauzers, and cancer.

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We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

The cardiology establishment has finally had to admit that statins work not so much by lowering cholesterol, but more by acting like expensive super-aspirin: they reduce inflammation that damages artery linings and sets the stage for plaque accumulation.

Now, if you have a large, big, light type of cholesterol molecule, like a basketball, these things don't get into those cracks very much and that actually lowers the risk of developing plaques, and strokes, and potentials like that.

Heart Healthy Benefits: Coconut oil, like other healthy oils can shift the ratio of goood HDL cholesterol to the sticky plaque forming LDL cholesterol, thus lowering the formation of plaque in the arteries and lowering the risk of stroke and heart attack.

To me it seem like plaques form when the blood becomes «saturated» with cholesterol and it «precipitates» out in the walls of the arteries where it is eaten by immune cells which turn into foam cells when they become engorged with cholesterol.

Food for heart and brain: Antioxidants like anthocyanin, prevents the buildup of plaque in arteries and is capable of controlling cholesterol levels.

The cause of heart disease is not animal fats and cholesterol but rather a number of factors inherent in modern diets, including excess consumption of vegetables oils and hydrogenated fats; excess consumption of refined carbohydrates in the form of sugar and white flour; mineral deficiencies, particularly low levels of protective magnesium and iodine; deficiencies of vitamins, particularly of vitamin C, needed for the integrity of the blood vessel walls, and of antioxidants like selenium and vitamin E, which protect us from free radicals; and, finally, the disappearance of antimicrobial fats from the food supply, namely, animal fats and tropical oils.52 These once protected us against the kinds of viruses and bacteria that have been associated with the onset of pathogenic plaque leading to heart disease.