An aspirin a day is bad medicine for seniors

Dear Reader,

If you might be having a heart attack, chew an aspirin tablet.

That’s the standard advice, and it makes sense.

But what about the flipside? Should you also take a low dose every day to prevent a heart attack?

Well, that’s another story entirely!

At one time, your doc may have recommended it to you. Or maybe you started taking a daily “baby” aspirin on your own.

After all, it’s dirt cheap and found just about everywhere!

Aspirin, however, is not the benign medication that you may think it is. And that’s especially true for seniors.

If you want to protect your heart, there are plenty of other ways to do so, including one antioxidant that’s a hero to your heart.

But try to convince aspirin’s top maker of that!

In a last-ditch attempt to prove that aspirin is still the king of preventing heart disease, Bayer funded a lengthy trial that just wrapped up.

And what this study found (or didn’t find) should be enough to dethrone aspirin once and for all.

This trial, which went on for over a decade, couldn’t come up with one reason to take a daily aspirin to prevent a first-time heart attack.

When you design and pay for your own study and still can’t find any heart benefits, it’s time to throw in the towel!

In the words of one expert, any gains of taking aspirin preventatively would be so small that it’s time to “move on to [study] something more useful.”

But it seems that the mainstream really can’t move on. It’s stuck like glue on finding as many reasons as possible to keep you popping aspirin.

Along with preventing a heart attack, it’s told us that it can prevent cancer and even Alzheimer’s!

But when you put those claims under a microscope, it’s clear that the risks that come along with a daily aspirin — even the 81 mg dose — far exceed any benefits you’ll get.

Coincidentally, another aspirin study was just released, this one funded by independent researchers involving close to 20,000 healthy seniors in the U.S. and Australia. And the results show that not only will aspirin do nothing to prolong your life, but those taking the drug appeared more likely to die, mostly from cancer!

Then, of course, there’s the risk of suffering a major GI bleed, something that increases the older you are. By the time you hit 75, that danger is 10 times higher.

If you’re going to take something daily, make it a CoQ10 supplement.

CoQ10 is an antioxidant that’s been proven to help heart muscle cells generate more energy and use oxygen more efficiently.

Your heart will also appreciate a diet that includes plenty of magnesium-rich foods and good fats, such as from avocados, almonds, cashews, and fish like salmon.

To Being Heart-Savvy,

Melissa Young