STINKY kitchen trick helps keep your heart health up to snuff
Ever notice how all it takes to get your heart doc’s UNDIVIDED attention is to be a little nervous during your office visit?
Because the MOMENT your blood pressure gets a little higher when they strap on that cuff…
The door is WIDE OPEN for him to talk to you about your heart risk… and how you’ve got to take meds to bring it down.
Of course, your BP might not be TRULY high.
It might simply be a little elevated when you walk in the door after dodging traffic on your way there… only to sit in the waiting room for what seems like eons!
But if you’ve got a conventional cardiologist… he might not look at the BIG PICTURE.
Friend, your heart health is about more than just numbers.
And while healthy BP is certainly PART of the story…
It’s not the end-all and be-all of your cardiovascular function.
It’s time to take a more well-rounded approach… and I’ve got just the thing that can address MULTIPLE aspects of your heart health in one fell swoop.
A clean sweep
Long ago, the father of “modern medicine,” Hippocrates, determined that garlic (Allium sativum) could WARD OFF more than just vampires.
Ancient medicinal practices in India and even Iran have used the “stinking rose” as a drug alternative for AGES.
And you’ve read right here in eAlert how this pungent culinary herb could…
- CRUSH colds and flu
- BEAT BACK blood sugar woes
- CONQUER a culprit behind stomach cancer, and
- SUPPRESS weight gain.
But today, I’d like to share with you how garlic can help BOOST your heart health.
If you’ve already got coronary artery disease… research has shown that consuming garlic could help REDUCE the strain on your heart, particularly during exercise.
That could mean IMPROVED heart rate… BETTER stamina… and LESS cardiovascular stress!
Garlic also works in 2 additional ways:
- MAINTAINING healthy blood pressure numbers
- OPTIMIZING cholesterol levels.
Now, both of these aspects go hand in hand…
Because as garlic works on keeping your HDL (or “good”) cholesterol levels from dipping too low… it also helps keep your LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol from getting damaged, a.k.a. oxidized.
And it’s only oxidized LDL that puts your heart health in the crosshairs — because that’s when cholesterol stops free floating in your bloodstream and DEPOSITS along the inside of your artery walls.
Those “plaques” can NARROW and STIFFEN your arteries… which makes your heart work even harder to pump sufficient amounts of blood through them.
And that’s when your BP can go through the roof.
But studies have shown how garlic consumption is linked to improved pulse wave velocity… which is the industry standard for measuring arterial stiffness.
Not only that, but garlic has some properties that work directly to reduce blood pressure…
Including DILATING your blood vessels to keep them wide… and keep blood flow effortless.
It works by BLOCKING angiotensin II receptors…
Which is the SAME mechanism as an entire class of Big Pharma’s blood pressure-lowering drugs!
And in a 2013 in vivo study on real people, a special preparation of garlic worked BETTER than a pharmaceutical beta blocker drug in terms of lowering both systolic (or “top number”) and diastolic (or “bottom number”) BP readings.
In fact, a 2016 study out of Australia showed how garlic helped IMPROVE blood pressure in folks whose hypertension had spun OUT OF CONTROL…
And HADN’T been helped by drugs!
The most effective form of garlic appears to be aged garlic extract (AGE)… which most recently demonstrated the ability to not only SLOW the progression of coronary artery buildup…
But also REVERSE IT!
Look for a high-quality AGE supplement from a maker you trust at your local health food store or online.
To taking a bite out of heart troubles,
Sarah Reagan
