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Curcumin for Exercise-Related Muscle Pain, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 653

Curcumin for Exercise-Related Muscle Pain, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 653

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Planning a Supplement Regimen, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 638

Planning a Supplement Regimen, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 638

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Krill Oil or Fish Oils, Pick One and take it. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 626

Krill Oil or Fish Oils, Pick One and take it. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 626

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KRILL OIL, OR FISH OIL. PICK ON AND TAKE IT- PART 3. INVITEⓇ HEALTH PODCAST, EPISODE 626

Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.

*Intro Music*

InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: [00:00:04] Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed health care professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that Invite Health has to offer, at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code podcast at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started. † [00:00:34]

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Jerry Hickey, Ph: [00:00:40] Welcome to part three of my podcast episodes. Krill or fish oils, pick one and take it. I’m reviewing different reasons why it is so important. Truly, for your health, the health of your brain and your heart, but also your muscles. I didn’t even go into bone health and many other reasons why it’s important to take one of these supplements just to ensure that you’re getting sufficient levels of the nutrients in fish oils. And the reason I, I opt personally to take Krill oil is there’s additional benefit, the benefits are actually amplified because there’s additional ingredients in the Krill oil versus the fish oils and not to mention there are other significant aspects, significant advantages actually to taking Krill because it’s easier to swallow. You don’t get the fish burps, it’s easier to keep fresh and there’s really a pretty good archive of research. And as new research coming out all the time about the benefits of fish oils and Krill oil. So the name once again is Krill or fish oils, pick one and take it. I prefer Krill oil. My name is Jerry Hickey, I’m a nutritional pharmacist, I’m also the senior scientific officer over here at Invite Health. You can find all of the Invite Health podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts for free that is, and you can also just go to invitehealth.com/podcast and listen to any of these. There’s hundreds of them at this point performed by different health professionals. You can also find Invite at Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at Invite Health. So I really want to get into this because now we’re going to go into studies about the heart and a lot of them will be with fish oils, but Krill will accomplish the same thing. This is the journal Pharmacological Research. So we’re going way down memory lane. This is 1999, September 1999, so we’ve known about these benefits for many decades. And they’re looking at the DHA specifically in fish oils, DHA is one of the major fats in fish oils and krill oil, and it’s very good for the brain. It’s also very good for the heart, it’s good for the eyes, it’s good for your muscles and bones. It’s good for women’s breasts, it’s good for the colon. It’s just fantastic for the liver. It’s looking at fish oils close to 200 milligrams of DHA per day, reduced the risk of dying, the rate of dying, the rate of dying after a heart attack by 50%. And there was a very strong correlation that fish oils in general reduce thrombosis. In other words, because they’re anti-inflammatory, they help prevent improper blood clotting. Now, they’re not really a great blood thinner. In fact, they’re pretty poor blood thinner. So I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t depend on fish oils as a blood thinner, you’re better off with a low dose aspirin. We don’t call them baby aspirins anymore because they can cause damage to children if there are particular viruses, nerve damage. We call them low dose adult aspirin. So you’re better off taking a low dose adult aspirin to help prevent blood clots. But fish oils work in a different way because they’re anti-inflammatory. They’re not directly thinning the blood, they’re just helping prevent thrombosis by reducing the inflammation that might trigger a blood clot that can lead to a stroke or heart attack. And fish oils also, of course, reduce triglycerides and they help prevent cardiac arrhythmias. This is all coming out of that study in 1999. We knew even before that of these benefits, so this is The Lancet. † [00:04:18]

[00:04:19] The Lancet is sort of the British version of the New England Journal of Medicine, and it’s the March 2007 edition. And they said there’s epidemiological and clinical evidence. Epidemiological means they’re looking at large population studies, and clinical evidence means they actually did a study specific to fish oils and they said the increased intake of n-3 long chain fatty acids, now that’s interesting. The terminology for fish oils, there could be n-3 fatty acids, they could be a long chain fatty acid, EPA, DHA, fish oils, there’s all different names. They protect you from mortality related to coronary artery disease. So, I mean, there’s so much evidence. So, this is Kobe University, Kobe University. They tested the long-term effects of EPA and a prevention of major heart related events from our age of coronary events and patients with elevated cholesterol. So, they’re looking at Kobe University, by the way. So, in Japan, they’re looking at 18,645 patients with elevated cholesterol. So, their cholesterol’s typically 251 mg/dl. Another way to say that it would be above 6.5 million moles per liter, there’s different ways of saying these terms, that’s how medicine is. You know, you’re stuck with all these terms and they’re looking at statins versus statins, plus fish oil EPA over a five-year period. So, they looked at sudden cardiac death, they’re looking at cardiac arrest, they’re looking at fatal heart attacks and survivable heart attacks, non-fatal heart attacks. They’re looking at unstable angina, which is very dangerous. That’s when you’re not getting enough blood flow to the heart. They’re looking at the need for heart surgery and stenting or angioplasty or bypass surgery or grafting, and they found that adding the EPA from fish oils onto a statin, reduced the death of fatal heart attacks by 19%. That’s above and beyond any benefit from a drug. And they reduce the risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with coronary artery disease. And I mean, it was reducing LDL cholesterol, a major factor in cardiac events. It was preventing unstable angina; it was preventing nonfatal heart attacks. It was, all of this was reduced in a group that was getting the EPA, which one of the fish oils, one of the oils in fish oils and Krill oil added to a statin. Now, let’s just talk about sudden cardiac death. Sudden cardiac death kills anywhere from 250 to 350,000 Americans each year. What happens? They have cardiac arrest. This happened to that football player on the Buffalo Bills about six weeks ago. And this is what killed Elvis Presley’s daughter. What’s her name? Priscilla Presley. I don’t keep up with that stuff, I’m not big into like you know, celebrities. So, but it killed Elvis Presley’s daughter. And so cardiac arrest is usually a byproduct of having heart disease, something some kind of damage to the heart. But it can also happen from like an accident, like severe trauma to the chest and the heart stops beating. The problem is only about 8% of the people who suffer with this, the heart starts to beat again. So, it kills over a quarter of a million Americans each year. There’s many, many scores of studies that fish oils reduce your risk of sudden cardiac death by a very solid figure. So that alone, never mind the additional benefits for the brain and the eyes and the muscles and the bones, etc. That alone makes it consequential for taking a fish oil supplement. I mean, there’s true benefit there. So, this is the Journal Nutrients. The Journal Nutrients March 2010, it’s the Department of Preventive Cardiology, Ludwig Maximilian University, that’s in Munich, Germany. Never met them, never been to Germany. I always wanted to go there, especially Munich and the Black Forest area. That’s on my kind of bucket list, except I expect to live for many more years. I’ve got a very long time to complete my bucket list, I believe. So, here’s what they state, sudden cardiac death is responsible for 15% of all deaths in Western countries. And that increased intake of the fish oil or the krill oil fats, the EPA, DHA protects us from sudden cardiac death and other major cardiac events, according to an analysis of data by this group. † [00:09:27]

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[00:09:29] So this is the British Medical Journal December 2008, and they looked at 12 studies. They did a meta-analysis where they grouped all these studies, so it’s all different researchers and thousands of people. It’s 32,779 patients. Fish oils decreased the risk of sudden cardiac death up to 48% and reduced risk of dying from any cardiac cause up to 31%. So, I mean, listen, we know that aspirins help protect you and there’s evidence that statins help protect you and ACE inhibiting drugs help protect you from all these things. But fish oils really important, and I have to add, at this point, certain things reduce the amount of fish oils in your body. Statin drugs, believe it or not, there are certain nutrients that are important for your brain and your heart. And statin drugs take them out of the body for one reason or another. So one of them would be Ubiquinol, the active form of CoQ10, statin drugs to reduce the amount of ubiquinol in the body, you actually need additional Ubiquinol if you’re on a statin drug because it gives the brain and your eyes and all your high energy organs like your pancreas and your liver and your skin and your kidneys, but especially your heart and your muscles, gives them energy, endurance and stamina. So here you’re taking a drug for the heart and it’s reducing a major nutrient that’s important for the heart called Ubiquinol. So, if you’re on a statin drug, you have to take Ubiquinol. If you’re on statin drug, you have to take lutein, lutein is important for your vision and your brain, your memory. If you’re on a statin drug, you have to take fish oils. Statin drugs, reduce the amount of fish oils in the body. So instead of just taking a regular amount of fish oils, if you’re on a statin drug, you actually need more than the general population would need. There’s something called the omega three index, it’s the amount of fish oils on your red blood cell versus all the other oils. And you want it over 8% because that’s really where you get the heart and brain benefits for fish oils. You can have that test done, it’s a blood test. So, reducing the risk of dying from heart attacks and strokes and arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death and all of these other things, even if you’re on a statin or aspirin or an ACE inhibitor or one of these fancy drugs, you really should be on fish oils. † [00:11:56]

[00:11:58] And like I said, I prefer Krill oil, I take three a day with my breakfast. But I do eat fish, I do eat fish, I eat fish several times a week. So, this is the Mayo Clinic proceedings, I’m kind of a Mayo Clinic kind of guy, you know, you see the kind of the Mayo Clinic in competition with the Cleveland Clinic. And I’ve seen some things out of the Cleveland Clinic that just didn’t sit right with my knowledge set. So, I’ve always kind of been biased towards the stuff that comes out of the Mayo Clinic. I just have more confidence in them than the Cleveland Clinic and what can I tell you? So according to the Mayo Clinic proceedings, December 2019, Fish Oils Reduce Cardiovascular Events. This is the University of Queensland School of Medicine in New Orleans and University of South Dakota School of Medicine and St Luke’s Mid-America Heart Institute. So, fish oils reduce cardiovascular events. What’s a cardiovascular event? Could be sudden cardiac death, it could be a cardiac arrest, which is kind of like a heart seizure. It could be an arrhythmia, like atrial fibrillation when heart’s beating erratically and very rapidly and it could throw off a blood clot that ends you by causing a stroke. It could be a heart attack. I mean, it could be anything, anything with the heart. So, fish oils reduced cardiovascular events. They reviewed three randomized controlled trials, very large trials of fish oils on the occurrence of cardiovascular events, and here’s what they found. One trial had 8179 patients, most with coronary heart disease, which is the biggest killer in the world. The arteries in the heart clogged. The arteries are usually the biggest blood vessels, but the ones in the heart, they’re kind of small, they’re like a sippy straw that you get in a kid’s drink, you know, like the kid’s apple juice, they have that little sippy straw. So, when they get clogged, I mean, it’s very dangerous because there’s not really a lot of room for blood to get to the heart in the first place. You know, even though the heart’s pumping blood, the heart also needs blood. So, the arteries that feed the heart are getting clogged here and high doses of fish oils, especially EPA, reduced risk of major coronary events by 25%. So, the two other large recent randomized controlled trials, 840 mg a day of EPA and DHA, good quality fish oils, significantly, very significantly reduced risk of coronary heart disease, deaths and cardiovascular deaths and events. So, this is especially true in people who don’t consume fish because they’ve got to be very low on fish oils. And how much fish do you need to eat? You need two good servings, like eight ounces of fish twice a week. A lot of people don’t eat fish. I’ll tell you, there’s nothing that tastes better than a freshly caught fish. Like if you’re down in Florida and you could get those, what they call them, mangrove snappers or yellow snappers, I mean, you can’t hurt those fish, they are delicious. So, you know, if you don’t like fish, those are a good fish to look at, they taste delicious. † [00:14:58]

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[00:14:59] So here’s more from the Mayo Clinic proceedings, January 2017. It’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, they’re up at EpiDStat Institute, and they’re looking at 18 randomized controlled human clinical trials and 16 prospective cohort studies. And this is examining fish oils and heart attacks, fish oils and sudden cardiac death, fish oils and anything related to your circulation and death and fish oils related to angina, which is a lack of blood flow to the heart and in patients with elevated triglycerides in these studies in a randomized controlled trials or with high LDL cholesterol. Fish oils really help prevent coronary heart disease risk. They just cut the risk of coronary heart disease and they significantly cut the risk of any coronary heart disease related event. Now, here’s, this really is like the verdict on fish oils. It’s a massive review, an unbelievably comprehensive review that was published recently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. It was published on December 28th, 2022, which is very recent. And they looked at all these supplements, all these supplements. You know, people say this is good for the heart and that’s good for the heart, so they said, you know, let’s cut through the nonsense. Let’s see what supplements are really good for the heart, which supplements have really top-notch evidence that they’re good for your heart. They’re important for your heart. So, they collated 884 randomized controlled human clinical trials that were included in their meta-analysis. So, they looked at many more studies on that. So, this combined the results from 883,000 people, I mean, that’s bigger than most cities. Now who performed this? Brown University. Brown University’s Ivy League. Right? And Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai is where my doctors are, it’s a great place, Mount Sinai in Manhattan. And they have, you know, Mount Sinai satellites now out in Suffolk County, Long Island, and down in West Palm Beach, Florida. So, you know, you can get to Mount Sinai doctors and they found that fish oils and folate and Ubiquinol are extremely important for your heart. Fish oils, if you had cardiovascular disease, a big killer, fish oils prevented you from dying from cardiovascular disease and they prevented you from dying from a heart attack and they prevented coronary heart disease related events. I mean, this is real data, they were preventing you from having a heart attack or a stroke or arrhythmias or dying from these things. Now, there’s many studies, many additional studies besides what they include in their review that show this. So fish oils, I’m going to rest my case there. I’ve got so many other studies. I’ve got so many other studies. In fact, very quickly, I’ll review a couple of more studies, but let’s just look at the other two supplements very quickly. Fish oils, I use Krill, very good for the heart. Ubiquinol, active version of Coenzyme Q10, very good for the heart. Your heart has a great demand for energy. It’s beating basically 80 times per minute, so that’s over 100,000 times a day. It’s pumping blood, so it never gets a rest, it needs a lot of energy. Ubiquinol is a source of energy, ubiquinol allows the heart to use sugar for energy so, and Ubiquinol levels drop with age. And if you’re on a statin drug, that further lowers your Ubiquinol level. And if you’re diabetic, you can’t create Ubiquinol out of CoQ10, Ubiquinol is the accurate version of CoQ10. So not only are fish oils or Krill oil important for the heart, Ubiquinol is important for the heart and so is folate, folate is a B vitamin in most multivitamins and b-complex, is they use a synthetic form called folic acid. The problem with that is not everybody can convert it into the active form, which is methyltetrahydrafolate. So, if you get a b-complex or you get a multivitamin, make sure the form of folate in there is methyltetrahydrafolate. It’s very important for reducing your risk of stroke and also reducing your risk of Alzheimer’s disease. I promised you several more quick studies on fish oil. So, let’s get to that, now we’re looking at like Alzheimer’s and vascular dementia and Parkinson’s dementia, that’s a new study. But many other studies really support these findings. So, it’s not the study is not existing in a vacuum and its results are supported by other studies. Fish oils reduce the risk of instant dementia. So, it’s reducing the number of people that are diagnosed with vascular dementia or frontotemporal dementia. It’s not the one that Bruce Willis was just diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. It’s in the journal Frontiers in Neuroscience, and they’re looking at 219,000 people over the age of 60 in the UK, and they followed them for approximately 12 years. I mean, fish oils reduced the risk of vascular dementia by 57%. Vascular dementia is a dementia in and of itself, but it’s also part and parcel of other dementias. So, here’s a meta-analysis from 2016. A meta-analysis means they took a whole bunch of studies and put them together. So, they have to make sure that these studies are well performed, and they are lacking bias and they report it properly. And the beauty of a meta-analysis, you’re taking all of these academic research institutions and you’re clustering together, you’re collating it together. So, you’re getting all different researchers and all different types of people. So, it’s 21 cohort studies, approximately a little over 181,000 people. Fish oils prevented cognitive impairment in people as they age. And fish oils prevented incident dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, so they were good for depression. They clip your mood ups of several points. So, you know, you really need to pick one and take it even if you’re eating fish several times a week. A lot of things lower the amount of fish oils in your body, and you want a good amount fish oils in your body like statin drugs, lower the amount of fish oils and aging lowers the amount of fish oils in the body for some crazy reason. So, you want to make sure you have enough, and by taking a fish oil supplement every day or a Krill oil supplement every day, it’s further insurance that you have enough fish oils. So, thanks for listening to my podcast episode. You can find all of our podcast episodes for free wherever you listen to podcast or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast. And if you could leave a review and also, you know, sign up, subscribe please, and it’ll be very helpful. You can also find Invite on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at Invite Health. I want to thank you for listening today and I hope to see you next time on another episode of InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Jerry Hickey signing off, have a great day. † [00:14:59]

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You’re Older, think about taking these supplements, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 620

You’re Older, think about taking these supplements, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 620

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Don’t Get Frail, Fight Back, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 619.

Don’t Get Frail, Fight Back, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 619.

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Lowering the risk of Cardiac Arrest, Part 2, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 616

Lowering the risk of Cardiac Arrest, Part 2, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 616

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LOWERING THE RISK OF CARDIAC ARREST, PART 2- INVITEⓇ HEALTH PODCAST, EPISODE 616

Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.

*Intro Music*

InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro:[00:00:04] Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast where our degreed health care professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InVite Health has to offer at, www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code podcast at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started.†  [00:00:34]

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Jerry Hickey, Ph.: [00:00:40] The name of this episode, this being part two, is lowering the risk of cardiac arrest. Now, what caused me, what spurred me on to do this episode is the Buffalo Bills, Damar Hamlin had an incident during a game recently. They had to stop the game, of course, and fortunately he’s progressing. He’s coming back towards good health and you would think so, I mean, he’s a powerful young guy, extremely fit. But it struck again, cardiac arrest struck again. Lisa Marie Presley, she was only 54 and she died on January 12th, that was Elvis Presley’s daughter, hi, my name is Jerry Hickey, welcome to my episode, part two, lowering the Risk of Cardiac arrest. You can find all invited episodes for free wherever you listen to podcast or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast. You can also find invite on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter at Invite Health. And all of the information on this episode will be listed in any description.†  [00:01:47]

[00:01:50] Now, cardiac arrest is an electrical problem. The heart stops beating and sadly, in the lion’s share of cases that occur outside of a hospital, it’s not survivable. It progresses of a sudden cardiac death, meaning the heart doesn’t start to beat again, it does not restart. So it’s a very atrocious number and it’s different from a heart attack. A heart attack is generally a blockage problem, but of course, it can lead to cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac death. These are horrible names. Now, the most common cause is an issue with the heart like heart failure or having had heart attacks, etc. So you can listen to part one of this episode for the statistics and for the risk factors, and I believe I laid down good evidence for fish oils protecting your heart in part one, lowering your risk of a heart attack, lowering your risk of cardiac arrest, and especially lowering your risk of sudden cardiac death. So let’s keep on going and I’m going to broaden the conversation. Are there other supplements that may have some ability to lower your risk of cardiac arrest? So here’s from the Mayo Clinic proceedings, January 2017. It’s the Epidstat institute in Ann Arbor, Maine, along with other institutions and, of course, a VA hospital in Illinois because you need the patients. But they looked at a whole bunch of studies. They looked at 18 randomized controlled trials and randomized controlled trials in patients with elevated triglycerides or elevated LDL cholesterol, and of course, many of them were on statins. Fish oils were protective from coronary heart disease risk. That’s very important because coronary heart disease is what leads to heart failure and strokes and sudden cardiac death and cardiac arrest and all these other horrible things. In a cohort study, so there were 16 prospective cohort studies and 18 randomized controlled trials looking at fish oils and the risk of a heart attack and the risk of sudden cardiac death and risk of coronary death dying from anything with the heart, the risk of angina, you know, poor blood flow to the heart, which is a killer and a cohort studies fish oils, significant decrease for the risk of any coronary heart disease event, any coronary heart disease event. Now, that could be anything from an arrhythmia to a heart attack, to cardiac arrest, to heart failure to sudden cardiac death. So Fish oils really are important. And let me just tell you something, if you’re on a statin, you need more fish oils than normal because statins deplete your fish oils, there’s less fish oils in the blood when you’re on a statin, you actually need more fish oil if you are on a statin, to make up for the part that’s dumped out by the statins, that’s depleted by the statins. It has to do with the carriers, there’s different forms of cholesterol that carry fish oils around the body, and when those levels go down, the fish oils naturally will decline also because there’s nothing left to carry them. So if you’re on a statin, you actually need additional fish oils, so that’s a really important point. Not to mention that fish oil absorption declines with age in the first place. You always want to know fish oils.†  [00:05:29]

[00:05:31] So here is a pretty darn good verdict on cardiac arrest that’s published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, December 28, 2022. Looking at a huge, comprehensive, absolutely unbelievable, massive review on supplements and the heart. So this is a good verdict on any supplement which supplements have good evidence that they are important for the heart. They looked at 884 randomized controlled human clinical trials. Now, if this doesn’t tell you what’s important, nothing will. It was a combined total of 883,000 people, so we’re going towards a million people. That’s more people than in most cities, even major cities. So who performed this massive collation of data and and really sifting through the data and analyzing it and putting, you know, what’s real up on the board? Well, Brown University, now that’s Ivy League, Brown University’s Ivy League and Mt. Sinai Icahn School of Medicine, which is a great institution, Mount Sinai in New York City, and from what I understand, they now have a mount Sinai satellite down in West Palm Beach, right near to the bridge that goes over to Palm Beach, it’s a great place. It really is, there’s great, there’s great researchers there. There’s great doctors there. It’s very, extremely well-organized, it’s one of those New York City, incredibly organized medical centers. So it’s Brown University in Mount Sinai. And they are looking at all these different supplements and huge number of studies, a huge number of people, fish oils, folate and Ubiquinol are extremely important. So I’m going to spend a little time explaining these things. They found fish oils reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, mortality, dying from cardiovascular disease. They reduce the risk of a heart attack. Now, they did give you figures, you know these figures, they’re not rock solid, reducing the risk of cardiovascular mortality by 7%. But you have to understand these people are already on a lot of drugs. These people are on drugs for high blood pressure, for arrhythmias, for diabetes. So they’re already on the best medicine, many of these people. Adding the fish oils furthers reducing the risk of dying from some kind of heart related disease by 7%, heart attacks by 15%. Now, that’s unbelievable. What’s more scarier than a heart attack, coronary heart disease events by 14%. This is real. I mean, this is real benefit, coronary heart disease, that’s blockages of blood vessels, so you’re reducing the risk of a stroke, heart attack, sudden cardiac death, cardiac arrest, all these different things, arrhythmias. Now, this meta analysis is conclusive, it really is conclusive.†  [00:08:37]

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[00:08:38] Now, let’s look at folate. I want to explain folate, we’ve done podcast episodes on folate. Folate is named after foliage because it’s a vitamin that’s ubiquitous in plants. Problem is, that doesn’t mean you can convert it into the active form, so that’s one consideration. Plus, it’s not the easiest thing to get out of the plants, there are things that get in the way with the absorption of folate. Now, a lot of companies in their multivitamins, they use a synthetic form called folic acid, which I am not a fan of, because even myself and my wife, we don’t fully convert folic acid to the active form, the active form is methyltetrahydrafolate. So you really want if you get a supplement, you want to get the MTHF form of folate or folic acid, you want to get the MTHF form, which is methyltetrahydrafolate, because for one thing it lowers homocysteine. Homocysteine in the brain is strongly connected with Alzheimer’s disease risk and homocysteine in the heart, not by itself, it needs other risks, but in the heart, along with other risks like elevated uric acid or super high blood pressure, high blood sugar, etc. is dangerous for the heart and it causes other problems too. So you want to get the methyltetrahydrafolate form of folate because that’s already active. So you know what’s going to protect you.†  [00:10:00]

[00:10:02] And Ubiquinol, raising Ubiquinol in the blood lowered the risk of all cause mortality by 32%. Now, this is incredible, once again, this is based on 883,000 people from 884 randomized controlled human clinical trials. So what is so called all cause mortality, it’s very important to understand what this means. All cause mortality is dying from anything getting run over by a bus, drowning, committing suicide. But most, commonly a stroke or heart attack, Alzheimer’s disease, heart failure, infections, things of this nature. So a 32% drop in all cause mortality. But of course, if you look at the data that’s going towards all cause mortality, mostly related to the heart. So Ubiquinol is the active form of coenzyme Q10. Coenzyme Q10 is Ubiquinone, and when you swallow Ubiquinone, A, it has to be absorbed, it’s very poorly absorbed, but B, it has to be converted to Ubiquinol or Ubiquinol, depending on who you speak to, you can pronounce it either way apparently. You don’t fully convert it many times, like older people have trouble converting regular CoQ10 to Ubiquinol. Diabetics have trouble converting CoQ10 to Ubiquinol. People with chronic progressive neuromuscular conditions have trouble converting CoQ10 to Ubiquinol. So I think in a lot of people, especially diabetics and the elderly, you’re much better off opting for Ubiquinol. Ubiquinol is involved with dealing with fatigue because Ubiquinol is at the core of converting sugar into energy. So as Ubiquinol levels naturally decline with age because they will wear after a decline severely and suddenly because of diabetes you become fatigued. You have less strength, less endurance, less stamina. Research shows this, by the way, that’s another one. Besides fish oils, Ubiquinol levels are also lowered by some statins. I don’t know if all statins do it, but many statins will do it.†  [00:12:14]

[00:12:16] Now, also reducing the risk of cardiovascular issues. So they found that other things reduce your risk of cardiovascular issues, some of these are found in a multivitamin. I’ll go through each one, let’s do the common ones first. Omega six fatty acids, which are vegetable oils, basically in a supplement that could be evening primrose oil, that would be omega six. A little bit of omega six is needed to balance out the omega three, the omega three is fish oils and krill oil and eating fish and eating certain seafood, omega six are more vegetable oils, but there’s a balance. You need both for your immune system, you need both for natural balance in the body of everything that goes on biologically in your body, that there should be a natural rhythm to everything, a natural balanced everything. So you need the omega three, the omega six. Problem is, most Americans get too much omega six, and that makes them violently inflamed, and this contributes to diseases such as heart disease and cancer, etc. Not that the omega six is bad, but you need the balance of omega three. So, N-6, well, that’s an abbreviation for omega six fatty acids has been shown in natural quantities, not super high quality to lower your risk of cardiovascular issues. So has a vitamin D? Well, that makes sense. I mean, vitamin D is important for regulating many things, including inflammation, and inflammation is causative of heart disease problems, cardiovascular problems. So vitamin D, Zinc? Well, yes. First of all, Zinc works with vitamin D to control your blood sugar through your pancreas. The hormones release from the pancreas to control your blood sugar so it’s not too high or too low. But Zinc is also needed to control the immune system. And without enough Zinc you become inflamed, just like lacking vitamin D, become inflamed.†  [00:14:13]

[00:14:14] Magnesium. Magnesium’s amazing. Most Americans do not get enough magnesium. Magnesium, first of all, activates vitamin D, So if you’re lacking magnesium, your body doesn’t work and you become inflamed and inflammation leads to heart disease and other diseases. And I’m not talking about major inflammation like, like having a lupus or an infection of the lungs. I’m talking about low grade, chronic long term inflammation from a poor diet, lack of exercise, etc.. So if you lack magnesium, you become inflamed because you can’t activate vitamin D, and without vitamin D, you can’t control the immune system and it just goes to inflammation. But magnesium to so many other things, it also activates melatonin. Melatonin is needed for memory, melatonin is needed for the immune system. Melatonin is needed for good healthy digestive system. Melatonin is needed for your bones, melatonin is needed for you, for so many things. So that’s vitamin D, Zinc and Magnesium that you would get in a good vitamin and omega six fatty acids that you get in your food, like, you know, like sesame seeds and things like that would have omega six fatty acids.†  [00:15:24]

[00:15:24] L -Citrulline, well, L- Citrulline is an amino acid and it’s very important, citrulline is an alpha amino acid. Amino acids make proteins and enzymes and hormones. Amino acids make you and make you function. Citrulline is important because one, it makes something that’s important for your muscles and strength and energy called beta hydroxy beta methyl butyrate. But Citrulline is also important for breakdown products of your muscles, Ammonia products, the body getting rid of them into urea cycle so citrulline support and so citrulline helps lower your risk of heart disease events and developing heart disease itself. Along with that is L-arginine. Now that’s interesting, L-arginine is also an alpha amino acid. L-Arginine is conditionally essential, L-Arginine helps just like Citrulline and helps build muscle, L-Arginine actually creates some Citrulline as a byproduct. L-Arginine normally creates nitric oxide and nitric oxide keeps blood flowing in the body, and nitric oxide helps fight viruses and it does a whole bunch of other things. But the major activity of nitric oxide is blood flow. It pushes up in your blood vessels. So when your heart pumps blood, the blood reach your muscles and your organs and your feet and your brain, etc. The blood vessels have to pop open, it’s the gas nitric oxide that pushes it open and arginine triggers nitric oxide synthase to create nitric oxide so you can function. So arginine has an ability to lower the risk of cardiovascular issues. Citrulline, two amino acids.†  [00:17:15]

[00:17:15] Quercetin. Quercetin is very interesting. First of all, Quercetin is a Flavonoid. It’s very common in food, but even the best diet doesn’t give you a lot of it. Quercetin is something I supplement every day and I’ll tell you why in just a minute. Quercetin in foods is found in the best foods green tea, broccoli, garlic, onions, things of this nature, very healthy foods, berries, citrus fruits and quercetin in different studies is helpful with allergies, it helps you breathe. It’s helpful with blood pressure if you get enough. But you have to take a lot like 500 milligrams three times a day to help with circulation. Blood pressure stabilizes, blood vessel walls, so they function more realistically, more naturally, and as a kind of younger, healthier version of blood flow it leads to. Quercetin has some ability to reduce inflammation in the urinary tract and the prostate. I love Quercetin because it’s senolytic, there’s not many senolytics that we know of. Oh, one of them is Rapamycin, an investigational drug. It’s from Rapanui, you know, Easter Island and of a fungus, I believe and it a small amount of of rapamycin slows down the aging process and so does quercetin,so does Quercetin and it functions as a senolytic, that’s how it does that. With age, kind of we can see now cells are not getting removed the way we used to remove them. We used to have these little tweezers that remove these unhealthy cells, otherwise, they become toxic to the surrounding healthy cells. See that removing as many dead cells, etc. There are certain things like this that occur with aging. Quercetin restores the ability of an aging body to remove these kind of zombie cells to slow down the aging process. So they’re very interesting. But quercetin in and of itself lowers your risk of cardiovascular issues like like heart disease and stroke and heart attack, etc. But it always works better in conjunction with vitamin C. Melatonin has been shown to lower the risk of cardiovascular issues. Well, it does help regulate your immune system. Many immune cells actually have receptor sites for melatonin, meaning that they can’t do their job unless you express some melatonin, you release some melatonin and they come in contact with that. So melatonin very important for the immune system in a number of ways on a number of levels. And as a byproduct of that, it helps control inflammation.†  [00:19:53]

[00:19:55] Curcumin, now who couldn’t guess this? There’s a plant, the curry plant, called turmeric. It gives curry, its characteristic, odor and color and flavor, etc. I happen to love curry, but I take a well absorbed turmeric every day. I take something called bio curcumin every day. For one thing, it’s great for the brain that’s been shown to really be, I’ve done one or two podcast episodes on turmeric. You know, it has curcumin, because curcumin is the most well known constituent from it. The actual name of the plant is Curcuma Longa, but the most commonly known constituent is curcumin. But bare in mind, curcumin is only one of about 167 different ingredients that you find in this plant, it’s just one of them. There’s other really important ones like aromatic turmerone, and bismuthoxycurcumin, etc. You really want to get the entire plant, but you need to get a well absorbed one, there’s not many on the market. Like sometimes they get black pepper extract called bioperine to it to improve the absorption of it. So Benson makes that that we have it under our Dr. Pressman line. And then there’s the bio-curcumin, it has a massive, a massive number of studies. Curcumin is an anti-inflammatory. That’s as simple as that. As you grow older, you become increasingly more inflamed. You know, this low grade, everyday kind of inflammation that leads to disease, that breaks your body down, slowly but surely. You see that in diabetics, You see it in people who smoke, you see it in people who are obese. You see the people who drink a lot of alcohol, you see it in people with all kinds of different diseases. Curcumin, you see the inflammation, the low grade inflammation going on. Curcumin snuffs out that low grade inflammation. So not only is it great for your brain, it’s great for aches and pains, there’s so many studies where it’s good for backache and muscle pain and nerve pain and especially joint pain. It’s an anti-inflammatory, and that’s why I take it every day. I take two of them every morning with my breakfast.†  [00:21:48]

[00:21:50] Alpha lipoic acid lowers your risk of cardiovascular disease risk factors, the risk of cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attack, all these things. Alpha Lipoic acid is very interesting. It’s a form of lipoic acid that has some additional activities above and beyond lipoic acid. It’s commonly used in places like Germany for nerve pain, for neuropathy. There’s some good studies on that, by the way, and there’s studies, of course, they throw these natural things by the wayside. There’s of of natural things that help slow down Alzheimer’s disease or protect the brain. They’ve thrown it all out because there’s a billions of dollars are making the drug. So alpha lipoic acid is one of those supplements that has been shown to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease. And also, if you had Alzheimer’s disease, you’re take enough alpha lipoic acid because it’s so good for the nervous system. It slows down the progression of the Alzheimer’s disease according to some really good studies. But once again, they don’t talk about that because anybody can make alpha lipoic acid. There’s another one called ALCAR, acetyl L carnitine, it has, they work well together, by the way. They’re really good together. They have a synergism, they work much better than using each one alone. They’re fantastic for the brain. But the ALA, what does it do in the body? It’s involved with creating energy that’s involved creating acetyl coenzyme A, which is basically what your sugar, etc. is converted into, that you burn for energy inside your cells. Inside the power plants of your cells called mitochondria and but ALA is also a fantastic antioxidant and anti-inflammatory agent because it’s, it goes up to the fat soluble compartments of the body and it goes into the water soluble compartments of the body. And so it works all over the body. Most antioxidants work either like inside the cell or outside the cell or just in particular places, ALA, alpha lipoic acid works everywhere in the body and it has an ability to reduce free radicals four times, so it’s always getting rejuvenated and it can rejuvenate other antioxidants like Glutathione, the mother of all antioxidants or Vitamin C or Vitamin E, etc.. And ALA is fantastic. It helps control blood sugar a little bit, but it’s fantastic for the health of the liver. But in this in this huge review, ALA reduces your risk of developing cardiovascular issues.†  [00:24:05]

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[00:24:07] And the last thing is catechins. Well, it’s not the last thing, there’s also flavanols. Catechins are a type of flavanol. We spoke about Quercetin before and you also you often see Quercetin where there’s catechins, so catechins can be things like Epigallocatechin Gallate, EGCG, you find amazing amounts of this in green tea, but you find catechins in apples and pears and cocoa, in sweet potatoes. In purple potatoes, always go with the darker potatoes. They’re much healthier than a light potato, the lighter color potatoes. So the purple and the black potatoes and the red potatoes and the sweet potatoes are much healthier than regular potatoes because they have these catechins. Catechins will help protect the vascular system. There’s a huge amount of research on this, so yeah, I drink green tea every day. I eat an apple every day. I do have a piece of dark chocolate every day.†  [00:25:01]

[00:25:03] And the last thing is flavanols. And once again you find flavanols where you find catechins. So green tea, apples, cocoa, berries like blueberries and blackberries, onions, kale, broccoli, lettuce. So you know, you can eat your way to good health and lower your risk of heart disease by consuming these foods. But also make sure you get a good multivitamin. Plus you want the active folate, methyltetrahydrafolate, you want the vitamin D, you want the Zinc, you want some magnesium. Don’t depend on your food to get enough Zinc and Magnesium. It probably is not happening. Same with vitamin D. And, you know, you might want to think about taking Quercetin like I do and Turmeric, you know, a well absorbed turmeric that supplies curcumin and all those other ingredients. These are ways to lower the risk of diseases. I mean, it’s it’s pretty solid evidence out there. There’s a great deal of evidence. And anyway, thanks for listening to my episode. You can find all of our episodes at InVite Health for free from Invite Health for free, wherever you listen to podcasts or just go to Invitehealth.com/podcast. You can also find Invite at Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at Invite Health. I want to thank you for listening today and I hope to see you next time on the next episode of InViteⓇ Health Podcast. Jerry Hickey signing off. Have a great day. Really have a great one.†   [00:25:03]

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