Heart Disease, Homocysteine, B Vitamins--and You

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Thursday, May 08, 2008
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Despite the constant stream of studies that shows use of targeted vitamins and supplements rarely does any good for specific conditions such as heart disease, the vitamin and supplement industry continues to boom. Today comes another high-quality study on supplements and heart disease. This ...

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No ONE Vitamin can make a major change . . . .
Wally
Friday, May 09, 2008 at 11:22 AM

there's not a single 'miracle' vitamin out there for any health condition HOWEVER it does come back to the proper overall nutrition of the body. What you eat and drink is very important along with exercise. Supplements should only be used (as opposed to a toxic pharmaceutical drug) as a crutch to give the body the nutrition it needs until the person can muster up enough courage to change their eating and drinking habits, which has 'caused' the problem in most cases. ANYTHING that goes into the body effects the body, that includes food, drinks, smoke, pollution and 'yes', even chemical based drugs. You've heard the expression 'you are what you eat'? It goes further than that - you are what you eat, what you assimulate and what you do not eliminate (referring to cleaning out the colon and it's stored up waste). Think about it.

re: No ONE Vitamin can make a major change . . . .
Craig Stoltz
Friday, May 09, 2008 at 03:17 PM

Wally--Thanks for your comment. From where I sit, it's spot-on.

Craig

re: No ONE Vitamin can make a major change . . . .
John
Thursday, July 09, 2009 at 09:38 PM

Wrong Wrong Wrong............when taken at theraputic doses there are suppliments that do make major improvements in ones health. I am a direct witness of a patient who had severe cardio-myopathy ..... EF of 15%. She took high dose CoQ10 of 300mg a day for 3 months and her EF returned to 55%. CoQ10 is one of the most prescribed cardiac treatments in Europe and Asia.......There's a reason for it. It works. Don't believe everything the FDA puts out.

Exercise
Tom Gray
Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 01:28 PM

Exercise not only helps prevent heart disease, it makes you feel good and helps prevent a whole host of other maladies, including dementia and some types of cancer. That would be my top recommendation.

vitamina and supplements in heart disease
Sylvia Vetter
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 at 08:41 AM

I'm curious: I take vitamins and COQ10 100 mg for my general health and ENERGY. Besides atrial arrhythmia and LVH I have fibromyalgia which lowers my energy (the rheumatologist doc added COQ). Quit smoking 10 years ago! My question is altho vits and supps wont help heart disease, will they cause any harm??