Seven Key Nutrients for a Healthier Heart
New This Week: December 4, 2012
Optimizing Your Health, Part 9: Heart Health
Dear Readers,
The heart is the hardest working organ in your body — the non-stop pump that constantly moves oxygen and nutrition to every other organ, system and cell. Believe it or not, your heart beats about 100,000 times a day. That's 3.5 million times a year, or 2.5 billion times during an average lifetime!
And if your hardworking heart isn't working right, you're not going to feel at your best. But a superfood and several key nutrients can do your heart a world of good.
To optimize your heart's health, here are the nutritional recommendations I heartily get behind.
Love & blessings,
Dr. T
Research Briefs
Special Report: The Antiviral Valcyte for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
As I have reported for the last five years, a small subset of CFS and fibromyalgia patients respond well to the antiviral Valcyte (valganciclovir). I have also discussed how to tell which patients are more likely to respond to these antivirals.
This new study (conducted by Jose Montoya, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine) supports his earlier research, which showed that a group of patients with CFS had significant improvement using this prescription antiviral.
The medication is very expensive, so it is usually saved for those people whose health insurance covers it. It may take four months to see the benefit. And it occasionally causes an initial flaring of symptoms. I have found it to be helpful in a subset of the patients that I treat.
Sitting Less Could Add Years to Your Life
Your heart is a muscle, and muscles like exercise! So if you want to optimize the health of your heart, get moving. A daily walk in the great outdoors not only tones your heart. It also provides you with the "sunshine vitamin," vitamin D — a nutrient that is a must for a healthy heart. In fact, a recent study shows that getting out of your chair and just walking around the room might help add years to your life.
See the article at Medpage Today »
More Magnesium, Stronger Heart
In this week's newsletter we recommend taking magnesium to help promote optimal heart health. Well, a recent study in the journal Atherosclerosis seconds this motion — showing that a diet low in magnesium might be a setup for a sub-optimal heart health.
Cool Stuff
Halloween Pets
We might be a few weeks late with these. But you'll love them just the same.
Funny Stuff
Important Fruit-of-the-Loom
A little boy opened the big family Bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of it. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages.
"Mama, look what I found," the boy called out.
"What have you got there, dear?"
With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered.
"I think it's Adam's underwear!"
Jacob Teitelbaum, M.D. is one of the world's leading integrative medical authorities on fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue. He is the lead author of eight research studies on their effective treatments, and has published numerous health & wellness books, including the bestseller on fibromyalgia From Fatigued to Fantastic! and The Fatigue and Fibromyalgia Solution. Dr. Teitelbaum is one of the most frequently quoted fibromyalgia experts in the world and appears often as a guest on news and talk shows nationwide including Good Morning America, The Dr. Oz Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN, and Fox News Health.
