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Cause of Heart Attacks and Strokes Besides Cholesterol

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by disgustipado

Cause of Heart Attacks and Strokes Above and beyond Cholesterol

There is a book by Dr Ray Strand titled: “What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know In this area Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You”, where it is stated in the book that an average 15 percent of the strokes and heart attacks happening right now in the world today is caused by an elevated level of homocysteine in the blood.

What Is Homocysteine?

An intermediate by product produced when we are breaking down a type of essential amino acid, methionine.  Methionine is found in huge amount in the normal food that we eat every day like meat, canned foods, flour, fresh milk, processed foods and eggs.

We need Methionine in our body to survive and it is really derived by converting homocysteine into cysteine or back to methionine.  Now, cysteine and methionine not harmful to our body in any way but the problem is that we need certain type of enzymes to break down the by-product homocysteine into cysteine or convert it back to methionine.

If the needed enzymes to break down homocysteine are not sufficient, the levels of the homocysteine in the blood will start to go up. 

Homocysteine is very different from cholesterol because cholesterol is needed by our own body to produce hormones and certain cell parts but homocysteine does not provide any benefits to our health at all.  If the levels of homocysteine is high, then there will be a fantastic risk of being paid heart attacks and strokes but if the level of the homocysteine is low, the better it is for our body.

Do you know the levels of homocysteine in your blood?  Have you checked it?  Can I encourage you to try out your homocysteine level since the cost of checking is less than 0 and have a peace of mind to know that you have a low level of homocysteine.

If you want to know more in this area the nutrients that is needed to convert homocysteine into cysteine or methionine, you can find out more at http://www.howcanigethealthy.com/healthblog/heart-health/homocysteine-one-of-the-cause-of-heart-attacks/

Eugene is providing information for individuals who wants to realize optimal health with the use of nutritional supplements on his health blog

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