by drspar | All, Heart Health
Have you heard of red yeast rice? Made by culturing rice with strains of yeast, red yeast rice has been used in Chinese medicine and cooking for over 1,000 years. Because it contains cholesterol-lowering substances called monacolins—most notably monacolin K, which has...
by drspar | All, Heart Health
When it comes to heart health, much of the power is in your hands. Lifestyle choices can be so helpful that they may protect you even if, as I write about here, you’re genetically predisposed to developing heart disease. One study found people who ate more fruits and...
by drspar | All, Heart Health
Eating well is an excellent way to boost overall health, and it can be especially beneficial for your heart—a concept I discuss in detail here. I’ve listed some of my favorite foods for heart attack and stroke prevention, and I recently wrote about the reverse heart...
by drspar | All, Heart Health
You’ve heard about unhealthy foods causing heart problems—some restaurants even give decadent menu items names like “the heart attack burger”. But diet can also positively affect your heart and health? Tweaking your eating habits can improve your blood pressure and...
by drspar | All, Heart Health
If you’re a man of a certain age, you’ve probably heard some pretty frightening statistics about cardiovascular disease, like the fact that it accounts for about 1 in 3 deaths in the United States, or that it kills more people every year than all forms of cancer and...
by drspar | All, Heart Health
If you’re relying on the basic tests you get at your annual physical to measure your health, you may not be seeing the whole picture. Many diseases won’t be caught, much less prevented, by the American Medical Associations’s standard of care testing. Or maybe you...
