The research now shows that high cholesterol is linked to LONGER life spans!

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“When it comes to your risk of death from heart disease, there’s much more evidence that inflammation is at the bottom of heart disease rather than high cholesterol, just as it is for a number of other serious diseases.”

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More and more people continue to be prescribed statin drugs as we lower the acceptable total cholesterol number…even though the direct links have been disproven per this article…

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Please read the entire article to learn more about aspirin, statin drugs and more!

In this newsletter, we’re going to be talking about daily, low-dose aspirin as recommended by the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the American Stroke Association, and probably 90% of the doctors’ offices you walk into. 1 In fact, this message has been so-well inculcated into the American public that over 30% of the adult population now self-reports as taking low-dose aspirin for primary or secondary cardiovascular disease prevention. 2

Perhaps not coincidently, the use of aspirin to prevent heart attacks parallels the use of statin drugs to prevent heart attacks. And by that, I mean they have three things in common.

1. Studies have indicated that their use is minorly beneficial for people who have already had one heart attack
2. There are no studies that indicate they are beneficial for people who have never had a heart attack
3. And they both come with potentially serious side effects

When it comes to statin drugs, although you may believe the medical community is unified in its commitment to their use as a prophylactic, that’s simply not the case. As we mentioned earlier, the debate within the medical community is intense–especially as more and more studies indicate that the rewards do not outweigh the risks unless you’ve already had a heart attack. And even then, there may be better alternatives.

When it comes to aspirin, however, there has not been as much debate, simply because there haven’t been many gold standard studies to support the contrarian point of view. To be fair, there have been several large, randomized trials that have shown that daily aspirin has some mild efficacy when it comes to the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and stroke among persons with a history of those diseases.3, 4, 5 But as with statin drugs, the evidence supporting a benefit for aspirin therapy in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease is far less substantive. Nevertheless, it has been “assumed” by the medical community that because senior citizens (more so than among younger persons) have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease, they would see an increased benefit from the use of daily aspirin–even though this benefit may be accompanied by an increased risk of bleeding.6, 7, 8 In other words, even though the rationale behind it is largely assumptive, doctors enthusiastically recommend it to their patients, the media constantly runs stories about it, and aspirin manufacturers aggressively promote it on television–to the point that aspirin companies had to begin running ads to remind people that aspirin can also be used for pain. The thing is–and the reason we’re talking about this today– that despite the widespread use of low-dose aspirin in elderly persons who do not have a medical indication for aspirin, there is limited evidence that the beneficial effects outweigh the risks in this age group.

Which brings us to the study of the moment, released just days ago; it calls the entire low-dose, aspirin protocol into question.

The problem with blood pressure medications is that they do not correct the underlying issue of the problem. Imagine you have a car with a 6-cylinder engine that is running very rough. You find out that two of your six cylinders have the problem, so you remove them or otherwise shut them down.

Now your car runs smoothly, but it’s having to put out a lot more effort to get up to speed. You should have cleaned all of the cylinders, flushed out the engine, and changed the oil like an automotive detox. Instead, you cut out two of the cylinders completely, and now four are doing the work of six. And because the car was not meant to do this, your gas mileage is terrible, and more problems will develop soon. How long do you think this engine is going to last?

In order to get off of high blood pressure medications, it helps to understand the cause of high blood pressure.

What causes high blood pressure?
High blood pressure is almost always caused by thick, toxic blood. Consider that engine analogy and think of our blood like the car’s motor oil and it’s gasoline. The cleaner the blood, the easier it is for the heart to pump it through the body. Chronic high blood pressure is a result of the heart working harder to push the blood where it needs to go.

Restricting the heart doesn’t seem like the smartest thing to do, does it? Smoking, a toxic liver, unhealthy kidneys, Candida, and an unbalanced PH level all contribute to toxic, thick blood.

How to reduce high blood pressure naturally
If you’re willing to get off the drugs and do right by your body, the good news is that high blood pressure is extremely easy to fix. The bad news that you’re going to have to change your lifestyle. The habits that got you here will have to go.

Low blood pressure diet
The goal is to balance the body’s pH and remove toxins. There are some easy short-term solutions for balancing the pH, but a diet with lots of fresh, raw produce that is devoid of processed junk food is the best and only way to permanently balance the body’s pH. Also, eating in this manner eliminates the other toxic accumulation from junk food.

The foundation of a truly healthy diet is raw, fresh produce – 80% should be raw, fresh, organic produce, more vegetables than fruit. It’s this simple: the more raw fresh vegetables anyone eats, the healthier they become. Eat lots of raw garlic, eliminate processed foods, and increase your raw food intake; there’s nothing else that comes close to the power of raw produce when it comes to eliminating ailments and restoring health. Nothing comes close except…

Cranberry stevia lemonade
I drink a gallon of cranberry stevia lemonade a day. The difference in my health that I experienced when I started this is amazing. I ate well and I was very healthy, but this took my body to another level.

For a surprising number of people, high blood pressure is simply dehydration. Soda, Gatorade, sugary juices, and coffee either dehydrate you immediately or they dehydrate you in the long run (for instance, Gatorade and cheap, sugary juices will impeded kidney function). When you don’t have enough fluid in your body, the blood gets thick and harder to move. Cranberry juice will help normalize the kidneys, lemon juice will flush the liver and normalize pH levels of the body, and the stevia, I find, simply goes very well with cranberry and lemon.

If for any reason you can’t do cranberry stevia lemonade, drink a lot of clean water. Distilled or spring water (provided the source is reliable) are the best choices to drink and to make the lemonade.

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