Your decision to supplement could be a matter of life or death

A new study shows that nutritional supplements significantly improve your health, as well as reduce your risk of dying of heart disease.

This study is actually a follow up of previous research that was already impressive on its own.

In the original trial, researchers at Sweden’s Linköping University recruited 443 volunteers, aged 70 and older, who were randomized to take either a placebo, or two supplements:

  • Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) — 200 mg per day
  • Selenium — 200 micrograms per day

As the researchers explain in the journal PLoS One, they chose to study these two supplements because they’re both necessary for optimal cellular function and heart health.

Furthermore, the researchers considered how the body’s natural production of CoQ10 decreases with age. Plus, levels of the mineral selenium are low in European (and most U.S.) plant foods. Studies show how these two factors also play a part in the health of aging adults.

Their hunch about the importance of these two supplements paid off. After five years, those in the supplement group were significantly less likely to die of cardiovascular (CV) causes, compared to placebo.

But wait — it gets better!

Long-lasting benefits

Recently, the Linköping team followed up with the original participants twelve years after the beginning of the original study. They gathered data from 181 living participants — 100 in the intervention group, and 81 in the placebo.

The results still held strong, with significantly reduced risk of CV death in the supplement group compared to placebo:

  • Supplement group: 28.1 percent chance of CV mortality
  • Placebo group: 38.7 percent chance of CV mortality

In addition, even those in the supplement group who suffered from ischemic heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, or impaired functional capacity had lower rates of CV death compared to placebo.

The very first line of defense

So how do these two supplements produce such striking heart protection?

It has a lot to do with homocysteine.

As Dr. Marc Micozzi explains in his Heart Attack Prevention and Repair Protocol, when blood levels of homocysteine (an amino acid) are high, risk of heart disease soars.

And that’s not all. Dr. Micozzi says, “Over 17,500 scientific studies have shown that high homocysteine levels can not only lead to heart attacks and strokes, but also to cancer, dementia, kidney disease, low thyroid levels, osteoporosis, retinal degeneration of the eyes, and mental illness.”

And among supplements that lower homocysteine, Dr. Micozzi recommends:

  • CoQ10 (in the form of ubiquinol) — 100 mg per day
  • Selenium — 200 to 400 micrograms per day

But to really power-up your body to metabolize and reduce homocysteine, Dr. Micozzi suggests first starting by taking a quality vitamin B complex supplement.

“The fact is,” says Dr. Micozzi, “this simple, inexpensive, safe, natural approach should be the very first recommendation made by every cardiologist and general physician to any patient at risk of heart attack or stroke.”

For overall good health, Dr. Micozzi recommends these daily doses of these nutrients in the B vitamin complex:

  • Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) — 50 mg
  • Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)— 50 mg
  • Vitamin B3 (Niacin or niacinamide) — 50 mg
  • Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic acid) — 50 mg
  • Vitamin B6 (Pyridoxine) — 50 mg
  • Vitamin B7 (Biotin) — 100 micrograms
  • Vitamin B9 (Folic acid) — 400 micrograms, minimum
  • Vitamin B12 (Methylcobalamin) — 12 micrograms
  • Choline — 50 mg

In addition to these — along with CoQ10 and selenium, of course — Dr. Micozzi offers several other supplement recommendations to control homocysteine, as well as an additional list of supplements that can help repair cells, tissues, and organs that have already been affected by high homocysteine levels.

Refer the Dr. Micozzi’s Heart Attack Prevention and Repair Protocol to learn more about these and many other approaches for optimal heart health. Simply click here to learn more about this online learning tool or to enroll today.

SOURCES 

internationaljournalofcardiology.com/article/S0167-5273(12)00593-1/fulltext
Cardiovascular mortality and N-terminal-proBNP reduced after combined selenium and coenzyme Q10 supplementation: A 5-year prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial among elderly Swedish citizens
International Journal of Cardiology
September 1, 2013

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894963/
Still reduced cardiovascular mortality 12 years after supplementation with selenium and coenzyme Q10 for four years: A validation of previous 10-year follow-up results of a prospective randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial in elderly
PLoS One
April 11, 2018