| Andropause/Male Menopause | The Condition
"...and destroys the testes such as variations of systemic lupus erythematosis, subtle genetic abnormalities which permit normal adult development but lead to premature testicular failure, generalized vascular diseases such as diabetes, chemotherapy, and pituitary tumors (rare)..."
Recommendation DIM (di-indolmethane)/I3C (Indole-3-Carbinol)
"...In studies culturing human vascular endothelial cells, it has been shown that 2-methoxy estradiol is a primary regulator of cell growth and apoptosis..."
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Aneurysm / Rupture |
Relationship to Chronic / Hidden Infection
"...[Annual Meeting Society for Vascular Surgery meeting in Washington, DC June 1999 ]..."
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Atherosclerosis |
The Condition
"...Clinical signs and symptoms include aneurysm, thrombosis, embolus, and stenosis; lowered or absent pulses; vascular (blood vessel) bruit (whooshing or blowing sound heard over the artery with a stethoscope); (in more severe cases) muscle atrophy, ulceration, or gangrene..."
Recommendation Hawthorn Berry Extract
"...Proanthocyanadins stabilize collagen to prevent cholesterol deposits on arterial walls, prevent free radical damage, reduce peripheral vascular resistance, angina, cholesterol, and increase coronary and myocardial perfusion; hawthorn has a historic use in congestive heart failure; dosage 3 to 5gm as either dried herb, solid extract,..."
Recommendation Tobacco Avoidance
"...The longer the period of time that passes after quitting, the greater the return toward normal vascular health..."
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Beetroot |
As A Treatment
"...Beet juice powder is a nutrient-rich food that is known to improve general circulation by inhibiting congestion of the vascular system..."
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Bell's Palsy |
The Condition
"...During pregnancy or pregnancy-induced hypertension, the significant increase in vascular volume, particularly in the last trimester, triples the risk of facial neuropathy due to edema of the facial nerve and the resulting compression..."
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Bioflavonoids |
As A Treatment
"...It works with vitamin C for the promotion of vascular tissue strength..."
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Birth Control Pill Issues |
The Condition
"...Birth control pills tend to cause folic acid depletion and increase the risk of cervical dysplasia and vascular thrombosis, stroke, and possibly megaloblastic anemia..."
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Bromelain |
As A Treatment
"...It is common in digestive, vascular, respiratory, allergy, and anti-inflammatory products..."
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Buerger's Disease |
The Condition
"...Buerger's disease is characterized by narrowing or blockage (occlusion) of the veins and arteries of the extremities, resulting in reduced blood flow to these areas (peripheral vascular disease)..."
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Chelation Therapy |
As A Treatment
"...lifestyle and dietary changes incorporating specialized nutritional supplements, the procedure is an option to be seriously considered by any person suffering from coronary artery disease, cerebral vascular disease, brain disorders resulting from circulatory disturbances, generalized atherosclerosis and related ailments which lead to senility and accelerated physical decline..."
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Choroidal Hemangioma |
The Condition
"...Choroidal hemangiomas have a unique pattern of circulation where the large blood vessels produce a "coarse vascular pattern..."
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Cigarette Smoke Damage |
The Condition
"...Coronary artery disease (CAD), cerebrovascular disease, abdominal aortic aneurysm, and peripheral vascular disease are all caused by smoking..."
Relationship to Intermittent Claudication
"Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor for vascular disease bar none..."
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Cluster Headaches |
The Condition
"Cluster headache (CH), also known as histamine headache, is a specific vascular headache syndrome and one of the most severe forms of headache..."
Recommendation Caffeine/Coffee Avoidance
"...Caffeine is a constrictor of dilated arteries and should best be avoided as a dietary staple in vascular headaches..."
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Coronary Disease / Heart Attack |
Our Question about creases on earlobes
"...The earlobe is richly supplied with blood, and a decrease in flow over an extended period of time is believed to result in collapse of the vascular bed, leading to a diagonal crease..."
Recommendation L-Lysine
"...The naturally occurring amino acids lysine and proline assist Lp(a) in its deposition and binding to stressed or injured vascular wall sites..."
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Eclampsia / Preeclampsia |
The Condition
"...Abnormal prostaglandin synthesis may be the pivotal defect causing increased peripheral vascular resistance, severe vasoconstriction, endothelial injury and secondary hypertension..."
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Edema (Water Retention) |
The Condition
"...It is thought to be a problem of leakage of blood fluids from capillaries into fat and skin tissue especially when gravity (standing up) is added to the pressure in the vascular system..."
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Elevated Homocysteine Levels |
Relationship to Atherosclerosis
"Multiple studies indicate that 15-30% percent of patients with premature occlusive vascular disease have moderately elevated total plasma homocysteine concentrations..."
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Erectile Dysfunction (ED, Impotence) |
The Condition
"...In 85% of cases affecting men aged 50 and older, organic factors such as vascular disease and atherosclerosis of the penile artery are the cause..."
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Folic Acid |
As A Treatment
"...Homocysteine is now considered an independent risk factor for vascular disease, especially atherosclerosis..."
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Ginkgo Biloba |
As A Treatment
"...Ginkgo extracts are used for almost any type of vascular disorder associated with spasms, hypoxia and free radical damage..."
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Gotu Kola |
As A Treatment
"...The use of this herb is becoming more frequent for a number of connective tissue, vascular, and wound healing protocols..."
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Hawthorn Berry Extract |
As A Treatment
"...prevent palpitations and arrhythmias; it has also been used for support of cardiac failure, hypertension (high blood pressure), arterisclerosis (hardening of the arteries), angina pectoris (heart/vascular pain), and tachycardia (rapid heart beat)..."
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Headaches |
The Condition
"...Incidence Migraine (vascular) headaches affect one in eight adults in the developed world..."
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Hives |
The Condition
"...hepatitis B virus, candida albicans, streptococcal bacteria), collagen vascular diseases, autoimmune diseases or other metabolic disorders, cancer, psychological, hypothyroidism, polycythemia vera, protoporphyria (even without excessive sun exposure)..."
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Homocysteinuria |
The Condition
"...Complications Elevated homocysteine levels are a risk factor for all kinds of vascular disease including strokes and heart ailments..."
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Hydrotherapy |
As A Treatment
"...This treatment is not recommended for patients with peripheral vascular disease (arteriosclerosis, deep vein thrombosis, Buerger's disease), diabetes or loss of peripheral sensation..."
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Hypertension (High Blood PRessure) |
Recommendation Magnesium
"...When magnesium levels are low, more calcium flows into the vascular muscle cells, which contracts them - leading to tighter vessels and higher blood pressure..."
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Hypopituitarism |
The Condition
"...As the deficiency becomes more serious or has a more rapid onset (Addison crisis), symptoms of confusion, stupor, psychosis, abnormal electrolytes (low serum sodium, elevated serum potassium), and vascular collapse (low blood pressure and shock) can occur..."
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Intermittent Claudication |
The Condition
"...Cigarette smoking is the most important risk factor for vascular disease bar none..."
Recommendation Acetyl-L-Carnitine
"...Increases in walking distance in patients with peripheral vascular disease treated with L-carnitine: a double-blind, cross-over study..."
Recommendation L-Arginine
"...Restoring vascular nitric oxide formation by L-arginine improves the symptoms of intermittent claudication in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease..."
Recommendation against Beta-Carotene
"One study showed a slightly increased risk of vascular surgery among people with intermittent claudication who took beta-carotene supplements..."
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L-Taurine |
As A Treatment
"...is also able to reduce the calcium-triggered response of blood platelets to various activating factors, and to suppress sympathetic nervous system activity while also reducing the responsiveness of vascular smooth muscle cells to vasoconstricting agents..."
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Lupus, SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythromatosis) |
The Condition
"...The hallmark of the disease is recurrent, widespread, and diverse vascular lesions..."
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Meyer's Cocktail |
As A Treatment
"...Reasons For Use The "cocktail" is indicated for chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, depression, muscle spasm, asthma, hives, allergic rhinitis, congestive heart failure, angina, ischemic vascular disease, acute infections, and senile dementia..."
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Migraine/Tension Headaches |
Relationship to Lupus, SLE (Systemic Lupus Erythromatosis)
"Vascular or migraine headaches occur in 10% of lupus patients..."
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Neuritis/Neuropathy |
The Condition
"...The causes of nerve pathology include ... Vascular (blockage of a vessel or hemorrhage into nerve tissue)..."
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Neurologic Testing, Conventional |
As A Treatment
"...As a result, the SPECT scan maps the brain's vascular supply..."
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Neutrophilia |
The Condition
"...Other mediators of inflammation stimulate bone marrow release and promote margination and adhesion of neutrophils to vascular endothelium at the site of inflammation..."
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Ozone / Oxidative Therapy |
As A Treatment
"...Specific therapeutic applications of ozone include the treatment of vascular disease such as stroke, obstructive arteriopathy, venous insufficiency, cancer, acute and chronic viral diseases, ulcers, infected wounds, gangrenes, burns, inflammatory bowel disease such as..."
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PAF |
Related Topic
"...PAF activates platelets to secrete serotonin and other mediators to cause smooth-muscle contraction and vascular permeability, involved in asthma; a PAF antagonist counters these effects..."
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Periarteritis |
The Condition
"...Incidence Polyarteritis nodosa is a vascular disease of unknown cause which typically strikes adults..."
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Poor Cerebral Circulation |
The Condition
"...These usually result from pre-existing vascular disease or congenital weakness and may be precipitated by trauma..."
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Poor Circulation |
The Condition
"...Incidence; Causes & Development; Risk Factors Peripheral Vascular Disease slows the pace of one million Americans each year, affecting more than 5% of those aged over 70..."
Relationship to Coronary Disease / Heart Attack
"Not everyone with heart disease gets peripheral vascular disease, and vice versa..."
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Retinopathy |
The Condition
"...Some 10% of the cases of a retinal artery occlusion occur because of giant cell arteritis (a chronic vascular disease)..."
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Stress |
Relationship to Coronary Disease / Heart Attack
"Stress may increase magnesium excretion and the resulting temporary magnesium depletion may make the heart more sensitive to electrical abnormalities and vascular spasm that could lead to cardiac ischemia..."
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Stroke |
The Condition
"...This phenomenon might be explained by the vascular thickening that accompanies aging..."
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Thrombosis |
Related Topic
"Formation of blood clots causing vascular obstruction..."
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Tinnitus |
The Condition
"...This is called pulsatile or vascular tinnitus..."
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TMG (Tri-methyl-glycine) |
As A Treatment
"...Liver detoxification Brain neurotransmitter production Lowering homocysteine levels naturally: Thereby lowers risk of heart and vascular disease..."
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Vasoneurosis |
Related Topic
"Vascular abnormality without discernible physiological cause..."
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Venous Tone |
Related Topic
"Firmness of tension of vascular walls..."
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Vitamin B3 (Niacin) |
As A Treatment
"...Because of its vascular stimulation and effects of lowering cholesterol and blood pressure, vitamin B3 has been used preventively for such serious secondary problems of cardiovascular disease as myocardial..."
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