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June 12, 2004 |
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Heart Health Homocysteine Homocysteine is thought to damage artery walls, making them weaker. Folic acid deficiency is directly correlated to increased levels of homocysteine in your blood. And insufficient intake of vitamins B6 and B-12 will impede your body’s ability to metabolize homocysteine, the intermediate product in the conversion of the amino acid methionine to cysteine. Some researchers estimate that 400 mcg daily of folic acid alone would reduce the number of heart attacks by 10 percent each year. But it’s also useful to take the other B vitamins to properly metabolize homocysteine. I’ll give you an entire list of vitamins and nutrients to take for heart disease prevention at the end of this story. In a four-year study of 1,500 subjects in the United Kingdom, researchers found there was a stronger association between cardiovascular-related deaths and high fibrinogen levels than between cardiovascular death and high cholesterol.
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