QUERCETIN MAKES MY HEART HEALTHY

When I decided to write my blog I had one fundamental reason, and it was a very personally-selfish reason. I wanted to learn how to stay healthy. I was really tired of being sick. I have had a heart attack and laid on that blacktop in a parking lot for a very long time before I was able to do anything but cough and force myself to breath. When I finally crawled to my car and pulled myself inside, I could not believe how much my back and chest hurt. It felt like I had been shot several times. About six weeks later I had an appointment with my doctor and she told me I had a heart attack. I knew I had to find a way to take better care of myself. It has now been several years since the attack and in my last physical I was told my heart is really strong and healthy. I accomplished this by refusing to take any drugs. It has been a constant search for alternative methods to give me the good health I have today. I hope you can see why quercetin is so important to me. This is a quick examination of how it helps the heart and eliminates the use of drugs whose side effects are many times more dangerous than if you take no medication. It is also a lot more affordable.

Heart disease is a major killer in America. Research has found that quercetin and resveratrol can have a direct link to solving this horrible problem. Researchers have found that if an individual increases the dietary intake of quercetin-rich foods, he should experience a reduction in the risk of heart disease being the cause of death. In 2000, Spanish researchers found that red wine carrying quercetin and related antioxidants restricted activity of inflammation promoting NF-kappa in human volunteers, furnishing a large part of the explanation of how red wine lowers heart disease mortality.

British researchers demonstrated in 2004 that when a human ingested quercetin supplements there was substantial lessening of platelet aggregation; indicating another of quercetin’s cardiovascular health benefits is related to lowering the risk of clotting. Later, this same group of researchers demonstrated that dietary intake of quercetin from onion soup also helped stop platelet aggregation. In another study of 30 men with heart disease, Greek cardiologists demonstrated that a red grape polyphenol extract rich in quercetin produced an increasing flow-mediated dilation of the major arteries. This was a potent indicator of endothelial health.

I hope you can see how quercetin has demonstrated repeatedly that it functions to improve the health of the heart and related tissue. I agree more research is needed to further refine our understanding of how quercetin and resveratrol can improve an individual’s health. But, I believe it did wonders to solve my heart problems.