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KEEP YOUR HOMOCYSTEINE LOW
April 23, 2009
Vitamins B6, Â12 and B9 (also called folic acid) are important to keep your blood homocysteine levels low. Elevated homocysteine levels are a major risk factor for heart disease because homocysteine has an abrasive effect on the inner lining of our arteries, initiating inflammation and atherosclerosis. It also makes the formation of blood clots more likely. Folic acid, vitamin Â12 and B6 all work together to keep homocysteine levels low by helping to convert homocysteine into the amino acid methionine.
Good sources of folic acid include oranges, avocados, spinach, asparagus and any green leafy vegetable. Vitamin B6 is found in high concentrations in bananas, salmon, chicken, potatoes and hazelnuts. Good sources of vitamin Â12 are salmon, mussels, crab, beef, chicken and eggs. Betaine is another nutrient found in eggs which is needed to keep homocysteine low.
If you have diagnosed elevated homocysteine levels in your blood, then as well as eating these foods and drinking raw vegetable juices, you will need to take a supplement of these vitamins. An ideal daily dose of each would be 1 000 mcg folic acid, 50mg vitamin B6 and 400mcg vitamin B12.
Researchers at the Oregon Health and Science University in the US claim I that diets low in foods containing folate and carotenoids may be a “major contributing factor” to the high rate of heart disease in men and women in Central and Eastern Europe, compared with Western Europe, the US and Asian countries. The researchers found substantially higher death rates
10 heart saving tips you must follow from cardiac disease among men and women, especially men between the ages of 30 and 50 years in Estonia, Hungary, Russia and Lithuania, which correlated with low intakes of folate and carotenoids in their diet. Carotenoids include beta carotene, lycopene, lutein and related compounds found mainly in brightly coloured vegetables.
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