A reader asked me about thrombocytopenia. Well, actually he asked about low blood platelets; he wanted nutritional advice. So first off, nobody here is a physician (so get that through your head). We are journalists with years of experience in…
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From Deanna Minich, Phd, an Holistic Nutrition Scientist. Eating for your heart.
Caring for your blood is crucial. Cardiovascular disease begins in the blood as inflammation. But you've also got platelet aggregation, viscosity, blood pressure . . . first let's clean up this mess, and then we can get on to the "real" cause of most heart attacks.