Supplements
What is Vitamin K?
Vitamin K is one of the primary substances responsible for proper blood clotting. Specifically, vitamin K is required for the liver to make factors that are necessary for blood to properly clot (coagulate), including factor II (prothrombin), factor VII (proconvertin), factor IX (thromboplastin component), and factor X (Stuart factor). Other clotting factors that depend on [...]
Vitamin D and Cholesterol
If you, like me, have been doing any sort of research on improving your cholesterol profile, you’ve probably run into a few articles about Vitamin D. Vitamin D came to prominence for its role, along with calcium (Vitamin D regulates calcium levels in the blood), in preventing rickets, a nutritional disease that causes a softening [...]
Niacin Side Effects: Preventing the Niacin Flush
Anyone who has taken niacin, at least the right kind of niacin (more on the later) has probably experience the niacin flush side effect. Even after months of taking niacin now, I still occasionally get it. Sometimes it’s no more than a slight tingling in the skin of my neck, other times mu whole trunk [...]
How to Lower Cholesterol with Niacin
I’m not a doctor, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night….. Seriously though, because of my high cholesterol levels, I’ve done a ton of research about how to lower cholesterol with supplements, diet and exercise. Time and time again, I run across testimonials about the great effects of niacin on cholesterol [...]
What Next? Adding Fish Oil
Having reached the end of my experiment, I didn’t have any next step already planned out. So I did a quick regroup last night and decided I’d add fish oil to the mix, since it’s been promoted to be beneficial to one’s cholesterol profile. It will end up being a bit of a late start, [...]
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