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Tuesday July 27, 2010

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With millions of strokes yearly and heart problems daily why not use natural? Fear with most people prevents that as they believe what their doctor tells them that nothing healthier exists! Not true. Today's writer realized that and took action but still has questions! If you or someone you know has had a stroke or has heart problems or other health issue and are looking for natural alternatives check out the link at the end of today's question!

Reminder: Take charge of your health today or it will take charge of you when you least expect it!

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I am not a doctor or dentist and you should not think of me as one!! My years observing life and health of the many people/patients around me and the contradictions of the traditional medical world's idea of treating - prescription domino effect - while watching and also taught those same schooled methods that aren't relieving illness but creating far more health problems than they help is where my answers are based. Those same conventional medical professionals aren't telling people how to get healthy or how to prevent illness. They can't as they haven't been taught healing, only putting a bandage on symptoms, which led me to look for something to change
that premise for myself and those around me who ask. In looking outside the Westernized medical profession I found and continue to find alternatives that really work to create health and longevity - when adhered to - beyond anything the traditional medical world can do...

Ask Lena Health Questions and Answers is for your information and education only and in some instances to give you a different perspective on a particular problem! My wish for you, in the use of the information gained here, is that you will apply it in a smart and safe manner in order to enhance your life and not harm it! Not to be used in place of your judgment but in  addition to... Even though I daily watch people become healthy with the information imparted here nothing works 100% of the time for 100% of people but it is a fact that when natural herbal/nutritional alternative health modes are used more than 80% can be cured or reverse health issues...

I have always felt that I had to know all sides to a problem and then make a decision for myself and I hope that will be your attitude
as well! 

Thank you for your confidence and inquisitiveness! 
Lena

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QUESTION:
 
Hi Lena!
 
Many thanks for your valuable newsletter. I had a stroke about 9 years ago, called a lucunar stroke, and I refused the invasive testing I was offered deciding on 'watch n wait'.  I was taking an 81 mg. aspirin until I heard about Natto, and have been taking 100 mg. ever since.  Can one take too much Nattokinase?  Can it be taken together with aspirin? What other measures would you recommend to prevent major stroke? You may publish your answer so others may see alternatives!!
 
Ron 

ANSWER:
  
 Thanks for the question Ron...
  
You are to be congratulated on taking a stand for your health and 9 years says a lot for the fact that what you are doing is working...
  
Since you did not undergo the testing to determine they type of Lucunar stroke you had? Smart choice in my book! If it is simply a narrowing of the blood vessels in the brain Nattokinase will help but not the full answer... The rest of the answer found further down... Nattokinase will simply keep the blood thin and help prevent thrombotic stroke... Since you have chosen Nattokinase I am assuming, as I think your doctor did, it was a thrombotic type...

  
Nattokinase is something I'm sure you've studied out quite well if you are using it but will need to be explained for those reading my newsletter and not in the know... so my answer in the newsletter will be more lengthy than the one to you...
  
 Do not take aspirin or any blood thinner with nattokinase as you could end up with BIG problems... Natto is heavy in Vitamin K, which is one source of its thinning properties and can be bad news for anyone taking a blood thinner... Chemicals and natural foods do not mix well in our body... Yet, there have been no reports of bleeding from eating to much nattokinase without other chemical factors!
  
One explanation for why our body takes so long to neutralize nattokinase without being negatively affected is that it is not "foreign" to our body. In that our body is able to selectively use Vitamin K for congealing blood, pyrazine and nattokinase for preventing or dissolving blood clots as necessary. That would explain the reason there is no report of natto causing uncontrolled bleeding.
  
BUT, as with anything else and to err on safe, over consumption of good food can be just as bad as consuming bad foods and nattokinase is a food, so yes too much could possibly be bad but it would take an awful lot to achieve that bad result... You would have to take more than 900mg of nattokinase before you would even near that amount.  

If you are in doubt you do not need to play the guessing game as your doctor (providing you have a doctor who will go along with your healthy alternative choices) can track your results by; Both the efficacy and the prolonged action of NK determined by measuring levels of EFA (euglobulin fibrinolytic activity) and FDP (fibrin degradation products), which both become elevated as fibrin is being dissolved. By measuring EFA & FDP levels, activity of NK has been determined to last from 8 to 12 hours. An additional parameter for confirming the action of NK following oral administration is a rise in blood levels of TPA antigen (tissue plasminogen activator), which indicates a release of TPA from the endothelial cells and/or the liver.
  
 For those who do not understand what a Lucunar Stroke is; Lucunar Stroke is an ischemic type of stroke that occurs when the smallest vessels deep in the brain become blocked or do not function right. This type is usually less severe than others. Not that it is a good one as there isn't such a thing as a good stroke!
  
 What Is Nattokinase?
  
 Nattokinase is a potent fibrinolytic enzyme extracted and highly purified from a traditional Japanese food called Natto. Natto is a fermented cheese-like food that has been used in Japan for over 1000 years for its popular taste and as a folk remedy for heart and vascular diseases. Natto is produced by a fermentation process by adding Bacillus natto, a benefical bacteria, to boiled soybeans. The resulting nattokinase enzyme, is produced when Bacillus natto acts on the soybeans. While other soy foods contain enzymes, it is only the natto preparation that contains the specific nattokinase enzyme.
  
 The Discovery of Nattokinase
  
 Doctor Hiroyuki Sumi had long been researching thrombolytic enzymes looking for a natural agent that could successfully dissolve thrombus associated with cardiac and cerebral infarction (blood clots associated with heart attacks and stroke). Dr. Sumi discovered nattokinase in 1980 while working as a researcher and majoring in physiological chemistry at Chicago University Medical School. After testing over 173 natural foods as potential thrombolytic agents, Sumi found what he was looking for when Natto was dropped onto artificial thrombus (fibrin) in a Petri dish and allowed it to stand at 37 C (approximately body temperature). The thrombus around the natto dissolved gradually and had completely dissolved within 18 hours. Sumi named the newly discovered enzyme "nattokinase", which means "enzyme in natto". Sumi commented that nattokinase showed "a potency matched by no other enzyme."

Potent Thrombolytic Activity
  
The human body produces several types of enzymes for making thrombus, but only one main enzyme for breaking it down and dissolving it - plasmin. The properties of nattokinase closely resemble plasmin. According to Dr. Martin Milner, from the Center for Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, what makes nattokinase a particularly potent treatment, is that it enhances the body's natural ability to fight blood clots in several different ways; Because it so closely resembles plasmin, it dissolves fibrin directly. In addition, it also enhances the body's production of both plasmin and other clot-dissolving agents, including urokinase (endogenous). "In some ways, Milner says, nattokinase is actually superior to conventional clot-dissolving drugs. T-PAs (tissue plasminogen activators) like urokinase (the drug), are only effective when taken intravenously and often fail simply because a stroke or heart attack victim's arteries have hardened beyond the point where they can be treated by any other clot-dissolving agent. Nattokinase, however, can help prevent that hardening with an oral dose of as little as 100 mg a day."
  
The Prolonged Action of Nattokinase
  
Nattokinase produces a prolonged action (unlike antithrombin drugs that wear off shortly after IV treatment is discontinued) in two ways: it prevents coagulation of blood and it dissolves existing thrombus.  This only if you take at least 100mg every 8 to 12 hours as natto, as with most foods, will leave the body within that time frame! This is the reason we recommend taking nattokinase Max twice a day as close to 12 hours apart as possible to assure the continuing effect!
  
Some doctors in Japan started prescribing natto instead of warfarin on an experimental basis. Some patients with retinal-vein-blockage-disease, a disease causing blood clots to occur in retinal veins and hemorrhaging in the retina, were instructed to eat natto twice a week, and had very positive results. (Yuhobika, March 1998 issue)
  
Professor Hiroyuki Sumi says brain infarction and myocardial infarction tend to occur around 10:00am on Monday mornings. So he says the most effective time to eat natto is during the Sunday supper. Since nattokinase enzyme is sensitive to heat and loses its effectiveness above 70 degrees C, eating raw natto gives the best protection.
  
If there is a chance that it is actually a narrowing of blood vessels, that caused temporary flow of blood to the brain, which could happen again even with the natto,  I would suggest Dr. Garland's Circulatory Formula along with the Liquid Minerals as they are doing wonders in the field of preventing stroke and heart disease as well as lowering blood pressure by keeping the arteries and veins open and nourished… Should you wish to add that to your daily supplements I would highly recommend it as does he in these types of cases... Not having the tests to determine exactly what type (blockage or narrowing) of Lucunar Stroke I would definitely say add these two and they will not affect the Nattokinase results but enhance the outcome...
  
 I hope this helps answer your questions...Continue your good habits...
Lena

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Swedish scientists recently published an important paper on the positive impact of omega-3 fatty acids (which are found mainly in fish oil) on a certain type of childhood cancer called neuroblastoma (Gleissman 2010). These Karolinska Institute scientists had previously shown that DHA (the most unsaturated form of fatty acid in fish oil) could cause apoptosis (i.e., programmed cell death) in cancer cells. They have now extended their work to experimental animals, showing that fish oil supplementation caused either stabilization or actual regression of tumors in these animals.
 
In the 20 years between 1987 and 2007, the number of children in the U.S. receiving federal payments due to their severe mental illness rose 35 fold! The costs - to our society, to individuals and to our economy - are staggering.
 

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SECRETS OF STAYING IN LOVE

The results are in. I have learned that, after careful consideration and endless debate, The Perfect Man has finally been named: "Mr. Potato Head." Let me tell you why. He's tan. He's cute. He knows the importance of accessorizing. And if he looks at another girl, you can rearrange his face.

I don't know if Mr. or Ms. Potato Head is right for you. But I'm not a big believer in the idea that we MUST find a perfect match, anyway. There are plenty of happy people who are not paired with someone else. And there are also plenty who may not say they found Mr. or Ms. Right, but are living quite happily with Mr. Almost Right or Ms. Close Enough.

Marriage and long-term commitments may not be for everyone, but if you plan to be with someone a long time, can you stay in love? Does a lifetime relationship have to seem more like a life sentence? I think we're tempted to believe that real love is a myth, a long-term relationship is a marathon and romance is for kids. Are there secrets to staying in love? Over the long haul?

I believe in love and romance, and I know it can last a lifetime. I also believe there are a few simple things we can do to help our love grow over the years.

For one thing, find time to date. I don't mean time to rehash the stuff you talk about all week long. Get away and talk about things that matter. Use this as time to focus on one another, not to solve problems or to raise issues. There are other times to bring up difficult subjects.

Next, understand what delights the other and make it happen. "The romance is over," says Marlys Huffman, "when you see a rosebush and start looking for aphids instead of picking a bouquet." What makes him laugh? What brings her pleasure? And what can you do today to delight each other?

Also, remember why you got together in the first place. When you focus first on his faults you're not thinking about his strengths. When you're busy pointing out her imperfections, you're not enjoying those qualities that attracted you to her initially. Choose to appreciate that which first drew you together and remember it often.

And always - plan enough time for fun. And don't always plan times for fun -- be spontaneous. Laugh. Go places. Play.

A woman from Charleston, South Carolina was overheard to remark that it was her 53rd wedding anniversary. When asked if she planned a special celebration, she smiled and said softly, "When you have a nice man, it really doesn't matter." I suspect they learned the secrets of staying in love.


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