User's Guide to Heart-Healthy Supplements

by Michael Janson, Jack Challem (Editor)

Overview

In this concise Users Guide, Michael Janson describes the best nutritional and herbal supplements for preventing and reversing heart disease. Some of these supplements, such as coenzyme Q10 and hawthorn, many be less well known than others, but they are still powerful, natural health-promoting substances. Dr. Janson also provides clear guidelines for how to use these supplements safely.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781591201205
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	01/01/2004
Series:	Basic Health Publications User's Guide
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Dr. Janson is past-president of both the American College for Advancement in Medicine and the American Preventive Medical Association, and he founded and directed the first complementary-alternative medical center in New England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1976. He is one of the best-known holistic physicians in the country. In 1990, Dr. Janson founded the Center for Preventive Medicine, in Barnstable, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, and directed it until 1999. He now consults with patients in Arlington, Massachusetts and New Smyrna Beach, Florida, providing counseling in nutrition, dietary supplements, exercise, stress management, wellness, personal growth, chelation therapy, and intravenous nutritional therapies. Dr. Janson has a unique background with training in both conventional western medicine and alternative therapies.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	1
1.	Normal Heart Function	3
2.	Abnormalities of the Heart	7
3.	Risk Factors for Heart Disease	13
4.	Basic Nutritional Supplements for the Heart	23
5.	Advanced Nutritional Supplements for the Heart	36
6.	Herbal Supplements for the Heart	52
7.	A Comprehensive Heart-Treatment Program	58
8.	Other Treatments for the Heart	65
9.	Diet and Lifestyle to Protect the Heart	68
	Conclusion	79
	Selected References	81
	Other Books and Resources	83
	Index	87