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Browse by All smart supplementation whole foods herbs & botanicals anti-aging immune health weight management micronutrients lifestyle cardiovascular health degenerative disease macronutrients gluten sensitivity detoxification digestive health endocrine health brain health diet direction musculoskeletal health sports nutrition emotional health skin health nutrition professional pain management top posts holistic health minerals urinary health female health genetics allergies anti-inflammatory cooking eye health phytonutrients respiratory health antioxidants complimentary therapies fitness food sensitivities infectious disease men's health mindfullness stress management thyroid ## Posts about cardiovascular health: ## [Supplement of the Week: Designs for Health XanthOmega Krill Oil](https://blog.primohealth.com/supplement-of-the-week-designs-for-health-xanthomega-krill-oil) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Apr 22, 2015 2:00:00 PM ![Supplement of the Week: Designs for Health XanthOmega Krill Oil](https://blog.primohealth.com/hubfs/XOS060-lrg.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [skin health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/skin-health) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) [eye health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/eye-health) ### **Quick Overview** XanthOmega™ Krill Oil provides a generous 12 mg per serving of the powerful antioxidant astaxanthin to help achieve optimum benefits from this potent carotenoid. It would take eight conventional krill softgels to equal the astaxanthin levels in just one XanthOmega™ softgel! [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/supplement-of-the-week-designs-for-health-xanthomega-krill-oil) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of DHEA](https://blog.primohealth.com/health-benefits-of-dhea) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Apr 13, 2015 10:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of DHEA](https://blog.primohealth.com/hubfs/images/fountain_youth_blog.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [anti-aging](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/anti-aging) [immune health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/immune-health) [degenerative disease](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/degenerative-disease) [endocrine health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/endocrine-health) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) [lifestyle](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/lifestyle) *DHEA* By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS – Dean of Academics, Huntington College of Health Sciences Over 2500 medical articles have reported the benefits of dehydroepiandrosterone, or DHEA, a hormone secreted from the adrenal glands. As a dietary supplement, DHEA has many applications to human health. Following is a discussion of some of these applications. ### **How DHEA works** Aging is a gradual deterioration of our various organs and systems. It is not just "getting older." People don't simply die because they are older. Death results from failure of an organ or system. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/health-benefits-of-dhea) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of Bathing](https://blog.primohealth.com/healing-effects-of-bathing) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Apr 9, 2015 10:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of Bathing](https://blog.primohealth.com/hubfs/images/healthy_bathing-blog.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [musculoskeletal health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/musculoskeletal-health) [lifestyle](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/lifestyle) *The Science of Bathing* Water is commonly employed to affect the human body using hot baths to relax muscles or ice packs to reduce swelling. In holistic medicine, water is also used as a healing modality to restore proper blood flow and ultimately restore the health of the blood and the whole person. Water is a miraculous substance because it can carry great amounts of energy and heat. It conducts heat to and from a living system and can conform itself to any shape. The use of water to restore health is commonly referred to as hydrotherapy. Hydrotherapy can be performed in many ways, but essentially it causes tissues to relax (heat) and then contract (cold), thereby moving stagnated blood and immune components, releasing toxins, easing stress, and flooding tissues with nutrients. There are many other types of hydrotherapy, such as alternating heat and cold packs, alternating hot and cold soaks on specific parts of the body, poultices, compresses, and constitutional hydrotherapy (typically done by doctor or trained staff). One powerful form of hydrotherapy you can do at home is bathing. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/healing-effects-of-bathing) 0 Comments ## [The Health Benefits of Colostrum](https://blog.primohealth.com/the-health-benefits-of-colostrum) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Mar 9, 2015 9:00:00 AM ![The Health Benefits of Colostrum](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/hub/100332/file-2582526038.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [immune health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/immune-health) [degenerative disease](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/degenerative-disease) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) *Colostrum * By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS – Dean of Academics, Huntington College of Health Sciences Colostrum is the first milk that a mammal produces after pregnancy. This secretion of colostrum does not last for long; rather, it is created for the newborn to give it vital nutrients, antibodies, and other factors it needs right after birth. Therefore, after a few short days, the production of colostrum all but stops.1 So what makes colostrum special for adult individuals? In fact, through hundreds of years of use and over 1,000 clinical studies, colostrum has been demonstrated to be safe and effective for a variety of clinical conditions. These include viral illnesses, allergies and autoimmune diseases, heart disease, cancer, weight-loss programs, athletic stress, leaky gut syndrome, wound healing, and muscle repair and growth.2 In short, the most important components of colostrum can basically be broken down into two major categories: immunity modulator and growth factors. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/the-health-benefits-of-colostrum) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of CoQ10](https://blog.primohealth.com/coenzyme-q10-for-heart-health) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Mar 2, 2015 10:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of CoQ10](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/hub/100332/file-2559829824.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [anti-aging](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/anti-aging) [degenerative disease](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/degenerative-disease) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) *Coenzyme Q10* By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS – Dean of Academics, Huntington College of Health Sciences Although structurally related to vitamin K, coenzyme Q 10 (CoQ10) is not a vitamin, but rather coenzyme that helps to utilize oxygen as part of its important role in cellular energy metabolism. Research has also shown that CoQ10 functions in a number of other beneficial ways including free radical scavenging.1 Following is a brief review of that research. ### **Free radicals** Chemically, free radicals can be defined as a molecule with an unpaired electron. In the process of trying to balance itself by gaining or losing an electron, the free radical causes oxidative damage on a cellular level. CoQ10 has the unique property of being able to accept or donate an electron without itself becoming a free radical. By doing this CoQ10 can help neutralize free radicals and the oxidative damage they cause. This is significant since numerous disease states are thought to be due to excessive oxidative stress of free radicals, including hydroxyl radical, peroxynitrite, superoxide anion and hydrogen peroxide. In addition, CoQ10 may inhibit certain enzymes involved in the formation of these free radicals. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/coenzyme-q10-for-heart-health) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of Cinnamon](https://blog.primohealth.com/default/health-benefits-of-cinnamon) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Feb 23, 2015 10:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of Cinnamon](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/hub/100332/file-2434869131.jpeg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [anti-aging](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/anti-aging) [weight management](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/weight-management) [herbs & botanicals](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/herbs-botanicals) [degenerative disease](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/degenerative-disease) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) *Cinnamon:* *A Supplement for Diabetes, Body Composition, Cardiovascular Health & Antioxidant Protection* *By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS* Don’t you just love the smell and taste of cinnamon in a warm, gooey cinnamon bun? As it turns out, the cinnamon may actually provide you with some significant health benefits (although the same can’t be said of the gooey bun; sorry). So let’s take a closer look at cinnamon. ### **Background** The use of cinnamon for health is not new. In fact, cinnamon bark has been used for several thousand years in traditional Eastern and Western systems of medicine, for such purposes as anorexia, bloating, dyspepsia with nausea, flatulent colic, and spastic conditions of the GI tract.1 Cinnamon also has a history of traditional use in Korea, China and Russia for treating people with diabetes.2 [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/default/health-benefits-of-cinnamon) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper](https://blog.primohealth.com/blog/bid/186734/The-Benefits-of-Cayenne-Pepper) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Feb 20, 2015 10:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of Cayenne Pepper](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/file-2165084214-jpeg/images/download-resized-600.jpeg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [whole foods](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/whole-foods) [weight management](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/weight-management) [herbs & botanicals](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/herbs-botanicals) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) ### *Cayenne* (Capsicum annuum; C. frutescens) By Art Presser, PharmD - President, Huntington College of Health Sciences ### **Background:** Cayenne or Capsicum consists of the dried fruit of Capsicum frutescens, Capsicum annum, or a large number of hybrids of these species and varieties within the Solanaceae (Nightshade) family that are capsaicin rich. Because these plants have been cultivated for such a long time, peppers from them differ widely from one another in size, shape, and potency. They are not true peppers but were misnamed by the early Spanish explorers who confused their pungency with the pepper they were used to, namely black pepper (Piper nigrum) in the Piperaceae family. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/blog/bid/186734/The-Benefits-of-Cayenne-Pepper) 0 Comments ## [Does Mercury Toxicity Cause Hypertension](https://blog.primohealth.com/bid/186877/Does-Mercury-Toxicity-Cause-Hypertension) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Dec 12, 2014 10:00:00 AM ![Does Mercury Toxicity Cause Hypertension](https://blog.primohealth.com/hubfs/images/hypertension-blog.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [detoxification](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/detoxification) *Hypertension and Mercury Toxicity* Ronald Grisanti D.C., D.A.B.C.O., D.A.C.B.N., M.S. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/bid/186877/Does-Mercury-Toxicity-Cause-Hypertension) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of Cat's Claw Plant](https://blog.primohealth.com/bid/186677/Health-Benefits-of-Cat-s-Claw-Plant) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Nov 24, 2014 1:56:00 PM ![Health Benefits of Cat's Claw Plant](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/file-2165083784-jpeg/images/images.jpeg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [degenerative disease](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/degenerative-disease) [emotional health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/emotional-health) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) ### *Cat’s Claw (Uncaria tomentosa)*   By Art Presser, PharmD - President, Huntington College of Health Sciences ### **Background:** Cat’s Claw is a woody vine that winds itself around trees, upwards of 100 feet, in the Peruvian rainforests. Hook-like thorns adorn the leaves, resembling the claws of cats, hence the name. For hundreds of years, local Indians, medicine people, and shamans have stewed the inner bark and roots of Cat’s Claw to prepare medicines to treat a variety of illnesses. There are actually over 30 species of Uncaria, however the two species of medicinal interest are U. guianensis and U. tomentosa. Although both species produce similar benefits, U. tomentosa has been more thoroughly researched, has a greater range of uses, and is hence preferred in the American market. [Read More](https://blog.primohealth.com/bid/186677/Health-Benefits-of-Cat-s-Claw-Plant) 0 Comments ## [Health Benefits of Bromelain](https://blog.primohealth.com/bid/186524/Health-Benefits-of-Bromelain) ![Picture of Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/18cc72d6b6902b69f00313c2a3004f25) [Daniel Sanelli, M.Sc.](https://blog.primohealth.com/author/daniel-sanelli-m-sc) Nov 10, 2014 11:00:00 AM ![Health Benefits of Bromelain](https://blog.primohealth.com/hs-fs/file-2059125647-jpg/images/pineapple-2-bromelain-resized-600.jpg) [cardiovascular health](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/cardiovascular-health) [herbs & botanicals](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/herbs-botanicals) [smart supplementation](https://blog.primohealth.com/topic/smart-supplementation) *Bromelain* By Gene Bruno, MS, MHS – Dean of Academics, Huntington College of Health Sciences Bromelain is a proteolytic (i.e., proteindigesting) enzyme found in pineapples. Bromelain has proteolytic action on a variety of proteins, breaking them down into smaller peptides and amino acids1. Beyond its protein digesting capacity, research has shown that bromelain has anti-inflammatory activity. This is not surprising since different proteolytic enzymes, including bromelain, have been used to treat a variety of inflammatory conditions including sports injury and other acute trauma. Positive results have been observed over a thirty year period in both animal models and human trials. 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