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Silent Killers

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

Guest blog by Dr. Frederick Vagnini, MD, FACS, Heart, Diabetes & Weight-Loss Centers of New York

If you’ve recently listened to me on the Res-Q HealthLine radio shows, I recently indicated that there were four silent killers. But now, due to expanded research and more and more problems coming through my centers in New York, I have expanded them to eight.

First of all, what is meant by a silent killer? Well, it’s simple. It’s something you don’t feel until a heart attack occurs, or until you fracture a bone, or you have a stroke. These silent killers include:

  1. High blood pressure: Many times you could have a blood pressure of 200 and you don’t feel it.
  2. High cholesterol and triglycerides: There’s typically no pain in the arteries. Unless you get your lipids checked, you’re not going to realize that your arteries are clogging up.
  3. Inflammation: Inflammation is the backbone of pathophysiology for cardiovascular disease and aging, which is very prevalent in Western culture. It can be anything from a swollen toe to inflamed arteries, the latter of which you cannot feel.
  4. Oxidative stress: Damage from free radicals and oxidative stress is when the body’s antioxidant system becomes overwhelmed. Oxidative stress accelerates the aging process.
  5. Blood glucose: Another silent killer is blood glucose. Many people are coming into my office with 200-300 blood-sugar levels. They don’t feel a thing.  But they are pre-diabetic or diabetic and they have been doing damage to their bodies for many years before they even realize it. High blood-glucose levels can not only lead to diabetes, but also eye disease, blindness, kidney disease, nerve disease or death.
  6. Glycation: (sometimes called non-enzymatic glycosylation) is something that accelerates heart disease, cellular damage and aging, and it is simply a problem with glucose that adheres to proteins lipids and DNA to create something called “Advanced Glycation End Product” (AGE)
  7. Telomere shortening: Telomeres are the tips of chromosomes and when they shorten you have progressive aging. What happens to accelerate this aging process is inflammation and oxidative stress.
  8. Osteoporosis: Osteoporosis is a bone disease that leads to an increased risk of fracture. It is another silent killer simply because you don’t feel your bones weakening until you’ve lost four inches of height.

What can we do to prevent these silent killers from leading us into cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and accelerated aging? Well, I developed a protocol in my Centers based on the following:

  • Diet: a modified, low-carbohydrate Mediterranean diet
  • Exercise: Any exercise is good; cross training is the best, which is when you do a combination of resistance training with aerobics.
  • Stress reduction: Stress reduction is critical. It’s one of the leading factors that influence degenerative diseases and especially cardiovascular disease.
  • Supplements: The right supplements can combat high triglycerides, high cholesterol, high blood pressure oxidative damage, high blood sugar, arthritis, weight reduction, diabetes, fatigue, and basically all of the degenerative and cardiovascular problems.
  • Pharmaceuticals: Medical drugs are prescribed when necessary.

Prevention Through Supplements & Nutrition
Years ago, I developed a program called Cardio Nutrition, and that is simply a program, along with diet and exercise, in which we use supplements. Here’s a list of some of the “silent killers” and what Res-Q products will work best to combat them.

High Cholesterol/Triglycerides:

When it comes to cholesterol we also worry about the oxidative damage and we have a number of antioxidants including Res-Q Multi, Res-Q CellPower (CoQ10), Res-Q Resveratrol, Nature’s Shield Superfoods and Nature’s Shield Leg & Vein Support, which all protect the LDL against oxidative damage.

Hypertension/ High Blood Pressure:

Oxidative Stress

Glucose Levels:

Telomere shortening:

Research now shows that an omega-3 supplement can prevent telomere shortening

Osteoporosis:

Inflammation:

Glycation:

Weight and Digestion:

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How to Keep Weight Off During the Holidays

Monday, November 15th, 2010

When I was a kid, my mother always encouraged me to eat a ton during the winter months. “You need that extra fat to stay warm,” she said. And I believed her. It gave me the perfect excuse to eat cheesesteak hoagies, meatball Parmesan sandwiches, and huge servings of turkey, side dishes, pies and cookies during the holidays. But I don’t believe her anymore. I imagine my great-great-to-the-25th-power great grandmother—who was being dragged around by the hair on her head and living in a cave—had a physiological reason to put on extra weight during the winter months. Like animals, our ancestors probably also needed to store enough fat to get them through the cold, dark months when food and warmth were scarce. But today, we have supermarkets, freezers for storing food long-term, home heating systems and fleece blankets galore. We even have tanning beds, treadmills and light therapy lamps. There’s simply no need for extra fat on the human body during winter or any other season.  (more…)

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Focus on Diabetes: The Snack Craze—Are you Snacking too Much? How About your Kids?

Monday, November 8th, 2010

Now that Halloween has passed and I’m left alone all day with my kids’ loot—three hours’ worth of high-density neighborhood trick-or-treating—snacking has taken an ugly turn.  

  • Monday: I had one Reese’s, one Nestlé Crunch bar, two Snickers and two bags of peanut M&Ms.
  • Tuesday: I had the same thing, but in varying order.
  • Wednesday: the same, except that I had eaten all the Snickers the day before so I had a Kit Kat instead.   (more…)
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Burgers, Fries and Diabetes

Monday, November 1st, 2010

I used to think it took a lifetime (maybe 50 years or so?) of eating pizza, burgers, fries, chips, cookies and cake to create the swamp of dysfunction and imbalance inside the body known as diabetes. But having read multiple articles a few years back on childhood obesity and the rate of diabetes among the young, I was shocked to know that it really only takes a few years of bad eating to bring your body to the point of failure. Because of this, I espoused a rather militant aversion to anything greasy, fried, fat or overly sugary (eating at KFC or snacking on Halloween candy ad nauseam is something you’ll never see me do). (more…)

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Dieting Stress: Trying to Lose Weight? Here’s How to Cope

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

No matter what diet you’re on—Weight Watchers, Atkins, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem or even a fad diet (is South Beach still around?), the object of the game is to stick to it and be happy about it. I know… easier said than done. I’ve been on a diet for a little over three months and have lost 11 pounds. But I have four more to go. Four little pounds. And it seems like it’s taking forever. I believe I’ve hit the dreaded plateau.

 If you find yourself struggling to get rid of those last few pounds, or if you’re at the beginning of losing 20, 30, 40, even 100 pounds, don’t fret. There are ways to cope and actually enjoy your new adventure.  (more…)

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Green Tea and Weight-Loss Benefits

Friday, January 29th, 2010
Green Tea Photo taken at United States Botanic Garden

Green Tea Photo taken at United States Botanic Garden

We’ve been spending a lot of time this month talking about Res-Q Trim System and all its great benefits for weight loss. 

But, today, I’d like to focus on “green tea leaf extract,” which has always been an integral ingredient in Res-Q Trim System, and which is studied extensively for its weight-loss abilities.  

Green tea leaf extract is an all-natural ingredient that provides weight loss benefits in three ways. Let’s take a look. 

Green tea has the ability to slow the absorption of sugar from the digestive tract. This encourages weight loss, and more importantly, reduces blood sugar spikes, insulin secretion, and allows the body to make better use of raw “energy.” (more…)

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Forslean and Weight Loss

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Photo from Forslean, a patented herb that promotes lean body mass.

Photo from Forslean, a patented herb that promotes lean body mass.

Res-Q Trim System, a weight-loss system that provides multiple, high-quality ingredients for safe weight loss, is designed to help keep you trim and provide optimal weight-loss benefits including appetite support, calorie-burning, and body-fat reduction. One of the ways it does this is through the power of Forslean, a key ingredient in Res-Q Trim System and an ancient ayurvedic herbal extract prepared from the roots of the plant Coleus forskohlii, known for its miracle ability to promote lean body-mass.

How it works: Forslean naturally encourages a chemical process in the body, which results in burning energy and promotes the release of fatty acids from the fat cells of the body fat. The released fat is then used to produce energy. This, in turn, promotes weight-loss, body-fat reduction, and lean body-mass. Forslean is also known to increase thyroid activity, which ultimately increases your metabolism. (more…)

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What are your weight-loss goals for the New Year?

Friday, January 15th, 2010

We’d like to hear form you.

Because weight loss is a top priority for so many of us, we’d like to devote a week or two in January to helping you get started on your weight-loss goals. For starters, what are your goals?

If you don’t have a clear idea of how you’d like to lose weight or how much, it will be a little more difficult to get started. 

Sometimes starting a weight-loss plan is as easy as answering a few questions: (more…)

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What is the secret to weight loss?

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Weight loss is not really a secret. 

It is a well-known fact that weight loss will occur when you increase energy expenditure and decrease energy intake. It does not matter whose diet plan you follow. How weight-loss really happens is a science—not a secret.

Weight loss happens when you expend or burn more energy than you consume; burn more calories, lose more weight. It’s that simple.   (more…)

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Vitamin D and Weight Loss

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Res-Q Multi Researchers from The University of Minnesota reported that having a higher vitamin D level prior to going on a diet, produced a greater amount of weight loss.Increasing Vitamin D levels increased weight loss and body fat reduction under the skin of the belly. Findings from the new study were presented at The Endocrine Society’s Annual Meeting in June, 2009, in Washington D.C. (more…)

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