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	<title>Al Sears, MD Natural Health Newsletter &#187; heart</title>
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		<title>How to Make It to the Final Whistle</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/how-to-make-it-to-the-final-whistle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood vessels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you watch the Super Bowl? We even got to see it in Africa. It&#8217;s such a huge event around the world now&#8230; almost as big as the World Cup for soccer, the rest of the world&#8217;s version of football. I Was Sure I Was a Goner&#8230; I&#8217;d heard in the news that chimpanzees in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your 93,000-Mile-Long Organ</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[glucose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflammation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sugar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today I want to show you an important way to improve your health and protect you against a problem we&#8217;ve created in the modern world. When we cook our food, it creates a byproduct called advanced glycation end products, or AGEs, that we&#8217;re not exactly built for. But you can compensate for them with some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Your Cardiologist with a Grain of Salt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cardiologist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[magnesium]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My old office manager J.F. was on beta-blockers for high blood pressure.

I put her on a treadmill once to give her a test and nothing happened. 

She got extremely short of breath, but her heart couldn’t keep up. It was still at 80 bpm. She couldn’t challenge her heart and make it stronger because of the drug.

Over time, beta-blockers will turn your heart into a fat, lazy, incompetent water balloon. You already had high blood pressure to deal with, now you have a gross de-conditioning of your heart.

How did this happen? Because no one has messed up modern medicine more than cardiologists. ]]></description>
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		<title>Two Overlooked Solutions Could Save Your Life</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/homocysteine-levels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cholesterol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homocysteine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inflammation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oxidation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whoever said, “Ignorance is bliss” never saw anyone die of a heart attack.

So I want to share with you a piece of wisdom that most people and doctors don’t know: The key to a healthy heart is to promote normal levels of inflammation and oxidation, not cholesterol.

Low cholesterol doesn’t necessarily mean healthy veins and cardiovascular system. ]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Super Food Gets 100 Year Olds Back on the Dance Floor</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/discover-the-magic-super-food-that-gets-100-year-olds-back-on-the-dance-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatigue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[l-cartinine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[metabolism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I travel all over the world looking for anti-aging nutrients the mainstream medical establishment has overlooked.

But every now and then I get an unexpected surprise … like sitting at my desk, opening a journal, and discovering a groundbreaking study on one of my favorite nutrients.

The latest eye-opening report is on l-carnitine...]]></description>
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		<title>The One Critical Thing You Can Do to Protect Your Blood Vessels</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/the-one-critical-thing-you-can-do-to-protect-your-blood-vessels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blood vessels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homocysteine]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You can eat right … you can exercise. But despite doing all of these things, you still haven’t done the number one thing that will protect your blood vessels.

And that’s critically important if you want to live a long and healthy life.]]></description>
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		<title>The Vitamin E You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/tocotrienols/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alsearsmd.com/tocotrienols/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CoQ10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tocopherols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tocotrienols]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vitamin E]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Are you taking the right vitamin E for your heart?

Most people don’t know this, but there are eight forms of vitamin E: four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. While they’re all antioxidants, the differences between them could easily fill a book. ]]></description>
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		<title>Use Vitamin C to Reverse Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/vitamin-c-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stroke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vitamin C]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, most doctors insist that cholesterol is the cause of heart disease as they dole out dangerous cholesterol-lowering drugs.

But few ever realize that vitamin C deficiency plays a major role in heart attack and stroke. And, vitamin C therapy can reverse years of accumulated damage to help you:]]></description>
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		<title>Stop This Dangerous Form of Heart Disease</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/congestive-heart-failure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alsearsmd.com/congestive-heart-failure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[congestive heart failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CoQ10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ubiquinol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congestive heart failure is a deadly form of heart disease.

It means your heart can’t pump enough blood for your body’s needs. This leads to fluid congestion that can cause your vital organs like your lungs, brain and kidneys to shut down. ]]></description>
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		<title>When a &#8216;Tub of Lard&#8217; is a Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/healthy-fats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[butter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy fats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mono-unsaturated fat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trans fats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the days when everything was cooked with good, old-fashioned butter or lard?

My grandmother cooked with lard her whole life. Most people did… until the government told everybody that animal fat caused heart disease. Then manufacturers introduced substitutes such as shortening and margarine. ]]></description>
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		<title>Forget Big Pharma&#8217;s Phony Heart &#8220;Drug&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/forget-big-pharmas-phony-heart-drug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big Pharma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FDA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niacin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vitamin B3]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Get a load of this. Big Pharma giant Merck is trying to re-package one of Nature's most potent heart health allies… and sell it to you as a heart "drug."]]></description>
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		<title>Help Lower Your Cholesterol Naturally</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/help-lower-your-cholesterol-naturally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cholesterol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HDL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LDL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[niacin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Member, Did you know there is a very effective, natural nutrient that safely improves heart health?* Most doctors don’t. And that’s too bad… Bob, a 50-year-old man, came to me after learning that he was at a high risk of suffering disastrous heart problems. He learned from his doctor that his HDL (good) cholesterol [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The REAL Cause of Heart Attacks and Strokes</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/the-real-cause-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.alsearsmd.com/the-real-cause-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fitness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[c-reactive protein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CoQ10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Doctor's Heart Cure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PACE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Member, A recent story in The New York Times revealed the &#8220;newly discovered&#8221; importance of C-reactive protein (CRP). Apparently, a drug company-sponsored study showed that people who had high CRP levels had fewer heart attacks and strokes when taking statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs). Suddenly, the whole medical community is buzzing about the importance of CRP. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Big Risk Factor Often Overlooked&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alsearsmd.com/a-big-risk-factor-often-overlooked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Al Sears</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heart Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cholesterol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omega-3s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Omeganol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[triglycerides]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Member, When it comes to your heart’s health, your doctor may be focused on your cholesterol and not enough on other risk factors. One risk factor and predictors of heart trouble that you need to consider when measuring your heart health is your triglycerides. I’ve been warning my patients about the link between triglyceride [...]]]></description>
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