America spends at least $60 billion a year on invasive cardiovascular care. Even in these days of escalating national debt and unbalanced budgets, that’s a staggering amount of money. And shockingly, evidence suggests that much of it is being squandered on high-risk, expensive procedures that have not been proven to either save lives or prevent heart attacks.

With every beat of your heart, blood is being pushed through your arteries.  After feeding all of your bodily tissues this blood travels to the lungs, where it is revitalized with oxygen.  The oxygen-rich blood then returns to your heart where the whole process begins again.  Your heart beats more than 100,000 times per day, moving about 70ml of blood per beat.  If you do the math that works out to more than 7000 liters per day.  A little more math and we find that about 2000 gallons of blood moves through your heart and blood vessels daily.  To beat a dead horse, that’s over 8 tons of blood per day!

Question: I recently underwent cardioversion treatment for my irregular heartbeat. I know the fibrillation can come back—what can I do to reduce my chances of a quick recurrence?

May is National High Blood Pressure Education Month, but it seems that the people who need the education most are the ones who are doing the “educating.” This is another chapter in the saga of how misguided “experts” can be reactionary and short-sighted in their recommendations for the treatment and prevention of medical conditions. Today’s focus: hypertension.

Chances are you or a loved one has high blood pressure. One in five people in the United States do, which means that 50 million people are faced with the possibility of a lifetime of drugs and their side effects. But high blood pressure (hypertension) can be beaten. Even if drugs can't be avoided entirely, by taking the right natural measures we can use substantially less.

Changes in diet should be the first strategy for anyone with high blood pressure, but most people will need to make drastic changes in their eating habits to succeed. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health have shown why the DASH diet lowers high blood pressure to normal in more than 80 percent of people with high blood pressure.

On the advice of my eco beauty expert friend, I recently started using raw apple cider vinegar (ACV) as a rinse to keep my hair clean, shiny, and soft. To my surprise, it really does work and honestly does not smell, as long as you rinse very well.

Many of you have not heard of the very heart healthy and circulatory l natural ingredient called Nattokinase. Nattokinase is derived from fermented soy and was first researched in Japan over 15 years ago. However, the incredible life extending benefits that Nattokinase offers for your heart and your life are just now being discovered by many Americans.

Dr. Piero Anversa of the Harvard Medical School created controversy among his peers when he asserted in 1987 that the human heart completely renews its cells four times by the time a person reaches age 80. Before Dr. Anversa's claim, conventional wisdom among scientists had maintained that heart cells don't regenerate at all -- you die with the heart you were born with, minus wear and tear.

About 1.6 million Americans undergo heart bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent procedures annually – even though there’s no evidence that these procedures prolong life or prevent future heart attacks in the majority of patients.