Heart Health and Circulation

Can Vitamins and Supplements Help With Cholesterol? Written and Clinically Verified by: Matt Marshall, PharmD. When your cholesterol is on the line - what are the first things the doctor probably tells you to do? Lose weight Exercise Watch your diet Right before you are sent on your way with a new prescription, right? It's not that none of the above mentioned things aren't effective - because they definitely are. But isn't there more you can do to get your cholesterol and/or heart health on track - and keep it that way? There's good news and not-so-bad news in this [...]

Can Supplements and Vitamins help with High Blood Pressure? Written and Clinically Verified by: Matt Marshall, PharmD.   Are we too quick to turn to prescription medications as the solution for our health problems? While modern medicine is effective, it’s not without caveats like these: Rising costs of prescriptions Side effects Drug interactions All are things we have to consider before taking ourselves out of the equation and letting drugs do all the heavy lifting for our health. What other options do we have then? As any doctor will tell you, lifestyle intervention in the form of losing weight, [...]