Key to Health

Preventing Cancer, Heart Disease, Stroke, Diabetes and many others major illnesses does have a cost. The good news is prevention costs but a fraction of what it costs to actually experience serious disease, therefore ASH is saving it's members millions of potential healthcare cost dollars. ASH Members take the knowledge they acquire and basically heal themselves. ASH Members learn and share their growing knowledge through nationwide conference calls, email, direct mail, printed publications other media and the internet. ASH Members decide their own level of involvement. ASH Members are compensated for their part in expanding the ASH Membership. Education is the key to unlock a healthful future and very important part of an ASH membership.

Garlic Supplements Lower Blood Pressure

Garlic supplements may lower blood pressure just as effectively as some drugs used to treat hypertension can, according to a new research review.

"Supplementation with garlic preparations may provide an acceptable alternative or complementary treatment option for hypertension," Dr. Karin Ried and colleagues from The University of Adelaide in South Australia write.

Research to date on garlic and blood pressure has had "inconclusive" results, they note, while the last meta-analysis - in which the results of several studies are analyzed collectively -- only included studies done up until 1994.

To provide an updated perspective, Ried and her team included more recently published studies in their analysis, identifying 11 studies in which the patients were randomly assigned to garlic or placebo. In most studies, participants given garlic took it in powdered form, as a standardized supplement. Doses ranged from 600 mg to 900 mg daily, which study participants took for 12 to 23 weeks.

When the researchers pooled the data from the trials, they found that garlic reduced systolic blood pressure (the top number in a blood pressure reading) by 4.6 mm Hg, on average. An analysis limited to people with high blood pressure showed garlic reduced systolic blood pressure by 8.4 mm Hg, on average, and diastolic blood pressure (the bottom number) by 7.3 mm Hg. The higher a person's blood pressure -was at the beginning of the study, the more it was reduced by taking garlic.

The effects were similar to those of widely used drugs for treating hypertension, for example beta blockers, which reduce systolic blood pressure by 5 mm Hg, and ACE inhibitors, which produce an 8 mm Hg average drop in systolic blood pressure, the researchers note.

The 600 mg to 900 mg dosage used in the studies is equivalent to 3.6 mg to 5.4 mg of garlic's active ingredient, allicin, Ried and her team point out. A fresh clove of garlic contains 5 mg to 9 mg of allicin.

In the population as a whole, they note, reducing systolic blood pressure by an average of 4 to 5 points and diastolic blood pressure by 2 to 3 points could cut the risk of heart disease and heart disease-related death by up to 20 percent.

More research is needed to determine whether garlic supplementation might have a long-term effect on heart disease risk, the researchers conclude. Copyright Reuters

ASH (Advanced Scientific Health) is a health product buyers' club and is also a MLM company. I've always failed at all MLM programs that I joined. After years of failure - scores of every day people like myself are now achieving success. This is not a risky new business but rather a combination of strengths of two established companies, each over 8 years old. The result is that the team is breaking all previous records and that this will provide long term residual income for many for years and years to come. There is nothing else on Google to compare. This is the perfect work at home business - no buts about it. This opportunity is called, It's Good Business and it really is good business. You should learn more and to do that, you must attend a presentation.

Presentations are held every Sat at 1:00PM and every Wed at 7:00PM PST. There's no selling or pressure, just good business sense. I urge you to attend at your earliest convenience. Register at: http://itsgoodbusiness.net.

Just to give you a little insight, we don't buy leads. we buy customers. And when we buy customers, they appear in our downline with out any effort on our part. As I mentioned earlier, this is the perfect work at home business opportunity!

It's Good Business!