Re: Dietary Fat, Garlic, and Clotting Activity

July 11, 2004

SophiasDream@... wrote:

> Well, we already know that garlic decreases clotting activity

> (increases clotting time and decreases the time it takes a clot to

> dissolve). Here's an interesting fact that I never heard before:

>

> " The amount and quality of your dietary fat intake has a powerful

> influence on the clotting tendency. Saturated fats and cholesterol

> increase blood clotting, while at the other end fish oils -- and the

> EPA they contain -- reduce it. "

> p.56 The Garlic Book: Nature's Powerful Healer, by Fulder, Ph.D.

>

> Couldn't be stated anymore clearly than that. Apparently also onions,

> but as Don said, not so intense an effect as the garlic, nor as

> comprehensive.

>

> It kinda makes me wonder when I see a plain fact like that in the

> middle of a bunch of cited research: Why did a doctor NEVER TELL ME

> THIS???

>

> It took me until just a few years ago out of futility and frustration

> with repeated clotting troubles, to finally begin to discover some of

> these facts, one by one, like a puzzle piecing together. Each fact is

> a piece of the puzzle. All the doctors worry about is the coumadin --

> nobody ever told me to exercise, to eat healthy, that my cholesterol

> levels would effect my clotting time. I never even had my cholesterol

> checked until last year ! ( I'm 41 now so maybe that has something

> to do with it -- maybe they start automatically checking the old

> people. )(( If they checked it before, they never told me the results. ))

>

> At least now I know.

>

> Blessings,

> Cathie

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