Do You Have MS, Heart Disease, or Cholesterol Issues?

No, I haven't, but if I did I wouldn't email a stranger who keeps asking people to email in order to get information.

?Advertising. ?Moneymaking. ?Prayer - in supplement form of course.

If the latter it should be free and openly included in the questions and answers.

I seem to remember 'a small investment' mentioned in one of your posts.

There are 'all natural supplements' everywhere, some are not so harmless and most are costly. Many do not nearly fulfil the promise on the label

Advertising and moneymaking are my guess.

Don't fall for it folks.

EDIT

Following an email from a seemingly miffed R4L I asked around. This appears to be linked to a company called Life Vantage.

The company Life Vantage (used to be Lifeline).

They are heavily promoting Protandim...

Protandim is a patented dietary supplement that allegedly increases the body’s antioxidant defenses. It is not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.There is no convincing evidence that it has either positive or negative effects on the health of those who take it. The research director of LifeVantage, the company that manufactures the supplement, has stated "We make no claims about curing any disease, or preventing any disease." To translate for your credulous friend, this means that there is no acceptable evidence that it works.[unquote]

For more on Lifeline/Protandim read...

http://quackfiles.blogspot.com/2005/07/protandim-c...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2005/06/yet-mor...

If you go on to the Life Vantage site and read the long barely comprehensible study it appears to have been done on rats.

A 2005 article says it was done on mice

I believe, since then, one study has been done on humans.

A 2008 review published in the British journal of nutrition noted that protandim is one of many supplements that claim to act as antioxidants, but commented that changes in TBARS levels and increases in the levels of antioxidant enzymes in response to a treatment do not provide a reliable indication that the treatment has an antioxidant effect, since the same responses are produced by pro-oxidant compounds that induce oxidative stress.

For more on the company read the link.

I still say don't fall for it folks..

No, I have not. But if someone have i will suggest him to use the product of lifevantage because i have heard about that product so good things like Its patent application was useful to treat or prevent 126 diseases to prolong life, improve diabetes, prevent cancer and make them feel better etc. Protandim would also improve lung disease or reduce the rate of infections in alcoholics instead of reduce markers of oxidative stress and normalize abnormal alveolar epithelial permeability..

There is no evidence to show alternative therapies are useful in the treatment of heart disease, MS and high cholesterol. I'll pass thanks.

Edit

Thankyou for providing that extra information Izzy, I too was concerned that other readers might be fooled into paying attention to this questioners advice.

Frozen shoulder, pinched nerve.

MS may mean multiple sclerosis or mitral stenosis. Since you have raised the question under heart disease, I presume that you are referring to the latter.

Mitral stenosis is a heart valve disorder that involves the mitral valve. This valve separates the upper and lower chambers on the left side of the heart. Stenosis refers to a condition in which the valve does not open fully, restricting blood flow. This is most commonly due to rheumatic fever.

Chronic mitral regurgitation is a long-term disorder in which the heart's mitral valve does not close properly, causing blood to flow backward (leak) into the upper heart chamber when the left lower heart chamber contracts. The condition is progressive, which means it gradually gets worse.

Possible Complications

* Arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms), including atrial fibrillation and lethal arrhythmias

* Clots to other areas to the brain (stroke), intestines, kidneys, or other areas

* Endocarditis (infection of the heart valve)

* Heart failure

* Pulmonary edema, hypertension, emboli (blood clots in the lungs)

Dyslipidemia is elevation of plasma cholesterol, triglycerides (TGs), or both, or a low high density lipoprotein level that contributes to the development of atherosclerosis. Causes may be primary (genetic) or secondary. Diagnosis is by measuring plasma levels of total cholesterol, TGs, and individual lipoproteins. Treatment is dietary changes, exercise, and lipid-lowering drugs.

Eat a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet, which includes cottage cheese, fat-free milk, fish, vegetables, poultry, and egg whites. Use monounsaturated oils such as olive, peanut, and canola oils or polyunsaturated oils such as corn, safflower, soy, sunflower, cottonseed, and soybean oils. Avoid foods with excess fat in them such as meat (especially liver and fatty meat), egg yolks, whole milk, cream, butter, shortening, pastries, cakes, cookies, gravy, peanut butter, chocolate, olives, potato chips, coconut, cheese (other than cottage cheese), coconut oil, palm oil, and fried foods.

Please note that I am not a medical professional.

Save us from quacks and charlatans even the most meaning ones!