A Natural Approach for the Treatment of Hypertension with Mangosteen

High blood pressure affects millions of people throughout the world. This incidence is continuing to rise. Depending on your lifestyle, hypertension spares no one and this includes kids and teenagers who may become prone to high blood pressures at their early age including you.

Hypertension occurs when pressure inside the blood vessels is too high. A change in your lifestyle and diet are important factors in naturally lowering your blood pressure. Lifestyle changes include stress reduction, exercise, and relaxation techniques. This can be lowered by medication and natural therapy. Enough of all this bad news… The good news is that we have mangosteen. Research laboratories around the world have been helping us understand how the mangosteen fruit works. It is the best tasting fruit in the world that provides you nutritional value for overall wellness. Let this food be your medicine.

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CAN MANGOSTEEN CURE DIABETES?

What is diabetes?

Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases characterized by elevated blood sugar levels that result from defects in insulin secretion, or action, or both. It is the most common endocrine disease characterized by metabolic abnormalities and by long-term complications involving the eyes, kidneys, nerves and blood vessels. It affects over 200 million people worldwide.

What is insulin?

Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas that regulates the amount of sugar production in the body. The food that we eat and drink is broken down into simple materials like glucose. Glucose, in turn, is used by the cells of the body to fuel energy. Insulin enables glucose to be transported into cells.

If the body does not produce adequate amount of insulin or if cells resists the effects of insulin, or if the insulin itself is defective, then glucose will not be absorbed properly by those body cells that require it nor will it be stored appropriately in the liver and muscles. With this situation, the body produces the symptoms and complications of diabetes.

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Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and mangosteen

A Background to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

It’s not unusual to feel tired or fatigued from time to time. It’s something that happens to us all irrelevant of gender or age; but it is normally just a temporary condition that soon passes. For some people however, it can be quite serious to the point of becoming debilitating, and when it lasts for longer periods of time it could be that you have developed what is called Chronic Fatigue syndrome or CFS for short.

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Mangosteen - A Natural Alternative For Lowering Cholesterol Levels And Beating Heart Disease

If you are one of the many people who suffer from high cholesterol you are already aware of the dangers associated with the disease. Large portions, high fat content and convenient fast food have all been key factors in the growing problem of obesity and high cholesterol. While some cases of cholesterol are hereditary, most cases are caused by having too much fat in the diet. Over time this builds up in our bodies, clogging our arteries and potentially threatening the health of our cardiovascular system. With that in mind, it is important that you take steps now to prevent any further damage caused by high cholesterol.

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MANGOSTEEN AND COUMADIN- ARE THERE ANY SIDE EFFECTS WITH BLOOD THINNERS?

What is Coumadin?

Warfarin, sold in the drugstores under the brand name Coumadin, is a prescription drug that prevents the formation of blood clots, which belong to a class otherwise known as blood thinners.

How are blood clots formed?

A process known as hemostasis prevents or stops blood loss from an injured blood vessel. There are four steps involved in this process.

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Mangosteen and Thyroid Disorder Symptoms

When we talk of thyroid disorders, the first thing that comes to mind is problems of metabolism. There are two types of thyroid disorders – hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism. It is very easy to differentiate these two, since their names already speak for themselves. Hyperthyroidism is the overactivity of the thyroid gland, while hypothyroidism is its underactivity.

In order to further elaborate on these two, here is a detailed discussion of these two thyroid disorders.

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Mangosteen and Urinary Tract Infections – Xanthone’s Antibacterial Properties May Help

Perhaps you know someone who has UTI, since this infection is one of the most common diseases afflicting people all over the world. Although it is not deemed to be as serious as a heart attack or a stroke, it can lead to some pretty grave diseases, such as glomerulonephritis, or worse, renal failure.

But before we get ahead of ourselves, let us first define what UTI is, what its causes are, and how it manifests.

Urinary tract infection, generally known as UTI, is a bacterial infection that affects the body’s urinary system. This happens when bacteria get into the urinary bladder or the kidneys, thereby causing UTI. UTI affects millions of people all over the world, especially women. In fact, this disease accounts for 8.3 million visits to the doctor visits every year.

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