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🗓️ 8 March 2016
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In the functional medicine community, we’ve been taught that lowering homocysteine into the normal lab ranges by taking B-vitamins is one way to lower cardiovascular risk. But is it? Let’s take a look at what the research really shows.
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0:42.4 | Hey, everyone, this is Dr. Roushaw with your fast facts for today's episode on |
0:47.1 | homocysteine and heart disease. |
0:48.9 | There actually are no fast facts, and I think once you listen to the episode you'll realize why. So apologies |
0:56.7 | for not having that but I think fast facts would be at the detriment to everyone's learning |
1:02.8 | on this one today. So enjoy and if you have any comments or questions, please feel free to |
1:08.1 | post them in the comment section with this post. Okay, thanks. Bye. |
1:11.7 | Hey guys. Welcome to Dr. Rusho Radio. This is Dr. Rusho, and I am here with Susan McCauley of Evolved Nutrition. Hey, Susan, how's it going? |
1:18.7 | It's going good. It's one of those balancing acts of making sure to get all your work done, but also taking care of yourself. I just got back from like a one hour walk. So I feel pretty energized right now. |
1:30.0 | Nice. I am jealous. I had to set it in my schedule. That's crazy when you get so busy that you have to |
1:35.9 | actually calendar in a walk. Yeah. Well, you got to take that time for you. So you're, you're there for today. |
1:42.5 | You got yourself time checked off. Yeah. And I also put it on my to-do list because I love checking stuff off my to-do list. How about you? |
1:50.0 | Yeah. It makes me feel productive. So speaking of productive, we have a great topic. Why don't you tell us all about it? |
1:59.6 | Yeah, I thought we could talk today about homocysteine and heart disease. |
2:03.6 | We don't really talk a lot about heart disease on the podcast, and admittedly it's not one of the areas that I'm actively treating in the clinic and or actively researching. |
2:12.6 | However, I should say that the more I learn about the gut and the more we learn about |
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