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David Evans

Independent Health Researcher

Monday, 21 February 2011

Compounds richly available in meat can improve heart function

Published in Heart Fail Rev. 2006 Mar;11(1):75-82.

The management of conditioned nutritional requirements in heart failure.
Allard ML, Jeejeebhoy KN, Sole MJ.
Division of Cardiology, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario.

This paper can be accessed at: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16819580

Patients suffering from congestive heart failure have lowered heart energy production, and higher cell and muscle damage.

Nutritional factors known to be important for these conditions, such as thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, L-carnitine, coenzyme Q10, creatine and taurine are deficient in patients with heart failure.

Meat is a rich source of thiamine, riboflavin, pyridoxine, L-carnitine, coenzyme Q10, creatine and taurine.

Dietary consumption of  these compounds in heart failure can significantly restore depleted levels and may result in improvement in heart structure and function as well as exercise capacity.

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