Healthy Blood Pressure with an Ayurvedic Botanical
Coleus forskolii is an Ayurvedic botanical which has been shown to support cardiovascular health in older adults, particularly healthy blood pressure.
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A study was performed to determine the effect of cinnamon on blood glucose and blood pressure. The researchers recruited 58 patients with type 2 diabetes average age 54 and were randomly assigned to receive either 2 g of cinnamon or placebo daily for 12 weeks. The results were mean systolic and diastolic pressures were significantly reduced in the cinnamon group. Also, HbA1c was significantly reduced in the cinnamon group. There was also a significant reduction in fasting glucose, waist circumference and body mass in the cinnamon group and the changes were …

The phenolic compounds found in grapes have shown to have a variety of positive effects on metabolic syndrome. Among them are the causing of endothelium-dependent relaxation of blood vessels and the activation of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (Sivaprakasapillai et al., 1). Endothelium-dependent relaxation is simply the relaxing of the flat cells that line internal body cavities, such as those in the heart. Once these cavities are relaxed, they allow for the opening of blood vessels. Endothelial nitric oxide synthase is important because it is the production and distribution of nitric …

No matter how you slice it, watermelon has a lot going for it — sweet, low calorie, high fiber, nutrient rich — and now, there’s more. Evidence from a pilot study led by food scientists at The Florida State University suggests that watermelon can be an effective natural weapon against prehypertension, a precursor to cardiovascular disease.
It is the first investigation of its kind in humans. FSU Assistant Professor Arturo Figueroa and Professor Bahram H. Arjmandi found that when six grams of the amino acid L-citrulline/L-arginine from watermelon extract was administered …