Summary:
In simple terms, this little known molecule homocysteine is what makes our arteries and veins vulnerable to the damages of LDL bad cholesterol. Reducing the risks associated with homocysteines could be as simple as taking nutritional supplement NADH, nutritional supplements B6, B12 and folic acid. Not drugs, not medications just NADH, nutritional supplements B6, B12 and folic acid.

Treating high homocysteine levels with vitamins:
Could this be true? We believe it is. We find The greatest minds in medicine are spending their limited resources in studying homocysteines. We find there is an enormous growth in the number of medical research studies that are investigating the role of homocysteines in cardiovascular and heart disease. Some of these studies have become famous. I'll share summaries of their finding in just a moment, but first let's get a little better understanding of homocysteines.

Understanding homocysteines:
Like cholesterol, homocysteines can be useful. Our bodies get homocysteines from methionine, an amino acid found in eating meat. Our bodies use this amino acid to build and maintain a healthy body. During a normal metabolism cycle, the liver converts excess homocysteine back into methionine or the liver will break down the homocysteines for excretion.

The discovery of a homocysteine:
In 1968, Dr. McCully was first to discover and publish that high homocysteines levels in the blood damage the body's circulatory system when normal metabolism isn't functioning properly. Dr. Kilmer McCully, a pathologist at the VA Medical Center in Providence, R.I. has spent over 30 years studying homocysteines. Dr. McCully claims:

• The initial injury to the artery wall is not caused by arterial plaque, but by a substance derived from our diets called homocysteine.

It is the injury to the arterial wall that leads to heart attacks and strokes. To learn more about this subject, visit the section called the events leading to a heart attack . It maps out the advancing stages of cardiovascular disease and heart disease.

Homocystinuria: a rare genetic disorder:
The same damaging consequences exist (to a much greater degree) in a rare genetic disorder found in children, called homocystinuria. Untreated the children die from heart attacks or strokes. Children with homocystinuria lack the proper levels of liver enzymes required to process homocysteines. Research has shown many of these children had normal cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Dr. McCully discovered this during clinical autopsy studies. He found these young children have arteries that look a lot like those of elderly heart disease patients. The relationship required further research. Dr. McCully believed:

• If severe homocysteine levels destroy a child's arteries could milder levels create heart disease and cardiovascular disease in adults?

It was1968, when Dr. McCully first published his findings on damages from high homocysteine levels. In the late 1960's research funding and clinical research was focused on LDL bad cholesterol levels. No one listen or reacted to these new homocysteine findings. For 30 years Dr. McCully continued with his research publishing the results of his work in scientific journals. Recently Dr. McCully published a book for the general public. ("The Homocysteine Revolution" (242 pages, Keats. $14.95)

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