{"id":4964,"date":"2012-03-26T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-03-26T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2012-03-25T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T11:06:24","slug":"amino-acid-helps-protect-heart-from-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/2012\/03\/26\/amino-acid-helps-protect-heart-from-cholesterol\/","title":{"rendered":"Amino Acid Helps Protect Heart From Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/taurine-_cholesterol-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"taurine _cholesterol\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/taurine-_cholesterol-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/taurine-_cholesterol.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Eating large quantities of the amino acid taurine \u2013 obtained mostly from poultry rich diet \u2013 may help promote heart health and shield the cardiovascular system from cholesterol-related damage. This research, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center scientists, tested taurine levels in a group of 14,000 women.<\/p>\n<p>They discovered that those with the highest levels of taurine tended to have a significantly lower risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Taurine\u2019s protective effects were particularly pronounced in those with elevated cholesterol levels. In women with high cholesterol, those with high taurine levels in the blood had a 60 percent lower chance of developing cardiovascular disease.<\/p>\n<p>High level of taurine also protected against high blood pressure and type two diabetes. <\/p>\n<p>A natural way to get <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/cholesterol\/\">cholesterol under control before it\u2019s too late&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simple exercises <a href=\"http:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/bloodpressure\">drop blood pressure quickly and permanently&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eating large quantities of the amino acid taurine \u2013 obtained mostly from poultry rich diet \u2013 may help promote heart health and shield the cardiovascular system from cholesterol-related damage. This research, conducted by NYU Langone Medical Center scientists, tested taurine levels in a group of 14,000 women. They discovered that those with the highest levels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,17,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-cholesterol","category-high-blood-pressure"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/taurine-_cholesterol.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blueheronhealthnews.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}