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Add freshness and vitality to your days by starting on the path to a healthy way of life. The Heart Health and Wellness Center offers special integrated management techniques for controlling difficult lipid cases, diabetes treatment, and special hypertension associated with heart failure cases and/or kidney problems.

Common problems that we encounter in disease treatment include high 'bad' LDL cholesterol and low 'good' HDL cholesterol and high triglycerides. These common blood fat abnormalities are seen in over 50% of the population and are the cause of diseases including Type II diabetes, hypertension (or high blood pressure), and cardiovascular disease.

The unfortunate, side effect of hypertension, heart failure and diabetes is the effects on the kidney. The kidney is adversely affected as conditions become more advanced. We therefore pay close attention to the kidney and its function very early on in disease treatment or prevention. Two of the biggest factors in poor kidney conditions are high homocysteine (an amino acid in the blood) and uric acid that is elevated. Elevated levels of homocysteine put risk on the central nervous system and kidneys. By careful analysis of kidney conditions, we can provide early problem detection and treatment of the disease.

Careful and detailed analysis of LDL cholesterol, as it relates to kidney function, is one of the most important issues at The Heart Health and Wellness Center. Homocysteine often increases with age and other conditions, and is a risk factor that can lead to heart disease, stroke, kidney dysfunction, osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease.

Therefore, the emphasis lies in reduction of homocysteine. There has been a great deal written on homocysteine, but it is often misunderstood. It can be difficult to reduce the homocysteine levels by taking treatment products orally. However, it is possible to reduce levels by other means available at our practice.