Heart health is a growing concern, especially as conditions like dementia and Alzheimer’s have gained attention in recent years. If you’re currently managing cardiovascular issues or have a family history of heart disease, it’s natural to feel anxious about your future risks. As a result, you’re probably either looking for an alternative to medications your doctor has prescribed, for ways to lessen the side effects they cause, or to mitigate the need for taking them in the first place.
Cardiovascular health testing is very limited, and one of the things we pride ourselves on at Anthrobotanica is access to cutting-edge testing from the US, including advanced lipid testing which assess true current cardiovascular risk and vulnerable plaque. Having this knowledge has really helped patients make more meaningful decisions around whether certain medications are going to have a meaningful impact.
Genetic testing can also as an example, help identify individuals who may be at higher risk of experiencing side effects from statin medications. These side effects can include statin-induced myopathy, liver enzyme changes, increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, and overall response to statins.
If you have been diagnosed with cardiovascular issues you may already be on several prescribed medications, you may have been advised to do something about your high blood pressure and have been given guidance on a variety of lifestyle changes that could reduce your risk factors.
The natural therapies we offer in our clinic can help you:
- Supplement traditional medication (under strict supervision)
- Reduce your blood pressure
- Lower your anxiety levels
- Lessen medication side effects and nutrient depletions
- Improve cholesterol markers and other cardiovascular risk factors
- Understand your cardiovascular risk with advanced lipid markers which are not offered in standard testing
Creating new futures
According to the British Heart Foundation just less than one in nine people in the UK are living with a heart or circulatory disease and 1.4 million people alive today have survived a heart attack. If you or a family member are among them, you will be acutely aware of the need to do something to take you off the path you are on, to make better choices for the future. We see all manner of people in our clinic suffering from a variety of conditions, but the thing that remains the same is our desire to understand the challenges you face and the root causes and drivers of them in order to determine what our patients need.
How we can help
In our clinic we take a deeper look at your specific needs to understand the issues and limitations you are currently facing so that we can tailor a personalised strategy for your care. This could involve herbal medicine, dietary or lifestyle changes, or advanced lipid testing to analyse your cardiovascular risk factors. Many patients find that our integrative approach has helped with lowering blood pressure or cholesterol, agitating factors in their cardiovascular health, and as a result, they have been able to significantly reduce, or eventually discontinue some or all of the medications they are on.
Step one to alleviating concerns about your cardiovascular health is to book an appointment see our functional medicine practitioner, and for them to assess whether nutrition, lifestyle or genetics are at the root of your problems so we can start to formulate a tailored plan of action for you.
Click the button below and complete our booking form to arrange for an initial 15-minute consultation to determine the best way forward.
