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If your body can’t convert homocysteine to glutathione, bad things happen

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If you can't convert homo assisting to glutathione, bad bad things happen. Yeah. When I was state um geriatric medical director for a number of years, I I've got took over a lot of nursing homes in my time and um he had to follow all these laws, make sure the regulations were were followed perfectly. Usually they weren't being

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followed. That's when I was called in and brought in to make sure I followed all the laws perfectly so they could pass survey and stuff like that. All these big nursing homes in Salt Lake, in Utah County, and I'm sure everywhere in the state had a room or two with anywhere from four to 16 younger women

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in those rooms that had stroked out, that had had severe strokes. And you think birth control pills was a partially a part of that? Yeah. Yeah. They give you 250% increased risk in stroke and stroke risk and on average that's pretty high. Breast cancer risk too. Same thing, same percentage. It's

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it's high. If you add in transuleration problems and a high homocyine level, you get a much higher risk, man. Um, homo, I did some PubMed searches, homoyine and stroke on PubMed, just search those two words. 17,363

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articles. So, if you known someone in their 20s or 30s who had a stroke or heart attack and hadn't done anything else, just lived a normal life. I'm really serious about the not done anything else. I'm going to say what the other thing is they should have hadn't done but but most of you guys can figure

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it out um because you're in tune you're awake but um yeah it's homoyine is the problem. Yeah, they'll have a high homocyine level. Doctors hardly ever check

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