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| According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood | | | | to gain and nothing to lose! |
| Institute, every month more than 50,000 | | | | Different Strokes for Different Folks |
| Americans experience a stroke. Thatâs | | | | About 88 percent of all strokes are ischemic |
| every month. A third of those people die as a | | | | strokes. This means that the blood supply to a |
| direct result of the stroke, and another third are | | | | section of your brain has been suddenly slammed |
| permanently disabled. Want to get out of the line | | | | shut. The process starts years earlier, with |
| of fire? Good idea. The factors that lead to | | | | peripheral artery disease (PAD), a condition in |
| stroke tend to be silent and sneaky, so you could | | | | which arteries elsewhere in your body start |
| be at risk and not even know it. Fortunately, | | | | getting gradually gunked up with inflammation |
| thatâs not a problem, because those risk | | | | byproducts, oxidized cholesterol patches, and |
| factors are easy to neutralize through natural | | | | clots. The actual stroke happens when a piece of |
| means that are great for your total | | | | that gunk comes loose, gets swept along in your |
| healthâwhether youâre a stroke | | | | bloodstream, and clogs an artery in your head. |