Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Heart Disease?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-12-07

The benefits of taking a daily aspirin must be weighed against the risk of internal bleeding.

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More on preventing, arresting, and reversing heart disease in:
• Heart Disease Starts in Childhood (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/heart-disease-starts-in-childhood)
• Lifestyle Medicine: Treating the Causes of Disease (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-treating-the-causes-of-disease)
• The Actual Benefit of Diet vs. Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-actual-benefit-of-diet-vs-drugs)
• Optimal Cholesterol Level (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/optimal-cholesterol-level)
• Physicians May Be Missing Their Most Important Tool (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/physicians-may-be-missing-their-most-important-tool)
• Oxygenating Blood with Nitrate Rich Vegetables (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/oxygenating-blood-with-nitrate-rich-vegetables)
• Is Fish Oil Just Snake Oil? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-fish-oil-just-snake-oil)
• Does Cholesterol Size Matter? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/does-cholesterol-size-matter)
• When Low Risk Means High Risk (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/when-low-risk-means-high-risk)
• Low Carb Diets and Coronary Blood Flow (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/low-carb-diets-and-coronary-blood-flow)
• Fully Consensual Heart Disease Treatment (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/fully-consensual-heart-disease-treatment)

This is the first of three videos on the risks versus benefits of taking aspirin. Preventing heart disease and stroke is not the only benefit, though. A daily aspirin may also decrease the risk of certain cancers. In that case should we take an aspirin a day after all? See my next video Should We All Take Aspirin to Prevent Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/should-we-all-take-aspirin-to-prevent-cancer) and then I end with Plants with Aspirin Aspirations (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/-plants-with-aspirin-aspirations).

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