What about the Warfarin warnings?

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2. Frequent Anti-Aging Questions

These questions have been submitted by individuals all over the world

who are concerned about their anti-aging health. Dr. Lam, world

renowned anti-aging physician and researcher, has answered the

following Frequent Anti-Aging Questions incorporating helpful

information and easy-to-follow instructions.

Q: What about the Warfarin warnings?

Warfarin is an anticoagulant used to thin the blood and prevent it

from clotting. It is a somewhat dangerous drug that can be affected by

many substances, including foods. If you are taking Warfarin, we don't

recommend taking any herb or supplement except on a physician's

advice. Vitamin K is an antidote to Warfarin and directly counteracts

its effects. Do not take vitamin K while you are on Warfarin. Coenzyme

Q10 (CoQ10) is a substance somewhat similar in structure to vitamin K,

and reportedly it, too, can reduce the effects of Warfarin. Vitamin C,

when taken in high dosages (more than 1,000 mg daily), has been

reported to reduce the blood-thinning effect of Warfarin.

As long as a person is on blood thinner, all herbs and nutrients that

have potential blood thinning effect must be handled with extreme

care. The list is very long indeed. You can see therefore that caution

is very necessary.

Q: This is getting kind of confusing. If CoQ10 is not a coagulant,

then how come it acts as a coagulant with Warfarin? Also, one of the

uses of Vitamin C is to break up clots or thrombosis. How can Vitamin

C then be perceived as a coagulant?

A: When it comes to nutrients, there are many things we still don't

know. Vitamin C is both an anti-oxidant and a pro-oxidant, depending

on the dosage. This is data from the last 10 years only. Similarly,

phyto-estrogen, such as soy, is both an estrogen inhibitor and

enhancer. There is much we don't know, and scientific studies trying

to isolate one single variable and drawing empirical conclusions with

limited ability to control can be very dangerous. We read in the

press all the time the conflicting reports, both in nutrition and

drugs. That is why, for example, there are 500 studies say that

hormone replacement therapy is good and 500 others pointing the

opposite. This is after 40 years of intensive research among the top

brains in the world. Clearly the subject matter is highly complex and

we have yet to fully understand. The good news is that if you take

the time to really read all the studies over time and digest the

details and scrutinize them slowly, a general picture will gradually

form in your own mind, and that is what makes a professional a

professional in the absence at this time of solid data demanded by

modern medicine. And that is why the practice of medicine is not only

a science but also an art, especially in nutritional medicine.

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