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Aloe vera lowers cholesterol and stops arthritis pain, studies showDid you know that aloe vera lowers cholesterol? This plant is well known as a topical sunburn remedy but can also be taken internally to promote a healthy body. Comsuming aloe vera has many benefits, and one of them is reducing cholesterol levels. According to internationally-recognized natural health writer Mike Adams: "When used internally, aloe vera gel improves the quality of the blood and helps rebalance the blood chemistry in a way that lowers cholesterol and total triglycerides (in people with elevated levels). This is far safer than using statin drugs, which have extremely harmful negative side effects while depleting the body of nutrients such as CoQ10." In a 2003 animal study study in Seoul, Korea, researchers determined that aloe vera lowers cholesterol. The group that received aloe supplements showed approximately 30 percent lower cholesterol levels. A five-year human study in the 1980s involving 5000 patients with angina found that supplementation with Husk of Isabgol (Psyllium husk) and aloe vera resulted in drastically reduced cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Subjects' LDL (bad) cholesterol dropped 40 to 80 percent and their triglycerides dropped 20 to 70 percent. My personal experience also found that aloe vera lowers cholesterol. My LDL (bad) cholesterol dropped 19 percent and my overall cholesterol number decreased by 12 percent after 4 months of aloe vera supplementation. I started taking aloe vera as a vitamin/mineral regimen and was amazed when it lowered my cholesterol naturally. Doctors had been talking about putting me on a prescription to lower my cholesterol. You may also eat aloe vera gel straight from the plant. One supplier of several varieties of organic aloe vera juice is evitamins.com. To see their rather large selection of aloe vera juices, click here. To get a better tasting product, you may want to get one that is mixed with berry flavor, or honey or stevia, or you can mix it with juice if you don't like the flavor.
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Aloe vera halts inflammation, soothes arthritis painThere have been at least 200 scientific studies conducted on this plant, which has been used medicinally for thousands of years. We've talked about how aloe vera lowers cholesteol. It's also a natural treatment for arthritis. The sterols in aloe vera (lupeol, campesterol and beta-sitosterol) have significant anti-inflammatory properties. In the mid-1970s, Robert H. Davis, PhD, a scientist who has conducted extensive aloe vera research, discovered the anti-inflammatory properties of this plant accidentally. He was researching natural anti-inflammatories as an alternative to steroid drugs and used aloe vera gel as the control substance. He found that the aloe vera group in this project experienced the most dramatic anti-inflammatory response he'd ever seen with a natural substance. A 1994 study published in the Journal of the American Podiatric Medical Association discovered that aloe vera can help prevent arthritis and reduce the inflammation in joints affected by arthritis. Aloe vera also helped stop the autoimmune reaction in some forms of arthritis in which the body attacks its own tissue, such as rheumatoid arthritis. One component in aloe reduced inflammation by 79.7 percent and another component shrunk swelling by 67.3 percent.
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