Q&A With Dr. K | What are the food based proven blood thinners? And are they as effective as drugs?

Dr. Klaper

Question: What are all the food-based proven blood thinners? And are they as effective as drugs?

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Dr. Michael Klaper is an experienced physician, an internationally-recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on health and wellness. He resolutely believes that proper nutrition — through a whole food plant based diet — and a balanced vegan lifestyle are essential for health. He offers health tips on vegan nutrition.

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[zola]

Thank you Dr Klaper! Very interesting, and valuable information.

[xymonau]

You didn't mention Amla. It works as well as a statin for cholesterol, but has blood thinning properties as well. I take it every day. When I take Eliquis, it changes my personality. It has me getting angry and with poor emotional self control. It's terrible. After three weeks on it, my stomach started hurting and I was nauseous constantly. I had to stop. The issues went away rapidly. I take it now when I go into afib (I have paroxysmal afib) and I try to take it for as many days after the electric cardioversion as I can. (Because you can be cardioverted after just one dose of Elequis, etc, in spite of the old belief that you had to have taken it for weeks in advance.) But I could no more stay on it than fly. I get the worst side effects from almost everything. So I take Amla every day, and most days need painkillers, so I try to have aspirin, although it's rough on my stomach, so only with food. The other fear issue for me is that my sister had a brain haemmorhage in her forties. It wasn't a clot, but a bleed that caused the stroke. The neurologist said there was an increased risk of this in families. We've had a number of females in the extended family die from similar. And the risk of brain haemmorhage is increased on blood thinners. I know it's less with the modern ones, but it's significant. "Wet" strokes are worse, and fewer survive. So I don't take them, and doctors carry on and try to coerce me, etc. They aren't the ones living with the side effects.