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Blindly assigned to one of two groups, they were given either a placebo or St. John's wort. The initial dose: three standard 300-mg tablets a day, which was upped to four tablets if there was no improvement after four weeks. Although the St. John's wort group showed slightly more improvement than the placebo group (27% v. 19%) at the end of the eight-week trial, the doctors regarded the difference as statistically insignificant. When taking prescription antidepressants, two-thirds of patients improve...
...diet, which emphasizes lots of fresh produce, low-fat dairy, fish and fewer sweets and which was proved in 1997 to reduce hypertension. The biggest decreases in blood pressure in this study were recorded in subjects who ate the DASH diet and reduced their sodium intake to 1,200 mg...
...this significant? Public-health experts estimate that Americans consume, on average, about 3,500 mg of sodium--equal to about 9 grams of salt--each day. Current guidelines recommend consuming no more than 2,300 mg of sodium--about 6 grams of salt--daily. It's not that we're that heavy-handed with the saltshaker. Most of our dietary sodium is added during food processing. To get down to 1,200 mg, you'd have to forgo most prepared foods, take-out deliveries and restaurant meals...
Meanwhile, an English study reports that it may take about twice the current U.S. Dietary Reference Intake of folic acid--in other words, 0.8 mg a day--to lower homocysteine levels enough to ward off a heart attack...
...Starting Friday morning and repeating each day through Monday, take .2 mg of melatonin upon waking and another .2 mg four hours later. (Don't drive if it makes you sleepy...