This is so simple control, but if you don't know about something it is impossible to know that you should be doing something about it.
There is a link between increasing levels of an abnormal protein called homocysteine and heart disease. It is normal by-product of metabolizing the amino acid methionine and is usually cleared from our blood before it can damage to our arteries. Studies have shown that people with high levels of homocysteine had a 30 to 50 percent higher risk of death than people with low levels of homocysteine. It has also been linked to chromosomal damage which is one if the causes of aging that we discussed in the free radical theory of aging.
Elevated homocysteine levels is caused by nothing more than a vitamin B deficiency and is only one more example of the correlation between nutrition and the diseases that prematurely ages us. You need vitamins B6 and B12 and folic acid to make the enzymes that remove homocysteine from the blood.
