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Are onions a blood thinner?

Therefore, cooked garlic and onions should also act as anticoagulants. Further, Bailey noted, adenosine is a blood-vessel relaxant, which suggests onions and garlic might help reduce blood pressure.

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Cooked or raw, garlic and onions may help ward off heart disease.

There is evidence that these two allium vegetables tend to "thin the blood," discouraging blood clots that trigger heart attacks and strokes. For one thing, garlic and onions can help make blood platelets less sticky and, as a result, less likely to clump together to form clots, said John Martyn Bailey, George Washington University School of Medicine. But it is commonly believed that the "blood-thinning" agents in garlic and onions are greatly diminished or destroyed by cooking. If so, only raw onions and garlic would work. Now, a new study by Bailey and co-workers, has identified three blood-thinning agents in garlic and onions - and the main one, he said is adenosine, which survives cooking. Therefore, cooked garlic and onions should also act as anticoagulants. Further, Bailey noted, adenosine is a blood-vessel relaxant, which suggests onions and garlic might help reduce blood pressure. He also says Chinese black mushrooms, called "tree ears" are rich in adenosine and are anticoagulants. Niacin warning Niacin can lower your blood cholesterol and perhaps help ward off heart disease. You don't need a prescription to get it, and many pharmacists recommend it. However, there is new evidence niacin can be dangerous, said Jere P. Segrest, University of Alabama School of Medicine. He is talking about "sustained-release" or "slow-or timed-release" forms of the B vitamin niacin. "Nobody should take sustained-release niacin unless a physician is following them carefully and doing liver-function tests," warned Segrest. He and colleagues recently reported four cases of liver damage in people taking sustained-release-type niacin. Regular so-called crystalline-type niacin was not harmful, but is more likely to cause flushing. Segrest fears that many people taking sustained-release niacin may unknowingly inflict liver damage. However, he said, "it is reversible if we catch it early enough." Some signs that niacin may be causing liver problems, Segrest said, are: extreme fatigue, dark urine, yellowing eyes or skin and a sense of "malaise or just feeling bad." If you are taking sustained-release niacin and have such symptoms, by all means check with your physician, said Segrest, and switch to regular niacin.

How much fish oil?

If a little fish oil is good for the heart, is more a lot better? Probably not, say Dutch investigators. In a new study, they set out to find the best heart-protective dose of so-called omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil. They fed various doses of fish oil to 45 healthy men for three months. They analyzed how much omega-3 actually got into cell membranes and the benefits to the blood. The fish oil was on top of the men's regular diet of one fish dish a week. Their conclusion: a low dose (1.5 grams of omega-3) was good; a medium dose (3 grams) was much better - but a high dose (6 grams) was no more protective than the 3-gram dose. The men's tissues simply did not absorb significantly greater amounts of fish oil, nor were blood benefits boosted much. That means if you already eat a little fish, an extra 3 grams of omega-3 a day may be the most you need to protect your heart. That's the amount in 4 1/2 ounces of raw Atlantic mackerel; 7 ounces of raw Atlantic salmon; 7 1/2 ounces of pickled herring; 15 ounces of canned white (albacore) tuna; 6 1/2 ounces of canned sardines and 8 ounces of whitefish. Other research shows that eating even one-fifth that much helps prevent heart attacks.

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How much sperm is needed to make a baby?

one sperm How many sperm do you need to get pregnant? It takes just one sperm to fertilize a woman's egg. Keep in mind, though, for each sperm that reaches the egg, there are millions that don't. On average, each time men ejaculate they release nearly 100 million sperm.

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You may know it takes one sperm and one egg to make a baby, but if you're like most folks, you might not remember much else about sperm from biology class. If infertility is an issue for you and your partner, it helps to understand the basics.

How long do sperm live?

The answer depends on a number of things, but the most important is where the sperm are located. On a dry surface, such as clothing or bedding, sperm are dead by the time the semen has dried. In water, such as a warm bath or hot tub, they'll likely live longer because they thrive in warm, wet places. But the odds that sperm in a tub of water will find their way inside a woman's body and cause them to get pregnant are extremely low. When sperm are inside women's body, they can live for up to 5 days. If you're a man and you have sex even a few days before your partner ovulates, there's chance they may get pregnant.

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