We all  now know that any homocysteine level above 6 units (millimol per liter) is certain to have great implications into the health of your life.

What then are the risks which lead to high homocycteine levels? Knowing them would enable you to avoid a situation where you need more efforts to reduce homocysteine and its disease effects subsequently. However, there are many you could avoid but there are also some which you could hardly, in fact, cannot change.

The risk factors are:-

  • The Unavoidable Genetic Inheritance

    • Includes family history of heart diseases, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, diabetes, pregnancy and male sex

  • Low Folate Intake Of Less Than 90mcg Per Day
  • Increasing Age
  • Deficiency In Estrogen
  • Excessive Indulgence In Alcohol, Coffee Or Tea Intake
  • Smoking
  • Lack Of Exercise
  • Hostility With Repressed Anger And Stress
  • Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

    • Amongst them are celiac, Chron's disease and ulcerative colitis.

  • H. Pylori-generated Ulcers
  • Being Strict Vegetarian Or Vegan
  • High Fat-Diet

    • Includes excess red meat and high fat dairy intakes

  • High Salt Intakes

It is imperative that, for those of you who are living a lifestyle that involves most of the above risk factors, you must now take pro-active measures to reduce your high homocycteine levels; lest you may find to be too late should it leads to the many diseases of today. It is also a caution to those of you that in the event that you contract a certain disease, it costs you more to address it then than to do it now.

To know how to manage your high homocysteine level, apart from adopting the above risk management measures, here is the clue.

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