Cardiovascular disease (CVD), principally heart disease and stroke, is the Nation's leading killer for both men and women among all racial and ethnic groups.
Almost 1 million Americans die of CVD each year, which adds up to 42% of all deaths. Heart disease doesn't just kill the elderly -- it is the leading cause of death for ALL Americans age 35 and older.
Heart disease accounts for over one million deaths each year; in 160,000 of those deaths the individuals were 35 to 64 years old.
From a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) perspective, TCM practitioners do not focus on treating the symptoms of disease and conditions such as cardiovascular disease, but rather, they work to restore balance and harmony within the body and key organs. They try and achieve this goal by encouraging healthy lifestyle changes like supporting a person’s body with diet modifications, herbal supplementation & stress reduction. In TCM, the goal is to provide maximum health support so that the body may better heal itself and maintain optimum health.*
