Paul Fassa: No Low Dose Aspirin for Heart Attack Protection!

Some of us are aware of one or two negative side effects from low dose daily aspirin use to prevent heart attacks, but lately, more side effects, serious ones, of daily aspirin dosing are making the risks outweigh the advantages completely. Fortunately, there are natural substitutes that match or surpass the daily aspirin routine for heart attack protection. As late as 2007, a massive aspirin TV ad promoting daily low dose aspirin took hold over millions, despite the growing awareness of side effects from this routine. Aspirin zombies were awakened: Several studies had been conducted on daily aspirin use for over two decades. The studies had mixed results, which were mostly negative. The gastric stomach bleeding and ulcer production came in at close to one-third of the trial subjects. That seemed tolerable to some, since second heart attacks were reduced. However, fatal heart attacks were actually not reduced at all by taking low dose aspirin daily. After a few more years of observation, other side effects became manifest. Those on daily aspirin regimes had a twofold increase in hemorrhagic brain strokes, which cripple and kill. This is because aspirin only thins blood, making coagulation difficult when needed. In other, more recent studies, kidney and liver problems appeared as a result of daily low-dose aspirin. And now, another side effect from low dose aspirin has popped up: Blindness. The age group usually involved with daily with daily aspirins for heart protection is the same group most vulnerable to Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD).