Alternative anti-clotting agents

How to dissolve arterial clots

Vitamin E

Vitamin E protects against blood clot formation, which can block the coronary arteries, causing a heart attack.   High blood platelet adhesion (blood “stickiness”) causes blood to clot when squeezed through plaque-narrowed arteries.

-   Vitamin E reduces the stickiness of blood

Violi F, Pratico'D, Ghiselli A, Alessandri C, Iuliano L, Cordova C, et al. Inhibition of cyclooxygenase-independent platelet aggregation by low vitamin E concentration.Atherosclerosis 1990; 82:247-52.

Arginine

-   L-Arginine is shown to have the same anti-clotting ability as aspirin - but not continuously, only when needed (i.e. when chemicals associated with injury are released into the blood stream);

-   Endothelial cells (line artery) produce vessel relaxing nitric oxide (NO) from L-arginine and oxygen - eNOS busily activates NO production - provided it is “coupled” with sufficient L-arginine, oxygen and BH₄.

Arginine - Precursor to blood vessel dilator Nitric Oxide