I think Bill was wrong. At least I've never heard that from two cardiologists I've seen, one beingbthe creator of the Calcium Score and who I wish I'd not moved too far away too keep seeing easily. A really good doctor and reassuring, positive but realistic, person.

P S One thing that a lot of people take is no-flush niacin. But a friend was on that and was in a car accident and doctors in the ER insisted that he must have been on blood-thinners as they had a lot of trouble stopping the bleeding. It was the ER nurse who asked about everything he was taking and told the doctors her husband had had a 'paradoxical' bleed after a small wound when on no-flush niacin. So just a heads up on the natural stuff that's been under-studied.