{"id":241578,"date":"2026-07-26T04:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/natural-clotting-switch-may-one-day-reduce-reliance-on-blood-thinners-to-prevent-heart-attacks-and-strokes"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T09:10:37","slug":"natural-clotting-switch-may-one-day-reduce-reliance-on-blood-thinners-to-prevent-heart-attacks-and-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/natural-clotting-switch-may-one-day-reduce-reliance-on-blood-thinners-to-prevent-heart-attacks-and-strokes","title":{"rendered":"Natural clotting \u2018switch\u2019 may one day reduce reliance on blood thinners to prevent heart attacks and strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/natural-clotting-switch-may-one-day-reduce-reliance-on-blood-thinners-to-prevent-heart-attacks-and-strokes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cardiovascular conditions such as strokes or heart attacks are among the most common causes of death in Germany. Today, treatment and prevention are primarily based on so-called platelet aggregation inhibitors and anticoagulants\u2014types of medication commonly referred to as blood thinners. They inhibit or prevent blood coagulation, which in turn prevents the formation of blood clots and life-threatening medical emergencies such as strokes or heart attacks. However, by intervening directly in the hemostasis process, they increase the risk of dangerous bleeding.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aea9826\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal <i>Science Advances<\/i>, researchers led by Dr. Marcel Benkhoff (Department of Cardiology, Pneumology and Angiology at the UKD) have mapped a novel therapy approach that utilizes the body\u2019s own mechanisms. The study focused on two substances produced by the body: sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) and thrombomodulin \u2122.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardiovascular conditions such as strokes or heart attacks are among the most common causes of death in Germany. Today, treatment and prevention are primarily based on so-called platelet aggregation inhibitors and anticoagulants\u2014types of medication commonly referred to as blood thinners. They inhibit or prevent blood coagulation, which in turn prevents the formation of blood clots [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}