Heart Disease

The Diet-Heart Myth: How to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease Naturally

By on May 17, 2013 in Health Conditions, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 40 comments

This is the final article in the Diet-Heart Myth series I've been writing over the past several weeks. If you missed the previous articles, you can find them on the special report page for heart disease. Ben Franklin said, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." Heart disease is no exception. According to the INTERHEART study, which examined cardiovascular risk factors in 51 countries, 9 out of the 10 strongest risk factors for heart ...
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The Diet-Heart Myth: Statins Don’t Save Lives in People Without Heart Disease

By on May 13, 2013 in Health Conditions, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 44 comments

To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page. Cardiovascular disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and mistreated conditions in medicine. In the first article in this series, I explained the evidence suggesting that eating cholesterol and saturated fat does not increase the risk of heart disease. In the second article, I explained it's not the amount of cholesterol in your blood that drives heart disease risk, but the number of LDL particles. In the third ...
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Choline and TMAO: Eggs Still Don’t Cause Heart Disease

By on May 6, 2013 in Food & Nutrition, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 40 comments

A recent study by published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has proposed a new link between eggs and coronary heart disease (CHD) that doesn’t involve cholesterol. A team of researchers, led by Dr. Stanley Hazen, showed that dietary choline—a nutrient found largely in eggs, beef liver and other animal foods—is metabolized by bacteria in our gut and then converted by the liver into TMAO. They demonstrated this with a “choline challenge”: feeding volunteers two ...
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What Causes Elevated LDL Particle Number?

By on May 3, 2013 in Diabesity, Heart Disease, Lab testing | 63 comments

To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page. In the last article in this series, I explained that LDL particle number (LDL-P) is a much more accurate predictor of cardiovascular disease risk than either LDL or total cholesterol. In this article, I’m going to briefly outline the five primary causes of elevated LDL-P. Conventional medicine is primarily focused on suppressing symptoms. If your blood pressure is high, you take a medication to lower ...
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The Diet-Heart Myth: Why Everyone Should Know Their LDL Particle Number

By on April 26, 2013 in Health Conditions, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 79 comments

To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page. Cardiovascular disease is one of the most misdiagnosed and mistreated conditions in medicine. In the first article in this series, I explained the evidence suggesting that eating cholesterol and saturated fat does not increase cholesterol levels in the blood for the majority of the population. In this article, I will debunk the myth that high cholesterol in the blood is the cause of heart disease. Myth #2: High cholesterol ...
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The Diet-Heart Myth: Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Are Not the Enemy

By on April 19, 2013 in Health Conditions, Heart Disease, Myths & Truths | 80 comments

To read more about heart disease and cholesterol, check out the special report page. It’s hard to overstate the impact that cardiovascular disease (CVD) has in the U.S.. Consider the following: Cardiovascular disease affects 65 million Americans. Close to one million Americans have a heart attack each year. In the U.S., one person dies every 39 seconds of cardiovascular disease. 1 of 3 deaths that occurs in the U.S. is caused by cardiovascular disease. 1 in 3 Americans have metabolic syndrome, a cluster ...
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