by PrevMedHealth | Jun 19, 2020 | Plaque
One of our viewers, David Ivers, asked, “What is the process by which LDL is pulled out from between the media and intima layers of the artery wall?” A brief answer that I gave had to do with 3 different mechanisms. One, inflammation, which is not a good...
by PrevMedHealth | Jun 16, 2020 | Prediabetes & Diabetes
What are the things that can cause heart attacks and strokes? This should be an excellent discussion because once we know what causes cardiovascular (CV) diseases, then we can prevent them. Things may be difficult but not nearly as much as undergoing a surgery (like a...
by PrevMedHealth | May 26, 2020 | Supplements
If you look at all of the chronic “killer” diseases—heart disease, cancer, diabetes, chronic lung disease—they don’t start actually early in life. They start increasing dramatically in the middle age. Anti-aging researchers have noticed this. The folks involved...
by PrevMedHealth | May 14, 2020 | Inflammation
Cardiovascular inflammation hit the public’s awareness again in 2017 when Harvard professor Dr. Paul Ridker did a press release about CANTOS (Canakinumab Antiinflammatory Thrombosis Outcome Study) (Ridker et al., 2017). Ridker and his co-researchers started looking at...
by PrevMedHealth | May 5, 2020 | Plaque
A friend, at age 60, had cardiovascular plaque problems. His father died of a heart attack at age 51. Good thing, he slowed down his plaque progression, reversed it, and hardened it. As he felt in good shape at that time, he stopped taking his statin. In less than a...
