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What a Stress Test Can (and Can’t) Tell You
Plaque in arteries causes bad things. It causes heart attacks, the #1 cause of death (CDC, “Heart Disease Facts,” 2020). It causes strokes, the #1 cause of permanent disability (CDC, “Stroke Facts,” 2020). Scientists also continue to debate the linkage between plaque and...
Is Saturated Fat Unhealthy? Is It a Big Fat Surprise, Big Fat Lies, or Just Confusion?
In our YouTube Live event on July 1, 2020, we discussed both Nina Teicholz's book "The Big Fat Surprise" and an article recently published in JACC (Journal of the American College of Cardiology). It was Dave Murphy who got me started on this when he brought this JACC article to...
How To Prevent Stroke & Manage Atrial Fibrillation
Every 40 seconds, someone in the US has a stroke. Every 4 minutes, someone dies from this condition. That’s not all. Here are the other stroke statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2020): In 2018, 1 in 6 deaths from cardiovascular disease was...
What Vitamin D Can Do to Your Immune System & CV Health
We all know vitamin D is great for bone health. But rarely discussed is the impact of vitamin D on the immune system and cardiovascular health. And with the current risk of COVID-19 and other infections, these aspects appear to be a big deal. What is vitamin D?...
Can You Take Vitamin K2 With Blood Thinners?
Vitamin K2 is one of our channel subscribers' favorite topics. We also get a lot of questions about blood thinners and vitamin K2. For instance, here’s a question posted by a viewer on our YouTube channel. Vitamin K is important as it is required for making blood thicken or...
Should Dentists Provide Prediabetes Preventive Care?
Yes. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that dentists provide prediabetes and diabetes prevention care. This should include at least awareness, education, and screening. To summarize the role of dentistry in this area, take this quote from an...
Vitamin K2 & Cardiovascular Health – What’s the Real Score?
Most information about vitamin K2 and arterial disease focuses on calcification. The assumption is that K2 moves calcium from arteries into bone, a process that may affect stable plaques. But there may be different mechanisms on how vitamin K2 really works. The discovery of...
Liraglutide (Victoza/Saxenda) for Diabetes & Weight Loss
Have you heard about Saxenda and Victoza? Saxenda is a weight loss medication, while Victoza is a diabetes medication. These 2 drugs are the same, though. Both brands refer to the same drug that goes by the generic name “liraglutide.” And liraglutide is one of those drugs that...
More Important Than LDL? The Triglyceride/HDL Ratio
“There are few things that humble me more than my complete and utter buffoonery when it comes to HDL lipidology...” - Peter Attia “It’s true of all of us.” - Thomas Dayspring (Attia, 2020) Thomas Dayspring is a nationally recognized lipidologist. That means he’s an expert on...