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...
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...
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...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. Does vitamin K thin your blood? No. In fact, vitamin K...
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...