by Ford Brewer | Oct 6, 2020 | Plaque, Supplements
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...
by Ford Brewer | Sep 21, 2020 | Plaque, Prediabetes & Diabetes, Supplements
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...
by Ford Brewer | Sep 11, 2020 | Plaque, Prediabetes & Diabetes
“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...
by Ford Brewer | Sep 3, 2020 | Plaque, Supplements
Serrapeptase is hailed as a natural anti-inflammatory, with lots of promise and with no side effects. It is also claimed to have an effect against the build-up of cardiovascular (CV) plaque. In this post, let’s look at serrapeptase, how it works, and whether there is...
by Ford Brewer | 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 three different mechanisms. One, inflammation, which is not a...
by Ford Brewer | 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...
