Michael Greger M.D. FACLM December 20th, 2011 Volume 6 The average “bad” cholesterol (LDL) level in people having heart attacks is in the “near-optimal” range, suggesting that the current guidelines are too lax.Subscribe to VideosDiscussREPUBLISH The level of LDL cholesterol in our blood—our “bad” cholesterol—may be the single most important indicator of heart disease risk, and is,…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM November 29th, 2013 Volume 15 Many of our most common diseases found to be rare, or even nonexistent, among populations eating plant-based diets. This is a list of diseases commonly found here (and in populations that eat and live like the U.S.), but were rare, or even nonexistent, in populations eating diets centered…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM February 24th, 2014 Volume 17 The oxidation of high-fat and cholesterol-rich foods in our stomachs may help explain why eating antioxidant packed foods appears to reduce heart attack and stroke risk. The total antioxidant capacity of our diet may also be protective against stroke, in contradiction to all the pill studies that failed to…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM September 10th, 2014 Volume 20 According to the Director of the famous Framingham Heart Study, the best way to manage cholesterol and heart disease risk is with a more plant-based diet. Why then, don’t more doctors advise their patients to change their diets? Why don’t more doctors practice preventive cardiology? Available time is…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM February 25th, 2015 Volume 23 What was it about the diet on the Greek isle of Crete in the 1950s that made it so healthy? “The Mediterranean Diet is an “in” topic nowadays in both the medical literature and the lay media”: 450 papers published in the medical literature over just the last…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM December 14th, 2018 Preventing and treating chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke with diet and lifestyle changes is not just safer but may be dramatically more effective. Medical myths and dogmas die hard. Researchers creating a new body of knowledge for prevention and control of heart disease had to…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM February 1st, 2019 The endothelium is the inner lining of our blood vessels. Laid end-to-end, the endothelial cells from a single human would wrap more than four times around the world. And it’s not just like an inert layer; it’s highly metabolically active. I’ve talked about how sensitive our endothelium is to…
Heart disease “Dr. Esselstyn is a surgeon, but as he will tell you, he would rather not have to operate on people at all, he’d rather get to the cause of the disease,” says Dr. Neal Barnard. Dr. Esselstyn decided to look at the potential of a plant-based diet to reverse coronary artery disease [CAD]. Dr.…
Wondering how to reverse heart disease? Then keep reading! We’ve all been told to eat healthy and exercise more. But Dr. Dean Ornish says he has scientific proof that simple changes can actually change our lives. And now he’s sharing with us the secrets from his new book Undo It. 1. Eat Well The first…
by Caldwell Esselstyn Cardiovascular disease (CV) is the number one killer in the Western world. But it doesn’t need to be. The truth is that more than 75 percent of cases of heart attacks, strokes, and other cardiovascular disease events are preventable. In The Whole Heart Solution, America’s Holistic Heart Doc Joel K. Kahn, MD,…