ORIGINAL RESEARCH A way to reverse CAD? Tough current medical and surgical treatments manage coronary artery disease, they do little to prevent or stop it. Nutritional intervention, as shown in our study and others, has halted and even reversed CAD. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr, MD; Gina Gendy, MD; Jonathan Doyle, MCS; Mladen Golubic, MD, PhD;…
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Michael Greger M.D. FACLM July 29th, 2019 Volume 47 Plant-based diets as the single most important, yet underutilized, opportunity to reverse the pending obesity and diabetes-induced epidemic of disease and death. Dr. Kim Williams, immediate past president of the American College of Cardiology, started out an editorial on plant-based diets with the classic Schopenhauer quote that “All…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM September 11th, 2019 Volume 47 The effects of ketogenic diets on nutrient sufficiency, gut flora, and heart disease risk. Given the decades of use of ketogenic diets to treat certain cases of pediatric epilepsy, a body of safety data has accumulated. Nutrient deficiencies would seem to be the obvious issue. Inadequate intake of…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM February 21st, 2012 Volume 7 Those of you paying close attention to this discussion of how beets can boost athletic performance may have noticed a term that sounded familiar—nitric oxide, which I talked about before in The Power of NO. It’s a vasodilator; helps open up blood flow. That’s how those nitroglycerine pills work…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM February 25th, 2015 Volume 23 “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 year alone–more than one a day. “Uncritical laudatory coverage” is common, but specifics are hard to come by. What is…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM April 25th, 2012 Volume 8 Fruit and vegetable consumption is associated with a lower risk of heart disease. But which is more protective—raw or cooked? In this recent study of 50,000 men and women, those who ate the most apples appeared to have significantly less risk of having a heart attack in the…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM November 9th, 2012 Volume 11 Why is the intake of animal protein associated with heart disease—even independent of saturated fat—and the intake of plant protein protective? Below is an approximation of this video’s audio content. To see any graphs, charts, graphics, images, and quotes to which Dr. Greger may be referring, watch the…
Michael Greger M.D. FACLM December 19th, 2011 Volume 6 Most people hospitalized with heart attacks have cholesterol levels considered “desirable” under the current recommendations. Having a “normal” cholesterol in a society where it’s normal to die of heart disease is not necessarily a good thing. The current official recommendation is to have a total cholesterol under 200.…
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…