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Advancing Heart Health


Overall strategy is to:

•         Reduce Damage/inflammation and Increase Protection.

•         Determine adequacy of intervention via monitoring progress with heart scans and CIMT.

•         Step up therapy until the desired results are achieved:  we want to reduce the rate of increase in the coronary artery calcium score to less than 15% increase/year (also known as heart scan). 

 

Steps to reduce heart disease:

•      Eat real food, think about your great, great, grandmother would have eaten.  One of the most important steps to take is to reduce linoleic acid/omega 6 polyunsaturated oil intake by avoiding seed oils (i.e. safflower, sunflower, corn).  Also avoid sugar, flour, and other simple carbohydrates, processed foods, and most restaurants (high seed oil use).

•      Limit the hours you eat (intermittent fasting/time restricted eating) i.e. eat within 4-8 hours/day, avoid eating after 6:30 PM.  Additional benefit can be obtained by fasting 4 days in a row several times a year, up to monthly.

•      Avoid drinking water with chlorine or fluoride, use alcohol sparingly.

•      Optimize hormones: Thyroid, Testosterone, Estrogen, and Progesterone.

•      Note that not all supplements need to be taken by everyone. Generally if your tests do not show the desired response, your provider will recommend adding or increasing your supplements. Garlic (600-1200 mg 2x/day), Nattokinase 1 cap 2x/day, Berberine 500 mg 2-3x/day, Omega Complete 2 caps 2x/day, vitamin C (2 grams 2x/day), D/K2 5,000 IU/day – adjust to keep level about 60-80, Magnesium 300-1000 mg/day, Plasmalogens – ProdromeNeuro 1 cap/day, phosphotidylcholine i.e. BodyBio PC 1-2/day, Arterosil 1 cap 2x/day.

•      Keep iron low with quarterly blood donations and/or therapeutic phlebotomies.

•      If you have a root canal, see a biological dentist, see IABDM.org/location

•      Deal effectively with stress.

•      Exercise regularly.

•      Have a sleep study done and when needed treat sleep apnea.

•      Prescriptions that often help: Sirolimus (Rapamycin), Methylene Blue.

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