Allow me to go a bit off the topic of heart disease for a brief, but important, digression.
I feel rather strongly about this. And, while it doesn’t relate directly to heart disease, heart disease prevention or cholesterol, it does indeed interface with these issues at several levels.
 
In my view:
 
Human women should receive human hormones.
 
Perhaps that [...]

At 53, Sam had been through the wringer with heart disease.
He suffered his first heart attack at age 50. Since then, he’s undergone four heart catheterizations, received 5 stents, and, most recently, a bypass operation. He wanted to know whether there was a better way.
 
After hearing Sam’s story, I asked him, “Did your doctors suggest [...]

In this, the third post on the “Rule of 60,” we now turn to ways to reduce LDL cholesterol towards 60 mg/dl.
 
Of course, the standard reflexive response of most doctors when dealing with LDL cholesterol is to have you “cut the fats” and take a statin cholesterol drug.
How effective is “cutting the fat”?
 
In most instances, [...]

In my last two posts (see: Reduce Triglycerides Naturally & Why Take Fish Oil if You Take a Statin Drug?), I discussed how, in my program for reversal of heart disease, we follow what I call the “Rule of 60″: LDL 60 mg/dl, HDL 60 mg/dl, triglycerides 60 mg/dl, or 60:60:60.
 
We achieve greater control over [...]