Category Archives: Heart Disease

The Truth about Cholesterol

Three flagged numbers on my lipid panel — and the four numbers on the same panel that prove I’m in excellent metabolic health. This is my actual lipid panel, drawn at age 54. Total cholesterol: 240 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 200 cutoff. LDL cholesterol: 149 mg/dL. Flagged. Above the 100 target. Non-HDL cholesterol: 167 mg/dL.Continue reading “The Truth about Cholesterol”

What to do…

If you’ve read Parts 1 and 2 of this series, you know two things: This post is about what to do about it. And I’m going to give you something almost no other nutrition content will: a framework that treats your current metabolic state as the deciding factor, not a one-size-fits-all rule. Because here isContinue reading “What to do…”

Sugar isn’t “Empty Calories”

Sugar Isn’t “Empty Calories.” It’s a Multi-Organ Stress Test Your Body Was Never Designed to Pass. For the last forty years, the official position on sugar has been some version of “it’s just empty calories — eat it in moderation.” That sentence is one of the most expensive lies in the history of public health.Continue reading “Sugar isn’t “Empty Calories””

The Real Cause…

The Real Cause of Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Half of Modern Chronic Illness — And Your Doctor Probably Isn’t Even Testing for It Here is one of the most under-publicized facts in modern medicine. The single biggest cause of heart attacks today is not high cholesterol. It is not saturated fat. It is not evenContinue reading “The Real Cause…”

Heart Disease and Metabolic Dysfunction

Heart disease isn’t a disease. It’s a symptom. Treat the cause.

We are not truly winning the war… heart disease

Open any cardiology textbook from the last decade and you’ll find some version of this: “The age-adjusted death rate from heart disease has dropped by approximately two-thirds since 1970. We are winning.” That sentence is true. It’s also one of the most misleading things in modern medicine. What actually happened Let’s start with the numbers,Continue reading “We are not truly winning the war… heart disease”