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"Beware nutritional supplements" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In our effort to expand the reach for the nationwide conversation on heart disease reversal, I'd like to welcome the newest contributor to the Track Your Plaque family, a new ... Read on »

"Black holes" on heart scan by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Lots of smokers, especially younger smokers, rationalize their habit by telling themselves that they'll stop if and when any hint of adverse health effects develop. The probl ... Read on »

"Drug no cure for gluttony" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health That's the headline I'd like to see associated with rosiglitazone, brand name Avandia. The recent negative press, whether deserved or not, surrounding the prescription drug r ... Read on »

"Fish oil is stupid" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health "Fish oil is a waste of time and money. It's stupid. Just stop it." So a patient of mine was advised by another physician when he complained that he occasionally experienced ... Read on »

"Flying in the fog" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I received this wonderful response to The Heart Scan Blog post Hammers and Nails : I am 65 years old. I had a stent inserted in the "widow-maker" artery (80% blockage) a yea ... Read on »

"Heart Healthy" and other lies by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health "Bankers believe liquidation has run its course and advise purchases." New York Times headline, Oct 30, 1929, at the start of the Great Depression. "I did not hav ... Read on »

"Heart scans are experimental" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Let me warn you: This is a rant. It is prompted by a 44-year old woman. She has a very serious lipoprotein disorder. Her family experiences heart attacks in their 40s and 50s ... Read on »

"Heart scans" are not always heart scans by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Beware of the media reports now being issued that warn that "CT heart scans" pose a risk for cancer. One report can be viewed at http://www.webmd.com/cancer/news/20070717/ct- ... Read on »

"Help keep your family goiter free" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health People ask, "If I need iodine, should I go back to iodized salt?" First of all, how did this notion of iodized salt originate? In 1924, J. Edgar Hoover was appoint ... Read on »

"Hey buddy, wanna buy some exorphins?" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Dr. Christine Zioudrou and colleagues at the National Institutes of Mental Health got this conversation going back in 1979 with their paper, Opioid peptides derived from food ... Read on »

"How much vitamin D should I take?" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health It’s probably the number one most common question I get today: “How much vitamin D should I take?” Like asking for investing advice, there are no shortage of people willin ... Read on »

"How often do you call an ambulance?" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I asked one of the CT technologists at Milwaukee Heart Scan what quesetions are often asked by people undergoing their first CT heart scan. "That's easy," she said. " 'How of ... Read on »

"I can't do it" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Anne sat across from me, bent over and sobbing. "I can't do it. I just can't do it! I cut out the breads and pasta for two days, then I start dreaming about it! "And ... Read on »

"I don't know what I'm doing here" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Jim came to the office at the prompting of his wife. At age 52, Jim was semi-retired, having to work only a few hours a week to maintain his business. He'd had a high cholest ... Read on »

"I gained 30 lbs from one cracker" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Let me tell you a story, a tale of a woman who gained 30 lbs by eating one cracker. At age 50, Claire's health was a disaster. Her initial lipoprotein patterns were a mess, i ... Read on »

"I hate fish oil!" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I get this comment occasionally, usually from the fishy belching that can occur, rarely because of other crazy effects like rash, fishy body odor, etc. In the vast majority, ... Read on »

"I have never seen regression" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health At a presentation at the American College of Cardiology meetings in New Orleans yesterday (March 27, 2007), Dr. Arthur Agatston declared "I have been doing CT for many years, ... Read on »

"I lost 30 lbs and my triglycerides went . . . up?" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Brad needed to lose weight. At 6 ft tall, he began the program at 291 lbs, easily 80 lbs overweight. He wore virtually all of it in his belly. He had laboratory numbers to m ... Read on »

"Instant" reversal with fasting? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Here's a fascinating e-mail we received recently. It came from a man in Hawaii who dropped his heart scan score a modest amount, but did it in two months using fasting . He al ... Read on »

"It must have been the statin" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health After four years of trying, Randy finally reduced her heart scan score. It not only dropped, it plummeted. After four previous scans that showed 25% or more increases, she'd f ... Read on »

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