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Magnesium and you-Part I by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health If this were 10,000 B.C., you'd get your drinking water from streams, rivers, and lakes, all rich in mineral content. Humans became reliant on obtaining a considerable propor ... Read on »

Cheerios: Prescription required? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Followers of The Heart Scan Blog know my feelings about Cheerios: Can you say "sugar"?Cheerios and heart health There's an interesting tussle going on between the ma ... Read on »

"Placebos are frequently of value" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health The treatment of angina pectoris, generally speaking, is unsatisfactory. Any procedure that relieves mental tension is valuable. Since patients suffer particularly during the ... Read on »

Iodine is not salt by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health I've noticed a point of confusion recently, something I hadn't noticed in my patients before: Because of the public health advice from the FDA, American Heart Association, and ... Read on »

"You can't reduce coronary plaque" by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health "I told my cardiologst that I stumbled on a program called 'Track Your Plaque' that claims to be able to help reduce your coronary calcium score. "My cardiologist sa ... Read on »

Lethal lipids by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health There's a specific combination of lipids/lipoproteins that confers especially high risk for heart disease. That combination is: Low HDL--generally less than 50 mg/dlSmall LDL- ... Read on »

CRP House of Cards by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Lew has coronary plaque with a heart scan score of 393. At age 53, that's in the 90th percentile (higher score than 90% of men in his age group). On our search for causes of ... Read on »

At-home blood tests by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Our at-home blood tests are proving a hit. So far, vitamin D is the number one most popular test, no surprise. Second--to my surprise--is DHEA. I would have predicted it wou ... 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 »

Thumb your nose at swine flu by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Judging from what we know about vitamin D, it is highly probable that it confers substantial protection from viral infections, including swine flu. Dr. John Cannell of the Vi ... Read on »

Vitamin D and inflammation by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health We already know that vitamin D reduces inflammatory processes, since several markers, including c-reactive protein and IL-6 have previously been shown to drop substantially wi ... Read on »

Even monkeys do it by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health It all started back in the 1960s, when ape-watching anthropologists, Drs. Jane Goodall and Richard Wrangham, observed chimps foraging for a specific variety of leaf, which the ... Read on »

Cath lab energy costs by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In honor of Earth Day, I thought I'd highlight the unexpectedly high carbon costs of activities in hospitals, specifically the cardiac catheterization laboratory. A patient e ... Read on »

Wag the Dog by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health What if the system to provide heart care has already gotten as big as it should be? Worse (for hospitals), what if it’s already far larger than it needs to be? Can the ... Read on »

Heart scan book by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health There are only two books on heart scans available. One, of course, is Track Your Plaque. The other is the basic book on heart scans, What Does My Heart Scan Show? Lost in th ... Read on »

Lies, damned lies, and statistics by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health In the last Heart Scan Blog post, I discussed the question of whether statin drugs provide incremental benefit when excellent lipid values are already achieved without drugs. ... Read on »

Statin drugs for everybody? by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Who is better off? John takes Crestor, 40 mg per day: LDL cholesterol 60 mg/dl HDL cholesterol 60 mg/dl Triglycerides 60 mg/dl Total cholesterol 132 mg/dlOr Sam: LDL chol ... Read on »

No BS weight loss by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health If there's something out there on the market for weight loss, we've tried it. By we, I mean myself along with many people and patients around me willing to try various new str ... Read on »

Self-directed health is ALREADY here by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health It can't happen. People are too stupid/ignorant/lazy or simply don't care. It is irresponsible. People will misuse, abuse, misdiagnose, fail to recognize all manner of medic ... Read on »

Fire your stockbroker, fire your doctor by Dr. William D. Medical Doctor

Posted in: Blog Posts in Heart Health Is it yet time to fire your doctor? I advocate a model of self-directed health, a style of healthcare in which individuals have the right to direct his or her own healthcare ... Read on »

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