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2014-05-20 Drowning in a Sea of "Endocrine Disrupter Toxins" 1

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2014-06-10 Top 5 Tips to Get Ready for Tough Mudder 0
2014-05-08 We Need More.....Kettlebell 0

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2014-05-26 How Can I Lose Weight Eating Fat? 0

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2014-06-26 What’s the Problem with My “Healthy” Bowl of Oatmeal? 0
2014-05-26 How Can I Lose Weight Eating Fat? 0
2014-05-12 Condition Afflicts Millions: Do you have “YBS”? 0

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2014-06-26 What’s the Problem with My “Healthy” Bowl of Oatmeal? 0

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2013-07-18 Omega-3 fatty acids likely NOT associated with prostate cancer 6

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2014-05-08 Thyroid and the gut: Hidden health partners 0

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2015-05-03 For the sake of convenience: Commercial sources of prebiotic fibers 0
2015-04-20 How Not To Have An Autoimmune Condition 0
2015-04-04 Five Powerful Ways to Reduce Blood Sugar 0
2015-03-07 Cureality App Review: Breathe Sync 0
2014-11-07 Amber’s Top 35 Health and Fitness Tips 0
2014-09-25 To Change, You Need to Get Uncomfortable 0
2014-09-25 The 3 Best Grain Free Food Swaps to Boost Fat Burning 0
2014-09-25 Not so fast. Don’t make this mistake when going gluten free! 0
2014-09-25 3 Foods to Add to Your Next Grocery List 0
2014-08-15 3 Band Exercises for Great Glutes 0
2014-08-10 Is shock therapy the answer to “cure” obesity? 0
2014-08-10 Are Your Beauty Products Toxic? 0
2014-07-28 Top 3 Strength Training Exercises for Runners 0
2014-07-27 How did Cureality get its start? 0
2014-07-21 Sit Less and Move More. 0
2014-07-11 Have You Had Your Prebiotics Today? 0
2014-07-02 Something is Better Than Nothing 0
2014-06-25 Power in Numbers 0
2014-06-23 Use This Trick to Boost Exercise Motivation 0
2014-06-11 Are Your Cosmetics Safe? 0
2014-06-05 Keeping Up with the Kids 0
2014-06-03 4 Tips to Boost Kids Veggie Intake 0
2014-06-02 When is the Best Time of Day to Workout? 0
2014-05-27 What is Cureality all about? 1
2014-05-19 Italian Food the Cureality Way 0
2013-06-18 Are statins and omega-3s incompatible? 4
2013-05-22 DHA: the crucial omega-3 5
2013-05-21 Krill oil: Do the math 0
2013-05-12 What tests are MORE important than cholesterol? 8
2012-11-21 Cranberry Sauce 3
2012-11-18 Apple Cranberry Crumble 0
2012-10-19 Biscuits and Gravy 5
2012-10-02 The Perfect Carnivore 19
2012-09-19 Track Your Plaque in the news 6
2012-09-05 Pecan Streusel Coffee Cake 1
2012-08-16 Recipe: Peanut Butter and Jelly Macaroons 3
2012-08-08 I Wish I Had Lipoprotein(a)! 33
2012-08-01 What WERE they thinking 0
2012-07-11 Green Tea Ginger Orange Bread 4
2012-07-10 Chocolate Bomb Bars 4
2012-07-10 An iodine primer 7
2012-06-07 Green coffee bean extract in AGF Factor I 16
2012-05-14 Lessons learned from the 2012 Low-carb Cruise 13
2012-05-03 Chili Sesame Crackers 0
2012-04-18 The standard cholesterol panel . . . dissected 0
2012-04-18 Opiate of the masses 22
2012-03-23 Jelly beans and ice cream 6
2012-03-07 Diet by LDL 0
2012-03-05 Orange Cream Cookies 5
2012-03-04 Why are heart attacks still happening? 10
2012-02-08 My letter to the Wall Street Journal: It's NOT just about gluten 7
2012-02-01 60-year old man dies of high cholesterol 12
2012-01-30 Back to basics: Coronary calcium 42
2012-01-15 Myocardial infraction 45
2012-01-07 Diet is superior to drugs 27
2012-01-04 Low-carb is heart healthy 88
2012-01-01 Mocha Walnut Brownies 11
2011-12-06 Are you hungry? 43
2011-11-30 Chocolate . . . for adults only 22
2011-11-19 "Friday is my bad day" 29
2011-11-14 HDL 80 mg/dl 73
2011-11-02 Lessons from the 20-year statin experience 0
2011-10-30 Small LDL particles and increased HbA1c--An evil duo 53
2011-10-21 Unforgiving small LDL particles 39
2011-10-19 I eliminated wheat . . . and I didn't lose weight! 33
2011-10-14 Do the math: 41.7 pounds per year 21
2011-10-14 We got the drug industry we deserve 6
2011-10-11 Wheat "debate" on CBC 29
2011-10-05 Carrot Cake 14
2011-10-01 Why wheat makes you fat 32
2011-09-29 Just who is "Real Facts 2000"? 38
2011-09-29 Almonds are the new wheat 31
2011-09-25 Being regular is dangerous to your health 21
2011-09-23 You mean weight loss is hazardous to your health? 11
2011-09-20 What is this wacky thing called "weight loss"? 41
2011-09-15 Why small LDL particles are the #1 cause of heart disease in the US 77
2011-09-14 Even moore from Jimmy Moore 8
2011-09-10 Heart Scans: An Interview with Jimmy Moore 2
2011-09-09 Wheat Belly #5 on New York Times Bestseller list! 66
2011-09-07 Interview with Jimmy Moore of Livin' La Vida Low-Carb 11
2011-09-04 An open letter to the Grain Foods Foundation 94
2011-09-02 Do you eat wheat? I thought so. 85
2011-08-29 Wheat Belly explodes on the scene! 64
2011-08-27 Good fat, bad fat 11
2011-08-26 You could take vitamin D or . . . 53
2011-08-26 More lipoproteins zero! 18
2011-08-24 Diet: One size does NOT fit all 33
2011-08-20 Why ATP-3 is B--- S--- 8
2011-08-17 How far wrong can cholesterol be? 32
2011-08-13 The best artificial sweeteners 23
2011-08-11 Sugar Nation 10
2011-08-08 Track Your Plaque makes Consumer Reports! 27
2011-08-06 Paging Dr. Basedow 8
2011-08-05 Carb counting 20
2011-08-02 One hour blood sugar: Key to carbohydrate control and reversing diabetes 27
2011-07-31 Wheat Belly coming to bookstores! 18
2011-07-31 The exception to low-carb 60
2011-07-29 Can I eat quinoa? 15
2011-07-27 Lipoproteins . . . zero! 23
2011-07-22 Chocolate almond biscotti 8
2011-07-21 Sun green tea 11
2011-07-09 Calling all super-duper weight losers! 12
2011-07-08 Lp(a): Be patient with fish oil 35
2011-07-01 Baby your pancreas 35
2011-06-22 Bread equals sugar 36
2011-06-18 Gluten-free carbohydrate mania 14
2011-06-16 Gluten-free is going DOWN 18
2011-06-15 Medicine ain't what it used to be 0
2011-06-15 Normal cholesterol panel . . . no heart disease? 19
2011-06-11 Idiot farm 10
2011-06-08 Eat triglycerides 31
2011-06-03 You've come a long way, baby 16
2011-06-01 Fasting with green tea 34
2011-05-28 Dreamfields pasta is wheat 11
2011-05-26 Bet you can't fast 28
2011-05-24 Total cholesterol 220 17
2011-05-14 Scientists are freakin' liars 3
2011-05-06 Tell me your wheat elimination story and receive a copy of my new book, Wheat Belly 68
2011-04-27 It really ain't that tough 0
2011-04-27 Real men don't eat carbs 0
2011-04-27 Real men don't eat carbs 57
2011-04-24 Why do the Japanese have less heart disease? 49
2011-04-20 Niacin: What forms are safe? 52
2011-04-18 Introduction to the New Track Your Plaque book, version 2.0 0
2011-04-12 What are "normal" triglycerides? 67
2011-04-09 1985: The Year of Whole Grains 30
2011-04-07 Have some more 37
2011-04-07 When MIGHT statins be helpful? 17
2011-04-05 Advanced topics in nutrition 0
2011-04-04 The New Track Your Plaque Guide now available 5
2011-04-03 Don't wet yourself 13
2011-03-30 Wheat brain 52
2011-03-27 The Westman Diet 71
2011-03-25 Handy dandy carb index 21
2011-03-23 Battery acid and oatmeal 38
2011-03-21 What'll it be: Olive oil or bread? 0
2011-03-19 Chocolate peanut butter cup smoothie 18
2011-03-18 Letter from the insurance company 24
2011-03-15 Healthy smoothies 51
2011-03-14 Insulin secretagogue 34
2011-03-09 Be gluten-free without "gluten-free" 23
2011-03-07 Diabetes: Better than hedge funds 23
2011-03-05 270 lb man in diapers 20
2011-03-04 90% small LDL: Good news, bad news 11
2011-03-02 The American Heart Association has a PR problem 17
2011-02-28 The formula for aortic valve disease? 60
2011-02-26 Blood glucose 160 28
2011-02-24 Indian buffet 56
2011-02-21 American Heart Association diet makes a monkey out of you 38
2011-02-19 Construct your glucose curve 24
2011-02-16 Why is type 1 diabetes on the rise? 43
2011-02-11 Apo E4 and sterols: Lethal combination? 24
2011-02-08 Glucomania 52
2011-02-06 Diarrhea, runny noses, and rage: Poll results 19
2011-02-04 A carpenter is only as good as his tools 18
2011-02-04 The perfect Frankengrain 25
2011-02-03 Diabetes: A study in aging 0
2011-02-02 Fish oil: The natural triglyceride form is better 43
2011-01-30 Diarrhea, asthma, arthritis--What is your wheat re-exposure syndrome? 52
2011-01-30 Marathoners, triathletes, and heart disease 0
2011-01-29 The best fish oil 30
2011-01-28 What do Salmonella, E coli, and bread have in common? 22
2011-01-28 The world of intermediate carbohydrates 0
2011-01-25 Heroin, Oxycontin, and a whole wheat bagel 27
2011-01-24 The five most powerful heart disease prevention strategies 39
2011-01-22 Topping up your vitamin D tank 17
2011-01-21 Thirteen catheterizations later 16
2011-01-19 High blood pressure vanquished 28
2011-01-16 DHEA and Lp(a) 25
2011-01-15 No more cookies 13
2011-01-14 How to become diabetic in 5 easy steps 35
2011-01-13 Restaurant eating: A fructose landmine 25
2011-01-12 A glycation rock and a hard place 15
2011-01-11 Is einkorn the answer? 14
2011-01-10 Genetic incompatibility 29
2011-01-09 The folly of an RDA for vitamin D 26
2011-01-06 Heart scan: Standard of care? 0
2011-01-06 The costs of doing drug business? 28
2011-01-04 Measurement 9
2010-12-30 I lost 37 lbs with a fingerstick 34
2010-12-27 The two kinds of small LDL 17
2010-12-25 Don't forget the pumpkin in the wheat-free pumpkin bread 3
2010-12-25 Wheat-free pumpkin bread 5
2010-12-19 Vitamin D: Deficiency vs optimum level 20
2010-12-15 Large LDL counts, too 0
2010-12-14 Slow Burn works 55
2010-12-13 Do your part to save on healthcare costs 37
2010-12-10 Fish oil: What's the difference? 27
2010-12-09 Wheat-free pie crust 17
2010-12-09 Have a cookie 0
2010-12-05 To B or not to B 11
2010-12-02 Put lipstick on a dwarf 24
2010-12-01 What the Institute of Medicine SHOULD have said 47
2010-11-28 Coronary calcium: Cause or effect? 25
2010-11-26 Wheat one-liners 22
2010-11-24 The happy homeotherm 14
2010-11-19 Statin buster? 20
2010-11-13 Why does wheat cause arthritis? 48
2010-11-10 Why do morphine-blocking drugs make you lose weight? 24
2010-11-09 Heart scan tomfoolery 2 2
2010-11-04 Heart scan tomfoolery 12
2010-11-02 Can I see your linea alba? 19
2010-10-31 Dwarf mutant wheat 13
2010-10-30 Medical education in the days of Big Pharma 43
2010-10-28 The Great Low-Carb Connector 15
2010-10-27 New Track Your Plaque record! 19
2010-10-22 The Anti-AGEing Diet 36
2010-10-21 Butter: Just because it's low-carb doesn't mean it's good 59
2010-10-16 Einkorn now in Whole Foods 19
2010-10-14 Noodles without the headaches 26
2010-10-13 You're fried 26
2010-10-09 Bosom buddies 22
2010-10-03 Don't be a dipstick 32
2010-09-29 The ultimate insurance company cost savings 48
2010-09-24 Salvation from halogenation 26
2010-09-22 Lipitor-ologist 30
2010-09-20 Robb Wolf's new Paleo Solution 16
2010-09-18 Human foie gras 10
2010-09-14 Let go of my love handles 44
2010-09-11 Surviving a widow maker 19
2010-09-08 Fred Hahn's Slow Burn 166
2010-09-05 Can I stop my Coumadin? 20
2010-09-01 Homegrown osteoporosis prevention and reversal 58
2010-08-27 Your enlarged aorta 19
2010-08-25 Extreme carbohydrate intolerance 26
2010-08-20 What's for breakfast? Egg bake 42
2010-08-14 What's for breakfast? 0
2010-08-10 Wheat hip 39
2010-08-07 Men's lingerie is on the second floor 33
2010-08-06 Rerun 0
2010-08-03 10,000 units of vitamin D 47
2010-07-30 No more Lovaza 45
2010-07-29 This is your brain on wheat II 24
2010-07-27 There's no such thing as a "no-carb" diet 24
2010-07-21 Why doesn't your doctor try to CURE diabetes? 88
2010-07-18 LDL pattern B 17
2010-07-15 What increases blood sugar more than wheat? 38
2010-07-10 China fiction? 39
2010-07-09 Carbohydrate-LDL double whammy 14
2010-07-08 To lose weight, prick your finger 45
2010-07-02 Iodine update 30
2010-07-01 Why haven't you heard about lipoprotein(a)? 26
2010-06-29 How to have a heart attack in 10 easy steps 48
2010-06-25 Kick inflammation in the butt 0
2010-06-25 Life without Lipitor 17
2010-06-23 In search of wheat: Emmer 13
2010-06-23 In search of wheat: Another einkorn experience 6
2010-06-21 Increased blood calcium and vitamin D 50
2010-06-20 Heart health consultation with Dr. Joe D. Goldstrich 3
2010-06-16 Wheat aftermath 18
2010-06-14 In search of wheat: Einkorn and blood sugar 32
2010-06-12 In search of wheat: We bake einkorn bread 6
2010-06-10 Ezekiel said what? 24
2010-06-06 Low-carb gynecologist 36
2010-05-29 Track Your Plaque reduces healthcare costs 35% 12
2010-05-26 In search of wheat 43
2010-05-22 Super-carbohydrate 18
2010-05-21 Emmer, einkorn, and agribusiness 32
2010-05-16 Near-death experience with nattokinase 22
2010-05-14 Blame the gluten? 17
2010-05-13 Glycemic gobbledygook 14
2010-05-09 Man walks after removing wheat 27
2010-05-05 AGEing gracefully 32
2010-05-04 Small LDL: Simple vs. complex carbohydrates 17
2010-04-29 Is Cocoa Puffs no longer heart healthy? 17
2010-04-27 Fractures and vitamin D 25
2010-04-25 T3 for accelerating weight loss 57
2010-04-23 The world according to the Wheat Foods Council and the Whole Grains Council 26
2010-04-21 Why bananas increase cholesterol 0
2010-04-19 Plant-based or animal-based? 78
2010-04-16 Fat is not the demon 36
2010-04-14 Near-fatal brush with nattokinase 0
2010-04-13 Glucophobia: The Novel 25
2010-04-11 Drama with the Dr. Oz Show 27
2010-04-10 Response from Nature Made 31
2010-04-09 What to Eat: The diet is defined by small LDL 15
2010-04-07 Is it or isn't it vitamin D? 63
2010-04-06 What to eat: Part I 0
2010-04-04 Carbohydrates and LDL 16
2010-04-04 Strange but true: Part II 0
2010-04-03 Heart catheterization: Strange, but true 1
2010-04-02 Rerun: To let low-carb right, you must check POSTPRANDIAL blood sugars 12
2010-04-01 LDL glycation 11
2010-03-28 High HbA1c: You're getting older . . . faster 16
2010-03-26 Slash carbs . . . What happens? 20
2010-03-23 Normal fasting glucose with high HbA1c 24
2010-03-21 Can you handle fat? 19
2010-03-19 Statin stupid 0
2010-03-19 Butter and insulin 83
2010-03-18 Vitamin D as a cardiovascular risk factor gains ground 0
2010-03-18 Atkins Diet: Common errors 74
2010-03-18 Herd health 0
2010-03-14 Fat Head, Wheat belly, and the Adventures of Ancel Keys 22
2010-03-12 Fat Head: Tom Naughton's manifesto for low-carb eating 16
2010-03-11 Oatmeal: Good or bad? 67
2010-03-06 Mustard: Super health food? 32
2010-03-05 Exercise and blood sugar 30
2010-03-04 The most important weight loss tool 15
2010-03-03 Timing of blood sugars 5
2010-03-01 Psssst . . . There's sugar in there 13
2010-02-28 How low should blood sugar be? 0
2010-02-27 You just THINK you're low-carb 72
2010-02-26 The LDL-Fructose Disconnect 8
2010-02-26 I told you bread was bad 10
2010-02-25 "I dream about bread" 14
2010-02-25 Prototypical Lipoprotein(a) 23
2010-02-20 Gastric emptying: When slower is better 18
2010-02-19 Genetic vs. lifestyle small LDL 59
2010-02-17 Carbohydrate sins of the past 15
2010-02-16 Saturated fat and large LDL 44
2010-02-14 Is glycemic index irrelevant? 20
2010-02-12 What Mr. Clinton did NOT do 36
2010-02-11 Magnesium and arrhythmia 35
2010-02-10 Video teleconference with Dr. Davis 4
2010-02-10 Thinner by Thursday 0
2010-02-09 Omega-3 Index: 10% or greater? 19
2010-02-08 Let's soak 'em with fish oil 12
2010-02-06 Heart scan gone wrong 9
2010-02-05 Blood sugar: Fasting vs. postprandial 23
2010-02-02 Diabetes from fruit 38
2010-01-31 The sniff test 0
2010-01-27 Is there something fishy about fish oil? 0
2010-01-27 Lovaza vs fish oil supplements? 55
2010-01-25 More on blood sugar 36
2010-01-22 Postprandial blood sugar: Almonds vs. whole wheat bread 0
2010-01-19 To get low-carb right, you need to check blood sugars 60
2010-01-19 Food sources of vitamin K2: Reprint 59
2010-01-17 Family lessons 4
2010-01-15 Look like Jimmy Stewart 23
2010-01-11 Getting vitamin D right 90
2010-01-10 Jimmy Moore's thyroid adventure 17
2010-01-07 What's that in your mouth? 17
2010-01-05 De Novo Lipo-what? 16
2010-01-03 Gretchen's postprandial diet experiment II 37
2010-01-02 A wheat-free 2010 22
2009-12-30 Lipoprotein lipase and you 0
2009-12-30 If you take niacin, you must exercise 23
2009-12-24 To track small LDL, track blood sugar 28
2009-12-21 C-reactive protein: Fiction from the drug industry? 0
2009-12-17 Watch your fish oil labels 36
2009-12-16 Why do I need a prescription for Olava? 0
2009-12-15 Overweight, hungry, diabetic, and fat-free 52
2009-12-10 This is your brain on wheat 32
2009-12-08 Small LDL: Perfect index of carbohydrate intake 15
2009-12-04 Fat "conditioning" 0
2009-12-02 Video Teleconference with Dr. William Davis 0
2009-12-01 Track Your Plaque challenges 31
2009-11-30 I'll supply the tar if you supply the feathers 13
2009-11-28 What goes up can't come down 13
2009-11-27 Gretchen's postprandial diet experiment 11
2009-11-25 After-eating effects: Carbohydrates vs. fats 17
2009-11-24 The Paleo approach to meal frequency 12
2009-11-21 Angioplasty Special: Get it while it's hot! 6
2009-11-20 Even mummies do it 16
2009-11-17 Life Extension article on iodine 25
2009-11-16 The healthiest people are the most iodine deficient 19
2009-11-14 It's the score, stupid 4
2009-11-13 Heart Scan Blog Redux: Cheers to flavonoids 32
2009-11-13 Can wheat elimination cure ulcerative colitis? 0
2009-11-12 Postprandial pile-up with fructose 20
2009-11-11 Track Your Plaque: Safer at any score 0
2009-11-10 Triglyceride and chylomicron "stacking" 24
2009-11-09 What is a healthy vitamin D blood level? 32
2009-11-05 Grazing is for cattle 17
2009-11-04 The disastrous results of a low-fat diet 16
2009-11-03 Dr. David Grimes reminds us of vitamin D 13
2009-11-02 Why does fish oil reduce triglycerides? 9
2009-10-30 Fish oil makes you happy: Psychological distress and omega-3 index 24
2009-10-29 Hospitals are a hell of a place to get sick 19
2009-10-27 Does fish oil cause blood thinning? 20
2009-10-24 Heart Scan Blog readers take impressive doses of omega-3s 28
2009-10-17 How old are you? 21
2009-10-14 No high blood pressure 20
2009-10-13 Name that food 30
2009-10-12 Heart Defects Simplified 0
2009-10-08 My experience with the omega-3 index 23
2009-10-06 The Omega-3 Index: The higher, the better? 26
2009-10-02 Vitamin D increased my cholesterol 38
2009-09-28 Nutrtional ignorance is not unique to the U.S. 20
2009-09-24 Eat cranberries 17
2009-09-23 Procedures 'R Us 20
2009-09-17 Unexpected effects of a wheat-free diet 59
2009-09-15 Is Lp(a) part of your legacy to your children? 21
2009-09-09 Do "Heart Healthy" sterols cause heart disease? 19
2009-09-09 Why obese people can't fast 21
2009-09-07 Test your own thyroid 15
2009-09-04 Trains, planes, and heart scans 10
2009-09-03 D2 and D3 are two different things 15
2009-09-01 Weight loss: Different causes, different solutions 8
2009-08-29 Calling all losers! 14
2009-08-28 Weight loss and vitamin D 28
2009-08-25 Grasscutting, fertilizer, and healthcare 23
2009-08-21 Iodine deficiency is REAL 30
2009-08-19 Fish oil for $780 per bottle 16
2009-08-16 Organic really IS better 18
2009-08-12 Do you really need calcium? 0
2009-08-11 The case against vitamin D2 40
2009-08-11 Honey: More fructose than high-fructose corn syrup 21
2009-08-08 Sun, fish, and seaweed 9
2009-08-07 Glycemic index: A flawed concept 0
2009-08-04 Fructose is a coronary risk factor 21
2009-08-01 Who lost weight? 30
2009-07-29 A niacin primer 19
2009-07-29 What would life be like . . . ? 16
2009-07-27 Are jelly beans heart healthy? 0
2009-07-27 Thyroid correction: The woeful prevailing standard 16
2009-07-27 Launch of new Track Your Plaque newsletter: Cardiac Confidential 3
2009-07-27 Thyroid: Be a perfectionist 18
2009-07-21 Nutrition Syllogism 21
2009-07-19 Is pomegranate juice healthy? 20
2009-07-18 Honeydew melon 4
2009-07-14 Where do you find fructose? 25
2009-07-14 Do heart scans cause cancer? 3
2009-07-12 Goodbye, fructose 35
2009-07-08 The statin-free life 20
2009-07-05 Creatine: Not just for muscle heads 29
2009-07-02 The ultimate “bioidentical” hormone 19
2009-06-27 Roger's near-miss CT angiogram experience 13
2009-06-25 The Myth of Prevention: Letter to the Wall Street Journal 20
2009-06-24 A victory for SHAPE, CT heart scans, and doing what is RIGHT 7
2009-06-23 Sleep: A to Zzzzzzzzzz 5
2009-06-21 Beating the Heart Association diet is child's play 19
2009-06-20 Victim of Post-Traumatic Grain Disorder 14
2009-06-18 Drug industry "Deep Throat" 16
2009-06-17 Triglyceride Buster-Update 8
2009-06-16 Triglyceride buster 24
2009-06-15 Newsweek, Time, and other fronts for the drug industry 0
2009-06-14 Jogging does NOT cause heart disease 20
2009-06-12 Warning: Your pharmacist may be hazardous to your health 24
2009-06-05 "Healthy" people are the most iodine deficient 27
2009-06-04 What kind of iodine do you take? 21
2009-06-02 And you thought gasoline was expensive 5
2009-05-31 "Hey buddy, wanna buy some exorphins?" 18
2009-05-30 "I can't do it" 20
2009-05-26 Spontaneous combustion, vampires, and goitrogens 17
2009-05-25 Magnesium and you-Part II 17
2009-05-22 Lethal Lipids II 7
2009-05-20 "You've got 10 minutes" 0
2009-05-20 Goiter, goiter everywhere 25
2009-05-17 Goiter and the Golden Medical Discovery 19
2009-05-15 Magnesium and you-Part I 11
2009-05-15 Blast triglycerides 0
2009-05-13 Cheerios: Prescription required? 15
2009-05-12 "Placebos are frequently of value" 1
2009-05-12 Iodine is not salt 3
2009-05-10 "You can't reduce coronary plaque" 9
2009-05-08 Lethal lipids 15
2009-05-06 "Get regressive" 0
2009-05-04 CRP House of Cards 15
2009-05-02 At-home blood tests 6
2009-05-01 "Help keep your family goiter free" 10
2009-04-29 Thumb your nose at swine flu 35
2009-04-26 Will the real LDL please stand up? 13
2009-04-25 Vitamin D and inflammation 9
2009-04-24 Even monkeys do it 6
2009-04-22 Cath lab energy costs 6
2009-04-20 Wag the Dog 7
2009-04-20 Heart scan book 0
2009-04-18 Lies, damned lies, and statistics 8
2009-04-17 Aspirin, Lipitor, and a low-fat diet 0
2009-04-17 Statin drugs for everybody? 10
2009-04-13 No BS weight loss 18
2009-04-12 Self-directed health is ALREADY here 12
2009-04-11 Fire your stockbroker, fire your doctor 10
2009-04-04 Blast small LDL to oblivion 21
2009-04-03 Buy local, get a goiter 19
2009-04-02 Self-directed thyroid management 9
2009-03-29 Self-directed health: At-home lab testing 20
2009-03-27 Vitamin D for Peter, Paul, and Mary 15
2009-03-26 Blowup at Milwaukee Heart Scan 20
2009-03-24 Do you work for the pharmaceutical industry? 30
2009-03-24 Cholesterol effects of carbohydrates 31
2009-03-23 Wheat Belly Revisited 24
2009-03-20 Thank you, Crestor 9
2009-03-17 Supermarkets and buggy whips 17
2009-03-14 Sterols should be outlawed 10
2009-03-10 Texas today, tomorrow . . . the world? 0
2009-03-09 What your doctor doesn't know about heart disease 12
2009-03-06 Thank you, Dr. Eades 7
2009-03-05 Can millet make you diabetic? 10
2009-03-05 Are you a tree? 6
2009-03-03 Does staying up late make you fat? 5
2009-03-03 Vitamin D Project: Grassroots Health 24
2009-03-01 Statin Diary 17
2009-02-28 How apathy saved a life 7
2009-02-27 Wheat hell 17
2009-02-21 Unique vitamin D observations 47
2009-02-18 Dr. Michael Eades on the Paleolithic diet 16
2009-02-15 What vitamin D form? 36
2009-02-14 Vitamin D for the pharmaceutically challenged 20
2009-02-12 Why don't stents prevent heart attack? 11
2009-02-08 Low thyroid: What to do? 25
2009-02-08 Which statin drug is best? 7
2009-02-05 Dr. Nancy Sniderman, heart scans on Today Show 6
2009-02-03 My personal experience with low thyroid 31
2009-02-03 Speaking availability 5
2009-01-31 Learn how to eat from Survivorman 22
2009-01-28 CIS: Carbohydrate intolerance syndrome 28
2009-01-27 Making sense out of lipid changes 9
2009-01-25 How to Give Yourself Hashimoto's Thyroiditis: 101 18
2009-01-24 Framing 0
2009-01-24 Why an RDA for vitamin D? 10
2009-01-23 Bargains for Armour Thyroid 10
2009-01-22 Heart scan mis-information on WebMD 3
2009-01-19 Heart disease prevention for the helpless, ignorant, or non-compliant 9
2009-01-16 Dangerous mis-information on vitamin D 12
2009-01-15 A Tale of Two LDL's 10
2009-01-12 Niacin scams 0
2009-01-10 Deja vu all over again? 8
2009-01-09 Lead to Gold: The alchemy of transforming nutritional-supplement-to-medication 25
2009-01-07 Irvingia and Leptin Resistance: Fact or fiction? 0
2009-01-07 Another interview with Livin' La Vida Low Carb's Jimmy Moore 4
2009-01-06 "Millions of needless deaths" 4
2009-01-05 Thiazide diuretics: Treatment of choice for high blood pressure? 14
2008-12-30 "High-dose" Vitamin D 43
2008-12-29 Vitamin D Home Test 13
2008-12-26 Where do Track Your Plaque membership revenues go? 9
2008-12-23 Getting your dose of fish oil right 11
2008-12-19 Flat tummy . . . or, Why your dietitian is fat 19
2008-12-16 Statin drug revolt 28
2008-12-14 Lovaza Rip-off 107
2008-12-12 Santa Claus is alive . . . and works for the drug industry 7
2008-12-12 Another case of aortic valve disease reduced with vitamin D 8
2008-12-07 Track Your Plaque Program Data Tracking Tools 3
2008-12-06 Yet another reason to avoid fructose 5
2008-12-04 Free the Animal 10
2008-12-03 Low Thyroid and Plaque 12
2008-11-30 Fat and fiber composition of nuts 16
2008-11-29 Flush-free niacin kills 12
2008-11-28 CT coronary angiography is NOT a screening procedure 3
2008-11-26 The Wheat Deficiency Syndrome 21
2008-11-22 The Framingham Crap Shoot 2
2008-11-21 At what score should a heart catheterization be performed? 2
2008-11-17 "It's genetic" 17
2008-11-16 Tim Russert Revisited 7
2008-11-16 Water: Bottled vs. tap 4
2008-11-13 Can CRP be reduced? 17
2008-11-11 CRP and Jupiter 15
2008-11-11 Nutritional approaches: Large vs. small LDL 13
2008-11-08 Factory hospitals 8
2008-11-05 Medicare and The Law of Unintended Consequences 6
2008-11-01 Quieting the insulin storm 15
2008-10-31 Scare tactics 0
2008-10-28 Self-Directed Testing 3
2008-10-26 Self-testing 9
2008-10-23 Increasing sales, growing the business 7
2008-10-23 Top Doctor 2
2008-10-20 Disease Engineering 0
2008-10-20 Dr. Steven Gundry on The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show 4
2008-10-18 Does fish oil ADD to statin therapy? 9
2008-10-16 HDL: “H” is for “happy” 10
2008-10-13 Plaquology 3
2008-10-10 Thyroid perspective update 18
2008-10-09 Accidental Health 2
2008-10-07 Livin' La Vida Low Carb interview 5
2008-10-05 Wheat withdrawal: How common? 11
2008-10-05 Treat the patient, not the test 0
2008-10-03 Does high cholesterol cause heart disease? 15
2008-09-28 Are humans meant to be omnivores? 24
2008-09-24 Are you wheat-free? 25
2008-09-21 No more canned foods 12
2008-09-17 Add Boston Globe to the list of heart scan blunders 15
2008-09-16 What's worse than sugar? 11
2008-09-13 Are sterols the new trans fat? 16
2008-09-11 The Diabetes Gold Rush 9
2008-09-07 What else is there? 11
2008-09-05 Let's gamble with your health 4
2008-09-04 Who knows what 4
2008-09-04 “Too many false positives” 6
2008-09-03 Triglycerides divided by five 8
2008-09-02 Who reads The Heart Scan Blog? 0
2008-08-29 Kitchen sink approach for Lp(a) 12
2008-08-28 Making Dr. Friedewald an honest man 3
2008-08-24 Some basic vitamin D issues 7
2008-08-22 “How much vitamin D should I take?” 17
2008-08-20 You probably don't take enough fish oil 17
2008-08-19 Vitamin D and HDL 23
2008-08-15 Weight loss and blood pressure 6
2008-08-13 "I lost 30 lbs and my triglycerides went . . . up?" 6
2008-08-10 Divorce court for the doctor-patient relationship? 4
2008-08-09 How much fish oil is enough? 7
2008-08-07 Omega-6 / omega-3 ratio 11
2008-08-05 Dr. Bernadine Healy on heart scans 1
2008-08-02 Mercury and fish oil 9
2008-08-01 ERA JUMP: Omega-3 fatty acids and plaque 5
2008-07-31 Mediterranean diet and blood sugar 6
2008-07-27 Who is your doctor? 7
2008-07-27 The “Heart Healthy” scam 1
2008-07-25 Exploitation of trust 5
2008-07-24 Bait and switch 0
2008-07-24 If a disease lacks a procedure . . . create one 1
2008-07-23 Blood sugar lessons from a Type I diabetic 15
2008-07-23 Lessons about omega-3s from Japan 7
2008-07-19 DIRECT Study result: Low-carb, Mediterranean diets win weight-loss battle 14
2008-07-18 Do I sell heart scans? 12
2008-07-17 Plaque is the new cholesterol 3
2008-07-17 Track Your Plaque success story blows it 3
2008-07-14 Dr. Cannell comments on vitamin D lab tests 9
2008-07-12 Privileged information 9
2008-07-10 Dr. Jeffrey Dach on the Track Your Plaque program 5
2008-07-09 Vitamin D and programmed aging? 8
2008-07-06 Synthroid, Armour Thyroid, and the battle for T3 2
2008-07-03 Letter to New York Times 9
2008-07-02 Red yeast rice alert 9
2008-07-02 "Average amount of heart disease for age" 4
2008-06-29 Quantum leaps 6
2008-06-28 Body count 7
2008-06-26 Dr. Bill Blanchet: A ray of sunshine 4
2008-06-25 The Russert Protocol at work 6
2008-06-24 Petition to the National Institutes of Health 2
2008-06-24 Wheat withdrawal 16
2008-06-20 The Big Squeeze 5
2008-06-18 Tim Russert's heart scan score 210. . .in 1998 10
2008-06-15 Another failure of conventional cardiac care 5
2008-06-14 Tribute to Tim Russert 11
2008-06-13 Why do skinny people get heart disease? 9
2008-06-11 Cardiology Confidential 9
2008-06-08 Fanatic Cook on the American Heart Association 7
2008-06-08 Sleep for heart health 4
2008-06-04 Is normal TSH too high? 30
2008-06-04 Talking heads 0
2008-06-01 Vitamin D Newsletter-Autism and Vitamin D 16
2008-05-31 "Make big money fast with CT scans" 6
2008-05-30 Is DHEA dangerous? 17
2008-05-27 Wheat addiction: 140 lbs lost 14
2008-05-25 Diet: Don't be angry, be GRATEFUL 5
2008-05-25 HDL for Dummies 10
2008-05-23 "I gained 30 lbs from one cracker" 19
2008-05-21 Wheat-free is not gluten-free 10
2008-05-19 Death to chelation? 5
2008-05-18 American Diabetes Association 6
2008-05-14 A tan does not equal vitamin D 8
2008-05-12 Confessions of a former drug company patsy 0
2008-05-12 Planned obsolence 1
2008-05-10 Melatonin for high blood pressure? 15
2008-05-08 The forces that shape heatlh care 5
2008-05-06 Lipoprotein(a): Surprising Poll Results 5
2008-05-04 Are endogenous nutritional supplements better? 6
2008-05-01 Vitamin D Newsletter reprinted 2
2008-04-29 Biggest bang for your nutritional buck 13
2008-04-29 Can skinny be fat? 6
2008-04-27 Fatal underdose 8
2008-04-23 Is direct-to-consumer drug marketing a failure? 4
2008-04-22 Cheerios and heart health 11
2008-04-21 The IF Life: Intermittent fasting 4
2008-04-20 Can you say "sugar"? 11
2008-04-19 Warfarin is scary stuff 16
2008-04-16 Lipoprotein(a) Research Foundation 18
2008-04-16 More on ASTEROID 3
2008-04-13 LDL cholesterol, statins, and plaque regression 12
2008-04-10 When is a calorie not a calorie? 8
2008-04-10 Track Your Plaque data abstract 7
2008-04-03 Small fish oil capsules 12
2008-04-02 Low-carb eating for diabetes 15
2008-04-02 Interview with an outspoken advocate of truth in diabetes 6
2008-03-31 The Marshall Protocol and other fairy tales 144
2008-03-30 Breaking news from the American College of Cardiology meetings 1
2008-03-28 Why health care costs are ballooning 7
2008-03-27 Heart scans know no race 0
2008-03-27 Heart Scan Frustration 4
2008-03-23 Dr. Nieca Goldberg and heart healthy 1
2008-03-23 Bait and switch 5
2008-03-23 A fictional tale of medical economics in heart disease 2
2008-03-21 Disease engineering 10
2008-03-20 Free checking, auto shows, low-cost hotel rooms, and bypass surgery 3
2008-03-20 No-flush niacin kills 18
2008-03-19 Breakfast comments 7
2008-03-16 What's for breakfast? 106
2008-03-16 The first lawsuit? 1
2008-03-13 The origins of heart catheterization: Part II 0
2008-03-12 The origins of heart catheterization: Part I 2
2008-03-11 Conventional therapy vs. alternative therapy 5
2008-03-09 The JELIS Trial 5
2008-03-07 Omega-3 MUST be from fish oil 14
2008-03-04 Osteoporosis and coronary calcium 9
2008-03-02 About comment responses and moderation 10
2008-03-02 "Flying in the fog" 3
2008-02-29 Goodbye, Dr. Jarvik 0
2008-02-28 Hammers and nails 4
2008-02-27 What is abnormal? 1
2008-02-27 Niacin and hydration 12
2008-02-25 Let me float an idea 0
2008-02-22 Actos, Avandia, and vitamin D 16
2008-02-19 What if heart scans become obsolete? 3
2008-02-19 Scare tactics 17
2008-02-17 Which statin is best? 6
2008-02-16 Lipoprotein(a)--neglected and unappreciated 2
2008-02-15 Wheat-free and still fat 14
2008-02-13 Heart disease is reversible 10
2008-02-12 Looking for health in all the wrong places 11
2008-02-09 Track Your Plaque APB 7
2008-02-06 Vitamin D toxicity 26
2008-02-03 Turning plaque into profit 7
2008-02-01 Statin mono-failure 6
2008-01-31 Triglyceride traps 17
2008-01-30 High-dose fish oil for Lp(a) 16
2008-01-29 The many faces of LDL 0
2008-01-26 Drive-by angioplasty 7
2008-01-23 "Heart Healthy" and other lies 7
2008-01-23 Calcium chaos 30
2008-01-22 Another big Track Your Plaque success story 2
2008-01-19 The myth of mild coronary disease 27
2008-01-17 Red flags for lipoprotein(a) 24
2008-01-15 Vytorin study explodes--But what's the real story? 28
2008-01-15 Dr. Arthur Agatston in the news 7
2008-01-14 Take this survey: I DOUBLE-DARE YOU 10
2008-01-13 Michael Pollan on Nutritionism 8
2008-01-11 Cholesterol follies 5
2008-01-09 Equal calories, different effects 15
2008-01-06 Is skinny necessary for reversal? 19
2008-01-04 MESA Study: Track Your Plaque-Lite? 11
2007-12-31 Risks for coronary disease 2008 27
2007-12-27 Food sources of vitamin K2 46
2007-12-24 Track Your Plaque: Naughty or nice? 6
2007-12-21 Vitamin D: Treatment for metabolic syndrome? 44
2007-12-20 Appetite stimulants 17
2007-12-18 "Heart scans are experimental" 25
2007-12-18 When meat is not just meat 7
2007-12-17 Don't lament no OTC mevacor 4
2007-12-15 Damage control 5
2007-12-12 Low expectations 6
2007-12-10 Niacin vs. low-carb weight loss 28
2007-12-10 Explosive plaque growth 3
2007-12-06 Dr. Cannell on "How much vitamin D?" 14
2007-12-06 End-stage vitamin D deficiency 7
2007-12-03 "Instant" reversal with fasting? 17
2007-12-03 Study review: yet another Lipitor study 6
2007-12-02 Dr. Cannell on vitamin D and cancer 0
2007-11-30 "Yes, Johnnie, there really is an Easter bunny" 13
2007-11-28 Diabetes: controlled or . . . cured? 37
2007-11-27 Study review: cerivastatin 10
2007-11-24 Dr. William Blanchet: A voice of reason 21
2007-11-23 Vitamin D2 rip-offs 21
2007-11-22 Stenosis detection vs. plaque detection 5
2007-11-20 Is an increase in heart scan score GOOD? 30
2007-11-20 The Heart.org online debate 9
2007-11-18 To learn how to eat . . . try fasting 13
2007-11-16 Don't be satisfied with "deceleration" 2
2007-11-14 Whole grains and half truths 13
2007-11-14 Fasting and heart disease 10
2007-11-12 Coronary arteries aren't what they seem 5
2007-11-11 Heart disease reversal a big "No No" 7
2007-11-11 Demystification 2
2007-11-08 Everything has omega-3 5
2007-11-07 Are cardiologists the enemy? 12
2007-11-06 Are CETP inhibitors kaput? 9
2007-11-04 Roto Rooter for plaque 4
2007-11-04 "Beware nutritional supplements" 0
2007-11-04 The rules of reversal 12
2007-11-02 Incurable wheataholics 22
2007-10-31 The battle for asymptomatic disease 10
2007-10-29 The case builds against wheat 21
2007-10-28 Cheers to flavonoids 14
2007-10-28 Wheat and the hunger factor 20
2007-10-26 Our friends at Liposcience 6
2007-10-26 Condensed Taubes 15
2007-10-24 Fast-forward information 11
2007-10-23 America: The world’s diet laboratory 14
2007-10-20 Dr. Jarvik, is niacin as bad as it sounds? 5
2007-10-20 Is niacin as bad as it sounds? 0
2007-10-20 Omega-3 fatty acids: Frequency vs. quantity 8
2007-10-19 Lipoprotein testing 5
2007-10-18 Is it exercise or diet? 7
2007-10-17 Instant heart disease reversal 16
2007-10-17 Whole wheat is brown 0
2007-10-16 The small LDL epidemic 24
2007-10-15 Mini-dose CTA? 11
2007-10-13 Wheat-free and weight loss 14
2007-10-12 Collective wisdom 5
2007-10-12 Success--Slow but sure 5
2007-10-10 Vitamin D and octagenarians 28
2007-10-09 NY Times Jane Brody misses the mark 6
2007-10-09 "There must be a mistake" 2
2007-10-07 Jimmy Moore Interview: Is saturated fat the villain we thought? 45
2007-10-06 Mammogram of the heart 3
2007-10-05 Dr. Susie Rockway on conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) 7
2007-10-04 Which is better? 12
2007-10-04 Heart health for stupid people 3
2007-10-03 Money, money, money, money 3
2007-10-03 The many faces of LDL 13
2007-10-02 What does "Success" mean in the Track Your Plaque program? 11
2007-09-30 Is health the absence of disease? 2
2007-09-30 Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs 8
2007-09-29 Further validation of the Track Your Plaque 60:60:60 targets 3
2007-09-28 My sister called today . . . 5
2007-09-27 Failure to diagnose 6
2007-09-26 Interview with world heart scan authority, Dr. John Rumberger 1
2007-09-25 Summer in Wisconsin 10
2007-09-23 Wacky statin effects 18
2007-09-21 Track Your Plaque goes global 3
2007-09-20 Go to your corners 4
2007-09-20 When niacin doesn't work 7
2007-09-19 Niacin and blood sugar 14
2007-09-17 Statin drugs and Coenzyme Q10 10
2007-09-15 More Andy Kessler 2
2007-09-14 The End of Medicine 0
2007-09-14 Life Extension article on vitamin D 5
2007-09-13 Why healthy can make us fat 0
2007-09-12 Outsmarting the enemy 2
2007-09-11 Test Of Scanner Saves A Doctor's Life 5
2007-09-08 The great food industry deception 1
2007-09-07 Dr. Joseph Prendergast and l-arginine 21
2007-09-07 Dr. Dwight Lundell on omega-3s and CLA 15
2007-09-05 High-tech heart attack proofing 7
2007-09-05 It's all about plaque 0
2007-09-02 Sugar for breakfast 17
2007-08-31 The Low-Carb Man 4
2007-08-30 Why average cholesterol values can be so bad 23
2007-08-28 Cholesterol trumps heart scan? 4
2007-08-27 Boycott LabCorp 13
2007-08-24 Useless low-fat diets 1
2007-08-24 Do statin drugs reduce lipoprotein(a)? 17
2007-08-23 Breakfast cereals and toilet paper 4
2007-08-23 Another lipoprotein hurdle 0
2007-08-22 More on aortic valve disease and vitamin D 22
2007-08-17 "How often do you call an ambulance?" 1
2007-08-17 Oat vs. wheat 7
2007-08-17 Vitamin D and autism 1
2007-08-15 Michael Pollan Podcast 3
2007-08-13 Are you addicted to fructose? 1
2007-08-11 Chicken Little 1
2007-08-11 200 point drop in heart scan score 0
2007-08-09 How tough is the Track Your Plaque 60-60-60 target? 3
2007-08-08 Vitamin D2 belongs in the garbage 15
2007-08-05 Angioplasty vs. Track Your Plaque 10
2007-08-03 Plaque is like money 0
2007-08-01 Triglycerides: What is normal? 2
2007-07-31 The processed food battlefield 4
2007-07-29 Heart Scan debate 4
2007-07-28 Break the addiction 8
2007-07-27 Are we done here? 4
2007-07-23 Wheat belly 31
2007-07-23 If health won't motivate them, maybe money will 0
2007-07-22 What role calcium supplements? 8
2007-07-18 "Heart scans" are not always heart scans 6
2007-07-17 Heavy traffic and heart scans 4
2007-07-15 Digging for the truth 9
2007-07-14 A new Track Your Plaque record: 63% reduction 3
2007-07-13 The Ornish diet made me fat 16
2007-07-11 Do lower heart scan scores grow faster? 0
2007-07-09 Mr. Salazar: Check your Lp(a) 8
2007-07-08 Heart Scan Curiosities #8: Fat heart 2
2007-07-07 Chocolate and blood pressure 1
2007-07-07 Does prevention save money? 2
2007-07-07 Where should fiber come from? 1
2007-07-05 The Detection Gap 3
2007-07-03 Apoprotein B on VAP 3
2007-07-02 Estrogens and CT heart scan scores 1
2007-06-30 The wheat-free life 10
2007-06-28 Death of a $7 billion industry 8
2007-06-27 Lose weight and HDL goes . . . down 2
2007-06-25 Addictive Foods 3
2007-06-25 Heart Scan Curiosities #7 1
2007-06-23 The nutrition counterculture 2
2007-06-23 Prescription vitamin D 32
2007-06-20 Nutrition activist Mike Adams 1
2007-06-19 CT scans and radiation exposure 8
2007-06-18 Mediterranean diet vs. American Heart Association Diet 4
2007-06-16 Track Your Plaque in 50,000 BC 3
2007-06-15 When pessimism wins 3
2007-06-13 Bad news on CoQ10? 8
2007-06-11 More on the American Heart Association Check Mark program 3
2007-06-09 More on the American Heart Association 1
2007-06-07 Exercise and blood pressure 0
2007-06-06 Cheese and vitamin K2 5
2007-06-05 Vitamin D disappointment ahead 9
2007-06-04 In search of truth 2
2007-06-02 American Heart Association stamp of approval 8
2007-06-01 "Your heart scan score means nothing" 7
2007-05-30 Vitamin D toxicity? 3
2007-05-30 Non-profit hospitals 0
2007-05-29 What's the best lipoprotein test? 5
2007-05-27 Vitamin K2, aspirin, fish oil and blood thinning 12
2007-05-24 "Drug no cure for gluttony" 0
2007-05-23 Rosiglitazone not so rosy? 3
2007-05-22 The lipid distorting effects of weight loss 0
2007-05-22 Cholesterol reduction and wheat 0
2007-05-21 Identical twins and the explosive influence of weight 1
2007-05-19 Low-fat diets raise triglycerides 4
2007-05-18 The dreaded niacin "flush" 55
2007-05-16 A cure for pessimism? 3
2007-05-16 (Lack of ) Quality of nutritional supplements 0
2007-05-15 Marketing and truth are not the same 0
2007-05-13 More on erectile dysfunction 8
2007-05-11 High LDL cholesterol--only 3
2007-05-10 Heart disease = statin deficiency 1
2007-05-09 Fish oil and mercury 2
2007-05-08 How much omega-3s are enough? 7
2007-05-07 Repentance for past sins 0
2007-05-06 A fanatic for Fanatic Cook 1
2007-05-06 Erectile dysfunction and coronary plaque 5
2007-05-05 An exercise in optimism 0
2007-05-02 No need to re-invent the wheel 0
2007-05-02 Are we a front for drug companies? 3
2007-05-01 What is "normal"? 2
2007-05-01 The wisdom of the masses 0
2007-04-30 How important is l-arginine? 13
2007-04-29 Track Your Plaque and non-commercialism 6
2007-04-28 The nattokinase scam 179
2007-04-27 Blood pressure with exercise 10
2007-04-26 Vitamin D2 vs. vitamin D3 21
2007-04-26 World record heart disease reversal 0
2007-04-26 Dose of fish oil 2
2007-04-24 Niacin scams 11
2007-04-21 Media mis-information 2
2007-04-21 A dirty little secret 0
2007-04-21 The party’s over 0
2007-04-21 More on being wheat-free 5
2007-04-21 Can you break the “Rule of 60” 1
2007-04-21 Non-profit hospitals 1
2007-04-20 Wheat five times a day 3
2007-04-18 The battle for natural hormones 0
2007-04-17 Lipitor and memory 2
2007-04-16 EKG's and heart disease 6
2007-04-14 A new Track Your Plaque record 0
2007-04-12 The Plavix Scam 3
2007-04-11 Lipoprotein(a) and small LDL 0
2007-04-09 Optimal medical therapy 6
2007-04-09 Niacin, postprandial patterns 0
2007-04-09 What's better than fish oil? 1
2007-04-08 Valve disease and vitamin D 1
2007-04-08 Homocysteine and coronary plaque 4
2007-04-06 Big heart scan scores drop 0
2007-04-05 Does the American Heart Association diet reduce heart disease? 0
2007-04-04 Vitamin K2 and coronary plaque 1
2007-04-04 Exercise and blood pressure 5
2007-04-03 "Fish oil is stupid" 13
2007-04-02 More Vitamin D and HDL 8
2007-04-02 Thin ice 0
2007-03-30 Vitamin D and cancer 0
2007-03-30 Lipoprotein(a), menopause, and andropause 0
2007-03-29 "I have never seen regression" 0
2007-03-28 COURAGE to do better 0
2007-03-27 Value of a zero heart scan score 1
2007-03-26 You're at the cutting edge 3
2007-03-26 A stent--just in case 3
2007-03-25 How will you know your score dropped? 0
2007-03-22 Firefighters Face Added Risk of Fatal Heart Attack 1
2007-03-20 Prophylactic bypass surgery? 0
2007-03-20 Lipitor 80 mg 4
2007-03-19 Orlistat for weight loss 3
2007-03-17 Low HDL makes Dr. Friedewald a liar 5
2007-03-16 Menopause unleashes lipoprotein(a) 0
2007-03-15 Vitamin D must be oil-based 0
2007-03-13 Vitamin D for $200? 2
2007-03-13 What's up with garlic? 0
2007-03-12 Drop the pretense 1
2007-03-11 John Cannell on Vitamin D 2
2007-03-09 Watch your groin 0
2007-03-06 Garlic and cholesterol--Does everyone now need Lipitor? 1
2007-03-06 Diet Coke saves father's life 0
2007-03-04 Beware the "false positive" stress test 11
2007-03-03 Don't neglect your magnesium 3
2007-03-01 Third heart scan a charm 0
2007-02-27 Metabolic syndrome--cured 0
2007-02-27 Heart Scan Curiosities #6 0
2007-02-24 Should you become a vegetarian? 0
2007-02-24 Let's make it a lot easier 0
2007-02-23 No wonder nobody talks about real prevention 0
2007-02-22 HDL and vitamin D 5
2007-02-20 Even more Michael Pollan 0
2007-02-17 My life is easy 3
2007-02-15 My bread contains 900 mg omega-3 8
2007-02-11 More Omnivore's Dilemma 2
2007-02-11 Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma 0
2007-02-08 The most frequently asked question of all 0
2007-02-06 Do stents kill? 5
2007-02-05 Dr. Reinhold Vieth on vitamin D 4
2007-02-01 Vitamin D on Good Morning America 9
2007-01-31 Would you bet your life on chelation? 1
2007-01-31 The powerful forces preserving the status quo 1
2007-01-27 Do stents prevent reversal? 3
2007-01-25 At what score should I have a heart cath? 0
2007-01-24 Niacin makes NY Times 0
2007-01-24 Wheat: the nicotine of food 1
2007-01-22 Good time for a heart attack? 0
2007-01-21 How good is the South Beach Diet? 2
2007-01-19 Be patient with niacin 0
2007-01-18 Can vitamin D be a SOLE risk factor? 6
2007-01-17 Does fish oil raise LDL cholesterol? 1
2007-01-16 Heart disease is everywhere 0
2007-01-14 Watch your weight plummet:Be a super vegetarian 0
2007-01-12 Dr. Agatston to the rescue 0
2007-01-12 When is a vitamin not a vitamin? 0
2007-01-10 An epidemic of heart disease reversal 3
2007-01-09 Second heart scan and heart attack risk 0
2007-01-08 Heart scan curiosities #5 1
2007-01-06 One bite or many mouthfuls 0
2007-01-05 Heart scan curiosities #4 2
2007-01-04 Fish oil and the perverse logic of hospitals 6
2007-01-02 Repent for past sins 0
2007-01-01 Wheat-free 2007 4
2006-12-29 Is vitamin D a "vitamin"? 5
2006-12-28 Heart scan curiosities 3 0
2006-12-24 Gratitude 2
2006-12-23 A Track Your Plaque failure 0
2006-12-20 Are you more like a dog or a rabbit? 11
2006-12-18 Are happy people more likely to reduce heart scan scores? 0
2006-12-17 Don't overdo the vitamin D 1
2006-12-13 "It must have been the statin" 0
2006-12-12 0
2006-12-10 Heart attack guaranteed 0
2006-12-10 Heart scan curiosities 3 7
2006-12-10 The shameful "standard of care" 1
2006-12-09 Heart scan curiosities 2 2
2006-12-06 Vitamin D: New Miracle Drug 0
2006-12-05 Heart disease "reversal" by stress test 3
2006-12-04 Calcium reflects total plaque 0
2006-12-02 Don't mistake marketing for truth 0
2006-12-01 Tattered Red Dress 0
2006-11-29 Panic in the streets 0
2006-11-27 Heart scan curiosities 1 3
2006-11-26 Annual physical 0
2006-11-25 A curious case of regression 0
2006-11-25 Fortune teller 0
2006-11-23 Heart scan score drops like a stone 2
2006-11-21 "You don't have a uterus. You don't need progesterone" 2
2006-11-20 Take a niacin "vacation" 2
2006-11-18 When LDL is more than meets the eye 0
2006-11-14 Oil-based vitamin D 2
2006-11-14 For rapid success, try the "fast" track 1
2006-11-13 No flush = No effect 3
2006-11-11 "Black holes" on heart scan 1
2006-11-10 Small LDL--a persistent bugger 1
2006-11-08 Red badge of courage 0
2006-11-07 "We don't believe in heart scans" 0
2006-11-06 More on the “Rule of 60” 0
2006-11-06 The Track Your Plaque “Rule of 60” 0
2006-11-05 A little bit of fish oil 12
2006-11-03 AHA: Doctors don't have time for prevention 0
2006-11-03 Confusion about Lp(a) 2
2006-11-02 Calculus of the cardiologist 1
2006-11-01 Lipoprotein(a) treatment alternatives 2
2006-11-01 Trapped in a low-fat world 2
2006-10-31 Blame the niacin 7
2006-10-29 Eat fish three times a day 1
2006-10-29 What if I had a cure for coronary disease? 0
2006-10-27 Alternatives to fish oil capsules 2
2006-10-26 Ignoring your heart scan is medical negligence 0
2006-10-26 Light the fuse of heart disease 1
2006-10-25 "I don't know what I'm doing here" 0
2006-10-25 I had a heart attack--and I don't know why! 0
2006-10-24 Butter basics 3
2006-10-24 Let Dr. Friedewald rest in peace 1
2006-10-23 The key to losing weight 0
2006-10-20 How can I get my lipoproteins tested? 0
2006-10-20 What do you think about those heart scans? 1
2006-10-19 Olive oil for gourmets 0
2006-10-18 Vitamin D must be oil-based 10
2006-10-18 When is LDL cholesterol NOT LDL cholesterol? 0
2006-10-17 What is a desirable triglyceride level? 0
2006-10-17 Super size me in little bits and pieces 1
2006-10-15 View from the precipice 0
2006-10-13 Organic Rice Krispies? 0
2006-10-13 Nuts as functional foods 0
2006-10-12 Can you tell the difference? 0
2006-10-11 Statin agents and muscle aches 2
2006-10-11 More catheterizations would make me happy! 0
2006-10-09 "I hate fish oil!" 1
2006-10-06 Sudden death in athletes 0
2006-10-06 My heart scan was wrong! 0
2006-10-03 Fish oil in the news 2
2006-10-03 Nutritional approaches to homocysteine reduction 0
2006-10-02 The American Heart Association diet guarantees you get heart disease! 1
2006-10-02 I'm just right! 1
2006-09-30 Prevention: Bad news in bits and pieces 1
2006-09-29 A second chance 1
2006-09-29 Are you a skinny fat person? 1
2006-09-28 Heart disease "reversal" gives health a bad name 0
2006-09-27 Trans fats to be banned 0
2006-09-27 Back to basics! 0
2006-09-25 I don't care about hard plaque! 10
2006-09-23 Try an experiment in a wheat-free diet 1
2006-09-22 Bigger, faster plaque reversal 0
2006-09-22 I need to do more procedures! 0
2006-09-20 Fast food and quick plaques 0
2006-09-20 But fish oil is too drastic! 0
2006-09-18 A curious case of coronary plaque regression and progression 0
2006-09-13 When is a heart scan score of 400 better than 200? 0
2006-09-12 Warning: Your cardiologist may be dangerous to your health! 1
2006-09-12 I don’t have high blood pressure! 0
2006-09-10 Are there any alternatives to niacin? 0
2006-09-09 Is flaxseed oil a substitute for fish oil? 3
2006-09-09 If you have coronary artery disease . . . do you know why? 0
2006-09-08 Have you tried inulin yet? 0
2006-09-06 Fish oil update on Life Extension 1
2006-09-06 More on Vitamin D 0
2006-09-05 Why not just get "perfect" lipids and call it a day? 0
2006-09-02 Hospitals: Then and Now 0
2006-09-01 The dreaded small LDL particle 0
2006-08-31 Winning Through Intimidation 0
2006-08-30 Can natural treatments "cure" or "treat" any disease? 0
2006-08-29 Can procedures alone keep you alive? 0
2006-08-25 Support your local hospital: HAVE A HEART ATTACK! 0
2006-08-25 Hospitals contain experts in ILLNESS 0
2006-08-23 Are there still unexplored causes of heart disease? 0
2006-08-22 Everything causes heart attack! 1
2006-08-18 Excessive Heart Procedures Makes New York Times Headline 0
2006-08-18 More on "Bio-identical hormones" and Wyeth Pharmaceuticals 0
2006-08-17 How accurate is LDL cholesterol? 0
2006-08-15 Green tea: friend or faux? 0
2006-08-15 The Track Your Plaque guide to getting grotesquely overweight 0
2006-08-15 Your heart scan is just a "false positive" 0
2006-08-13 What's better than a heart scan? 0
2006-08-12 Lipids are snapshots in time; heart scans are cumulative 0
2006-08-11 0
2006-08-09 What role DHEA? 2
2006-08-09 Brainwashed! 0
2006-08-07 The Fanatic Cook: A fabulous Blog about food and nutrition 0
2006-08-05 Eggs: Good, bad, or indifferent? 3
2006-08-03 Diabetes is Track Your Plaque's Kryptonite! 0
2006-08-01 Boy, was I wrong! 0
2006-07-29 Don't forget how dangerous heart disease can be 0
2006-07-28 How many ways can you disguise sugar? 0
2006-07-26 To remind us what ideal body weight is: Watch an old movie! 0
2006-07-24 Diabetes is a choice you make 0
2006-07-24 I'll call the doctor when I feel bad! 0
2006-07-23 Coenzyme Q10 and statin drugs 0
2006-07-21 Blast your LDL with oat bran and almonds 1
2006-07-20 Pre-diabetes with normal blood sugar 0
2006-07-19 Sometimes small LDL is the only abnormality 0
2006-07-16 Report from Washington II 0
2006-07-14 Report from Washington 0
2006-07-14 What about the Track Your Plaque failures? 0
2006-07-12 Be smarter than your cardiologist 0
2006-07-11 Why am I here? 0
2006-07-10 Catheterization to “define coronary anatomy” 0
2006-07-09 It doesn't matter what I eat! 0
2006-07-08 People with higher scores need to try harder 0
2006-07-06 Money can't buy health 1
2006-07-06 What's important, what's not in your plaque-control program 0
2006-07-04 Protecting the right to use bio-identical hormones in your heart disease prevention program 0
2006-07-03 If you get a 64-slice CT coronary angiogram 0
2006-07-02 If you have hypertension, think Lp(a) 0
2006-06-30 Dr. Ornish: Get with the program! 2
2006-06-29 The cholesterol fallacy 0
2006-06-29 "Heart disease a growth business" 0
2006-06-28 The myth of small LDL 1
2006-06-28 My stress test was normal. I don't need a heart scan! 0
2006-06-26 Patient-napping: Yet another reason to stay clear of hospitals! 1
2006-06-25 Don't believe the negative press on fish oil 0
2006-06-24 How important is high blood pressure? 0
2006-06-21 Is your doctor in cahoots with the hospital? 0
2006-06-21 Where is the Track Your Plaque program going? 1
2006-06-19 Who cares about triglycerides? 0
2006-06-19 Total cholesterol and heart scans 0
2006-06-17 Cardiologists out of touch 0
2006-06-16 What if your lipoproteins are perfect? 0
2006-06-16 Fly to India for a bypass operation? 1
2006-06-14 Surprise: Heart scan score reversal 0
2006-06-13 Call me when you're having chest pain 0
2006-06-11 Self-empowerment is coming! 0
2006-06-09 Another option for lipoprotein testing 0
2006-06-08 Weight and lipoproteins 0
2006-06-07 Variation in vitamin D requirements 0
2006-06-07 Heart attacks in your own backyard 0
2006-06-06 Pilot lands safely after heart attack, then dies 1
2006-06-05 Large new clinical study launched to study. . .niacin 3
2006-06-04 The dark side of CT heart scans 0
2006-06-02 The dirty little secret about aneurysms 1
2006-06-01 Heart scan scores dropping like stones!! 0
2006-06-01 Pre-diabetes: An explanation for explosive coronary plaque growth 0
2006-05-31 Who cares if you're pre-diabetic? 0
2006-05-31 Don't get smug! 2
2006-05-29 Holidays are dangerous! 0
2006-05-29 More on carotid plaque... 1
2006-05-28 Carotid plaque can be shrunk 1
2006-05-27 Vitamin D--A coronary risk factor 1
2006-05-26 Cholesterol is dead! 0
2006-05-26 How to make a $1 million in cardiology 0
2006-05-25 Doctor, do I have lipoprotein (a)? 0
2006-05-24 Is it mainstream or alternative? 0
2006-05-24 Want to see someone turn diabetic? 0
2006-05-23 Inulin: A fiber for weight loss 10
2006-05-23 Will you recognize the truth when you see it? 0
2006-05-23 Don't neglect the basics in your heart disease reversal program 0
2006-05-21 Is your doctor a hospital employee? 0
2006-05-20 Take a walking vacation 1
2006-05-19 "Expanded indications for implantable defibrillators" 0
2006-05-19 Get a heart scan--but then don't delay taking action! 2
2006-05-17 Feel that nudge in your back? 0
2006-05-17 Throw away total cholesterol! 1
2006-05-15 Smart Start not so smart 2
2006-05-15 Does anybody have a normal vitamin D level? 0
2006-05-14 Don't believe your LDL cholesterol! 0
2006-05-14 Are you the exception? 0
2006-05-12 Self-empowerment in health: The new wave in health care 0
2006-05-12 Vitamin D deficiency is rampant 0
2006-05-11 What if wheat products were illegal? 3
2006-05-10 The sobering tale of small LDL 0
2006-05-09 Burn off the fat 0
2006-05-08 Go the distance! 0
2006-05-05 What you need is an expert in health! 0
2006-05-04 Lipoprotein(a) and small LDL 1
2006-04-30 "Please don't tell my doctor I had a heart scan!" 1
2006-04-30 Doctor, why do I have heart disease? 0
2006-04-28 Pill pushers 1
2006-04-28 Heart disease reversal is getting easier and easier 0
2006-04-28 A used car lot on every street corner 0
2006-04-28 Heart disease reversal at age 77 0
2006-04-26 If you need a reason to quit smoking... 0
2006-04-25 Vitamin D for winter blues? 0
2006-04-24 $4 per gallon gas is good for your health! 0
2006-04-23 Another Ornish casualty 0
2006-04-22 Should you take Plavix? 2
2006-04-21 Dr. Ornish goofed 1
2006-04-20 Warning: This product may contain wheat! 0
2006-04-20 Hospital Administrators' Wish List 0
2006-04-20 Poor, neglected vitamin D! 1
2006-04-19 Leave the greatest legacy to your children 0
2006-04-17 Half effort will get you half results 3
2006-04-16 Stents, defibrillators, and other profit-making opportunities 2
2006-04-16 Will radiation kill you? 4
2006-04-16 Are you using bogus supplements? 0
2006-04-16 It really helps to have someone to lean on 0
2006-04-14 Five foods that can booby trap your heart disease prevention program 0
2006-04-12 Breakfast of champions? 1
2006-04-12 In heart disease prevention, shoot for perfection 0
2006-04-11 The epidemic of small LDL 0
2006-04-10 A great discussion on vitamin D 0
2006-04-10 MSNBC Report: We need more heart procedures! 0
2006-04-10 What role cholesterol medication? 0
2006-04-09 Supplement Mania! 3
2006-04-08 What does heart scanning mean to you? 0
2006-04-07 Coronary disease is drying up! 1
2006-04-06 Mammogram for your heart 0
2006-04-04 Is your doctor using "leeches"? 0
2006-04-03 All in the family--What to do if there's heart disease in your family 0

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Track Your Plaque makes Consumer Reports!

8. August 2011 William Davis (27)
. . . but not in a good way.

The September, 2011 issue of Consumer Reports showcases their Protect Your Heart discussion. Third paragraph: "The website Track Your Plaque warns, 'The old tests for heart disease were wrong--dead wrong.' It says heart scans are 'the most important health test you can get.'"

They go on to expose the overuse of heart procedures like angioplasty and stent implantation and offer their advice on how to manage heart disease risk: lower BP, reduce LDL cholesterol, lose weight, stop smoking, take aspirin. They quote Dr. Paul Ridker who declares heart scans are not useful because the "deposits cardiologists worry about are the less stable plaques that CT scans routinely miss."

I thought I'd been transported back to 1995. Not only is it clear that the Consumer Report writers never looked beyond the homepage of Track Your Plaque, but somehow saw our heart disease prevention and reversal program as promoting heart procedures. Incredible.

Of course, the Track Your Plaque program does the exact opposite: Advocates an approach that virtually eliminates the need for procedures and returns control over heart disease to the participant. That's a critical difference.

And, as I've had to remind my colleagues time and time again, what we are really after is an index of total coronary atherosclerotic plaque. Even in 2011, that index remains the simple coronary calcium score, a gauge of total plaque, not just of "hard," stable plaque. Perhaps in 10 years we will be using a better tool to gauge progression and regression of all the components of coronary atherosclerotic plaque, but today it remains the simple, accessible, mammogram-like coronary calcium score.

Consumer Reports does for the idea of heart disease prevention what food manufacturers do for health and weight loss: Echo conventional wisdom of the sort that generally makes us fatter, more diabetic, leads us to more heart procedures and needless deaths. I might use Consumer Reports to rate MP-3 devices or toasters, but I certainly would not rely on them for insightful health advice.

Paging Dr. Basedow

6. August 2011 William Davis (8)
A 23-year old man came to my office having experienced weeks of extreme anxiety, palpitations, and 19 pounds of weight loss triggered by an overactive thyroid.

It all happened because of a large dose of iodine received during a CT scan using iodine-containing x-ray dye. (X-ray dyes are made visible on x-ray due to the iodine content.) This is a reaction first described in the 19th century by German physician, Karl Adolph von Basedow. (Jod is German for iodine.)[caption id="attachment_4313" align="alignleft" width="217" caption="Dr. von Basedow. Image courtesy Wikipedia"][/caption]

Now, here's the kicker: Jod-Basedow only occurs when there is pre-existing iodine deficiency. Indeed, this young man had an enlarged thyroid, signaling longstanding iodine deficiency (a goiter).

This example is among the more flagrant examples of something I have been witnessing: the return of iodine deficiency. As Americans cut back on their intake of iodized salt and fail to obtain iodine in sufficient quantities from seafood, seaweed, or supplementation, goiters and iodine deficiency are making a return in all its glory, reminiscent of the early 20th century, pre-iodized salt.

This young man's frightening experience is yet another way iodine deficiency can show itself, by the overenthusiastic thyroid response to a large dose of iodine when iodine deficiency has been present for a prolonged period.

Iodine deficiency and goiters have been lost to memory for most people. Even the FDA, in its advice for Americans to reduce salt and sodium intake, have forgotten to remind everyone to obtain iodine from an alternative source. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Get your iodine.

Carb counting

5. August 2011 William Davis (20)
In the recent Heart Scan Blog post, Can I eat quinoa, I discussed how non-wheat carbohydrate sources like quinoa, amaranth, black beans, brown rice, fruit, etc. do not exert the inflammation-provoking, appetite-increasing effects of wheat (since gliadin and gluten are not present), nor do they increase blood glucose as enthusiastically as the amylopectin A of wheat--but non-wheat grains can still increase blood sugar quite substantially.

Of course, any food that triggers blood sugar also trigger hepatic de novo lipogenesis, thereby increasing triglyceride levels and postprandial particles (e.g., chylomicron remnants), which, in turn, triggers formation of small LDL particles.

So these non-wheat carbohydrates, or what I call "intermediate carbohydrates" (for lack of a better term; low-glycemic index is falsely reassuring) still trigger all the carbohydrate phenomena of table sugar. Is it possible to obtain the fiber, B-vitamin, flavonoid benefits of these intermediate carbohydrates without triggering the undesirable carbohydrate consequences?

Yes, by using small portions. Small portions are tolerated by most people without triggering all these phenomena. Problem: Individual sensitivity varies widely. One person's perfectly safe portion size is another person's deadly dose. For instance, I've witnessed many extreme differences, such as 1-hour blood sugar after 6 oz unsweetened yogurt of 250 mg/dl in one person, 105 mg/dl in another. So checking 1-hour blood sugars is a confident means of assessing individual sensitivity to carbs.

Some people don't like the idea of checking blood sugars, however. Or, there might be times when it's inconvenient or unavailable. A useful alternative: Count carbohydrate grams. (Count "net" carbohydrate grams, of course, i.e., carbohydrates minus indigestible fiber grams to yield "net" carbs.) Most people can tolerate around 40-50 grams carbohydrates per day and deal with them effectively, provided they are spaced out throughout the day and not all at once. Only the most sensitive, e.g., diabetics, apo E2 people, those with familial hypertriglyceridemia, are intolerant to even this amount and do better with less than 30 grams per day. Then there are the genetically gifted from a carbohydrate perspective, people who can tolerate 50-60 grams, occasionally somewhat more.

People will sometimes say things like "You don't know what the hell you're talking about because I eat 200 grams carbohydrate per day and I'm normal weight and have perfect blood sugar and lipids." As in many things, the crude measures made are falsely reassuring. Glycation, for instance, from postprandial blood sugars of "only" 140 mg/dl--typical after, say, unsweetened oatmeal--still works its unhealthy magic and will lead long-term to cataracts, arthritis, and other conditions.

Humans were not meant to consume an endless supply of readily-digestible carbohydrates. Counting carbohydrates is another way to "tighten up" a carbohydrate restriction.

One hour blood sugar: Key to carbohydrate control and reversing diabetes

2. August 2011 William Davis (27)
Diabetics are instructed to monitor blood glucose first thing in the morning and two hours after eating. This helps determine whether blood sugar is controlled with medications like metformin, Januvia, Byetta injections, or insulin.

But that's not how you use blood sugar to use to prevent or reverse diabetes. Two-hour blood sugars are also of no help in deciding whether you have halted glycation, or glucose modification of proteins the process that leads to cataracts, brittle cartilage and arthritis, oxidation of small LDL particles, atherosclerosis, kidney disease, etc.

So the key is to check one-hour after-eating (postprandial) blood sugars, a time when blood glucose peaks after consumption of carbohydrates. (It may peak somewhat sooner or later, depending on factors such as how much fluid was in the meal; protein, fat, and fiber content; presence of foods like vinegar that slow gastric emptying; the form of carbohydrate such as amylopectin A vs. amylopectin B, amylose, fructose, along with other factors. Once in a while, you might consider constructing your own postprandial glucose curve by doing fingersticks every 15 minutes to determine when your peak occurs.)

I reject the insane notion that after-eating blood sugars of less than 200 mg/dl are acceptable, the value accepted widely as the cutoff for health. Blood sugars this high occurring with any regularity ensure cataracts, arthritis, and all the other consequences of cumulative glycation. I therefore aim to keep one-hour after-eating glucoses 100 mg/dl or less. If you start in a pre-diabetic or diabetic range of, say, 120 mg/dl, then I advise people to not allow blood glucose to go any higher. A pre-meal blood glucose of 120 mg/dl would therefore be followed by an after-eating blood glucose of no higher than 120 mg/dl.

No doubt: This is strict. But people who do this:

--Lose weight from visceral fat
--Heighten insulin sensitivity
--Drop blood pressure
--Drop HbA1c and fasting glucose over time
--Reduce small LDL and other carbohydrate-sensitive measures

By the way, if you inadvertently trigger a high blood sugar like I did when I took my kids to the all-you-can-eat Indian buffet, go for a walk, bike, or burn the sugar off with a 30-minute or longer physical effort. Check your blood sugar again and it should be back in desirable range. But then learn from your lesson: Eliminate or reduce portion size of the culprit carbohydrate food.

Wheat Belly coming to bookstores!

31. July 2011 William Davis (18)
Anyone following the conversations on these pages know that I have some very serious concerns about this thing being sold to us called "wheat"--cause it ain't wheat! It is the result of incredible genetics shenanigans inflicted on this plant, mostly in the name of increased yield per acre.



I now classify wheat as "Public Enemy #1," the prime nutritional culprit underlying obesity, heart disease, "cholesterol" abnormalities, hypertension, arthritis, psychiatric illness, and on and on. Once you read the full story, I believe that you will agree: Modern Triticum aestivum, the plant that now serves as the source for virtually all the wheat flour products now consumed--organic, whole grain, multigrain, sprouted . . . it makes no difference--does not belong in the human diet. So many people, searching for solutions for their fatigue, weight gain, leg edema, incurable rashes, joint pain, etc., will find their answers here.

Wheat Belly: Lose the wheat, lose the weight and find your path back to health will be on bookstore shelves including Barnes and Noble August 30, 2011 or is available for preorder here at Amazon. Wheat Belly will also be available as a downloadable Kindle book and as unabridged audio CDs.

You can also follow the Wheat Belly conversations on my Wheat Belly Blog. One of my recent posts discusses the herbicide-resistant semi-dwarf wheat strain, Clearfield, that is now making its way to more and more supermarket shelves.

You'll also find more conversation on the Wheat Belly Facebook pages.

The exception to low-carb

31. July 2011 William Davis (60)
I witness spectacular results restricting carbohydrates, both in the office as well as in my online experiences, such as those in Track Your Plaque. Of course, the diet I advocate is not just low-carb; it starts with elimination of wheat (for a long list of reasons). So the diet is wheat-free in the setting of low-carbohydrate.

What does this accomplish? Here's a partial list:

--Weight loss-Specifically, loss of visceral fat, the kind hinted at on the surface as "love handles" or what I call "wheat belly."
--Reduced blood sugar and HbA1c (reflecting prior 60-90 days glucose)
--Marked reduction in small LDL and triglycerides, increased HDL
--Reduced inflammatory measures like c-reactive protein
--Reduced leptin and leptin resistance, increased adiponectin
--Reduced estrogen and prolactin in men, accompanied by shrinkage or loss of enlarged breasts ("man boobs"); reduced estrogen in females accompanied by reduced risk for breast cancer

Pretty impressive. But there's one group of people who can experience unexpected effects with this diet: The 25% of people with apoprotein E4.

Everybody has two genes for apo E; the most common type is apo E 3/3. Around 1 in 4 people have 1, less commonly 2, genes for apo E4.

I hate apo E4. I hate apo E4 because it means I've got to dust off the nonsense I used to tell patients about cutting their fat, cutting their saturated fat. But that's what apo E4 people have to do. But it doesn't end there.

Apo E4 people also typically have plenty of small LDL particles triggered by carbohydrates. Put fats and carbohydrates together and you get an explosion of small LDL particles. Remove fats, small LDL goes down a little bit, if at all. Remove carbohydrates, small LDL goes down but total LDL (mostly large) goes up. The large LDL in apo E4 does seem to be atherogenic (plaque-causing), though the data are fairly skimpy.

So apo E4 creates a nutritional rock and a hard place: To extract full advantage from diet, people with apo E4 have to 1) go wheat-free, low-carb, then 2) not overdo fats, especially saturated fat.

It still gives me the creeps to tell an apo E4 person that they've got to watch their fats, worse than watching Starsky and Hutch reruns.

Can I eat quinoa?

29. July 2011 William Davis (15)
. . . or beans, or brown rice, or sweet potatoes? Or how about amaranth, sorghum, oats, and buckwheat? Surely corn on the cob is okay!

These are, of course, non-wheat carbohydrates. They lack several crucial undesirable ingredients found in our old friend, wheat, including no:

Gliadin--The protein that degrades to exorphins, the compound from wheat digestion that exerts mind effects and stimulates appetite to the tune of 400 additional calories (on average) per day.
Gluten--The family of proteins that trigger immune diseases and neurologic impairment.
Amylopectin A--The highly-digestible "complex" carbohydrate that is no better--worse, in fact--than table sugar.

So why not eat these non-wheat grains all you want? If they don't cause appetite stimulation, behavioral outbursts in children with ADHD, addictive consumption of foods, dementia (i.e., gluten encephalopathy), etc., why not just eat them willy nilly?

Because they still increase blood sugar. Conventional wisdom is that these foods trend towards having a lower glycemic index than, say, table sugar, meaning it raises blood glucose less.

That's true . . . but very misleading. Oats, for instance, with a glycemic index of 55 compared to table sugar's 59, still sends blood sugar through the roof. Likewise, quinoa with a glycemic index of 53, will send blood sugar to, say, 150 mg/dl compared to 158 mg/dl for table sugar--yeah, sure, it's better, but it still stinks. And that's in non-diabetics. It's worse in diabetics.

Of course, John Q. Internist will tell you that, provided your blood sugars after eating don't exceed 200 mg/dl, you'll be okay. What he's really saying is "There's no need for diabetes medication, so you're okay. You will still be exposed to the many adverse health consequences of high blood sugar similar to, though less quickly than, a full diabetic, but that's not my problem."

In reality, most people can get away with consuming some of these non-wheat grains . . . provided portion size is limited. Beyond limiting portion size, there are two ways to better manage your carbohydrate sensitivity to ensure that metabolic distortions, such as high blood sugar, glycation, and small LDL particles, are not triggered.

More on that in the future.


Lipoproteins . . . zero!

27. July 2011 William Davis (23)
With the recent refinements in our approach to correction of the lipoprotein abnormalities that lead to coronary plaque and heart disease risk, I have been witnessing more and more people achieve:

Small LDL particles 0 nmol/L
Lipoprotein(a) 0 nmol/L


For instance, Ted, a 58-year old man I saw in the office today started with:

Small LDL 1673 nmol/L
Lipoprotein(a) 219 nmol/L

In other words, both small LDL particles and lipoprotein(a) are being knocked down to zero values.

Incidentally, the combination of lipoprotein(a) with small LDL is among the most atherogenic (atherosclerotic plaque-causing) patterns known. Despite his athletic, slender build and avoidance of unhealthy habits, Ted's heart scan score was 922--very high.

So Ted followed the diet I advocate, i.e., wheat elimination followed by elimination of cornstarch, oats, and sugars; high-dose fish oil (total daily EPA + DHA of 6000 mg/day); vitamin D supplementation sufficient to achieve a 25-hydroxy vitamin D level of 60-70 ng/ml; iodine supplementation; and thyroid normalization which, in Ted's case, required supplementation with the T3 thyroid hormone, liothyronine, at a small dose.

The result:

Small LDL particles 0 nmol/L
Lipoprotein(a) 0 nmol/L

Not everybody, of course, is achieving these incredible--and previously impossible--results. But the numbers are growing. Ted is the third person to achieve zeroes all around, in fact, over the past 10 days.

Heart disease prevention is getting better and more powerful every day. And it ain't all about Lipitor and low-fat.


Chocolate almond biscotti

22. July 2011 William Davis (8)
Biscotti are twice-baked biscuits or cookies that are perfect for dipping into coffee, latté, or espresso. These wheat-free, low-carb biscotti are rich with the taste of chocolate and almonds.

Yield: approximately 15 biscotti



Ingredients:

2 cups almond meal
½ cup chopped walnuts
1/4 cup cocoa powder (undutched)
½ cup dark chocolate chips
Sweetener equivalent to ½ cup sugar (e.g., liquid stevia, Truvia)
½ cup ricotta cheese, room temperature (replace with coconut milk if lactose intolerant)
4 tablespoons butter, melted (replace with coconut oil if lactose intolerant)
2 large eggs
¼ cup milk, unsweetened almond milk, or soy milk
¼ cup almond, peanut, or sunflower seed butter, room temperature

Preheat oven to 350º F.

Mix almond meal, walnuts, sweetener, cocoa powder, and chocolate chips in bowl. Mix in ricotta, butter, eggs, milk, and nut butter and blend by hand thoroughly.

Pour mix onto baking pan lined with parchment paper or greased with coconut oil or other oil. Shape into loaf approximately 1 inch deep and 3½ to 4 inches in width. Place in oven and bake for 40 minutes.

Remove loaf and allow to cool 15 minutes. Slice into approximately ¾-inch widths and lay each biscotto on its side on baking pan. Put back in oven for 10 minutes.

Remove pan and flip biscotti over. Place back in oven and bake an additional 5 minutes. Remove and cool.

Optional: For a little dark chocolate "icing":
Melt 3-4 oz semisweet or dark chocolate in microwave (in 15 second increments until melted) or in metal bowl placed in heated water. Stir in 1-2 teaspoons butter.
Dip each biscotti into melted chocolate mix or drizzle chocolate mixture over top of each biscotto.

Sun green tea

21. July 2011 William Davis (11)
Here's a great way to enjoy the health benefits of green tea during the summer: sun green tea.


I dropped two green tea bags into approximately one-half gallon of cold water in a clear glass jar. I placed the jar in the sun (with top on) for four hours, then brought it into the kitchen. I served it as iced tea with a slice of lemon and mint leaf.

The sun green tea was a smoother than standard green tea brewed with hot water. Ordinarily, if you brew hot green tea for more than 3-5 minutes, it becomes more bitter or tannic. This sun green tea, despite steeping for four hours, was not the least bit bitter or tannic.

The green tea lasted well for about 48 hours, more than enough to enjoy several glasses per day.