Healing the Heart of Coronary Artery Disease.

I talk to a lot of people these days about healing the heart.  People like Nutritionist, Dietitians, Cardiologists and General Practitioners.  When I ask the questions of how to heal the heart from CAD, I usually get a blank stare or a standard answer that has to do with medications, surgical interventions and perhaps a modest reduction of dietary fat and some exercise.  There certainly is a place for medications, and even surgeries but rarely do I get a thorough answer that includes the most researched and proven therapy for halting and reversing CAD.  The Whole Foods, Plant Based Diet.

Coronary Artery Disease is a disease that will kill more Americans this year than any other disease.  It is a disease that is born of consuming the foods that Americans like to eat: Animal foods, Dairy foods and Process foods (foods stripped of their nutritional value and that contain quantities of salt, fat and sugar).  The results of eating this diet is to have a coronary trunk that has vast deposits of fatty plaques and inflammation lining the arteries.

This is an actual CT Calcium Score of my Coronary Artery Trunk.  What you see at the places of black along the trunk is actual plaque build up that can be seen in the CT Scan.

The only problem with the CT Calcium Score is that it does not show "soft plaque" that has not yet calcified.  In other words, you could have the CT Score that is low but still have "soft plaque" that the CT does not see.  So you think you don't have CAD but you still could have lots of plaque.



The most exciting news that I have turned up in my own personal research is that Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) can actually be "halted and reversed" by simply eating a whole foods, plant based diet with little or no oil.  Thats it!  Having traveled to the Cleveland Clinic and studied with Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr. the head of the Nutritional Institute in Cleveland, I have discovered that eating exclusively, plant foods has a profound effect on existing CAD.

Maybe its time you did your own research.  Here are a couple of books that you can use to begin your research:
Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live.
Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr.  Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease.
T. Colin Campbell, The China Study.
Forks Over Knives, The Documentary on Netflix.
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