Atherosclerosis

All Videos for Atherosclerosis

Should You Supplement with Vitamin K2?

Vitamin K supplements are touted for bone, brain, and heart health, but have they actually been shown to help?



How Ultra-Processed Foods Could Cause Disease: Industrial Contaminants

There are contaminants of processed foods that don’t show up on the ingredients label.



Why Isn’t Everyone on Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs?

Since there is benefit to getting our LDL cholesterol as low as possible, why aren’t statins prescribed for everyone even if we start out with optimal levels?



The Growth and Nutrient Intakes of Children Raised on Plant-Based Diets

How can we plan well-balanced plant-based diets for infants and kids?



Eliminating Heart Disease, the Number One Cause of Death

What is the leading cause of heart disease, our leading cause of death?



A Testimonial from Dr. Ornish’s Alzheimer’s Progression Reversal Study

What does improving the cognition and function of Alzheimer’s patients with lifestyle medicine actually translate to in terms of human impact?



Can Alzheimer’s Disease Be Reversed with a Plant-Based Diet?

Dr. Dean Ornish publishes the first randomized controlled trial investigating whether a plant-based diet and lifestyle program may reverse the course of early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.



Benefits and Side Effects of the Flu Vaccine

Randomized placebo-controlled trials show that flu shots can be extraordinary lifesavers.



The Diet Shown to Slow Age-Related Hearing Loss

An interventional trial found that dietary changes may slow or even reverse the loss of hearing.



Dietary Sources of the “Longevity Vitamin” Ergothioneine

It may be even more important to include mushrooms (or tempeh) in our diet as we age.



How to Prove Whether Yoga Has Special Health Benefits

Yoga practitioners are healthier, but does practicing yoga lead to good health, or does good health lead to practicing yoga?



Are Beyond Meat Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Healthy?

The SWAP-MEAT study puts Beyond Meat products to the test.



Dietary Cholesterol and Inflammation from Abdominal Obesity

The optimal intake of dietary cholesterol may be zero.



Dietary Guidelines: “Eat as Little Dietary Cholesterol as Possible”

Why do the official federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend limiting the intake of dietary cholesterol (found mostly in eggs) as much as possible?



Comparing Vegetarian and Vegan Athletic Performance, Endurance, and Strength

Long-term plant-based eating may improve exercise capacity and endurance.



The Purported Benefits of Vitamin K2: Should You Take Supplements?

Our body can make vitamin K2 from the K1 in green leafy vegetables.



Why All Athletes Should Eat Plant-Based Diets

Enhance athletic performance with diet.



Foods to Help Protect Your Arteries from Saturated Fat

If you’re going to have something unhealthy, is there anything you can eat with it to help mediate the damage it may cause?



Blocking the Cancer Metastasis Enzyme MMP-9 with Beans and Chickpeas

Which legumes are best at inhibiting the matrix metalloproteinase enzymes that allow cancer to become invasive?



Can Cholesterol Get Too Low?

Why might healthy lifestyle choices wipe out 90 percent of our risk for having a heart attack, whereas drugs may only reduce risk by 20 to 30 percent?



How Low Should You Go for Ideal Cholesterol Levels?

Having a so-called normal cholesterol in a society where it’s normal to drop dead of a heart attack isn’t necessarily a good thing.



Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better

Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Vitamin B12 and Homocysteine?

Not taking B12 supplements or regularly eating B12 fortified foods may explain the higher stroke risk found among vegetarians.



Vegetarians and Stroke Risk Factors—Animal Protein?

Might animal protein-induced increases in the cancer-promoting grown hormone IGF-1 help promote brain artery integrity?



Treating High Lp(a): A Risk Factor for Atherosclerosis

What is this lipoprotein(a) and what can we do about it?