Dr. Piero Anversa of the Harvard Medical School created controversy among his peers when he asserted in 1987 that the human heart completely renews its cells four times by the time a person reaches age 80. Before Dr. Anversa's claim, conventional wisdom among scientists had maintained that heart ... Read More ›
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UPDATED:July 1, 2021
February 9, 2016
Read This Before Saying “Yes” to Bypass Surgery, Angioplasty or Stents
About 1.6 million Americans undergo heart bypass surgery, angioplasty or stent procedures annually – even though there's no evidence that these procedures prolong life or prevent future heart attacks in the majority of patients.The three - year survival rate for most patients who have had bypass ... Read More ›
December 16, 2015
Is There Any Evidence That Caffeine Raises Blood Pressure?
Q: Is there any evidence that caffeine raises blood pressure?A: If you do not have high blood pressure or heart disease, there is little evidence that drinking coffee will affect you. Several studies have shown no association between drinking coffee (up to six cups per day) and sustained high blood ... Read More ›
UPDATED:November 24, 2021
High Blood Pressure is Not a Life Sentence
If you've ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure, I bet your doctor had his prescription pad out faster than a gunfighter drawing his pistol. And here's the reason-most docs don't want to spend the time it would take to learn what's causing your hypertension. I'm not kidding-mainstream ... Read More ›
June 30, 2021
Bio-Identical HRT and Nature’s No. 1 Clot-Buster
Q: My "insurance plan" doctor tells me I shouldn't take estrogen—even bio-identical estrogen—because it will increase my risk of a blood clot and maybe a stroke. Is this true? ––CS, via e-mail Dr. Wright: Unless you use the enormous estrogen quantities found during pregnancy or use the wrong ... Read More ›
December 2, 2020
New Zealand Mollusc 350 Times More Potent than Fish Oil
Inflammation is the silent killer of hundreds of thousands of Americans every year and most of its victims have no idea how dangerous it is.Everyone has at some time during their lives had a part of their body that was visibly inflamed due to things such as an infected cut. What most people do not ... Read More ›
February 9, 2016
Canola Oil: Yes or No?
I will admit that I never thought much about the canola oil I routinely use for my baking until I asked myself one day, "is there a canola plant"? Canola oil comes from cross-breeding several types of rape plants. The rape plant is part of the mustard family, along with turnips, cabbage, watercress, ... Read More ›
UPDATED:December 2, 2020
Six Measures of Heart Health
This post outlines six reliable measures of how healthy your heart is. Clearly, it's not practical or even possible for some people to track all six measures on a regular basis. But tracking one or even a few of the following measures once a year is recommended if you want to have some idea of ... Read More ›
February 9, 2016
How Can You Lower Blood Pressure Naturally?
Question: Could you please tell me the best natural way to reduce high blood pressure? I have a terrible time with nasty side effect on prescription drugs.Answer: I think that most doctors forget (if they ever knew at all) that hypertension isn't actually a disease in itself-it's only a symptom of ... Read More ›
May 12, 2016
Eggs – The New Heart Healthy Food
"Egg-Irony" - that's how ScienceDaily referred to a new study that shows how egg consumption might alleviate a heart disease risk factor. The real irony is that egg consumption has dropped over the past four decades, largely due to absurd medical mainstream warnings that the cholesterol in eggs ... Read More ›
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