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Top Tip by Doctor to Start Improving Heart Health
Here's my number one tip to begin improving your heart health, to begin improving all aspects of your health. You can start today. Eat real food. I'll give you examples of real food in each category. Proteins, meat of all types, but beef, bison, and lamb are best. Poultry, fish and seafood, and eggs. Good healthy fats, anything from an animal is good. Butter, ghee, beef fat, duck fat, but also coconut oil, olive oil, and avocado oil are fine. In the category of carbohydrates, vegetables, and fruits. Now I didn't mention dairy, and dairy is highly individual, but if you do okay with dairy, only high fat dairy with no emulsifiers.
Emulsifiers are those things you can't pronounce on the label. Use spices and salt and throw out everything else in your kitchen, including grains and sugar. They have to go. Begin today eating real food.
Anatomy of A Heart Attack
Anatomy of A Heart In most individuals, the heart sits left side of the chest is about the size of your heart. So, this is my model. That's a little bit bigger than my heart is but this is the muscle that gives the blood supply to the rest of the body. That's why the heart muscle must be strong.
A heart attack occurs when the blood supply giving the oxygen and nutrient rich blood to the heart muscle has an interruption in that blood flow. Then the muscle starts to be damaged, it starts to die, the cells start to die, it cannot function effectively.
This is the aorta, and off the aorta, behind this, you can't see it very well, the main large coronary arteries come off of the trunk of the aorta. The first branch is called the left main, which gives the left anterior descending and the circumflex coronary artery to the left side of the heart which is a critically important pumping chamber. And then also to the right coronary artery, which gives the blood supply to the right side of the heart.
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Can Heart Disease Be Reversed
Did you know there are still people out there that do not believe you can reverse coronary artery disease, that you can reverse plaque or atherosclerosis, blood vessel disease, whatever you want to call it.
The problem that leads to a heart attack, if this occurs in the arteries that give the blood supply to the heart and the problem that causes a stroke if this occurs in the blood vessels that give the blood supply to the brain.
So, I want to clear up this confusion because it's so important that we all understand that currently, we are very good at identifying the disease process early, the vascular disease process, wherever it's found in the body, but most importantly, the heart and the brain. Those are two critical organs for the life and the health that we want. And number two, if we identify it early, middle, or late stage, we can stabilize it and reverse it in most cases. But if you don't look, you don't know.