How I Reversed My Arterial Age 20 years (Part 2): My Scores 

Thanks for the question. I still take & recommend statins. But - only for documented plaque, not LDL score. The AHA has followed me on that. Also I don't use mid or high doses, only low doses. They manage what we need (CV inflammation, not LDL levels), & side effects are minimal at those doses.

@@PrevMedHealth Thank you does not provide enough, yet I know the good Lord provides in other ways (I trust you know that already). I certainly have documented plaque confirmed by two separate angiograms 17 months apart (14 partial blockages in various locations of my heart arteries). I not only listened carefully to your video, I will document the salient points including the additional tests that you suggested to further understand my condition, one of them which I think is related to insulin response after eating most anything that has sugar in it (too many blueberries with my oatmeal or if I had a Christmas homemade cookie/treat). From your reply, I will continue with my statin as I understand, but work towards reversing my plaque and build up the endothelial layer of that is possible for me to prevent that unstable form from rupturing through and causing me another M.Infarction. I plan to review and hopefully be reassigned with a more advanced cardiologist than the one I have now (he’s in the 30’s - newer in his practice - and he didn’t know about that JAMA Report form 2022). I think we have some good cardiologists here at our Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute in Edmonton Alberta. Many thanks for your response; I’ll start taking my statin again (reluctantly) until further evidence shows it not very beneficial. 🙏🏼 best regards Dr. Brewer, Robert Pigeon.

Thank you very much!

I wasn’t clear on the solution, what removes plaque?

@@bluwng nano worm robots that is hollow and can enter your veins. tbd cuters laser

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@BB-xx3dv More like no one will listen until the Dr. tells them they're going to have a heart attack/stroke/need insulin soon. This information isn't being kept secret, it's just that few want to be bothered until they're confronted with their mortality.

Unfortunately due to big pharmacy policies all drs who want to keep their licenses, businesses or jobs have to follow what they are told =becoming licensed drug dealers. What that means is like that : you sat on a tack and because of pain you go to the dr get rid of the pain and he gives you pain killers till you will become addicted but pain does not disappear. Old medicine was looking fo the cause to fix it not just treat the symptoms. Good luck finding a real dr. !

I bought berberine but then saw that you should'nt take it if you're on metformin?

Have you lipid panel numbers improved?? My doctor put me on statin and I m hesitated to take it🤔

He took a statin and changed his blood pressure medication.

Thanks for sharing that! Yes, lower risk and stability are practical expectations. I haven’t met anyone that cannot accomplish this.

@@PrevMedHealth But didn't he tell you to go on Vitamin K2/k7 with Vitamin d3 when you had a score of 260. And so many others things that can reduce & reverse clogged arteries.....

Hey, you said had calcium score 260, 11 years ago? And now what is your score ?Why they don’t do anything knowing the person has calcium in the artery ? Like leaving you to die. I thought the science and medicine were better

​@@vigilanterocco381 True. I take D3 and K2, magnesium, C, nattokinase and serrapeptase plus a morning smoothie with a clove of garlic, whole lemon, whole red apple, some fresh ginger, turmeric, 2 tsp apple cider vinegar, a shot of olive oil and some fresh pepper with 8 oz of water, blended. Helps clear arteries and lowers bp too ;)

Btw, I'm 66 and not on any drugs and very healthy. Didn't get vaxxed either and didn't get covid. Same for flu, no shots, never had flu.

Best of luck!

Thanks

Thanks so much for sharing that! It’s why I do this.

Just quit alcohol forever. Alcohol is nasty.

Thank you very much

@@PrevMedHealth Thank you. Will do.

Change doctors?! LDL is oxidised in the pan and bbq. Plaque is more than cholesterol. Cardio-vas. damage is being done by high insulin from high carbs esp refined. This harms ALL organs which have a blood supply (!). Anti- inflammatory diet and supplements and meds all can assist to reverse. Lowering Cholesterol has not been proved to lower heart attack or mortality.

You are 100% right. Ancel Keyes way back did all this research on his open heart patients and every time he opened up someone that had a heart attack ldl was at the rupture site. He assumed it was the cause and like Nadir Ali so greatly explains and your analogy same of is ldl the cause of the fire or what’s rushed to the scene to put out the fire. From there that man started the statin era. When ldl goes up every other market goes down. That says it all. Maybe it was meant to be high not low. We have been fooled by big Pharma and our doctors. Statins actually reduce risk absolute that is less than 1% but they lie and only tell you 36 % decease but relative risk. And funny they do the opposite for the side effects:)

@@jeffpearlstein8191 Yes, I find it absurd that even an unhealthy liver would produce bad ldl. The body is way smarter than that. Also I suspect that the calcium is also just doing it's job in patching up 'cracks in the wall' although if I mention that to my GP he'll boot me out of his clinic. Ldl gets recycled anyway, goes back to the liver to begin the process. Inflammation is doing all the damage.

7th I see a lot of people here on RU-vid bringing theyr calcium score down to 0, on carnivore diet. LDL will go above 200, but that's ok

Can you share the study

Yes. 1. look for plaque; 2. look for inflammation; and 3. look for root causes. Top root causes are: diabetes and prediabetes, oral infections, sleep disturbances, Lp(a), and a few others. LDL is actually way down the list. LDL is more the mechanism than the cause.

@@PrevMedHealth Hy, by sleep disturbances what do you mean, and what do you mean by oral infections? Allso what is lp(a)? Thanks!

@@ilya399 lp(a) is Lipoprotein (a), is an independent, genetic, and causal factor for cardiovascular disease and heart attacks

I see he did not respond, sadly. So I’m guessing he thinks not? I too was so hoping he had reversed his without meds. He said he was plant-based previously but then started eating salmon every day. I wonder if he has progressed to be more Keto or that direction or has made any additional lifestyle changes.

@@kbc1883 I’ve seen recently that Nattokinase and K2 have been involved in studies for reversing the plaque with fantastic results. May be worth looking into this more.

@@blythemajors9193 thank you!

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My understanding is it’s not so much ‘liquid’ fat forming a clot, but a piece of hardened tissue (fatty or not) breaking off and that is clogging the artery. And actually you can have a heart attack simply from such a stenosed artery during exercise or a spasm, because at 90% stenosis there isn’t enough blood flowing through to perfuse the heart.

Could cause bleeding

Yes, he never even discussed that fact. I had to have an advanced lipid panel to determine my partical size, etc. I did not have good news. Have been educating myself in Lp(a) which is an inherited biofactor that increases chances of heart attack and stroke . . . Too much to go into but even cardiologists don't know that much about it but it's estimated that 1 out of 5 people have elevated Lp(a) levels.😮

Thanks. There is a lot of debate about niacin. I have a few videos showing the details. Cardiologists that use it tend to say that the dose needs to be 2 grams. And yes, that is true overall. But I see positive impacts at lower levels.

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I am. And I am on one.

@@PrevMedHealth With Intermittent and Block Fasting: The PRIMARY reason Low Carb Keto diets work is that they allow the body to maintain a Fasting biochemistry.

from my understandings -- they work on a little over 50 percent - depending on the name brands and how often you consume them - as for vitamin C and D - without the enzymes that come from foods with those vitamins - they do not work so well - and you need to use a reputable dealer of them - and even then they are not what they are supposed to be it seems by the studies - an independent third party evaluation is needed by the manufacture for them to be of any value - and then the price goes up - but seems to be worth the difference they say -- a bit of a coin toss it seems - oatmeal would need to be eaten almost every day to be of a big difference they say - organic is always better -- and oatmeal is not the only food that works they are saying -

Thank you very much!

It’s a great point. Of course statins are linked to plaque; it’s one of the major reasons for taking them. To assume the researchers understood & rules out that obvious bias would be naive.

Have U tried Mk2/mk7?

@@PrevMedHealth touche´

Drink beetroot juice daily it lowers blood pressure and opens the arteries allowing blood flow better plenty of vitamin c to repair blood vessels good luck

@Spaniol Spanish i doubt coq10 would of caused your plack. Start drinking beet juice and get some vitamin e. And vitamin c. And start walking look after yourself

@Chris Quilalang Thank you.

+Mike Maas Sorry about the HIIT miss. Try these. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YrfjaOU_3VU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QAQCaqnJfzE.html Lisinopril is good. But Ramipril has the best anti inflammatory performance of the ACEi. You probably need that with your risk factors, especially if you're managing insulin resistance with berberine. Lipitor will lower your ldl. But it's not likely to impact your cv inflammation. And that's more important. I have videos re: this coming out next month

+Mike Maas Lisinopril is actually a fairly close #2 to Ramipril.

Thanks. Most CIMTs are poor quality. Proper CIMT requires extreme attention to detail and rigid quality programs which most sonographers can’t access. But in the right hands CIMT is the best for following plaque progression.

I'd l ove to know as well.

Or do lol 😂

Thanks.

You’re commenting 3w ago on a 5-yr old list. W/in reason, your quality of life matters more than a small increase in life expectancy. Listen to your body, not the regime in place when your doc was in med school. LDL is not the enemy; the ~20% portion of it that’s “very low density L” is. If your triglycerides are high, your vldl may be too (standard lipid panel doesn’t break out vldl from total ldl). (If your triglycerides rose as your hdl fell, that’s a clue.) Dr Robert Lustig & others have YT videos on the current science on lipids. LDL w/out vldl is not harmful, and some are looking at it as the ‘fireman’ on the scene fighting the arterial plaque fire.

No carnivore

Thanks for sharing that

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Why ?

@@davidbrown4271 to reverse plaque

It's not cholesterol, it's carbohydrates and sugar causing plaque, prediabetic insulin resistance , stop eating carbs and sugar

Thanks for sharing.

Any person out age gaining weight should assume it is insulin resistance until proven otherwise.

If the niacin is for HDL, that’s more important. If it actually does boil down to low HDL vs high homocysteine, I’d take the higher homocysteine and add methylated products, like MethylGuard. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_IUWolgMbpY.html

Betberine helps a little.

+55garegin No. veins are a different issue. Valves and the occasional problem, like Factor V Leiden. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Meo_0tm6stM.html

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C-peptide can be used for several things. But why not just look at insulin? Most people do neither.

You can’t remove the gene. But lifestyle is more powerful.

@@PrevMedHealth So a healthy lifestyle can over power a bad genetic disease? Then why is is that there are some people that do everything right regarding lifestyle and still succumb to genetic factors? Unless, there’s another explanation of why healthy living people have still become victimized of the same diseases as their cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and obese counter parts?

@@peaceful4you408 How can you say with certainty these people did everything right? Things you do in your 20s can still affect you later in life in your 40s, 50s, etc

For people that just want to be told what to do by the doctor, I don't suggest coming to me - or to this channel. Good luck. I hope that the doctor you see has the same values you do about your health.

Hi Doc, Thanks for the great info. I am also considering a switch from Losartan to Ramipril for the anti-inflammatory effect. Unfortunately this study suggests there is no evidence that ACE drugs lower inflammation. Are there other study’s that support the anti-inflammatory effects? Thanks. Curr Pharm Des. 2012;18(28):4385-413. Effects of ACE-inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers on inflammation. Di Raimondo D1, Tuttolomondo A, Buttà C, Miceli S, Licata G, Pinto A. Author information Abstract The role of inflammation in cardiovascular disease and in hypertensive disease above all, is complex. Several studies confirm that activation of renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), through increase in the production of angiotensin II (Ang II), is closely related to local vascular inflammation. Over the BP lowering effects of anti-hypertensive treatments, several ancillary effects for every class may be found, distinguishing the various drugs from one another. Given the pro-inflammatory effects of Ang II and aldosterone, agents that interfere with the components of RAAS, such as ACE inhibitors, Angiotensin Receptor Blockers (ARBs), and mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (spironolactone or the more selective eplerenone), represent logical therapeutic tools to reduce vascular inflammation and cardiovascular risk, as suggested in large clinical trials in patients with hypertension and diabetes. Regarding ACE inhibitors, actually there is no convincing evidence indicating that ACEi's reduce plasma levels of major inflammatory markers in hypertension models. Lack of evidence concerns especially these inflammation markers, such as fibrinogen of CRP, which are less closely related to atherosclerotic disease and vascular damage and conversely are affected by several more aspecific factors. Results obtained by trials accomplished using ARBs seem to be more univocal to confirm, although to great extent, these is an anti-inflammatory effect of drugs blocking AT1 receptor. In order to strictly study the effects of blockage of RAAS on inflammation, future studies may explore different strategies by, for example, simultaneously acting on the ACE and the AT1 angiotensin receptors.

Great question. Yes. Heck, even the insurance companies are aware of this (it’s part of many of their quality criteria). Unfortunately, I’m going wheels up right now. I plan to help when I land.

@Virginia Cook you should watch videos like "10 TIPS to get superman like heart".

I like the way he comes to his conclusions and he cites everything. This allows you to make an informed decision or at least be a bit wiser when you see your doc. I must admit I do quite often skip to the end of the video first to get the conclusions and then go and watch the whole video if I feel it's worthwhile.