The Heart Scan Blog
Blog URL http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com
Located Wauwatosa, Wisconsin USA
Tags heart scan, lipids and lipoproteins, vitamin d, omega-3, fish oil, thyroid, iodine, self-directed health, weight loss
No nonsense discussions of what works in heart disease prevention, what doesn't, since we cannot count on the drug industry, hospitals, or other conventional sources for unbiased advice.
Latest Blog Posts
- The Paleo approach to meal frequency on Nov 24, 2009 in Postprandial abnormalities Paleo Diet
Furthering our discussion of postprandial (after-eating) phenomenona, including chylomicron and triglyceride "stacking" (Grazing is for cattle and Triglyceride and chylomicron stacking), here's a comment from the recent Palet Diet Newsletter on the c...
- Angioplasty Special: Get it while it's hot! on Nov 21, 2009 in Angioplasty
Graphic courtesy Parsemus Foundation...
- Even mummies do it on Nov 20, 2009 in Heart scans Coronary plaque
Lady Rai, nursemaid to Queen Nefertari of Egypt, died in 1530 BC, somewhere between the age of 30 and 40 years. Her mummy is preserved in the Egyptian National museum of Antiquities in Cairo. A CT scan of her thoracic aorta revealed calcium, represe...
- Life Extension article on iodine on Nov 17, 2009 in Thyroid health Iodine
Here's a link to my recent article in Life Extension Magazine on iodine: Halt on Salt Sparks Iodine Deficiency Iodized salt, a concept introduced into the U.S. by the FDA in 1924, slowly eliminated goiter (enlarged thyroid glands), along with an enor...
- The healthiest people are the most iodine deficient on Nov 16, 2009 in Iodine
Here's an informal observation. The healthiest people are the most iodine deficient. The healthier you are, the more likely you are to:--Avoid junk foods--30% of which have some iodine from salt--Avoid overuse of iodized salt--Exercise--Sweating caus...
- It's the score, stupid on Nov 14, 2009 in Heart scans Heart disease prevention
Sal has had 3 heart scans. (He was not on the Track Your Plaque program.) His scores:March, 2006: 439April, 2007: 573October, 2009: 799Presented with the 39% increase from April, 2007 to October, 2009, Sal's doctor responded, "I don't understand. You...
- Heart Scan Blog Redux: Cheers to flavonoids on Nov 13, 2009 in Wine flavonoids
Because in Track Your Plaque we've been thinking a lot about anthocyanins, here's a rerun of a previous Heart Scan Blog post about red wine. (Anthocyanins are among the interesting flavonoids in red wine, along with resveratrol and quercetin.) The ca...
