Statins, Cholesterol, And Your Brain
Your brain does not need circulating cholesterol. In fact, cholesterol circulating in your blood stream inside of lipoproteins can not get into your brain. Lipid lowering medications affect circulating cholesterol, not brain cholesterol. It's important to unders...
Intestinal Absorption of Cholesterol
Having an overall understanding of lipid and lipoprotein metabolism is important to understanding how we arrive at cholesterol in our arteries and develop atherosclerosis.
The first step is cholesterol or fatty acids arriving inside your intestinal lumen. This ...
North Karelia Finland 84% Reduction In Death Rates
In a beautiful example of how dietary and lifestyle interventions work, the country of Finland was able to reduce cardiovascular mortality by 84% in North Karelia by making a few simple dietary and lifestyle changes.
The year was 1972. North Karel...
Your Morning Coffee and Your Heart: What the American Heart Association Actually Found
Caffeine is the most widely consumed drug on the planet, and most people drinking it have no idea what it does to their cardiovascular system. The American Heart Association just released a landmark scientific st...
Four Types of Prevention and the Power of Lowering LDL
The old model of preventing heart disease had two categories. Modern cardiology has four, and knowing where you fall could change the course of your life.
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide, claiming nearly 18 ...
New Oral PCSK9Ā Breakthrough Enlicitide (Lipfendra)
A new oral PCSK9 inhibitor called enlicitide decanoate just produced results in a major randomized trial that rival injectable therapies, and the cardiovascular world needs to pay attention. High levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C...
Best Congestive Heart Failure Treatment: What the Evidence Shows
Congestive heart failure used to have an 80% five-year mortality rate. This means that in 5 years, 80% of those diagnosed with CHF would be dead. That is no longer the case. Modern medications and therapeutics have been able to add 9 ...
OzempicĀ Cuts Heart Attacks and Strokes by 20 Percent In Non Diabetics
I have been a huge proponent of GLP1 medications since they first hit the market in 2005. I also run a cardiometabolic, obesity, and weight loss clinic and jumped on the modern GLP1 medications early in 2019.Ā
People think that ...
Why Most Heart Attacks Happen With Normal Cholesterol?
Every single day on social media, I get the same question: "Dr. Alo, if most people having heart attacks have normal cholesterol, then isn't cholesterol the real problem? Isn't it something else?" The answer is surprisingly simple, but online g...
The Metabolic "Grey Zone" in Young Adults: Why You Shouldn't Wait
What if you have "Pre Everything"? Pre-diabetes, pre-hypertension, pre-dyslipidemia. What's your risk? Should you wait until it gets worse?
A groundbreaking Korean nationwide study just revealed something that should shake up how we...
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