How Salt Affects Your Heart Health
Eating too much salt raises your blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for heart disease and stroke. When scientists studied thousands of people in research trials, they found that cutting back on salt lowered blood pressure in almost everyone—whether the
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Alcohol and Heart Disease: What the Science Really Says About Drinking and Your Heart
For decades, we were told that alcohol, particularly red wine, was “good for the heart.” This belief became deeply ingrained in both popular culture and even medical conversations starting in the 1990s. Multiple t...
Mediterranean vs Keto: A Cardiologist Compares Heart Health, Cholesterol, and Long-Term Safety
As America’s Cardiologist, I’ve spent my career studying how nutrition, cholesterol, and lifestyle choices impact heart disease—the number one cause of death worldwide. I spend countless hours a day educa...
The Actual Dietary Guidelines Approved By Cardiologist Dr. Alo
Comprehensive Dietary & Lifestyle Guidelines for Weight Management, Longevity, and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction Based On The Consensus Of Scientific Literature
Based on the clinical framework of Dr. Mohammed S. Alo, DO, FACC and major...
What Are Saturated Fats?
Saturated fats are solid at room temperature; butter, bacon, cheese, lard, margarine, tallow, ghee, coconut oil, chicken skin, fat on steak, sausage, cocoa butter, and suet. But they can also exist in a more liquid form. Some liquid oils have a bit more saturated fat, like ...
Is The Carnivore Diet Safe or Good For Your Health? A Review of the Evidence and Studies
Just about every day I see a new doctor or influencer on social media touting these all red meat "ancestral diets" that are supposedly safer and healthier because cavemen and cavewomen used to eat this way. Ano...
Diet Trauma and Diet Culture
As someone who has struggled with their relationship with food and their body, I understand the toll that diet culture and diet trauma can take on your mind, body, and spirit. I've been there, feeling like I'm never enough, constantly trying to shrink myself to fit into...
Is Red Meat Bad For You?
With the popularity of the Carnivore Diet, many of my patients and attendees at medical conferences have questions regarding red meat and it's health benefits. Previously, we have seen similar fad diets like the Atkin's Diet in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and more recen...
The Mediterranean Diet: How It Can Help Reduce Cardiovascular Mortality and Cancer
Patients and attendees at conferences ask me every day, "What is the Healthiest Diet?"
As a cardiologist that has spent two decades publishing, researching, and lecturing on weight loss, nutritio
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Does Intermittent Fasting Work For Weight Loss?
One of the questions I get the most when I am on tour speaking is, "Should I do intermittent fasting?" People will say they heard it's good for your health, or it helps you live longer, or it is the only way to lose weight.
It certainly is one way to...
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