Exactly! I stayed away from statins and listened to the "experts" who claim high LDL is good. It got me a heart attack.

@@AustinBigWig I took statins and I turned into a mushroom. I should have listened to the experts too!

@@rogerdodger8415 Did you have a heart attack?

@@AustinBigWig No, I had a AFib attack.

exactly pal

He is making dangerous comments… I do not believe what he is saying in this video. Besides he doesn’t talk about what the alternative is….. lost credibility in my opinion…

You may have needed the stents because you had sufficient narrowing of your coronary arteries at some pasticular loation that was impeding the delivery of enough blood and oxygen to meet the metabolic demands of your heart. In these cases, you might well have had pain with rather normal levels of activity. In this case the stent could provide benefit but would not prevent a "heart attack". C@@e.miller8943

He believes and preaches a load of shite . Show the people the test results or a real case study ., should be struck off ….

Check again what what he is saying in 5:50. Applied to your circumstances, when you actually were suffering from serious cardiovascular disease, surgical interventions were accurate and highly motivated. This doc is propagating prevention of heart attacks. The #1 method of prevention is neither stents, nor bypass surgeries but focusing on *arterial inflammation* that causes plaque in the arteries and leads to cardiovascular disease.

Old, calicfied plaque is not the source of heart attacks, although putting stents in them may make you feel better. Attacks are caused by newer liquid plaque that damages and perforates artery linings causing blood clots. The doctor's point is that the best way to prevent heart attacks is through a change in lifestyle, including your diet. Along with doctor Brewer there many other doctors with suggestions on the best possible diets and evidence of reducing plaque.

@@SET12DSP 2400 mcg of K2?

@@SET12DSP are you not taking too much K2-MK7 ? According to Dr. Kate it should be about 500 mcg?

hi amount lemon juse move to

most items on middle aisle of grocery. ( produce aisle is better👍)

Carbs, in my experience caused high triglycerides, hyperinsulemia. I was on a no fat, all carb diet and that's what happened. I got on KZfaq, got the correct info. The doctor had given me the wrong info.

If you did the proper healing and preventative you wouldn't be in the situation. Everyone who knows true medicine knows you don't get stents unless you're having a heart attack. I totally reversed my angina after I got my moderately High calcium score by natural means

@@Jacobs_Travail Please help,How did you reverse your angina naturally?

@@Jacobs_Travail nonsense. Such an arrogant response. W/out my stents, I couldn't have the life I currently have.

@@leviefrauim1425 without stents you'd be better off *if* you did this right thing to your muscles (endothelium arteries etc). Have you read the studies? Stents are like pain killers, they don't treat the root cause. You put a bandaid on it, without addressing the cut (literally a cut). Stents don't prevent heart attacks. As a matter of fact, you're suppressing the vitamin that's literally responsible for being an antagonist of this calcium in your arteries. Are you on a blood thinner?

@@craigglaser251 there's far too much to list here in detail. IF, cut out carbs most days, k2, ubiquinol, berberine, magnesium. check out Dr jamnadas, he's a cardiologist in Florida. His lectures will help. I'm also a cardiologist

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Awesome 👍. I quit bread, cookies and breakfast cereal and my aches and pains went away 😄

The best anti inflammatory diet is the NO SUGAR diet; cancer cells will starve without it!!!

cyclodextrin seems very promising but we need hard evidence from human trials, but if it does prove to be an effective treatment pharma will lose billions from the meds they sell that only delay but don't heal

I'd like to know more about this treatment

@@a3marketing991 From chat bot : Cyclodextrin injections have been shown to remove cholesterol that had built up in the arteries of mice fed a high-fat diet. The sugar enhances a natural cholesterol-removal process and persuades immune cells to soothe inflammation instead of provoking it. Cyclodextrin works by reprogramming macrophages so that they do not cause such a strong inflammatory response in blood vessels that contain cholesterol crystals. The cyclodextrin also dissolves cholesterol crystals so that the cholesterol can be excreted from the body in urine.

I've just searched youtube for "cyclodextrin plaque" & there is a video on prevmed channel about it!! There is another video on their channel about how one gentleman reversed his coronary calcium score 59% in 16 months, just search "reversed coronary calcium 59" You're welcome

Doesn't that carry substantial risk of nerve damage?

After the same question my cardiologist said "I only know pills". Telling confession to show his/their training and also his/their laziness

Works for me. Do NOT listen to doctors for nutrition advice. I tried to tell my doctor about how my diet cured all my ailments and there was silence. They aren't open to learning new information. So now I don't bother. Too bad because I love to impart knowledge. I just want to help. It's the teacher gene.😅

Welcome to the most of us.

@@alipainting They fear and tremble to not just obey the Med. Est.

Well they are experts in the natural. Why? Used to be about 8 hours of nutrition in their 6-8 yr curriculum, may be a bit more now, maybe. Please get 2nd opinions.

I feel like you do. Feel my stent was not justified and I was rushed into having the procedure instead of trying other treatments that seem to help as well. Oh well you live and learn... we'll know better next time around..

I had a triple bypass almost four years ago because I had a complete blockage of my widow maker artery and my natural bypass was beginning to close, according to an angiogram. Bypasses or stents can buy you time if you have lots of plaque, as in my case, but they are not a definitive solution if you keep doing what got you to the operating table in the first place. What the video makes clear is, plaque or no plaque, you have to go after what causes inflammation, which can come from about 400 things, not just diabetes (the biggest cause) or arthritis.

@@dylanb_2011 thanks Jim, my C-reactive protein (a measure of inflammation) always came out negative so I assumed I didn’t have “generalized inflammation “. No diabetes, no arthritis, lean, lots of exercise, good diet but a family history of high ldl which I assume blocked 4 arteries (95% widow maker) and no symptoms whatsoever. Told by Ottawa heart institute (world renowned) stents are NOT recommended when blocked above 70% so bypass asap. Then I see the above video that says bypass surgery won’t prevent a heart attack. I feel same as before surgery, that is “no symptoms “. So what does it provide or prevent?

@@drlouiscardinal752 Sounds like you have Familial hypercholesterolemia? Do you have a high Lp(a)? I have read that niacin works well for that. Also, take a look at the Linus Pauling Protocol: vitamin C, lysine, proline, carnitine, CoQ. As for the utility of bypass, good question, I had a triple bypass, in my understanding it depends on the extent of your plaque risk, in my case my widow maker was 100 percent occluded and the collateral was severely blocked, so it seemed the surest route to survival for me given the unknowns and delays in pursuing alternative treatments. But even if you get bypass grafts if you don't tackle the root causes then you are bound for trouble again.

I worked in a cath lab for 11 years. What you describe is a "widow maker: blockage. Left main is the location. We generally stent anything over 70% but we test with an FFR test. If flow is still good (based on the FFR test) it will be treated medically, but with the left main you will most likely get a CABG, Its risky stenting the left main. Larger lumen gives you more room, but 80% is 80% regardless of the size of the lumen. If a clot is forming it will generally block the vessel. Sometimes the clot will not block the vessel 100% but I've seen 99% with tiny flow and the patient was still having a heart attack. But that 1% was keeping them alive. I helped treat hundreds of heart attacks and watching the relief when we deployed the life saving stent was a feeling you never get over,

@@PianoUniverse Thanks for the reply. But why is it risky to stent the left main? To be more specific, the case I was referring is this: no symptoms (as far as the patient could tell) but failure of a nuclear stress test leading to angiogram. The finding was single vessel disease: LAD, mid portion of the segment, 80% stenosis. iFR at 0.88 and TIMI flow at 2. No other lesions or other findings. Decision was to stent. I just like to know if the decision was warranted in this case. From watching this channel I still don't really know.

The left main covers the entire left system of the heart, primary the left ventricle. Its the main pumping chamber of the heart. The hospital where I worked wouldn't allow us to stent it. (Very risky) Its done, but it must be done with a surgical team that can do cardiac bypass on standby. It's safer just to do the bypass. We did a couple during myocardial infraction to save the patient, but not electively. Mid LAD is very serious covering a lot of tissue. But the ifr you stated wouldn't get a stent where I worked. The FFR had to be less than .80 to qualify. The Interventionist has the final say if he though the blockage was unstable as in soft plack vs a calcified stable lesion. Before we tested flow with FFR we stented most lesions over 70%. If they stented his mid LAD it its not necessarily a bad call.@@Daniel_Maxin If my LAD was 80%, I'd want a stent.

An anti-inflammatory lifestyle. Proper weight, minimize body fat, minimize glycemic carbs, good sleep…

100% true on the processed foods part

CRP is one, but an "inflammation panel", with several different tests, is best.

If you are on a keto diet, those numbers look good.

Don't take calcium carbonate. Coats the arteries. It's limestone, the body can't assimilate it. I was shocked to see it's in oat milk😮

If you take vitamin D (or not)the calcium that it produces go straight to the arteries; by taking vitamin K2 this will direct the calcium to the bones. K2 (MK7) will clear the calcium in your arteries and your calcium score will go all the way down. Read about it (I take 100 mcg (not mg) per day.

You want a CT coronary angiogram, not a regular angiogram. Just as important: get your glucose checked too to see if you have insulin resistance or diabetes/prediabetes.

@@dylanb_2011 I am still scheduled for the nuke stress test in 2 weeks. Doc says he wants to see if I pass that first before the next move, which would be the CT Cor Angio

I have a calcium score higher than yours and was prescribed statins. Statins will stabilize plaque, and a cardiologist will not do a CT coronary angiogram unless you are having symptoms such as chest pain or trouble breathing, symptoms which may show up on a stress test. I've also read where people have had a calcium score of 2000 with no blockages that would require a stent. The best way it was explained to me, the score tells you there is calcium in the artery, it just doesn't tell you exactly where it is. It is just one piece of puzzle regarding your heart health.

i had bypass 3 years ago, I didn't get the real summary of the video either, but yes blockages can and do create heart attack, but the same doctor was explaining about how to clear arteries in a different video. I myself switched to One meal a day for last 2 and half months, I feel lot better.

'Three years ago I had.....'. The 'So' is unnecessary and stupid. Stop it.

There's the mammary artery used in bypass that cannot block again, docs don't know why

@@heyabusa1 Ya know I put that "so" in there JUST to piss you off...IN particular. :)

@@richardbrown9198 😂

It's a big controversy right now. Suggesting you check out Dr. Pradip Jamnadas' lecture at the Galen Institute (here on youtube) re DIET. He is a passionate cardiologist of 30+ years, and dedicated to prevention . I believe this doctor is dancing around the issue to avoid controversy, bless his heart.

The "mistake" in the video is to have high blood sugar (140 or above causes vascular inflammation and injures the endothelial wall with every meal). Dr. Brewer does discuss this in other videos, but he should have been more direct in the last few minutes and pointed people to them.

@@shanecreamer6889 Thanks, Shane. I totally agree that vascular inflammation is the biggest enemy to the heart. I have to say, from actual real-life experience, that my stents have made a dramatic improvement in the quality of my life.

​@@shanecreamer6889 and calcium deposits with plaque.

Uncontrolled blood glucose and insulin levels are the mistake to avoid

You are precisely describing all of the money grabbing chiropractors who are all over this platform and tic tok selling millions of dollars of supplements and worthless remedies claiming to cure cancer, diabetes and endocrine disorders etc!

I am 100% with you!. I avoid doctora at all cost. I think the lie and they cheat. They are knowledgeable and they know how to get answers from you that you unsuspectingly answer and BOOM! Now they tell you you need this that or the other and surgeons are the worse because if they aren't doing surgery they aren't making the big bucks. Most recently a Johns Hopkins Ophthalmologist diagnosed my retinal cloud in my eye and said I had to have cataract surgery , I still had the problem exactly the same after surgery and a different guy told me I needed a yag surgery, yep DID NOT solve the issue. Went to a third doctor and she said your problem is in the retina and it may never resolve and it's safer to leave it alone. Had at least 3 other surgeries that in the end did not help, for other issues, in fact made things worse. They spend all of 5 minutes with you in an office and they rush you because the waiting room is jam packed with patients. They send a "nurse" ( who is probably NOT EVEN a nurse ) to ask all the preliminar questions so they don't have to do it themselves. When they walk in they glance over the notes of an untrained medical person and proceed to do a very cursory exam. Then they want all kinds of expensive lab tests MRI's etc, so they can ultimately justify a surgery. If you don't accept the surgery that's it you are fired on the pretext that since you said no to surgery there's no other way to make improvement on whatever is ailing you. Or take the case of my husband's doctor. He told my husband that type 2 diabetes IS INCURABLE!!!!!! and his only choice is to be on statins the rest of his life. Yeah I have no respect for doctors anymore. I could go on and on with other experiences.

Yes I had similar experience, they are business people.

It's not worthless, it's the different types of plaque that are the differences,soft/liquid vs calcified. Dr Brewer has instructed on this numerous times

No.. the strongest predictor that we currently have is a cac score. Zero CAC means extremely low risk of a heart attack.

@@Beer_Sheva WRONG CAC only measures hard stable plaque that statins increase.. It's the SOFT plaque the problem you can have Zero CAC and die from the soft plaque Du!

Arterial inflammation

@@jamescalifornia2964 It's my understanding that arterial inflamation is the cause of plaque and then eventually the plaque blocks blood flow.

@@EdmundD1962 To block flow, deposited plaque has to be very advanced. The risk is that long before reaching that stage, soft, newly formed plaque can rupture and spill into the lumen, contacting the blood flow and causing a spontaneous clot, which can travel to the heart or brain and cause a heart attack or stroke. The formation of inflamed, liquid plaque is the ticking time bomb. The older, calcified plaque deposits are (according to current thinking) a lot more stable.

@@lucasgroves137 Okay. Thank you for that info.

@@EdmundD1962 Inflammation caused by diet. Check out Dr. Pradip Jamnadas' lecture at the Galen Institute, here on youtube. He's a cardiologist of 30+ years ... passionate, and dedicated to prevention.

Not to mention the lingering whistling sibilance. 😣

James, yes it may be useful. I have been on low dose Atorvastatin (10mg) for the past 10 years and my cholesterol levels are midline.

Vegan no oil

@@Carol-vx8ru NO 'manufactured' oils .... 'real' EVOO, preferrably grown in desert or semi-desert condition - California, MOROCCO, etc.- expensive. Unfortunately, most EVOOs are blended with 'other' (bad) oils. Do your 'research' - especially learn to do the 'refrigerator test' on any olive oil you purchase to verify the purity.

A piece of plaque break loose and blocks a coronary artery causing heart attack or brain artery causing stroke.

@@nickbardan3867 That's not the current thinking. The calcified plaque that might dislodge as pieces actually tends to be quite stable. It's the newly forming, hot _liquid_ plaque, separated from the lumen by a single, fragile lipoprotein film, that is dangerous. When that film ruptures, hot liquid plaque directly contacts the blood, which instantaneously forms a blood clot. It's that thrombosis that causes the event.

@@lucasgroves137 might be ,who knows. That's why higher LDL is there to make sure it makes the plaque stable. It's not the enemy as was thought

@@nickbardan3867 It's not an interesting new hypothesis, it's the mechanism CJ is asking about. The occlusions that suddenly kill people are not caused by dislodged pieces of plaque, but by thrombosis due to fresh liquid plaque coming into contact with blood.

@@lucasgroves137 if you read my comments that include all my test results, please know that what you describe is what happened to me but now to keep it from happening again. My cardiologist says Repatha is my only hope. Some think a 2nd open heart surgery using my radial arm artery to replace my stented, diseased saphenous graft. I guess there are thousands of people with saphenous graft that are walking time bombs. It is very disconcerting to me.

I stopped Crestor/20 6 months after 6 stents. I felt fine before, but the statin and blood thinners were slowly killing me. Cardiologist was very pissed at me for not consulting him. I didn't go cold turkey, but cut the pills in half, then quarters over a month and a half. 1.5 years later, still going strong. I'm NOT your doctor, I'm NOT a doctor! Just giving my experience. I'm also keto/vore, really low carbs, almost zero, and lots of red meat, saturated fat, Beef, Bacon, Butter and Eggs! My LDL is 169, so I should live longer! 😃

@@jna9888 Thank you for your reply; this is what I wanted, the opinion of someone like you (we know what a doctor would say...) I don't think I will be able to go back to my doctor; I'll have to look for another one, he'll go crazy. Since my first anniversary is on the 4th of July!!!! I will wait until then and do what you did !!! Love it!!! (they want me to stay on Crestor and Plavix for life. No way) Good luck to you and trust your LDL; it's there to protect you!!!

@@susanstubel3736 Well said Susan!!!!!!!!!

Imho, if you needed 6 stents that means you have severe plaque already. You would be wise to continue to at least take a low dose statin, at the least for the inflammation benefits they have. There are things you can take to offset statin issues, like coq10 and annatto. Low carb is a great way to go, but eating processed meat or too much red meat on a keto diet will likely lead to higher cholesterol and more plaque.

I’d avoid vegetable oils for frying meat😞 iF , ( apple cider vinegar with Garlic )also works vs inflammation

It might well be part of the broader "syndrome." What is HIGH? Do you exercise and eat well? I have cracked the health code for myself. It took years. Read many books. Nutrition and exercise was key for me. My BMI is 20 and my BP is 98/65. I use to be fat and metabolically unhealthy. Over 90% of Americans are metabolically unwell. You really should be checking your blood glucose at home regularly- I do and I am not diabetic. The kits are cheap. This along with Insulin Resistance is key to health. Weight alone is a poor measure. Look into ROS, Apoptosis, Randle Cycle, etc. and you can start to learn. Also, read Young Forever- Hyman. Cheers!

@@UTAH100 thanks for the replay mate. two years carnivore, 21/3 if, lifting weights. I started out reversing insulin resistance by dropping all carbs and sugars. I think my bp is normal for me but, the doctors keep changing the numbers. far as I am concerned I am healthy.

@@macoediv 21/3 increasing inflammation by putting you into a metabolic mode. I have done the keto thing too. No proof you reversed anything. You are not consuming sugar so it tests low. That is all. Maybe it is- we won't know until you eat sugar again. My boat never leaks when it is in my garage- get it? Same concept. What is your BP? Sounds like you are doing many things right. Cold turkey though is rarely good. I did it too- also lost my gallbladder because of it. Yes- they change the goal posts to sell more drugs.

@DG-ti1jb do not know what you mean by metabolic mode. My BP has been 200 over 110 to 120 over 80 . A1c is 5.5 fasting insulin is 4, c-peptide is 1.3. I F reducedes inflamation. Not overweight, no diabetes, only high bp.

@@macoediv Your C-Peptide for fasting state is normal. Fasting is basically a starvation mode. Yes, you can achieve Ketosis which can be beneficial short term but I don't think so very long term. It can raise, the stress hormone Cortisol. Digestive inflammation can often lower, yes. I would still do IF but I would go a bit easy. I actually lost too much weight from it several months ago and cannot put it back on. Metabolic mode just means certain pathways are activated. Which processes specifically happen will depend on the individual. For example, I lost weight, speeded up my metabolism. Other people might stop IF and regain more weight back. Processes are interconnected so it depends what else the person has going on. Nutrition, exercise, supplements, etc., are great but they are used to achieve balance. Balance means various things can go out of balance too- even when doing "good things." That is why a good Functional Medicine Doctor will measure and test regularly to make sure you are staying on track. Make sense? Your A1C is still somewhat high. That BP was life threatening. I am glad you got it down. Have you done a Calcium score (CAC) test yet? If not, you might want to. Glad you are on a better path. Do work with a professional though and not just go by what anyone says here in YTbe. There can be some amazing information however you won't always be able to connect all the dots or understand the full picture. You can miss some important things. Functional Medical Doctors tend to be the best- certainly better than a regular doctor. Read Young Forever too- Hyman. Cheers! Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or medical professional and none of this is advice of any kind.

Absolutely not true.

​@@johnschmidt8440how so?

@@enalo6261 Aspirin is a very mild anti-coagulant to try to prevent clotting. It has no effect on plaque that has already been deposited, and this is especially true for calcified plaque. If aspirin could remove even calcified plaque, then nobody in the world would have this problem, yet literally billiions of people have it, and many, many people die from it every year. Somebody has been feeding you a load of very bad information.

@@enalo6261 - I'm a senior. My Dr. made me stop baby aspirin, I did not want to

If you do have insulin resistance with heart stents then consider practicing Esselstyne's (Caldwell Esselstyne) diet and intermittent fasting, hope things get better for you.

@@harsharao3555 sorry but no no no and no, If she’s insulin resistant the last thing she wants to do is vegan. She need to be on keto or carnivore. She needs to stop the insulin spikes. A vegan diet is loaded with carbs causing massive insulin spikes adding to the resistance.

@@dontfit6380 Do not know what happened to my earlier reply. No esselstyle diet is not carb heavy. There is plenty of evidence regarding the diet and low event rate. There is also plenty of evidence of keto diet worsening heart disease. Please see recent ACC publication about how keto diet worsened the heart disease.

@@harsharao3555 the guy literally starts his day with oatmeal. He eats wheat bread. It’s a vegan diet. Which is high carbs regardless if it being while food. Unless your doing keto vegan which I don’t recommend vegan let alone keto vegan. Type in sick vegan on KZfaq see what you find. The ACC publication is not on the keto diet. It also was not any type of study worth even mentioning let alone doing. Analyzing data from the UK Biobank, Iulia Iatan, MD, PhD, et al., identified 305 participants whose responses to a one-time self-reported 24-hour diet questionnaire met their definition of a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet. They self reported what they ate one time 😂. There is absolutely no evidence of the keto diet worsening heart disease. You are literally commenting on a doctors video that reversed artery calcification and pre diabetes with keto. There are millions of people reversing diabetes and heart disease with keto. You will never see a publication or study by any mainstream doctors about keto. There is a world wide agenda to eat plants and eliminate meat. All in the name of climate change.

@@dontfit6380 also the doctor was taking g Rosuvastatin, one of THE MOST powerful statin which in JUPITER trial with evidence showed plaque reversal!!, how can you attribute his reversal to just keto diet?

He’s saying manage your insulin as many people have pre diabetes and diabetes and don’t even know it. Get a fasting insulin test or OGTT. Elevated blood sugar leads to inflammation which burns arteries and causes plaque formation. Change your diet, significantly reduce carbs/sugar and ask your Dr. To do all possible tests for diabetes. A fasting blood sugar test is essentially worthless in detecting diabetes. Good luck!

Everything

Look up Dr jamnadas

Carbs

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More likely, very low dose Crestor to reduce vascular inflammation. 👌

Diet is the answer not baby aspirin.

shhh .. eat fermented foods! .. *wink*

why can,t you say, spill the beans

LDL is not the problem. Inflammation is the problem.

Absolutely wrong, you don’t need to worry about LDL but you do need to worry about high triglycerides. The fix is in your diet.

Did you know the lower the LDL the higher mortality? The majority of elderly people have high LDL. It protects them.

@@lloydhlavac6807 see my added link.

@@dontfit6380 see my added link

listening to your doctor and following government dietary fantasies

@@ioodyssey3740 People love to fantasize that they're smarter than MDs. Makes them feel special.

Wat the mistake?