Reversing heart disease

 welcome back to Mayo Clinic I'mdr radio. Tom shives but I am Tracy McCrayTracy as you know there are millions of people in this country with heart disease which is actually the number one killer of men and women in the US and most of those people have CAD or cardiovascular disease and that is when the large blood vessels supply your heart muscle supply nutrients and supply oxygen -controller health and when they are diagnosed or sick it is called advanced arterial disease and that behavior is usually the result of cholesterol-containing deposits called plaque and little information we know as atherosclerosis when plaque building (reversing heart disease book)

it is your coronaararararies and reduces blood flow to your heart eventually that can cause symptoms you can see shortness of breath breathing complete blockage can also cause heart attack we know there is a lot you can do to protect the heart disseutut about postponing damage t hatha already done that we might get at the Mayo Clinic to prevent heart cardiologist Dr. Stevenkopetsky is welcome and on the program thank you for having a medal. kopetsky good to see you know I've heard you say you want to start coronary artery diseaseversalversion which suggests that actually if your arteries were diseased you could make them better yes obviously you can have a clinic we don't call that unfortunately or arterial irritation is very important to reduce because it is what causes blood clots to form and heart attack to happen and why you get the initial inflammation well that's a bigger question than most causes of high blood pressure smoking if you don't do those that prevent the progression of heart disease to reduce food pressure but that will help not only to stop the progression but actually to encourage the 

theregressor to open the vein by there than those very important in controlling the factornow stress risk of premature death and disease in the United States and soon to be the world's leading food smoker or smoker was when you say food means meanyou should be a vegetarian or broth from right here no you don't need to be is a vegetarian but it is helpful if you go further to the plants that are closest to the Mediterranean diet we talked about here before there were four non-vegetarian meats that were three ounces a day full of cardboard fish that you know eat three or four times a week dairy products that you know are limited to one pad per day of buttera and things like chicken white turkey or chicken if you can eat more of your calories you grow vegetables whole grains and fill in that and add to this little of these things crying for milk you can have yogurt. (reversing heart disease dean Ornish free download)

When you do many other things which is part of the balance when you exercise and look I don't know blood sugar levels are all very important and two really great things are nutrition and exercise but two things Americans forget about any chewing gum bifidus stress and social support and sleep all think everyone is under stress don't worry about it and i don't sleep too much i will never feel so don't worry about any two is great because they don't allow you to be patient and come back and change your lifestyle and make you lower your stress you sleep better and lower your stress there are doubts about that now about cholesterol we still regret that cholesterol and there will be a new paper that they will soon say cholesterolis not so important that they said the acouple of the past and all the oppressed at the top was that cholesterol is not important if they read the article they would say we eat too much fatFAT animal fat in a plant full of fat in this country that the fat in it is not as important as it used to be Cholesterol and saturated fats but still believe in statins for people who have elevated cholesterol or strongly suggest that it can be controlled by diet in most patients can be controlled by diet but it takes a big change and made him move to a new diet for up to two years because you can't do it tomorrow. long and there are many people who make statements that are right on the long side The results you have identified you know we have found that it can lead to an increase in the incidence of diabetes but it is more likely to occur earlier in diabetes than when you are not in the statement so if you had milk you have metmetabolic syndrome with a large punchyou I would get diabetes about three months earlier if you were not statin but for every diabetic five heart attacks we are prevented from hearing that termmetabolic syndrome and it is difficult to understand for us and our audience explain that Metabolicsyndrome has five characteristics that the big fist in the stomach the most active fat releases the wrong chemicals that make us insulin resistant The more women who go through menstruation the more likely you are to gain weight yes and women are actually a higher risk of second blood pressure op not a third time is low HDL or low goodcholesterol clears the blood vessels and then something else can be blood pressure like things and those are the factors that lead to more rebellion and if you control what is better than what we have heard you talk about fish oil before and like Irecall you are a promoter I want to know you are still that person or whether that just for people with heart disease helps a lot of people not just people with heart disease you know recent studies have shown that oily fish oil especially a certain type of EPA is something you get in a bottle when you shop it will reduce heart attacks if you have really high triglycerides Your LDLis is well regulated by a drug called vicita you have just learned that fda has approved the increased use of these EPA fish oils that the VA SC EPA has been prescribed and is what they have approved. and that's what proved beneficial when it comes to fish and fish oil if you don't like fish and try to get rid of Mediterranean Mediterranean Foods but you

realize fish is fish oil replaced so what you would like to use both fish and oily fish you would like to use both and it is better to have fish and there is no substitute pill lifestyle Mediterranean food is more than just food, it's a lifestyle you know in the store when you take fresh fish home and cook it to stay with your family for a few hours as you eat and talk about the day you just know you ate it on the way to a soccer game or something good baby aspirin aspirin should be taken while we think it is a way to prevent people with heart disease or heart disease yes yes if you have had a heart attack aspirin is beneficial there is no dispute about this unless you have bleeding problems if you do not have heart disease is not as helpful as we thought you should be at higher risk of heart attack in the next ten years 10 12 15 percent risk of those beneficiaries but the average person as low as 7 8% of drugs may not be effective and effective how that stops the inflammation of the theater membrane and also stops the formation of bloodclot in the theater where exercise is something (dean ornish reversing heart disease)

you have to do I think that can scare people when exercising is what a patient needs to lose that means yes to exercise that's why I go to something else because exercise is the same and fold their arms and you know and look at the roof Exercise two things one does not sit down every hour get up and walk for 3 or 4 minutes many large companies around the world now have every hour when you get up and move around so go up the two floors The bathroom will talk to the acolleague instead of sending them an anemail the second thing is a lot of physical activity which we used to do a lot when you did a great 3 things very quickly and very quickly another heart is told pumping more blood because the muscles say hey we are running away from the thesab-tooth Tiger we should try to save the second thing that the bloodvessels become bigger which lowers blood pressure and the third thing the themuscles say is good for belly fat did not work if we survived this from Tiger teeth thesaber i need more energy because i have only 20 minutes of energy in my cell that you start to break down and send me more energy because that's where we put so many calories as an Adult is an American dream i call you youcan actually we showed you here ng research can reduce belly fat with a temporary job exactly one last question from the Journal of the American College of Cardiology this shows 

that cardiac researchers have found that eating Chili Peppersregularly can cut the risk of dying from heart disease and stroke is true that it was the first article read last year. in the project, so it is real and interesting Not just ordinary metal peppers these are hot peppers and this was an addition to the Mediterraneanandiet so they said why maybe it was an inflammation that didn't affect the inflammation maybe it was a phaser slope because it was hot and your blood pressure dropped didn't 'I don't touch what it looks like Antioxidants are out there and some of these caregivers have a right to argue that Wow's peer-reviewed disease is far and far away from the number one killer of men and women in this world. this world sees ad cardiovascular disease often a guilty life disease can prevent it and can be reversed and do not forget that ChiliPeppers knows that thanks to dr. Stephenkopetsky cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic thanks Dr. thanks Koretsky for having English