In reversing calcium score or reversing heart disease
how do you do that
I'm going out to Daniel Boone National Forest
for a second day of hiking with some friends and if you
have an interest in seeing some of that I'll show some of that at the end of the
video but I just wanted to do a quick video explanation one of the recent
videos we did was titled how to lower your calcium score we had
that sort of a hater comment but the complaint was
well you didn't tell us how to lower a calcium score you just said a few things
about what causes it and then what doesn't and then you quit
unfortunately that comment was deleted or I'd show you
I thought about it afterwards and they were right that was exactly what was in
there Chris and Aspen had taken one of the
sections out of a Q&A from quite a few months ago and it
really did talk mostly about what causes it
and that's the thing the way to reverse or lower your calcium score
is to go to the root cause fix the root cause
and that's what helps now we did talk about the root cause and
I'll run through those very quickly because the way you deal with each of
these root causes they have some differences but there's
one big root cause vast majority of us have
and I will spend a couple of minutes talking about that
so in that video we talked about this individual said for example I took
vitamin D3 for a long time and it kept raising my calcium score
so I quit taking vitamin d3 unfortunately I think that individual
was probably improving his situation stabilizing his plaque
calcifying it making it better but didn't realize it
that's a common mistake and again he stopped taking the vitamin D3 so again
I don't think taking vitamin D3 is going to
make your condition worse even if you see some increase in calcium score
in fact I have to go through that that's a problem with the calcium score I have
to go through that with a lot of people I have people come on board and say I
want to reverse my calcium score first of all that doesn't happen
very often calcium is laid down as a process of scarring
when you have soft plaque and you stabilize it
that's stabilizing it that scarring of the soft plaque
deposits calcium now you can get some decrease
we've got a couple videos where we talked about that Gerry Kurth did
John Lorscheider did and again we both covered videos on that
but it is a very practical goal and attainable for
almost all of us to say I'm going to stop
my progression of heart disease I'm going to stabilize my heart disease I'm
going to reverse my risk now how do you do that again let's go
back to what causes the risk in that previous video on how to lower
your calcium score we talked about arthritis the inflammatory arthritis
and don't worry about those words psoriatic arthritis and more commonly
rheumatoid arthritis both of those have significant risk for
heart disease if you can calm down the inflammation associated with those types
of arthritis and other types of inflammatory diseases
you slow down your risk for heart disease but again i
mentioned early on that there's something that
happens to the vast majority of us I'm talking like
80 percent and as we get into our 70s and 80s
closer to 90 and even more we lose our ability to metabolize carbohydrates
now go read the book The Diabetes Epidemic and You by Joseph Kraft if you
haven't read that if you haven't seen it I've got several videos on it the book
itself is a one-hour read and you begin to see
that as we age more and more of us lose our ability
to metabolize carbs so what happens well our glucose
remains up way too long and our insulin remains
up way too long when that happens that burns the inside of our artery and it
causes cardiovascular disease so
the end of the day back to the person that complained I didn't tell you how to
reverse calcium score let me put it in a couple of simple ways
first of all don't worry so much about reversing your calcium score
worry about stabilizing and reversing your risk
for heart disease sometimes that increases your calcium
score because it creates scarred stable plaque
with calcium in it out of soft plaque the second thing is in reversing calcium
score or reversing heart disease how do you do that you reverse the root
cause for some people that's familial
hypercholesterolemia inflammatory arthritis psoriatic
arthritis or rheumatoid arthritis reverse those inflammatory processes and
you reverse the heart disease for the vast majority of us especially
as we age into our 50s 60s 70s and 80s it's insulin resistance
inability to metabolize carbohydrates the insulin receptors in our muscles and
liver cell membranes lose their
responsiveness to insulin and when we do blood sugar goes up insulin goes up it
starts burning our artery walls once you start managing that insulin
resistance you will reverse your heart attack and stroke risk
it happens every time it's reliable you don't have to worry about it
if you're doing the right stuff it's not that
oh you get in your 60s and 70s and you're going to have a heart attack and
there's nothing you can do about it flat wrong now if you still have any
interest in Daniel Boone National Park here's
what it looks like here's some pictures where we were
just earlier this week so yeah that's proven that I was there it's
beautiful beautiful place it's the stone arches of
Kentucky and obviously there's some beautiful
formations and come on out we'd love to have you out here
there's some other really beautiful stuff in Kentucky I live
two miles from one of the most beautiful race tracks
in the world and some of the most beautiful horse country in the world
thank you for your interest
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