Heart Attack Prevention: Articles

Most heart attacks are predictable years in advance — if you measure the right markers. These articles cover advanced risk assessment, the tests standard checkups skip, and the root-cause strategies that prevent a first or recurrent event.

92 articles on Heart Attack Prevention

Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease

Taking Supplements the Correct Way

Heart Attack PreventionHeart Disease While the incorporation of supplements into one’s diet can be beneficial, it can often be confusing to figure out how to take them properly. With all the different types of vitamins, minerals, and other supplements, it can be difficult to figure out the right way to get the most out of…
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Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease

Long Island Nutrition and Wellness

Heart Attack PreventionHeart Disease It is important to be mindful to have good nutrition every day. Eating healthy and making good decisions when it comes to your health are a big part of leading a full and healthy lifestyle. Nutrition and wellness is very important for every person along with physical exercise. Both will reduce…
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Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease, High Cholesterol & Lp(a)

How to Lower Cholesterol Naturally: An Integrative Cardiologist’s Evidence-Based Guide

Coronary Artery DiseaseHeart Attack PreventionHeart DiseaseHigh Cholesterol & Lp(a) How to lower cholesterol naturally is one of the questions Dr. Regina Druz, MD, MBA, FACC, FMCP-M is most frequently asked — by patients who want to avoid medication, by patients already on statins who want to do more, and by patients whose cholesterol numbers have…
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Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Metabolic Syndrome

Stress and Heart Disease: The Biological Mechanisms and What Actually Helps

Heart Attack PreventionHeart DiseaseHypertensionMetabolic Syndrome Stress and heart disease have a relationship that is direct, measurable, and far more consequential than most cardiovascular guidelines reflect. Chronic psychological stress is an independent cardiovascular risk factor — not merely a lifestyle concern — with effects on the heart that operate through concrete biological mechanisms. As an integrative…
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Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease, High Cholesterol & Lp(a)

Statin Side Effects: What They Are, What Helps, and Natural Alternatives — An Integrative Cardiologist’s Guide

Coronary Artery DiseaseHeart Attack PreventionHeart DiseaseHigh Cholesterol & Lp(a) Statin side effects are one of the most common reasons patients seek out Dr. Regina Druz, MD, MBA, FACC, FMCP-M at Holistic Heart Centers — either because they’ve experienced them and want alternatives, or because they’re trying to understand whether their symptoms are statin-related before making…
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Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease, Metabolic Syndrome

Nutrition 101: Fats

Heart Attack PreventionHeart DiseaseMetabolic Syndrome If you were around during the 1990’s, you should remember the low-fat/high-carb dietary fad that swept across the United States. Shelves were packed with “reduced fat” chips, cookies, and crackers, and while we have come along way in nutritional knowledge to know that these food items are not actually healthy…
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Heart Attack Prevention, Heart Disease

A Word About Supplements

Heart Attack PreventionHeart Disease The Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA) has been an important and, of course, controversial rule released by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. After attempts to restrict supplement industry failed amid intense lobbying effort, FDA agreed to the proposal by Sen. Orin Hatch to provide guidelines for…
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Heart Attack Prevention: Articles

Taking Supplements the Correct Way

Long Island Nutrition and Wellness

How to Lower Cholesterol Naturally: An Integrative Cardiologist’s Evidence-Based Guide

Stress and Heart Disease: The Biological Mechanisms and What Actually Helps

Statin Side Effects: What They Are, What Helps, and Natural Alternatives — An Integrative Cardiologist’s Guide

Nutrition 101: Fats

A Word About Supplements

Prevent the Heart Attack You Can See Coming.