Most people know that high blood pressure means an increase in pressure in the blood vessels of our body. If we think about a tube with fluid flowing through...

As of this writing there have been 856,955 confirmed cases of the virus worldwide, with 42,089 deaths. While the death rate reported from the virus is accura...

I want to begin this post with a story of a cruel, but hypothetical, experiment done on monkeys. Once upon a time there were five monkeys in a cage. They wer...

People have been scientifically looking at blood since the 1600’s when the first blood transfusion are said to have been done. But advanced blood testing was...

Aspirin was first used in the late 1800’s, it is acetylsalicylic acid and it is made from the bark of the willow tree. It is used in many common products tod...

I always like to think about things from an evolutionary perspective. If we think back to what life would have been like between 6 million years ago (when th...

To understand the unique metabolism of the heart and its role in keeping the heart healthy, we first have to discuss some background information. Humans, as w...

I first want to give Dr. Nadir Ali credit for most of the research in this particular post. All living things have some form of a “sterol” that fulfills vita...

First off, I want to thank all those scientists who did the research that fuel this post. I also want to give credit to Dr. Thomas Cowan who laid out many of...

I have been researching heart disease for quite some time now and I have come across some fascinating things. After all that I found I was not surprised to f...

It is estimated that 5.7 million adults in the United States have heart failure (1), and an estimated $30.7 billion dollars a year is spent on its treatment....

There are two cholesterol lowing medications on the market. They are the statins, of which there are many brands (Zocor, Crestor, Lipitor), and then there ar...

If you find yourself in a conversation about heart disease or atherosclerosis you will more than likely find yourself talking about cholesterol, especially t...

If you follow health experts on social media or listen to a health podcast, then chances are you have heard of the use of an infrared sauna as a health attai...

My medical education is a Chiropractic one. Most people don’t really know what that means, so let’s first spend a little time discussing it. Before going to ...

Humans have been eating meat for 2.5 million years. It is the eating of predominantly meat that drove our evolution from the pre-Homo species of Australopith...

About 65 million years ago the dominant species on Earth, the dinosaurs, were wiped out due to some sort of catastrophic event. It could have been a meteor h...

If you follow my blog you are familiar with the theory that the majority of heart attacks are caused by three imbalances in the body. Those imbalances are no...

If you have read my book, The Health Evolution: Why Understanding Evolution is the Key to Vibrant Health, you know that I make the argument that creating a p...

In my blog post Why We Don’t See Atherosclerosis in Veins I introduced a concept known as EZ water and showed that when it forms in the lining of our blood v...