NEW: Peter Megdal sets second World Record in September 2025
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I have been an active cyclist since the thrill of my first race in my late teens. My early commitment to competitive cycling has afforded me advantages in life. First, I have always tried to figure out how to go faster on the bike. Since weight is a key factor to speed, this focus led to an interest in diet. Second, the exercise helped inoculate me from diabetes that has plagued my entire family. Alas, I was not able to avoid heart disease.
That is what has brought me to this mission.
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Study of elite 55 year old competitive cyclist who reversed his heart disease.
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Study of elite 55 year old competitive cyclist who reversed his heart disease.
Study of elite 55 year old competitive cyclist who reversed his heart disease.
In the United States, someone has a heart attack every 40 seconds.3
Someone dies every 36 seconds in our country from cardiovascular disease.1
About 655,000 Americans die from heart disease each year.2
Every year, about 805,000 Americans have a heart attack.3
Every year in the United States:
- 605,000 are a first heart attack3
- 200,000 happen to people who have already had a heart attack3
- About 1 in 5 heart attacks is silent — the damage is done, but the person is not aware of it.3
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Underlying Cause of Death, 1999–2018. CDC WONDER Online Database. Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2018. Accessed March 12, 2020.
- Virani SS, Alonso A, Benjamin EJ, Bittencourt MS, Callaway CW, Carson AP, et al. Heart disease and stroke statistics—2020 update: a report from the American Heart Associationexternal icon. 2020;141(9):e139–e596.
- Fryar CD, Chen T-C, Li X. Prevalence of uncontrolled risk factors for cardiovascular disease: United States, 1999–2010 pdf icon[PDF-494K]. NCHS data brief, no. 103. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics; 2012. Accessed May 9, 2019.
Plant-Based Diet with Lipid Medications Superior to Stent in Restoring Aerobic Exercise Capacity to Middle-Aged Athlete
Two or three instances of a weight on my chest led to an angiogram about two and a half years ago. The doctor came back to see me soon after and pointed out three or four blockages of 70 and 90 percent and said they were not able to insert a stent or do bypass surgery due to their location, He looked at me and shrugged. I had led a quite healthy life, a normal but careful diet, even growing most of my own organic vegetables, so I was stunned. A good friend said she knew a guy who led an informal group of cyclists interested in heart disease and connected me. It was Peter. I went to the first meeting I could in February 2018 and started learning about a group of doctors advocating a Plant Based Whole Food/no Oil diet.
After being diagnosed with heart disease in 2015 I began scouring the internet for information. I was in my 50’s and I wasn’t content to simply take the 80mg Lipator pills my cardiologist prescribed. As I reviewed the numerous publications online, I was introduced through a friend to Dr. Peter Megdal, a like-minded spirit in taking responsibility for your own healthcare, who had a practice helping people make informed decisions about their heart care. We met on a regular basis and Peter would share the latest research and analysis on heart health, and answer my endless questions. Together it helped me come up with a plan for my heart health, involving both diet and medical choices, that I was confident in.
I’ve known Peter for almost 30 years as a cyclist. We trained and raced in the same amateur bicycle racing team, and had many discussions about equipment, training and diet over the years. In 2010, I developed angina despite a known family history and years of working to avoid developing the disease. Like most, I probably listened too much to the conventional wisdom, which may have merit for the average person, but not necessarily for individuals at high genetic risk, or who have already been diagnosed with coronary artery disease. When I learned that Peter had also developed coronary artery disease, we began to compare notes on treatment, and around this time, Peter began his extensive research on the topic. Although I’m not a biologist, as a scientist, I appreciate his thorough analysis of the latest research. I have taken Peter’s insights to my cardiologist, and have been able to tailor my own treatment to reduce my LDL cholesterol by more than 60 percent. After eight years, I now feel like my old self again, angina free, and I’m able to exercise close to my previous level. My heart disease seems to have stopped progressing if not reversed its course. As any honest cardiologist will tell you, this alone is quite unusual and significant.
Dr. Peter Megal is an excellent advocate for personal metabolic and cardiovascular health. I attended his PhD defense and was amazed at the depth and breadth of his research and understanding of the mechanisms of the dietary impacts on diabetes. Since then he's made personal medicinal and dietary changes that have reversed some of his coronary artery disease, and maintained his health at the high level sufficient to set a national bicycling record. As an aging male with the goal of living another 25 years, I joined Peter's support group. He monitors the the publications, keeps well informed, and makes clear presentations on usable results from them. While I've not attempted all of Peter's life style changes nor can justify CAD radiography, I've already dropped my total cholesterol by ~20% with corresponding improvements in HDL, LDL, and triglycerides.
The medical community has historically distinguished between the resolution of acute illness and the long-term management of chronic disease. As lifestyle medicine has matured into a formal clinical discipline, it has exposed a critical gap in medical taxonomy: the failure to clearly differentiate between the cure of an active pathological process and the reversal of structural damage produced by that process.
For much of modern cardiology, acute myocardial infarction (AMI) has been dominated by a “plumbing model”: atherosclerotic plaque accumulates over years, progressively narrows the coronary lumen, and ultimately ruptures, triggering thrombosis and an abrupt, flow-limiting occlusion.
For decades, human athletic performance was assumed to follow a largely linear decline beginning in early adulthood. Conventional physiological models predicted that the cardiovascular system, pulmonary capacity, and skeletal muscle function would steadily deteriorate as cellular senescence accumulated.
The publication of the Bergström et al. study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) on November 9, 2025, represents a landmark moment in the transition from population-based risk estimation to individualized, disease-based risk assessment.¹ This observational cohort study, conducted as part of the Swedish Cardiopulmonary Bioimage Study (SCAPIS), analyzed 24,791 individuals aged 50 to 64 years without established cardiovascular disease.
For decades, cardiovascular medicine has been dominated by a single, often misunderstood narrative: “Fish oil is good for your heart.” This belief has become so culturally entrenched that it blurs the line between evidence-based cardiology and retail wellness, leading millions of people to consume omega-3 supplements daily in the hope of reducing cardiovascular risk.