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Peter Megdal of curingheartdisease.com Interview

In this interview, an elite cyclist and PhD-trained researcher shares the story of discovering severe coronary artery disease despite appearing ...

From the Womb to Reversal: Undoing a Lifetime of Arterial Damage

Most people think a heart attack is like a lightning strike. One minute you are fine, and the next, everything ...

Exercise Doesn’t Erase Arterial Plaque – It Turns It to Stone!

Many people feel a deep fear when they hear the words "clogged arteries." We often think of our heart like ...

Is Heart Disease a Choice? The ‘Zero-Risk’ Secret to Stopping Plaque

Most people think that "clogged arteries" are just a normal part of getting old. We treat heart disease like grey ...

Children With 60-Year-Old Arteries: The Extreme Reality of HoFH

Imagine your body is a car, and your health is tracked by an odometer. For most of us, that odometer ...

The Big Cholesterol Lie, Part 2

Imagine you have just started a new way of eating. You have cut out bread, pasta, and sugar. Instead, you ...

The Only Diet Proven to Shrink Arterial Plaque (It’s Not Mediterranean!)

For a long time, most doctors and patients believed that heart disease was a one-way street. Once your arteries started ...

The Heart Health App That Finally Asks the Right Question

There are hundreds of heart health apps on the market today. Most of them do the same thing: they monitor ...

The Big Cholesterol Lie: Uncovering the Diet Industry’s Organized Denial

Imagine a doctor sitting in a dark room, peering through a powerful microscope at a tiny blob of yellow fat. ...

Why Your ‘Normal’ Cholesterol is Actually a Warning Sign

For decades, we have been told that a "normal" cholesterol level is the golden ticket to a healthy heart. But ...

The Heart Test Your Doctor Isn’t Ordering

A Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) scan is a quick, painless CT scan — no dye required — that measures the ...

Why Belly Fat Is More Dangerous Than You Think

Not all fat is the same — and where your body stores it turns out to matter a lot more ...

The Athlete’s Aorta: Healthy Heart or Hidden Time Bomb?

Imagine your body is a giant, bustling city. For the city to work, it needs one massive main water pipe ...

Peak Fitness, Hidden Calcium: The Athlete’s Paradox of Plaque Buildup

For decades, doctors and runners shared a comfortable belief: if you ran marathons, your heart was bulletproof. This was known ...

You Feel Fine – That’s the Problem

If you woke up tomorrow and saw a strange mole on your skin or felt a painful lump in your ...

Cholesterol: What Is It Good For?

For decades, we have been conditioned to view heart disease as a sudden catastrophe—a cardiac “lightning strike” that occurs in ...

Can Good Genes Beat Bad Lipids?

Understanding Your Heart: High Cholesterol and Your Family History. The Big Picture: How Your Heart Stays Healthy. Think of your ...

The Hidden Toxin in Your Steak: How Gut Bacteria Drive Heart Disease

The Molecule Linking Your Gut to Your Heart: 5 Surprising Truths About TMAO. The Invisible Metabolic Relay: A Meta-Organismal Axis. ...

Is Your Immune System at War With Your Steak?

A STEAK IN THE HEART. Why Losing a Gene Millions of Years Ago Might Explain the Heart Disease Epidemic. The ...

The Genetic Architecture of Cardiovascular Protection

Winning the Genetic Lottery: 3 Secrets Your DNA Reveals About a Healthy Heart. Introduction: The Mystery of the “Heart-Healthy” Gene. ...
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