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What’s more important, diet vs drugs, or outcome vs regression?

Peter Megdal PhD — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:40:39 +0000

Can plant-forward dietary patterns protect the heart and remodel arteries through mechanisms that standard fasting ApoB measurements fail to fully capture?

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What is the difference between Mediterranean and whole-food plant-based diets for heart disease?

Peter Megdal PhD — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:41:52 +0000

Understand the two-ladder framework for heart health. Discover how ApoB-lowering diets, Mediterranean eating, and statins impact plaque regression.

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Does metabolic health protect you from high cholesterol?

Peter Megdal PhD — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:14:21 +0000

Is a zero-plaque heart scan on keto proof of safety? Discover how plaque latency explains a CAC of 0 despite extreme LDL, and why medical guidelines still urge caution.

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Are Seed Oils Healthy, True or False?

Peter Megdal PhD — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:20:09 +0000

Examine the scientific evidence on seed oils versus olive oil. Learn how replacing saturated fats with plant oils lowers ApoB and cardiovascular risk.

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Is Olive Oil Actually Healthy?

Peter Megdal PhD — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:06:14 +0000

Separate scientific evidence from nutrition myths with a critical review of olive oil and cardiovascular disease.

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What Kills You Younger Than 65 May Save You Over 65 – The Protein Paradox

Peter Megdal PhD — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:49:49 +0000

If you are a competitive endurance athlete over the age of 65, you are likely living through a frustrating biological mystery. You still have the drive. You are still putting in the long miles on your bike or hitting the trail for your morning run. But despite your hard work, your body seems to be changing in ways that don't feel fair.

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Is red meat killing you through your gut? The great TMAO cover up

Peter Megdal PhD — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:04:14 +0000

Picture the scene: a quiet Saturday morning, the kitchen filled with the heavy, savory scent of searing ribeye and the rhythmic sizzle of butter-poached eggs. For decades, this "steak and eggs" breakfast has been cast as the ultimate dietary villain—a shortcut to a heart attack. Recently, scientists thought they had finally caught the culprit red-handed. They found a molecule in our blood called Trimethylamine N-Oxide, or TMAO.

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The Big Cholesterol Lie, Part 2

Peter Megdal PhD — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:30:11 +0000

Imagine you have just started a new way of eating. You have cut out bread, pasta, and sugar. Instead, you are eating more healthy fats, like steak, eggs, and butter. You feel better than you have in years. Your "sugar levels" are great, your blood pressure is low, and you have plenty of energy. In your mind, you are "metabolically perfect." This means your body is doing a great job of handling energy and keeping you fit.

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

Peter Megdal PhD — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:43:50 +0000

For a long time, most doctors and patients believed that heart disease was a one-way street. Once your arteries started to clog up with plaque , the goal was simply to slow down the decline. We treated it like a rust problem on an old car—you can’t really get rid of the rust; you just try to paint over it or keep it from spreading too fast. It felt like an unstoppable force of aging.But what if heart disease wasn’t a life sentence? Imagine your arteries are like a garden hose .

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

Peter Megdal PhD — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:10:52 +0000

Imagine a doctor sitting in a dark room, peering through a powerful microscope at a tiny blob of yellow fat. For almost a hundred years, doctors looked at these blobs and thought they had found the "bad guy" causing heart disease. They called it cholesterol, and they believed that simply having too much of this "yellow grease" in your blood was the reason pipes in the body got clogged.

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