Breaking Free from Heart Medication: Achieve Results in Just 120 Days

0:00 We did a deep dive and we found out by day 120 clients are off blood pressure medications, lipids struggling like all of those heart health medication. How do you 0:07 how do you do that? Well, so it really depends on the patient. But I've found the vast majority of patients who are willing to change their diet and stay away from saturated fats primarily from animal protein, so changing their diets so that they eat more lean protein sources like chicken breast fish, egg whites, turkey breast stuff that's really lean that seems to radically reduce their LDL to April lipoprotein b a black protein B is a more direct measure of your low density lipoprotein and your very low density lipoprotein, please lead proteins may be linked to deposition of plaque, right, because they, you know, they're important for migrating taking cholesterol and lipids over to the periphery, right. So if you decrease the amount of those circulating like we will decrease the amount of plaque formation, right. That is kind of the reason why we try to keep them within a certain range. Ideally, you want to keep your equilibrium protein be less than 90, your LDL less than 100 would be able to do less than 20. For a lot of individuals, they haven't you know, done a tie where they are reducing the fattier cuts of meat and really trying to use lean proteins and, and trying to be focused you do need fats obviously in your diet, but focusing on fats that emanate not from processing oils like canola oil, which are highly inflammatory, but unprocessed ones like extra virgin olive oil or flaxseed oil, you know, fast that emanate from nuts like almonds, walnuts, essentially fast that have a higher concentration of omega three fatty acids for which are anti inflammatory versus omega six fatty acids. And that also kind of drives into the other part that kind of helps with reducing chronic inflammation as a whole. Right. So typically, that means getting rid of processed foods utilizing foods that are closer to their natural state, for example, you know, a big sweet potato versus, you know, french fries, trying to utilize like egg whites versus like an egg Patty at McDonald's, and then avoiding things that we know typically are linked to inflammation like gluten, dairy nightshade vegetables, and as we're finding out means high unsaturated fats, the idea is we think it's really inflammation or chronic inflammation might be the driving factor behind why atherosclerosis or why plaque occurs, right? And so if you can, if you could do those things, you can really change your lipid panel around I found for the vast majority my patients, when we change their diet, we can we can improve those things. Another thing that's not really talked about is optimize your testosterone levels can improve your lipid panel. I've seen patients reduce your LDL on testosterone, typically, since we tend to use lower carb diets reduce your triglycerides and there is some data suggesting that testosterone actually allows your HDL your high density lipoproteins to work more effectively and that is a lipid protein that removes cholesterol from periphery and brings it back to the liver.