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00:28 Welcome to "Reverse Heart Disease Naturally."
00:31 I'm Doctor David DeRose, 00:32 president of Compass Health Consulting, 00:35 and your guide on this journey into how you can 00:38 obtain better health. The year was 1990, 00:43 the date: July 21st. 00:46 The medical journal in question: the British Journal 00:50 The Lancet, an internationally acclaimed journal. 00:54 In that journal on that particular day, 00:59 there was a provocative question raised: 01:01 can lifestyle changes 01:04 reverse coronary heart disease? 01:08 I'm sure if you ask the average physician, 01:11 before that article was published, 01:13 they would have said, "No way!" 01:15 Coronary heart disease-- that's the cause of 01:18 heart attacks. That progressive disease process 01:22 could only be treated with things like medications and 01:26 coronary artery bypass grafting. But the 01:31 study revealed something remarkable. 01:33 Doctor Dean Ornish and colleagues 01:36 published the results, the 01:37 one-year results of what they called the Lifestyle Heart 01:41 Trial. What they demonstrated 01:44 is that, in over 80 percent of the subjects 01:47 in this study, there was 01:49 blockage regression. In other words, 01:51 the blockages were going in the 01:53 reverse direction. The arteries were opening up! 01:56 This was amazing and the medical community 02:00 took note. Now it's true-- 02:04 there were smaller centers throughout 02:06 the world, and here in the United States, 02:08 that were already suggesting that 02:11 coronary artery disease was reversible. 02:13 But this was the first iron-clad study that documented it. 02:17 They did before-and-after angiograms, 02:20 those dye studies of the heart blood vessels, 02:23 actually showing that the blockages were 02:26 going in the opposite direction, 02:28 as everyone had expected. What did Ornish 02:34 and his team do? What was the lifestyle program 02:37 that was involved? Before we look at it, 02:40 let me tell you--this is just one in an episode of 02:43 presentations from the LifeStart Seminars. 02:48 It might come as no surprise to 02:50 you that LifeStart is an acronym, 02:52 a memory device that points to 9 02:55 essential lifestyle practices that can reverse 02:58 or prevent a host of diseases. 03:02 You'll see, as we go through Doctor Ornish's program, 03:05 some amazing resonance with the 03:08 LifeStart mnemonic. If it's your first time 03:12 listening to one these presentations, 03:13 let me quickly walk you through 03:15 those 9 elements in LifeStart. The "L" stands for 03:19 Liquids, the proper beverages. The "I" stands for 03:24 Inter-personal Relations, or Interpersonal Relationships. 03:28 the "F" stands for Foods-- dietary choices, that is. 03:33 "E" stands for Exercise. "S" for Sunlight. 03:38 "T" for Temperance-- 03:40 that's the idea using things that are good in moderation 03:44 and totally avoiding things that are harmful. 03:48 The "A" in LifeStart refers to 03:52 Air--fresh air. The "R" stands for Rest. 03:56 The "T" stands for trust in divine power. 04:01 If you're not familiar with that 04:04 mnemonic, then I encourage you 04:07 to go to our Website, lifestartsseminars.com, 04:11 and pick up our free e-book on LifeStart. 04:14 It will walk you through 04:15 and give you more information 04:17 about those essential elements. With that 04:19 background now, let's go back to 1990, 04:22 and to Doctor Ornish and his team. What 04:25 did they do to reverse heart disease? 04:28 Well, first of all, they did focus on that 04:30 "F" in LifeStart. They focused on foods, on diet. 04:35 No animal products were allowed except for 04:38 egg whites and non-fat dairy. 04:40 We'll talk perhaps a little bit more about 04:42 that as we go along. 04:43 But one aside is is worth mentioning at 04:46 this point. Doctor Ornish has continued 04:48 to do cutting-edge lifestyle research, 04:51 moving his focus to cancer. Now Ornish is using 04:56 an exclusively vegetarian diet, 04:58 sometimes referred to as a vegan diet, 05:01 in his interventions. Back then, in the lifestyle heart trial, 05:04 they did allow some egg whites and non-fat dairy. 05:08 What did the diet look like as far as its nutrient composition? 05:12 It was 70 to 75 percent carbohydrates. Yes, 05:16 a very high-carb diet, but it was 05:18 primarily what we call "complex carbohydrates." 05:21 That's the kind of carbohydrates you find in whole grains-- 05:24 the kind of carbohydrates you find in beans. 05:27 It's not the current kind of carbohydrates 05:30 you find in candy, which is simple carbohydrate sugar, 05:34 for example. The dye was about 10 to 15 percent protein, so 05:38 you could see it was very low in fat. 05:41 There was basically no cholesterol--less 05:44 than 5 milligrams of cholesterol--which is really an 05:46 infinitesimal amount. They did have some other 05:50 restrictions that we would say are 05:52 dietary restrictions, in the broadest sense. 05:55 Under the LifeStart acronym, 05:56 it comes under the heading of Liquids. 05:58 No caffeinated beverages were allowed. 06:01 Alcohol use was restricted. 06:05 I've never understood why Ornish did not allow the caffeine. 06:10 By the way, I'm totally in harmony with 06:12 that recommendation, and so is the entire 06:13 LifeStart approach. 06:15 I don't know if he avoided it because caffeine 06:19 in some studies has been linked to 06:20 higher cholesterol levels. 06:21 I don't know if his main motivation was that caffeine 06:25 destabilizes the heart. It leaves you 06:28 more susceptible to heart rhythm problems. 06:29 By the way, this is a great time for an aside on this topic. 06:33 If you have heart rhythm problems, 06:36 if you have atrial fibrillation intermittently, 06:38 if you have a condition called Paroxysmal 06:42 Atrial Tachycardia. What is that? 06:44 If you've never heard of it before, I know it's 06:46 that's quite a mouthful. "Paroxysmal" 06:48 means it comes and goes. 06:49 "Atrial" refers to the upper chambers of the heart. 06:53 "Tachycardia" is a fast heart rate. So PAT, or 06:57 Paroxysmal Atrial Tachycardia, sometimes called Paroxysmal 07:01 Supraventricular Tachycardia. Again, 07:03 "supraventricular" because it's from structures 07:06 above the ventricles, which are the main pumping chambers. 07:09 This condition is fairly common in healthy people. 07:12 One other things that can trigger it, or 07:14 make you more predisposed to it, 07:16 is caffeine. Although we're talking about reversing 07:19 heart disease (we usually talk about that in 07:23 terms of reversing blockages in 07:25 heart arteries), you can also reverse 07:27 heart rhythm problems by paying 07:29 attention to our beverage choices. 07:32 Caffeine is a big one. So is alcohol. 07:34 One of the things that can trigger atrial fibrillation 07:37 is heavy alcohol use, then coming off the alcohol. 07:40 This can trigger atrial fibrillation, 07:43 which is a quivering of the upper chambers 07:45 of the heart. By the way, if you do have atrial 07:48 fibrillation, it's very important 07:50 that you keep on top of that. 07:52 When those upper chambers are quivering, 07:54 they're not pumping in a physiologic way. 07:58 Because of that, blood can stagnate in the atria. 08:02 Then, if they do go back to a 08:04 normal rhythm, or even if they don't, 08:06 those clots--remember, stagnating blood can clot. 08:10 Those clots that could form in that setting 08:13 can break loose and then go to the body or to the brain, 08:17 cause a stroke or other problems. So, 08:20 heart rhythm problems can be serious. 08:22 Heart rhythm problems affecting the 08:24 lower chambers of the heart, 08:25 the ventricles, often cause death. 08:29 You've heard of Ventricular Tachycardia perhaps, 08:31 or Ventricular Fibrillation. 08:33 If your ventricles, the main 08:36 pumping chambers, are just quivering, 08:37 you actually will die because you're not 08:39 pumping blood through your body. 08:41 You've got to rapidly 08:42 get out of that rhythm. That's why 08:44 we use those electric paddles, 08:46 or the defibrillators, that are 08:50 more contained and that even a lay person can use. Why? 08:53 To try to shock the heart out of that abnormal rhythm. 08:56 Simple point: Ornish avoided both caffeine and alcohol. 09:02 I'm just telling you, there's 09:03 all these relationships with those 09:05 drugs--that's what they really are, caffeine and alcohol, 09:09 that can adversely affect cardiac performance. Again, 09:12 I don't know why Doctor Ornish and his 09:14 team excluded some of those things, or 09:16 restricted them, in the case of alcohol. 09:18 I do know this: caffeine has been dubbed 09:22 "bad habit glue." Many 09:24 psychological researchers feel that 09:28 if you giving someone caffeine, or allowing them to use it, 09:31 it makes it more difficult for them to break 09:34 bad habits. So, whatever the motivation was, no caffeine, 09:38 restricted alcohol use. By the way, the 09:41 LifeStart program, in my own practice, 09:43 over the past 30 years, 09:44 I have recommended that my patients 09:46 totally discontinue the use of alcohol. 09:49 It does not give any benefit for the heart 09:53 if you're already on an excellent 09:54 lifestyle. That means doing the kind of 09:56 things that Doctor Ornish 09:57 and his team recommended: eating lots of plant products 10:00 and little, if any, animal products. 10:03 One interesting thing that I should let you 10:05 know is that, if this sounds like too austere a diet, 10:07 Doctor Ornish's team did not restrict 10:10 calories at all. People could eat all they wanted, 10:13 as long as they followed those specific dietary guidelines. 10:17 Well, it wasn't just a diet program. 10:19 Remember, it was the LifeStyle 10:21 Heart Program. They included other components as well. 10:25 There was stress management training. 10:28 There was social and emotional support. 10:30 Are you listening? From the standpoint of LifeStart-- 10:34 remember, "L" stands for Liquids. We've talked about 10:37 those already. The "I" stands for what? 10:40 Interpersonal Relationships. Ornish focused directly on that. 10:44 Actually, in subsequent writing that Ornish 10:47 has done for the lay press, 10:49 he has suggested that perhaps the very most important thing 10:52 was the social support, the love, the 10:55 emotional support that people received 10:57 in that context. Let's go on, though. 11:01 Other elements of the LifeStyle heart trial: smoking cessation. 11:05 No smoking allowed. Listen, if you 11:08 haven't heard enough about the reasons to stop smoking. 11:11 By the way, the minute you stop smoking-- 11:16 I'm exaggerating a little bit-- but within 11:18 hours to days of stopping smoking, your 11:20 risk of dying from a heart attack 11:22 drops by something like 50 percent. 11:24 The reason for it is nicotine itself. 11:26 Just like caffeine and alcohol that we talked about, 11:30 nicotine, I'm not saying in an equal manner, perhaps even more 11:34 seriously, destabilizes the heart rhythm. 11:37 So, if you have a heart attack as a smoker, 11:41 with that nicotine on board, you are more likely to die 11:44 of a fatal heart rhythm problem. So, smoking cessation 11:48 was on the list. By the way, cigarette smoking, 11:50 with its ingredients like carbon monoxide, 11:52 damage the lining cells 11:55 of the arteries in your body. We call it the endothelium. 11:59 So, that carbon monoxide is damaging the lining, 12:02 making it easier for the blockage that 12:04 we call atherosclerosis to build up. Remember, 12:08 Lifestyle Heart Trials showed a reversal of 12:10 blockage. If you're going to reverse blockage, you have 12:12 to stop all the things contributing to the blockage in 12:15 the first place, which includes cigarette smoking. 12:18 So no smoking in Ornish's program. 12:19 Another element that you shouldn't be 12:22 surprised by that was in the program was 12:24 moderate exercise. 12:25 What did that look like? Ornish's team 12:29 required the participants to walk at 12:32 least 3 hours per week in at least 12:34 30 minutes per session. 12:35 It was moderate exercise, though. 12:37 It wasn't severe, strenuous exercise. 12:41 Now, at this point, I should tell you a story that I 12:43 heard from from one of Doctor Ornish's 12:45 collegues, one of the co-authors of that paper, 12:47 Doctor Sherwoods. Doctor Sherwoods, 12:49 shortly after the study came out, was 12:51 speaking to a group of health 12:52 professionals. I was in that audience. 12:54 He told a fascinating story about 12:57 their work with lifestyle interventions, 12:59 prior to the Lifestyle Heart Trial. 13:02 They were on the mindset that many 13:04 people were on back then. By the way, 13:06 some still are. "It's best for your heart 13:09 to work as hard as you can! Get your money's worth!" 13:11 "If you're going to the health club, you've 13:13 got to just work as hard as you can! You've got to 13:15 be there 30 minutes. Get all you can!" 13:18 "It's expensive to have a health club membership." 13:20 Listen, I've had many patients 13:22 over the years who had that attitude. 13:23 Let me just tell you what Doctor Sherwoods and his team 13:26 found in their experience. One day 13:29 they were working with patients-- 13:31 heart patients with that very philosophy. 13:34 "Get as much as you can! Do as much as you can!" 13:38 One of the participants who had really 13:40 caught that spirit was just going at it. 13:41 He was on the rowing machine. He was going. 13:45 It was what was considered a very high-tech rowing machine. 13:48 This was back in the '80s, 13:50 and these high-tech rowing machines. 13:51 He was looking right in front of him 13:53 at a monitor. On that monitor were 13:56 other rowers. As he was rowing, 13:58 he was passing one rower, and then another rower. 14:02 He was just going for it. He finally, at the 14:04 end of his workout, got up he said, 14:06 "I just beat 100 rowers!" 14:11 And he dropped dead. That's right, he droped dead. 14:17 They couldn't resussitate him. 14:20 You could see why this dampened the enthusiasm 14:24 of the Ornish team when it came to vigorous, 14:27 maximal exercise. You get the point? 14:30 I am NOT an advocate of it for a number number of reasons. 14:34 If you've seen my series on longevity, 14:37 plus where I speak about blood fluidity, 14:39 you do excessive exercise, it makes 14:43 the blood less fluid. Maybe you've 14:47 seen my book, Evading Ebola. 14:50 You've heard my presentations about 14:53 improving the immune system, like addressing colds and flu. 14:56 In there I talk about the same phenomenon. 14:59 Do excessive exercise, 15:01 it suppresses the immune system. Moderate exercise 15:04 improves it. By the way, while we're speaking 15:08 about some of those other resources, 15:10 if you haven't been to the 15:12 LifeStart Website, we've got a lot of 15:15 resources there for you--many of them free. 15:19 We also have some that there's a fee attached to--some of the 15:22 video series in books. "lifestartseminars.com" 15:27 Back to the point about exercise. 15:30 Exercise in moderation is great 15:33 from the standpoint of just about everything we look at. 15:37 When you push it too hard, you lose the benefits 15:41 So Ornish should recognize that. Fortunately, by the time of the 15:44 LiffeStyle Heart Trial, and as a result, 15:47 moderate exercise was the rule. 15:49 Well, I already told you what happened. 15:51 We saw reverses of blockages, but there were 15:53 some other exciting things that happened. 15:55 Those exciting things actually help us understand why 15:59 lifestyle is so powerful. Before we go there, lest you think 16:03 this was just a one-year study, 16:05 and after that everyone just deteriorated, 16:08 Doctor Ornish subsequently published research 16:11 5 years after the intervention. It showed the same 16:15 thing was happening. Reversal was continuing to occur 16:19 over time as people stuck with a healthy 16:22 lifestyle. So why the benefits? 16:25 What happened? One of the things that was so 16:29 powerful about the LifeStyle Heart Trial was what happened 16:32 to cholestrol. If you are listening to 16:36 this presentation--you have high 16:37 cholesterol, you're on medications . . . 16:39 Without any medication at all, 16:41 they were able to drop the cholesterol 16:44 in the range--the bad cholesterol--in the range of 16:46 40 percent. 40 percent! 16:51 in one year. Do you realize how much that is? 16:53 That's a huge reduction in cholesterol. 16:55 So if you start with a cholesterol of 300 16:58 do you know what 40 percent is? 17:00 That's a 120 points! That's going from 300 to 180. 17:05 That would be if if we're talking 17:07 about a change in total cholesterol. 17:09 The biggest changes were in the bad 17:11 cholesterol, the LDL cholesterol. That was 17:13 where they were approaching 40 percent, 17:15 the total cholesterol dropping about 25 percent. 17:17 Body weight dropped. Blood pressure 17:21 fell, which was good because 17:23 high blood pressure accelerates blockages 17:25 in heart arteries. Just amazing benefits, 17:29 and it was occurring all, remember, with lifestyle 17:33 processes. While we talk to you about LifeStart, 17:38 or you hear about the LifeStyle 17:40 Heart Program with Doctor Ornish, 17:42 it's the same big picture. 17:44 you can change the future of your heart health 17:46 by changing your lifestyle. "Well," you say. 17:51 "Yeah, Doctor DeRose, I could change my lifestyle. 17:53 But if I got on a lifestyle like that, 17:56 I would be miserable for the rest of my life. 17:57 Why would I want to do that? 17:59 I'd rather die a little bit sooner, or even a lot sooner, 18:02 rather then have to be a vegetarian, 18:04 exercise every day, stop smoking, 18:06 get rid of my caffeine." Well, let me ask you the question. 18:10 Doctor Ornish and his team actually looked at the 18:13 quality of life 18:14 of the participants in this study. If you're right 18:17 about leaving off all your enjoyable 18:20 habits making life miserable. Is that what they found? 18:23 Actually, they found just the opposite. They 18:27 found that those in the conventional group-- 18:29 their sense of well-being actually 18:32 deteriorated over time, because there was 18:34 a control group for this study. 18:36 The interventional group-- they actually improved. 18:44 Now, I like to be real precise 18:49 in what I communicate. I think if you 18:52 actually looked at what we call the 18:53 statistical significance of those changes, 18:56 the group that was the control group 18:58 didn't change significantly, okay? 19:01 In a year there was a suggestion maybe they were worse, 19:04 but statistically, probably-- we'll just call it the same. 19:08 We have to do that in research, and in 19:10 fairness, I'll just put that out there for you. 19:13 The point was, 19:14 that when it came to things like anxiety and depression 19:17 and insomnia and lack of pleasure in life-- 19:20 all of those things got better in those that 19:24 embraced the comprehensive lifestyle program. 19:28 Here's the point: although we get attached 19:32 to the lifestyles that we grew up with, 19:34 the lifestyles that we've adopted over the years, 19:37 we can change our lifestyle and develop new enjoyments, 19:41 plus get the benefits of that new lifestyle. 19:44 If you've seen my presentation in 19:46 this series on addictions, 19:47 you've heard that concept before. 19:50 If you've seen my series, my miniseries, on changing 19:52 bad habits for good, 19:54 that's we talk about. You don't need 19:57 to go to any those resources to 19:59 catch this point because I really want you 20:00 to hear this. You can develop 20:04 new enjoyments. The things that you enjoy 20:08 today do not have to be the things you 20:10 enjoy ten years from now. 20:13 You can develop an enjoyment for plant foods. 20:16 Listen, I know this personally. I was not raised a vegetarian. 20:22 In fact, never even knew a vegetarian 20:24 growing up. For over 30 years, I've 20:26 been on that diet and experiencing 20:28 the benefits from it. I don't miss 20:30 all those hamburgers I used to ate, 20:33 even if i cant use proper English. 20:35 "All those hamburgers I used to eat." You've got it. 20:39 You've got the message, right? The point is simply this: 20:42 we can develop new enjoyments. 20:46 Let's take a closer look at food, 20:49 since we're speaking about those. 20:51 After Ornish published a study, a very interesting paper 20:55 appeared in the American Heart Journal about five years later. 20:58 The author was William C. Roberts, 21:02 a prolific cardiologist, author, 21:05 editor. One of the real pioneers, 21:08 one of the real leaders, in the cardiology 21:10 community. Let me read you something that Doctor 21:14 Roberts wrote. You may want to follow along with me: 21:38 Standard Cardiology Journal. 21:40 What is this prestigious author saying? 21:43 Based on research like that of 21:45 Doctor Ornish and his colleagues, 21:47 he's saying that we should focus our 21:49 attention on being vegetarians. 21:51 Roberts didn't stop there in the paper. 21:54 I can remember reading this, 21:55 some years ago, and he he took some pretty bold positions 22:01 Put put it this way--he said that human beings 22:04 clearly have more characteristics of 22:06 herbivores then carnivores. 22:09 He actually, I believe, printed this graphic 22:15 that I've reproduced for you here in the 22:16 paper. I think it was actually published 22:19 as a table. It's been a while since I've actually 22:22 looked at the original. I know I've 22:23 used this table in my lectures before. 22:25 Take a look with me at this 22:27 graphic that Doctor Roberts constructed. 22:30 He's looking at similarities and 22:32 differences between carnivores and herbivores. 22:35 He's making a case that human beings are designed 22:39 to eat primarily plant products. Do you see it? 22:42 The carnivores typically have claws, 22:45 whereas herbivores have hands or 22:47 hooves. When it comes to teeth, the carnivores have sharp teeth, 22:52 whereas the herbivores have mainly 22:54 flat teeth for grinding. That's 22:56 like what we have as humans. 22:58 The intestinal tract of carnivorous animals is short. 23:01 We, as you probably know, have a very long intestinal tract, 23:06 like other herbivores. Then he 23:09 gives other examples-- you can see there on the 23:11 table--about but how we drink water, how we cool our 23:14 bodies (sweating rather than painting), etcetera, 23:16 and our need to get vitamin C from our diet, 23:20 rather than being able to make our own. Interesting, isn't it, 23:24 to see this in a cutting-edge 23:28 cardiology journal? 23:32 You say, "This is all very interesting, but 23:35 it doesn't sound like what my doctors have told me. 23:38 It doesn't sound like what the dieticians told me. 23:40 By the way, more and more doctors and 23:43 dietitians are recommending the 23:44 vegetarian diet for reversal of coronary artery disease. 23:47 Many still say, "Oh, you know, 23:50 it's okay to have the egg whites. 23:52 It's okay to have the skim milk. 23:54 You can have a little bit of fish and chicken." 23:56 Let me just put things in perspective for you, because 24:00 this is really old data--and I'm speaking 24:04 '70s-'80s--where 24:06 people thought there wasn't much problem 24:08 with things like animal protein. You see, 24:11 if you're trying to focus on lowering 24:13 your cholesterol, 24:14 it is not only important to get the cholesterol out of your diet 24:19 (and that's found only in animal products), 24:21 it's not only important to get the 24:23 saturated fat as low as possible in a diet 24:27 (and that is found primarily in animal products), 24:30 but it is also important to boost the dietary fiber, 24:35 and that is only found in plant products. 24:39 You've got to eat those plant foods for the fiber, 24:41 but we're just going a step beyond now, 24:43 because animal protein raises cholesterol. That's right. 24:48 Even if you take away all the 24:49 saturated fat, all the cholesterol. 24:52 You take away the fact that animal products have no fiber. 24:55 Skim milk is not an ideal food for your cholesterol. 25:00 Yes, it's better than whole milk 25:03 Yes, it's better than two percent milk. 25:05 Skim milk will actually raise cholesterol, 25:08 based on its animal protein content. 25:13 Many studies have shown this, 25:14 both in animal models and in 25:18 human studies. If you want 25:22 some of the references, we have those available, 25:24 in the free companion guide that 25:27 goes with this. We have a little study guide 25:29 that goes along with this 25:30 presentation. you can get that also 25:33 at lifestartseminars.com 25:37 lifestartseminars.com 25:38 Now we to hasten on. We've talked about 25:41 some of these cholesterol connections. 25:43 If you want to lower cholesterol optimally, 25:45 you do want to be a vegetarian. 25:46 Maybe I should just tell you this, 25:48 while we're speaking about it. If you look at animal proteins, 25:51 and this has been done, you will find that 25:55 some of the worst proteins are fowl proteins, 26:01 skim milk protein. That's right-- 26:04 right there near the top the list as far as 26:06 things calculated 26:07 to raise your blood cholesterol. So, eat 26:10 more those plant products. Get the animal 26:12 products as low as possible in your diet. 26:14 One other bonus now, before we 26:16 finish up and that has to do with 26:17 oxidized cholesterol. Oxidized cholesterol 26:21 is something that's especially damaging. We call it 26:23 Oxidized LDL. It's especially damaging and adds to the 26:26 build-up of atherosclerosis. 26:28 Cholesterol could be oxidized in the body, 26:31 but it can also be oxidized in foods. 26:35 Anything that has cholesterol in it and then 26:39 has a long shelf life is 26:42 especially predisposed to having oxidized cholesterol. 26:47 For this reason, I recommend that you 26:49 avoid things like custard mixes, 26:51 pancake mixes, Parmesan cheese, 26:56 lard. All these things that sit it out for a long time 26:59 have cholesterol in them. They are 27:01 rich sources of oxidized cholesterol 27:03 that can damage your arteries and add 27:06 to the build-up of atherosclerosis. 27:08 Well, we haven't looked at every 27:10 single element in the LifeStart 27:12 paradigm, but I think we've looked at 27:14 enough, based on Doctor Ornish's work, 27:17 and on the recommendations of others, 27:18 to help you see that heart disease and high cholesterol 27:22 are indeed reversible processes. 27:25 If you're carrying those diagnoses, 27:27 you are not forced to a life of 27:30 bypass surgery after bypass surgery, 27:33 or angioplasty after angioplasty. 27:35 You actually can stop the disease in its tracks, 27:38 and do more than that. Most people 27:40 can actually reverse the blockages 27:42 with lifestyle. Again, it's all embodied in that paradigm, 27:46 LifeStart. You want to learn more? It's all there for you-- 27:50 lifestartseminars.com 27:53 Take advantage of the free study guide, the free e-book. 27:56 If you want even more, we've got often, in many areas, 28:00 special personalized coaching opportunities over the phone 28:04 or in-person. For all of us at LifeStart seminars, 28:08 I'm doctor David DeRose, wishing you the very best 28:11 of heart health. |
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