Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

The REAL way to stop or reverse heart disease

Apr 24, 2025

Misguided cholesterol advice has left many treating the symptoms of heart disease with medications like statins, yet these haven't significantly reduced heart-related events. Recent discussions challenge this focus, advocating for natural lifestyle changes instead. Nutrition and gut health emerge as key players in reversing coronary atherosclerosis. The podcast also delves into the importance of understanding advanced lipid profiles and dietary modifications that can empower individuals to tackle heart disease more effectively.

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Statins Have Limited Impact

Statin cholesterol drugs have not meaningfully reduced heart attack or sudden cardiac death rates in 80 million Americans.
Heart disease remains the number one revenue source for hospitals despite widespread statin use.

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Minor Plaque Can Trigger Heart Attack

Coronary disease plaques often rupture when they are only 30-40% blocking the artery.
This rupture causes heart attacks even though the blockage appears minor at the time.

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Small LDL and VLDL Cause Disease

Small LDL and VLDL particles are the true causes of coronary disease, not cholesterol alone.
These particles can be accurately measured by NMR lipoprotein analysis, which is covered by insurance and not experimental.

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LDL cholesterol, apoprotein B, saturated fat, TMAO, statin cholesterol drugs: Over the last 40 years, we have been inundated with misguided advice on how to reduce your risk for coronary heart disease, i.e., risk for such things as heart attack, need for heart procedures such as stent implantation or bypass surgery, or sudden cardiac death, serious and often life-threatening events. Has it worked? 80 million Americans now take statin drugs to reduce cholesterol yet there has been no meaningful reduction in such events and, in fact, I’ll bet some of your local hospitals have added multi-million dollar wings for cardiac care, the number one moneymaker for hospitals and healthcare.

The tragedy of all this is that the focus on issues like cholesterol have taken everyone’s focus off the REAL causes of heart disease that are, in reality, easy to identify and manage. And it involves no pharmaceuticals, no restriction of dietary fat, but draws from a handful of common sense and natural strategies that, time and again, have allowed people to stop or even reverse coronary atherosclerosis.

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Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health; revised & expanded ed