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Insulin, Not Cholesterol, Causes Heart Disease

Mike Mutzel from High Intensity Health visited our office for a chat. Here is a summary of our conversation: After nearly 11 years of consulting in the functional medicine space, doctors still ask me (Mike) how to lower cholesterol. “What supplements lower cholesterol?” they often ask. As you’ll […]

Challenging Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Assessment

Here is our poster presentation from The Ancestral Health Symposium 2016. To summarize: This presentation discusses atherosclerosis as a metabolic disease, the primary drivers of heart disease and why traditional cardiovascular risk assessment, based on Framingham methodology is inadequate. Framingham methodology is distracting to most healthcare […]