Untangling Cardiovascular Disease (Parts 1–5)

This series is dedicated to my brother Jeff — taken by a heart attack at 59. No warning. No goodbye. Just gone.

That loss is what drove me to spend months digging into the research on cardiovascular disease, and what I found should be far better known than it is.

Cardiovascular disease kills more people than anything else on the planet. And yet the standard toolkit — statins, blood pressure medications, low-fat diets — isn’t moving the needle the way it should. The problem isn’t a lack of effort. It’s that we’re looking in the wrong places.

There are interventions with striking evidence behind them that most cardiologists have never discussed with their patients: how vitamin K2 controls calcium metabolism — keeping it in the bones and out of the arteries — along with enzymes that can at least partially clear arterial plaque, and approaches to difficult cases that don’t dead-end at “we don’t know.”

From the biology of how vessels break down to what can actually reverse the damage, this five-part series lays it all out — the science, the evidence, and the honest conversation that cardiologists haven’t been having, because they simply don’t know about it.

Read the full series on ZeroSpin

• Untangling Cardiovascular Disease — Part 1
• Untangling Cardiovascular Disease — Part 2
• Untangling Cardiovascular Disease — Part 3
• Untangling Cardiovascular Disease — Part 4
• Untangling Cardiovascular Disease — Part 5

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