Solving heart disease like an engineer

April 6 2018 by , medical review by in About membership, Cholesterol, Heart disease, Ivor Cummins, Low carb & high fat, Low Carb Breckenridge

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Could applying engineering problem solving to heart disease be the key to reverse the epidemic that medical professionals haven’t been able to solve? It’s an interesting idea that gets to the root of the problem (instead of just managing symptoms).

Listen to this talk by Ivor Cummins, where he offers an alternative way of approaching the treatment of heart disease.

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Solving health problems like an engineer – Ivor Cummins

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Heart disease and cholesterol

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27:02
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Dr. Unwin discusses cholesterol on a low-carb diet. This includes common improvements and the rare case when patients' cholesterol increases significantly.
Statin Nation
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Statin Nation exposes the exaggerations and the misleading, almost criminal, marketing of daily drugs to people who don’t need them.
Should you worry about high cholesterol?
13:49
Is high cholesterol inherently dangerous, who should (and shouldn't) take statins and what can you do instead of taking medications?
The cholesterol network system
22:24
Can you drastically lower your cholesterol, by eating MORE fat?
Diet and exercise for a healthy heart
21:36
What can you do to have a healthy heart? In this interview, engineer Ivor Cummins asks cardiologist Dr. Scott Murray all the essential questions about heart health.
Is cholesterol the cause of heart disease?
23:54
Does cholesterol really cause heart disease? And if not – what does?
The highway to poor health
48:56
Dwight Lundell on endothelial dysfunction, and how the highway to poor health is associated with hyperglycemia.
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Dr. Ron Krauss helps us understand the nuances beyond LDL-C and how we can use all the available data to help us better understand what we know and do not know about cholesterol.
Nutrition nuggets to combat conventional dietary advice
45:06
What are the seven common beliefs that are just myths, and that hold us back from understanding how to eat truly healthy foods?
Statin Nation II
1:15:35
Is high cholesterol the main cause of heart disease? The follow up to the success Statin Nation.
The great cholesterol myth
37:55
“Eating all that fat and cholesterol will clog your arteries and give you heart disease!” Well, it’s not that simple.
Why high cholesterol is healthy
30:01
Is high cholesterol and LDL dangerous – or could it actually be protective?
What really causes heart disease?
49:51
What is the root of the problem in heart disease? Is it cholesterol – which we've been told for decades – or is it something else?
How cholesterol really works – Dave Feldman
29:40
Dave Feldman is a software engineer and an entrepreneur with a passion for lipids. In this presentation, he gives us a detailed overview of cholesterol.
Killing for profit?
11:11
Is Big Food and Big Pharma killing for profit? And why can lifestyle intervention be more powerful than medications?
Cholesterol: A passenger, not a driver
27:31
Is high LDL cholesterol problematic – even in the presence of low triglycerides?

Low Carb Breckenridge 2018

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35:03
Could protein restriction on a low-carb or keto diet cause problems?
Why high cholesterol is healthy
30:01
Is high cholesterol and LDL dangerous – or could it actually be protective?
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11:12
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32:41
How should we eat to fight the global mental health crisis?
What makes a diet work?
35:14
Is there such a thing as an optimal diet? And is a keto diet always the best option?
Cooking keto with Ivor Cummins
38:49
While Kristie always enjoy making her carrot cake cheesecake, The Fat Emperor, Ivor Cummins, made the process much more fun.
Open mic
31:02
Low carbers with different backgrounds share their success stories and topics of interest.
Cholesterol: A passenger, not a driver
27:31
Is high LDL cholesterol problematic – even in the presence of low triglycerides?

Heart disease and cholesterol

Low Carb Breckenridge 2018

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