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While the progress of modern medicine has brought incredible advancements in surgery, lifestyle changes may be more preferable than surgery. Many surgeries still carry a great deal of risk, making diet and other healthy habits a safer alternative. Lifestyle medicine, including the adoption of a plant-based diet, may be able to reverse the progression of heart disease prevent the need for heart surgery.

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Cannabis for IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease)

Cannabis for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Even though cannabis smoking may help with IBD symptoms in the short-term, it may make the long-term prognosis worse.

What Causes Cancer to Metastasize?

Palmitic acid, a saturated fat concentrated in meat and dairy, can boost the metastatic potential of cancer cells through the fat receptor CD36.

Heart Stents and Upcoding: How Cardiologists Game the System

Cardiologists can criminally game the system by telling a patient they have a much more serious, unstable disease than they really have, fraud that results in unnecessary procedures, unnecessary cost, and unnecessary patient harm.

Why Are Stents Still Used If They Don’t Work?

Over and over, studies have shown that doctors tend to make different clinical decisions for patients based on how much they will get paid personally.

Do Heart Stent Procedures Work for Angina Chest Pain?

Sham surgery trials prove that procedures like nonemergency stents offer no benefit for angina pain—only risk to millions of patients.

Angioplasty Heart Stent Risks vs. Benefits

What do physicians and stent companies have to say for themselves, given that they are promoting expensive, risky procedures with no benefit?

The Risks of Heart Stents

Why are doctors killing or stroking out thousands of people a year for nothing? How do doctors even convince patients to sign up for procedures that are all risk without benefit?

Why Angioplasty Heart Stents Don’t Work Better

Most heart attacks are caused by nonobstructive plaques that infiltrate the entire coronary artery tree. There is no such thing as “1-vessel disease,” “2-vessel disease,” or “left main disease.” Atherosclerotic plaque is continuous throughout the coronary arteries of heart attack victims.

Do Angioplasty Heart Stent Procedures Work?

There are demonstrably no benefits to the hundreds of thousands of angioplasty and stent procedures performed outside of an emergency setting. They don’t prevent heart attacks, enable you to live longer, or even help with symptoms any more than placebo (fake) surgery.

The Thrifty Gene Theory: Survival of the Fattest

Rather than being some kind of disorder or failure of willpower, weight gain is largely a normal response, by normal people, to an abnormal situation.

The 3,500 Calorie per Pound Rule Is Wrong

How many fewer calories do you have to eat every day to lose one pound of body fat?

Is Keto an Effective Cancer-Fighting Diet?

The clinical use of ketogenic diets for epilepsy and cancer: what does the science say?