30/10/2025
I did a bit of FREE research for a client, who has a relative with heart disease (Cardiomyopathy) and I'm copying the research here. Both sources are Medical Doctors, one is a heart surgeon and one is an eminent cardiologist. Hopefully it could help you or someone you know too. Both involve changes in what we eat !
(1) Making Heart Attacks History: Caldwell Esselstyn at TEDx Cambridge 2011 - watch this 14 min video and maybe take notes so you'll learn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU
One of the comments below his YT video says
" He has changed my life. I am a cardiologist and changed my practice to focus on prevention and reversal of heart disease using plant based diets. The research is solid. He is inspirational. We need to shift our broken “healthcare” system to a lifestyle medicine model focused on the farmacy NOT the pharmacy!!! "
(2) The Esselstyn Heart Disease Program at Cleveland Clinic is based on the research of Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr. MD and other physicians with a similar focus on plant-based nutrition. For the past ten years at Cleveland Clinic, over 1,000 patients have participated in Dr. Esselstyn’s program. What were the results from the initial study?
5 of the 24 patients in Dr. Esselstyn’s initial study were told by cardiologists that they had less than a year to live. Yet, 12+ years later after following the Esselstyn Program, they survived symptom free.
Symptoms diminished (and often disappeared) within 8 to 12 weeks of starting the program. Within months, these dramatic changes occurred:
Cholesterol lowered: Patients’ average total cholesterol levels dropped from 246 mg/dL to 137 mg/dL.
No cardiac events: Before the study, the patients had 49 cardiac events (coronary bypass surgery, angioplasties, etc.). None of the patients who adhered to the eating plan experienced a cardiac event within 12 years of follow-up.
Excellent angiograms: Patients’ angiograms showed a widening of the coronary arteries — a reversal of heart disease.
SOURCE: my.clevelandclinic.org/departments/wellness/integrative/esselstyn-program
(3) VIDEO by Dr Joel Kahn interventional cardiologist *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqKNfyUPzoU
Dr. Kahn is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine. He is an interventional cardiologist and Clinical Professor of Medicine in Detroit at Wayne State University School of Medicine.
His goal is to prevent 1 million heart attacks through educating on the lifestyle for optimal plant based health and longevity. He can be found at http://www.drjoelkahn.com. You can receive his free guide to heart attack prevention at http://www.drjoelkahn.com/hearts.
Learn how our diet-based, heart wellness program can help you make healthy changes in every aspect of your lifestyle.