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What the Bad Bacteria Love to Eat: Additives, Preservatives, and Fast Food

A can of wild sardines in extra-virgin olive oil (personal favorite!)

This is not an atypical scenario: when a patient comes to me and says their father or grandfather or aunt, or all three, died of “premature” heart disease, elevated Lp(a) is the first thing I look for. It is the most prevalent hereditary risk factor for heart disease, and its danger is amplified by the fact that it is still largely flying under the

For reasons not fully understood, curcumin seems to leave noncancerous cells alone.

By this point, you are starting to understand how to keep inflammation in your body to a minimum: avoiding sugars, grains, and oxidized oils, while consuming ample plant nutrients and fiber (we’ll cover more in the following chapters before we put it all together in the Plan).

And in 2017, at a major cardiovascular medicine conference in Switzerland, the president of the World Heart Federation, Salim Yusuf, a world-renowned cardiologist, was even more blunt about the myth surrounding saturated fat and heart disease: “Contrary to common beliefs, the current recommendations to reduce saturated fat have no scientific