You deserve better.

The CDC reports that 60% of Americans have at least one chronic disease. Another 40% of Americans have two or more chronic conditions. The number one chronic disease today? Heart disease.

The standard medical model is no longer working. Some say it never did. America is one of the sickest nations. It’s time to ask yourself if you are getting the best medical care possible.

Top 10 reasons you need a better cardiologist:

1. You should be lowering your risk of illness (not increasing it)

   Conventional medicine aims to put you on just about every pharmaceutical they can make money off of and the result is an increased risk for other illnesses. They only attempt to mask symptoms. In order to get better, your cardiologist needs to address stress, nutrition, and lifestyle as these three factors are at the root of disease. A good doctor will try to help you lower your risk of illness by making adjustments to diet, sleep, physical activity and stress levels.

2. Nutrition should be at the center of your healthcare plan

   Food is medicine and it should be at the center of your medical care. Yet, the complete opposite is true in conventional medicine. The majority of calories people get come from the Standard American Diet (rich in processed foods and pesticides and depleted of nutrients). And doctors are not discussing this, either because they don’t care or they are not trained to discuss. It is important that you seek out a cardiologist who addresses your nutrition. Most chronic diseases, like heart disease, can be treated and/or prevented through diet.

3. Your cardiologist should spend more than 10 minutes with you

   Most cardiologists are incentivized to see more patients and spend as little time with you as they can. They are driven by patient volume. There is a financial pressure on doctors to see more and more patients each day. As a result, they usually spend 10-15 minutes with a patient. With these short appointment times, there is no way to get to the patients’ needs and actually make a change in 10 minutes. The goal for most conventional cardiologists is to see more patients each day. They simply do not have the time to counsel patients on diet and lifestyle strategies to actually get healthier (and off of medications).

4. You don’t want to be over-medicated

   Most conventional doctors will just match a pill to your symptoms without any desire to get to the root cause of your health problems. Big Pharma has perverse incentives to push doctors to push pills and procedures. Life expectancy is declining rapidly in the U.S. More Americans than ever have a chronic disease. In other words, conventional health care is not only not working, it is killing us, too. Are your blood pressure meds getting to the root of your problem and healing you? Or are they simply covering up a symptom and masking it? Conventional medicine wasn’t designed to address the root cause of your chronic disease.

5. You deserve cutting-edge, proactive lab tests

   Most conventional cardiovascular lab testing is outdated. There, we said it. Don’t believe us? Read more here in The Paleo Cardiologist book. There’s an entire chapter in the book dedicated to the lab testing your cardiologist should be ordering. Effective lab testing can no longer be “black and white”. It’s no longer sufficient to look at total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels as a means to analyze cardiovascular risk. It is 2019 and it’s time for advanced personalized cardiac testing. We want to look at your particle size and particle number of cholesterol markers. We want to analyze levels of Apo A and Apo B. We want to evaluate what your inflammatory and immune cardiac markers are. If your cardiologist isn’t testing for these things, it’s time to find one who does. You should be looking at hundreds of markers (including intracellular micronutrient levels) regularly to track health and prevent disease in advance.

6. Your cardiologist should care about the root of your problems, not your symptoms

   Conventional cardiac medicine doesn’t cure health problems. It only treats symptoms. It is not concerned with the big picture (conventional doctors don’t have time for that). Instead, they want to hear your symptoms, give the set of symptoms a label, write you a prescription and send you out the door. It’s a fact that 74% of doctor visits involve a prescription for a drug. Additionally, doctors shouldn’t just be looking at your most recent health history. Your health history goes back to before you were born. Doctors need to look at your health story (the past, the current and the future) to get to the true root cause of your health issues.

7. You should feel empowered and responsible for your own health

   Functional medicine teaches you to take your power back and become responsible for your own health. Conversely, in conventional medicine, the power is in your doctor’s hand (i.e. which pill will they prescribe, what will your disease outlook be). True health is about taking control of your own outcomes. You need to become responsible for your own diet and lifestyle in order to make long-lasting, sustainable health changes.

8. Your cardiologist should get back to the basics when it comes to health

   The things that will change your health significantly are simple. Get adequate sunshine each day. Lower your stress. Move your body more. Get quality sleep. Drink pure water. Eat an organic, Paleo diet. All of these factors will have the most profound impact in reversing or preventing chronic illness such as heart disease. While conventional medicine asks “what pill can I use for this symptom?”, integrative medicine asks “what can I do to restore cellular function?”. Focusing on personalized health care allows for treatment of the individual based on key diet and lifestyle changes they need.  

9. You deserve a natural treatment plan

   Evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle plans are the foundation for wellness. Using key interventions like supplements, diet, physical activity, and meditation have proven treatment benefits. Treating a chronic disease should be a multifactorial approach. Integrative doctors focus on prescribing these things. A natural treatment plan is essential to healing the body and getting well. Supplements have little to no side effects; medications have a laundry list of potential harmful effects. You choose. The answer is to follow nature. Support the body’s natural healing mechanisms. It’s that simple.

10. This is the future of medicine

    It’s up to you to take charge of your health and make a change for the better. The ultimate goal is for you to live a healthier, happier and longer life. We, as a society, need to change the definition of health care today. Health care should be personalized, results-driven, evidence-based and advanced root cause medicine. There needs to be a revolution in health care. Chronic disease rates continue to sky rocket and we simply can’t afford to keep doing the same thing over and over. The “one doctor treats symptoms with pills and procedures” paradigm needs to end. This isn’t getting anyone healthier it is making them sicker. Integrative medicine is the solution. It allows for adequate time to evaluate assess a patient’s diet, lifestyle and behaviors (all of which are key players in disease development and the solution to wellness). This is the future of medicine and the reinvention of true health care.

If you’re frustrated with your current cardiologist, interested in becoming a new patient or need another opinion, click here for more information. Come out to Arizona or let’s meet online (or by phone). 

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Here are the 11 things cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson shares with audiences around the globe to reduce the risks of heart disease:

1. Follow a heart healthy diet.That means you only eat organic, Paleo friendly foods such as free-range, grass-fed meats and wild seafood.

Organic is important because it eliminates two of the prime causes of heart disease: pesticide-covered and genetically modified foods. Eat food the way nature intended.

Paleo is important because it means you are eating only natural foods, not processed, and you aren’t consuming artificial or excessive amounts of sugar.

This helps you maintain your ideal weight. Excessive weight damages your heart. It leads to high blood pressure and diabetes, two ailments that destroy heart health.

You will get to your ideal weight by following the Paleo diet. You’ll also significantly lower your risks of high blood pressure and diabetes.

Quality animals mean they are free from growth hormones and antibiotics. They’ve been raised in humane conditions, eating the food they are born to eat.

Seafood is one of the healthiest thing on the planet. Make sure you eat plenty.

2. Avoid toxins. Most household products and personal care products are toxic cesspools that destroy your heart. From air fresheners to laundry detergents, from deodorants to oven cleaners, these products are killing our hearts.

Get rid of these toxic products and use safer alternatives for a healthy heart.

Here’s an excellent article on the 8 common toxins in cleaning products, and how you can replace them with safer alternatives.

Here’s a list of what we use in our home and for our personal care.

3. Get active outdoors. It’s an established fact that people who don’t exercise are more likely to suffer from heart disease.

Health clubs and gyms are full of toxins that harm your heart. The smell from the cleaning products and air fresheners alone are enough to do lasting damage.

That’s why you should be active outdoors. It’s the natural thing to do.

Walk. Bike. Hike. Run. Swim. Do body weight exercises and basic interval training. Shoot for 30 minutes a day, at least 5 days a week.

Whatever activity you do, gradually increase the intensity and duration. The person who gets in trouble with exercise is the one overdoes it.

Consult your holistic physician before starting any exercise program.

4. Get chiropractic. The brain connects to every organ in the body, including the heart and blood vessels. Improve your connection with chiropractic care. Chiropractic is proven to lower blood pressure, reduce inflammation, and improve heart rate variability. See your Doctor of Chiropractic today!

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5. Stay hydrated. Dehydration places unnecessary strain on your heart. Blood volume decreases when you are dehydrated. This causes your heart to beat faster and increases your heart rate.

Studies show that proper hydration may lower heart attack risk. A 2002 study showed that staying properly hydrated lowered the risk of coronary heart disease by 46% in men and a whopping 59% in women.

Drink at least half your body weight in ounces of quality water each day.

6. Sleep 8 hours a day. Quality rest is essential to heart health. Our body rejuvenates during rest. It heals. It relaxes. All these things are vital to heart health.

Our ancestors went to sleep with the sundown and awoke with the sunrise.

The American Heart Association cites an irregular sleep pattern as a prime link to a host of heart ailments like coronary artery disease, high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes.

I see it all the time in my practice. Sleep deprived people show more inflammation and stress hormones that lead to heart disease.

The evidence is clear: sleep is essential. Eight hours a day.

7. Take nutritional supplements. Proper nutrition and a healthy lifestyle are your best weapons to fight heart disease.

Unfortunately, due to soil depletion over the centuries, the wide-spread use of pesticides and air pollution, it’s nearly impossible to get the proper nutrition we need from food alone.

Read this article for more information about why crops grown decades ago were more nutritious than the crops grown today.

Since food alone can’t supply the vitamins and minerals we need for good heart health, we must take nutritional supplements.

Blood testing can tell us what vitamins and minerals we are deficient in and your holistic physician can prescribe a supplement regime ideal for you.

We have developed some specific nutritional supplements designed to promote good heart health. Heart Beet supports healthy blood pressure, blood flow and blood oxygen levels.  Vessel Support boosts nitric oxide levels and supports heart health in a variety of different ways.

8. Get sunshine. Our ancestors were in and out of the sun, naked, every day. Everyone knows that sunshine cranks up vitamin D. But did you know that sunshine increases nitric oxide, leads to melatonin production, and supports healthy hormone levels?

Studies point to vitamin D deficiencies as increasing the risk factors heart attacks, congestive heart disease strokes and conditions associated with heart disease like diabetes and high blood pressure.

Because we spend less time outdoors and Big Business has convinced most to cover themselves in toxic sunscreens when they are outside, there is a general vitamin D deficiency in most Americans.

I want you in the sun at least 30 minutes a day. Be naked in the sun when you can. Sunshine is good for you and is absolutely necessary to lower your risks of heart disease.

Use organic sunscreen when necessary. Sunburn bad, sunshine good.

9. Don’t smoke or drink alcohol or sodas. You know that. Smoking is bad for you.

So are these other things. Stay away from them. If you do drink alcohol, keep it under 3 drinks per week.

And while I am at it – don’t do drugs. Prescribed or illicit. I saw the impacts of drugs and alcohol when I worked in the hospitals. Nasty stuff. Leads to heart disease and heart attacks. Stay away.

10. Get grounded. Connect your body with the energy naturally present in the earth’s surface.

Grounding is the practice of walking barefoot on the ground.

Solar radiation and lighting strikes fill the Earth’s surface with electrons the body absorbs when it makes contact with the ground.

These electrons reduce inflammation and keep the body properly balanced. Both benefit your heart tremendously.

This is why it feels so good to most of us to walk barefoot on the beach or in a green grass meadow.

Inflammation is a prime driver of heart disease. Grounding helps fight inflammation which helps the heart.

When was the last time your bare foot touched the earth’s surface? Take off your shoes and socks and get grounded now.

11. Manage anger and stress. Stress kills. The literature is very clear. We never discussed this in my medical training, but to underestimate the impact of poor mental health will lead to your demise.

Learn to manage stress and anger in effective ways that benefit your health.

Mediation. Prayer. Yoga. Fellowship with others. Physical activity.

All are proven ways to reduce stress and manage anger.

Try them. Get stress out of your life.

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Watch this amazing interview of Dr. Jack Wolfson by The Health Ranger at Natural News. You’ll learn why your cardiologist may be giving you bad information that actually harms your health and leads to death.

If you want to improve your longevity and heart health, this is a must watch interview!

By watching this video you’ll discover:

• The REAL causes of heart disease.
• Common MISCONCEPTIONS about the treatment and prevention of heart disease.
• Action steps to prevent, treat and REVERSE heart disease without Big Pharma meds or invasive procedures.

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