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Although we fear the devastation of cancer more, heart attacks and troubles are by far the number one killer of Americans and everyone living in invented countries. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cardiovascular sickness kill 950,000 Americans each year. Millions more live disabled lifestyles circumscribed by heart conditions — tired, out of breath, fearful of the slightest chest pain. This in spite of the mass syndication of low fat foods and the massive prescription of drugs to lower cholesterol. We’re told to exercise “cardio,” so those people who get off their duffs to support themselves are out on the roads jogging for an hour or more — miles and miles of stressing their knees. And yet don’t lose the weight they want to get rid of or improve their hearts. Three people lately in October 2009 for the duration of a half-marathon. And they’re not alone. Marathoners around the world are dropping dead. Clearly, the antecedently held running faith that completing a marathon attack-proofs your heart for seven years was false. Dr. Sears explains the truths of diet and cholesterol that we need to learn. Dietary cholesterol is not our enemy — it’s the starches we eat that injure us. Because most persons eat a low-fat diet high in starches (rather than focusing on fruits and vegetables), their low-fat diet aggravates their heart conditions. Long, low-intensity “cardio” in truth breaks down the reserve intensities of our hearts. He advocates resistance training and interval training. The statin drugs doctors want everyone to take genuinely hurt our health. Yet there is good news. Eliminate starches and sugars from your diet, balancing fruits and vegetables with healthful proteins. Take fifteen minutes a day to carry out high intensity exercise (no, not an hour plus — 15 minutes per day) and you’ll go a long way to aid your. Plus, sure supplements may boost your body’s heart-healthy nutrition levels. Dr. Sears describes all this in great detail, along with his peculiar recommendations. Your cholesterol level is not a good blood test to determine your peril of a heart attack, but measuring homocysteine is. And the level of your “good” cholesterol to “bad” cholesterol is an crucial indicator. Your learn the importance of CoQ10 — a critical nutrient that anti-cholesterol statin drugs genuinely lower. He includes subdivisions on diabetes and on letting down high blood pressure, since those conditions are almost affiliated to heart problems. The final chapter provides an 8 week program to improve your heart health. Dr. Sears’ counsel threatens both the medical establishment and the substitute health establishment. However, following the established counsel of both particular spatial arrangements is not preventing or reducing heart attacks. Get this book and follow it is counsel before you’re one of the fatality statistics. |
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67 of 68 people found the following review helpful.
A great, practical guide for lowering cholesterol. Worked for this MD!
By big farm
This is truly and excellent book. A well-written, practical guide for lowering your cholesterol.
I am an MD and my cholesterol “before” was TOTAL: 278, LDL 188, HDL 36, TRIGS. 221. I followed his program, and after just under the 8 weeks, TOTAL 204, LDL 119, HDL 50, TRIGS 147.
Most of what he says makes lots of sense and is backed up by lots of good, solid, medical eveidence. Honestly, I was skeptical of some of what he said, and pulled up the primary journal references, and reviewed, and the evidence was indeed quite good. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE REGARDING NIACIN IN GENERAL AND ENDURACIN IN PARTICULAR!!! Don’t miss that last point. This really could save your life and obviate need for statins and other things, which are not necessarily medically evil as some seem to think, but are really not the best for most, as Kowalski points out. BUT, I do think he under-plays the fact that statins probably are best for those with very high LDL, especially, if they cannot reach target LDL level with niacin—but niaicin could help need less statin.
Now, why not 5 stars? 1) Despite being based on good solid evidence, his book is till a bit too anecdotal “me” “the docs I’ve spoken with”, etc.
2) Some things he says are scientifcally a bit suspect—”I’ve only heard thousands of satisfied people over 20 years”—well that itself is what we call reporting bias—those who tried and failed or had other complaints are very unlikely to write to the author unless they have a real axe to grind. So I would not go in thinking this has a 100% success rate!
Similarly he keeps saying things around studies like ” those who started with the highest levels had the biggest changes.” We call this “regressiion to the mean”. It means that a drug that tends to normalize things will necessarily make a bigger jump for those who are worse off to start. So the drug really is doing the same thing no matter where you are staring from.
3) Enduracin is dirt cheap. But if you start using everything else he suggests as little adjuncts, it really starts to get expensive for the poor or middle class. For example, if you take the Endur phytosterols with every meal, or the Profibe fiber he suggests 3 times daily, and the Pantesin, you’ve just added about $75 per month. Now that is rough, because I DO think those things help, especially to get a bit more LDL lowering, on top of the Enduracin. But he needs to address teh cost issue head on.
OVERALL: Get the book, discuss with your doc. Try it. If your doc won’t give you the 4-6 mos. to try this, fire him!!! Really…because this really could save your life in a very well-tolerated way. But as always, keep up a bit of healthy skepticism 
52 of 54 people found the following review helpful.
Detailed, comprehensive and accurate
By Martin C. Martin
This is a great book for those who want all the details on how to proect your heart, against cholesterol and other heart disease risk factors. The author is trained in both journalism and science, and after suffering one heart attack and thinking about leaving his kids fatherless, he “got religion.” He now reads all the medical research on heart health, distilling it down and explaining it to the lay reader. He has the right attitude, only trusting studies that have good methodology and have been replicated.
He considers diet, including fruits and vegetables, fats, meats, soluble fiber and alcohol. He goes over the research on antioxidents and other supplements, including the vitamin that works better than prescription drugs: niacin. He also covers stress and exercise.
Heart disease is completely preventable. If you have high cholesterol or other risk factors, this book will set you straight on what works and what doesn’t. My doctor agrees with the parts he’s read, and the information here is in agreement with other sources like the American Heart Association website and webmd.com.
If what you want is an owners manual for your heart, a book length treatment that mentions all the important studies and their results, then this book is for you. For me and my nurse mother-in-law, this is the bible on heart health.
40 of 41 people found the following review helpful.If you only buy one health book, this should be it!
By T. Ussery
If you want to quickly and easily be able to speak with your doctor about heart disease on a PEER-TO-PEER basis, buy this book. You are looking at the only review I have ever written about anything. I am writing this after reading the very negative reveiw left by Gadgester. I do not know what “Top 50 Reviewer” means, but it sounds important. However, His/Her statements are so opposite of what is in this book, I did not what else to do, other than to write this. The book is purely scientific and presents the findings and shortcomings of virtually every medical study performed on heart disease in the past five decades. The Bibliography of the medical studies discussed in the book is 14 pages long! The information is presented in easy understandable and organized fashion. Proof positive – by following the guidelines of this book (actually it is the guidelines set forth by the hundreds of medical studies referenced, I reduced my cholesterol from the high risk category to the low risk category in four months and established habits that will keep it low for the rest of my life. The only problem is this books title – “8-Week Cholesterol Cure” makes it sound too fadish. This book is pure gold.
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I followed this book and had great results
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
Following this book and taking the phytosterols I got my cholesterol down 28 points in 3 months so that the Dr. did not put me on the cholesterol lowering drugs. I highly recommend the book and using the online address he gives to order the phytosterols.
Very educational
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This was a very informative book–I loaned it to a friend who is lovng it. The service was quick, price very reasonable-thank you.
Best book on this subject I have read
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book has become my health bible. I have been following all suggestions strictly. Have not had blood work since starting the program –will do so soon as it has been almost 2 months. I feel good and am sure my labs will be greatly improved. A nice side benifet is a good amount of weight loss without being hungry or feeling deprived. Have read 2 other books on this subject which are not nearly as good. This book is the best I have read. I Like the Endurance Co. he recommends. When I had a problem with taking the niacin I emailed them and they called me to discuss a solution. Good personal touch.
Worked for me
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
When a doctor saw my cholesterol had dropped almost 25% in a month, he asked, “What are you taking for it?”
I told him that I had just bought a book, and followed the directions. He was amazed!
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Not much “new”
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
Same old stuff. There wasn’t much “new” in the “new cholesterol cure”. It has some good points, but if you read the old one, you probably don’t need this one.
It worked for me
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I temporarily live in Australia, I went home (US) in January and had a physical, my cholesterol was sky high, they immediately put me on statin drugs, no diet, no health advice, just the drugs, forgot to mention female and 38. They wanted me to be re-tested in 3 months even though they knew I would be in AU at the time. I went to the Dr. here locally, he immediately took me off the drugs and wrote me a list: fish oil twice a day, metamucil for fiber, red wine and proactive (plant steriod). I also followed this book, and even though it was difficult to get some of the suppliments here locally, I did my best. After 3 months following the AU Dr. and Kowalski, I droped my tri-glycerides by 200 units, total cholesterol by over 40 and I have a chol/HDL ratio of 2.7. The doctor’s advice was to stay with my current regiment. I will be re-tested in another 4 months and feel confident it will be much lower than present levels. The book gave me hope and the Dr. in Australia gave me a chance to cure bad cholesterol naturally.
Great book!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
I read the first edition 18 years ago & just had to get the updated version. I was not disappointed!
Great suggestions!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I don’t know if the results happened in 8 weeks, but after my husband started implementing many of the suggestions in this book (along with the prescription med he was already taking) his cholesterol went from sky high to within normal range.
Great
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book is wonderful and contains a vast amount of knowlege. I read and followed the older one written years ago, and it changed my health.
Now this one even explains more with greater knowlege in it. I love the new recipes. I loved both books.
A great, practical guide for lowering cholesterol. Worked for this MD!
Rating:4 out of 5 stars
This is truly and excellent book. A well-written, practical guide for lowering your cholesterol.
I am an MD and my cholesterol “before” was TOTAL: 278, LDL 188, HDL 36, TRIGS. 221. I followed his program, and after just under the 8 weeks, TOTAL 204, LDL 119, HDL 50, TRIGS 147.
Most of what he says makes lots of sense and is backed up by lots of good, solid, medical eveidence. Honestly, I was skeptical of some of what he said, and pulled up the primary journal references, and reviewed, and the evidence was indeed quite good. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE REGARDING NIACIN IN GENERAL AND ENDURACIN IN PARTICULAR!!! Don’t miss that last point. This really could save your life and obviate need for statins and other things, which are not necessarily medically evil as some seem to think, but are really not the best for most, as Kowalski points out. BUT, I do think he under-plays the fact that statins probably are best for those with very high LDL, especially, if they cannot reach target LDL level with niacin—but niaicin could help need less statin.
Now, why not 5 stars? 1) Despite being based on good solid evidence, his book is till a bit too anecdotal “me” “the docs I’ve spoken with”, etc.
2) Some things he says are scientifcally a bit suspect—”I’ve only heard thousands of satisfied people over 20 years”—well that itself is what we call reporting bias—those who tried and failed or had other complaints are very unlikely to write to the author unless they have a real axe to grind. So I would not go in thinking this has a 100% success rate!
Similarly he keeps saying things around studies like ” those who started with the highest levels had the biggest changes.” We call this “regressiion to the mean”. It means that a drug that tends to normalize things will necessarily make a bigger jump for those who are worse off to start. So the drug really is doing the same thing no matter where you are staring from.
3) Enduracin is dirt cheap. But if you start using everything else he suggests as little adjuncts, it really starts to get expensive for the poor or middle class. For example, if you take the Endur phytosterols with every meal, or the Profibe fiber he suggests 3 times daily, and the Pantesin, you’ve just added about $75 per month. Now that is rough, because I DO think those things help, especially to get a bit more LDL lowering, on top of the Enduracin. But he needs to address teh cost issue head on.
OVERALL: Get the book, discuss with your doc. Try it. If your doc won’t give you the 4-6 mos. to try this, fire him!!! Really…because this really could save your life in a very well-tolerated way. But as always, keep up a bit of healthy skepticism
the best advice!
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I’ve ordered this book before–I lend it out and replace it again and again. My friends always keep their copies because they have the same experience I have (and they want to keep the recipes on hand). Using its advice, I’ve successfully lowered my cholesterol dramatically without the dangerous drugs that are prescribed everywhere today. It’s realistic, easy-to-read, and helpful.
Great Cholesterol resource
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
The worst thing about health research is that what’s considered healthy today is considered bad the next and revised back to good the day after that. Mr Kowalski makes this a great book because he collates all the best research, summarizes it and in most cases gives a rational recommendation based not just on the research but on the results he has achieved.
For the average person dealing with an average cholestrerol problem, I would highly recommend this book as all you need to learn what you are doing wrong and what you culd do to improve your cholesterol measures
Results have been nothing short of phenomenal.
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
This book has changed my life, to put it mildly. I’ve been following it for almost four months now. I’m 53 and have not felt this healthy in 20 years. I weigh less than I did 20 years ago. I feel almost like a kid again. Even my eyesight has improved and I rarely have to wear my distance glasses anymore.
But it was my heart that I was worried about four months ago. Shortly after starting the niacin and other supplements, I could actually feel a difference in my heart and blood chemistry. It is my belief that if there is such a thing as a miracle supplement, it’s niacin. Even my mental acuity has increased.
Today I got the results of my most recent blood test. When I went in to the doctor’s office, the nurse practitioner looked at my results and asked me for a list of the medications I’m taking. I answered “nothing, not a single medication”. She clearly didn’t believe me, so I told her again, and she just looked kind of shocked and said “Well, that’s a good thing!”.
All the heart doctor told me was that he would like me to take some fish oil to “improve my LDL pattern”. Guess he was having trouble finding anything to advise me on. LOL. This was a far cry from my visit four months ago when he put heavy pressure on me to start using statins, et al. I’m grateful that I found this book instead.
Here are my before and after blood test results:
Total cholesterol: dropped from 252 to 196.
LDL (bad) cholesterol: dropped from 164 to 100
HDL (good) cholesterol: rose from 51 to 60
Triglycerides: dropped from 185 to 96
Blood pressure: dropped from 136/94 to 122/74
I’m thrilled. My wife is thrilled. I exercise more, I eat better, and I don’t even have bad niacin flushes anymore. Kowalski was a genius.
Robert E Kowalski , R.I.P.
Rating:3 out of 5 stars
This book is certainly well written which is to be expected since Kowalski was a medical journalist, and his program has helped some. I use the past tense because nowhere in these reviews do I find the information that Kowalski died suddenly in November 2007 of a pulmonary aneurysm at the relatively young age of 65. Kowalski’s online newsletter has been discontinued. It is curious that the regular physicals and special medical monitoring Kowalski describes in his book did not reveal this problem. Pulmonary aneurysms are rare, but not undetectable. Kowalski cited the results of those tests as proof his program worked, and it appears the program addressed the most obvious of Kowalski’s circulatory problems, but it is just as obvious that Kowalski’s doctors missed the boat, with tragic results. Just goes to show that now matter how determined one is, no matter how disciplined one is, fate has a way of stepping in.
A reply to the negative reviewer
Rating:5 out of 5 stars
I, too like the good reviewers, found this book to be the best explanation of what my cholesterol problems are. I stumbled across it in the library and it was like a revelation.
The problem is, if you don’t have a good doctor, or, have one of those New York City insurance doctors that just shove statins at you, or if you have one of those specialists who advise the same thing as the book does, but don’t bother to say why, or don’t tell you to take the phytostatins just before a meal with cholesterol–that they will only stay with you for an hour–all of which happened to me–this book just might save your life.
It’s shamefully inaccurate review and it should be taken down, if the writer has any sense of being helpful in this confusing age.