bill:
If he was not following the AHA guidelines, he's a hypocrite.
Either way, he's got a big problem.Yep, the American MI Association has got a lot of explainin' to do, and since Nov 13, on their press releases pages:
...crickets...I've seen one unsourced comment that they are blaming "genetics", but that's actually no excuse. Dr. Davis put himself out of business as an interventional cardiologist because all of his patients stopped having "events" (all; not just the ones without FH).
In Dr. Davis' programs, factors like adverse ApoE and elevated Lp(a) just mean that you need to be more strict about following a diet that is low in small LDL particles, low in inflammatory antagonists, and high in beneficial micronutrients like EPA, DHA, Vitamin D and Mg (and that would be pretty close to the opposite of the AHA diet) ... and should we mention optimized thyroid - which the AHA has probably never heard of, and would not know how to test, diagnose and treat if they did. Gut flora? Who?
Do not expect the AHA to correctly react to this in less than 20 years. Just grant them the same credibility that you give to the USDA, ADA (any of them), and Big Carb™ generally.
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