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Deep Dive on Cardiovascular Myths and Truths for Practitioners

Hi!

Are you confident in your knowledge of Cardiovascular Myths & Truths, as seen through the functional medicine lens?

Although you may already be a savvy practitioner, I am certain you will learn something new in this video. You’ll walk away with pages of notes and practical pearls you can use in your practice right away.

Here are some of the things we’ll be discussing:

  • Yes, CVD begins in the gut too! But you’ll be surprised in which part.
  • Cardiovascular drugs contribute to the specific downstream dysfunction they are supposed to be helping? Yes!
  • The very first sign of CVD is an actual heart attack a Large amount of the time.  Key, early markers are Not being assessed. Are you missing them too?  
  • Beyond magnesium and omega-3s … do you know which foods and supplements can actually improve hypertension and atherosclerosis? Get beyond marketing hype.
  • The #1 popular vitamin supplement that may be actually contributing to CVD, especially in high doses. Do you know what it is?
  • Beyond fat, cholesterol, carbs, and calcium: What is the unexpected top root cause of CVD?

Thank you very much for joining in the fun and learning!

With warmth, love, and gratitude to you for sharing your gifts with so many –

Please share your thoughts (please be thorough) in the “Ask a Question” area below about what inspired you in this presentation. Include what type of practitioner you are, so that we can all see your unique perspective.

 

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Tracey Powers

As always, myriad pearls wow! My pearl tonight is the increase of LDL and fibrinogen being a reflection of stress, (not dietary cholesterol especially with a healthy deviant diet ;), Yet a natural immune response, and in women who have elevated LDL because hypothyroid function reduces the uptake of LDL into the liver and reduces the recycling of cholesterol that goes through the bile thereby not revitalizing our cholesterol supply; wow! I want to dive deeper into the hormones and cardiovascular courses!

silvia graber

love the reminder that chronic lifestyle habits and stress affects blood sugar and our arteries as a result,, its not just about food! thanks for the great talk!

Therese Caraway
Therese Caraway

Hi Tracy
Wonderful and very informative webinar… as usual. Always enjoy listening to you.
My pearl is the cortisol…fibrinogen…melatonin connection. Fascinating! You always hear stress is such a insidious problem but I have not heard it described in relation to fibrinogen and melatonin.
I just love the detective interconnectedness!!!
Thanks for another great webinar!!

Martina Sturm
Martina Sturm

My two biggest pearls today were, high LDL in men is often associated with high levels of stress, whereas hypothyroid is the most common cause in women.

Marina Raban
Marina Raban

Great talk as always, Tracy!
it was fascinating to hear about low thyroid function and connection to melatonin and increased LDL.
So many tips and interesting connections. Loved the analogy of GB and blender- very visual.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Marina

Tammy Cairns

So many great pearls! I’m looking forward to watching this again when I can take some notes. Hey, how did you know I have a cut on my left index finger? LOL! I love the deep dives. I hope I win!

shobhna batta
shobhna batta

Another excellent FB live from Tracy!! It was interesting to learn the connection between cortisol and melatonin. How Stress can impact so many body functions, including your sleep and Cardiovascular health!!
Keep them coming, Tracy! Great work.

Betsy Cox

Hi Tracy. Thank you for such great information!
For me, it was really interesting to learn more
about what drives high LDL in men vs
in women. Such a key / important puzzle
piece and valuable tool to offer
clients a greater sense of reliability and
strategy – to provide relief as soon as possible
for those struggling with CVD.

Heidi Hackler
Heidi Hackler

Wow, learning HUGE stuff in this one, THANKS, Tracy! Hoping I got this right: Look for high cholesterol in women stemming from suboptimal cellular thyroid function, which leads to suboptimal cellular function throughout the body. T3 plays an essential role in helping the liver process and remove any excess cholesterol from the body. When the body does not produce enough thyroid hormones, the liver cannot process as much cholesterol as it should, creating higher cholesterol stores in the blood.

Look for markers of optimal T4 with suboptimal T3 (meaning the T4 isn’t converting to T3). And since T3 is considered a major regulator of mitochondrial function, having low T3 adversely impacts mitochondria and our energy levels as well as increasing cholesterol.

MARSUE MAY
MARSUE MAY

Definitely the connection to Vit D, Calcium, and magnesium!

Kimberly Kopetseg
Kimberly Kopetseg

Every webinar provides something new to think about. I am very interested in inflammatory markers so I would like to dive deeper into inflammatory markers like IL-6 and how it affects low T3 d/t inflammation.

Katie Barden
Katie Barden

NP currently working in a conventional primary care practice. We have been recommending high dose vitamin D regularly for our patients. Not anymore, not until today did I kn the negative impact. It makes sense though.

charlotte ott
charlotte ott

Beta blockers reduce melatonin which results in a reduction in the body’s arteries abiltiy to heal.

Lori Mouratoff
Lori Mouratoff

My big take away was firstly your wonderful enthusiasm for this topic, absolutely contagious. And also, the interconnectedness of sympathetic overdrive causing a pro-inflammatory state that can cause CVD. Thank you!

Moirar Leveille
Moirar Leveille

I truly like the connection reminder of not fixing cholesterol without fixing the environment. Also higher LDL in women can be related to hypothyroid. Beta blockers use decrease the production of melatonin. So many pearls such stress increases blood sugar.

Sheri Brinkmeyer

As always, another amazing flood of information that helps connect the dots (well the swirls – LOL!). It is so inspiring to realize that so many things, even metabolic dysfunction leading to cardiovascular disease, can have a root in something as ‘simple’ as stress.

Helga de Bontin
Helga de Bontin

Hi Tracy, your talks are ALWAYS SO fascinating! From today’s talk I took away that thyroid hormones and cholesterol are so intimately connected, especially that suboptimal T3 is intimately connected with gut dysbiosis, intestinal impermeability, brain fog and much more and can impair the uptake of LDL into the liver and general cholesterol recycling!!!! Wow!
THANK YOU!

Kirk
Kirk

Vitamin D needs to be ramped up sequentially in order for the cell receptors can adjust along with the D rather than being flooded.

Felecia Sumner
Felecia Sumner

Hi Tracy! Thanks as always for a very insightful session. So many pearls, but I appreciate you mentioning that insulin resistance is our bodies actually trying to do the RIGHT THING for us, but conventional medicine and our nature forces us to ignore this huge signal. Very much changed my perspective and allows me to piece things together even more. I’m a DO and this is great stuff!

Melissa Lee

As a health coach, I find Tracy’s emphasis on focusing on lifestyle choices and being aware of the body’s ancient wisdom in its biochemical reactions relieving! This is such a big part of my work and gives me motivation to help my clients see what is true about their cardiovascular health. I also found inspiration in the science that cholesterol and insulin can be driven up by stress.