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pundit999 wrote:Sorry to hear about your heart attack.
The silver lining is that you have come to the right place.
You still have another 60 years to live and the only way is to adopt a whole plants only diet.
Buy dr esselstyn book and follow it 100 percent.
You will we tremendous improvement in a few short weeks.
You are likely already on a high dose statin and should continue taking all the medicines your cardiologist has prescribed.
A whole food plant based diet with no added oil helps in lowering cholesterol but it also helps in myriad other ways people are genertunaware if: reduction in tomato and thereby inflammation, effects similar to aspirin, generation of nitric oxide to help make arteries flexible etc.
Heart disease is one disease that this way if eating addresses very well. You may never have another episode if you follow it in addition to taking the usual meds.
Good luck and many of us are here to give more details . We have travelled this path. You are not alone.
pocketsand wrote:Vitamin B12 is tricky at the moment since I haven't yet found reliable information about whether or not B12 on it's own may be dangerous for a person with stents (via narrowing) or if that's only for people taking folate, B-6, and B-12 together. Holding off until I see the cardiologist next week for an exercise stress test.
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