The Best Diet For Heart Disease (or Heart Attack) – Diet For Heart Patients – Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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so the question today is what will be

the best diet for heart disease well

let’s look at the things that can

actually cause the heart attack first of

all the coronary artery okay

it becomes clogged that is going to

obstruct blood flow to the heart muscle

and the heart muscle is gonna cramp and

your heart attack okay that would be one

okay so now let’s talk about arrhythmias

you have a problem with the pacemaker

the rhythm of the heart is off and blood

can pool in different parts of the heart

and then it can develop a clot that clot

can then spread and clog an artery and

then you have a heart attack and then we

have the heart muscle itself let’s say

you don’t have a clogged artery but the

heart muscle itself just cramps to the

point where it’s like a muscle cramp at

a new heart and you just basically die

of a heart attack so these are three

different mechanisms so let’s reverse

engineer and look at the whole sequence

of events that happens that leads up to

some plaque or a clot so you don’t just

end up with plaque you and you start

with inflammation okay so we have some

type of damage going on in the wall of

this coronary artery then the body

starts accumulating cholesterol protein

and calcium as a band-aid okay and so

you start developing clacking you can

also develop a clot and then when it

gets big enough it can either dislodge

or to stop the flow of the artery and

then we don’t we no longer have oxygen

to the muscle tissue so what causes

inflammation or oxidation is high levels

of insulin usually okay and also low

nutrients it’s a deadly combination

it’s the nutrients specifically the

antioxidants that protect the tissue

against the oxidation or inflammation so

if you don’t consume enough vegetables

to get your vitamin E or your vitamin C

or foods that have the beet complex then

you set yourself up for more damage in

the artery so we want to make sure that

your diet is not high in insulin okay

that’s number one so of course we want

to get rid of the refined sugars and the

refined carbohydrates okay and how do we

get our antioxidants a lot of vegetables

will do it

okay so as far as the b-complex goes

because the B vitamins are on a lot of

foods but if you’re consuming the

refined sugars and carbs that’s going to

deplete the B vitamins think about when

you buy food with flour why do they

enrich it with B vitamins because when

they refine the flour they take out the

B vitamins and so when you consume that

flour without the B vitamins you

basically you create a deficiency of

more B vitamins because it takes those B

vitamins to metabolize that carbohydrate

okay the more carbohydrates you consume

the more B vitamins you need to

metabolize that consuming a lot of

refined grains and sugars depletes the B

vitamin complex all right now let’s talk

about arrhythmias what nutrients control

the rhythm of the heart electrolytes

okay specifically potassium and

magnesium so what foods contain

potassium magnesium you guessed it

vegetables things like avocado leafy

green anything leafy green would have

magnesium in it and it just so happens

that both of these minerals are in

vegetables so if you’re not consuming

any vegetables and you’re consuming a

lot again refined carbohydrates you set

yourself up for depleting the

electrolytes and by the way when you

develop insulin resistance you you don’t

absorb potassium or magnesium that well

so that can exaggerate the problem all

right

let’s talk about the heart muscle itself

let’s see you don’t have a clogged

artery but you are very low in vitamin E

okay vitamin E has a very specific

purpose of increasing oxygen in the

heart muscle itself but if you’re low in

vitamin E the heart has to work harder

and it will have a tendency to cramp up

and this could create angina and lead to

a heart attack a vitamin B deficiency

will also do it as well so you need

vitamin B and vitamin E for the heart

muscle and by the way by the mini as an

antioxidant protects the lining of the

artery okay so it’s a very protective

nutrient and I mentioned this before the

way you become deficient in vitamin E

and in vitamin B

is consuming refined grades so it’s not

always about just not consuming that

nutrient it could be that you’re

consuming things that are depleting that

nutrient a lot of refined grains as in

white flour will deplete your vitamin E

and your vitamin B’s okay and of course

you probably see this all the time that

you have to consume whole grains for a

healthy heart but in reality and most of

those whole grains come with a lot of

refined grain which they’re saying

that’s acceptable but any amount of

refined grains will deplete these

nutrients so and the problem with whole

grains is yes whole grain does consume a

lot of vitamin E and to be complex but

as soon as you grind the grain which is

the seed of grass it oxidizes and you

lose those nutrients so yes it’s true

that whole grains do contain quite a bit

of vitamin E and we think about wheat

germ oil okay wheat germ oil it’s low to

fight a mini and even to be complex but

when you grind the grain into flour

that’s when you oxidize those nutrients

so when you buy this a whole grain bread

you’re you’re not realizing that they

made that bread weeks before and they I

don’t know when they ground the flour it

probably wasn’t fresh so they grind the

flour it sits in the shelf it oxidizes

and then they make the bread out of

whole grain well those vitamins already

destroyed unless you yourself are able

to grind your grain and then make your

bread but of course if you did that

you’re going to be raising insulin

because of the nature of the

carbohydrates so yes you’ll have the

vitamins in there that will protect you

to some degree but you also have the

spike in insulin so we’re recommending

not doing grains on this eating plan you

know I just realized something this

really resembles the ketogenic plan

doesn’t it it does

Wow what a coincidence so how if the

keto is what I’m gonna recommend for

supporting a healthy heart so if you

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