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The Truth About Heart Disease

How to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease and Personalize Your Treatment with Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Exercise and Lifestyle Tailored to Your Genetics
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The Truth About Heart Disease by Dr. Mark Houston offers an in-depth guide to preventing coronary heart disease through knowledge of risk factors, symptoms, and early intervention. The book outlines scientifically backed prevention and treatment plans focused on nutrition, supplements, exercise, and lifestyle changes to reduce the risk of heart disease and myocardial infarction.
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This book is ideal for individuals looking to take proactive steps in managing their heart health at home. It also serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, including cardiologists and dietitians, seeking comprehensive information on heart disease prevention.

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In this book, Dr. Mark Houston provides you with scientific prevention and treatment programs to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction.

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You can prevent coronary heart disease in yourself, but you need to have the knowledge of the risk factors, the presenting symptoms, and take early actions with aggressive and proper diagnostic testing. Start a prevention program for your heart health with The Truth About Heart Disease.

In this book, Dr. Mark Houston provides you with scientific prevention and treatment programs to reduce your risk of coronary heart disease and myocardial infarction. These programs include optimal and proper nutrition, nutritional supplements, vitamins, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory agents, minerals, exercise, weight and body fat management, and other lifestyle changes.

The Truth About Heart Disease is suitable for patients wanting to adopt preventive measures at home and anyone wanting to better manage their heart health. It will be of great value to all health care practitioners, cardiologists, and dietitians.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032230900

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 August 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: CRC Press

Illustration: 7 Tables, black and white; 74 Halftones, color; 2 Halftones, black and white; 74 Illustrations, color; 2 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 684g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Dr. Mark Houston is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Clinical Instructor in the department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences at George Washington University (GWU), Adjunct Professor in Metabolic Medicine at the University of South Florida Medical School. He is also Director of the Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology and Medical Director of the Division of Human Nutrition at Saint Thomas Medical Group, Saint Thomas Hospital and Health Services in Nashville, TN. He is on the faculty of A4M for the FAARM and the Metabolic Medicine Institute (MMI) and George Washington University (GWU).

Dr. Houston was selected as one of the Top Physicians in Hypertension in the US in 2008-2018 by the Consumer Research Council, and by USA Today as one of the Most Influential Doctors in the US in both Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia twice in 2009- 2010. He was selected as The Patient’s Choice Award in 2010 -2012 by Consumer Reports USA. He was also selected as one of the Top 100 physicians in the US by the American Health Council in 2017 and one of the Top 50 Functional and Integrative Medical Doctors in the USA in August 2017. He was selected as America’s Best Physicians in Cardiology 2018 by the National Consumer Advisory Board.

He has four board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM) and American Board of Cardiology (ABC) Certification in Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease (2017) (DBAC).

He is one of the founding members and director of the International Society of Integrative Metabolic and Functional Cardiovascular Medicine (ISIMFC) founded in 2012.

He is one of the most sought- after lecturers in the US on the medical topics of Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Vascular Aging, Vascular Biology, Metabolic and Functional Medicine and Integrative and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr Houston has an active clinical practice, teaches and does clinical research at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN. and is on the medical faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

He is the founder of the Hypertension Institute at Saint Thomas Hospital. Please visit the web site hypertensioninstitute.com

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