Jeffrey Bland, PhDPresident of Big Bold Health | Human Health Thought Leader

March 2011 FMU feat Dr. Steven Gundry pt 2

2 Jun 2011 · 2 min

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Dr. Steven Gundry (speaking on a March 2011 FMU video) contrasts expected coronary heart disease recurrence rates from large studies and statin trials with outcomes he reports from a 500-patient program using a simple diet and supplements. He states large studies predict 25–50% recurrence over five years and claims statin trials show ~25% recurrence in 2.5 years. Gundry reports among 500 treated patients over five years there were 4 new major events (0.8% overall), including 2 patients receiving new stents (0.4%), one carotid endarterectomy, and one stroke in a patient who refused anticoagulation; he also cites angiographic reversal in a volunteer within roughly nine months.

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25–50% recurrence of heart disease (new event) over five years.

Around 25% recurrence in approximately 2.5 years.

Two out of 500 patients had new stents (0.4%).

Four events out of 500 patients, or 0.8% over five years.

About nine months.

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So at the end of five years, these people would be predicted on the basis of very large 10,000 people studies to have somewhere in the range of 25 to 50% recurrence rates of heart disease. In other words, a new event, a new heart attack, a new bypass, a new stent, a new stroke, a new death. And that's the standard of most tests. Even on statins? Even on statins, the best statin trials still Show A Around 25% recurrence rate in two and a half years of a new event. So clearly this is not acceptable in our patients. In five years, two out of the 500 patients had a new stent put in, which is 0.4%. One other patient had a carotid artery and arterectomy, which I did because he didn't listen to me. And one patient had a stroke who was in atrial fibrillation who refused to take Coumadin. So our overall cardiac event rate in five years in 500 patients was four out of 500, or 0.8%. So virtually nothing. And this is 500 people taken off the street with known coronary heart disease following an actual very simple diet and supplement program. This is not an irreversible process. This is not something that is going to happen to you. This is something that can be stopped. And the really exciting thing is we now have angiograms of people who have volunteered that show that, in fact, the process is reversible. And it's reversible very, very quickly. I had the pleasure of showing you one of our more recent patients who in basically nine months did a remarkable job of cleaning out his coronary arteries. And the proof is in the puddle.