Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine (2^nd Ed.)

Despite decades of aggressive pharmaceutical and surgical interventions, coronary artery disease (CAD) remains the number one killer of both men and women in the Western world. The most important aspect in the treatment of CAD is to focus on prevention. Indeed, prevention is easier than cure and when CAD does present itself, a combination of conventional and alternative methodologies can truly make a difference in people?s lives. Building upon its predecessor, Nutritional and Integrative Strategies in Cardiovascular Medicine, Second Edition, provides scientific and clinical insight from leaders in the field of cardiovascular medicine who explore an integrative approach to treating and curing cardiovascular diseases through conventional and non-allopathic methodologies.

Nutritional interventions with both appropriate non-inflammatory diets and targeted nutraceutical supports are simple and basic strategies to prevent as well as help manage CAD and congestive heart failure (CHF). In fact, nutritional strategies in the treatment of CHF have not only afforded patients a better quality of life but increased survival as well. This evidence-based book describes how to integrate nutrition, supplements, lifestyle changes, and medications for improved outcomes in hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, coronary heart disease, congestive heart failure, infectious myocarditis and much more.

Topics include:

• Covid-19: An evidence-based integrative approach to supporting the myocardium
• Metabolic cardiology: An exciting new way to manage heart failure
• Contains information on hypertension and dyslipidemia
• Naturopathic approaches
• Mediterranean diet as the longevity diet of the world
• Value of omega-3s and other fats
• Role of botanicals in the treatment of cardiovascular disease
• Integrative care of the patient in extending quality of life
• Gender-specific medicine ? Perhaps a new evolving cardiovascular sub-specialty
• Role of dental disease inflammation and cardiovascular disease
• Environmental toxins and the heart
• Earthing and grounding as an energetic nutrition in healing the heart
• Autophagy and mTOR ? the "new medicine" of the future

Nutritional medicine is vitally important in the integrative care of the patient. This book will assist established health professionals as well as students preparing for advanced degrees in healthcare and offer cutting-edge and new information in cardiovascular medicine. It offers simple nutritional supports that can make the difference between not only easing human suffering, but also life and death.

- Nutrition, the Mediterranean Diet and Selected Supplements for the Prevention and Treatment of Coronary Heart Disease. - Coronary Artery Disease: The Impact of the Mediterranean Cuisine, Targeted Nutritional Supplements and Their Relationship to Autophagy/mTOR. - Naturopathic Medicine and the Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease. - Marine-Derived Omega-. - 3 Fatty Acids and Cardiovascular Disease. - Nutrition and Nutritional Supplements in the Management of Dyslipidemia and Dyslipidemia-Induced Cardiovascular Disease. - The Role of Nitric Oxide Supplements and Foods in Cardiovascular Disease. - The Treatment of Hypertension with Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Lifestyle and Pharmacologic Therapies. - Metabolic Cardiology: Management of Congestive Heart Failure. - Cardiovascular Disease in Women. - Hormones and Cardiovascular Disease. - The Heartbreak of Wheat-Related Disorders: Wheat, Gluten and Cardiovascular Disease. - The Role of the Gut Microbiome in Cardiovascular Disease. - Environmental Toxins and Cardiovascular Disease. - Dental Disease, Inflammation, Cardiovascular Disease, Nutrition and Nutritional Supplements. - COVID-19: An Evidence-Based Integrative Approach to Disease Management. - Lymphstasis, Inflammation and Atherogenesis – Connecting the Dots. - Vitamin G. Grounding as Energetic Nutrition and Its Role in Oxidative Defense and Cardiovascular Disease. - The Role of Botanicals in Cardiovascular Health. - Depression, Anxiety, Stress, and Spirituality in Cardiovascular Disease. - Index.

Dr. Stephen T. Sinatra is a board-certified cardiologist and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in Farmington, Connecticut. He is certified as a bioenergetic psychotherapist, and nutrition and anti-aging specialist. He is the founder of www.heartmdinstitute.com, an informational website dedicated to promoting public awareness of integrative medicine as well as www.vervana.com a website focused on high vibrational living and foods.

His expertise if grounded in more than forty years of clinical practice, research, and study beginning as an attending physician at Manchester Memorial Hospital. His career included nine years as Chief of Cardiology, nineteen years as Director of Medical Education and seven years as Director of Echocardiography.

Today, Dr. Sinatra is active primarily as an author, speaker, and advisor for the research and development of targeted nutritional supplements. He joined the Healthy Directions family in 1995 and his nutritional supplements are offered on drsinatra.com. His credentials include the following:

Board-certified, American Board of Internal Medicine

Board-certified, American College of Cardiology

Fellow of the American College of Cardiology

Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS), American Board of Nutrition

Fellow, American College of Nutrition

Certified Bioenergetic Psychotherapist

Certified American Board of Anti-aging Medicine

Dr. Sinatra was one of the first cardiologists to recognize the important healing power of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10)—which sparks energy production in every cell of your body, including your heart. In fact, he personally met Fred Crane, the researcher who discovered it. He began using CoQ10 with his patients in the early 1980s and has done extensive research on CoQ10 in rodent, human, and equine models. He has published more than two dozen articles on the impact of coenzymeQ10 in supporting an