Product Description
While most books focus solely on the role of cholesterol in heart disease, Reverse Heart Disease Now draws on new research that points to the surprising other causes. Two leading cardiologists draw on their collective fifty years of clinical cardiology research to show you how to combine the benefits of modern medicine, over-the-counter vitamins and supplements, and simple lifestyle changes to have a healthy heart.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 37 reviews)

IT'S THE REAL DEAL - READ THIS BOOK! by E. Miller (USA)

5 Stars
October 04, 2009
I heard through a friend of mine about someone they knew who, under a doctor's supervision, applied some of the recommendations in the book. He was gradually able to get off his blood thinners and blood pressure meds and is doing fine. I suffer from DVT's (have had seven) and PE's (have had three), and HBP. I am glad to be alive but I am sick of all the meds, blood draws, and side effects which I am told, that I would have to put up with for the rest of my life. I have done tons of research on alternative therapies so I was curious about this book. I hit the jackpot here. Great information, well written, intelligent, documented, referenced, and practical. Lot's of useful info that other books leave out like supplement details, dosages, and resources, as well as realistic programs and recomendations for specific conditions. The book is very balanced and is not against traditional medicine. It picks up where traditional therapies fall short. Get it - You won't regret it.

Most comprehensive book on integrative cardiology by D. Sammons (Johnson City,TN)

5 Stars
September 30, 2009
This book is absolutely fantastic!! It is one of the most comprehensive books I have read on integrative cardiology. (I would also recommend, IS YOUR CARDIOLOGIST KILLING YOU, by Sherry Rogers MD.

Felling Better. by John Isaacs (Barre, VT)

5 Stars
September 12, 2009
After three months of following Dr. Sinatra's nutritional suggestions I feeel 100% better. Now I am hoping to feel 100% better than this. I gave this book to my cardiologist

Megadoses and some useful information. by Samuel Chell (Kenosha,, WI United States)

3 Stars
September 02, 2009
Not to be confused with the current #1 best-seller, "Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease" by Esselstyn, "Reverse Heart Disease Now" by Sinatra et. al. is also selling at a brisk pace as is "No More Heart Disease" by Ignarro. (Ornish's "Program for Reversing Heart Disease" is perhaps perceived as dated, but may be the best all-around, well-considered book of the bunch.) Both Sinatra and Ignarro satisfy some readers' need for pill recommendations; Esselstyn instead offers an extreme vegan solution (even fish oil is excluded); Ornish offers, in addition to diet and supplements, advice about attitude and life-style changes. Still, after reading Sinatra's recommendations (prepare to become a full-time swallower), Esselstyn's food-based approach seems less extreme or radical than Sinatra's belief in the power of vitamins--lots of them. Here's the supplement cocktail constituting the "essence" of Sinatra's recommendations: 1. CoQ10 (the marquee player, but 200 mg. required for therapeutic cases); 2. Magnesium (no less than 400 mg); 3. D-Ribose (10 grams), 4. L-Carnitine: (1 gram). Ignarro's required regimen, you will notice, is somewhat different: 1. L-Arginine (the quintessential supplement, no less than 4 grams daily); 2. L-Citrulline (necessary to activate the beneficial activity of arginine, no less than 200 mg per day); 3. Vitamin C (500 mg); 4. Vitamin E (200 IU); 5. Folic Acid (400 mcg); 6. Alpha lipoic acid (10 mg). Both authors recommend numerous other supplements, frequently overlapping with one another, but the aforementioned two combinations are their respective "essential" therapy kits along with fat restriction, exercise, etc. Some of these recommendations are not only for products intended for healthy athletes but for doses 20-40 times greater than the doses recommended by the manufacturer (L-Ribose). There's also the assumption, clearly not espoused by the manufacturers, that these amounts are no problem for compromised hearts and won't interact problematically with prescribed medications. Readers who follow the recommendations to the letter will require courage, commitment and faith. And money. Sinatra breaks down the costs of his recommended program--for those who are sufficiently well-heeled, several hundred monthly; for comparative paupers, a blue-plate special of minimal medications that'll set you back a mere hundred per month. The author acknowledges (but that's about all) the difficulty of swallowing (very literally) all of his advice, but it's somewhat distressing that there's so little literature about the drain on the system that is experienced by some people who commit to these megadose regimens, telling themselves they must be feeling better while there tired bodies are meanwhile screaming out for relief from the constant onslaught of non-nutrient substances. I know several doctors who characterize these books, and most of the genre, as primarily about making money. Perhaps they're envious about not writing their own book (along with a mail-order vitamin business), but I also know that medical students are frequently taught, contrary to the recommendations here, that augmentation of a substance that is part of the body's own make-up is often as misguided as some traditional Asian medicinal practices that recommend eating the gonads of a tiger as a cure for impotency. The benefits of CoQ10, for example, can be severely compromised if not nullified if the ingestion of the substance is insufficient to penetrate the "cellular membrane" present at the level of the mitochondria where the body manufactures and stores it. I frankly am inclined to take seriously many of these books' recommendations, since the authors are highly qualified as physician-scientists not to mention experienced in actual practice with cardiac patients. But readers considering purchase of the books, especially some who have difficulty with side-effects from even non-prescription products--or with the swallowing and digestion of numerous supplements and vitamin products--should know what to expect. Moreover, there are other books (e.g. Dr. Esselstyne's) that promise the same results without the pills but with a commitment to a vegan diet--which for some may suddenly appear less stringent than originally thought.

Very informative by Oku (USA)

5 Stars
August 06, 2009
I bought this book because my blood pressure readings came back elevated a few times. I wanted to know what to do to lower it naturally.

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