Dr Mark Menolascino - 29 Jan

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FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Menolascino, Mark, author.

Title: Heart solution for women : a proven program to prevent and reverse heart disease / Mark Menolascino, MD, MS, ABIHM, ABAARM, IFMCP, founder and Medical Director of The Meno Clinic-Center for Functional Medicine.

Description: First edition. | [San Francisco, California] : HarperOne, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018040470 (print) | LCCN 2018052981 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062842169 (e-book) | ISBN 9780062842138 | ISBN 9780062842138(hardcover) | ISBN 9780062842145(paperback) | ISBN 9780062864895(audio)

Subjects: LCSH: Heart diseases in womenPrevention. | Heart diseases in womenAlternative treatment.

Classification: LCC RC682 (ebook) | LCC RC682 .M46 2019 (print) | DDC 616.1/20082dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018040470

Digital Edition JANUARY 2019 ISBN: 978-0-06-284216-9

Version 12172018

To my loving children,

Anthony Fisher and Jueliet Jade.

You brighten all my days and fill my heart with love

I am so proud of you both.

Contents

Contents

As a personalized nutrition physician and weight-loss specialist, Ive spent my entire career talking to women about their health. Through my experience listening to and caring for women, one thing I know for sure is this: Ask women about their biggest health concerns, and theyll tell you theyre afraid of getting breast cancer, developing diabetes, or having a stroke. But heres what most of them dont consider: Heart disease is the #1 killer of women, and more women suffer from heart disease than all of these other conditions combined. In fact, one in four women will develop the disease.

So why arent women more concerned about their heart health? Thats because many women, and even many of their doctors, continue to think of heart disease primarily as a male disease, despite the fact that heart attack rates are dropping in middle-aged men and are currently rising in middle-aged women.

And heres another fact: Nearly all treatments for heart disease are based on scientific research done on men, not women. This is a key reason why women who develop heart disease typically have worse outcomes than men.

If these facts alarm you, they should.

Im writing to you, reader, to introduce my brilliant friend and colleague, Dr. Mark Menolascino, and to say thank you for picking up this important book and taking this first huge step toward preserving and protecting your heart. Dr. Menolascino, one of the most brilliant and talented medical professionals Ive been honored to meet in my career, is on a mission to change these grim statistics for women. With four board certifications, Dr. Menolascino has been on the front lines of heart health and research for most of his life, running a state-of-the-art clinic where he takes a holistic approach to reversing disease and jump-starting health.

In Heart Solution for Women, Dr. Menolascino describes the surprising physiological differences between mens and womens hearts. He also explains how heart disease manifests differently in women than in men, creating symptoms including depression, anxiety, panic attacks, poor sleep, and chronic pain. In addition, he discusses how the symptoms of heart disease can be masked by pregnancy or post-pregnancy, only to emerge with a vengeance later in life when a womans heart attack advantage disappears.

In these pages, youll discover why womens heart disease symptoms often go overlooked for years, and why even ER doctors can fail to diagnose womens heart attacks. Youll also learn about the factors that put you at risk for heart diseasenot just the well-known factors such obesity and high blood pressure, but also major culprits ranging from hormone imbalances to food sensitivities to a sick gut. In addition, youll get the facts about the dangers of current medications for heart disease (for example, did you know that statins can increase your risk of diabetes by up to 50 percent?) and find out how to minimize or stop your use of these drugs.

Finallyand most important of allDr. Menolascino guides you step by step through an in-depth assessment that will empower you to develop your own personalized plan for slashing your risk of heart disease or healing an already-damaged heart. This plan includes simple, doable actions such as adding heart-healing foods to your diet (like my favorite, bone broth!), taking the right supplements, and changing your exercise routine from pro-inflammatory to anti-inflammatory workouts.

Featuring the latest research on heart, gut, brain, and hormone health and including answers to the most common misunderstandings about heart health, Heart Solution for Women will give you all the tools you need to keep your amazing heart beating strongly for life.

Dr. Kellyann Petrucci

New York Times bestselling author of Dr. Kellyanns

Bone Broth Diet and creator of DrKellyann.com

Host of the public television special 21 Days to a Slimmer, Younger You

Ive spent most of my life studying the complexities of healing the human body. During my free time, I read peer-reviewed articles from respected medical journals and travel dozens of times each year to lecture at, and learn from, medical conferences all over the world. Back home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, at the base of the spectacular Teton Mountains, I run the Meno Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Im one of five doctors in my familyboth of my brothers are internal medicine specialists, my sister is a psychiatrist, and my father was one of the worlds experts in his field. Healing the human body is in my blood, and not a day passes that I dont obsess over how to do it better.

In my search for the best medical training available, I ended up with four board certifications and a double masters degree and became a specialist in what is now called functional medicine. This term was only recently coined, but the premise of functional medicinetreating the whole body and not just individual symptomsis as old as medicine itself; its roots can be traced back thousands of years, and its practitioners have included many of the most visionary physicians in history. When I was a young doctor, it was called holistic medicine. As the concept of whole-body medicine matured it became known as integrative medicine. Today functional medicine could be defined as: