Love and intimacy are at the root of what makes us sick and what makes us well, what causes sadness and what brings happiness, what makes us suffer and what leads to healing.


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events remain the top cause of death because individuals are largely un- aware of treatment options before they get into trouble. More, “Most people falsely assume that their condition has been fixed with a medical proce- dure and/or drugs, and that a lifestyle change isn’t necessary.”


Cholesterol’s Bad Rap Dr. Stephen Sinatra, an integrative cardiologist, anti-aging specialist and bioenergetics psychotherapist in Man- chester, Connecticut, has also shifted his heart health paradigm. He now pre- scribes a combination of conventional medicine, food, supplements, mind/ body strategies and natural healing methods. His book, Heartbreak and Heart Disease: A Mind/Body Prescrip- tion for Healing the Heart, relates many inspiring case histories that address the


psycho-emotional component of heart health and illustrate how to repair and reopen a broken heart by releasing long-repressed emotions. Following two years of Gestalt psy-


chotherapy training and seven years of bioenergetics training, Sinatra likewise realized that heartbreak was one of the major causes of heart disease. An expert in the field of natural cardiology, he had once believed that cholesterol and fat were the primary causes before 40 years of treatment research taught him otherwise.


“Cholesterol is not the reason for heart disease,” advises Sinatra, founder of HeartMDInstitute.com and author of The Great Cholesterol Myth. “The body produces and needs cho- lesterol to convert sunlight to vitamin D, to make sex hormones, vital semi- permeable membranes for the body’s


trillions of cells, plus bile salts for digestion. Even your brain makes and uses cholesterol to build connections between the neurons that facilitate learning and memory.”


Real Perpetrators Sinatra names the real perpetrators of heart disease—stress, inflammation and overeating sugar and processed foods containing saturated fat. He counsels that the heart benefits less from a low- fat, high-carbohydrate diet than one low in carbohydrates and higher in healthy fats, overturning widespread medical mantras.


Also, a high-fructose, high-grain


carbohydrate diet raises triglycerides, increases the risk of metabolic syn- drome and contributes to insulin resistance, causing the liver to produce more cholesterol, as well as more inflammatory, low-density lipopro- tein cholesterol (LDL) particles, all of which increase the risk for CHD, diabetes and stroke. The American Heart Association (AHA) estimates that metabolic syndrome, which affects nearly 35 percent of American adults,


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