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Heart Disease Prevention: The Food Your Cardiologist Never Mentions w/ Dr. William Davis
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- The Trusted Pharmacist
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- Jun 25, 2026
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Summary
When it comes to heart disease, conventional medicine has told us the same thing: watch your cholesterol, take the medication if you need it, eat less saturated fat, and follow the guidelines. And most women do. They get the labs done, they fill the prescriptions, they cut the butter, and they trust that the system has thought this through. What they're rarely told is that the approach they're following has been shown, in study after study, to have almost no impact on whether heart disease actually progresses. The marker their doctor is treating, LDL cholesterol, turns out to be the wrong target. And the dietary advice they've been given may be making things worse. The thing that actually moves the needle looks nothing like a prescription. For thousands of patients, it started with removing one food most of them considered healthy. Dr. William Davis is a cardiologist and the New York Times number one bestselling author of Wheat Belly. He spent nearly two decades performing cardiac interventions before concluding that the system he was trained in was treating the wrong problem, too late. In this episode, he breaks down why the standard prevention advice doesn't work, what wheat is actually doing to the body, and what women can do right now that most cardiologists will never tell them. Things You'll Learn In This Episode Standard heart disease protocol doesn't always work Studies show it has almost no impact on whether coronary disease actually progresses. Why does the conventional approach keep getting recommended when the evidence doesn't support it? Wheat does far more damage than most people realize When patients cut wheat, they lost weight, reversed diabetes, and resolved conditions unrelated to their reasons for coming in. Why does one food affect so many different…