On 17th March 2019 I had a near-fatal heart attack!
- I was 51!
- My cholesterol readings were normal!
- I didn't smoke! (and never have)
- I'm not diabetic!
- I wasn't overweight!
- I was considered fit and healthy!
What You (And Your Doctor) Think You Know About Heart Disease Is Probably Wrong!
More than 17 million people die each year from CVD and the number is growing!
- If you have suffered a heart attack but have no obvious risk-factors, don't worry: You aren't the only person that has been sleep-walking towards heart disease!
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Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart will help you to understand what really caused your heart attack, and provide you with the lifestyle advice and supplement recommendations to reverse your atherosclerosis and improve your quality of life.
- If you have been told you are high-risk for heart disease because your cholesterol is high, don't panic!: This is NOT the problem your doctor has told you it is. After all 50% of those that suffer heart attacks have LOW cholesterol!
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Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart explains why cholesterol levels are a poor measurement to establish risk, and outlines the measurements you really need to monitor to understand your risk for CVD.
- If you have been prescribed a statin to reduce your risk of CVD: You are taking a medication that is not only ineffective at preventing heart disease, but can actually increase your risk for CVD!
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Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart exposes the damage caused by our commonly-held beliefs regarding heart disease and how we are actually making it more likely to happen!
"If I lined-up 100 men your age, YOU are about the last person I would have expected to have a heart attack!"
My cardiologist after my discharge from hospital, just before he told me he had no idea of the cause of my heart attack (but prescribed the highest dose statin anyway).
“It definitely isn’t heart related, we can rule that out straight away. You don’t smoke, you are fit and your cholesterol levels are really good.”
MY GP two weeks before my heart attack!
My Story
My Story
As a fit and active 51-year old, with low cholesterol and no obvious risk-factors, I experienced a near fatal heart attack.
I was fitted with a stent and prescribed a life-sentence of medication, that contained a long list of terrible side effects, and was told that the chances of another heart attack were quite high.
Confused, scared and frustrated at the position I found myself in, I decided to learn as much as I could about heart disease.
What I have discovered along my journey to recovery, is that most of what the general public believe about heart disease is incorrect, and is actually harming their health.
Worse still, many doctors and the mainstream media continue to prescribe and promote medications, dietary and lifestyle interventions that either don’t work or lead to further health complications.
Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart is the accumulation of knowledge from numerous books, scientific journals, clinical trials and medical papers, broken-down into some simple lifestyle interventions that anybody can take to prevent, or recover from, heart disease.
Help Has Arrived...
Help Has Arrived!
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is NOT a cholesterol issue, it is in fact an inflammatory response to a number of challenges that your body is trying to defend against.
Some of these challenges are genetic, and some are the effects of hormone imbalances, negative lifestyle choices and environmental exposure to toxins.
All of these can be mitigated completely, or partially, without the use of medications through diet, lifestyle and supplementation interventions.
Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart will explain how, by implementing my easy to follow C.R.A.S.H. programme, you can dramatically reduce your risk for heart disease, or fast-track your recovery after a heart attack.
The aim of this book is to empower you to make the best decisions for your health.
In Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart you will learn...
- How to understand what caused your heart attack! (and how to read your hospital discharge documents)
- The 3 questions to ask your GP, when they prescribe you statins! (and what to do if your GP can't answer them)
- Why statins don't provide any protection against CVD! (and the supplements and lifestyle factors that do)
- The 3 supplements that can protect your endothelial wall! (and prevent atherosclerosis from starting)
- The 5 steps to reverse arterial calcification! (and dramatically improve your long-term outcome)
- The habits which when combined decrease the risk of a heart attack by over 700%! (and how to stick to them)
- Which genetic factors for CVD you might have! (and how to test for them)
- How to reduce risk from genetic factors! (without medication, and how supplements can treat specific risk factors)
- Which tests predict your CVD risk! (and which, like cholesterol, provide no predictive benefit at all!)
- Why conventional dietary advice is likely to be harming your heart! (and what to do about it)
- How fear & depression can accompany your post-heart attack recovery & increase your risk further! (without medication)
- How to implement the C.R.A.S.H. model for recovery from heart disease! (and form heart-healthy habits!)
Why Would You Take Advice From Me?
Why Would You Take Your Advice From Me!?
In case you hadn't noticed, current medical advice relating to heart disease isn't working!
Unless you are very lucky, your GP will be looking at the wrong risk factors and providing you with dangerous advice related to your cardiovascular health.
Very few doctors understand just how flawed the advice they are trained to provide is, until it is too late for their patients.
There are, however, a number of medical experts, scientists, researchers and engineers who have trawled through nearly 70 years of data from clinical trials and epidemiological studies, and have recently revealed that we have been in possession of the information to prevent heart disease for a long time.
Government guidelines for heart health are the opposite of healthy, and large public bodies set-up to provide health information are coming to the realisation, way too slowly to save YOU, that the bad advice they have given us for 50 years, is killing us!
These organisations have doubled-down on dangerous guidelines whilst chronic modern diseases like heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, Alzheimer's and dementia have skyrocketed under their guidance!
Look at how our "heart-healthy" diets have impacted CVD deaths in the last 100 years.
The chart below is just one example of an element that is harming our health. It shows how in the last 100 years we have increased consumption of pro-inflammatory vegetable oil (seed oil), butter consumption has declined, and deaths from heart disease have increased enormously! In Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart I explain the various elements that promote inflammation and how you can remove them from your life.
Even the intervention of modern surgical practices (such as stents and bypass surgery) have barely halted the inexorable rise!
CVD death was extremely rare a little over 100 years ago, and whilst the statistics show that we consume far less saturated fat, butter and meat than ever, (replaced with grains, wheat and processed food) we have created chronic, modern diseases like heart attacks, stroke, type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's and dementia.
To put this in perspective, on 22 March 2021, a year after COVID-19 (a pandemic like none seen in generations) had resulted in 2.8 million tragic deaths globally... CVD is estimated to have resulted in over 17 million deaths in the same timeframe. MORE THAN 6 TIMES AS MANY!
Modern Chronic Disease Explained!
We have never known more about food and nutrition.
We have never known more about exercise and wellness.
We have never known more about chemistry, physics and biology.
We have never had such amazing technology to enable us to improve health outcomes
And despite all of this, we have allowed ourselves to become fatally afflicted by chronic disease.
Not only that, but the dietary, lifestyle and medication advice that we adopt certainly isn’t working.
How is this possible, and what can you do to prevent yourself from adding to the statistics, by sleep-walking into cardiovascular disease?
This All Sounds Complicated!
If you think cardiovascular disease is complicated...you're right. It is complicated.
But.........
The great news is, that Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart makes it very easy to understand!
In fact, I specifically wrote chapter summaries so that even my Nan (if she were still with us, bless her) would have been able to understand what causes heart disease and how to prevent it.
CVD is a disease of inflammation, and our bodies response to that inflammation. In fact many chronic modern diseases such as type 2 diabetes, Alzheimer's, stroke and heart attacks have common foundational elements, involving inflammation.
The inflammation itself can be caused by a number of factors...genetics, lifestyle, mental health, gut health, diet, environment, pathogens.
Our response to that inflammation is specific to us, and can be influenced by our genetics and our lifestyles.
I have spent 2 years reading through a LOT of material (books, studies, scholarly articles) and deprived my partner Julie and my dogs of a lot of quality time together, so I could fully understand all of the aspects of heart disease. (I think sometimes they enjoyed the space) ;o)
In my life as an IT executive I spent most of my time explaining complicated concepts to people in simple terms, and that is exactly what Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart is designed to do.
Links to evidence from over 130 medical studies, clinical trials & scholarly papers!
Some of the concepts in Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart go against conventional thinking. For those that like to go deeper into the science, and to demonstrate the validity of the conclusions, I have added references to 136 technical documents. There were plenty more available, but I wanted to strike a balance between credibility and overkill.
Chapter summaries simple enough that my Nan would understand them!
Keeping Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart as simple to read as possible was the objective of the book. I wanted it to be accessible to everyone (even my Nan, if she were alive). This doesn't mean that it is dumbed-down though. Just clear, so anybody can understand the concepts, and more people can benefit from the information, without the need for a degree in cardiology.
Images, graphics and lifestyle tips to create heart-health habits that stick!
Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart contains images and diagrams to explain many of the concepts more clearly. There is a section at the end which I call my C.R.A.S.H. programme, which outlines how you can formulate simple habits that will transform your heart health, and how you can best stick to them.
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- 4 million people die each year in Europe from CVD: (45% of all deaths)
- Nearly half of all heart attacks are classed as "silent": (no warning and no prior symptoms)
- Half of all heart attack sufferers have low cholesterol: (meaning cholesterol is NOT a predictor of risk)
- One person dies from CVD every 36 seconds in the USA: (it is the biggest killer of humans globally)
- Estimates show that up to 50% of first heart attacks are fatal: (you may never get a chance to heal your heart if you don't start now!)
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About The Author
Hi, I'm Sean, father to Elliot & Phoebe, partner to Julie and feeder/walker to Bailey, Hugo, Willow & Buffy.
Julie and I live on the beautiful Dorset coast, and spend as much time as we can on the water, playing tennis and walking our dogs in and around the beautiful New Forest countryside.
Having spent most of my working life in the IT industry, my recent heart attack has helped me to re-assess what really matters in life, spending time with the people I care most about in the world, and maximising the pleasure in every moment.
I hope that by sharing my experience with heart disease, and the things I have learned about preventing and recovery, I can help you and your loved-ones to improve the quality and quantity of years you spend together.
Feel free to reach-out to me on Instagram, the UYHHYH Facebook page or my blog at www.uyhhyhblog.com if I can be of help to you on your journey, and to obtain information and support to improve your heart health.
Sean Fane
Author - Use Your Head, Heal Your Heart
