Before the Heart Attacks: A Revolutionary Approach to Detecting, Preventing, and Even Reversing Heart Disease

by H. Robert Superko, Laura Tucker

Heart attacks are preventable; fatalities from heart attacks should be virtually unheard of; and heart disease can be controlled, possibly even reversed, says renowned researcher and cardiologist H. Robert Superko, M.D. In his groundbreaking work, Before the Heart Attacks , Dr. Superko for the first time outlines his innovative program to the public.

Dr. Superko was among the first physicians to question why standard screening tests missed so many pending heart attacks, and his search for the answer evolved into an entirely new approach to diagnosing, preventing, and treating heart disease.

The key to this groundbreaking cardiology is a new generation of screening tests that allow doctors to go beyond early detection of heart disease, to predict problems before they occur. Now doctors can step in and give you an individualized action plan that can forestall the disease before you suffer a first symptom! By targeting the metabolic and genetic underpinnings that can lead to tomorrow's heart attacks, you have the power to change your cardiac destiny.

So rather than waiting until you require invasive surgery, you can help to sidestep the devastation of advanced heart disease by adopting today the right dietary and exercise plans and taking the right supplements and, if necessary, medications. What truly distinguishes Dr. Superko's approach is the ability it gives us to customize treatment in a far more patient-specific manner than ever before. That way it is possible to strike the disease before it strikes you!

Read this book, make an appointment with your doctor, and get a new lease on a long and healthy life for your heart.

Genres: Health

256 pages, Hardcover

First published June 28, 2003

Reviews

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the book, Before the Heart Attacks, we are introduced to new tests and methods pioneered by the author to assess your risk of a cardiac event. In the book, H. Robert Superko M.D. goes and talks about the pertinent numbers and how to find them out. This came about because he was finding that even people with good blood lipids and only 50% blockage was having massive heart attacks.

Included alongside all of this information is advice on how to reverse those readings and help you live into your 80s. The book is packed with relevant information on diet and exercise. So in these pages, you can find out that losing weight is probably the best thing you can do to improve your Cardiac Profile.

The book doesn’t really have much unexplained technical jargon and is really easy to understand. The difficult part is actually doing all of the advice that this book dispenses. Personally, I couldn’t see myself going on a vegetarian diet or anything like that. It did give out a bit of information on how to equate exercise to calories which were always an abstract thing to me. Walking a mile at a brisk pace will burn about 100 calories, so I am glad that a number was put to that.

[Catherine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy read. Out of print, but recommended by my cardiologist.