It's not often that a heart surgeon admits that he's wrong. It's even more astounding when a heart surgeon admits that everything he's advised for 25 years to prevent heart attacks was wrong. But that's exactly what Dr. Dwight Lundell did this year. For years, heart surgeons have "insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol," says Dr. Lundell. "The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice."

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As you may know, genetics plays a huge role in your health. That's why some diseases run in families. However, you don't have to give in to your genetics. While your genes may give a roadmap for future problems, researchers are discovering that you can alter where this roadmap takes you. For example, researchers have just found out that a simple vitamin can help you avoid diabetes even if your genes put you at the highest risk.

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Your heart is under constant attack. Whether it's from oxidized LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, inflammation, bacteria, lack of oxygen, chemicals, or a host of other toxins, your heart sustains a never-ending barrage from a variety of directions. The damage is often enough to cause serious problems and even death. For years, doctors didn't think there was any way to repair a damaged heart. But now we know better. God created your body to heal itself. All we have to do is give it the nutrients it needs to do its job. And one of those nutrients is a powerhouse when it comes to helping your heart heal.

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I've written a lot in recent issues of Nutrient Insider about how stomach problems can lead to other health issues, including breast cancer and thyroid problems. So it's important to treat them effectively – and prevent them from happening in the first place. Unfortunately, too many people are relying on probiotics alone to treat their stomach. And that may not be enough. Probiotics are fabulous for adding healthy bacteria to your gut. If you don't have enough of these healthy bacteria, then you can have all kinds of digestive problems. But many stomach problems aren't just a lack of good bacteria. You could have a bacterial overgrowth, a fungal infection, or an allergy problem.

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Imagine the headlines: "New drug cuts women's risk of heart attack by 32%!" That's what you would see if a drug could produce such a cut in risk. But so far, the drug companies haven't been able to match wits with the Creator. That's right! God gave us a very simple and quite tasty way to avoid heart attacks. The proof came in a recent study of 93,600 women nurses over 18 years. That's a pretty impressive number of participants and length of study. And they published their findings in the journal Circulation – a prestigious cardiac publication. So it wasn't hidden from the media. Even though the mainstream media won't pay much attention to the study, we will.

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