The Truth About Heart Disease How to Prevent Coronary Heart Disease and Personalize Your Treatment with Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Exercise and Lifestyle Tailored to Your Genetics

Overview of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD). What is CHD and Heart Attack or Myocardial Infarction? What are the Symptoms and Signs of CHD? Actual Patient Cases of CHD and Heart Attack or MI from Practice. What Does the Heart Artery Do When It Is Damaged? How Do You Get CHD? New Concepts in CHD. The Causes of Chest Pain. What is in Your Genes that Places You at Risk. What Are Your Genes Doing? Gene Expression in CHD and How to Treat. The Gut and the Heart Connection. Bad Food Equals Bad Arteries. Nutrition. The Blood Vessel, Brain, and Immune System Connections. Plaque Formation, Types of Plaque, and Rupture. Non-Obstructive CHD. Women and CHD. CHD Risk Factors. Hypertension. Dyslipidemia or Abnormalities of Cholesterol. How to Assess your Risk for using CHD Scoring Tests. Testing: Labs, Noninvasive, and Invasive testing The Integrative CHD Prevention Program using Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Exercise, Weight Management. Future Prospective. Summary and Conclusions.

Biography

Dr. Mark Houston is Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Clinical Instructor in the department of Physical Therapy and Health Care Sciences at George Washington University (GWU), Adjunct Professor in Metabolic Medicine at the University of South Florida Medical School. He is also Director of the Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology and Medical Director of the Division of Human Nutrition at Saint Thomas Medical Group, Saint Thomas Hospital and Health Services in Nashville, TN. He is on the faculty of A4M for the FAARM and the Metabolic Medicine Institute (MMI) and George Washington University (GWU). Dr. Houston was selected as one of the Top Physicians in Hypertension in the US in 2008-2018 by the Consumer Research Council, and by USA Today as one of the Most Influential Doctors in the US in both Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia twice in 2009- 2010. He was selected as The Patient’s Choice Award in 2010 -2012 by Consumer Reports USA. He was also selected as one of the Top 100 physicians in the US by the American Health Council in 2017 and one of the Top 50 Functional and Integrative Medical Doctors in the USA in August 2017. He was selected as America’s Best Physicians in Cardiology 2018 by the National Consumer Advisory Board. He has four board certifications by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) and the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine (ABAARM) and American Board of Cardiology (ABC) Certification in Hypertensive Cardiovascular Disease (2017) (DBAC). He is one of the founding members and director of the International Society of Integrative Metabolic and Functional Cardiovascular Medicine (ISIMFC) founded in 2012. He is one of the most sought- after lecturers in the US on the medical topics of Hypertension, Dyslipidemia, Vascular Aging, Vascular Biology, Metabolic and Functional Medicine and Integrative and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine. Dr Houston has an active clinical practice, teaches and does clinical research at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN. and is on the medical faculty at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He is the founder of the Hypertension Institute at Saint Thomas Hospital. Please visit the web site hypertensioninstitute.com

"Dr. Houston has done it again! He has written another book that tackles the entire spectrum of causes, signs, evolution, and prevention of coronary disease, the basis for the most common reason to get sick and die, heart attacks. He has that intangible quality of providing scientific rigor to the conundrum of eating to one's heart's health and of bringing complex scientific concepts down to intuitive comprehension for the lay person. This is a wonderful book that should save you from days' worth of searching the web for solutions, explanations, and discussions into what causes heart attacks and what to do to stay clear of them. As always, he uses an eminently readable prose to accompany the reader from chapter to chapter on a journey of comprehensively updated and insightfully accurate understanding of coronary health and strategies for life prolongation. A recommended reading for those who aim to be enlightened to adopt preventive measures at home and empowered to discuss options at the doctor's office"

Sergio Fazio, MD, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Stanford University Medical Center

"Dr Houston once again provides incredible insight to novel treatment options for coronary heart disease. Eventually, conventional thinking will catch up to this cutting- edge knowledge"

Mimi Guarneri MD FACC

President Academy Integrative Health and Medicine (AIHM)

UCSD Associate Clinical Professor

"Dr. Mark Houston is a prolific author and has written many books on heart disease. This newest publication especially resonates with me as the doctor has taken coronary artery disease to a new level with his profound genetic analysis regarding cardiac pathology. Bringing specific genetic insights to the table in the analysis of early coronary artery disease and utilizing unique treatments that address our individual genetic profile will be the beginning of the "NEW CARDIOLOGY" of the future. Dr. Houston is really years ahead of his time and provides some of the "secret sauce" in the management of the world’s number one killer, acute heart attack and coronary artery disease.

Stephen T. Sinatra, MD, FACC

Cardiologist and Author

"Heart disease is the number one killer of men and women but Dr. Houston has a plan to end that. His new book provides the plan to prevent and reverse heart disease at its earliest stages. This book will be a must read for my patients."

Joel Kahn, MD, FACC

Clinical Professor of Cardiology

Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity

"Dr. Houston continues to define the field of evidence based Metabolic Cardiology and demonstrates a command of the physiologic complexity inherent in cardiovascular diseases. This book is a ‘Must Have’ for any practitioner managing patients with hypertension, hyperlipidemia, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease or heart failure. It is both a guide to understanding the primary causes of these conditions and offers concrete Integrative, Functional and Anti- Aging solutions. His work has informed my own understanding of these topics, and serves as an educational foundation for my graduate students and ongoing medical education events alike."

Andrew Heyman, MD MHSA

Medical Director of Integrative Medicine

Dept of Clinical Research and Leadership

School of Medicine and Health Sciences

George Washington University

Director of Academic Affairs

Metabolic Medical Institute and A4M

"I am incredibly pleased and honored to endorse Mark Houston’s The Truth about Heart Disease. It has been my honor to participate in Dr Houston’s Advanced Cardiology Course at A4M. This course has been instrumental in elevating the quality of medical care delivered by participants with its blend of traditional and integrative approaches to cardiac care. The level of wisdom and scientific backup in this course is unparalleled. With the update of The Heart Book, Dr. Houston has imparted much of the science and wisdom of his courses in a tome that has immense clinical utility. This textbook has become a classic and the update only increases its clinical value. I heartily endorse not only this book, but also Dr. Houston’s many courses on Integrative Cardiology."

Douglas S. Harrington, M.D. FASPC, FACP, FASCP

Chairman

Predictive Health Diagnostics Company