🎁 Learn more about Dr. Mona Shah: www.drmonashah.com

Eat the butter. Don't eat the butter. Cholesterol doesn't matter. Cholesterol is everything. Go carnivore. Go vegan. No wonder you're confused. The diet world contradicts itself every single day, and it should be the easiest place to protect your heart, not the most confusing.

In this episode, I'm going to cut through the noise on fat, cholesterol, keto, and carnivore, and show you exactly what actually lowers the numbers that build plaque in your arteries.

⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 
0:00 What Should You Eat For Optimal Heart Health? What a Cardiologist Actually Eats
0:59 The best diet is the one you can sustain 
1:32 Why the Mediterranean pattern wins 
2:10 The 80/20 rule for eating out 
3:05 Is fat actually bad for your heart 
4:19 The truth about dietary cholesterol 
5:19 Why some people are hyper absorbers 
6:19 ApoB versus LDL explained 
7:00 The portfolio diet that lowers ApoB 23% 
9:34 How to actually read food labels

❓ QUESTIONS ANSWERED 

Is cholesterol in food actually bad for your heart? 
For most people, dietary cholesterol has a limited effect because 80 percent of your body's cholesterol is made by your liver. About 30 percent of people are hyper absorbers who take in far more cholesterol from food, so checking your ApoB is the only way to know which group you fall into.

What is the best diet for heart health? 
The strongest evidence supports a Mediterranean pattern leaning toward pescatarian or vegetarian, built on vegetables, whole grains, nuts, fish, and low added sugar. Adding the portfolio diet, which includes plant proteins, viscous fiber, and plant sterols, can lower LDL by about 30 percent and ApoB by about 23 percent.

Does saturated fat matter more than protein source? 
Yes. Research shows that eating high saturated fat keeps ApoB elevated regardless of whether your protein comes from animals or plants. The only combination that lowered ApoB was low saturated fat paired with more plant protein.

📱 RESOURCES 
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Blog: https://drmonashah.wordpress.com/

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ABOUT DR. MONA SHAH: 
Dr. Mona Shah is a triple board-certified cardiologist in cardiology, holistic medicine, and coronary CT. After 20 years inside conventional cardiology, she left to build a practice that does what the standard system rarely does: look inside the artery wall before something goes wrong. She uses advanced imaging, including coronary CTA with AI analysis, to give patients a real picture of their cardiac risk. She specializes in patients with a family history of heart disease, elevated ApoB or Lp(a), and anyone who has been told they're fine but still isn't sure.

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