Although a lot of this book is hard to comprehend i believe that i did benefit from reading this book. Thank you for the oportunity.

The author of this book, Dr. Warrick Bishop, is an Australian practicing cardiologist who has created a program called “The Healthy Heart Network” to help people manage their risk of heart attack better. The result of this is a book he wrote which is clear, concise, and lays out a plan to be proactive in preventing a heart attack. His writing style for this book is easy to follow and understand for the layman, which I appreciated.

He starts out by explaining the components and functions of the heart. From there he goes into detail how plaque is formed in the arteries and then how to detect, monitor and if appropriate, treat it. To this end he advocates primary prevention of heart disease and outlines the steps he recommends to accomplish this.

Once you have read this book, you will be in a better educated position to advocate for your heart health while having a discussion with your doctor.

Disclaimer: I was offered the opportunity to read this book and then give my honest opinion of it.

Coronary heart disease, the number one killer in America and a serious human health risk in other countries, is greatly affected by unwise and unconsciously dangerous lifestyle choices. Additionally, there may be hidden associations leading to cardiovascular disease. These hidden associations can be revealed by using imagining technology in a preventive way to reduce your risk for having a cardiac event.

Dr. Warrick Bishop, a cardiologist, specializes in looking inside the working heart using non-invasive imaging technology. Dr. Bishop wants you to know how to live the healthiest lifestyle that can reduce or greatly eliminate cardiovascular disease factors.

He also wants you to know that though there might be a family history of heart disease, that does not mean that you are a high risk for having a heart attack. It takes doing detective work to find out what’s really going on inside you to determine the state of your cardiovascular system.

His book focuses on primary preventative cardiology. He is sincerely interested in sharing information about how you can prevent yourself from developing factors that lead up to a primary cardiac event. Prevent factors that cause heart disease and you live a longer, happier, more productive life!

Dr. Bishop’s research suggests that some people in the same family can stop worrying about their cardiovascular disease risk factors. Guessing (and wrongly assuming) that because your family’s history of heart disease means you definitely will get it, too, may be a completely inaccurate assumption. If this worry keeps you awake at night, asking your cardiologist to read Dr. Bishop’s book might help you sleep better at night!

Your fears can be reduced (or perhaps confirmed and preventively dealt with prior to an event occurring) by using non-invasive imaging technology. Preventively using imaging technology can reveal what’s happening in your heart right now, before you might have a heart attack.

The information revealed by using imagining technology before an event occurs allows a cardiovascular management strategy based exactly on what’s revealed from a scan rather than on guesses. By seeing what’s really going on in your heart via images, you can eliminate the unnecessary need for some medications or perhaps do what’s necessary to prevent a heart attack.

Dr. Bishop’s way of working with patient’s is different than the way a lot of cardiologists practice their art and talent. His preventative focus using imaging technology BEFORE symptoms appear can actually help extend and improve your life now!

I found this book to be very interesting. Filled with pictures, scientific references, case studies and more, you can easily understand why he takes the approach he does to practicing cardiovascular medicine. Dr. Bishop doesn’t seem to be the type of cardiologist who is interested in being considered an expert just because he’s a doctor. He backs up his findings by sharing what he’s learned. And, he also seems to walk his talk. That’s pretty cool!

He truly takes an individual approach with his patients rather than a “population-at-large, statistically-speaking” approach in medicine. I applaud him for the way he has shared the results of his findings. He seems to truly be interested in helping educate you, the patient, so you can make an informed decision about your cardiovascular health management choices. He suggests things you can do now to improve your cardiovascular health management strategy plan for a happier and healthier future.

Even if you are currently cardiovascularly asymptomatic, toxic accumulations in your body’s inner systems could already internally be building up. Preventative medicine, which includes doing physical body detective work, lifestyle choices, imagining technology and medications (as applicable) can reverse, effectively manage or perhaps prevent you from creating your own heart disease. If you are an advocate of wanting to possibly prevent or avoid creating a disease-creating internal environment, this book just might save your life! I would recommend this book to anyone concerned about their cardiovascular health and is open to taking a natural and reasonable approach to managing their health.

This book is a must for anyone who has a history of cardio problems in their family or are experiencing problems of their own. In fact, if you aren't sure, you need to read this book anyway. I learned more about my heart, various tests and results than I would ever have imagined in this short and concise book. I am not a doctor and all the details and test results seem to blur for me. In this book Dr. Warrick provides cases and outlines test results compared to what would be ideal. I can now use this book as a guide when I review my results. More importantly though is that Dr. Warrick lays out a path to using CT scans to proactively prevent heart attacks rather than just treating the disease after you have one. Ironically, after I started reading this book, I developed a (non-heart) medical issue based on traditional medical test results in which a CT scan was used to further determine whether there was an actual issue. If works for one part of the body, why not for cardio as well? This is a great read presented in a very easy to understand format. I am grateful for having had the opportunity to read this book. It is a great reference book to have on hand.