Put Your Heart in Your Mouth-Book Review
Put Your Heart in Your Mouth
By Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride M.D.
A Book Review
The big idea of this book is the importance of essential fatty acid balance. We have been brain washed for decades to believe that we must stay away from fats and cholesterol. We have been led to believe that fats and cholesterol are the cause of heart disease. This book explains what causes high cholesterol and why fats are actually so important in our diet. This book also discusses the consequences of our obsession with lowering fat intake and cholesterol levels. This book brings us to the foundations of our health and wellness and clearly supports the fact that we cannot achieve health without including appropriate balance of good fats in our diet.
This book has taught me or further explained why we would have different cholesterol levels at different times of the year and throughout our lives. Post surgery, when ill, or after dental work your cholesterol will be elevated due to inflammatory processes in the body and in the winter cholesterol levels will be higher than in the summer. When a physician sees elevated cholesterol level they are quick to put you on a Statin. They are forgetting to look at why there is an elevated cholesterol level in the first place. By doing this they are simply placing a band-aid which may actually be causing more harm than good. This book also covered the consequences of using personal care products that are full of chemicals. It’s easy to take for granted what a big organ the skin is and its ability to readily absorb what it comes into contact with. It really hit home to me that every time we use chemical laden products on our skin they cause endothelial damage. This impacts the liver making it work harder and when it is overwhelmed is unable to detox these chemicals which then enter and damage the blood vessels, ultimately leading to cardiovascular disease. This book really broke things down and took a dove deeper while keeping reading easy and understandable. The discussion of how elevated blood sugar damages the blood vessels by attaching to proteins and making sticky AGE’s is very scary. The book makes quite an impact on just how all our lifestyles and food choices really do impact our health at the cellular level.
I really loved this book. I found it easy to read and understand. I felt that it really supported the foundations of health and explained how to work towards being healthy and supporting our cardiovascular system. I also loved that they ended the book with recipes and explanations of why they are important. Even though I still am having a hard time considering consuming organ meat, I am learning to appreciate its place and importance in our diet. I recommend this book to anyone who is trying to decrease their risk for heart disease, improve their quality of life if they have heart disease or are considering Statin drugs.
