Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/S8btzVNZkdQ   High protein diets like the Adkins, Stillman, and Scarsdale drive weight loss but could also trigger life loss.  Washington University-St. Louis researchers now show why high protein diets foster atherosclerotic heart attacks and strokes.   The researchers found in mice that increasing daily protein intake from a normal 15% to 46% of calories blocked normal macrophage arterial plaque cleansing activity.  Free to accumulate, the plaques tend to break off and plug vital downstream coronary and cerebral arteries.   We’ve known that high protein diets poison arteries, but now we know why.  Lose weight with a meal plan such as Turbocharged that shuns calorie counting and is easily continued for life, a long life.   Xiangyu Zhang, Ismail Sergin, Trent D. Evans, etal. High-protein diets increase cardiovascular risk by activating macrophage mTOR to suppress mitophagy. Nature Metabolism, 2020; 2 (1): 110 DOI: 10.1038/s42255-019-0162-4   https://www.freedieting.com/turbocharge