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HEARThrive - Module 8 - Heart Disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer's

Name: HEARThrive - Module 8 - Heart Disease, Diabetes, Alzheimer's
Rating: 4.5 (9 reviews)

Solve All 3 Chronic Diseases Together

Created byMalcolm & Myron Achtman

Last updated 10/2025

English

What you'll learn

Learn to recognize the most relevant factors that increase your risk for three devastating chronic diseases - heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's.
Discover why you must absolutely convince your doctor to request a fasting insulin blood test on your behalf to see whether you are metabolically healthy.
Take control in reducing your risk for heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's simply by testing your blood sugar response to foods that you eat.
Read and understand food labels and use food apps (e.g. Cronometer) to track the amounts of sugar and carbohydrates you are ingesting.

Course content

8 sections • 30 lectures • 1h 58m total length

Medical Disclaimer0:29
A quick reminder that this course is for educational purposes and does not constitute medical advice. Consult with your doctor and by all means share what you have learned with him or her.
Additional Medical Alert for Module 80:25
If you adopt the ideas in Module 8 it's possible your metabolic health may improve a lot. If you are currently taking medications, you should work closely with a knowledgeable medical doctor who can adjust your prescription dosages as needed.
Course Overview for New Students2:50
The HEARThrive program consists of 12 modules (i.e. 12 courses). Each module is divided into 10 sections, which are like the chapters of a book. It's probably best to go through the modules in order, from 1 to 12, but you don't have to. If you wish, select a topic that interests you the most and sign up for that course. The sooner you begin learning, the greater chance you will have of improving your health.
Welcome to Module 80:43
A brief welcome to this module and a reminder to check out “HEARThrive - Revamp and Relaunch Your Health,” a classic way to discover much of what this program has to offer you, including the link to two additional hours of free HEARThrive content on Udemy.
If You Learn Nothing Else in Module 8 - Learn This!1:56
Heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease are impacted by poor metabolic health. Patients and doctors often put the blame on high blood sugar. But what you must realize is that insulin plays even a bigger role. That is something you must learn and understand if you want to reduce your risk or prevent heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's.

What Do We Know About Heart Disease?2:40
It seems No One Knows Anything For Sure when it comes to the cause of heart disease. In this video an independent writer (not a doctor) explains the answer better than many mainstream doctors.
Are We Getting Proper Advice on Diabetes? PART 13:27
Let's look at a sample menu (recommended by Diabetes Associations) of what you should be eating to prevent diabetes.
Are We Getting Proper Advice on Diabetes? PART 23:46
Let's track the amount of carbohydrates (recommended by Diabetes Associations) that one might consume based on a brochure outlining what we should supposedly be eating to prevent diabetes. In addition, be sure to check out the beautiful "Proper Human Diet" Guidebook from Dr. Ken Berry in the Resources. Dr. Ken Berry encourages that we spread the word by sharing his guidebook with as many people as possible. He too recognizes that the information shared by mainstream diabetes associations is dead wrong. His "Proper Human Diet" advocates eating low carb and right up to "carnivore" (if desired) to achieve maximum metabolic control. Thousands of people who follow his "Proper Human Diet" have reversed their diabetes. As a result, they have potentially lowered their risk of cardiovascular disease as well.

Early Onset Dementia - Scary5:43
A story about a friend in his forties who is already exhibiting occasional signs of memory loss. Perhaps his high sugar diet is playing a role.
My Mother's Dementia - A Story of Decline16:37
This is my personal, candid and heartfelt story of my Mom's dementia. This video is longer than usual but I'm speaking from the heart and telling it like it is. Dementia will rob you of your life and impact the whole family.

Check Whether You Have Metabolic Syndrome3:58
Learn what the 5 factors of metabolic syndrome are so that you can optimize your health conditions and reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's
Test Your own Blood Sugar at Home2:26
You can learn to test and track your own blood sugar by using a blood glucose meter (glucometer).
Look at the Nutrition Facts of Foods You Consume and Test Your Glucose Response2:58
This brief demo illustrates how a very small quantity of rice can raise blood sugar.
Learn How, When and Why to Test Your Blood Sugar8:18
Here's a real demo of Malcolm testing his blood sugar at strategic times throughout the day.
Try Using a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor)3:22
Instead of poking your finger numerous times a day to check your blood sugar, you can now use a CGM, or continuous glucose monitor, which makes testing so much more convenient and practical. Check it out!
Avoid or Limit Juice and Monitor Your Carb Consumption3:54
Juice is one of the worst culprits when trying to control your carbohydrate and sugar consumption.
What About Eating a Slice of Apple Pie?4:42
You may want to rethink things next time before indulging is a slice of apple pie.
Eliminate or Minimize Sugar and Seed Oils4:10
Check out the difference between chicken I prepared myself versus my brother's store-bought chicken. You will see why you must look closely at the ingredients in the foods you consume.
Track Your Food and Blood Sugar Response - Part 15:14
You can pick a day and dedicate it to tracking your blood sugar response to the foods you eat. That's what I'm demonstrating in this series of 5 videos. Here's what happened when I ate breakfast.
Track Your Food and Blood Sugar Response - Part 24:32
You can pick a day and dedicate it to tracking your blood sugar response to the foods you eat. That's what I'm demonstrating in this series of 5 videos. Now I'm accurately tracking my blood sugar at lunch.
Track Your Food and Blood Sugar Response - Part 36:05
You can pick a day and dedicate it to tracking your blood sugar response to the foods you eat. That's what I'm demonstrating in this series of 5 videos. Here I'm tracking my blood sugar at supper, with the aim of maintaining good blood sugar control.
Track Your Food and Blood Sugar Response - Part 45:37
You can pick a day and dedicate it to tracking your blood sugar response to the foods you eat. That's what I'm demonstrating in this series of 5 videos. I'm continuing to track later in the evening, for a few hours after eating supper.
Track Your Food and Blood Sugar Response - Part 56:39
You can pick a day and dedicate it to tracking your blood sugar response to the foods you eat. That's what I'm demonstrating in this series of 5 videos. The next day's breakfast is very low carb. Cutting sugar and carbohydrates is key.
Get a Fasting Insulin Test6:03
Most doctors will track your fasting blood sugar and Hemoglobin A1c, but rarely will they request a fasting insulin test on your behalf. If you have watched Module 1, you will already understand why testing your insulin is so important. That's why I am inserting the Fasting Insulin video (from Module 1) into this Module once again.
Watch For Fatty Liver - Do You Have It?5:34
You can get tested to see whether you have fatty liver disease. In this lecture you will learn what causes fatty liver, what tests you need to determine whether you have fatty liver, why it's a potential sign of diabetes, and how to reverse your fatty liver if you have it.

Requirements

There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course, but going through Modules 1 and 2 of HEARThrive would help you. In addition, you could purchase a blood glucose meter and get familiar with how to use it before taking the course.

Description

Did you know that heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's often go hand in hand? That's the bad news.

The good news is that all three conditions are largely caused by the same things, and you have the power to control those things.

And what are those things? Diet, poor blood sugar control, and insulin resistance.

After you complete Module 8, you will learn how to make better dietary decisions that could help prevent heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's, the three most common metabolic diseases.

You will learn how to monitor your own blood sugar responses to food.

You will learn how to read food labels to assess the carbohydrates you are consuming.

You will learn why a routine blood test, fasting insulin, that your doctor probably never requests, is so valuable in assessing your metabolic health.

This course is ideally suited to students who recognize their health is suboptimal.

If you're overweight,

If your doctor has warned you that you have diabetes or prediabetes and discussed the serious complications that can occur from that,

Note: Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist, claims that "Cardiovascular risk is 30 to 50% greater when you have diabetes."

If you struggle with high blood pressure,

If you're worried because someone in your family has heart disease, diabetes, or Alzheimer's, and you might be the next victim,

If you're completely confused about different dietary recommendations you hear or what your doctor tells you to eat,

If you're addicted to sugar and highly processed foods,

And if you truly want to take a more active role in your health,

Then this course is for you.

Module 8 could very well be the most important potentially life-saving course in the entire HEARThrive series, so join now and start learning.

Here are some of the many benefits you could derive from taking this course:

Life changing info to reverse or reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's/dementia, and even aging.

Contrary to the information provided by the ADA (American Diabetes Association) that used to say that diabetes is a chronic and progressive disease, you can now take control of it and manage your own health, which is very satisfying.

Be able to drop medications that lower blood sugar and blood pressure - although this has to be done carefully with a knowledgeable doctor.

There are routine blood tests beyond glucose and HbA1c that you can get to give insight on whether you're on a healthy path. These tests include triglycerides, HDL, and fasting insulin.

It's simple to test some components of metabolic syndrome at home yourself including your blood pressure, blood sugar, and waist circumference. Plus two simple blood tests you can get with your doctor, which are triglycerides and HDL.

You can obtain a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) to assess your responses to food. A 10- or 14-day trial is usually more than adequate to figure things out for yourself. CGMs are not just for diabetics anymore.

You can track your fasting insulin and strive for optimal values.

It's easy to test for fatty liver by looking at the ALT enzyme or obtaining an abdominal ultrasound. This could be the kick in the pants you need to start turning things around for yourself.

It's easy to learn how to read nutrition labels on food and beverages and use a food scale and determine whether that food, or what portion size of that food, will likely be problematic or not (e.g. white rice).

Self-testing with a glucose meter throughout the day is easy to learn and easy to do if you make the effort to do it even for just one full day of eating.

Achieve weight reduction, blood pressure reduction, blood sugar reduction and reversing type 2 diabetes without drugs.

Eating fewer times per day and or eating in a narrower window of time or adding intermittent fasting will help you improve glucose control.

Eating fewer meals and not snacking is very liberating and frees up more time to do things you enjoy.

You won't always be craving your next meal or having blood sugar rises and spikes and dips that affect your mood negatively, affect your productivity. You'll be more productive and have stable energy and mood.

Stabilizing your blood sugar and eliminating blood sugar ups and downs throughout the day will help reduce your risk of insulin resistance and metabolic disease, heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and achieve a reduction or elimination a small potentially atherogenic LDL particles.

Exercise can help bring blood glucose down so that's a nice benefit if you enjoy exercising. Check out HEARThrive Module 4 too.

Who this course is for:

This course is intended for people who want to be proactive with their health management. If you worry about the three most common diseases of aging (heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer's) and want to avoid an abysmal future of health and instead take control of it by making some relatively easy choices, then this course is a must for you. It could be, without exaggeration, absolutely life-changing.

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Introduction5 lectures • 6min

Humor or Thought2 lectures • 1min

NOKAFS (No One Knows Anything For Sure)3 lectures • 10min

Me and My Twin1 lecture • 3min

Stories From the Heart2 lectures • 22min

Step-By-Step What To Do15 lectures • 1hr 14min

Transcendence - Yes You Can Do It!1 lecture • 1min

30-Day TFA - Think, Feel, Act1 lecture • 2min

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