Craig Backs MD

Mission: Reverse arterial disease and diabetes to the point of practical cure.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@cutiieepie6 Yup

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

Beware of antistatin advice, that is eerily similar to the war on effective alternatives to COVID jabs. When an effective treatment costs less than $50/year, profit motive drives statin derangement and promotion of ALTERNATIVES that generate more profit with less benefit. These include over performed stents and surgery that are never mentioned by Malhotra, an interventional cardiologist. Historically, he has gone with the prevailing wind: latching on to the cause that will gain him the most attention, like MAHA. Until he emphasizes the role of measurable inflammation in arterial disease and drivers like oral infection and insulin resistance, Malhotra is charming but oddly clueless about progressive but reversible arterial and metabolic disease, including the anti inflammatory benefit of statins.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@PatsyDiabetes So was Mengele.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@ma1ybe Survived his feticidal mother. Thank God.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@DrNeilStone And aspirin is a pain killer so it can’t affect platelets, right?

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

Ex-Climate Activist Speaks Out - Lucy Biggers https://t.co/nnb1XhsCqy via @YouTube

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

You don’t know what you don’t know. Cholesterol is one of many factors driving arterial disease. Calcification is a sign of plaque stabilization/healing. Statins are anti inflammatory/healing. Your dad doesn’t know what is driving the disease that statin is healing. Insulin resistance, periodontal inflammation are huge and overlooked.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@historigins Rescue from failure of prevention. Temporary at best.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@DrNeilStone Perception. Something lacking in many of the educated idiots, as my dad called them before I became one. Not obsession. You seem more aligned with obfuscation.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@RandPaul Unfortunately, efforts for justice will make him a legend, a martyr among the media and inspire those who would gladly step in and do the same if given the opportunity to destroy people for daring to think for and advocate for themselves.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

The Scan That Reveals Heart Disease Years Before Symptoms https://t.co/pFxlH4OvNN via @YouTube
Very good overview of the screening options. CardioRisk is fine. I have had excellent experience with Vasolabs for over a decade for CIMT.
Favorable trend in CIMT should be correlated with trends in lab measures of inflammation, especially LpPLA2. Early detection should provoke a proactive lifestyle and medical based plan for disease remission or at least stopping progression and promoting healing of existing plaque. It should not put you on the slippery slope of stress testing, stents or surgery in the absence of symptoms. Doing this for over a decade with ZERO patients suffering a stroke or heart attack. I now offer a Bale Doneen type money back guarantee on my Proactive Coaching Investment.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@Houseofyogi @SonicCruise Good going Fauxcahontas!

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@MakisMedicine Sounds more like a warning. The next offer could a “final” offer. This sounds like a form of marcissistic “hoovering” and “love bombing.” 400K is an insult considering how threatening you are to the cancer money printer. You are worth 10x+ if they could buy your silence.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

@DwitterSux12608 @KenCuccinelli Please stay up to date on all your vaccines as recommended.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

The Scan That Reveals Heart Disease Years Before Symptoms https://t.co/4zjcgUL0Sm via @YouTube

Reframe: CACS is affordable for most who have proper priorities and want to be proactive. Skip a few restaurant meals or Starbucks for a few weeks. Insurance coverage should not be a criteria for worth self investment in awareness. Less insurance control, not more, please.
Reframe: Assume presence/guilt of arterial disease if adult 30+. Use CACS to prove “innocence.” Carotid ultrasound using point of care is highly scalable with The CURE Center model. Discover scan to start, CIMT to measure remission.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

Early Detection Won't Save You Without This #metabolichealth #cardiovasc... https://t.co/ecrNBbrmm5 via @YouTube
Dr. Johnston doesn’t sound like a surgeon. She sounds like me, an open minded allopathic detective. Among many things, we agree to mess with the vascular procedure business plan.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

All of these are rare, if dosed properly focused on inflammation, compared to ubiquitous prevalence of arterial inflammation that fuels the health system/insurance industrial complex by monetizing misery rather than eliminating it. The profits are in the alternatives (supplements, stents & surgery) not generic pills costing pennies a day. Zero strokes/heart attacks for 24% lower cost. That’s my CURE Plan.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

Look at OXIDIZED LDL, but don’t stare at it!! When strategies reduce events, it is related to reduction of INFLAMMATION, not LDL. Statins reduce both inflammation AND LDL. Does the blood level of LDL reflect cell membrane cholesterol content. Where is the evidence??
Don’t connect dots that correlate and conclude cause/effect. Finally, anyone whose income depends on stents and surgery and encourages patients who have evidence of benefit from cheap, tolerated statins to stop without an equally effective anti-inflammatory substitutes has more conflict of interest than credibility.
If low LDL causes dementia, does extremely high LDL cause genius?🤔

[Toku @TokuHealth]

Cardiovascular research suggests that roughly between 70/80% of heart-attacks are caused by the rupturing of SOFT plaque

This vulnerable plaque may not cause significant narrowing of the arteries (stenosis)

And often wont show on a traditional stress test or angiogram

This could explain the phenomenon of why most cardiac arrest victims have had normal stress tests shortly before they have a cardiac event

Something worth knowing for long-term heart health.

[Craig Backs MD @CBacksMD]

Early awareness and proactive intervention can REVERSE progression and achieve REMISSION with root cause mitigation, not waiting or recruiting for stents and surgery. Carotid ultrasound and coronary calcium score should be as common as mammograms and PSA though at earlier ages.

[Dr Paddy Barrett @Paddy_Barrett]

Atherosclerosis is a disease of exposure and time.

Lower exposure early.

Keep time on your side.