Axel F Sigurdsson MD

Blog about heart disease, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and prevention of disease.

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"A surgeon. A cardiac arrest. An apartment that was not his home.
My new fiction series, 'The Sunday Walk,' starts today. Inspired by a real case from my time in the ER,
Episode 1: Arrival is live https://t.co/tb7lvAD5fU

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Insulin isn’t about sugar.
It’s about abundance.

Part IV of The Metabolic Web is live:
Insulin - The Governor of Abundance.
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Mrs. Alvarez has six specialists and a full calendar of appointments.
Not one of them is wrong.
But none of them sees her whole life.
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The Boy Who Thought His Heart Would Stop -My Contract With God https://t.co/4TY1f3AwGW

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The Statin Empire — And What Now? https://t.co/YEbmeFRek7 via @docsopinion

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The Metabolic Web - Episode 2: Engines of Life https://t.co/p2boE0nvU7

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Letter From Reykjavik - Living on Borrowed Ground https://t.co/cXGR4HpcXB

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The Heart of Power – Episode 11: The Fragile Icons

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We weren’t afraid of fat.
We were afraid of being wrong.
The Metabolic Reckoning — what 13 years of carbohydrate restriction have taught us about heart disease.
[link] https://t.co/IWja0mXIrb

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Step 12 - Plaque Rupture or Erosion https://t.co/Hk0xZXjnAz

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We call it a routine procedure—safe, familiar, controlled.
But nothing feels routine when it’s your heart on the table.
👉 The Myth of the Routine Procedure
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The Empathy Protocol (Part II) https://t.co/MKdz4BXmUc

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Step 11: Plaque Calcification https://t.co/wAEMMmwsvH

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The Empathy Protocol
What if we could treat malignant narcissism?
A future president. A new drug. A cure or not?
Read my new psychological satire: The President Who Felt Too Much. https://t.co/MKyPiGNLKk

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Step 10: Plaque Growth and Angiogenesis https://t.co/NWqbe2iPQA

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Some wounds never appear in the chart.

This essay is about the hidden scars of medicine — the marks it leaves on those who practice it, and the quiet promise to stay human, even when it hurts.

Holding the Line — Staying Human in Medicine
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Inside the Artery: 13 Steps of Atherosclerosis — From Silent Plaque to Heart Attack https://t.co/tnkfiwv6yI

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Step 8: Formation of the Necrotic Core https://t.co/xXZrs68Eil

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“Will it happen to me?”
Medicine answers with averages. Patients live one life. That’s the real gap.
The Tyranny of the Average: Why Medicine Struggles With the Individual https://t.co/KOHdjZ7zUM

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Six episodes now live in my series Inside the Artery: 13 Steps of Atherosclerosis. Step by step, how plaques form inside arteries. https://t.co/3A2xZ7fZRc