Understanding the Heart: Surprising Insights into the Evolutionary Origins of Heart Disease―and Why It Matters

This book was right up my alley. Heart disease runs in my family and the classic western medicine recommendations have failed us. This book dives into the origins of heart disease and discusses the unconventional things you can do to keep your heart healthy. Super pleased with the information this book had as its helping so many people in our family.

Wow! What an interesting read! I read cardiovascular blood flow studies for 35 years and this was mind blowing yet felt right. I always had questions that couldn’t be answered with the traditional pump model of thinking. This made such sense. I love all the side dives of a personal nature too. He is quite the nature guy! Highly recommend it.

Great book. There's tons of information in this book. It's a bit on the scientific side so some people may not find it as enlightening as I did. I've had hypertension for years along with triple bypass surgery. I'm tired of doctors trying to shove pills down me without addressing the real problems. This book talks about the how's and why of heart disease and with this information you can be your own health advocate. I highly recommend this book for any heart patient.

This is an excellent book that will increase your knowledge and widen your perspective regarding heart disease and healthy living in general. It's well worth reading and having on hand as a resource. Dr. Hussey's personal stories are a big plus, and he makes the science underlying his beliefs understandable. Highly recommend!

Easy to read and understand.

From someone who reads very widely in the area of heart health, I can say that is one of the very best, complete, and up to date books currently available. Dr. Hussey shares new knowledge in many areas of current research which contradict many medical orthodoxies that have done so much harm in the last several decades. I particularly enjoyed hearing his own stories and travels which illuminated key points. This book deserves a wide audience. It has the highest overall quality of any similar book I have read.

Stephen is a great writer overall and tells a completely new story about the heart. This book is both a personal journey of his own malfunctioning heart, and an in depth look at what causes heart disease and the untold story of heart biology as well as a program for resolving and ultimately avoiding heart issues. Couldn’t put it down.

Although this book is good, if you’ve read Thomas Cowan’s https://www.amazon.com/Human-Heart-Cosmic-Understand-Cardiovascular-ebook/dp/B01M8LGF97/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1662420478&sr=8-5 much of this is going to sound overwhelmingly familiar. In fact, there is so much overlap that I was often a bit shocked. Many of the main tenets of Understanding the Heart can be found in Cowan’s book (published several years before this) including the claim that the heart is not a pump, the four phases of water, oubain, the dangers of EMF radiation, the benefits of grounding, energized water and Weston Price. At times I wondered why the author bothered when Cowan has already “been there, done that”. The two books even have the same publisher!Another gripe I have is that the author makes a legitimate complaint that many studies supporting statins, plant diets and high-carb diets are epidemiological, not controlled, yet then goes on to reference dozens of epidemiological studies to support his own case.All in all, I would have given this book 4 stars but the fact that so much of it is a repetition of Cowan’s book knocks a star off.

There is great competition in this field, but I'm really glad I got this particular book. Nothing like getting the personal story firsthand by a young man who wasn't supposed to get a heart attack - and the subsequent road to full recovery, mostly naturally (minimal use of pharmaceuticals). Starts with an overview of how the human heart evolved, which gives clues on the best lifestyle strategies to maintain it problem-free throughout life. Good book!

Read this book in a single day due to it being such a simple, yet valuable read. A very holistic, modern way of describing heart health. Such complex ideas broken down into digestible ways. Will be a book I read over & over again. Highly recommend!

Thank you for writing this book and rounding up all the research, very worthy read for anyone with concerns about their heart. The current medical system simply doesn't go far enough into understanding how things work, one ill-one pill just doesn't cut it, we must look at the complexity of the whole system.

Enjoyed reading a fresh view on cardiovascular heart health. Easy enjoyable readWell explained and story of the authors frontline experience