Tom Cowan

In this article, I lay out the case that the spectrum of heart disease that includes angina, unstable angina, and myocardial infarction (heart attack) is better understood from the perspective of events happening in the myocardium (heart) as opposed to events in the coronary arteries (the arteries that supply the heart).

As we all know, the conventional view of the cause of heart disease is that the central events occur in the arteries. In this article, I will go into more detail about why the conventional theory is largely misleading, and then I will describe the precise and well documented events that do lead to heart attacks. This new understanding is crucial because, as the past 50 or so years have shown, pursuing the coronary artery theory has cost this nation billions of dollars in surgical costs – most of which are unnecessary – and billions in medications that cause as much harm as any benefits, and has led many people to adopt a low-fat diet and which only worsens the problem.