Heart Conditions & Cardiovascular Health
Heart Health Treatment Options
Functional Medicine in Boulder, CO
Your heart health is about more than your total cholesterol number.
Cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, yet the standard cardiovascular risk evaluation (total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, triglycerides, and blood pressure) captures only part of the picture. Research over the past two decades has established that inflammation, insulin resistance, LDL particle size and number, lipoprotein(a), homocysteine, and arterial wall health are powerful predictors of cardiovascular risk that the standard lipid panel simply doesn't measure. At Helios, we believe you deserve a more complete evaluation.
Cardiovascular Assessment at Helios
Our cardiovascular risk assessment includes advanced lipid testing (particle size, LDL-P, sdLDL), inflammatory markers (hsCRP, homocysteine), metabolic markers (fasting insulin, HbA1c), and, imaging such as the Coronary Calcium Score and Carotid Intima-Media Thickness test (CIMT), a non-invasive ultrasound that directly visualizes early arterial changes before a heart attack or stroke occurs. This is the kind of testing that can identify meaningful risk in a patient whose standard labs look reassuring, and rule out risk in a patient whose numbers look borderline.
Treatment Plans & Outcomes
Our cardiovascular health treatment plan is built on the same root-cause philosophy. Statin therapy has a role for many patients, and we prescribe it when indicated. But we also address the metabolic, inflammatory, and lifestyle factors that statins don't touch: blood sugar regulation, dietary quality, omega-3 status, stress, sleep, and movement. For patients who are statin-intolerant or who prefer to exhaust lifestyle-based approaches first, we have a comprehensive evidence-based toolkit. And for patients already on cardiovascular medications, we work to optimize the full picture alongside that treatment.
Heart disease is largely preventable. Let's assess where you stand and build a strategy.
You leave feeling as if you have been heard, valued, and knowing he is going to walk and work with you until your situation has been improved! Try him!
– Marny H., Current Patient
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