3 Reasons Your Cardiologist Is Pushing Repatha — And Why You Should Think Twice

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:03]Hello friends, Dr. Jack Wolfson broadcasting live from Costa Rica. It's beautiful here. It's going to be a gorgeous day. As far as it's it's cloudy, which is nice, so we're not getting totally blasted with sun. We get plenty of sunshine. Welcome to this presentation. Glad you're here. This is three reasons your cardiologist is pushing Repatha and why you should think twice. I'm cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson. I go live every Wednesday at noon Eastern with a wonderful topic for you. And again, the chat box is open. My team is here. Lauren Edwards, my social media manager, she's here. She's very knowledgeable, been with me for several years. So again, she's going to really be helpful here. Just give me about 15 minutes. Just going to talk to you about Repatha. You'll get the replay. The replay will be up on YouTube and we'll put it up on social media and other places as well. So let's jump right to it. Three reasons your cardiologist is pushing Repatha and why you should think twice about it and why personally I have never prescribed it.

[00:01:07]So what is Repatha? Repatha is an injectable pharmaceutical. It was brought to market about seven or eight years ago and automatically, of course, I was critical of it and I know that there is a much better way to heart health and that's what we talk about at Natural Heart Doctor. But in short, it is an injectable pharmaceutical. It's not a statin drug. It's definitely different.

[00:01:30]But it is an injectable drug that sole purpose is to inhibit PCSK9.

[00:01:41]Now, PCSK9 breaks down LDL receptors on the liver.

[00:01:49]So in short, what this drug does is that it increases the number of LDL receptors on the liver to pull LDL out of circulation. It doesn't stop the production of cholesterol and LDLs. It removes them from the circulation.

[00:02:08]And I like that. On on the surface, I like that maneuver. And we do that through making a healthier liver. And then also our product called OptiLipid was designed for many reasons, but also with the intention to help with hepatic uptake of LDL particles, so we're not circulating around the small dense oxidized LDLs.

[00:02:38]That's the objective. LDL is not the problem.

[00:02:43]Damaged LDL particles are part of the problem.

[00:02:49]Okay. So, that's what Repatha does, and it lowers LDL dramatically. That's for sure.

[00:02:56]It's an expensive proposition. Insurance companies may or may not pay for it.

[00:03:02]But nonetheless, here's the three reasons why the cardiologists are pushing it. Number one, it's a big LDL drop. They believe that the method to prevent heart attacks is to dramatically lower the LDL. And I will tell you that that sole objective is a major failure. So, I said statin drugs do not work as well as they think. And also why the injectables don't work as well as you think. So, the cardiologists believe, because that's how we're trained, cuz I was trained the same way, that the problem is LDL, and the solution is to lower it as much as possible.

[00:03:43]Number two is that they're using this so not only in addition to statins, but they're using it instead of statins. So, maybe someone doesn't want statins, maybe they've suffered side effects from statins.

[00:03:56]Whatever the objective is, they're going to use this instead of statin drugs. And then number three, there is a serious pressure that doctors are under to conform to the guidelines. The guidelines are written by mainstream pharmaceutical, you know, by pharmaceutical companies. That's not conspiracy, that's just the reality.

[00:04:14]That's just the reality. You can look it up, you can Google it, you can what whatever you want. Ask your again, the guidelines are written under the direction of pharmaceutical companies.

[00:04:24]So, now the doctors, they feel pressured to conform, the drug reps come in, they make them conform, and then their other, you know, contemporaries, the people in their group, the people they talk to, they're all under pressure to conform here.

[00:04:38]So, uh you know, again, back to reason number one, it does dramatically lower the numbers down. And what they think is, again, lower LDL leads to less amount of plaque, less amount of soft plaque, and therefore lower risk of heart attack, stroke, and dying. But the reality is is that that is partially true in the sense of it markedly lowers the numbers down, but it doesn't meaningfully lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, and dying. In fact, the only trial that has looked at heart attack, stroke, and dying sh was called FOURIER, and what FOURIER found is that all group all patients were taking statins.

[00:05:24]All people in the study were taking statins. Half got Repatha, half got placebo. The group that got Repatha wound up with an LDL of 30. Yes, they did have lower risk of heart attack and stroke by a little bit, but unfortunately more people died in the Repatha group. So, there's a lot of questions that we have. But either way, a lot of people still died in the study.

[00:05:48]And my intention is how do we help everybody have a much lower risk of dying?

[00:05:55]And that's what we try and do.

[00:05:57]There has never been an end points study on Repatha alone.

[00:06:03]We don't know if Repatha alone decreases events, increases events, doesn't change events. We don't know. We don't know that data.

[00:06:13]I want you to understand again that LDL is something that all animal species make. It's not bad. It has a purpose.

[00:06:22]Many, many, many purposes I'm not going to get into.

[00:06:26]But what really matters again is that we want to find the perfect LDL levels for each and every one of us. For someone it may be an LDL of 100, 130, 160.

[00:06:37]Uh but we want to again look at the LDL and then we want to get more detailed on that. And that's of course the testing we do at Natural Heart Doctor. We want to get much more detailed on LDL particle numbers, particle sizes, and most importantly the oxidative damage occurring to these delicate lipids.

[00:06:59]All of that information is information. It's not root cause as to why it's getting damaged, but it is a much more important indicator than LDL alone if we're looking to see our status.

[00:07:14]We're all sitting around saying "What is my risk of having a heart attack, stroke, or dying? And now that I know my risk, how do I lower it down?"

[00:07:27]And the blind blanket approach of let's just hammer LDLs down, it's just not good enough.

[00:07:33]It's It's an effort.

[00:07:36]And I understand all the reasons why they do it, but again it's just not good enough. It's not good enough for me.

[00:07:41]It's not good enough for my family, it's not good enough for you.

[00:07:45]So, what we want to know is that we ideally we would know the oxidative damage of the LDL.

[00:07:52]Statins again have side effects, but a lot of people still have side effects to Repatha.

[00:08:01]So, it's you know, again, it's being used as the statin workaround, but we really don't have any endpoints on this. So, we can't just assume if I take this and lower it down, it's going to have the same outcomes.

[00:08:19]And the side effects, the these are not A side effect is really a strange term because the drug doesn't know what it's supposed to do and what it's not supposed to do. So, we call it like a side effect.

[00:08:32]We have the the we have the effect that the drug companies want, and then we've got these other side effects. But, it's just an effect. The chemical goes into the body and does stuff.

[00:08:44]Into the individual body with a lifetime of experiences, all bets are off. We we just don't know what's going to happen.

[00:08:54]And again, this pressure to conform with the guidelines, the drug reps, and this peer I I was part of it. And when I tried to get out of it, I faced the full wrath of pharma, governing bodies, hospitals, and my peers, and my other doctors. The pressure to conform is tremendous.

[00:09:17]And again, if we view everything through the lens of there are billions and billions of dollars to be had here, you can see why the doctors are trained in a certain way, and why you need to work with a physician who understands root cause cardiology.

[00:09:36]So, the main things that really matter because a lot of, you know, it heart attacks are happening every single day to people with {quote} and {unquote} normal LDL. LDL is not a good marker.

[00:09:49]What is a good marker is the markers of oxidative stress.

[00:09:54]The the the rusting of metal. When you cut an avocado and it turns brown, an apple turns brown, that's oxidation that's happening in our bodies. And that is normal, but we want we don't want it to be too quick and we want good balance. And when we have too much oxidation and not enough anti-oxidation, now we're under oxidative stress. So, we want to know oxidative stress, markers of inflammation, insulin resistance, elevated blood sugar, metabolic issues are very important to understand.

[00:10:31]And then deficiencies of the good stuff, sunshine, sleep, movement, good food, good relationships, and then excess of the toxins, mold, metals, plastics, phthalates, pesticides, you name it. And when we have too much of the bad stuff and not enough of the good stuff, we have oxidative stress and that's what we measure.

[00:10:53]So, as you all know, we've got the 100-Year Heart Method, the Eat Well, the Live Well, the Think Well, Test Don't Guess, Evidence-Based Supplements, Biohacking Strategies. That is our methodology at Natural Heart Doctor. It is the only survival method, not only against heart disease, but against cancer and dementia and everything. It's just These are just common-sense things that unfortunately mainstream medicine is not being taught.

[00:11:16]So, if you want to go a step above, you know, Repatha and just get more details, you really need to look at your oxidative stress and this is where we have a test that I'm going to sell you on right now. I'm not going to go into deep detail on it. You know, that you can find out more at heart attack risk test.com. My team will post this in the comment section. It'll be a hyperlink.

[00:11:40]You can click on it.

[00:11:42]Uh but if you really want to know your risk of having a cardiac event, I think this is a better test than than LDL, that's for sure. So, we want to really take a look at this. Now, this is done at home. It's a urine test. It's a It's Genova Diagnostics. They've been in business for 40 years. They're a very well-known uh company in the industry. And this is the heart attack risk test. We've honestly we've done thousands of these tests uh for our people. Done at home.

[00:12:08]No blood. No doctor's order necessary.

[00:12:10]And what's cool about this is that it's kind of like a mini consult, right?

[00:12:14]You get the results and we get to go over the test with you with one of our our practitioners, uh a natural heart doctor. So, if your test is uh in the normal range, great for you. And you're going to have a review with one of our absolute brilliant health coaches. If it's abnormal, then we're going to have a doctor review that with you.

[00:12:34]And I believe that Canadians can get this test because it's really just a matter of how quick the sample is sent back. Uh Leqvio is similar to Repatha.

[00:12:44]The data on Leqvio is actually a little bit better uh than Repatha, uh but it's not uh you know, quite as complete. And And again, it's it's still inferior than root cause cardiology.

[00:12:56]We are not at the place right now in 2026 where we can outsmart whoever built us.

[00:13:03]Call that God. Call that evolution. Call that a combination thereof. That's the subject of another webinar sometime in the future maybe. But for right now, man does not have the ability to outsmart our creator. We We can't do it.

[00:13:19]We're not going to one-up on this one.

[00:13:22]So, we're not going to do better with pharmaceuticals.

[00:13:25]We're going to only do better with root cause.

[00:13:28]100 year heart method, eat well, live well, think well, which I talk about a lot on the website. And then now we test, don't guess with testing that really matters. And we have a lot more panels that we can check that are a lot more comprehensive. We got some really cool stuff that we're doing at Natural Heart Doctor.

[00:13:46]But if you want to get the most amount of information, you know, right now, again, this is what we're looking at here. We're looking at uh really the ability for you to get this information.

[00:13:56]$197 I think is a pretty darn fair offer that also includes the professional consultation. So, I don't think that my team has entered that in there. I hope Lauren's okay. I'll put that in the comment section. Uh that's at uh heart attackrisktest.com.

[00:14:23]That should be coming through here.

[00:14:24]Share your referral link.

[00:14:27]Uh So, yeah, heartattackrisktest.com.

[00:14:33]You should be able to click that and uh go from there. I'll put that up on the screen. There it is.

[00:14:38]Uh or otherwise known as heart attack, you know, risk test is what you want to uh click on to. I I put that actually uh this is the this is the correct URL here, not the other one.

[00:14:47]heartattackrisktest.com is where you want to go, friends.

[00:14:51]Uh sorry that we can't Let's see here.

[00:14:52]Share referral link.

[00:14:58]Now, I can't do that. Okay, that's not what I'm looking for. All right. So, anyways, uh I hope this has been really helpful uh to you. So, again, I don't think Repatha is the right answer for you. I've never prescribed it and I got no plans to in the future, uh that's for sure. Uh most doctors say you can never eliminate plaque once it's there. Is that a true statement? No, we've seen people uh reverse plaque. There are two different main categories of plaque, hard plaque, which is calcified, soft plaque. Both can be reversed and soft plaque can be converted into hard plaque and that would be a better scenario, but we can do that without pharmaceuticals. That is my intention at natural heart doctor. If you want pharmaceuticals, go somewhere else.

[00:15:38]There's plenty of other doctors to push pharmaceuticals. If you want a root cause cardiology methodology approach, that's what we do here at natural heart doctor. You're you're perfectly free to go work with somebody else's, you know, you're perfectly free as far as I'm concerned to go take pharmaceuticals. I try and teach something that's different and I think this is a better root cause approach.

[00:15:58]Can we have a visit with you in Costa Rica, Fred? Uh I you can't visit with me in Costa Rica, medically speaking.

[00:16:04]You're welcome to come down here and we can go for a cup of coffee, uh but if you want to work with me virtually or one of our other doctors or practitioners, you got to go to the consults tab on the website, naturalheartdoctor.com/consults and you can work with me or the other doctors. Uh that's uh fine. And um very interested in this topic.

[00:16:31]Uh been prescribed for ischemic vein disease but hate statins and say no, so worried suggestions again. Uh so uh ischemic vein disease is not a thing but ischemic heart disease uh uh certainly is.

[00:16:43]You know, Liz Taggart again, my doctor keeps kind of pushing it on me. This is a this is a partnership. This is a partnership. I'm going to do my best to be your partner here, not a dictator here. This is not my way or the highway.

[00:16:53]I used to do that in the mainstream cardiology group.

[00:16:56]Now, I want to educate. I want to educate on this is their method, this is my method. Now, you choose.

[00:17:04]Now, you choose. I believe that we're free to make these choices. Education has never been more plentiful. It's never been easier to extrapolate. If it was the 1970s, where would you go to get educated? You couldn't. You had to listen to your doctor.

[00:17:17]Now we can learn so much more.

[00:17:21]Okay, prescribed for small veins in the brain. Again, my methodology when it comes to any illness eat well, live well, think well, test, don't guess, evidence-based supplements, biohacking strategies. LP little A are supplements help with LP little A. I've got a really good I've got really good blog posts on that. Uh LP little A, a lot of good blog posts. Ask questions in the uh in the group as well.

[00:17:46]Um Does nattokinase uh kinasin K2 reverse atherosclerosis? There are studies that show that it does. So, I like my product Flow. I like also Arterosil, a r t e r o s i l.

[00:17:59]And I like uh emu oil for our K2. But, I've got good blogs on that. And again, any questions, email us, too.

[00:18:11]Um View the webinar with Dr. Aaron Ernst, who believes they are a waste as regarding uh vessel support and OptiLipid. I don't know who Aaron Ernst is Aaron Ernst is, and with all due respect to him, I don't really care. Uh my intention here is to provide evidence-based supplementation. So, when someone talks about OptiLipid, there's seven ingredients in there that I pulled from the medical literature. And all those ingredients in the literature are on the OptiLipid sales page.

[00:18:45]So, I went into the medical literature, pulled seven ingredients that are again evidence-based, and I created a product done for me by Biotics Research, company who's been in business that's been in business for 50 years, two brothers selling the best supplements in the world to people for over 50 years. So, I don't know anything about, you know, Dr. Aaron Ernst or whatever. Regarding vessel support, that's one of our blood pressure products. That's L-arginine, citrulline, taurine, and grape seed extract. I created the product from the medical literature. So, for someone to say that there's no medical literature or there's no evidence is being intellectually dishonest or they're just ignorant to the medical literature. But again, that's not my problem, that's their problem.

[00:19:34]And my intention is to give you information and for you to decide. So, you can listen to the head of cardiology at the Mayo Clinic who may cast the same aspersions against my methodologies as well.

[00:19:49]And you're a big boy, you're a big girl, man, woman, you're going to decide what works for you. And I believe in that freedom. Now, I'm not saying it's easy on you because we're all getting lots of different messages.

[00:20:02]That I can't necessarily help you with.

[00:20:04]I'm going to give you my message, what you're going to do with it is up to you.

[00:20:07]Liz Taggart, I would love for to help you as well.

[00:20:13]Uh so, how do you prevent aortic stenosis? Same thing, guys, same thing. Eat well, live well, think well, test, don't guess, evidence-based supplements, biohacking strategies. Yulia, love the Kickstart.

[00:20:24]My heart doctor Wolfson, the best supplement my husband and I Kickstart.

[00:20:27]My heart people, if you don't know, that is our unvaccinated, prairie grass-fed, field harvested, non-chemically bathed New Zealand elk. It is quite simply the best food product in the world. There's no better supplement in the world than my Kickstart. My heart. That's it. It is foundational, it is food, it supports everything, like supports like.

[00:20:50]Liver, heart, kidney supports liver, heart, kidney and your entire brain and body. Great product.

[00:20:55]Great product.

[00:20:57]Uh work with SVT. We do a lot of work here and with SVT. Our specialist there is Dr. Andrew Rudin. He's an electrophysiologist, cardiologist, electrophysiologist, and one of my personal very close friends uh for over 35 years we were fraternity brothers at the University of Illinois.

[00:21:15]So, uh great stuff people. I don't want to go on forever. Uh uh but uh again it's an absolute pleasure to be able to help you, support you. Continue to like, follow, and share this information.

[00:21:27]Sharing is caring. A lot of people are not getting this information and they really do need it. I hope you have a wonderful wonderful rest of your day wherever you're at. Look forward to continue to help you. Please tune in every Wednesday at noon Eastern, 9:00 a.m. Pacific and we will see you on the other uh side. Health, wellness, vitality, your home for the 100 year heart, natural heart doctor.