How Revero Helped Me Address My Heart Health at the Root Cause

This is Igal's story.

After years of worry about his heart health and a family history of early heart disease, he turned to Revero for a personalized, root-cause approach with support from a medical care team. Here is his experience, in his own words. Individual results vary.

‍The Starting Point‍

For a long time, I was trying to figure out why calcium kept accumulating on my coronary arteries. It was scary. My grandfather died of a heart attack in his late forties, and my other grandfather died of one in his sixties. I felt like I was heading in that same direction, and I worried about an early death.I did a lot of what you are supposed to do. I followed the standard Mediterranean approach, used more olive oil, ate more fish. No matter what I did, the calcium kept getting worse. I was treating symptoms and never getting to the bottom of what was actually going on.

‍Finding Revero

‍I first heard about Revero through other people's stories. I will be honest: when I started, I was apprehensive. Based on some of what I had heard, I was nervous about changing my eating so much. But I did my own research, and I kept hearing from people who were open-minded enough to try something different and who were addressing real metabolic conditions as a result. That gave me hope.What pulled me in was that Revero was not just a diet. It paired a personalized low-carb nutrition therapy plan with a medical care team that would monitor my biomarkers and work with me on the full picture. That was the part I had been missing on my own.

‍My Experience With the Program‍

My coaches were a big part of this. Throughout the program, my coach was available to me, and my medical providers monitored my biomarkers along the way. Any changes to my medications were made in coordination with my medical care team, never on my own.I will say that the first week or two took some adjustment. The first few days felt great, and then things got a little awkward as my body adapted. That is where the coaching mattered. When something felt off, I talked it through with my coach and we adjusted for it. My advice to anyone starting is to trust the process and try to get to that two-month mark.

‍What Changed for Me

‍Over the course of the program, the follow-up scans my medical providers track have shown a reduction in my coronary artery calcium score across several check-ins. I want to be clear that this was my own experience and individual results vary. My doctors were glad to see it, and I am still working with my care team to understand it.The other changes have meant a lot to me. I have lost a good amount of weight. Working with my medical providers, I was also able to come off a medication I had taken for years, again only in coordination with my care team. I feel more focused and steady. The low Sunday moods I used to get do not seem to show up the way they once did. Overall, I just feel better, and I feel more optimistic and forward-looking than I have in a long time.I am not against medication. I would just rather try to address the root cause of what is ailing me through nutrition and lifestyle when I can, in partnership with my medical providers, instead of only treating the symptoms.

‍My Advice‍

If you feel like you are out of options, my advice is to keep an open mind. A low-carb approach can run contrary to a lot of what we have been told, so it helps to stay open and trust the process. Give it time, get to that two-month mark, and be honest with yourself about whether you are really doing what you say you are doing.For me, the biggest surprise was how much this approach helped overall, and especially with the heart health concern I came in worried about. I came to Revero looking for a root cause instead of one more way to treat symptoms, and that shift is what made the difference for me.

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