DO THIS Every Day to Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease DRAMATICALLY | Dr. Mark Hyman
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- Author: Mark Hyman, MD
- Full Title: DO THIS Every Day to Reduce the Risk of Heart Disease DRAMATICALLY | Dr. Mark Hyman
- URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toqd8c2zvWg
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important if you don’t sleep uh your risk of death is much higher so get good sleep(View Highlight)
it’s it’s very individual I’m not opposed to medication but it’s really the last resort so in terms of statins they’re they’repretty ubiquitous I I’m cautious aboutthem because they do cause mitochondrialinjury they can be linked to some otherharmful effects like muscle injury andmuscle damage it affects about 20 percent of people they’re not the bestdrugs in terms of their efficacy theyyou have to treat a lot of people to getone prevent one heart attack like Ithink 89 people to prevent one heartattack (View Highlight)
we want to knowabout your nutritional levels like folicacid and homocysteine we want to knowabout your clotting factors you want tolook at your hormones so all that givesis a much deeper look at what’s going (View Highlight)
look at C-reactive protein that’s areally important test (View Highlight)
acertain genetic test may be helpful andthere’s some Imaging tests we do calciumscores which can be helpful but there’sa new test called clearly heart scans toput in the show notesand it’s a test that uses uh CT Imaging similar to what we do with a calciumscore but they also look at soft plaquewhich is on the inside of the arterieswhich is something that’s really hard todetermine for most people and that softplaque is a really is driving your riskfor cardiovascular disease so it’s amuch more advanced test using artificialintelligence (View Highlight)