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if your blood vessels are healthy you
are at a really great starting point to
optimize the rest of your health but if
your blood vessels are unhealthy you're
going to be far behind in fact it'll be
impossible to optimize your health in
any other part of your body the good
news and what people don't get right
sometimes is that when you go out to buy
olive oil what do most people do well
you know if if you if you are for the
first time buying olive oil it's
overwhelming how many different choices
you have so you might go for the less
expensive one or you might go for the
one that's got a more attractive label
on it um I'll tell you the way that uh I
recommend doing it and what I do myself
I always want to um get the highest
quality olive oil uh so um what what I
look for are olive oils that are made
with pressed with only one kind of olive
it's called monovarietal olive oil and
there's two reasons for that when when
you're when olive oil makers make olive
oil they're picking olives when they're
ripe off the tree and literally just
crushing it and then spinning it in a
basket and so it whips out all the fluid
and the oil floats to the top uh and
then the the watery stuff goes to the
bottom and the chunks go to the bottom
uh and they just scoop the olive oil off
they don't filter it and so that's why
you wind up getting little bits that are
green so extra virgin first press olive
oils always going to be tastier you're
going to get that peppery you you know
uh sometimes peerie taste to it by the
way those that's what the polyphenols
are they're actually giving you that
taste sensation a great taste sensation
of olive oil all right um many olive oil
makers and you can look this up on
Google there's a whole scam in the olive
oil industry where people who are
labeling olive oil are in fact adding
other oils to it it has some olive oil
and they cut it um and so um that's not
good you're you're getting who knows
what other kind of olive oil it's it's a
whole scam the other other times people
are mixing different types of olive oils
together sometimes the cheapest ones
they can find together to serve it up to
you and so the way to get around that is
to look for monovarietal ol olive oils
pressed with only one variety of Olives
these are going to usually be coming
from a single Farm all right could be a
large farm but a single farm and this
also not only guarantees the quality of
the olive oil because it's not going to
be cut with other things mono varietal
it's a label um mono one varietal type
of olive um but I look for mono
varietals olive oils coming from one of
three different kinds of Olives that you
can actually find very easily in the
store and the reason I look for them is
because they have the highest levels of
polyphenols of all the olives all right
so if you like Spanish olive oil all
right I look for monovarietal Spanish
olives made with the type of olive the
variety of olive called p p IU l p
olives fortunately it's a very common
Olive in Spain unfortunately that Olive
you can easily find pyal monor olive oil
and it's not that expensive all right if
you like Greek olive oil I love Greek
olive oil um the uh uh the olives that
have highest polyphenols among Greek
olives are called
coroni k o r o NE i k i coroni olives
it's from the pelonis fortunately a very
common uh Olive in Greece monovarietal
highest polyphenols taste amazing great
for whatever you're cooking or grilling
or salad dressing and then Italian if
you like Italian olive oils in Umbria
the highest polyphenols have been found
in
morolo olives m o r o a i l o morolo
olives which is found in umbrea it's a
less common Olive
it's going to be more expensive but
again tastes great highest polyphenols
and so I kind of tell people look if
you're going to go buy olive oils why
not get the highest quality it's Fuel
and if you're GNA and and it's going to
you want to be able to have it taste
great if you're going to use it and dip
some bread or whatever it is sourdough
bread or whatever something healthy in
it or you're going to dribble it on some
uh some pasta or whatever you're cooking
with it why not get the best and why not
get the best with the high not only best
taste but also pure and also with the
highest polyphenols and that's how I
actually choose with olive oil by the
way some people have reported I heard
this before that olive oils are not good
for your blood vessels they actually
damage the line of your blood vessels
that's all bunk I'm a blood vessel
expert and I'm also an expert on food is
medicine we've studied this it's a
theoretical thing that got put together
that winds up actually not being true
well-intentioned people try to put
science together and I'm not real
scientists and they don't know the data
it's understandable how they may come up
with it but olive oil is perfectly fine
in fact it's very healthy for your blood
vessels quite the opposite now how much
to eat you know there's a lot of studies
out there of olive oil on average if you
take a look at all the studies the
average amount of healthy oil to consume
per day is about three to four
tablespoons worth of olive oil okay
that's a fair amount of olive oil if
you're not an olive oil consumer but if
you think about the Mediterranean three
to four tablespoon go ahead and take a
measuring uh spoon out in your in your
kitchen and to take out three to four
tablespoons and put it into on a dish
it's not that much and if you are um
scrambling your eggs with it all right
if you like eggs um instead of butter
and in lunch if you're making a salad
dressing with it and you're going to put
some salad dressing on it and then it at
dinner if you're going to roast some
vegetables uh or or grill some
vegetables and you're going to put some
olive oil on it you will easily get
three to four uh tablespoons of olive
oil into your system okay brilliant
that's super practical so essentially a
lot of advice there on olive oil if
people are struggling with the cost of
things as many people are these days is
your advice to get the best quality
olive oil that you can
afford yeah absolutely and and by the
way you know I would say it's it's a
buyer world out there particularly
because you could buy things on the
internet as well if you search for um
monovarietal
piku or Cori or Mar olive oil and you
just let the internet show you what's
the cheapest one you know and do a
little review to make sure that they're
you know a good quality manufacturer or
supplier order it buy it you know um
that that's the fastest way to actually
get high quality listen people people
spend a lot of money on a lot of
different things right but then you
actually again take a look at your own
life lifestyle I can tell you the best
investment you can make is getting high
quality food for yourself and you're in
Europe it's a lot better than the United
States I mean people buy junk stuff for
food and they spend their money on
things that are unhealthy um uh as well
they get they buy cheap unhealthy things
and they spend money on healthy
unhealthy things I think food is one
getting healthy food high quality food
is one of the best investments you can
actually make yeah yeah yeah completely
agree and I think you know everyone does
have different Financial situations and
different means no
question but I think something quite
profound happens when you internally
going back to what we were talking about
before about you know tuning into
yourself listening to your body's own
signals like when you consciously make
that decision not like an opinion a
decision that you know what the food I
put in my mouth now is of top importance
you know I made that decision a few
years ago like I internalized that you
know if I'm going to be the best human
being that I can be the best father the
best husband the best capable human
being as I
age well the quality of the food I put
into my mouth day in day out is
important it doesn't mean you're never
going to go off track but there's
something really I think powerful about
when you make that
decision and once you made that decision
and you live with that decision for a
while you know other things start to
change so you know I love eating out as
much as the next person Dr Lee but I
will say that I've become a lot fussier
these days and I actually prefer eating
in I much prefer eating in because when
you really tune into what good quality
food tastes like often when you're out
not always there are some great
restaurants out there and great cafes
for sure I just don't feel that good
afterwards a lot of the time when I go
out it could be the oils they're using
to fry whatever it might be so again I'm
not saying that applies to anyone else
but for me I much prefer to eat in these
days when I
can I I totally agree and and by the way
I think the the companion piece that I
add because I'm like you I you know I
sort of I I I try to find what makes me
feel good uh and stick to that but I
also think that you know having some
self-compassion is an important
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we're all human we have to enjoy
ourselves we have to have enough
compassion to realize that it's okay
every every now and then to you know
kind of wander off the path as long as
you get back on the path you're going to
be just fine and I try to kind of lower
people's stress level in trying to live
a healthy life by also saying you know
look these are
guidelines you know that they're good
for you you you should feel you should
feel better when you're doing them um
it's up to you to actually take that
path and and rather than make people
feel fear guilt shame when it comes to
food I try to give people permission to
live a little you know every now and
then you're going to do something you're
going to really enjoy listen if you
spend more time doing things that are
good for you your body's going to be
strong enough to be able to rebound from
something occasionally you do that's not
so good for you it's like driving on a
road right I mean look you know the
rules following the rules of the road
are actually going to help keep you a
safe driver so that you're going to be
accident free but look who doesn't speed
every now and then and you know speeding
can kill you right so but every now and
then you need to get some place Qui
you're going to go a little bit faster
than the speed limit it's okay it's okay
and so I I kind of try to give people
permission to um and I encourage them to
be self-compassionate and give them
permission to feel the Liberty to choose
yeah with the with the encouragement
that make more good choices more often
yeah I completely agree it's a great
point and just to be super clear I've
really got to that point about eating in
compared to eating out I would say in
the last couple of years you know I've
been on on this journey to improve my
health with my lifestyle for you know 10
plus years now so you start off where
you can and bit by bit that bills and
you go off track and you go ah you know
what I actually feel better when I'm
like this and you know last week I was
away for work between Monday uh
afternoon and Friday evening so all my
meals were out and I was completely fine
and I was able to function and and do
what I had to do but since I got back at
the weekends I'm like no no no I just
want to eat in I cook own food now so I
think that's a really really important
point you mentioned uh blood vessels
before in relationship to olive oil now
we've spoken a lot about stem cells if
we could just shift the focus to blood
vessels olive oil as a foods that can
help us with our stem cells and help us
with our blood vessels let's just set
the scene again like we did with stem
cells why is the health of our blood
vessels so
important what do we get wrong when we
think about blood
vessels and then how can we choose
specific foods that that are going to
enhance the health off those blood
vessels okay so I mentioned earlier
60,000 miles worth of blood vessels are
packed into our adult bodies that is so
extensive that if we were to pull out
all the blood vessels and line them up
end to end in your body you'd actually
form a line a thread that would wrapped
around the earth twice all right and
these literally are the highways of and
byways of everything O oxygen we breathe
the nutrients that we eat they deliver
to every single organ in your body
really really critical and in fact no
matter what you else you think about uh
in terms of your health if your blood
vessels are healthy you are at a really
great starting point to optimize the
rest of your health but if your blood
vessels are unhealthy you're going to be
far behind in fact it'll be impossible
to optim mze your health in any other
part of your body and this is true when
you're a child this is true when you're
a young adult this is especially true as
we get older like 40 and above we need
to start paying super attention to how
well our blood vessels are functioning
now the good news and what people don't
get right sometimes is that we think
about our blood vessels as passive and
like plumbing and then they get clogged
they get narrowed with lipids or plaque
or
atherosclerosis you know and this is
what ultimately leads to a heart attack
or a stroke or for you know leg
dysfunctions when you've got clogged
arteries in your legs my arteries are
hard you hear this all the time well our
blood vessels are anything but static
it's not just piping under your sink
that if you keep pouring grease down the
sink it's going to clog up uh your your
your sink and then you going to call the
plumber in to to open it up with a wire
nope it's not like that at all our blood
V is incredibly Dynamic and that what
that means is our body manages to
maintain our blood vessels to try to
keep them optimized all the time now
something that keeps our blood vessels
healthy and dynamic is the inner lining
of the blood vessels our blood vessels
have a sleeve in it it's like a layer of
um plastic wrap that is extraordinarily
slippery we call it the endothelial
layer um if you think about like a a
garden hose and to cut the garden hose
in half and look down the middle of the
hose you're looking down into the hole
and and if you were to actually take a
plastic wrap the kind of you would have
in your kitchen and coat the inside of
the garden hose with a with a plastic
wrap so that when water is running
through that the water is slip slipping
through sliding through the plastic wrap
now imagine in your blood vessels that
same kind of wrap made out of living
tissue called called vascular cells
blood vessel cells it's extraordinarily
slippery so so slippery that I give the
analogy of like an ice skating rink if
you've ever been a kid gone ice skating
I don't know most many adults don't ice
skate anymore but if you're a kid you
might have had that experience you know
that when you get out on that ice on the
ice and I on the skating rake it's
really really slippery it's hard to
actually keep your balance all right um
and that's what the blood vessels need
to be so that all the blood cells that
are are winging through our body they
don't stick to the walls at all they
just keep on going keep on going you
know like there's like traffic direction
um this is this way to your liver this
way to your eyes this way to your brain
okay now you also know that um uh if
you're and and by the way if you've ever
been ice skating you know that after the
ice is cleaned there's a machine that
will polish the ice between sessions and
the ice skating R it's called a Zamboni
uh machine they drive over it it heats
the ice there's a little uh brush
underneath it that kind of polishes the
ice when the ice is new and newly
polished you could take a sweater
because it's a little cold in the ice
getting rink and you can throw it on the
ice and the thing will Glide your
sweater will Glide it's so slippery all
the way across the rink to the other end
now after you have a hundred people
skating on the ice for a session or
after a hockey game you know where where
people the players are really scuffing
up the ice big time all right when you
come off the ice if you were to throw
that sweater on it again it won't slide
it'll just stick right to the ice it'll
just stay right there so the so we we
just like the ice skating rink you want
your blood vessels to be really really
polished and smooth flowing and if you
don't treat your blood vessels properly
and there's lots of things that can
damage our blood vessels high amounts of
salt high amounts of sugar high amounts
of of unhealthy saturated fats scrape up
the lining of our blood vessels that's
like uh you know that's the difference
between being able to have the sweater
Glide all the way to the end of the rink
versus having the sweater stick to the
ice now when you have blood cells
sticking to the ice ice that's not good
when when when that ice is your inside
your circulation because that stickiness
can actually start to build up layers
and layers and layers and that's really
how blood vessels get narrowed so one of
the things your body tries to do is to
use those stem cells we talked about
earlier and to try to repair those areas
of the ice where like a piece might have
come off and smooth it out again so we
can actually restore that healthy layer
it's very quite it's very amazing
Dynamic and when we need more blood
vessels our body can naturally grow them
uh where they need to be grown and then
stop it when there's adequate blood
vessels and if there's too many blood
vessels growing our our our body can
also trim the extra blood vessels so we
don't have too many it's like a
landscaper that's looking at a gulf
course and and keeping maintaining a
perfect golf course hey there's a couple
of patches that need some more uh uh
grass they'll let you put the seed there
and grow it right up so it looks perfect
and if there's and if the Grass Grows
too high it'll just mow the lawn so you
wind up having just the right amount at
all times not too few not too many just
the perfect amount that's how um our
blood vessels are maintained that
process is called angiogenesis that's
how blood vessels grow and stay healthy
being an expert in this kind of vascular
field I wanted to set the scene early
why do we why do we die from heart
disease why is it one of the leading
causes of death in the
world okay well listen nothing happens
without your heart and so our heart is
essentially the engine of our body uh
you know our brain would be the computer
system that now runs the modern car if
you want that be able to shift gears and
do all this other kind of stuff but the
engine is really our heart and and every
pump of our heart from the time that we
were first formed in fact when you're
dad's sperm at your mom's egg and you
were just a ball of cells of of of of
shapeless formless cells one of the
first uh organs that forms is your
circulation you need blood flow
everywhere and then the heart begins
forming right shortly after that to be
that engine so just like a car uh you
know when your engine is running healthy
you have a comfortable ride you can get
from point A to point B and the people
who take care of their engine uh more uh
in a more dedicated fashion if you're
more aware of your engine and you want
to make sure you put the right oil you
change your oil and you're not trying to
mistreat your engine you're going to
have a car for life I mean this is how
the people that have been driving their
car for you know 15 16 years and it's
still an amazing car that's really how
our heart is and for the people who are
you know there another topic that's
really big these days is aging and
Longevity and so the idea that you can
actually live very long even
centenarians people live to hundred and
more all right part of the secret is
that their heart is actually functioning
well now every drop of blood in our body
passes through the heart so whatever is
in our blood will have an impact in
heart how the heart functions and and
and when we eat food our food is like
the fuel to the car the hearty engine
our food is our fuel and our fat cells
are our fuel tanks we can get into that
later but the bottom line is that if you
choose good quality fuel when you're
filling up your car you're treating your
engine well and this is where nutrition
comes into play as well because for too
long we've been um uh uh
unconsciously putting harmful poor
quality fuel in our body and now some of
this heart disease that you're you know
pointing out that's really the number
one cause of death around the world is
partly it's partly the result the
consequence of how we're not treating
our heart well over the course of our
lifetime over our life's journey we are
not feeding uh uh we're not putting the
right quality of fuel into our body and
that fuel lines run the substances that
we eat everywhere and by the way one of
the things that you know like is really
uh amazing is how fast um this sort of
food and environmental health and
cardiovascular health is all coming
together just a few months ago the paper
came out showing that the microplastics
that are found in our environment we
breathe them but certainly they're found
in our water bottles right who hasn't
gone on a uh you know for a hike and or
gone on vacation or got get on an
airplane and you are given your plastic
water bottle and you just suck it down
because you're supposed to drink water
every day well it turns out we now know
that uh billions of plastic particles
are shed into the foods that we eat and
the beverages that we drink and they get
into our bloodstream and the study that
I'm referring to was published um uh
actually late last year
uh cardiologist neurologists studying
people with blockages on the vessels the
blood vessels of their neck found that
th those arteries with the plaque that's
the narrowing the fatty plaque that
narrows our circulation and a set up for
a stroke and a setup for a heart attack
that those plaques can be embedded with
plastic like little pieces of plastic
particles and the uh research stunningly
showed that for the first time we now
know that people who have the plaque
which is not good by itself related to
diet lifestyle plus the plastic the
plastic and the plaque uh was associated
with a fourfold increase in the risk of
developing a heart attack or a stroke
so again you know this is you know
you're asking about um a very important
question which is like hey why do we
have cardiovascular disease and I think
it's really about how we treat our body
what we're exposed it to great great
summary of the the impacts of of the
what cut what this disease is and what
are the what are the the common let's
break it down in two parts how do we
prevent this because you talked about
diet and what are the current treatment
options
if we do develop this so we can tackle
both individually so let's start about
prevention because prevention is a cure
right yeah no listen I'm so glad that
you brought that up look um I like to I
like to um discuss this idea of
prevention by um uh turning the clock
back to when we came out of the box
meaning when we were born it's like
taking a laptop out of a box you know a
brand new laptop
operating system is going to be the same
for all the units of brand new laptops
you plug it in you charge it up you hit
the start button you hear the sound and
that operating system runs and the the
the the bottom line is that if you want
your computer your laptop to work really
well for over the whole lifetime you
have to take preventative steps measures
to make sure that it is well cared for
right so well you know shut it down
every now and then run an antivirus
program every now and then please don't
spill water or coffee on it and don't
drop it right uh don't put it don't
don't put it in a hot car and don't uh
leave it out in the snow so you know
these are the kinds of ways that I want
you to think about or I want your
listeners to think about are Hearts
we're born really really healthy we are
born I don't want to say the word
pristine but we're born uh really uh cut
from the same bol of cloth all of us and
what happens is that from day one Our
Journey Begins and where people start
deviating the people who wind up having
heart disease versus the people who can
make it to their 90s and be very very
heart healthy where that Divergence
happens starts very early on so the
things that we're exposed to you know um
diet's a great example you know how many
moms are feeding their kids healthy
plant-based foods and also proteins that
actually are healthy and from sources
that are um ideal you know better
treated less microplastics um you know
and allow our bodies to be able to gain
all those bioactive the phytonutrients
the uh the the the polyphenols that
allow us our our our cells our bodies to
thrive and our hearts to thrive well
look you you as you can imagine the the
people who are eating those Foods uh
where the compounds and the foods the
natural compounds help our blood vessel
stay healthy that lining the endothelial
lining which is sort of like a the it's
like a piece of Saran Wrap that's inside
the blood vessels it is slippery smooth
like an ice skating rink after the
Zamboni clears it after a hockey game
really nice and Slick that's a healthy
circulation and that's also healthy for
the heart what happens you contrast that
to you know a child who's exposed to
junkie food all the time not once in a
once in a while look we we're we're
pretty resilient you eat a burger from a
fast food joint once in a while you're
going to be just fine but day in and day
out week after week year after year if
you are constantly putting poor quality
fuel into your tank so to speak hey
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video fatty foods uh uh uh uh artificial
preservatives artificial sweeteners
flavorings colorings I mean think about
what kids are exposed to and I'm
bringing this back to the to uh our our
origin as children because that's really
I think where the opportun the best
opportunity for prevention is every
parent you know while they're learning
how to swaddle their kid change the
diaper um uh prevent the electrical cord
from shocking the kid the baby is not
going to stick a a paper clip into the
electrical cord they should be learning
about nutrition Healthy nutrition
because their fate is partly determined
by what happens in those earliest years
and they don't have the control the
parents have the control so you go on a
journey you're exposed to high salt high
fat artificial preservatives uh a ton of
added
sugar uh our body's very resilient so
when you're a kid you know you're eating
a ton of candy or doing all this kind of
stuff bouncing off the walls enjoying
the fast food joint with your friends no
problem you're not going to feel it but
now extend that out take that it's like
an antenna telescope that out pull that
antenna out a decade you're now you're
not 10 years old you're 20 pull that out
another decade you're 30 you're 40
you're 50 you can imagine the toll that
that actually takes and I think that's
really one of the reasons that we wind
up you know inexplicably wondering like
well how come so and so got heart
disease but I didn't or why did I get
heart disease and so and so didn't I
think if you were to track back that
Journey it happens very early on so then
the question goes is Our Fate decided so
early that there's no hope for being
able to prevent things if I didn't live
the healthiest life at an earlier age
this is where the exciting research is
we now know that you can reverse heart
disease you can reverse the blockages in
your in your blood vessels you can
actually repave the lining of your blood
vessels so it's healthier you can
actually regenerate heart tissue with
our stem cells and there are many
different ways by
adopting healthy eating patterns by
being mindful in how we eat and and also
of the amount of food we eat and what
time when we eat you know what we eat
when we eat how much we eat all that
stuff once you realize it's time for you
to sort of try to get your act together
and get heart healthy taking those
proactive measures can reverse heart
disease so you know we were talking
about prevention uh uh let's talk about
the typical person who hasn't thought
about it until recently I think the
great news is that you can actually turn
the clock back and and get
healthier great that's an awesome
summary
so so it's it's really about these
interventions early in life because it
almost sets the habits for say for
instance use the analogy of a child if a
child develops bad habits they're more
likely to carry that into later life but
the good news according to what you
you're saying William is that there is
ways to reverse that as well through
diet so before we go to diet let's talk
about the conventional
approaches because I think if someone's
developing heart disease the medical
approach most likely is going to be some
sort of Statin type of drug so how did
how do
these why do doctors prescribe these
statin drugs in the first
place yeah well look I mean it starts
with a doctor whe and and you may be
apparently healthy you feel okay maybe
not in the great shape best possible
shape but you know you're going about
your way and you get a physical exam at
a doctor and you know that a doctor like
me would would see a patient you know
like we've already made up our mind what
we need to start looking for and paying
attention to and asking about U when we
walk in the door and see you as a
patient sitting you know on the sitting
on you know on the table uh we've
already in our minds already started to
Think Through what are the areas that we
want to Probe on your on your behalf to
be able to see how we can assess where
you are and how we can get you healthier
but then we actually do things like do
an EKG which is measuring the electrical
rhythm of your heart it's one uh you
know that's the original biohacker right
you do an EKG wow you can actually
measure your heart beat by beat and then
you know we've got blood pressure we've
got um your weight then you go for a
blood test and the blood test reveals a
lot we call them blood chemistries and
complete blood count and we can also
measure cholesterol and you know in the
1970s it started to be real to re
realize that if you have high
cholesterol you're more likely to
actually have heart disease narrowing
the cholesterol being fat Narrows the
width of your blood vessel so you're not
getting as much blood flow and that sets
you up for blockages complete blockages
that can lead to a heart attack or a
stroke and so the the the the the
physical exam the EKG the blood tests
these are the starting points of how we
assess but then the treatments right so
it wasn't too many decades ago that we
had no real good treatments for a heart
we could lower blood pressure by
dilating the blood vessels we can slow
the heart rate down so there's less uh
exertion of the heart you know those are
very helpful but it was in the 1980s
that um Statin came out and a Statin for
those of you who are not familiar with
it is a is a pill that works
biochemically in the body to really
lower your body's uh the blood levels of
your cholesterol and different types of
fat now here's something very important
you it's not all cholesterol that's bad
in fact some cholesterol is good it's
you know this is like a like a like a
mystery the deeper we get into the
mystery the more surprises we discover
and realize that we can't just come to a
conclusion too quickly so even if you
have higher than normal cholesterol
normal being an arbitrary level that
most people accept as normal you got to
ask the question do you have what's your
good cholesterol versus the bad
cholesterol and without taking too much
time to go into that you know HDL is
good cholesterol high density
lipoprotein and LDL is the bad
cholesterol so then you want to see
which is higher if your bad cholestrol
is high the knee jerk today consider the
standard of care is to write a Statin
okay in reality you can take some
preventative and reversal steps before
that you can do exercise you can go on a
high-fiber diet you can cut down
saturated fat and salt I like to
personally give my patients a shot um at
with awareness to really be able to kind
of reverse their blood Bad Blood profile
and get back to who they want to be get
to back to who their body wants them to
be
Behavior Uh mind fulness all and and
exercise exercise counts for a lot as
well staying the body in motion stays in
motion the couch potato stays on the
couch you know and so you know and so
and then eventually in the ground so you
want to really stay in motion you want
to eat healthier foods you can actually
many people can actually lower their
blood lipids just like that okay and by
the way high blood lipids and lack of
exercise and a bad diet um often sets up
for metabolic syndrome and that's really
the pre-diabetic state which then leads
to all kinds of other cardiovascular
diseases downst it's like a domino
effect if you let B your dios and you
push it click click click click click
click click now You' got a big problem
going down so i' like to before giving
the insulin and then dealing with all
the other diabetic issues look let's
give the body a chance to heal itself
revert back to its natural state which
should be balanced all right let's see
how much we can do and then we write a
prescription for a stat now when people
actually have symptoms like they they
they clearly are in Jeopardy of having a
heart attack we take them to the
catheterization lab which is a special
kind of laboratory in the hospital and a
cardiologist will get involved and they
will they can actually squirt some dye
into your heart look on a screen uh you
know just like a video game to see uh
where the blockages or narrowing might
be and then if they see one like a video
game they can
thread up a little uh expander and just
open up the blockage pretty amazing they
can actually put a stent which is like a
basket to open to force it to be open
and then sometimes you can just carve
out you know like if you think about
like the nose picker you can actually
pick out the claque um as well and just
remove it so this is classic before a
heart attack after you get deeper and
deeper you might need to do bypass which
is a gigantic surgery um and then you
deal with heart failure and you can
treat heart failure with medication so
you know I I know like this isn't about
medical management but I do think that
before we just dive into you know heart
healthy foods you got to realize there
are you know there's like a century of
really good work on figuring out if we
if you had to get a medical doctor
involved we can actually be hug your
heart and figure out how to actually
deal that deal with heart disease in
very mechanical and pharmaceutical ways
what my point is that there is a missing
tool in the toolbox and that takes us
before 100 years but now armed by the
science to say how how can we allow our
body to regain its own
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