Rethinking Heart Risk

Today we’re talking about something that affects almost every family listening…

❤️ Heart disease. But not in the old way.  Not in the “your cholesterol is high, here’s your prescription” way.

Today we’re going deeper — into what actually drives cardiovascular risk — and how we can measure it more accurately.

Because friends, heart disease is not just a cholesterol problem.

It is a metabolic problem.

And when we understand that? Everything changes. You might want to get a pencil and paper because I am going to cover a lot of really important information in detail.

The old cholesterol conversation we have had for decades is:

  • Total cholesterol is dangerous.

  • LDL is “bad.” And even remembered it as lousy

  • HDL is “good.” And even were told h stood for healthy and happy

  • Lower is always better. You could almost not go too low.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth…

Almost half of people hospitalized with heart attacks have normal LDL cholesterol.

And many, many people with elevated cholesterol never develop heart disease.

So clearly — we are missing something. It has been said cholesterol is THE culprit perhaps because the pharmaceutical industry has a good sledge hammer for cholesterol.  So that MUST be the problem. Or is there more…

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How and Why We Need to Strengthen Natural Killer Cells

Today’s topic comes from people asking me if I knew anything about the increase rate of cancers and particularly what doctors are calling “turbo cancers”- coming out of nowhere after covid, and raging through the body with terrifying speed. I was listening to another podcast that featured Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong whose approach to cancer treatment is to strengthen the patient’s immune system- particularly the IL-15 cells and Natural Killer cells, rather than solely relying on conventional treatments that deplete body, and the immune cells.