I saw that somewhere in America every 40 seconds somebody will have a heart attack.

How many of those heart attacks would you say could be prevented?

Essentially 100%, you know, coronary artery disease.

I think our friend, called Will Essleston, always likes to say this is a disease that need

never happen.

There are some people who have genetic disorders who will have some elevated cholesterol,

but even if they follow all of the recommendations that we've put out through our primary

prevention guidelines and then recently updated it to talk about sleep, which you and I

should talk about, people should be able to avoid coronary heart disease and heartening

of the arteries.

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This is episode 20 of season 6, number 416 overall.

And I gotta tell you that we are getting more than we bargained for on the show today.

Getting about bonus health knowledge here today, because the original idea was to give

three healthy heart habits that will help to prevent a heart attack, three of them.

But my guest today, he said, no, we're doing more.

So what are these habits that you could be establishing right now today that could help

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