Ep40 Dr Malcolm Kendrick the True Causes of Heart Disease are Not What You Think!
The Fat Emperor Podcast
ivor cummins
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🗓️ 24 September 2019
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Finally got hold of the man who more than anyone, has deep-dived into the root causes of heart disease - without bias - just fixated with finding the truth. I'm of course referring to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, who has created the 65-part (and growing) series "What Causes Heart Disease?".
See index below for a gist of what we covered (hint - it was A LOT!)
VIDEO PODCAST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wkxp-l2c68
INDEX/CONTENTS:
00:00:40 Are the causes we talk about “necessary and sufficient”?
00:04:45 What does Sickle Cell Disease prove about heart disease cause?
00:09:33 Kawasaki Disease illuminates the true causes of heart disease
00:14:45 Vein/artery differences, blood pressure & turbulence - speak volumes
00:20:14 Damage and repair – it’s the imbalance that is the problem
00:24:34 Steroids, inflammation and …Cushing’s Disease – what do they say?
00:28:12 Blood glucose, insulin resistance and their effects - a pivotal axis
00:31:54 Pollution, leaded petrol – and the surprising effect of Chelation
00:35:50 Bias, homocysteine, drug treatments - and the research world behaving badly
00:46:01 LDL importance…versus blood clotting factors
00:49:40 Atherosclerosis is the result of endothelial damage & blood clotting processes –root mechanisms
00:53:08 Sun, Nitric Oxide – and taking Viagra…!
00:56:53 Magnesium, salts, nitric oxide – and why your arteries fail you
01:02:06 Blood clotting is at the very core of heart disease – deep-dive
01:09:05 LDL, Lp(a) – and what cholesterol crystals in plaque really say!
01:15:05 Lp(a0, Vitamin C and Plasminogen – putting it all together
01:22:45 Familial Hypercholesterolemia….and what’s actually occurring all along
01:25:39 The mechanisms of statins and other drugs – beyond the old LDL story
01:34:48 “Well, they can’t all be wrong, can they?” – but history has shown how often this has been the case
01:43:04 We’re building a cathedral of wisdom - at least on the root causes of heart disease!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | So we're talking now, you've listed out some great drivers of vascular endothelial distress, which is the core of atheroscrosis, and some great things that would help avoid it, right up to an including Viagra, which is a good one. |
| 0:19.2 | Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. We're supported by the |
| 0:24.8 | Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity, which advocates a simple CT scan to reveal your CAC score. |
| 0:31.4 | So know your score and take action to prevent that premature heart attack. Everything you need |
| 0:36.7 | to know will be right here. |
| 0:40.4 | Today I have someone who has arguably done more research into the deeper mechanisms and |
| 0:45.3 | root causes of heart disease than anyone else on the planet. And I'm of course speaking of |
| 0:50.0 | Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. Great to talk to you again, Malcolm. No, nice to speak to you either. We'll have a few arguments, no, that. |
| 0:57.7 | I think we'll align on quite a few vectors, but sure we'll see. |
| 1:02.0 | You know, I was reading most of, I think, your series on heart disease root cause, |
| 1:07.1 | and it went up to, what, 52 or something at this stage? |
| 1:09.8 | You haven't read it, up to 60 something. Oh at this stage of you haven't run over is there I'm up to 60 something oh wow okay well I'm a busy guy to in |
| 1:15.9 | fairness but extraordinary now you cover so many potential root causes that for |
| 1:22.1 | some people it may get a little kind of complex as you're in the middle of the |
| 1:26.7 | series but then in the latter |
| 1:28.4 | stages you begin to close in on your primary ones but maybe we could start off |
| 1:33.1 | with just looking out the genuine root causes of heart disease as a kind of |
| 1:38.1 | Pareto so the the top contenders for being primary drivers although of course |
| 1:43.9 | there are many the kind of top primary ones |
| 1:47.1 | in your mind and then we work through the list perhaps oh that's a big that's a big one uh one of the |
| 1:55.0 | things i've tried to say although i've written a whole series of articles about what causes heart disease |
| 1:59.9 | one of the things i've tried to make clear is that the search for our cause has actually created a lot of the confusion because what we're looking at really is a process. Heart disease is a process and it's it's looking at it as a process that allows you to understand how does that risk factor. |
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