Longevity Roadmap: The Functional Medicine Approach To Heart Disease

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

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🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, you will hear a sneak peek into episode 2 of my new docu-series, Longevity Roadmap. In this episode we’ll discuss the biggest killer of our time: cardiovascular disease. There is so much misinformation out there about what causes cardiovascular disease. We’ll talk about innovative testing and recommendations around prevention. Learn more and sign up to watch the Longevity Roadmap docu-series at longevityfilm.com In the Longevity Roadmap docuseries, we will walk you through the latest research on longevity, healthspan, and how to live better, longer. We also dive into the science behind preventing the most prevalent diseases of aging, and we’ll talk about what it means to build a resilient body. Each episode will take on a specific focus to help you understand the diseases of aging and what Functional Medicine teaches us about prevention, testing, nutrition, and more.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, my name is Kaya Paroa and I'm one of the producers of the doctor's pharmacy podcast
0:04.7	and I'm also the director of Dr. Mark Hyman's new longevity roadmap docu-series.
0:09.6	I'm so excited to announce that Dr. Hyman's docu-series is now live and today we wanted to give you a
0:14.6	sneak peek of episode two. In today's episode, Dr. Hyman and his team at the Ultrawalna Center
0:20.6	discussed the functional medicine approach to the biggest killer of our time, heart disease.
0:25.4	Is cholesterol the enemy we've made it out to be? Is fat actually important for our health?
0:30.3	What is the true cause of heart disease and how can we address it? You'll learn more in this episode.
0:46.9	The biggest killer in the world is heart disease, but our traditional approach is pretty
0:52.7	misguided and addresses the symptoms, not the causes, high blood pressure, high blood sugar,
0:59.5	high cholesterol. Don't just happen out of the blue, there's signs of imbalance of underlying
1:05.7	dysfunction that can be fixed. We've all been told, you know, why are we seeing more cardiovascular?
1:11.1	The number one killer ruled why is cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular disease is not just about
1:17.0	the heart. It's about the whole vascular system, the whole endothelial system, the heart is the pump
1:22.6	that pumps out to the arteries, goes to the small arterioles, then goes to the veins, then goes through
1:27.6	the capillaries, and then back to the lymphatic system. And that whole system is intimately tied in
1:34.5	with our health. It delivers oxygen, it removes waste, and when we get inflammation in that system,
1:42.0	or coming up of the pipes, that's when we get cardiovascular disease.
1:46.4	So our endothelium is one cell layer that lines the inside of our arteries, and this endothelial
1:53.5	layer is critical for our health. We want that endothelium working really well, and it needs to be
1:59.2	able to relax to allow blood to get to all the different tissues in the body. And we know we can
2:07.0	impact the endothelium. If the endothelium is not able to relax, that causes our blood pressure
2:13.7	to go up. What we know is we start to see endothelial dysfunction and inability for that endothelium
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