Reversing Heart Disease Naturally: Top Cardiologist Shares Groundbreaking Hacks : 1207
The Human Upgrade with Dave Asprey
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Get ready to upgrade your cardiovascular health in a way you’ve never heard of before. Dave Asprey sits down with Dr. Michael Twyman, a pioneering biohacking cardiologist who blends cutting-edge functional medicine with conventional wisdom to help you avoid heart attacks and strokes. If you think cardiovascular disease is inevitable, think again. Dr. Twyman reveals the hidden mechanisms behind heart disease, starting with the misunderstood role of plaque in your arteries and the essential yet underappreciated glycocalyx—a slippery gel-like coating that could be the key to preventing arterial damage.
From there, it’s all about prevention, prevention, prevention. Want to know how simple lifestyle tweaks can significantly reduce your risk of cardiovascular events? We’ve got the biohacks—grounding, sunlight exposure, cold plunges, and more—laid out for you in a step-by-step, easy-to-apply format. Dr. Twyman breaks down the crucial role of circadian biology and how aligning your body clock with natural light cycles can help protect your heart. Plus, learn why grounding might just be the ultimate, free anti-inflammatory tool you’ve been missing.
This episode isn’t just about tips and tricks—it’s a complete roadmap to understanding and optimizing your heart health. Dave and Dr. Twyman get into the nitty-gritty of lab tests you should be asking for, why exercise is only part of the solution, and how the current medical insurance model fails to protect your cardiovascular future. Don’t miss out on these life-saving insights that are rooted in both ancient wisdom and modern science.
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Timestamps and Highlights:
• 00:00 — Introduction to Cardiovascular Health
• 01:22 — Meet Dr. Michael Twyman
• 05:57 — Understanding Heart Attacks
• 08:09 — The Role of Glycocalyx in Cardiovascular Health
• 15:17 — Lifestyle Changes for Cardiovascular Health
• 24:32 — Exercise and Cardiovascular Health
• 27:58 — Effective VO2 Max Strategies
• 28:12 — Patient Exercise Goals and Time Management
• 29:12 — Thyroid and Cardiovascular Health
• 32:49 — Circadian Biology and Heart Disease
• 33:57 — Sunlight, Grounding, and Seasonal Health
• 38:49 — The Role of Statins in Cardiovascular Health
• 43:16 — Key Labs for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment
• 50:33 — Insurance and Preventative Health
• 54:35 — Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | Day if I got bad news you're at high risk for stroke and heart attack. |
| 0:03.0 | If you're going to hospital with a heart attack, they're going to ding you for somewhere between 50 and $200,000. |
| 0:07.5 | It's kind of like a pimple growing in the artery. |
| 0:09.5 | If that pimple gets red-hot inflamed then that temple could rupture. |
| 0:12.8 | So you're saying we should eat more butter to make our arteries more lubricated and |
| 0:16.4 | slippery. |
| 0:17.4 | That's what you're right. |
| 0:18.4 | Vaster disease is still the number one thing that's going to take people out. |
| 0:20.8 | You haven't mentioned exercise much. You're listening to the |
| 0:24.7 | human upgrade with Dave Asprey. In today's episode we're going to talk |
| 0:32.2 | about cardiovascular stuff and if you read my book |
| 0:37.6 | Superhuman about longevity the first step to living longer than you're supposed to is not dying. |
| 0:44.1 | And there are the four killers I talk about. |
| 0:47.1 | And one of the biggest ones that takes out most people before their time is cardiovascular disease, heart attacks, and I'm going to teach you, or more to the point, |
| 0:57.4 | the guest today is going to teach you what you can do to have a healthy cardiovascular system so that you can live longer and have more energy |
| 1:05.5 | and probably a better sex life along the way. |
| 1:08.2 | This is particularly interesting to me because if you look at my genetics, the highest risk of the four killers for me is |
| 1:15.7 | cardiovascular. So I pay extra attention to how do I maintain my system so that it |
| 1:19.7 | works really, really well. You'll learn a ton. Our guest is Dr Michael Twyman. He's a board |
| 1:26.2 | certified cardiologist and the founder of Apollo Cardiology. The reason I like Michael |
| 1:32.2 | is that he uses functional medicine and conventional medicine. |
| 1:37.0 | There's nothing wrong with using the tools of hospitals or even pharmaceutical tools to get exactly the results you want. |
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