Spotting Hidden Heart Disease With Ultrasound, Artery Plaque Reversal From Natto, Why CIMT Beats Most Hospital Scans, & More With Joseph Ence

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In this episode with Joseph Ence, you’ll explore how advanced ultrasound technology can reveal hidden heart disease risks—and how Joseph, a self-taught expert, has used it to help thousands long before symptoms appear.

When Joe started Vasolabs, he knew he wanted to create more than a business—he wanted to build a community. His approach is rooted in education, empowerment, and making advanced heart health diagnostics accessible to everyone. By offering non-invasive CIMT scans, expert telemedicine consultations, and tailored health plans, Joe and his team help people understand their risks and make informed health decisions.

Full show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/cimt

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Greenfield and on this episode of the Boundless Life podcast.
0:05.1	The layers of the artery are very important.
0:08.5	When the walls get thick, that's usually metabolic issues.
0:11.3	Too much sugar, too much insulin causes this lining to get thicker.
0:14.9	But also plaques will form when you have nefarious molecules, L.P. Little A, dense LDL,
0:22.2	those come bombing up the pipe,
0:27.6	and you would think the blood flows evenly, but there's eddies in the stream, there's Bernoulli effects.
0:28.4	Okay.
0:28.8	And it causes damage to the walls. It gets worn out, and then those little dense molecules
0:32.9	get pushed in. The body sends in a white blood cell they gobble it up, but it turns into a fatty
0:38.2	streak or a plaque. It's that called like a foam? Foam cells. Yeah, they aggregate and they're pussy and nasty and pimply. Yeah. And over time, the body will calcify it. That's the traditional knowledge right now, is that you'll get these calcified plaques at the end of your life, and those are measured with the coronary calcium score, which is a great test, but it's not a tracking test.
0:37.8	Your score is only going to go. that you'll get these calcified plaques at the end of your life, and those are measured with the coronary calcium score,
0:54.9	which is a great test, but it's not a tracking test. Your score is only gonna go up as your body calcifies more. So looking at this with ultrasound, you can map it. I can tell you where every plaque is, I can tell you how much plaques there, and then I can compare you to the American population. Welcome to the boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield.
0:54.3	I'm a personal trainer. can compare you to the American population. Welcome to the boundless life with me, your host, Ben Greenfield.
1:13.8	I'm a personal trainer, exercise physiologist, and nutritionist, and I'm passionate about
1:18.4	helping you discover unparalleled levels of health, fitness, longevity, and beyond.
1:36.7	Well, you might, I do this, avoid teflon in your cook wearing fluoride in your toothpaste and aluminum in your deodorant. And yet most of us will just like addle up to a
1:42.3	restaurant or like grab some fish from the grocery store and just grill it up and eat it and not think about mercury and microplastics and toxic runoff that often far exceeds what we might be getting in the average tooth brushing scenario.
1:56.1	And you've probably seen the studies.
1:57.3	Mercury levels in tuna and plastic particles and salmon and declining omega-3
2:01.0	ratios in farmed fish. The ocean is polluted. That's not a secret. And most seafood
2:05.6	isn't even tested before it hits your plate. So what do I use? I get a box of seafood delivered
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