I'm Donnie Osman and welcome to the Brain Warrior's Way, hosted by my friends Daniel and Tanna Aeman.

In this podcast, you're going to learn that the war for your health is one between your ears.

That's right. If you're ready to be sharper and have better memory, mood, energy, and focus,

well then stay with us. Here are Daniel and Tana Aeman.

Welcome back to the Brain Warrior's Way.

Tana and I are here with Dr. Mark Houston.

We're having such a great time.

Mark is an internist, a cardiologist.

He's an associate clinical professor of medicine

at Vanderbilt University. He's published widely and he's also

written seven books including the hypertension handbook and what your doctor may not tell you about heart disease.

Today, Mark, I want to talk about

inflammation, which comes from the Latin word

to set a fire, and it's like you have a low level fire in your body

destroying your organs talk about the connection between inflammation, heart disease and brain disease.

Actually most of us who don't follow a optimal lifestyle with our nutrition and exercise

and so forth are basically volcanoes getting ready to

erupt. Amazing. So that subliminal fire you're talking about is they're rumbling away.

It's subclinical, asymptomatic, and then you have your first heart

attack and you realize or your first stroke that you've been inflamed for a long time.

One interesting statistic, most people, men and women, 68% in fact, have their first heart

attack and having had no previous symptoms.

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