The Truth About Aspirin, Heart Attacks, and Arterial Plaque That Most Doctors Are Still Getting Wrong: Why 70% of Heart Attacks Start in Arteries That Were Less | #1340
The Ben Azadi Show
Ben Azadi
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🗓️ 27 June 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:23.2 | Most people think heart attacks happen because their arteries slowly get clogged until one day |
| 0:28.9 | it closes. That's not what happens. In fact, most heart attacks happen in arteries that most |
| 0:35.1 | doctors would consider mildly clogged. Think about that for a second. |
| 0:39.3 | The artery wasn't fully clogged. The person often felt completely fine. And then suddenly, |
| 0:44.3 | a life-changing event. Which raises a very uncomfortable question. If heart attacks aren't caused by what most people think, |
| 0:52.3 | then what actually causes them? And here's where the aspirin story gets weird. |
| 0:57.0 | Because for decades, millions of Americans were told, |
| 1:00.0 | take a baby aspirin every day, it'll protect your heart. |
| 1:04.0 | Then almost overnight, doctors started telling millions of those same people to stop. |
| 1:09.0 | So which is it? Was aspirin saving lives? Or were |
| 1:12.4 | millions of people taking a pill they never needed? Well, here's the thing most people don't understand. |
| 1:17.7 | The recommendation didn't change because aspirin stopped working. It changed because researchers |
| 1:22.9 | discovered something far more important. Not everyone is fighting the same heart disease. Some people are at |
| 1:29.0 | high risk, some people are at surprisingly low risk. And for one group, aspirin may help, |
| 1:34.3 | but for another group, it may quietly create a completely different danger. Today I'm going to |
| 1:39.8 | show you what actually causes most heart attacks, why doctors change their mind about aspirin, |
| 1:44.9 | who might still benefit from it, and if I discovered plaque in my own arteries tomorrow morning, |
| 1:50.5 | exactly what I would start doing that exact day. Because once you understand what's really |
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