80% of Heart Attacks & Strokes Happen Because of THIS

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

If someone dies from a heart attack or stroke, their death is typically the result of a clot. A clot can form in less than 5 seconds! Usually, your body should form a clot, fix the hole in the artery, then dissolve the clot, but this doesn’t always happen.

Clots can be caused by the following:

•Smoking

•Pollution/chemicals

•Alcohol

•Birth control pills

•Stress

•Surgery

•Endurance sports

•Refined starches

•Infection

•High blood sugar

•Inflammation

Excess calcium in the arteries can also trigger clotting, which can lead to a heart attack or stroke. Postmenopausal women who take large amounts of calcium are at a much greater risk for blood clots.

Calcium is involved in over 15 different clotting factors. Vitamin K2 prevents calcium from building up in the soft tissues and arteries. It is found in dairy, butter, and other fatty foods. Always take vitamin D with vitamin K2.

Magnesium is another important calcium regulator. It helps prevent calcium from entering the soft tissues, as well as arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation.

Nitric oxide can reduce clotting. Vitamin D, L-arginine, and sunlight can increase nitric oxide to help prevent heart attack. Polyphenols, vitamin C, and omega-3 fatty acids all support heart health and may help reduce your risk of clotting.

Keto and intermittent fasting can help reduce clotting by reducing inflammation in your arteries. Regular moderate exercise is vital in preventing clotting. Garlic and onion are also essential. Nattokinase, serrapeptase, and bromelain can be taken as supplements to prevent clotting.

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0:00.0	Over 80% of heart attacks and strokes are not plaque, cholesterol, or calcium that's blocking your arteries.
0:07.4	Most of the time when someone has a heart attack or a stroke, they die from a clot.
0:13.3	This is not the same and it's very different than a buildup of cholesterol or calcium or plaque.
0:19.2	If someone told you the reason why you die is your arteries fill up with
0:22.5	cholesterol, they are lying to you. That's usually not what kills you. It's the clot that can form
0:28.1	in less than five seconds. What we're going to do today is we're going to really dissect a clot
0:32.6	and understand what it is and give you a solution to prevent clots because a clot is a very necessary thing.
0:40.7	A clot is a response to injury. And the way it's supposed to work is the body's supposed to form
0:45.4	a clot, fix the hole in the artery, and then dissolve it. The real problem that we need to focus
0:51.8	on is the hole in the artery, but the biggest trigger to a clot is not cholesterol.
0:56.8	It's not calcium.
0:57.9	Number one, and people know this, is the inhalation of smoke from cigarette smoke.
1:03.1	Now your arteries are exposed to all these chemicals and it's going to create inflammation.
1:07.6	Also, pollution or being around any type of chemicals in the environment can do that as
1:12.2	well. A solution is not to do vaping. Okay, you need to just stop smoking. Alcohol is another one.
1:17.7	You're drinking alcohol. It's considered a poison to the liver. It gets into the bloodstream,
1:22.1	and that also can create problems in the inside of the arteries. Believe it not, birth control pills
1:26.9	or hormone replacement
1:28.3	therapy is another thing that can actually affect the arteries because of the hormonal
1:33.3	interaction, increasing the risk of a stroke and heart attacks. Then you have stress. And this is an
1:38.5	interesting one because there's something called the broken heart syndrome where someone has a loss of a loved one.
1:46.3	And their risk of having a heart attack goes up by 2,000 percent, which by the way triggers the
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