Cardiologist Shares The Real Cause of Heart Attacks, What to Do About Microplastics and the Top Tests to Assess Heart Health With Dr. Michael Twyman

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Dhru Purohit

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 128 minutes

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This episode is brought to you by Plunge and Lumebox. Heart disease stands as one of the foremost global killers, claiming the top spot as the leading cause of death among women. With numerous factors contributing to its development, the future lies in precision cardiology—individually, customized, and prevention-focused. Today's episode is a deep dive into endothelial health and the journey to becoming heart attack-proof. Today on The Dhru Purohit Podcast, Dhru sits down with Dr. Michael Twyman and Dr. Neel Patel to discuss endothelial and cardiovascular health. Dr. Twyman shares his approach to assessing an individual’s risk of heart disease, metabolic health, and the importance of nitric oxide. Dhru, Dr. Patel, and Dr. Twyman discuss the role of genetics and the bloodwork you can order on your own and through a traditional healthcare system. They also discuss the diet and lifestyle for optimal heart health, supplements that should be incorporated into your daily routine, and the role of statins. Dr. Michael Twyman is a board-certified cardiologist focusing on the prevention and early detection of heart disease. Dr. Twyman completed his cardiovascular training at St. Louis University after he completed a four-year active-duty tour as an internist at Naval Hospital Beaufort. He has been in private practice since 2012 and uses the best of conventional, quantum, and Functional Medicine and biohacking to get to the root cause of his patients’ cardiovascular issues. In this episode, Dhru, Dr. Twyman and Dr. Patel dive into (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): Microplastics and cardiovascular health (00:00:05 / 00:00:05) How to approach vascular health and what is endothelial health (3:42 / 3:42) Traditional versus Dr. Twyman’s approach to the risk of heart disease (10:00 / 8:10) Glycocalyx: what damages it and what supports it (14:32 /13:02) How to approach metabolic health (21:40 / 20:19) The role of nitric oxide (24:00 / 22:14) Photobiomodulation recommendations (33:00 / 31:07) Nitrates in your diet, testing nitric oxide levels, and Dhru’s results (42:00 / 39:00) How does high blood pressure start (53:00 / 51:15) The role of genetics (57:00 / 54:36) The three buckets of bloodwork and ordering bloodwork in the traditional system (1:01:00 / 58:33) Best diet for heart health (1:18:00 / 1:15:15) Optimal supplementation (1:26:00 / 1:22:40) Statins: who should take them and who should avoid them (1:37:00 / 1:33:50) Biohacking: blue light blocking glasses and sauna (1:58:00 / 1:53:10) Also mentioned in this episode: Lifeforce Digital Huberman Protocol post Image of Dhru's ApoB results For more on Dr. Michael Twyman, follow him on Instagram @drtwyman or his website, drtwyman.com. Right now, Plunge is offering my community $150 off cold plunges and their core products. Just go to plunge.com/dhru or enter code DHRU to revolutionize your wellness journey today. Lumebox is offering my community $260 off their FDA-approved portable Red Light device! That's over 40% off! Go to thelumebox.com/dhru and get your Red Light device.

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0:00.0	Dr. Michael Pliman, a groundbreaking and mind-blowing study just came out in the last couple weeks in the New England Journal of Medicine,
0:10.0	and it highlighted the alarming link between microclastics, something super scary in our environment, and vascular health.
0:20.0	Now the study revealed that the individuals with detectable levels of
0:25.0	microplastics in their blood vessels are 4.53 times more likely to suffer
0:31.7	from heart attacks, strokes, or death within three years.
0:37.0	Now a little bit more detail, among the 257 patients that were followed for about 34 months.
0:44.5	150 of them had detectable levels of polyethylene in their plaque.
0:50.6	The individuals with detectable levels of microplastics also exhibited higher inflammatory
0:56.5	markers and reduced blood vessel collagen.
1:00.0	Dr Twyman, I want to pop this over to you to get your big picture thoughts on this study and its findings.
1:08.0	It's a fascinating study that we're exposed to these things non-stop, but this is the first time that they've actually caught it in somebody's plaque.
1:15.8	These patients were getting surgeries known as crodd at endoderectomy, so they were taking
1:19.7	severe plaques out of their arteries in the side of their neck. So these weren't people
1:23.4	with just risk factors. They were already related to the game. And so then when they
1:27.3	analyze the plaque under special screening methods, they found these plastics
1:31.7	in about 50% of the population and the macrophages which are part of the immune system are gobbling this stuff up and that was causing a lot of oxidative stress and inflammation inside these plaques and then they followed these patients after their surgery and as you said you know there's a four and a half fold increased risk of them having a heart attack, stroke or dying over the next approximately three years from the index surgery.
1:51.0	So it's fascinating that we're exposed to all these things,
1:54.8	but what are we going to do about that?
1:56.3	And that's really going to be the thing
1:57.6	that we all have to kind of figure out.
1:58.9	Because the plastics are not going to go away.
2:00.8	But maybe we can be drinking out of more glass.
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