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What Twenty Years of “Borderline” Blood Pressure Actually Costs You
Imagine a 35-year-old whose blood pressure reads 132/85 at their annual physical. Their physician glances at the number and calls it “borderline.” Maybe…
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Evidence-first essays on cardiovascular risk, longevity biology, and the gap between standard cardiac testing and what’s actually accumulating in your arteries.
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What Twenty Years of “Borderline” LDL Actually Costs You
Imagine a 35-year-old whose LDL is 145. Their physician calls it “borderline high” and suggests a recheck in a year. Maybe a vague nod toward exercise a…
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I Was the Safe Candidate. I Got a Stent at 44.
Word from the world of podcasts was that LDL doesn’t matter if your metabolic markers are clean. Mine were pristine. But somehow, I had an 80% coronary…
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I Was Doing Almost Everything Right. It Wasn’t Enough.
I’ve told you about the blockage . I’ve told you about the science the keto world gets wrong . I’ve told you about the tests that missed it and the figh…
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The Fight for My Own Coronary Artery Scan: Why the System Fails Its Hardest Cases
I’d already been through the full workup. 12-lead ECG. Echocardiogram. Holter monitor. Nuclear stress test. All normal. All clean. A coronary CT angiogr…
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I Aced Every Cardiac Test. I Still Had an 80% Blockage.
I run 12-lead ECGs on patients every shift in the ER at Mayo Clinic. Mine came back textbook. So did my echo. So did my Holter. Meanwhile, the ACC, AHA,…
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The Study Keto Influencers Used to Say LDL Doesn’t Matter — Then It Got Retracted
They studied 80 people with dangerously high cholesterol on keto and declared their arteries were fine. They just forgot to mention the soft plaque. The…
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I Had an 80% Coronary Blockage at 44. Every Test Said I Was Fine.
My name is Nick Hanson. I’m a former health and wellness industry CEO turned clinician-scientist. I’ve been from the boardroom, to the bench, to the bed…
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