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I Crushed My ApoB to 38. Nobody Measured My Small Vessels.
Cholesterol is half the job. Inflammation in the microvasculature is the other half, and it is the layer a standard cardiac workup never actually measures.
The Heart-Attack Risk Hiding in Your Immune Cells
A blood mutation called CHIP turns your own immune cells against your arteries, and it is the cleanest case study I know for how the biology of aging drives chronic disease.
The Longevity Compound Promoted on Half a Mechanism
Its entire case for your heart is one biochemical arrow. I followed the other one, the one that runs the wrong way, and as a guy with a stent I walked away.
The Question No One Asked
A stent fixed my blockage. No test in that room could say whether a silent heart attack had already left a scar.
The Heart Attacks You Never Feel
A coronary blockage can be built by silent ruptures that heal in secret. Mine probably was, and I still spent years refusing the proven treatment that stops them.
The Plaque a Calcium Score Can't See
A severe blockage. A calcium score that would have read zero. And if you ever get chest pain, the one question that gap should make you ask.
The Gut May Be the Point: Metformin, Citrulline, and the Exercise Question
A new Nature Metabolism paper places metformin's main effect in the gut, not muscle. That eases one exercise-blunting fear and raises a sharper one: citrulline and nitric oxide.
I Trained Hard for 25 Years. I Was Measuring the Wrong Fitness.
I trained hard for 25 years and never once measured my cardiorespiratory fitness. A hard program isn't a complete one, and the system you train best hides the ones you never test.
What Twenty Years of “Borderline” Blood Pressure Actually Costs You
A single 132/85 at 35 isn’t a snapshot. It’s a 20-year dose your arteries are already logging, and “borderline” is the word that hides the bill.
What Twenty Years of “Borderline” LDL Actually Costs You
A single LDL of 145 at 35 isn’t a snapshot. It’s a 30-year exposure your arteries are already logging, and “borderline” is the word that hides the bill.
I Was “Metabolically Healthy.” I Got a Stent at 44 Anyway.
Low hsCRP, a flat CGM, no insulin resistance: every marker the low-carb world calls “safe.” Then a CT angiogram found an 80% blockage in my right coronary artery.
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…
The Battle for the Coronary Artery Scan That Saved My Life
I passed the full cardiac workup, all normal. The fight was not against my cardiologist, but against the false comfort of being statistically unlikely.
I Aced Every Cardiac Test. I Still Had an 80% Blockage.
My ECG, echo, Holter, labs, and wearables all looked reassuring. None of them mapped my coronary arteries. Here is the blind spot that nearly killed me.
The Study the Keto Community Uses to Say LDL Doesn’t Matter. Then the Follow-Up Got Retracted.
A keto study is cited to argue high LDL is harmless when metabolic markers are clean. The follow-up that measured soft plaque was retracted in 2026. Here's what the evidence shows.
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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