Topic
Cardiovascular Risk
How the systems most likely to decide your lifespan actually break down: LDL and ApoB, blood pressure, the endothelium, coronary calcium, the dose-response math nobody teaches you.
6 articles
The Mirror Told Me I Was Fit. My Cardiovascular System Disagreed.
I trained for the mirror for 25 years. Cardiorespiratory fitness, not how I looked, carries the larger mortality signal. Why I rebalanced and what changed my mind.
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…
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…
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…
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 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…