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.
10 articles
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 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.
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.
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 The follow-up that measured soft plaque was retracted in 2026.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.