The Hidden Source of Heart Attacks That You Never Considered

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I want to talk about a hidden source of heart attacks that you may have never even considered before but I think it’s very very common uh not talked about enough and since heart disease is the number one killer on planet Earth it might be a good idea for you to know more about this topic the unique thing about the heart muscle is that the heart muscle is different than the skeletal muscles it never has a chance to fully relax and recover it’s constantly beating 24 7 whereas your other muscles can have a chance to relax they don’t have to constantly work but that heart has to keep working and when someone dies from a heart attack it’s actually the heart and muscle itself that stops Contracting and relaxing it tends to quiver and then you basically die and so people don’t really die because of of the artery itself it’s the heart muscle okay now it’s true that you can have a blocked artery that stops the blood flow to the heart muscle but you die from the heart muscle malfunctioning because of a lack of oxygen it’s called hypoxia or ischemia which is a lack of blood flows and as you know anytime you have a lack of oxygen to a muscle it cramps okay it stops Contracting and relaxing for muscle to work it needs a lot of oxygen unless you’re doing some short Sprints this high intensity type of exercise where you operate with a different system where you don’t need oxygen but that’s very short-lived and you can only go so far before you hit a wall now when someone gets heart attack sometimes I do this test to measure this enzyme la rotate dehydrogenase I did a video on this which is an enzyme involving lactate which I’ll get into in a minute but when this enzyme is in higher amounts it could mean that you just had a heart attack within 24 to 72 hours but it can also mean other things too like B12 Anemia as in pernicious anemia it could mean that you have AIDS the kidney the liver pancreatitis it could even indicate that you have cancer because there’s destruction of the tissues and with this destruction comes hypoxia so hypoxia can also Elevate this as well what’s interesting about this topic is I’m going to work backwards and show you how someone could actually get to this situation where they have too much lactic acid in their body lactic acid is related to lactate too much lactate gives you lactic acid and now the pH it goes down more acidic and then you run out of air really quick so where does lactate come from well it comes from this uh kind of this compound called pyruvate and pyruvate is kind of a middleman in this chain reaction and that comes from glucose so when you burn glucose fuel it turns into pyruvate and then lactate and then eventually lactic acid now another name for glucose is sugar right and you probably already know that sugar is not good for the heart and you may know that when you have elevated glucose as in a diabetic that glucose can really raise up your triglycerides because they convert to fat and you might also know that if you’re on a high sugar diet you’re going to have high levels of LDL cholesterol but what you might not know is there’s something else that releases a lot of glucose that has nothing to do with your diet okay nothing to do with what you ate and that is called adrenaline maybe you were going to say cortisol and you’re correct on that but adrenaline is also another hormone-like communication potent neurotransmitter that raises your glucose and adrenaline comes from stress and the more chronically stressed you are the more adrenaline you’re going to have the more glucose that your body is going to make or release which is going to turn into the paruvate the lactate and the lactic acid and it’s going to create hypoxia there’s some fascinating research and I’ll put it the link Down Below on this topic on the stress connection to heart attacks because stress creates hypoxia in a big way through adrenaline and cortisol too so even when someone is has low blood sugars adrenaline kicks in there and mobilizes a lot of the glucose in the body to raise the blood sugar and cortisol does the same thing but adrenaline is designed for quick energy to if you’re chased by a tiger you have to generate quick energy and so the body is going to release glucose but what happens when you’re under constant stress over a period of time you’re basically it’s like the same thing as eating a lot of sugar and even though adrenaline creates a vasodilation to the coronary artery it creates vasoconstriction of the other blood vessels around the body to the point where there’s no more vasodilation there’s this vasoconstriction so this could also explain if someone I don’t know over exercises and they’re not a good shape and then they dropped out of heart attack because of this adrenaline situation it also explains the higher risk of getting heart attacks from a severe shock to the system of a stress loss of a loved one loss of a friend loss of money loss of job loneliness divorce illness injury being in the situation where you’re constantly fighting with someone or you’re being affected by them or you have a you know chronic anxiety anger or depression or just being in a fear State can all raise your level of adrenaline to the point where you’re feeding way too much sugar to the body and especially the heart muscle and you’re generating a lot of lactate which is turning into lactic acid creating a bad situation for the heart muscle in fact very specifically when you have too much lactic acid in the heart and muscle you start to develop arrhythmias like atrial fib that doesn’t always necessarily just come from an electrolyte imbalance it can come from this hypoxia because there’s damage going on into the heart muscle high blood pressure is another effect of this as well Harding of the art arteries is another effect of this and eventually necrosis which is like your heart muscles start breaking down and dying because you don’t have enough oxygen for arrhythmias especially atrial fib after heart attack one of the medications they use is digitalis and digitalis does increase more blood flow but it also is a potent inhibitor of this lactic acid which is very interesting and is probably the reason why it actually does keep people alive the other interesting thing about adrenaline is that when you’re under chronic stress it’s going to raise especially your LDL cholesterol which is the small dense particle size LDL as well as increasing your triglycerides now normally those two would be increased when you’re eating sugar you wouldn’t think they’d be elevated with stress adrenaline but yes adrenaline does do that so the real problem with a lot of people is they’re under this sympathetic nervous system dominance they don’t have enough of the opposing parasympathetic which is the calming which is responsible for rest and digestion right the sympathetic nervous system is all about fight or flight mode fight meaning more like the emotion of anger or flight meaning the emotion of fear where you’re running away from something I’m bringing up this point because I want you to be very aware of I think a very common root cause of heart problems that you can do something about okay once you identify this mechanism now there are other things that also increase lactate directly that then will increase lactic acid and a hypoxia that you should be aware of and one is smoking and vaping when people Vape if you ever look at the ingredients one of the ingredients is propylene glycol that’s antifreeze okay propylene glycol increases lactate especially when it’s heated in a vapor State and I think they use it for the flavoring but I’m not sure exactly why they use it but if you vape I would make sure that it doesn’t have that ingredient but the other problem with vaping is that it has nicotine which also increases adrenaline and can cause this whole