How To Reduce Your Risk Of Heart Disease By Over 90%.

Heart disease is complex. Preventing it is not. 

It is possible to reduce your risk of heart disease by over 90%1.

Let me show you how.

But first, let’s get some facts straight.

Over a long enough time frame, pretty much everyone will get heart disease.

By the time you get to age 80, you will almost certainly have evidence of plaque in your coronary arteries - you will have heart disease.

But remember:

Heart disease doesn’t kill people. Heart attacks do.

And while heart attacks happen suddenly.

Heart disease happens slowly.

Think decades. Not weeks.

Therefore, to prevent or delay the onset of heart disease, you need to get things right early in life to accrue the benefits over time.

Yes. Of course, you can make a difference if you make changes at any time, but there is no hiding from the fact that the earlier you start, the greater the impact on risk.

If you didn’t start 20 years ago, the next best time to start is today.

So, what kind of returns do you get on your investment if you start early?

The answer is… a lot!

Inputs.

When I say ‘Get things right’, what exactly do I mean?

Because the world of prevention and longevity has gotten pretty wild these days.

Many of you will be aware of Bryan Johnson, the tech entrepreneur planning on ‘never dying’.

Many of his approaches are based on sound science.

Many others, however….. are not.

My sons love me, but I am not sure what they would think of me draining their blood and then injecting it into my own veins.

Nor do I think my wife would approve of me filtering my own plasma at home.

To be fair, Bryan Johnson plans to live forever, which has yet to be achieved. Therefore, the inputs required to achieve that goal will certainly have to be…. novel, to say the least.

For the rest of us mere mortals, we are just not trying to die young.

Here’s How.

You don’t need supplements.

You don’t need any fancy procedures.

You don’t need red lights or saunas.

You don’t need to cold plunge or skip your morning coffee.

You just need to get the basics right.

Let’s see what happens when you do.

If you start in your 20s and 30s and get the following fundamentals right, you are well on course to massively reducing your risk of heart disease and also living longer.

Here are your targets.

• No diabetes or Pre-Diabetes.

• Normal Cholesterol Levels.

• Being physically active.

• Normal Blood Pressure.

• Good Nutrition.

• Normal Weight.

• Not smoking.

I know. I know.

You have heard all of these before.

But what you probably haven’t heard is how much of an impact they have on your risk.

Even getting a moderate amount of these factors right will decrease your odds of dying from heart disease by 60% in the next 30 years.

That is a lot.

But getting ALL of them, right?

Your risk of dying from heart disease drops by 93%!

That. Is huge.

I really wish I could tell you that you just need to take some vitamin D or some fish oil tablets to get this degree of benefit, but it’s never that easy.

Getting all of these factors right for decades in a row is hard.

No one said it would be easy.

But the potential benefits are enormous.

With today's news cycles and endless social media health advice, it can be hard to separate signal from noise.

We focus on whether coffee is good for you or bad for you.

Whether a glass of wine every day is good or bad.

Whether staring at the sun first thing in the morning will give you instant six-pack abs.

People are continually whipped around by all this noise, constantly distracted from the fundamentals we have known for years.

Fundamentals that take work, for sure.

But what things that give immense returns don’t require such effort?

The question is where you stand regarding these seven factors and whether you want the potentially huge returns they offer.

When You Are Ready, Here Is How We Can Help.

For an accessible and comprehensive overview of understanding and managing heart health, you can check out the best-selling book Heart. An Owner’s Guide.

For those based in Ireland, Dr Barrett works with a small number of clients to provide a comprehensive evaluation of cardiovascular risk and a tactical approach to maximally reducing that risk.

If you want to know more about a consultation with Dr Barrett, Click Here or on the button below.

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1. Associations of Late Adolescent or Young Adult Cardiovascular Health With Premature Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2020 Dec 8;76(23):2695-2707.