Think beyond measuring cholesterol. Dr. Jeffrey Boone gives us information today about what we should be measuring, and how the information can prevent the world's most silent, and sudden killer - heart disease.
Cardiovascular health is vitally important in the aging process. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute interviews Dr. Jeffrey Boone, named one of the top cardiovascular doctors in America. Dr. Boone is the Founder and Director of the Boone Heart Institute in Denver and also the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John describes the importance of the heart to longevity and Dr. Boone explains the intricacies of heart muscle and valves in layman's terms, plus new drugs and therapies that can restore heart health. What anatomic feature indicators are there that point to heart failure? Are there tests that can help predict heart failure? What role does genetics play in this process? High blood pressure? The heart’s electrical system? Can early treatment prevent heart failure? What specific drugs and treatments are found to improve heart health?
Cardiovascular health is vitally important in the aging process. In this episode of ALIve, CEO and Co-Founder of the Asher Longevity Institute interviews Dr. Jeffrey Boone, named one of the top cardiovascular doctors in America. Dr. Boone is the Founder and Director of the Boone Heart Institute in Denver and also the Chief Medical Officer of the Asher Longevity Institute. John explains how the two met and began to cooperate and Dr. Boone explains the intricacies of heart health in layman's terms, plus new drugs that can restore heart health.
How do changes in the cardiovascular system affect aging? Why is cholesterol in the bloodstream so dangerous? What treatments are available to reduce plaque in arteries? Can the stages of deterioration be reversed? How does this improve overall heart health? And are there also improvements in brain function with these treatments? Where can you go to learn more?
Eating a diet tuned for a healthy gut microbiome is needed in order to preclude 11 diseases and three conditions. Let's talk about what we eat. John gives us two sample daily menus and 12 steps that won't overwhelm you as you create a healthy gut microbiome. John gives us two examples of his own menus.
There are dangers of eating meat. Based on a study of 6,000 people over 18 years who ate a lot of animal protein, four times higher risk of cancer, five times higher risk of diabetes, twice the risk of dying and the study of people who are vegetarians, vegetable protein does not increase the risk of any age relating diseases. Meat, in general, is going to shorten our life if you eat too much. How about the meat substitutes like the Beyond Burger or the Impossible Burger? John tells this story. "My wife and I, about a year ago when it first came out, we said "Hey, yay, let's try this". So we bought a package of burger meat and a package of sausage. We took them home, cooked them up, actually tasted, frankly, it tasted great! However, my wife took a look at the ingredients on the package after we'd eaten them. I don't know why I didn't look?"
They're an ultra-processed food, meaning in the NOVA Food Classification system, it is the highest, worst processed food you can eat. It has 40 ingredients, including titanium dioxide, which is a whitening agent using paint potato starch, which is essentially candy, methylcellulose, a bulking agent used in laxatives, and 400% more sodium than lean burger meat. And the protein is provided by lagoons, peas, and beans. So it's full of lectin and it contains a ton of manufactured oils, canola, and sunflower, which means it's full of the omega-6 fatty acids.
About 2000 years ago in Northern Europe, there was a genetic mutation that changed the basic protein in cow milk from a casein a2 to casein a1. And the trouble with casein a1 is, it causes an attack on our immune system. And it explains why 65% of Americans are what is called lactose, the sugar in milk, intolerant. Actually, what we really are is intolerant of that protein casein a1. Most breeds of cows in the US are this type. So you can get great cheeses from Switzerland, France, and Italy, and it's fine to eat them, but not the cheeses that are manufactured in the US. You can also get goat milk butter, and clarified butter, ghee, with no dairy. Easy now to get goat milk and goat yogurt.
Our microbiome is so important. And the reason is, if we don't watch what we're eating and eat the wrong things and have a lot of bad bacteria in our gut, we can cause up to 11 diseases. I'm just going to name them off quickly. Celiac disease, Crohn's disease, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, that a third of the people in the country have got, hepatitis, colitis, multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, 30% of the people in the US are prediabetic and 10% actually have it, lupus, irritable bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis. And many of them have three other conditions: small intestine bowel overgrowth, small intestine fungi overgrowth, and irritable bowel syndrome. So imagine if we don't have the right healthy gut microbiome, any of these can happen. When you look at the percentages of people who have them, almost everybody has one of them.
In this podcast, John describes the details of Step Eight: the importance of strengthening our immune system with regenerative medicine, the use of stem cells, and exosome therapies.
This is the ninth in a series of ten podcasts by John Asher, one of the five co-founders of the Asher Longevity Institute, committed to the science-based and easy-to-implement lifestyle changes you need in order to live a much longer and much healthier life.
In the first podcast, John described the fundamental reasons we die and many other contributing causes. He then outlined how his team of engineers and doctors re-engineered longevity. First, they started with the assumption that unlimited life is possible. After thorough research, they developed nine steps to achieve that goal. These are easy to understand, simple to execute, and sustainable for the rest of your life.
In the first podcast, John described the fundamental reasons we die and many other contributing causes. He then outlined how his team of engineers and doctors re-engineered longevity. First they started with the assumption that unlimited life is possible. After thorough research they developed nine steps to achieve that goal. These are easy to understand, simple to execute, and sustainable for the rest of your life.
In this podcast, John describes the details of Step Seven: methodologies to slow down the four reasons we die. These include taking specific supplements, calorie restriction, fasting, exercise, and getting fresh air every day.
