8/ What to do now: get Lp(a) measured once. It's a single lifetime test most people have never had.
If it's high, drive everything else to the floor and test your family.
The treatments are coming faster than the guidelines.
Full piece: https://t.co/hxSGDrbnX8
SLEEP SECRETS MOST PEOPLE HAVE NEVER HEARD:
1. 😴 Sleeping on Your Right Side — Puts pressure on your liver and slows lymphatic drainage. Left side is what the body prefers.
2. 🌡️ Warm Room at Night — Your core temperature must drop to trigger deep sleep. A cool room is not comfort. It is biology.
3. 💡 Dim Lights Too Late — Any bright light after 9pm signals your brain to halt melatonin production immediately.
4. 🧠 Thinking in Bed — Using your bed for work or scrolling trains your brain to stay alert there instead of shutting down.
5. 🍷 Alcohol Before Bed — It feels like it helps you sleep. It actually fragments your sleep cycles and blocks REM entirely.
6. ⏰ Inconsistent Wake Time — Sleeping in on weekends resets your body clock. Consistency matters more than duration.
7. 🧘 No Wind Down Routine — Your nervous system needs 30 to 60 minutes to shift from alert to restful. It cannot switch off instantly.
8. 💧 Not Drinking Water Before Bed — Mild dehydration during sleep causes headaches grogginess and poor memory consolidation.
9. 🎧 Sleeping With Earphones — Prolonged pressure inside the ear canal during sleep causes wax buildup and in some cases infection.
10. 🛏️ Old Mattress — Most people never replace their mattress. After 7 years it holds dust mites dead skin and loses all spinal support.
11. 📺 Falling Asleep to TV — The flickering light and audio changes keep your brain in a semi alert state all night long.
12. ☕ Caffeine After 2pm — Caffeine has a half life of 6 hours. That 3pm coffee is still half active in your bloodstream at 9pm.
13. 🌬️ Mouth Breathing While Sleeping — Bypasses nasal filtration dries the throat and reduces oxygen intake significantly. Nasal breathing during sleep improves brain oxygenation and recovery quality overnight.
14. 🧦 Wearing Socks to Bed — Warming the feet dilates blood vessels and signals the brain to lower core body temperature faster which actually accelerates the time it takes to fall asleep.
15. 🪴 No Plants in the Bedroom — Certain plants like snake plants and peace lilies release oxygen at night and filter indoor air toxins that silently disrupt breathing quality and sleep depth throughout the night.
If your coach doesn’t look like a cattle rancher who also runs a reputable whorehouse and your quarterback got more than 45 minutes of sleep before kickoff, you don’t even know what badassery is …
Fatty liver is now affecting 1 in 3 adults.
It destroys your metabolism, becomes diabetes, and increases your risk of heart disease.
Here’s how to fix it:
1. Eat all the sweet potatoes you can.
Dr. Aseem Malhotra says even President Trump is likely misinformed about statins.
For a healthy man over 75 with no significant heart disease, the benefit is just 1 in 446 to prevent one heart attack.
Globally, 200 million to 1 billion people take these drugs. For low-risk people, the absolute benefit over 5 years is only about 1%.
In primary prevention, statins have an NNT of around 100+ to prevent one major cardiovascular event, while side effects affect 10–20% of users.
Do you think we over-rely on statins for heart disease prevention?
1/7 When you take statins - vascular smooth muscle cells experience impaired mitochondrial function, abnormal calcium signalling, reduced CoQ10 availability, altered isoprenoid synthesis, and disruption of vitamin K-dependent calcium regulation, the consequences of which /2
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING
JOHNNY CARSON (NBC, 04/03/1973)
Guests: Clint Eastwood, Robert Klein, Buddy
Hackett, Telly Savalas and Lillian Williams
Created by
Steve Allen, William O. Harbach,
Dwight Hemion and Sylvester Weaver