Chris Masterjohn

I don't want to, I don't, I can't handle the truth, you know?

Oh, yeah, right.

I did it.

I did it.

Okay, so the problem, when you get a heart attack or a stroke from atherosclerosis,

It is not because, in like 98% of cases, it is not because the plaque

occluded the blood vessel and stopped the blood flow.

In fact, usually when a plaque develops, it develops backwards.

Let's say this is your blood vessel.

The plaque's gonna bulge out this way instead of this way because your body tries not to narrow the blood vessel because you do need the blood flow, right?

So it's almost never the case that the plaque is just squeezing the blood vessel shut.

What happens is the inflammatory process inside the plaque

which is especially driven by the seed oils oxidizing in there and going rancid.

That's not the only factor, but it's one of them.

That process degrades the collagen that covers the plaque and it makes micro tears.

And the micro tears and the collagen get healed by scar tissue that gets laid on top of it.

And so when you get narrowing into the blood vessel, it's because you're building up scar tissue on top of, like it keeps breaking and you keep building scar tissue on it.

But if it breaks and you get a blood clot that is big enough in the acute moment to block the whole artery, that's what usually causes most heart attacks.

Natokinase is an enzyme derived from natto, which is a Japanese fermented soybean paste.

that is also incidentally very high in vitamin K2, which helps you protect against calcium deposits that weaken the plaque and make it more likely to rupture.