Dr. David Sinclair

A large study looked at the risks versus benefits.

So the known benefits are you inhibit platelets, you get less clotting, you get less potentially stroke and heart attack.

But there are also some downsides in some people.

You can have more bleeding in the stomach.

And when the Doctors Association weighed up those risks versus benefit, they said, oopsie, we're not going to recommend aspirin anymore.

But that's for the average person.

Someone like me, I believe it makes perfect sense to take aspirin every day, most days at least when I remember.

And that's because I have high risk of cardiovascular disease.

I don't just have high cholesterol naturally.

I have high levels of something called LP little a, capital LP, parentheses little a. And this is a molecule that's just as important as cholesterol, LDL.

Lp is a protein that inserts itself into cholesterol particles that circulate your blood and helps insert into plaque.

So I naturally, genetically, having an ancestry of Judaism, going back to my great ancestors, which by the way I traced back a thousand years during Christmas,

Those people that I descended from have this LP little a gene that makes a lot of it.

And so I try to bring LP little a levels down.

Most people should test for it.

Ask your doctor about LP little a and get it tested.

High levels like me, 30, 40, you want to bring it down because it's actually very important for longevity.

Normal levels of around 10 or so or less, then a doctor wouldn't panic.

So LP little a, get it tested.

The way I'm bringing it down, just a little tidbit, again, because I love you, Stephen, is I'm taking high dose vitamin B3 or niacin.