Dr. Mark Hyman

And they don't know how bad their heart disease.

I had a friend who was like 53 years old and he had pretty significant heart disease and 90% occlusion.

And he was jogging and felt a little tired, short of breath.

And, you know, he didn't get any issues.

When he got checked, he had a full occlusion.

He has really bad lipid particles.

So really important to get this diagnostics early and manage it.

It can be managed through lifestyle.

It can be managed through supplements.

Sometimes medications are needed, but really important to manage your risk.

We'll also look at thyroid.

We talked a little bit about that earlier.

I won't go too much into it.

But, you know, it's important to do the full panel of thyroid tests, including TSH, free T3, free T4, thyroid antibodies, sometimes reverse T3.

And you have to look at what's optimal, not just what the normal range is, but what's optimal.

Like if the range is 0.5 to 5 for TSH, probably the optimal should be like 1 to 2.

And so we look at that and try to get people in the optimal range and not just manage to the lab reference range.

And you get really subtle symptoms, as I mentioned, fatigue, hair loss, constipation, brain fog, weight gain, depression, you know, low sex drive, cracked nails, hair loss.

I mean,

loss of the outer third of your eyebrows and all kinds of stuff that just don't really maybe seem serious, but that are serious because if you have it untreated, you actually will end up having a higher risk of having heart attacks and other conditions later in life.