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The Blood Test That Predicts Heart Attacks Years Early | Darshan Shah Part 2 DSH #914
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🚨 The blood test that could save your life! 🩸 Discover how a simple test can predict heart attacks YEARS before they happen. 💓 Dr. Darshan Shah reveals shocking truths about vitamin D, metabolic health, and the hidden dangers lurking in your bloodwork. You'll be stunned to learn how your diet and lifestyle choices are impacting your long-term health - even in your 20s! 😱 From the surprising link between dental health and Alzheimer's to the truth about "healthy" smoothies, this episode is packed with game-changing health insights. Learn why 50% of people are at risk and how simple changes can dramatically improve your health trajectory. 🍎💪 Don't miss out on this potentially life-saving information! Watch now and subscribe for more insider health secrets on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly. Hit that notification bell to stay ahead of the health curve! 🔔 #HeartHealth #PreventiveMedicine #Longevity #DigitalSocialHour #SeanKelly #hearthealthmonth #metabolicsyndrome #insulinresistance #metabolichealth #vitaminddeficiency CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:32 - Vitamin D Benefits 05:29 - Importance of Metabolic Health 09:47 - Reversing Metabolic Health Issues 11:41 - Lowering Blood Sugar Levels 14:16 - Reducing Visceral Fat 15:54 - Preventing Heart Attack 19:54 - Dental Health and Inflammation 21:47 - Assessing Heavy Metal Levels 24:14 - Essential Health Tests 26:07 - Timing for Health Testing 28:05 - Wellness Center Energy 29:15 - Financial Savings in Health 31:06 - Prenuvo Health Insights 34:05 - AI Innovations in Health 36:05 - Latest Health Findings 37:27 - Importance of Health Awareness APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Darshan Shah https://www.instagram.com/darshanshahmd/ https://www.drshah.com/ https://www.youtube.com/darshanshahmd LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the importance of vitamin D for health?
Vitamin D is not just a vitamin, it actually acts like a hormone. It affects every single cell, every single system of your body. If you don't have enough vitamin D, you can't perform cellular processes as efficiently, and over time, low vitamin D levels have been very highly correlated to Alzheimer's disease, heart attacks, and even gut health issues. Wow.
Yeah, so you gotta get your vitamin D right. All right, guys, part two with Darshan. The results are in. Your results are in, man. We got them. Yeah, I learned a lot, but I'd love to hear you explain some of these too for the audience.
Chapter 2: How can metabolic health prevent future diseases?
Yeah, yeah. So, Sean, the biomarkers that we do at Next Health, basically we're testing for things that a lot of doctors don't test for. And definitely you being 27, right? Yeah.
You're not going to get these blood tests until sometimes it's too late, right? So I'm so glad you decided to do this because we have some news. We have some stuff we've got to talk about here. But the key is you found it super early, and now you could change the direction of where you had – simple things like your diet, your workout routine. So directionality is so important.
Now, if we make changes early, we can put changes in now, and then you're going to right the ship here. So that's good. So I don't want to bum you out initially, but that's the stuff we got to talk about. No, I'm glad you said that because people assume in their 20s they're healthy, right? And I thought I was, but when you see it on paper, it's a different story.
Yeah, and I'll be honest with you, this is not abnormal. We see this in almost 50% of the people that we measure these biomarkers are, even at your age.
Chapter 3: What lifestyle changes can improve blood sugar levels?
Wow, 50%. Yeah, we're just exposed to the most toxic environment ever in human history. And our habits and our routines and the levels of stress, people are getting sicker a lot sooner. The incredible thing is our bodies are so resilient that you don't see the signs of disease until you're like 40 or 50.
And then, you know, the biomarkers don't change until then too sometimes to point out to the doctor that you have a disease. So we know where the optimal range is, and that's where we want to get you into optimal range. Got it. Yeah, let's dive in.
All right, so something simple. You've got to have adequate nutrition, right? So one of the things that we do is we measure some of your micronutrient levels, one of them being vitamin D. Do you get out in the sun a lot? I don't, to be honest. Humans spend 90% of their time shielded from the sun, and the other 10% were wearing sunscreen. We're just not getting enough sun.
When you don't get enough sun, you don't make enough vitamin D. Vitamin D is not just a vitamin, it actually acts like a hormone. It affects every single cell, every single system of your body. If you don't have enough vitamin D, you can't perform cellular processes as efficiently. And over time, low vitamin D levels have been
very highly correlated to Alzheimer's disease, heart attacks, and even gut health issues. Yeah, so you gotta get your vitamin D right. Your vitamin D level was 22.4. That's really low, okay? But easy to correct. So I'm gonna tell you, of course, get out in the sun more often, right? The best time to do that is first thing in the morning around 536 when the sun is rising.
Get really good sun for about 15 to 20 minutes if you can. So as simple as like adding into your routine, instead of having your cup of coffee inside, just go outside and have a cup of coffee, right?
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Chapter 4: How does dental health relate to inflammation?
Yeah. Do stuff like that. And nighttime too when the sun is going down, that's another good time to get in. out in the sun. Really?
Yeah. The reason is because you're not in direct sunlight, which is potentially higher rates of skin cancer. When you get into the sunlight in the beginning of the day and the end of the day, you still get the benefits on vitamin D levels, but also you avoid some of the intense, harsh sun.
Interesting. And is that enough you think these days just to get sunlight or do you supplement too on top of that?
Chapter 5: What essential health tests should you consider?
No. So, you know, I'm not a big supplement pusher, but one supplement I really believe everyone should be really considering taking is vitamin D3K2. It's really important to get that form of vitamin D. Okay. And the reason is when you take vitamin D, you also want to make sure that you're getting calcium in as well. And that calcium, the K2 puts a calcium in your bones. Okay.
So taking those two together work really well. For you, I would even start you on a higher dose of it, 10,000 international units, until we get you optimized. And then we're going to drop it back down to 5,000 international units. Got it.
And the benefit of this is not just preventing disease in the long term. You're going to notice improvements right away with your energy levels, with your gut health. You're going to even notice improvements in your skin, ability to work out, all of it.
I can attest to that because I did buy the one you sent me, and I feel way better. And I noticed on days I don't take it, I actually notice it now. Isn't that crazy? So glad you're on it, man. Yeah.
Thank you for that tip. And I can tell you for your audience, 90% of people out there have a low vitamin D level. They just don't even know it. Most doctors are not measuring it. You can insist to your doctor, I want to know my vitamin D level. Optimal is 50% to 80%. Wow. So I was like way under that.
Yeah. And you know what? Like the reference range on this lab sheet too from the lab says 30 is the lower limit of normal. And that's not true. 30 is too low. You want to be up around 50. Okay. That's good to know. Yeah. I never knew what those comparisons were based off of when I saw that.
Yeah, yeah. Those are based on population levels, and they're also based on, like, you know, diagnosing disease. Well, we don't care about diagnosing disease when you're young. I mean, we do care about it, but diagnosing disease when you're young is not going to really happen a lot, right? This is going to happen when you're 50, 60, when all the compounding effects have built up over decades.
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Chapter 6: How can diet affect heart attack risk?
What we want to do is focus on the optimal number, not just disease ranges, right? Make sense? Yeah. Yeah. So you want to hear about the next one? Okay. So are you familiar with the term metabolic health? Kind of.
Okay. Every cell in your body has mitochondria. Mitochondria is where you make energy, okay? So at the simplest level, I can explain metabolic health as being the health of your mitochondria. If your mitochondria are not healthy, you don't have enough energy being produced for every cell in your body to do the work it needs to do. Your brain can't think as fast.
Your heart can't pump as efficiently. Even your gut cells can't absorb nutrients as efficiently, right? So metabolic health is super important. There's a few biomarkers of metabolic health that we check. And a lot of it has to do with how your body is regulating sugar, sugar being a molecule of energy, basically.
And so we want to make sure your metabolic health is very tightly controlled and you're able to take in energy, your carbohydrates, sugar, and be able to turn that into energy that your body can use. Well, a lot of times if our diet is not on point, we build up high levels of sugar in our bloodstream that can be toxic if your body can't utilize it for energy.
So that's kind of where you have a few deficiencies here, and we really got to optimize your diet and mainly your sugar control to make sure that you don't have issues in the long term. Right. My grandfather had diabetes. Yeah, there you go. That's genetic, right?
Really, no. It has a lot more to do with your habits than anything. Much more to do with your habits. 80% of it is more to do with your habits and your diet. And I don't just say diet. I say habits because it's not just your diet. It's also your movement and your sleep. All of those have to tie in to your metabolic health.
And so just because your grandfather had diabetes, now that we caught that you were headed that direction, we can turn this around and potentially you'll never get diabetes. Got it. Yeah, because when I took 23andMe, it said I had the gene or whatever, and it said I'm this percent more likely, but they never mentioned the diet part in that test.
Right, exactly. They just scare you. Yeah, they just scare you. They're like, now what do I do? People think getting those tests that like, now my genetics are my destiny. This is going to happen. So I guess it goes better just, you know, whatever it is, suck it up and just live my life and I'll have diabetes one day and I'll get put on insulin and medication. That is absolutely not the case.
You absolutely can prevent it. In fact, all top 10 causes of death on the CDC, top 10 cause of death are all preventable. Whoa. Including Alzheimer's, heart attacks, stroke, all of it. That's a great way of thinking because before, like I even had the Alzheimer's gene too. And I remember for years I was kind of scared of that one because I saw my dad have it.
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Chapter 7: Why is it crucial to monitor inflammation levels?
I want to talk a little bit more about your cardiac biomarkers as well. So look, you're super young. Are you worried about having a heart attack in the next five years?
Chapter 8: What role does dental health play in overall wellness?
No. Right. You shouldn't be, right? Very rare for young people to get heart attacks. But by looking at your cardiac biomarkers, there's a really high chance you might have one in your 50s. Wow. Okay. And so I say that because your LDL is elevated, but even beyond LDL, The one biomarker that a lot of people don't measure for cardiac health is ApoB.
ApoB is a protein that wraps around all the bad forms of cholesterol, not just LDL, but also VLDL, also LP little a. These are called atherogenic, means they can block your blood vessels going to your heart, leading to a heart attack. 50% of all heart attacks are not diagnosed until you actually have the heart attack. So they don't even know you have heart disease until you have a heart attack.
And 50% of those are fatal. Jeez. Yeah. That's high. Exactly. So that's why you want to know as early as possible if you have a higher portion of atherogenic cholesterol particles because it means you need to start doing something about it now so you can avoid heart disease when you're 50. What do you think caused my level to be off like that in my heart? It's also your diet. Diet?
Yeah, it's a whole diet. Ultra-processed food, a carb-heavy diet that's really focused on a lot of ultra-processed restaurant food can cause this. That's my weakness, man. I love eating out. Yeah. But it adds up. It's showing my results.
It adds up. Yeah. And you know what? Look, we all live a very busy life. You're doing a ton of podcasts, you know, a lot of stuff. You've got to find easy food, right, to eat. And so I don't think necessarily eating out is bad. It's the selection that you make when you go out, right? So you can go to any restaurant and ask for some steamed vegetables and a piece of salmon. pretty much, right?
If you limit yourself to just, you know, for most of the time, not all the time, 80% of the time, asking for the food that you know is healthy versus just picking something off the menu that can be, you know, doused in seed oils and have a whole bunch of like low quality ingredients in it, you're going to be doing better.
Right. That makes sense. Yeah. Thanks for that, man. Yeah, that's important. Heart's one of the most important ones to keep track of.
It is. I would say if you want to prioritize things to look for in your biomarkers, I would say metabolic health, number one. Number two is your cardiac biomarkers, things like the ApoB. And then lastly, looking at your nutrient levels, and also with that comes your inflammation levels, HSCRP, your C-reactive protein. So that's a blood test that you do. It gives us an overall indication of
how much inflammation is going on in your body. Yours is actually okay. Really?
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