Heart Disease Starts at 22: What Your Genes Reveal About Your Arteries

heir average age was 22 and 77% had artery disease. What are your genes doing to your heart?

That's what doctors found in 1953 when they examined the hearts of young US soldiers killed in the Korean War. Heart disease doesn't start at 60. It starts decades earlier, quietly.

In this episode I go gene by gene through the heart, artery and blood pressure genes on a DNA test: APOE, LPA, PON1, F5 (factor V Leiden), ACE, FADS1 and FADS2, 9p21, ABCG2 and NOS1. For each one: what the research actually shows, what your result can and can't tell you, and the practical steps that follow. I also cover the blood pressure toolkit, omega-3s and plasmalogens (the work of Dr Dayan Goodenowe), inflammation and immune ageing (Dr Elizabeth Yurth), and why women's heart risk changes at menopause.

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Chapters

0:00 Heart disease at 22

0:43 Heart disease starts decades early

5:57 What a gene test can and can't tell you about your heart

9:20 APOE: the cholesterol transporter

12:24 LPA: the cholesterol particle you can't diet away

17:04 PON1: your HDL's bodyguard