#9 Dr. Stephen Hussey | The Heart Attack That Changed Everything Dr. Stephen Hussey Believed

Yeah, that's amazing.

I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've had people come through and they're like, yeah, well, what about the whole saturated fat thing? It's going to raise my LDL.

And I'm like, well, did you actually know that if you look at the longevity data, it shows that an LDL between 100 and 170 is associated with the highest longevity rates.

So there's a lot of interesting stuff that we could pick up on about that, especially the fact that when you're even looking at a reference range, I always like to ask, like, if that's a normal range, who decided that? Like, how did that become the range? And if you look at cholesterol specifically, the National Cholesterol Education Panel in 2004 actually decided a lot of those ranges that we go off today.

And the issue with that, like that sounds fine because you're like, oh, you have like nine professionals and they're all doing this together.

Surely there's not an issue.

Well, there is because eight out of nine of them had ties to statin manufacturers.

So when you start to follow the money and you start to look at more of this stuff, you're like, oh, what's really going on here? And for me, I love what you said about like the blood chemistry and testing, because even like if somebody has like high blood whatever, I'm still going to tell them to do the circadian stuff.

I'm still going to tell them to optimize their mitochondrial health.

I'm still going to tell them to utilize these interventions.

Like that should be the standard.

But if somebody has something really complex, like T upper cell two dominance, then that can be a case where I'm like, okay, let's go ahead and look at the labs and sort some of this out because this is quite the puzzle.

And it's still going to be obviously at the circadian stuff.

That's not going to change.

You're going to keep that in there, optimizing the mitochondria.

Still going to be in there, obviously, but one thing that I really love about this conversation and everything that we've been talking about is how holistic you are in your perspective.

For example, earlier you brought up how oral health can actually be linked to cardiovascular outcomes to an extent.

I wanted to go a little bit deeper into the mechanism there and what the connection is and what are the specific interventions that one could utilize to address this just beyond brushing and flossing.

And an interesting thing that I read once was, it wasn't like a study or anything, but somebody said like, yeah, once you fix your mitochondrial function and you do all of this, your teeth get whiter and your gums are good and they're in this awesome state.

So If you could elaborate on just that whole scoop about oral health, I think that would be really fascinating to get into.

Sure, yeah.

Yeah, basically it comes down to like, I mean, if you have gingivitis or periodontal disease, like then that's like your gums are bleeding or they're easily bleeding, then, you know, the bacteria...

That bacteria, we all know, like we've heard of leaky gut, you know, like if your gut's leaking, bacteria is leaking into your bloodstream and that's LPS, like these gram-negative bacteria, that's endotoxemia.

And the same thing can happen in your mouth because your mouth is part of the digestive system.

There's an oral microbiome.