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The Inflammation Triad: Airway 0:00 We’re Exposed to Toxins Everyday 1:15 How Dangerous is The Mouth? 3:36 Periodontal Treatment is Vital 8:01 How Do We Develop Periodontal Disease? 10:18 Myths About Periodontal Disease There are so many things that are toxic to us, but yet we're allowing ourselves to be exposed every day and then not testing for some of the things there that can be tested for. We first need to remove the toxins, but that's not good enough. Let's look at how dangerous the mouth is. In fact, oral cancer ranks as the 13th most common cancer worldwide. And so we have to understand that many of these triggers of causation are from the oral bacteria. Oral bacteria can actually cross the placental barrier. And so they are named in many things like infertility, intrauterine infections, preterm birth, low term birth rate, and unfortunately, even fetal death. How about brain health? Dr. Pritchard explained that vascularly, how that can cross over, but these oral pathogens have been deeply studied and shown to kill off brain cells. They help in the creation of those amyloid plaques and they can even induce brain inflammation. All of us should be well versed in diabetes and insulin resistance because of the statistic around this. It's very startling that if you have been diagnosed with diabetes, you're about 90 percent more likely to get periodontal disease. These are my five children. And I'm going to ask you, which one is a diabetic? I'm going to let you know from a mother's point of view. Yes, it's my little guy, my youngest there. He is a type one diabetic and it's really opened my eyes into this correlation of infection and inflammation. But what I want dental colleagues to hear, and even my physicians and MDs, that just treating the periodontal disease, we don't even have to talk about how good the treatment is, just actually doing some level of treatment can help our diabetics, whether type one or type two, lower their A1Cs by 1%. That is more than many times what our lifestyle and diet can do. Also treating periodontal disease can decrease the related deaths by 21% and we will save an average diabetic patient about $5,000 a year. Our airway to these pathogens to these plaques. Look at the highway there that is so easily accessible. And so we have all these statistics. You are 70% more likely to develop Alzheimer's if you've been struggling with any level of periodontal disease for 10 years or more. 95% of Americans with diabetes also have periodontal disease. We can increase our premature death rate by 12% higher risk. We've heard today how 50% of heart attacks and strokes are triggered by these oral pathogens. And as far as our fertility and infertility, we have a 7x increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Look what it resulted in lower medical costs for our diabetics, for coronary artery disease and our cerebral vascular disease. How big of a lower what I'm going to say lower costs and lower risk. Let's look at risk first look at these percentages. They are from 29% here. all the way to 24%. This is a greater reduction than what many patients can get with medication. We need to be aware of that. How about the medical cost reduction? Look at these numbers. These are huge. We're talking double digits here, thousands of dollars. And look at the percentages. You can have a huge impact on your patient's life because some of the most stressful things that we deal with are these inflammatory diseases, but the cost associated with that. So we can track this, that we're not only reducing risk, but reducing those health costs. Let's understand we're talking about early treatment. We have to look for disease early. How do we even develop periodontal disease? I want you to understand this three step process that happens. The first thing is what we've been talking about. We have to get pathogens. They have to colonize. They have to show up. That is that first phase of dysbiosis. Once we have the pathogens there, then they start the host response of this chronic inflammatory response. That response doesn't go away. It is called chronic inflammation. All these inflammatory processes that we're talking about, that inflammatory process then ignites that bone loss. It's actually attacking itself because we don't stop the inflammatory process and that byproduct is we lose bone. We lose bone in the jaw and mainly around the teeth. When that happens, we call it periodontal disease because that's the name of when you have bone loss. So how do you actually get these pathogens? I want you to understand the bacterial shift to health, to dysbiosis. And so as you're looking here in "healthy", we have these early colonizers. All these in this green section are called early colonizers or considered healthy species. It's not until they are not removed on a regular basis and have to start over. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

The Inflammation Triad: Pathogens 0:00 Your Mouth is Putting You At Risk 02:10 Wreaking Havoc Everywhere 03:26 Three Portals of Entry 06:49 Other Things That Contribute to Inflammation So doctors Bale and Doneen and Vigerust were the first to describe the pathophysiology of this so beautifully. They call this the atherogenic triad. These 5 high risk or dangerous bacteria have a direct, deadly impact on the artery wall, on that plaque. These bacterial pathogens and their endotoxins call in the LDL cholesterol and increase the concentration of this dense, sticky, dangerous type of cholesterol at the site of the artery wall where plaque is. Toxins have to get through that lining in the artery wall to get into the intima-media space. The inflammation that occurs there just opens up this endothelial lining and makes it much more permeable or leaky for the bacteria, the toxins, the lipids, the debris to get into the artery wall, create a lesion, become a vulnerable plaque, and then it increases the stickiness. It's more difficult for your body to clear it. That's at least three ways we know of that these bacterial pathogens have a direct causal relationship with heart attack and stroke. Another study describes 5 ways oral bacterial pathogens get into the wall of the artery and into the arterial lining everywhere. They get into the brain and lead to not only vascular related dementia, but other dementia types. Into every organ in the body because it's really wreaking havoc at the cellular level. This all goes back to years ago when the American Heart Association said, "There's so much evidence we cannot ignore the fact that at least 50% of heart attacks are triggered by oral pathogens." We have good data to support this. We just need to get the message out there not only is it validated, we're practicing on evidence based protocols, but that there is a way to treat it. There is a bright light at the end of the tunnel. We can all live free of heart attack and stroke. Let’s look at the three portals of entry coming from the mouth. The first one is vascularity. Bleeding gums is what a lot of people associate epithelial lining and they're crossing over into the bloodstream. There is a direct penetration of the esophagus. As you're swallowing, it can penetrate through that. Thirdly, we are swallowing. That is when these bacteria are swallowed and make their way into our GI tract. They are absorbed through the lining and into the bloodstream. Many of them in the GI tract cross this lining that is meant to protect us. They contribute to this dysbiosis, or this lack of health in the microbiome in the GI tract. Normally, we have a mucosal layer. One layer of protection. Then we have this one cell layer thick, of the epithelial cells with these villi. All of these things are designed to move all of the toxins, the big particles like bacterial pathogens that reside in the mouth or any kind of toxins. These pathogens are supposed to go on downstream in the GI tract and be eliminated, not make their way into the bloodstream. But because they cause damage to the tract and because many other things we do in our lifestyle contributes to damage to the mucosal layer, the epithelial cells and these villi, it looks more like the right side of the slide where the cells aren't nice and tight together. There's wide open junctions and an inability for these gatekeeper cells to keep the toxins out. When it's working beautifully, only the nutrients get through. But most of us don't have a beautiful GI tract and epithelial lining. Toxins are getting through. These bacterial pathogens are just 1 example of that. When they get in through the GI tract and directly into the vascular system, then that's where they can cause trouble. In the vascular wall, in the heart, in the brain, in the kidneys. There are other things that contribute to inflammation. Even as these bacteria alone weren't disruptive to the GI tract, food sensitivities, allergies, autoimmunity. Stress plays a role. And then the other thing I'd like to say is when we're not oxygenating well, then our mechanisms of eradicating toxins from our body. are impaired. We need plenty of good healthy oxygen going straight to the lungs so when the blood supply that takes the oxygenated blood to every organ in our body, the GI tract, the liver, the pancreas, the heart, the brain is well oxygenated. If we've got an impairment there, again, airway to pathogens to plaque, we're trying to connect the dots between all 3 of these that are truly the worlds that connect us in dental and non dental medical communities. And then the 3 concepts that we need to know in order to be able to save our own life and our patients' lives. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

The Inflammation Triad: The Truth About Plaque 0:00 An Introduction to the Inflammation Triad 02:14 On Plaque’s Role 04:54 Smaller Areas of Plaque Are More Dangerous The inflammation triad is this three-pronged component that we are looking at the airway, understanding that that's connected to these anaerobic pathogens, which are the ones that can cross over the linings of the body and they formulate these plaques. When we collaborate and we use these better measures and we're looking at this Inflammation Triad, we can get better outcomes for our patients. When we see this decrease in oxygenation, what happened is occurring in the mouth is that we're not only becoming more acidic, but we're moving from an aerobic and oxygen loving environment to a non oxygen loving environment, which is anaerobic. We are more acidic. When pH changes, we grow anaerobic pathogens, the ones that do not need higher level of oxygenation. When we have more pathogens show up, it wipes out healthy bacteria. They take the food and the space and we lose these most important healthy bacteria called our nitrate reducers. If we lose our nitrate reducers, we lose the ability to make these levels of nitric oxide. When we cannot make that nitric oxide, we have an increased permeability or leakiness, so to speak. This leads to inflammation. We have more inflammation. We want to start with our end goal in mind and that is we'll focus on plaque because cardiovascular disease is the number one killer. A heart attack is occurring every 30-40 seconds and strokes about the same rate, and strokes are the number one disabilitating chronic disease in America. But with this information, all of us can feel confident that we're going to live out our future without a heart attack or stroke. What is plaque exactly? It is this laying down of debris. Lipids are involved: cholesterol, bad cholesterol, LDL particles, but it's debris as our body is trying to get rid of toxins. We get these little lesions on the wall of the artery. Oral bacteria are circulating in the bloodstream and they penetrate into the vessel wall and trigger these events. We've talked about looking at carotid arteries with ultrasound, with CAT scan technology, and artificial intelligence software. We can also look at the heart arteries now to see exactly where we stand in terms of plaque. We want to know about blood vessels that are like the one we see in the bottom right, where we've taken a cross section. You can see that there's plenty of room for blood flow but there's a dangerous type of plaque in the artery wall. That's likely to disrupt or rupture and cause this person to have a heart attack. Some call it necrotic core, lipid rich. We can see that on CAT scan technology. There's no way to stabilize and keep someone from experiencing a heart attack if we find this kind of plaque, unless we find out if they're oxygenating well, all day and night, and if they have oral pathogens or not, we have to eradicate those bacterial pathogens in order to stabilize a lesion like this. This is just an example on the left of the carotid ultrasound, this small area of plaque. Remember me telling you, I was sending patients home every day saying, "Don't worry about that small area of plaque. You've got plenty of blood flow." We now know nothing could be further from the truth. Small areas of plaque are the ones that are more likely to rupture and cause a heart attack. Once they get discharged from the hospital, that's when the detective work begins and the time begins to save their life by finding all the root causes. What Lora is pointing to there is plaque formation, and that's a moderately risky plaque. It has the capability to either become scar tissue, low risk plaque that is not going to cause a problem, or it has the capability to become a more dangerous type of plaque if we don't eradicate bacterial pathogens and treat airway issues. The body can beautifully push that plaque into the wall of the artery and help keep your arteries dilated to maintain blood flow for as long as possible. The mechanisms of the body to create health for you and save your life are amazing. It brings us back to what Lora has just described to us about nitric oxide. One of the key molecules is nitric oxide in order for our arteries to be elastic and to be able to dilate and to be able to keep this plaque in the wall of the artery and maintain blood flow. That's just one example of how this airway component, the oral pathogen component, contributes directly to plaque formation and our ability to resolve the plaque formation, to transform plaque or reverse cardiovascular disease. It's possible. People say, "You can't really reverse cardiovascular disease." Okay, the plaque will always be there, but you can reverse the dangerous nature of it and transform it into scar tissue that will never cause a heart attack. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Dethroning Heart Attacks and Strokes 00:00 The 4 Areas of Testing 02:50 Collaboration is Crucial to Healing 04:12 The Clarity Blueprint There are 4 areas of testing in particular that unite us in the dental office and in the non dental medical office. It starts with blood work. If we focus on Myeloperoxidase and plaque, these are 2 markers very specific for inflammation in the wall of the artery. If those are inflamed, we have to talk to each other from the dental office to the non dental office in order to resolve this inflammation. hs-CRP is a global marker of inflammation. It may or may not indicate that the inflammation is occurring in the oral cavity. It could be due to a whole host of things, but hs-CRP is being measured more in the conventional practices and is being recognized. We ought to start looking at inflammation as it plays a role in cardiovascular disease and in heart attack and stroke. Microalbumin/Creatinine ratio is a urinary test that can help us determine if there's vascular disease in the renal arteries. When we look at arterial wall health, this is just one way to do it. Is there inflammation and infection festering on the wall of the artery in the form of plaque? We can find that by using ultrasound of the carotid arteries: CIMT. We want to know if that intima-media looks healthy, or if it's starting to show evidence that there's plaque formation. Thirdly: the sleep test. Most of the things that we see, whether it's, upper airway resistance, or it's a sleep disordered breathing of any kind or even classic sleep apnea requires the dental team and the non dental team to work together to get the right diagnosis or diagnoses and then treat that appropriately. And then lastly, our saliva test, where we identify these five dangerous bacteria that have, undoubtedly, numerous studies tell us clearly that these are not just contributory, but causal of heart attacks and strokes and other vascular diseases. There's no way that I can resolve these in the medical office alone. It takes this collaborative effort. These are four objective ways to look at a patient. Together we're creating healthier patients and healthier practices. We want to talk about working together to keep people out of the cath lab, to keep them out of the emergency room, to keep them healthy and create health for them rather than setting them up for this future that no one wants requires integrating medicine and dentistry. And so we've created the Clarity Blueprint to take not only ourselves and our practices from a healthcare standpoint, from confusion to to collaboration, but to take our patients through this same process. The way that Lora and I came up with this is the fact that we kept seeing patient after patient that was confused about either why they had the heart attack or confused about whether or not they were protected from having their first heart attack or stroke. For example, an individual, let's say in their 40s, and they start to think about, "could I have a heart attack lurking in my future? The way my father started down this path at age 50 or 55?” People, before they've ever had a problem, begin to think about these things and they either think they've had a thorough evaluation or that they're standing on good data, that they are protected or they're confused because they just say, "Well, if it happened to my father, it's going to happen to me." They think there's nothing that can be done and nothing's further than, for them, from the truth. There's health care confusion because we're still relying on old data, on old measures. We're not using very precise ways to determine, "Is this individual looking at us today in the operatory, in the dental office, or in the clinical exam room, in the medical office... what's going on inside of them at the cellular level? Are they headed towards a heart attack or are they protected?" And we can know that today with these measures. And then we have to collaborate on the topic, so we have to get clarity around that, which is understanding what's been missing. And then we start to work together to get some competence after your first 5, 10, 20 cases. And then fifthly, then we bring all of that to the collaboration and there's where the power team occurs, is when there's a dental team and a non-dental team working together with this confident approach and collaborating together. That's how we're going to take heart attack and stroke off the number one killer spot and help people have the longevity, the health span for their many, many years to come that they want. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

5 More Tips to Prevent Heart Attack | Dr. Gina Pritchard Heart attacks are optional. You can take control of your heart health. I'm Dr Gina Pritchard, founder and director of The Prevent Clinic, specializing in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. Here are tips that can help lead you to a heart healthy life. 00:19 Intermittent Fasting and Heart Health Number one. Intermittent fasting reduces inflammation. When you give your body a break from constant eating, it triggers a process called autophagy where your cells clean up and get rid of old damaged stuff. This cleanup crew helps reduce inflammation. 00:37 The Keto Diet for a Healthy Heart Number two. Try Keto for heart health. Embrace good fats, kick carbs to the curb and treat your heart to a wellness journey. 00:48 The Importance of Sleep for Heart Health Number three. Sleep. Six to eight hours of restful, restorative sleep on a regular basis is vital for heart health and has numerous other health benefits. 00:59 Laughter: The Best Medicine for Your Heart Number four. The more you laugh, the less likely you are to die from a heart attack. Embrace the power of laughter. Keep your heart smiling and laugh your way to cardiovascular health. 01:13 The Role of Intimacy in Heart Health Number five. Sexual activity can add years to your life. Regular intimacy has been linked to lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of heart disease. That's right. Sex can increase your long-term survival and your quality of life. 01:30 Taking Control of Your Heart Health You have the power to take full control of your heart health, and possibly even reverse heart disease. For more information, resources, and support on your heart health journey, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com. Let's embark on this journey together

5 Tips to Prevent Heart Attack | Dr. Gina Pritchard Heart attacks are optional. You can take control of your heart health. I'm Dr Gina Pritchard, founder and director of The Prevent Clinic, specializing in cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment. Here are tips that can help lead you to a heart healthy life. 00:18 The Importance of Early Screening Number one. Two in three women over the age of forty-five have cardiovascular disease and many don't know it until it's too late. Ask for heart disease screening tests early before the age of forty-five. 00:33 Oral Health and Heart Disease Number two. 50% of heart attacks occur from an oral health issue. Your dental hygienist may very well save your life. Maintaining good oral hygiene is not just about a killer smile. It's also about keeping your heart happy. 00:49 The Power of Vitamins K2 and D3 Number three. Vitamin K2 and D3 combined, whether in food or taken as a supplement or some of both, decreases your risk of cardiovascular disease. Vitamin K2 is found in fatty meat, fermented food, and high-fat cheeses. 01:09 Breathing Technique for Heart Health Number four. High-quality oxygen. Breathe through your nose rather than your mouth. If you can't breathe well through your nose, consider using nasal strips which you wear outside of your nose. This helps widen the nasal passages. 01:25 Protein: The Building Block of Heart Health Number five. Eat more protein. Protein and the amino acids in protein are essential to build and maintain muscle. The heart is a muscle that also needs plenty of protein for strength. I recommend eating one gram of protein per pound of your ideal body weight per day. Get your protein from real food, such as meat, eggs, fish, and maybe dairy if you tolerate dairy well. 01:52 Taking Control of Your Heart Health You have the power to take full control of your heart health, and possibly even reverse heart disease. For more information, resources, and support on your heart health journey, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com. Let's embark on this journey together

Root Causes: The Overlooked Key to Heart Health | Dr. Gina Pritchard For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com I discovered after many years of this was that first of all, a typical patient that comes in with a heart attack and then goes to the cath lab, which is a picture of what we're seeing here, the cath lab team, heart catheterization team trying to open up a blocked blood vessel in the heart arteries. That's the way we save lives and we have the best technology, the best health care teams in the United States. So if someone is having a heart attack, that's exactly what you need. But then what I discovered is I would be sending patients home, discharging them from the hospital and seeing them back in the clinic after a procedure like this, after saving their life from a heart attack, and tell them, "we took care of that blockage that was 99% or 100% or 85%. Don't worry. It's wide open now. You've got a stint in there. You're on maximal medical management or some people call it optimal medical management now. And so things are fine. We're going to work on your diet. You call me if you have chest pain." So, the reason that patients keep coming back is because we leave all of this vascular disease untreated. We're led down this path of the lie that mild blockages or small amounts of vascular disease are not dangerous. We took care of the bad one. But now, you know, don't worry about the little ones. "You're on optimal medical management." So have you ever felt like- this is what I began to feel like as I was rounding on people in the hospital, seeing them in the clinic, realizing this wasn't really the truth. If I reassured them things were fine because that blockage was open, knowing there was other areas of smaller amounts of plaque throughout their vascular system. But we would just focus on the wrong thing: meds. "Are you having chest pain? How's your diet? Are you exercising?" In a very cursory way, not in depth at all. So after months of this and finding out that there are more powerful prevention techniques, which requires collaboration, like we're talking about today. I felt like I was focusing on mowing the lawn, for example, while the house is on fire behind me. When patients would come to the office, I would feel like it's just a glorified medication check. "How are you doing on that medication? No side effects? Okay. Your blood pressure is pretty good. Your heart rate's pretty good. Yeah. Your lipids are pretty good. Call me if you have chest pain." So, I discovered I was focusing on the wrong thing. It was inaccurate, what I was taught to focus on. Here's some examples. If we stop mowing the lawn and focus on identifying and eradicating root causes, inspecting the coronary wall, the wall of the artery where plaque lives, looking at things like are there airway issues? Saliva testing? Is there bacterial pathogens lurking? Blood work? Where the fire is lurking, meaning that's how we can find out if inflammation and infection is actually happening, then cardiovascular disease would not be the top killer, periodontal disease would not be prevalent. And we do now have better measures to understand these things. Everything we were taught is wrong. We need to use these new measures. We need to use collaboration to truly save lives. So we, rather than accepting this is how I would practice in the clinic, that a fasting blood sugar above 95 is okay, and a non-fasting above 200, okay. From now, in time to time, you're going to see that blood pressure of 140 or over 90 or even higher. I can't count the times I would say, "okay, keep track of it at home. We're going to check it again next time. And maybe we need to go up on your blood pressure medications." Do you know there's many other things we can do to reduce blood pressure besides going up on the medications? And even if we have to go up on the medications for a little while, blood pressures at 140 over 90 or anything above 118 over 80 is causing damage to the brain, to the heart, to our organs every day. So, we need to get away from focusing on these high-level metrics we have and look at the nuances. I'd look at cholesterol numbers and say, "that's pretty good." We kept just putting in stints. "If you have another problem, if you have more chest pain, we'll just put in another stint and send you home on the same meds, more meds," and we would watch year after year, mild to moderate AHI scores. And we now know that's killing people, to just monitor a mild to moderate AHI and not really seek out the root cause. Can we do better?

Dr. Gina Pritchard on The Carnivore Diet: Day 51 00:02 Personal Experience with Carnivore Diet 01:07 Diet Components and Personal Observations 02:00 Advice on Protein Intake 03:23 Recommended Foods and Personal Dietary Choices 04:24 Continued Success and Body Changes 05:00 Potential Challenges and Solutions 05:56 Final Thoughts and Future Plans Day 51 of the carnivore diet for me, and I have to say more good things to report. I continue to feel great. I continue to, I say, lose weight. I haven't weighed, and I will weigh the next time I go to the office, and I'll update you on that. But my body is definitely changing. My clothes are fitting looser. In fact, I ordered some new clothes recently and ordered a size smaller. When they came in, I actually have to send them back and order two sizes smaller than what I normally wear. My body is feeling more muscular, and workouts are, I don't know that I would say easier, but I am feeling stronger. I would definitely describe it that way and seeing more muscle definition, but I just feel great. My outlook on life is better. I feel more like my youthful self. I'm laughing more, smiling more, enjoying life more. I just can't say enough good things about the carnivore diet. Day 51. My skin is softer and it's so simple. I truly eat primarily ribeye steak or ground beef, eggs, butter, and salt, a lot of salt, high quality salt. I drink coffee still. It seems like whenever I veer outside of those things I just mentioned, it's not awful, but I don't, I just don't feel as good. I don't feel as mentally sharp. I don't feel like I'm thinking as quickly. I just don't feel the energy I do when I stick with those things I just mentioned. Now, I don't think that'll be my only components to what I eat for the rest of my life, but right now, I'm going to stick with this and I'll keep you posted as I add in other things. Also, I want to say that this is not medical advice, obviously. Absolutely not medical advice, and I'm not even recommending it to my patients, and I'm not recommending to you that you go on the carnivore diet. But I am suggesting that you check into the carnivore diet if you think it's something you might want to explore. I have told a few of my patients, selectively, to try it and you know, this is not a dramatic change from what I was doing in that I've been recommending to my patients. I've been practicing eating a high protein diet, what some might consider a high protein diet, but prioritizing protein into our lives. Most of us are not getting adequate protein. When we don't, we can't maintain or build muscle. We can't adequately optimize our hormones and our brain isn't functioning as well. There are so many reasons to make sure that we're getting enough protein in our diet. I shoot for about one gram of protein per day to ideal body weight. So not the weight that you are now if you're wanting to lose weight or gain weight, but what is your ideal body weight? Start moving towards one gram of protein daily for each pound of body weight, whatever your ideal body weight is. So that being said, I've been recommending that for a long time to patients and focusing on real food with meat, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, high quality oils only, such as olive oil or avocado oil or butter or beef tallow, collagen, bone broth. Primarily, those are the things that I recommend patients eat from. Dairy can be tricky. It kind of depends on the individual and on the type of dairy. I definitely recommend whole milk or full fat dairy, not low fat, ever. Anyway, that being said, I've eliminated all of that except for the foods that I mentioned earlier, meat and eggs and butter. And I do occasionally have half and half or cream, but not every day, not regularly. I do think that I feel a little less energy when I have half and half or cream in my coffee. I'm definitely improving my body composition. I love the way that my body is looking and feeling and the way my body is serving me. It's just stronger and I love it. I absolutely love this carnivore lifestyle. It's simple and it feels so good. Love the way my clothes are fitting and looking and that I'm needing smaller sizes. I highly recommend you check into it. Certainly, this is not medical advice, but this is working out really well for me and I can't imagine that I'm going to change from it. I don't want sweets. I don't want vegetables. I'm not tempted by fruit. This is so satisfying and just lovely. I can't say enough good things about it. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Skip Your Next Heart Attack: Day 3 Cardiac Cuisine 0:03 Importance of Nutrition in Heart Health On this day, we're going to cover nutrition. What do we eat? We probably get that question more than anything else. Is it a diet? Is it what I'm eating? Of course, what you're eating can be contributing to your risk of heart attack or protecting you from heart attack. And there's a lot of controversy out there regarding what on earth do we eat. 0:25 Exploring Different Diets We're going to clear all of that up for you on day three when we talk about cardiac cuisine. Is it intermittent fasting? Is it keto? Is it vegan? Is it paleo? We're going to clear it up so that you know exactly what to eat to protect yourself from heart attack. 0:40 Finding the Best Diet for You So, day three, you don't want to miss this one. This is where it's at. Everybody wants to know we're going to get quiet down all that media out there and find out what diet is actually best for you. See you on day three. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Skip Your Next Heart Attack: Day 2 Care Plan So you go to your doctor, whether it's your primary care doctor, the cardiologist, and have an evaluation for cardiovascular disease risk. 0:09 Basic Heart Attack Risk Factors Some risk factors will be evaluated: blood pressure, cholesterol, your age, do you smoke or not, how much do you weigh. And these risk factors might be entered into a formula and your probability determined. What's your probability of having a heart attack in this day and age? That's not good enough. 0:30 Advanced Heart Health Screening With the use of technology, cutting edge artificial intelligence analysis, you can know specifically. Are you headed for a heart attack or not? And more importantly, you can know what to do about it. So you need these specific tests, comprehensive evaluation, and to know what it means for you. That's your care plan. 0:49 Heart Health Care Plan And then you can enter into this care plan for 90 days and retest, and see if you've made progress. That's how we know that we're protecting you from a heart attack. So join us for day two of the challenge so you can learn how to get a customized, personalized cardiac care plan. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Skip Your Next Heart Attack Day 1: Cardiac Clarity Let's talk cardiac clarity because I think a lot of people need to get clear on just heart disease in general. But one of the things that you say that I love is that their evaluation is not inaccurate. It's just incomplete. Most people that come to see us have not had a complete test panel or a complete evaluation to even know if they're headed for a heart attack or not. Most people have had their cholesterol, their blood pressure, maybe their body weight, possibly a stress test. However, you need to understand fully if you have plaque in the coronary arteries of the heart, you need to know if you have insulin and glucose related issues. You need to know if you have bacteria in your mouth. If your oxygen level is dropping day or night, and you need to know about inflammation, very specific blood tests telling us about inflammation in the arteries. So, if you haven't had all 5 of those tests. It doesn't even matter if you've had your blood pressure checked. Yeah, that tells you you have a risk factor for a heart attack, but it doesn't tell you: are you headed for a heart attack or not? You can know, but you have to have a complete test evaluation, including at least those five tests I mentioned. For more, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Welcome To Skip Your Next Heart Attack | Dr. Gina Pritchard Hi everyone and welcome to my YouTube channel. I'm Dr. Gina Pritchard, and I help people live their entire life without a heart attack. 0:09 Understanding Heart Attack Risks Whether you've had your first heart attack and you're trying to avoid a second or even a third, or you haven't had a heart attack but aren't positive that you are not at risk, then this channel is for you. You see, everyone can know, and I believe deserves to know, if they're headed for a heart attack or not. Because in this day and age, we can, I say, turn the car around and keep you going the other direction. We don't want you to head straight for a heart attack, whether it's next year, or in five years, or in thirty years. You want to know now where you stand. 0:42 The Importance of Complete Cardiovascular Evaluation There are at least five tests that you probably haven't had. I say most people that have been evaluated for cardiovascular disease risk for heart attack risk, their workup has not been inaccurate. It's just been incomplete. 0:57 Benefits of Heart-Healthy Living So, listen to my channel and learn everything you need to know about not only living a life free from the crisis that can occur from cardiovascular disease, such as heart attack, stroke, dementia, diabetes, but also because this information, if it's good for your heart, I say it's good for the body. It's good for the heart. It's good for the brain. It's good for the body. It's good for every cell in your body. And so with this information, not only will you protect yourself from the top killer, but you will create the body that you want and the future that you want, because truly at the core, this is longevity medicine. 1:32 Personalized Holistic Approach to Prevention This is prevention medicine. This is precision medicine and it's holistic. It isn't just prescribing medications. No. It's a thorough evaluation, a thorough understanding on your part of what's going on inside your body and then specific recommendations for you that really are not that hard. And they're going to help you feel better. And as I said, create the body and the future that you want. For more information, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Heart Attack: Are Your Hot or Not? So, let's walk through the five tests. What are the five tests? 0:04 CT Coronary Angiogram Number one, you need a specific CAT scan, a CT coronary angiogram with artificial intelligence analysis. As I would say, this is that ooey gooey plaque that's in the wall of your arteries. 0:19 Sleep Study Number two, you need a sleep study, a home sleep study to start with. And I would say that's if you're being, find out if you're being strangled in the middle of the night, all night long. 0:31 Saliva Test And thirdly, you need your saliva tested. You need to spit in a tube and send that to the lab. So, you need to find out, do you have bacteria and viruses lurking in your mouth? 0:44 Blood Test Evaluation Number four, you need a thorough blood test evaluation, continuous glucose monitor, and a finger stick machine at home to thoroughly understand your metabolic health. How is your insulin and glucose communication? Do you have insulin resistance, prediabetes, full blown diabetes, and don't even know it? You're raging, starving, hungry, you need to eat, and then you're over there taking a nap? Or, as you say, Dr. Pritchard, a sugar burner or a fat burner. 1:13 Inflammatory Markers And number five, you need a thorough blood test evaluation. Specifically, you need to understand inflammation. And there are inflammatory markers that can be tested in the blood, help us understand if you have arteries that are inflamed, which is what leads to a heart attack. So, this is the truth serum. What's really going on inside? Are you hot or not? For more, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Heart Month: Urgent Wake-Up Call to Women | Dr. Gina Pritchard February is American Heart Month. This is an urgent wake up call to women. 0:02 The Silent Threat of Heart Disease In the chaotic rhythm of our daily lives, we need to urgently draw our attention to a critical matter that can unfold during what should be just another ordinary day. We go through our usual morning routine of juggling family duties and work responsibilities while desperately reaching for that first cup of coffee. And then you start to feel a bit out of sorts. Dismissing it as just another hectic day, you continue with your routine tasks, sitting down for a moment to catch your breath. However, what seems like a fleeting episode can turn into a shocking revelation. What is initially dismissed as indigestion or gas can turn out to be a heart attack. 0:51 Leading Cause of Death for Women This is an urgent reminder that heart disease is the leading cause of death among American women. It's time to recognize the signs, prioritize your heart, and implore the women you care about to do the same. Heart disease often presents subtle signs such as nausea, jaw tightness, dizziness, shortness of breath, muscle pain, achiness, and pressure in the chest. You need to pay immediate attention to these signals and seek medical help promptly. 1:23 Taking Action for Heart Health Your heart's health demands your immediate attention and awareness is the first crucial step towards prevention. Act now by recognizing the signs of heart disease and taking immediate, proactive steps. For critical information on prioritizing heart health, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com today.

What Is a Heart Attack? So, Dr Pritchard, let's talk about what a heart attack really is. How would you define a heart attack? 0:08 What Is A Heart Attack? A heart attack is damage to the heart muscle. The muscle cells start to die. And why does that happen? 0:18 Why Does A Heart Attack Happen? It happens because there's a problem upstream in the blood vessels that give the blood supply to the heart muscle. 0:25 Where Does A Heart Attack Originate? So, a heart attack doesn't originally start in the heart. It starts in your blood vessels, the coronary arteries, so to speak. That's why you have to know if you have plaque in your coronary arteries. Even a small amount of plaque matters. For more, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com

Heart Month: Urgent Call for Heart Disease Awareness | Dr. Gina Pritchard February is American Heart Month. This is an urgent call for heart disease awareness. 0:07 Experience with Heart Disease The day kicked off just like any other day filled with the usual hustle and bustle. Looking back, I can recall feeling a bit more sweaty than usual, and there was definitely a lingering soreness. At the time, it was easy to dismiss. Little did I know, these physical cues were signs of a heart attack. It's shocking how our bodies can send signals that we might overlook in the whirlwind of our daily routine. This seemingly ordinary discomfort turned out to be an urgent wake up call. 0:40 The Silent Threat of Heart Disease in Women Heart disease is the number one cause of death for American women. I urge all women to pay heeded to the signals their bodies are sending. 0:56 The Power of Lifestyle Changes and Awareness It's the small changes in our daily habits, regular checkups, and awareness of risk factors that can make a big difference. Commitment to a heart healthy lifestyle can be transformative. 1:08 Call to Action for Women's Heart Health This is not just my story. It's a shared narrative among women from all walks of life. It's a rallying cry to confront the stark reality of heart disease and to empower women to make informed choices that saves lives. For more information, resources, and support on your heart health journey, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com. Let's embark on this journey together and prioritize our heart health for a vibrant and longer life.

February is American Heart Month | Dr. Gina Pritchard For more information, resources, and support on your heart health journey, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com. Let's embark on this journey together and prioritize our heart health for a vibrant and longer life. It's February! Hooray! February is one of my favorite months, and one of the reasons it's one of my favorite months is because it's Heart Month. The American Heart Association designated February as American Heart Month. And guess what? Heart disease is still the top killer. In fact, most years it's increased in the number of heart attacks and strokes and the number of deaths. Certainly, there's way more heart attacks, strokes, and deaths today than there were back in 1934 when The American Heart Association first designated February as Heart Month. So, you know I tell you all the time that heart disease is preventable, that heart attacks and strokes are avoidable, they're optional, so to speak. Meaning there's so much we can do to protect ourselves. And I'm going to review that again today, and it is true. And we'll talk about why heart attack is still the top killer. If we have a month dedicated to it and we know what to do, we'll talk more about that later. But I want to say that I wore my red heart earrings for today. I'll probably wear them a lot this month and I'll wear red a lot this month to increase our awareness of heart disease. And every time you see a red heart or you think about Valentine's, and you think about those you love, I want to think about your physical heart. The American Heart Association has designated eight essential things, eight essential areas that if we focused on the data shows us we can reduce our risk of heart attack and stroke both by 80%. First of all, it's to eat better. We know that. Secondly is to move more, be more active. Thirdly is to quit smoking, of course. Fourthly is to manage our weight. Fifthly is to manage blood sugar. Sixth is to manage blood pressure. And seventh is to control cholesterol. You know that I believe that's too broad of a focus. We can't ignore cholesterol, but I have a lot to say about that. It's one of the essential eight though according to The American Heart Association. Yes, it cannot be ignored. It's not the topic for today's video. Then number eight, and that's a new one actually. They, added the eighth one, I believe, two years ago. Before that, it was seven topics. And finally, The American Heart Association has rightfully added high quality sleep to the essential eight. We know that we need not only an adequate quantity or amount or length of time that we're asleep, we also need ideal oxygenation all night long. It means we need to breathe nice and slow and deep through our nose, inhaling high quality oxygen all night long. That's another topic for another day. But I want to get back to the point that if we did these eight, we would prevent 80% of heart attacks and strokes, or reduce our risk by 80%. So, why is it that so many people still have heart attacks and still have strokes? And why is it that the number of heart attacks and strokes keep going up every year, and the number of deaths keep increasing? It's because number one, we're not understanding the nuances about each of these eight, and we're not individualizing it for ourselves. And I believe that percentage, in fact, I know it's true, because I see it in my practice and in my patients. That 80% could go much higher to 90%, 95% and greater if these last few things that I'm going to talk about were implemented in everyone's life as well. The American Heart Association also brings to our awareness that heart disease is a women's disease as well as a man's disease. Both men and women equally die of heart disease. Women often have problems with heart disease or a heart attack or stroke about five to ten years later in life than men. The average heart attack occurs for a man at 55 and women at 65. But women, did you know this, are more likely to die from their first heart attack than men are. More often, men will live long enough to have a second one. Maybe even a third one. But nonetheless, women are affected by heart disease as much as men. It's incredibly common. So, what are we to do about it? So, number one. Of course, these essential eight in more in depth and a better understanding about yourself. So remember, every time you see a Valentine's this February, every time you see a red heart and you think about your loved ones, I want you to think about your actual beating heart and the beating heart of your loved ones.

Skip Your Next Heart Attack | Dr. Gina Pritchard 0:00 Reduce Heart Attack Risk How would you like to learn how to drastically reduce your risk of heart attack? On this channel, we'll be discussing the latest scientific information so that you can reduce your risk of heart attack, either a first heart attack or a future heart attack if you've already had one. You can reduce that risk by over 80%. 0:20 Dr. Gina Pritchard of Prevent Clinic I'm Dr. Gina Pritchard. And I worked in the coronary critical care unit for many years and saw thousands of patients suffer and die from cardiovascular disease or suffer and leave the hospital to never be the same. And now I'm in private practice in Frisco, Texas, where my practice is solely focused on heart attack, stroke, diabetes and dementia prevention. We have powerful techniques. We have clinical experience. We have scientific evidence, and I've seen with my own eyes the fact that people can implement strategies and know that they have the best protection possible from a future heart attack. 0:59 Measure Your Risk of Heart Attack We can measure where you're at today, implement these strategies and then look again. Whether we look in three months, six months, or a year and ensure that we're stabilizing, that we're transforming, that we're reversing cardiovascular disease. So please subscribe to my channel, share this information, and thank you for listening. To learn more, visit https://skipyournextheartattack.com