HEART ATTACKS STRIKE EARLY AND WITHOUT WARNING FOR GEN Xers.
Cardiologists are seeing far too many heart attacks and strokes in GEN Xers, even under 40 years of age. ref Without any of the obvious symptoms older people exhibit as warning signs, just the heart vessels of GEN Xers get clogged resulting in sudden heart attacks or if in brain, strokes. ref The typical risk factors do not have to be present either: smoking, obesity, diabetes, or high blood pressure. There are many other influencing factors, chief among them are inflammation and calcification. Read this admission by a Cardiologist. ref This next reference takes on Statins. ref Notice vitamin K2 interference.
A new test was finally approved by the FDA a couple of years called the PLAC test which is able to spot hearts at risk. This test measures an enzyme that reveals inflammation and resulting plaque build up. ref Regardless of age, if you are feeling light headed or dizzy, get a check up to make sure it is not due to iimpaired blood flood in heart.
Calcification of arteries also needs to be addressed here. While calcium supplements may or may not be a causation factor, what the body does with calcium is vital to heart health. Vitamin K2 is involved in keeping calcium out of arteries by activating a protein in the artery wall, called MATRIX GLA, plus it also activates a vitamin D produced protein, osteocalcin, that binds calcium into bone. Past dietary patterns provided foods that contained K2, but since the refrigerator, fermented foods have diminished, and so has K2.