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Health Problems Begin Long Before Symptoms
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Dr. Bryant Stamford discusses how health problems begin long before symptoms start.
Dr. Bryant Stamford, professor of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College, discusses how health problems begin long before symptoms start.
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Health Problems Begin Long Before Symptoms
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Dr. Bryant Stamford, professor of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology at Hanover College, discusses how health problems begin long before symptoms start.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipEverything that I'm doing is working.
I sit here on the couch and watch TV.
But I'm fine.
I'm doing fine.
You honestly don't know how you're doing.
You're making this judgment completely naive because you don't know what is going on inside.
Here's the example.
When you're born, if you look at your coronary arteries, the arteries that feed the heart and the heart is beating 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Right.
Bang, bang, bang.
Every time it contracts, it requires energy.
Because it requires energy.
It requires oxygen to help make the energy.
All right.
So the coronary arteries are so, so important because they're the pipelines to get the blood flow, which carries the oxygen to make the energy for the heart.
So the day you're born, let's look at that coronary artery.
One of them is like that.
Okay.
Over time.
Over time, for example, soldiers who were killed in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, they did autopsy studies to look at the coronary arteries, average age of these soldiers, 21 years.
All right.
And 75% of them there was already discernable evidence that the arteries were clogging in 25% of them, the advanced clogging was already there.
Okay.
25% of them at age 21, which says this process of atherosclerosis clogging the earth basically starts the they were born, particularly in this society.
All right.
So here's my point.
That artery looks like this the day you're born.
You're born into this society and it's gradually clogging up with cholesterol.
Okay, So.
So now this all to me turns into this.
How does that look right there?
That's that's like 80% closed.
Okay.
If it's 80% closed, then if you're lucky, you may get the first symptom, which would be chest pain.
It's closed by 80%.
And you may get the first symptom, which is chest pain.
If you're unlucky, that first symptom is you have a massive heart attack and die.
That's the first indication of a massive heart attack and you're dead.
But until that happens, until you get that first symptom, I'm doing fine.
You're sitting there eating garbage every day.
You're £50 overweight.
How could you be doing?
Fine.
I don't mean symptoms.
I go to the doctor.
My doctor says I'm doing okay.
Well, there's a whole thing we talk about for hours about that one, how misleading that information is.
But I'm doing fine.
Are you really?
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