Why are so many seemingly healthy young men and women getting heart disease? These are individuals with seemingly normal labs, no family history, who might even be exercising and eating relatively healthy, but end up with a heart attack or visible plaque on a heart scan test.

In this episode we discuss:

• Surprise heart disease in seemingly healthy individuals
• Brief science primer on heart disease using boats and tunnels
• Concept of arterial flammability
• Commonly overlooked risk factors
• Common personality profiles for surprise heart disease
• The role of COVID-19 and Microplastics

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That relentless inner voice—the one that replays past conversations, plans your next move, and won’t let you sleep—what if it’s physically affecting your health? In this episode, we explore the science of inner chatter, its surprising impact on your body, and how to reframe it to improve resilience and your overall health. We discuss some of the following:

• The hidden science of subvocalization—how your thoughts subtly activate your speech muscles
• MIT’s AlterEgo device—the tech that can “read” your mind
• The mind-body connection—how inner dialogue affects digestion, immunity, heart health, and more
• Practical strategies—simple, science-backed ways to quiet the noise
• A special music experiment to help shift your inner voice

If we only pay attention to typical risk factors, we will miss what I call the "surprise diseases" that affect so many of my patients and people I know. The heart attack or plaque (detected on a heart scan) in someone who exercises and appears otherwise healthy, the breast cancer in a woman with no family history, the autoimmune disease that appears out of nowhere. How can we avert these conditions? Understanding the mechanism of Emotional Immunity (EI) is critical so you can start breaking common thought patterns. In this episode, we explore the following:

• A Case Study of "Surprise Diseases"
• Emotional Immunity (EI) explained and linked to disease
• The most common emotional patterns that overactivate and/or suppress immunity
• Key questions to identify if you're at risk
• How we inherit and pass on thought patterns that disrupt immunity