A simple yet powerful predictor of heart attack risk is your triglyceride to HDL ratio, which should ideally be 1:1 or lower.

Heart disease is primarily an inflammatory disease, and cholesterol is often just a bystander that gets deposited into already inflamed arteries.

Fasting insulin is one of the most important tests for understanding your health and longevity, yet it is checked in less than 1% of doctor visits.

20% of the population has a genetic elevation in Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), a strong independent risk factor for heart disease that most people don't get tested for.

For most people, the primary driver of heart attacks is not dietary fat but sugar and refined starches, which cause metabolic dysfunction and inflammation.

A calcium score is an important imaging test to see if you actually have plaque in your arteries, as blood tests are only surrogate markers and don't show the disease itself.

You can be a normal weight but still have high visceral belly fat and insulin resistance, a condition called TOFI (thin on the outside, fat on the inside), which carries the same heart disease risk as obesity.

The most reliable marker for heart attack risk is APOB, which is a better indicator of dangerous cholesterol particles than standard LDL tests.

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