Protein & Your Heart Health OHR #526

Message From Dr. Minkoff

For thousands of years Homo sapiens have inhabited this planet.

For most of that time we were Paleolithic humans foraging, hunting and gathering for our survival. It was a primal existence. It was us, the plants, animals, oceans, deserts and gods of one sort or another.

Then about two hundred years ago a lot changed.

Technology and machines replaced effort and sweat.

Drugs and chemicals replaced herbs and natural healing.

Our native mother planet was traded in for the new model.

The evolved survival connection between our bodies and our planet was severed and abruptly so.

If you do the math, 200 years out of 2 million that our species have been here, that’s less than 0.01% of our genetic timeline.

Genes don’t adapt that quickly and so the massive toxin load can’t be accounted for and so our bodies suffer the poisoning that we witness all around us.

This also includes the massive societal changes including the destruction of marriage, the family unit, and our religious institutions and the basic Judeo-Christian moral precepts that I grew up with.

Men and women weren’t spiritual beings created by God, but rats to be manipulated with chemicals and brainwashing.

No wonder we are reeling.

It’s a double whammy against our bodies and ourselves.

Our biology and our environment have become incompatible.

Do you feel it?

Can we survive this?

Now I am an optimist.

I believe we can.

But it requires individual action.

It requires an upgrade.

That upgrade requires a commitment.

Today I got up from the table at a new Chinese massage place that one of my swimming buddies had recommended.

As she was finishing she said “you have a good body.”

She asked how old I was and I said “76.”

She said, “0h my, your body is hard and not all wrinkled and soft.”

I thanked her. It was a nice complement.

Still needs lots of work I thought to myself.

Father time is unabating and relentless.

Every day is war against that force.

Anti-aging is a myth. Pursuing healthy habits is the game that can keep you going and thriving.

I got a very unique cardiac test done last week. It is from www.cardiovisioncare.com

Amazing.

It can predict cardiac muscle problems, arrhythmias, and blocked arteries with more accuracy than a stress test and angiogram.

The cardiologist looked at me with a smile and said the scale goes from A to E.

You got an A. That is incredible cardiac health.

Well, I thought, with my family history it’s amazing as my dad had his first heart attack at 50 and then bypass at 55. My mom died of a cardiac arrest at 75.

All my grandparents the same.

But years of swim, bike and run have kept my ticker going strong. Heck all the 60 year olds in the pool have trouble keeping up with me.

I am not bragging. I hope to inspire.

Health is good habits done for a long time.

Eat organic, sleep enough, take your supplements, exercise a lot and love your family and then work at something that you love so much simply because of the gratitude that you feel back from the people that you help.

That’s how to do it.

Go for it.

Hope is everywhere.

Have a great week.

Dr. David I Minkoff, MD