Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

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10 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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A YouTube video conversation (Aaron Hartman, MD and another speaker) discussing the historical rise of cardiovascular disease in the 20th century, the role of lifestyle factors (diet, exercise) in prevention, and contemporary lipidology views that many lipid disorders have underlying genetic contributions.

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In 1900, cardiovascular disease was uncommon. By the 50s, it was the most common cause of death in our country. And 74 years later, it still is. You know, you mentioned where does. When all everything you mentioned where in that. Because there's a bunch of different credentialing societies now. Where in that this lifestyle, diet, exercise. Where in your journey in lipid medicine do those? Because in the functional medicine world, we always, the foundations are always like diet, exercise kind of stuff.
And it has to be. But we're at the point in lipidology now where we believe anybody who does show up with a lipid disorder, there's an abnormal genetic process behind that.