Ben GreenfieldFounder, Ben Greenfield Life

Can an Ultrasound Spot Hidden Heart Disease?!

31 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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YouTube conversation (Ben Greenfield) examining whether ultrasound can detect hidden heart disease. Includes discussion of a research claim that a treatment opened arteries 30% in a sample of 1,000 patients over one year, commentary on protective dietary patterns observed in "blue zones" (e.g., antipasti, vinegary foods), and clinician anecdotes from arterial ultrasound scans noting a recurring ~20% arterial "ring" in older men on testosterone replacement and links between stress and plaque patterns.

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Opened the arteries 30% in a sample of 1,000 patients over one year.

About a 20% ring around their arteries.

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I pulled the research studies, and on a thousand patients over a year, it opened the arteries 30%.
That's impressive.
That's incredible. Because what the traditional science is, you'll calcify the plaque and then just go into the night with a bunch more calcium in your body. But in these blue zones, they had these, these diets, the antipasti, the vinegary foods. I've had a couple surprises. I was in Dallas scanning, and some 60 year old testosterone replacement dudes came up. And I've scanned enough that they always have a 20% ring around their arteries. Pretty. Really? Yeah.
Now, are you talking like, therapeutic trt? Are we talking like, like guys who are obviously juicing and are like, way.
More buff than they should be at 60?
Yeah. Yeah. Because I mean, like, I'm on TRT. My levels are at like 800.
Hard living adds up on them. They've had a divorce.
Really?
Yeah. I've scanned doctors and stuff and, you know, you do this enough, you kind of get a sense. And I saw this plaque, but it was an older plaque. It wasn't still developing. Her body's addressing it. It was. I said, oh, I imagine with this kind of damage. She had a divorce like 10 years ago. Five years ago. She got all panicky and froze. But stress is huge. Yeah.