Dr. Tabatha Barber argues heart attacks are a modern problem driven by lifestyle and environment, not genetics. She compares how ancestral populations avoided heart disease despite genetic similarities to us today.
as far as heart disease goes, especially midlife. So yeah, a lot of things are shifting, but I never just blame things on I'm getting old or genetics. And I'm not saying genes don't play any role, but they're definitely secondary. I always think back to our ancestors. How did our ancestors suffer through all these things? And if they didn't, then neither do we need to. And the most shocking thing on my journey of heart disease research was when I found out that heart attacks are a modern problem.
