Heart disease kills someone in America every 34 seconds, yet medicine focuses on treating it rather than preventing it. Joy Kong, MD, explains why the leading cause of death keeps winning despite what we know about stopping it.
Every 34 seconds.
Every 40 seconds.
The heart is the foundation for every organ in our body. We have to have a healthy heart. But the medical model is focusing more on treating heart diseases. So I don't think we were very well equipped to really prevent them from ever getting heart disease. So where do you think are lacking?
Number one? It's absolutely key that people know that it still is the number one most common cause of serious disability and death, men and women. And it can attack and affect anybody. A yoga person, a thin person, a person taking bioregulator peptides. Always put it number one on your priority list to assess what is your heart health. Number two, along with the statistic about how frequent heart disease somebody dies every 34 seconds in the United States of heart disease. Somebody has a heart attack every 40 seconds in the United States.
