But maybe not. That suggests it's a fifty-fifty chance.
My Dad passed away at the age of 56 from his fourth heart attack with a DNR. 44 minutes ago, I reached 72 years old. I swear by a big ole lecithin softgel capsule every night.
Everyone of my male siblings have had either a pacemaker or heart bypass surgery. My GP made me see a cardiologist because she saw a little squiggly rolloff on a EKG. The cardiologist said what my GP saw on the EKG was normal for my age. With a history of every male on my paternal side having Heart problems, I asked the cardiologist if taking lecithin for four decades may have kept my plaque from blocking my arteries? He said yes, it might have, "so I've got that going for me, which is nice."
[Lecithin] Might Reduce Heart Disease RiskDiastolic blood pressure is the bottom number on a reading. It measures the pressure in your arteries when your heart rests between beats. High blood pressure increases your risk of several conditions, including heart disease.
A study published in 2018 of 89 middle-aged Japanese women found that supplementation with 1,200 milligrams (mg) of soy lecithin for eight weeks reduced diastolic blood pressure levels compared to a placebo. The participants also had a reduced cardio-ankle vascular index. This marker assesses the stiffness of arteries, which is a risk factor for heart disease.
The researchers noted that they weren't exactly sure how the lecithin supplement improved blood pressure and arterial stiffness. One theory is that the phospholipids may replace damaged cell membranes. Cell membrane damage can occur during the normal aging process or from acute and chronic illness. This may help improve cellular health and reduce the risk of diseases like heart disease.
Bookmarked.
I purchased “Eat Your Age” recently, but have not read it yet.
Bkmk
Do you mean sedentary?
“Now the month isn’t over and we have yet another high-profile publication from the nutritional epidemiologists of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). This time they’re suggesting that the closer we comply to one of 8 “healthy dietary patterns” the healthier we’ll be and the longer we’ll live.
So what constitutes a “healthy dietary pattern,” let alone the “optimal dietary patterns for healthy eating” per the title of the paper? Answering that question correctly is effectively the goal of all this nutrition research: what foods should we eat to maximize our health? What foods should we avoid?
The HSPH epidemiologists define all 8 dietary patterns as healthy if they are rich “in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, unsaturated fats, nuts and legumes,” and low “in trans fats, sodium, and red and processed meat.” Avoiding ultra-processed foods and sugary beverages are assumed implicitly, but it’s the more-plants-less-meat criteria that are stated explicitly. This aligns with the Harvard mantra since the 1990s (as discussed in previous posts). Once again we have an HSPH study that recapitulates conventional wisdom: healthy people in their epidemiological studies mostly eat the foods they’ve been told are good for them and avoid the foods they’ve been told are not.
What we don’t know, of course, is whether they’re healthy because of these food choices and whether they might be healthier still if they chose their food by different criteria. What if, for instance, they chose a dietary pattern on the basis of whether or not it could demonstrably make unhealthy people healthy?"