Why Do Arteries Get Clogged? It’s Not What You Think

Heart disease is the number one killer in the world. To understand why this disease is so deadly, Patrick has some answers for you.
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To start, the term cardiovascular disease actually includes a bunch of different diseases, and there are many factors that go into what causes each kind. And the structure we need to learn to understand these diseases isn’t necessarily the heart, but rather the arteries.
Arteries are complex, ever changing organs that deliver blood throughout the body and play a role not just in disease, but in experiencing different climates, exercising, and maintaining homeostasis.
When you take a big picture look at the entire cardiovascular system, you will see two distinct loops of blood vessel networks, shaped like a figure eight. One of the loops carries deoxygenated blood from the right side of the heart to the lungs, picks up some oxygen, and circles back to the heart.
This pulmonary circulation is where important gas exchange happens, allowing us to utilize all the carbon dioxide waste we’ve built up in our blood and capture that oxygen we breathe in.
Once our blood is nice and oxygenated it comes back to the left side of the heart to be pumped into systemic circulation, the second loop that hits everything that isn’t the lungs.
Right after getting ejected from the left side of the heart, blood then passes through the aorta, which is the biggest artery the human body has.
The aorta branches off into smaller arteries up into the neck and brain and down the body into the limbs and abdomen. As the arteries get closer to individual tissues and organs, they’ll branch off into tiny arterioles, and then into microscopic blood vessels called capillaries.
Some of those capillaries are so tiny that red blood cells have to line up cell by cell to get through.
But, no surprise, not all of our arteries are built the same.
Find out more about your different arteries, the purposes they serve, and how they all come up again and again when it comes to understanding cardiovascular disease in this episode of Human.
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[@ytubeanon]

6:55 "but no matter what causes the dysfunction"... well, that's exactly why we're watching this video, it was posed as the question 'Why Do Arteries Get Clogged?' it feels like they said 'smoking, high blood pressure and diabetes' causes clogs in one sentence and there's less nitric oxide with smoking, but they should go further in explaining how high blood pressure and diabetes (are there more causes?) are answers to the original question

[@alien8treker2]

Please see my comment above as it relates to cause.

[@maranpakeer]

Dude I was literally thinking the same thing. They start answering the question 3/4 of the way into the video😒

[@metal7core]

Yeah, i was thinking the same. This channel, this channel , in terms of health related themes is allways propagating the same half truths we all been eating for the past half century

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@@metal7core meat/egg industry funding? I know it isn't BigBroccoliTM 😒

[@justenhansen]

I came here to say the exact same thing.

[@theodoreroberts3407]

I have clogged arteries in my legs. The doctor gave me two choices: stents or walking. He sent me to therapy where they had me walk 1 mile a week. I was already walking 2.5 to 5 miles a day! It's finally paying off. The body is designed to move, don't wait for all the things that can happen with a sedentary life, get out and move your body daily. A little is better than nothing.

[@musickrayz]

Excellent advice! My partially blocked arteries in my legs were causing me to feel so fatigued that I literally slept for 12 hours during the daytime. My specialist advised me to purchase something called proargi9+ (a vitamin complex drink) and it's literally brought me back from the dead! 😄 I'm back to normal life, eating healthy and exercising at least 5 days a week. What a blessing to be healthy ❤️

[@easykinaka]

You still eating animal products though?

[@aesyamazeli8804]

@@andyc7747 yeah eating animals are healthy, the devil is actually vegetable oil. Either use lard or only bake or boil your meat. Never let your meat touch vegetable oils.

[@Neddy540]

@@aesyamazeli8804 100% agree

[@Theonegamefreak]

Why do you have to go to therapy to walk Couldn't you just walk

[@jhostyngallardo6159]

This was more of a crash course anatomy circulatory video than answering the reason for arteriosclerosis. Even then, still information and well made! Title mislead though

[@Thuhglegend27]

The titels are always misleading on this channel, they never answer the question in the titel.

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True,I aprehensively went down a medical rabbit hole that benefits me, but too many parts to worry about, & control .at my age I kinda accept the inevitable.i couldn't watch till the end.at the age of 65 I'm doing all that I can with diet,sunshine,& working out.

[@QANGOR]

Agree. Nothing new. Just junk

[@ragedfalcon2397]

Aight time to exercise

[@zukodude487987]

Exercise only reduces cholesterol in the blood. I have seen plenty of people that train a lot and still have high blood cholestetol. A low cholesterol diet will stop the disease and reverse it.

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I am at 5:24 out of 8:24 mins of video....and I am thinking just one thing - GET THERE ALREADY!! 8:24 - Nope, still not there!

[@TheVarkol]

I learned about the cardiovascular system at university and came here to understand how arteries get blocked, what causes it exactly and if it has some kind of treatment. I only relearned the basics of the cv system and didn't really get what causes the clots. Did i miss something?

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Oral bacteria

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

This video series is about anatomy and physiology. The series dealing with diseases is called "Sick."

[@MsTatakai]

what causes ? nice question because i saw the video for the same and i think its the lack of exercise... not food or something we eat, besides smoking which reduce nitric oxide too... More exercise to produce more nitric oxide to improve our vasodilatation ? i think its what he meant ...

[@VudrokWolf]

A bad diet does, if you eat plenty of vegetables you get a lot of nitric oxide and antioxidants that help the body to recover/regenerate/rejuvenate cells also exercising helps to be healthier, this content seems a bias to remove the guilt of a bad diet.

[@MsTatakai]

@@VudrokWolf good to know...

[@dumbcat]

i think dr. berg hit the nail on the head the other day when he said you can't fix a fatty liver with exercise. you have to clean up your diet. same goes for the heart. the battle is won at the dinner table

[@jbarber1016]

@@2nostromo Whole food mostly plant based

[@sidmichael1158]

Link?

[@nymike59]

Dr. berg is not a medical dr.

[@TTR83]

@@jbarber1016 Dr. Berg recommends low carb high fat diet.

[@TTR83]

@@nymike59 He knows his stuff.

[@alexgewecke9576]

They didn’t address diet even though it is by far the leading cause.

[@nqkoi159]

Exactly. Almost as if this was the goal of the video, to remove blame from diet. Looks like industry funded content.

[@VudrokWolf]

He said at the beginning that the "diet has nothing to do with it" but I disagree the diet has everything to do with it if you eat healthy PlantBased non-process foods you are almost immune to heart disease

[@spastikman]

@@VudrokWolf This is coming from a diehard vegan, and so I would love to say that you're 100% right; but you're probably only partially right. Genetics plays a really large risk factor. For some of these, it is possible to mitigate some of the worst effects with a good diet (most plant based diets ftw; according to cardiologists), but those with inherited diseases like Familial hypercholesterolemia et al will need to seek medical help. It's unfair and depressing but even educated health nuts who exercised their whole lives, eat the healthiest plant based diets can still have terrible cholesterol if they happened to lose the genetic lottery.

[@skyrask1948]

​@@spastikman Having high cholesterol is not inherently bad since cholesterol i not really a factor in formation of cardiovascular disease. This is copied reply to another comment so it is not exactly what would be appropriate reply to you comment, but it is better than nothing. It is excess of triglycerides that body has no way to store in fat storage. This is caused by diet with high fat and carbs intake at same time and regular fat storage already filled. Contrary to popular belief there is only minor correlation of LDL ("bad" cholesterol) to this. High levels of LDL and HDL("good" cholesterol) with low levels of triglycerides is shown to have lowest rate of non inherited cardiovascular diseases. LDL as primary carrier of triglycerides is heightened when high amounts of triglycerides need to be transported around body. To prevent build up of fat from happening many different strategies can be formed. Eliminating/reducing either fat or carbs is one way. Low body fat by either caloric restriction or a lot of exercise is another. Low body fat is not necessary enough since amount of body fat person can safe store is widely different on person basis. Best strategy is to reduce carbs intake and rely more on fat intake (especially when young since older person gets harder it is to metabolize fat) and have physically active life stile with low body fat content. No specific percentage is meant by low, since it varies so significantly between people.

[@tomerwolberg37]

First of all this is wrong to say it's by far the leading cause, lack of physical activity (cardio not weight lifting) is the leading cause because doing cardio regularly lower your chances to cardiovascular diseases the most. Also they did addressed diet, they said that diabetes can cause it, and the leading cause for that is being fat (and you get fat by eating too much, so it is about diet).

[@vasimedia1012]

Acute care telemetry/stroke nurse here *_waves enthusiastically_* Thanks for the video! Education is an indispensable part of healthcare. For that reason, I wanted to suggest a minor correction: The definition you gave for ARTERIOsclerosis actually describes ATHEROsclerosis, a more specific ailment and a term more people should be familiar with. The names may look very similar at first glance, however they do refer to different problems within the arterial wall. Arteriosclerosis is a more general term that refers to a hardening, thickening, or general "noncompliance" of the artery. This can in fact occur from atherosclerosis, which as you described is the accumulation of cholesterols, blood products & cells within the vessel wall. But arteriosclerosis is a more general term which can be caused by more factors than just cholesterol accumulation. So while they can both lead to potentially lethal blockages, atherosclerosis has a more specific cause that can help health care providers and patients narrow in on successful interventions. Thanks again!

[@doddsalfa]

Coronary heart disease is a food born disease

[@Schachtens]

I'd wonder how useful cholesterol/fat actually cloggs up there where it's harmful. Binding Calcium from a high oxalate diet? Broken endothelial through a high carb based diet? I'm still early in this topic though.

[@Schachtens]

Endothelial dysfunction is a result of changes in endothelial function.[18][19] After fat (lipid) accumulation and when stimulated by inflammation, endothelial cells become activated, which is characterized by the expression of molecules such as E-selectin, VCAM-1 and ICAM-1, which stimulate the adhesion of immune cells.[20] Additionally, transcription factors, which are substances which act to increase the production of proteins within cells, become activated; specifically AP-1 and NF-κB, leading to increased expression of cytokines such as IL-1, TNFα and IFNγ, which promotes inflammation.[21][22] This state of endothelial cells promotes accumulation of lipids and lipoproteins in the intima, leading to atherosclerosis, and the subsequent recruitment of white blood cells and platelets, as well as proliferation of smooth muscle cells, leading to the formation of a fatty streak. The lesions formed in the intima, and persistent inflammation lead to desquamation of endothelium, which disrupts the endothelial barrier, leading to injury and consequent dysfunction.[23] In contrast, inflammatory stimuli also activate NF-κB-induced expression of the deubiquitinase A20 (TNFAIP3), which has been shown to intrinsically repair the endothelial barrier.[24] en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endothelium There we have it. Inflammation. The cholesterol is innocent. It gets clogged up there by Inflammation. What causes that inflammation? Smoking, lazyness. Yeah. But more so plant toxins and carb/sugar addiction.

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Made it through the video after almost fainting.

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Yes, very informative, they told me as long as i exercise and don't smoke i will never have to worry about my junkfood diet... 😑

[@EmilyTienne]

This was so much clearer an explanation than anything I’ve read or viewed previously. Thank you!

[@winsomewife7112]

Great video for our homeschool health class! Also, excessive sugar & starch cause inflammation in the cardiovascular system that causes the body to react to the damage protectively with plaquing, like an internal scab. One way exercise reduces plaquing is by using up the excessive sugar/starch in the blood & body to reduce chronic high blood sugar. Beware... the USDA Food Pyramid recommends a toxic level of starch/sugar from grains, potatoes, corn, beans, fruit, juice, dairy, concentrated sugars, and highly processed seed oils are also highly inflammatory. The low fat forces high sugar Food Pyramid was designed to feed the masses for lower cost not best health longest life. Carbs are more profitable & taxable jobs too than a low carb natural fats economy. A mostly carbs diet is a mostly inflammatory diet.... increases vulnerability to cytokine storm death from a virus, you know which one I'm talking about. Chronic Carb OD causes the chronic inflammation that causes heart attacks, not natural fats.

[@bobything4025]

Well I guess they have been teaching us to harm ourselves , some should fix that

[@pixelmasque]

SPOT ON. A+

[@cherylbroadenax1006]

Wow. U nailed it. They blame fat but it is the chronic high carbs when damage the arteries walls and cholesterol comes to the scene to patch the damaged area and when opened up cholesterol is at the scene of the crime. But chronic high insulin from excess sugar. Starches and carbs caused the damage. U nailed it.

[@Overnighttattooist]

Thanks I’m changing my diet I believe you.

[@Overnighttattooist]

I have a question will my block unblock doing keto?

[@AsemALNawafleh]

Informative video.. thanks alot

[@GilbertLew]

Most of my feelings about this video was already address by other commenters, but I must stress the point that the author / speaker of this video did not provide solution or address the question as to why, how, and ways to fix this clogged arteries. For example, how do you get rid of plaque in the arteries?

[@pelin5306]

This was the best explanatory video I have ever seen on this topic. Thank you1

[@edwardkulcsar4040]

This is the best explanation I've ever heard of heart disease

[@jareknowak8712]

It really give me a kick to change something on my diet/living style. Thx!

[@GL0BETREKKER]

No real reason given for WHY artheries clogg.. That is what we were all watching for..

[@michaldeeboss8829]

Yeah lots of bullshit information which you will never remember 😂

[@hanionline563]

Sugar and carbs are behind this they caausing inflmations and auxidation in the artheries

[@Steph-rj1uc]

Did you stop watching half way through or something? He listed several real reasons, I think you just didn't get the straight forward answer you wanted. And it's bc it's not a straight forward problem.

[@naegleriafowleri2230]

Genetics is the reason and thats the hard pill to swallow

[@tunemeister99]

Very informative. Exercise is the magic trick to have a healthy circulatory system. Thanks Doc!

[@frankfromupstateny3796]

Wrong...it's only part of the solution. Cutting one's refined carbohydrate base of foods is of more importance. Remember this: "Fat,...burns Fat". Now...do some self-research.

[@TTR83]

One can be obese then what?

[@AustinBigWig]

@@frankfromupstateny3796 Was on Keto and Carnivore for years. Spent about 360-400 minutes exercising every week. Just had a Heart Attack with 80% blocked LAD. I don't know if it was diet or genetics, or a combination, but something clearly didn't work.

[@Jjprime-wd6ou]

⁠@@AustinBigWigmy wife and I were considering going carnivore. How long were you keto and carnivore roughly? We actually are considering this for preventive health reasons.

[@bobkeamer9404]

Thank you for making this SO super easy to understand I'm going to go for a run in my neighborhood now

[@business_central]

I feel this needed more solutions than "just exercise". Also, is it non-reversible ??

[@nana820able]

Some. I suggest Ivor Cummings videos. He has researched extensively and reversed his Atherosclerosis and blockage. Dr. Eric Berg has some videos as well but Ivors are much better.

[@123Goldhunter11]

The two biggest causes are high blood sugar/insulin and omega 6 seed oils. Clogged arteries were rare in the 1800s before we started using seed/polyunsaturated vegetable oils. Google it.

[@tarekyared4404]

100% correct! So ironic that the "healthy" oil is the least healthy. Butter is better for you than those "healthy" vegetables oils.

[@ownpetard8379]

@@tarekyared4404 Not all vegetable oils are seed oils. Olive oil and avocado oil are low in polyunsaturates.

[@mikewakefield8994]

What is the reason? Canola oils? Animal oils? Animal protein? Sugar? This was a whole video made to help people but yet does any one know what the underlying food cause is?

[@adamreynolds3863]

that was a really informative video thank you!

[@morkovija]

The level of content we're sometimes getting out of youtube is truly amazing. Thank you Seeker!

[@moncorp1]

As in this title is misleading. He just taught about the circulatory system, not why arteries get clogged. Amazing indeed. Thumbs down.

[@majixkai]

your diet does have a huge impact on the endothelial cells. eating things like casein (in milk/cheese), meat, and eggs all impair the ability for these cells to maintain smooth walls.

[@douglachman7330]

Very well presented and summarised

[@gabrieltorres5732]

Sugar consumption, high carbohydrate diet, refined carbohydrates, and eating frequently that keeps Insulin hormone high in your body are the leading contributing factors for Cardiovascular diseases

[@stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369]

This video was so annoying, I kept feeling my heart and it’s beats.

[@SuviTuuliAllan]

Make sure it still beats!

[@torstrasburg8289]

its

[@lindachandler2293]

One thing that sticks in my mind is the thought that older arteries get weaker and can develop spots that can rupture; cholesterol is supposedly the spackle that the body uses to patch bad places. Our lifestyle and diet definitely influences the health of our arteries.

[@julirohfit8570]

cholesterol is needed for hormone production and vitamin D3. one of the reasons why vegans look so weak the body only produces 80% of its cholesterol the rest you need from animal nutrition.

[@c.anderson3444]

@@julirohfit8570 maybe but I doubt it's in the form of heat oxidized bacon grease.

[@c.anderson3444]

Dont worry yes you need to provide raw material in some way the same manner you preferably need to sun exposure for to obtain vitamin d3.. Nutrition is important we can't eat twinkies and mountain dew then expect health..this video is off key.

[@alfredogonzalez8735]

@@julirohfit8570 cholesterol is absolutely not needed for hormone production, vegans have normal levels of hormones they actually often have higher testosterone than meat eaters... theres no evidence that we need to consume cholesterol for our health, in fact cholesterol and saturated fat increase blood LDL cholesterol and increases risk of cardiovascular disease this is established science

[@alfredogonzalez8735]

@@c.anderson3444 twinkies and mountain dew isnt necessarily the problem, its the absolute lack of fruits and vegetables and fiber from healthy plant foods... if people ate healthy foods they would crowd out the junk

[@niki123489]

I learn something today. Thank you!

[@nightrunner1456]

You explain things very well, all people should learn this, to be able to manage their, daily health.

[@cdv.8244]

I’ve learned from Dr Berg that calcium should be in the blood. So taking Vitamin K2 and Vitamin D takes calcium out of blood and puts it where it should be....in the bones.

[@averyt6521]

Correct

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Excellent content and video- making a complex topic easy to understand. Thank you 🙏🏻

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You have explained it well!

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Thanks for the great explanation

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Great stuff, especially coming from a science background! So tired of b.s. I get at Doctors office - seems to me Physicians are tied in with pharmaceutical industry. The only answer is to pump me up with me meds (h.b.p.), so I keep coming back. This strategy helps pharmaceutical industry/Physicians. That's my story and many other youtubers.

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Great job! Thank you.

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Thank you so much for valuable information

[@PravinPatil41]

I took up running because I had high BP (160/90), now a year later my BP is normal and I am off the meds.

[@davidgarvin7823]

160/108 yesterday. Hoping I just overdid it on the caffeine but it was a wake up call mone the less. Thanks for comment, I think I'll start running too.

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@@davidgarvin7823 Take it really slow and relaxed. Best of luck.

[@romanromga1003]

I don't even know what terrifies me the most, the fact that this kind of death is very painful and inevitable or that the narrator speaks about it with a positive attitude...

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Bro what. Inevitable?

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@@crazycarlitropro2450 Yes, death is inevitable and usually extremely painful

[@crazycarlitropro2450]

@@romanromga1003 bro clogged arteries is so easy to prevent or even heal from.

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@@romanromga1003 you can avoid it with legit natural remedies or treatment

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@@crazycarlitropro2450 Agree. But living forever is, unfortunately, impossible

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awesome information

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You have such a calm soothing voice….thank you for making me listen to a vid about…..shudder….needing to exercise…….

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I'm not at rest, I'm at the gym as I listen to this! :)

[@skateordie9628]

no, you're not

[@Roarshark12]

I noticed how there's no mention of no mention of the effects of oil on the endothelial cells and how that's a major cause for why the plaque builds up there in the first place.

[@alfredalfredo5080]

Beautiful explanation ❤️👍👍👍❤️

[@mathewfrancis1998]

Everytime I see one of these videos, I get overly conscious of my heart and insides, i feel weird now 😐

[@jaimetheb]

For some weird astral universal coincidence this is exactly what I'm studying in biology class right now

[@batfink274]

Thank you for this, i was only thinking about this last night in the shower. I was thinking about it because of the noise my new neighbours pipes make after sitting idle for some time, i wondered if the cardio vascular system was the same, the less we exercise the more rusting of our pipes is happening on account of all the free radicals in our system till eventually blood flow stops all together.

[@dc2prashant]

Excellent presentation 🙏

[@Higgs.X]

A series about the brain would be awesome! 🧠

[@MakeMeThinkAgain]

I hope you're going to say something about heart calcium CT scans.

[@A_Different_ViewPoint.]

Great explanation 👏👏

[@robertdoneright8709]

Excellent!!! ~ thanks!

[@djayjp]

0:25 That's actually not true. There are plenty of studies that demonstrated an increase in bad cholesterol due to excessive saturated fat intake (at least in non ketogenic diets).

[@minifix]

There's a ridiculous amount of studies, using a variety of methods, that confirm the causal link between saturated fat consumption and atherosclerosis. This guy just casually dismissed all that by saying "It turns out that's not what happens." People just tell themselves what they want to hear, I guess...

[@zack7122]

exactly lol...

[@nishantsaini8421]

Most of the studies are biased, have manipulated data. The largest study till date suggest there is no link between dietary fat and athersclerosis.

[@minifix]

@@nishantsaini8421 My friend, I hope you will reconsider the evidence. I don't want you or anyone else to suffer due to misinformation. We have studies going back to the 1950s. That's 70 years of data confirming each other. Yes, sometimes a study (usually observational) will pop up with vague conclusions like "Intake of butter and cheese is associated with a 2-year extension in lifespan", but those studies fail to mention that the subject population all live in Beverly Hills or something. And also don't mention they live shorter lives compared to the low-fat consumers of Beverly Hills. Look at interventional studies. We put people on saturated fat and watch their cholesterol go up and atherosclerosis begin. Then we take them off it and it goes down. Then we put them back on and it goes back up. Or look what happens to people with atherosclerosis who have had several cardiac events - take them off the fat and watch their heart disease reverse(!) I suggest reading the actual studies and not the Times magazine articles.

[@zack7122]

minifix thank you 🙌🙌 also those "studies" that downplay the risk of saturated fat tend to be industry funded **ehem...meat industry...ehem**

[@jonasholzer4422]

This series is so interesting. It literally makes me wanna study medicine. Sadly my grades aren't good enough (here in Germany you need a grade point average of 1.0 to study medicine in most universities). Guess I'll just watch more of your great videos.

[@orbitalpotato9940]

A GPA of 1.0 is failing tho.

[@Xpistos510]

@@orbitalpotato9940 Not in Germany

[@orbitalpotato9940]

@@Xpistos510 isnt 1.0 the lowest ans 4.0 the highest? Is it backwards in Germany?

[@terryhill4732]

No wonder a lot of doctors is so bad with a 1.0 GPA

[@rinohunter6190]

Don’t let rules stop you study anyway

[@hardroad1536]

I love these videos! Thank you

[@texastalk86]

Well explained brother

[@anilahernandez7165]

This was an okay video but I appreciate the introduction or teaser trailer to a more complex explanation. My mother had PAD and I would like to know more about that, she's healthy, and exercises frequently. Can you guys get into more detail? Cause I love the images and infographics you offer!

[@liam4169]

So why do the get blocked? By your diet and lack of exercise???

[@mymylastname3857]

You not effen listening!!!

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I get so frustrated that we talk so urgently on plaque buildup but we never go in depth about how that plaque builds up?

[@jeffwei]

a lot of people commenting the same thing I'm thinking: I don't feel you really answered the question; even though I did learn a lot about the cardiovascular system, the only thing you really said about clogged arteries is that (6:52) something (maybe lack of nitric oxide due to smoking) causes the endothelial cells that line the arteries to malfunction, which allows lipids in the blood to build up and create a blockage and start a chain reaction that could lead to a stroke or heart attack. two possible takeways from this video: it's fine to eat lots of butter as long as you exercise a lot; also, smoking increases your chances of having a stroke or heart attack.

[@KiranSharma64414]

Thanks to my heart and arteries to keep me living, you guys are awesome, keep working hard my bois

[@naegleriafowleri2230]

Have you gotten a calcium score test? If not you don’t know

[@julirohfit8570]

@@naegleriafowleri2230 you can avoid calcification of the blood arteries by taking vitamin k2. most people are deficient anyway because they dont eat cheese and fermented foods which contains k2

[@kizitoonyeagusi2824]

What about sport athletes that die of heart attack.. irrespective to the fact that they basically exercise almost everyday

[@stephenshuman1]

Kizito Onyeagusi They probably die of heart failure because of an undetected heart problem that claimed their life

[@cillyhoney1892]

Athletes that suffer heart attacks usually suffer them because of an imbalance of electrolytes caused by either dehydration or from over hydration. Over hydration is usually more of a problem than dehydration for athletes. It can lead to a condition called hyponatremia which is a fancy way of saying low salt levels. Hyponatremia can kill a healthy person very easily. It occurs in 10% of people participating in endurance athletic events. So drink your pickle juice.

[@Ddub1083]

Heart attacks arent always caused by cardiovascular disease or clogged arteries. Sports atheletes who die of a heart attack was likely caused by a poison delivered by their wife.

[@rambles2727]

Wow this is an amazing video and the human body is beautiful

[@xdhasan1435]

I like the way he explains keep up the good work.

[@Equidorage]

You just couldn't help saying "bad cholesterol" could you! And you were doing so well...

[@Brahmdagh]

??

[@theRok29]

you mean LDL? yeah that’s “bad” cholesterol

[@colleenkaralee2280]

I was hoping you would bring to light the great lymphatic system which is four times more voluminous than the blood system, and also swathes every cell in the body including the blood and related organs and arteries, etcetera. Once the great lymphatic system experiences congestion - mostly due to an overwhelm of acid ash forming foods - things get "gluey". The solution is to allow the body to go into autophagy, induced by fasting. That is when the "oil" gets changed and child like fluidity is restored.

[@GetBuffBullys]

And when we fast out body runs on its own fat preserves which is healthy for us to run on. So in turn I guess we can say fats are healthy correct? And why is plaque not brought up more for the reasons why when this video is supposed to explain that? Just some studies and research I’ve read, but yeah I hear it’s the sugar in the diets. And I think it’s time we talk about that more.

[@ErieRadio]

Can you tell us more about “acid ash forming foods” and the lymphatic system please? Maybe provide links? Thanks!

[@slowfinger2]

@@ErieRadio There is no ash because digestion does not burn food. It is oxidized. Totally different. Calories are a measure of heat from burning. Totally wrong for oxidation. Never base a diet on calories. You can get calories from plastic if you want. Acid/Alkaline body reactions do not come from food in any way. That's pseudo-science. There are four innate body mechanisms that tightly control pH of all body fluids. Once again, your pH of all body fluids is controlled tightly by inner body physiological processes. NOT FOOD.

[@ErieRadio]

@@slowfinger2 yes. Asking Colleen for links… was a way of exposing the pseudo science in her post. Note her silence at my request.

[@slowfinger2]

​@@ErieRadio That was very crafty. Well done. I fell for it to. LOL

[@muxajetaptocom]

Congrats on such an informative concise video, this should be general knowledge and you're making it more accesible

[@bammeldammel]

I like this series, thanks a lot! I quld wish the music would be bit lower tho, sometimes it is hard to understand the spoken words.

[@ZzPowerKingzZ]

So i can eat whatever i want, as long as i exercise?

[@Roarshark12]

Exercise doesn't get rid of saturated fat and cholesterol lodged in your artery wall, and it doesn't get rid of plaque on your endothelial cells. The body works to heal it, but we need to give it a chance to do so. Stop pouring fuel on the fire.

[@KenJackson_US]

The growing chorus of keto doctors tell us that saturated fat is good for us, @@Roarshark12.

[@USSBARBEL]

Great video. You mention 'prevention' at the very end. Is there a chance to 'reverse' clogged arteries? Or is the best we can hope for is to stop the increase in clogging and hold it where it is, no matter how bad off it already is?

[@DbeeSapphire]

Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD claims to reverse heart disease. His practice is based on a plant base diet and plant (seed) oil elimination. There are plenty of his talks on KZbin for review.

[@hi3694]

Look up IVOR CUMMINS KZbin video "How to Collapse Your Heart Disease Risk" for more insight.

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

@@DbeeSapphire That's a great diet for cat walk models that want to look like walking skeletons.

[@volitiveclover]

Of course you can reverse it and clean your arteries. Diet changes your physiology after time is applied. Look up Mediterranean diet.

[@gpdoyon]

@@TheCompleteGuitarist You are clearly ignorant on what a plant based diet can do for the human body and how the human body thrives on it. Yes, it is VERY hard to not eat animal products as it is how we are raised and our culture keeps reinforcing this sort of diet. Continue eating poorly at your own peril.

[@lasseigne11]

im super picky about what I watch, and this is a new guy on a channel I've watched for some time now. I don't hate it. you're very good at not overdoing it. (like TKOR girl) im interested :)

[@gpdoyon]

Exercise is fantastic for your body health, however, you can't out-exercise what you put in your mouth. Proper eating is the #1 best thing you can do for body health. Exercise on top of that is an unbeatable combination. Great video!

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

For all those ones remarking this video doesn't delve into heart disease: This video series is about anatomy and physiology. The series dealing with diseases is called "Sick."

[@darkenergy7291]

Hey Seeker, so how do you reduce cholesterol stored within the tunica media that's already there before it leaks or something (but after it formed) ?

[@RobertclipsTV]

Eat plant based it reverses it

[@backwardsyoga]

eat carnivore diet, it reverses it.

[@daem3n]

Eat more all naturally genetically modified foods, ANGMOs. LOL! j/k. That’s not even a thing…….yet.

[@kiljupullo]

@@RobertclipsTV That's true 100% Go Vegan people!

[@thebasketballhistorian3291]

I usually start exercising in the spring and get lazy in the winter time. It's too cold and with layers of clothing hiding my body anyways, I have less motivation to get fit as no one will see me anyways (lol). But this video has convinced me to keep exercising in the winter. =)

[@andrewbell8837]

I did enjoy this info. You did mention some of the causes of the plaque. I am interested in what does exercise do to prevent it?

[@TheGamerXL]

This makes me miss the magic school bus....i would of learned a lot more from them.

[@abhilashtu3653]

#ask hi seeker I like you videos very much. You guys doing a great job. Can you guys make a video about computer programming

[@rimkongwapangwapang4469]

brief and informative 👍 but too short, would appreciate longer one with a little bit on medicines too for clog arteries😁👍👍

[@M.A_25]

Well done 👍 now I am clear thank you so much

[@deepak148]

Great video although I would argue that its the diet and our intake (whether its our smoking or otherwise) that really contribute to clogged arteries. Diabetes itself is very much a result of our diet so. There is increasing evidence pointing to how plant based diets can reverse clogging arteries

[@alien8treker2]

No mention of vitamin K2 deficiency and it's prevention of calcium deposition in soft tissue (like artery walls)?

[@jamesbrown99991]

But at least they didn't just jump on the let's-just-blame-bad-cholesterol bandwagon

[@alpyre]

@@jamesbrown99991 High LDL is one of the prominent causes of clogged arteries, though.

[@lijie6431]

Alper Sönmez no its not. Cholesterol is just a carrier. Inflammation is real cause.

[@alpyre]

@@lijie6431 Oxidized LDL build up on the artery walls is the cause of the inflammation, smh.

[@jacbug-7349]

Yes very true. An excess of the PUFA can also cause calcification, fibrosis and lipofuscin

[@tendr247]

Take supplements to eat away fibrin. Take ubiquinol, magnesium taurate, get exercise even if two fast walks for 15 min a week. Add some muscle work like leg lifts, push ups. Rebounding 20 min 3 x a week. Alpha-glycosyl isoquercitrin.

[@5kplamse]

it is partly diet as well. when humans moved away from using animal fat to vegetable oil to cook food.

[@pascalbruenner]

Really the number one thing how to lower your bad cholesterol is avoiding processed foods and animal products. Because saturated fat and cholesterol increase your serum cholesterol, especially LDL. I'm not saying exercise isn't helpful. Exercise definitely lowers bad cholesterol too, but it shouldn't be ignored that diet is still the number one way to reverse atherosclerosis.

[@jacksonquinn1472]

This has made me feel incredibly anxious. Will I exercise now? Probably not...

[@TheVigilantStewards]

Dr Esseltyn and Dr McDougall have both treated patients specifically with diet having an enormous success rate with cardiovascular disease - specifically atherosclerosis .... I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss foods

[@teemo2029]

Could you please do that series about the heart? Super interesting!!

[@cainen6355]

Well this video said very little about the actual root causes of this desease. Although the very specific causes have been up for debate for decades the scientific literature is very clear, that diet is one of if not the biggest factor in this desease and should not be ignored. Saturated fat is highly correlated with an increase in LDL cholesterol which in turn is highly correlated with the gradual clogging of the arteries. For example the endothelium can be impaired by a diet high in saturated fat and if I am correctly remembering also sugar and probably some other substances that are ingested in or with food. A diet low in saturated fat, cholesterol and isolated sugars consisting of mostly whole plant foods has been shown over and over again to dramatically reduce not only the risk for heart desease but also lowers many other risk factors associated with the development of heart desease like chronic inflammation, diabetes and obesity. Lack of Exercise and smoking are very important not only for heart desease but they do not seem to be the main reason for plaque to build up in the arteries. The areas in the world where people have the lowest heart desease rates share the common trait of a diet consisting of almost no processed food, no refined grains and sugars and very little saturated fat from animal products.

[@Kjuken69]

Is saturated fat highly correlated with high LDL? And do this clogg the artreries? I think you better look more into this!

[@cainen6355]

​@@Kjuken69 The effect of dietary saturated fat on humans is very well documented. Many studies could show decreases in blood LDL cholesterol for each x% of saturated fat, when the fat was replaced with poly or mono unsaturated fats, or whole unrefined sources of carbohydrates. Refined carbohydrates consistently seem to have a similarly negative effect on LDL to that of saturated fat which is observed in those studies, that do not note a significant LDL lowering effect when replacing saturated fat with refined carbohydrates. I think I've even seen some studies that could produce significant LDL decreases, then increases and then again decreases in the same cohort by merely decreasing saturated fat intake. As for the question wether LDL levels lead to cardiovascular disease, many of the studies that show the LDL increase determined CVD risk as well and to my knowledge showed very consistently that when the sources of saturated fat (mostly animal derived products, but also coconut oil, palm oil, etc..) were replaced with unsaturated fat sources, which will mostly be whole plant foods, like nuts, seeds, and vegetables, then the CVD risk will go down with the LDL. There is a debate about wether LDL itself causes CVD but the same foods that increase LDL levels are also, independantly correlated with a higher risk of CVD. Foods low in saturated fat as well as refined carbohydrates mirror that effect consistently by being observed to lower the risk of CVD.

[@pedro_mg]

Coming from a family with 2 cardiologists, I’m finding this series really interesting and well done 👍 Of course doctors are used to patients wanting them to tell them the ultimate secret to keep them alive for 200 years. Not possible. No miraculous single generic solution. Yet. Catch the details in the series, make an effort to comply according to healthy habits, try to live in non polluted areas, exercise frequently, eat healthy non processed food, don’t smoke, etc. The basics. Don’t jump into trends. It usually is expensive in all aspects. Keep it simple. Listen to your doctor. Ask for a second opinion. Doctors only! Be smart! F1 races aren’t won with sorcery, planes don’t fly because crooks like mediums say so. It’s science. Science supports it all. And it’s hard. Be smart! Scientific studies from credible sources are what we have of most value to drive us into maintaining good health. The heart ❤️ is amazingly complex. Science keeps learning. Lot’s of factors contribute to our health but don’t forget we are all different (each born with a unique fingerprint). Your DNA 🧬 is unique so the timer started when you were born. Don’t let external factors accelerate the clock. Just some thoughts 🤷‍♂️

[@houneavireakpong9098]

Have you seen this video? kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5SUiaaFaNKrjpo It's about how fat is not the culprit of heart disease, and how some medicine that doctors prescribe for those diseases are pretty much useless.

[@backwardsyoga]

I dealt with doctors for 2 years in an attempt to fix extreme nerve pain from a herniated disc. It got worse and worse as the physiotherapists my doctor sent me to did nothing for it. The doctor got me on nerve blocking pills and opiates, I didn't want to go down that path of addiction and was recommended by a friend to see a naturopath. She administered 10ml of prolo injection and I was cured a week later. That was a year ago and I'm still in great shape. I will never trust doctors in any regard again.

[@WoodyBikes]

"Scientific studies from credible sources" - I wish doctors and public policy followed that basic rule... A large number of doctors are like a mechanic that can't diagnose a rod knock.

[@kathleenking47]

@@backwardsyoga speaking of clogged arteries: My blood pressure was getting a little high, but I wasn't on BP pills. I've been taking vitamin D3 for virus protection, along with C, and Zinc. I just heard about vitamin K2, and what it does. The Japanese food natto has lots of K2 and it removes the calcium from the arteries (plaque) and puts into the bones where it belongs Now, my BP hs normal Doctors and naturopaths should, at least, get together

[@kipkuruihillary9137]

Very educative