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So the youngest patient you've ever treated? 28. And what was the predicament in that case? He was having a full-blown heart attack. So that means that one of his arteries was completely clogged up. It had a blood clot in it. There was no circulation past that artery and therefore he was having acute chest pain, sweating, blood pressure was low. He comes straight to the hospital. I rushed to the hospital, take him straight into the cath lab and try to open up that blockage and we did open up that blockage and put a stent in it and got rid of that blockage immediately to restore that blood flow to the heart muscle. And at 28, how does one get a heart attack? You see it was blocked up. Most people don't understand what a heart attack is. So in a nutshell, I'm going to tell you what it is. When you have a plaque, a plaque is a buildup of a little fibrous material inside the artery and that doesn't cause a heart attack. A heart attack is caused when one of those plaques cracks. A heart attack is when a minor blockage which is not causing much flow disturbance, suddenly cracks. And when it cracks open, the blood that's going past it sees the crack and wants to repair it and forms a blood clot on it. So the final thing that shuts down that artery is the blood clot. It's not the plaque that shuts it off. It's a blood clot. So a heart attack is caused by a blood clot at the site of a rupture and what causes rupture is inflammation. The overweight was all in his belly and he had a fatty liver and he had what is known as visceral fat. He was not a diabetic, but he was a pre-diabetic. That means he had a lot of insulin in his body and his glucose levels were good. Now, insulin is a very atherogenic molecule. It makes your blood more clotty and it causes inflammation. So this patient was a pre-diabetic and this is very important. The only thing that'll make you lose that fat very quickly is to change your diet, of course, but you have to do fasting. Because fasting brings your insulin level. See, this is where fasting comes in. You see, when you don't eat, your insulin levels come down because you're not stimulating your pancreas anymore. So you want to bring your insulin levels down. The best thing you can do in the world is to do fasting. Now the bank is going to be available for me to pull out my calories and use it now and you start burning the fat. So in the first 12 hours of a fast, you take out all the glucose in the form of glycogen from your muscles and your liver. After 12 hours, you start pulling the fat out and the first place the fat comes out of is going to be visceral fat. That is why fasting benefits you so much because it gets rid of that worst fat, the fat that is very inflammatory. I can't make you live forever. Sometimes they die in front of me while I'm even holding their hands.
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