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The Most Mind-Blowing Information On Heart Disease You'll Ever Hear - Understanding The Heart (Uncommon Insights Into Our Most Commonly Diseased Organ) - Part 1 With Stephen Hussey.

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Is There a Mechanism That Causes a Heart Attack?

Vagus nerve not being in balance can impact the actual fuel that the heart is using. And proper function of this, this newer evolved vagal nerve mechanisms that mammals have you. That's really critical because a state of high stress has been shown over and over again to deplete nitric oxide for various reasons. A blocked artery could be where the nitric oxide is produced, but also nitric oxide can't act like an antioxidant. So if there's lots of free radicals running around, those things can get eaten up by that oxidative environment.

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