 I just know this is gonna be a great show and that's why we're all wearing red, but you're gonna find out more about that in a bit. It's a great start to a great year. I know it. I'm Wendy Lowe and I shall be your host as we journey to take your health back. We are coming to you live from my home office in Makiki and from the studios of Think Tech Hawaii in downtown Honolulu. Think Tech Hawaii showcases many diverse topics with about 35 different show hosts. We welcome you to join us daily. As our boss, Jay Fidel, make sure that we have high quality content to share with all of you. On my last program, I invited Henry Lee to share his heart and knowledge with all of us. I have the honor of meeting this unique young man who was visiting from Ohio and we spent a lot of good quality time together, not quantity, mind you, just quality time. I invited him back as we didn't, we didn't even get to touch upon what we are both so passionate about, about heart health. And being that this February is heart month, I just had to bring him back. Today, the title of our show is Heart Attacks Are Optional, question mark, okay? And you're gonna find out why that is. Keys to prevent heart attacks and strokes. I mean, he's gonna tell us all about that. So I bet we got your attention, right? If not, you're better sit back and see what he has in store for us. So the question of the day is, are heart attacks preventable? Most people believe heart attacks and strokes are inevitable and most medical practices focuses on treating those diseases after they've occurred rather than preventing them, leaving them hopeless and not in control of their health. Today, Henry and I will touch upon ways you can educate yourselves and even reverse some of these symptoms. So sit back, relax, open your minds and your heart to receive this great message from our heart. Welcome back, Henry Lee, and kung hei fa choy to you. Thank you, Wendy, it's good to be back. Yeah, it feels like just last week, right? I mean, it went so fast and we had so much to talk about it and we said, done. And we're like, we didn't even get to the heart of it yet. So here we are, let's get started. So what do kung hei fa choy and heart health month have to do with each other, Henry? That's a great question, Wendy. And so I believe that's one of the reasons why you're wearing red and you're all decked out for Chinese New Year here. You know what, I'm gonna turn it back on you. Why is heart health so important to you, Wendy? Wow, okay, so, and it happens to be, okay, let me just explain really quickly. My sister died four years ago today from a stroke and that's why I'm like happy, sad, and I need to share this information and I thought so appropriate to have you back on, Henry, for that. But also my history is that I am, my claim to fame, I should say, is that I am the first keiki in the state of Hawaii to have open heart surgery here. So I was born in 1959 and they wanted to wait till I was five years old. Then they would send us away to San Francisco Military Hospital. But my case and my health was going down here pretty quickly. The American Heart Association formed the program that they flew in a pediatric cardiologist here about, let's just say, 50 plus plus years ago and it's my broken down and here I am today alive and well. So my claim to fame is I'm the first keiki in the state of Hawaii to have open heart surgery and thriving and so we're gonna hear from Henry on how it is that I can thrive and many more can thrive with just the right knowledge and education. So you share with us now, Henry, what do they have in common? Wendy, thanks so much for opening your heart and that vulnerable share. You have shared that with me before and I wanted to point out too that there's traditionally a lot of medicine tries to do their best at detecting heart attacks and strokes before they become a problem and one of the things that our cardiologist, Dr. Goulder, which by the way, today is his 70th birthday. So happy birthday Dr. Goulder. Yay, we celebrate life. If you're watching. Yay. He practiced cardiology for 30 years in Marietta, Ohio and as a traditional cardiologist, he knew there was something that he could do there had to be something that he could do to prevent the heart attacks before they became an episode. So he teamed up with a young lady named Barbara McClatchy who later became his wife. She happens to be a dentist so it's literally marriage between medicine and dentistry and you can see in this first picture here on the left that's the beautiful couple right there. So hopefully they're out there celebrating today, hopefully. But they developed a program in partnership with something called the bail don't need method which I'll introduce to you later. And basically it's a program that empowers patients with knowledge and personal care and it shows them that heart disease and diabetes and a couple other chronic diseases that we've thought were chronic before are actually reversible. And we empower families and loved ones so they can live longer, healthier, with a more confident lifestyle. You can see on the right, the top right, that is our dental and cardiology team. And we also do all sorts of other fun activities. Part of our dental team is down at the bottom right. Pre-COVID we used to do salad and injured hearties, meal prepping and teaching people healthy lifestyle changes that they can take home and we can literally partner alongside them with their health journey. And of course that bottom left is one of my favorite pictures of all time when I was able to visit you in Honolulu in your home. Thank you for having us over, such a treat. Well, you were able to experience Hawaii and bring in the new year, Hawaiian style and get your year off to a great start too as you shared all that information. We had to give you something to take back home with you. So Henry, what does heart attacks are optional mean? Yeah, so on this page here you'll see that this is something we call your root cause tree of arterial disease. It wasn't designed by us but it's definitely one of the core concepts that we use at the Heart Attack and Stroke Prevention Center. So Dr. Bale and Amy Donine partnered up about 18, 19 years ago to develop the system to detect the sources of inflammation before they became a problem. So if you look at those circles at the top that's a cross-section of your arteries and it's supposed to be clear like on the left but over time there's many actors that are involved in this. You see that yellow stuff sort of seeping out into the outer walls. That is the epithelial layer of your arteries and that plaque starts building up and it's not the plaque that causes the blockage. It's over on the right-hand side you see that it bursts back into the blood vessel causing a clot and if it happens in let's say something going up to your brain it can cause an ischemic stroke or heaven forbid a coronary artery and cuts off blood supply to the heart. So what we do is we look at all the root causes of inflammation on the bottom of that tree and you can see the ones in red those are actually stemmed from dental, periodontal disease and endodontic gum disease. We've been able to identify certain bacteria strands that are present in the mouth that are directly correlated with certain diseases that we'll share later but healthy lifestyle, you can see vitamin D levels we take lipid panels and whether you smoke or not, diabetes there's all sorts of indicators that we can use to more accurately assess whether or what your risk is of a heart attack. So when we say our heart attacks optional they really are, if you get down to the root cause of what causes them and snuff that those, the inflammation before it becomes a problem and the program has been very successful. In fact, compared to what they used to use they used to use something called the framing ham risk assessment. And that's an old school method back in the 40s that really just looks at a couple of simple questions like, do you smoke? What's your cholesterol level? And what's your blood pressure? And at the end of the day it misses a ton of episode heart attacks and strokes by just answering those questions. And so we take a look at really what are the root causes before again, you have an episode. I could go on and on but we have a couple of other slides and I'm just gonna sit here and listen because I can so relate to all of this being a heart patient and living my life all these years. And I knew and everyone pretty much knows that the mouth is a gateway to your body. And so for many, many years, every time I went to a dental appointment I had to pre-medicate otherwise they wouldn't touch me and it's because of that maybe and because they didn't do all the other work up like what you're talking about they didn't have that common practice. So they just blanket it everybody by just say, you know what, take the antibiotic, cover yourself and then we'll take care of your mouth. And they didn't ever go further and see the risk factors for myself or for many other patients. So to shave for you, I wish and when I come and visit you in Ohio let's make me an appointment. So I can get up to date on my mask, right? I deserve it, I know I deserve it. And so we can get the word out even further. So Henry, how do you measure how old someone is from the inside out? That's a great question. So if you look at this here, again, we instead of just answering a few questions on a questionnaire, we have a couple different state of the art pieces of technology that we used to detect, not just blood flow but that buildup of that plaque that is hiding within the Intima media. So this is called a CIMT. We introduced this to you two weeks ago but I wanna go a little bit more in depth with it. A CIMT stands for, if you see that on the right hand side there, a carotid artery that's in your back here. And there's a couple of different pathways up there but we look at the carotid bulb and just below that and the thickness of the Intima media. We can detect how much cholesterol has buildup inside of that. And if we see plaque in there, depending on what your arterial age is, then we can take a couple modes of action. We can calcify it, harden it so it doesn't have the capability to jump back into the blood vessel and cause a colot later. Or we can really try to prevent the excess plaque from going into that thickness. So it's an ultrasound instead of on your belly, right? Then it's a simple, non-invasive, non-intrusive, takes about 15, 20 minutes and then can take hundreds of data points and Dr. Golder can even do telemedicine over Zoom. So you don't have to come back into the practice to receive your results. So we can tell what your artery age is the povy and what it actually is. So I got this done on myself. I'm 39 years old and my arteries on the inside measured at 37. So I'm actually here on the inside and not to brag but I think I look at young on the outside too. So I'm in pretty good shape. Wow. So you know how they always say Asians age gracefully and so even on the inside, well, when taking care and doing the right things, you're gonna look as good on the inside as you are on the outside. And truthfully, the inside is what I'm concerned about, right? Because like I tell all my ladies, that's the plan. You can paint the barn, but you gotta take care of the inside of the barn first. Cause if you got all these junk in the barn, how can you have any room for any activity, good activity within? So wow, I'm learning so much and we're just getting started. So Henry, you're reducing systemic inflammation is the key, which we all know inflammation causes disease. What are some simple steps that we can take to reduce our risk of heart attack? Yeah, so another tool that we use in order to reduce that risk is something called an oral DNA test. And it's not your DNA, it's the bacteria that you can find in the oral cavity. So of the over 300 species of bacteria that are present in the mouth, we focus on 11. And of those 11, you can see at the top of this chart and per, those are the severe and it goes down to the high risk and moderate. And you can also, if you can read that, I know it's a little small, but you can read the diseases that are correlated with each of those strands of bacteria. And so this is a picture of me taking my oral DNA test and it's a simple, again, non-invasive tuition spit and we can measure how much of each of those strands of bacteria are present in the mouth and thereby figuring out what type of antibiotics to then reduce that those species of bacteria to a safe level or eliminate them. And we do that through a couple, a three tiered step and I'll show you that on the next slide here. But that's basically what an oral DNA test is that one of the tools that we use in order to combat heart attacks and strokes before they become a problem. Wow, that's amazing. So on your list guys, and we're dating, that's another thing we have to ask, can I see your oral DNA test results? No, no, right? Cause then you'll see how the inside of their bodies are reacting and living. Okay, so we move further on. So have you taken this step to reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's, diabetes and heart attacks and strokes? I have, this is actually very similar to Mitra. I was trying to find mine for you, but instead we're just gonna use a sample patients here. And of course we've removed the name and everything for confidentiality and HIPAA. But you can see this is out of the 11 bacteria on the top line there, there are nine that are present in this patient. And that was identical to mine. And especially looking at the FN, right? FN is correlated with a number of diseases, including Alzheimer's and dementia, not just heart attacks and strokes, but auto cancer and kidney disease, rheumatoid arthritis, autoimmune and periodontal disease. So the goal is to get rid, clear out all that bacteria and we do that with a regimen of a combination of antibiotics depending on what strands are present there. Second step is to give you probiotics to repopulate that prime real estate. So the bad bacteria can't take hold. And then third, give you Juice Plus. Juice Plus is prebiotics, which basically in your bloodstream and your gut bacteria, it feeds the good guys instead of allowing the bad guys that feed off of sugar and processed foods and refined foods. So it's a multi-step process. And in that graphic, you saw that that was really over a four month period that we reset your bacterial spectrum in your mouth. And the two that are still there, those are underneath the acceptable threshold. So that patient is now in good shape. Well, I love it. Prevention, prevention, prevention and this knowledge. That's amazing. So Henry, what other tests besides the CIMT and the oral bacteria DNA testing do you perform in order to guarantee against heart disease and stroke? Yeah, and I appreciate you using that word guarantee and that's a bold statement to make. But that is what we do here. Dr. Golder and Dr. McClatchy, they work together again with and dentistry. And so this is another test that we do. We have something called a comb beam. The beam is a panoramic, basically X-ray that takes a look at your upper torso from your third vertebra up. And you can see this is actually mine. This is my actual skull. It's a pretty dense skull if you compare it to others. And we look at a number of things. It spins around your head and then it gives you this 3D graphic that you can manipulate. And that top right graphic shows you the root. So if you have a, let's say, a wisdom tooth extraction coming up, then we do one of these scans first. So you can see just how many roots that tooth has or if there's an infection down there, then we can see if anaerobic bacteria is being housed down there. And the bottom graphic shows you the airway. And so it's color-coded based off of the thickness of your airway. And that oftentimes is correlated with your sleep apnea. And so you have this dental problem that you can oftentimes figure out, or sorry, medical issue, that you can oftentimes alleviate or fix by doing, if needed, a surgery or some sort of sleeping apparatus to help you get more oxygen at night. And on the root cause tree, sleep apnea is one of those factors that increases your risk of heart attack and stroke. So we combat it from both angles, medicine and dentistry simultaneously. Wow. I wanna be in the dentist chair right now, having somebody investigate what's within my mouth and my body. I love it, Henry. I really, really love it. Gives me a good reason to come to Ohio, I tell you. So since your patients, especially your dental patients, only come in once every three, what, three to six months? How do you partner with them in their day to day health journey? We have a number of webinars that we do. In fact, we have one tomorrow that is being given by Brad Bale and Amy Donin. And if at the end I'll put my information on here and you wanna get in touch with me if you're watching this, then we can get that webinar into your hands. That one's gonna be specifically about women's health. But you can see there's a few products that you can see in the background of some of these pictures. I just wanna show you a couple of those. I actually pulled out a bunch of them. I shared with you about the probiotics. And so we have a couple of brands that we recommend that we have in the center, but really you can pick up some from your local pharmacy. We have something called Perioprotect. It's a, they take a mold of your upper and lower jaw and then they put this gel that has hydrogen peroxide. And so I do this each night in each morning for about 15 minutes. And not only does it whiten your teeth, but it gets down into the pockets at the bacteria oftentimes hides in that you can't necessarily get with the toothbrush. We also recommend either a toothpaste or a gum that has something called xylitol. Xylitol is actually more common than you think. But if you look on the back, you wanna make sure that that xylitol, it starts with an X for the first ingredients because that actually is a natural sweetener that pulls bacteria, not just coats your teeth. And so we use that in the back. You also might be able to see something called Stellalife. Stellalife is a homeopathic plant-based ointment. It's also a spray. It's also a risk and it speeds up your healing in your mouth. And I don't know if you see on that previous graphic, there's some bottles in the back and these are one of my favorites. So the red bottles, those are fruits. It's basically the company that has figured out how to take fruits and vegetables, dehydrate them at low temperatures to preserve the integrity of the nutrients, crystallize the sugar out because you don't need the water and the sugar. What you really need is the nutrients. They have three blends. It's a fruit, veggie, and berries. And so it's 30 fruits and veggies in cow form that you can eat before noon every day and an hour before you go to sleep. Dr. Golder shared with me, I think he asked me, well, Henry, when does your day repair most? When does the DNA replicate and your cells divide? It's when you sleep. So why wouldn't you flood your blood with the best of the best nutrient? And there's also one of our favorites that we have in there too, is something called complete. And that's in that brown ox in the back. And it gives you all the fiber, which is super good for heart because it goes into your gut, feeds the good guys, so you have a healthy microbiota in your intestines, but the soluble fiber goes through the walls of the small intestines and helps clear out your arteries. So we really like to take a look at how much fiber is in your diet in terms of soluble and insoluble. So those are just some tools that we use to partner with people in their health at home because we know we can't see them all the time. Wow. So I'm amazed at that gum, the mode that you put into your mouth daily with the hydrogen peroxide. I thought I was your friend. You didn't tell me that greatest secret. I love that, Henry. I really love that. You gotta tell me more about that. I'll connect. I mean, that sounds super- I'll connect you with the inventors. Yeah, and it'll whiten as well. Tonya Duane. Yeah, that is amazing. I love it. Okay, so I know that you've spoken about Juice Plus and a lot of other products that you recommend in your office. I've been eating Juice Plus for the last 17 years myself, so I know the bugger is good and it gets me what I need daily. So how long have you been taking it, Henry? I was introduced to it about nine years ago and I wasn't eating it consistently. I say eat because you take vitamins and you take medicine, but you actually eat food. And so with those dehydrated powders, I literally eat over 45 superfoods before noon every day and an hour before I go to sleep. So I've been eating it consistent for three years now. Inflammation has been reduced systemically all over my joints and my skin. Acne scars have disappeared. I haven't had this healthy skin forever. And my immune system is super strong, especially in the world that we live in today for important. So yeah, that's something that we bear by. Well, yeah, it sounds simple and I'm into simple because I'm so busy and I don't have a lot of time to research a lot of things, but unlike a lot of companies out there that have hundreds of products, it seems like juice plus is simple. So that's why I love it. And I believe they have like five different products in their line from a cardiovascular disease perspective. What would you recommend for someone getting started like Omega's heart and body? Or what do you want? I mean, what do I need to get on it? Well, what should I be asking you to help me get started on this journey? Yeah, so for all of our heart attack and stroke patients whether or not they've had an episode or we're trying to prevent long, those Omega's are super important and it's not just Omega threes, it's all five of these Omega you can find within a plant source. And so this is one of our flagship products that we recommend. Wow, plant based. So, you know, that's a really neat question because I always ask everybody, where do you think Omega's come from? And everyone says fish, of course, but then it's fish and not plant based. So they have to rethink it and we know where it comes from. It comes from the great algae from the sea. So again, it's a plant from the sea. So loving it so it stays in line with being vegetarian, I should say. So we're coming close to the end. How do we get in touch with you to learn more about the remote telomelicin, teladentistry, Juice Plus and how to get it free for our kids? You see here, our center is located in Columbus, Ohio. There's the number for office and you can simply call and ask to set up an appointment or just ask some questions to learn more. My information is down at the bottom. That's my personal cell phone. Please don't call it in the middle of the night. More than welcome to drop me an email or ask. And our heart attack and started prevention and complete health industry are under the same roof. And that's our address there too with our website. Wow, the show is over again, Henry. I don't know if you gotta come back again but we'll find another time when we can bring you back. So we just want to say to all of you, happy Valentine's Day, happy heart month, come here for joy, allow let's go out, listen to everything Henry shared with us and take care of your heart. Aloha everyone and mahalo Henry.