Environmental specialist weighs in on why traditional heart disease factors might actually cost you your life

What are the traditional risk factors that almost all heart therapies focus on? Diet and exercise for the most part, right? But today let’s talk about what’s wrong with traditional risk factors when it comes to heart therapies and what we can do as patients to advocate for ourselves. 

Environmental specialist Douglas Mulhall has uncovered that there is much more than what meets the eye when it comes to the causes of heart disease and other sicknesses. Our environment plays a significant role which is often overlooked when looking at health factors. 

“According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, they state that they now know that most cardiovascular disease is caused by modifiable risk factors like smoking, high blood pressure, obesity, high cholesterol levels, and physical inactivity. This is true, but it’s far from being the whole truth,” says Mulhall. 

Science is advancing more and more everyday, and everyday we realize that there is a bigger connection between our environment and cardiovascular diseases. However, even with these discoveries, they still aren’t making their way into diagnosis and treatment, why?

Mulhall goes on to say, “The air you breathe and the water you drink often cause heart disease, but conventional risk factors don’t include those and conventional therapies aren’t designed to target them. Toxic metals from industrial emissions hitchhike on particles in the air and water. These aren’t considered to be traditional risk factors because most heart disease researchers and healthcare professionals receive virtually no environmental training. Due to this, clinically proven therapies that are readily available aren’t being scaled up.One solution is for patients to start demanding these therapies by doing their homework then asking their doctors about them.”