I Didn’t Think Much About My Heart—Until One Morning Changed Everything
I was 42. Fairly active. Not overweight. No family history of heart disease—at least none I knew of. I figured I was doing “okay” for my age. Then one morning, walking up a single flight of stairs to my office, my chest tightened. Not pain, exactly. More like pressure. I stopped halfway, leaned on the rail, and caught my breath. I brushed it off. By the end of the week, it had happened three more times. I knew something was off. The Test Results Weren’t What I Expected After finally booking a checkup, my doctor ran a few tests. Nothing critical, but the warning signs were there: My blood pressure was creeping up. My cholesterol was borderline. I had early signs of vascular stiffness . He told me: “You’re not in trouble yet, but if you wait, you will be.” That was the moment it clicked. I’d been managing everything except my heart. And it wasn’t going to fix itself. Where Supplements Came In I didn’t want to jump straight into prescription meds. So I looked...