PATIENT CASE STUDY

Cardiovascular issues, inflammation and memory decline

LD is a 65-year-old man who has lived the life of an adventurer, including climbing Mount Everest. Over the last 15 years, he has had multiple cardiac procedures for blocked heart (coronary) vessels. His wife has also noticed memory issues, worsening over the last two years. Symptoms of heart disease and cognitive decline can often be linked to the same variants.

LD had many pro-inflammatory variants that impact the health of his blood vessels, both in his heart and brain. Reducing that inflammation can arrest, and even reverse the blood vessel disease. LD also had a variant causing too much fibrin to be made. Fibrin is a protein that creates a protein net to catch platelets to make clot. This variant causes larger clots to be made, which in turn, can impact cardiac and brain health. Dietary changes and supplements were used to reduce the fibrin, the inflammation, and to support brain health. Measured after four months, there had been a noticeable impact on his cognitive health. The impact on his cardiac health is a long-term goal.