Health Longevity Secrets
Health Longevity Secrets
Robert Lufkin MD
EXPLAINER: Medicine's Forgotten Biomarker - The Homocysteine Story Your Doctor Missed
14 minutes Posted Apr 30, 2026 at 12:00 pm.
McCully discovery and suppression 01:20 - Part 1: What homocysteine does to arteries (6 mechanisms) 03:25 - Part 2: The evidence they ignored 03:40 - Every 5 umol/L: 20-30% higher CAD risk, 60% stroke risk 04:50 - Alzheimers risk +48% (meta-analysis, 7,474...
The Biomarker That Got Buried
How Homocysteine Builds Up
How It Damages Arteries
The Evidence For Heart And Brain
Why Doctors Stopped Testing
Brain Trials And Practical Next Steps
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In 1969, Harvard pathologist Kilmer McCully discovered elevated homocysteine causes arterial damage and heart disease. He was forced out of Harvard. The Framingham Heart Study confirmed him. Then the AHA buried it anyway. CHAPTERS: