The LIFE - Longevity Insights For Everyone

Cardiovascular disease is still the number one cause of death in the UK, but 80% of those deaths are preventable. But most doctors are using risk calculators that focus only on risk in the next 10 years. In this episode, Dr Lucy Hooper and Dr Hugh Coyne unpack why standard 10-year cardiovascular risk scores miss a huge proportion of preventable disease, particularly in younger adults, women, and t...

Your cholesterol results came back "normal" — but are you actually safe? In this episode, Dr. Lucy Hooper and Dr. Hugh Coyne dive into apolipoprotein B (ApoB), the single most important marker for understanding your true cardiovascular risk — and one that most people have never had checked. They break down the science in plain English: why all cholesterol is actually the same molecule, how it trav...

Dr Theodore Topol lamented in 1907 that too few physicians prescribed exercise as medicine. Over a century later, not much has changed — and we think that's worth fixing. In this episode, Dr Lucy and Dr Hugh make the case that exercise isn't the intervention. It's the normal human condition. Sitting still is the intervention. They dig into the science of why muscle mass and strength are among the...

Join Dr Hugh Coyne and Dr Lucy Hooper as they uncover the Praetorian Guard of your cardiovascular system, Lipoprotein(a). Like the elite Roman force that turned on its emperors, Lipoprotein (a) was designed to protect but can become a deadly double agent, doubling or tripling your risk of heart disease. In this episode, we explore: The Praetorian Paradox : Why this sticky particle, originally mean...