Heart disease is still the #1 cause of death. Most people find out something's wrong only after a cath lab confirms it. By then you're managing a crisis, not preventing one. Conventional care checks cholesterol, maybe an EKG, calls it a day. That's not the full picture. It never was. The real driver isn't cholesterol Cholesterol is a symptom, not the root cause. The actual cascade looks like this: Chronic stress → cortisol → insulin resistance → inflammation (hsCRP) → homocys