And they're recommending for the first time that people who are over 60 who have heart problems maybe should not take that daily aspirin this is in direct conflict with years and years of doctors recommending, hey, you got a little bit of a heart disease issue. You may be in risk of getting a stroke, take an Aspirin every day. So there's a change in policy
Harsh S
@ItIsHARSH · 4:31
And that makes me think, how can one get a cardiac arrest even after being so conscious about one's health? Now this was the story of my dad and everyone's story is different. I'm going to be a bit spiritual on this one. The Bible says that the heart is deceptively and wicked beyond all else. It is the center of our thinking and belief. Now I do not have any medical experience, so I cannot comment about medicines on cardiovascular diseases
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 3:26
The broader message is that these NSAIDs are not a Panca and that they are not innocuous. And I grew up in a home where a set of medicine was popped on a daily basis by my parents, and it always made me feel uneasy nowadays. They're even actually saying that Ibuprofen might have negative side effects, particularly for people with heart disease
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 4:53
Hi, Deborah, thanks so much for inviting me to this voiceover. This is a really cool concept. I like it. I am in the street, but I want to answer, so hopefully you'll forgive me for the noise. Now I'd like like to just first of all, talk about just elaborate on and agree with Harrish and Jessica. Daily exercise is first and foremost when it comes to preventing cardiovascular disease
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 5:00
Circuit training because you do 30 seconds or a minute or two minutes of cardiovascular work, whether it starts off skipping boxing or whatever, and then you do press up or squat, and so you've completely now just broken that cycle. Two minutes isn't enough, and then you get a really bad performance, press up because you're already tired of the conditioning, and then you go back to the conditioning. So the press up is not very good, and neither is the conditioning
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 2:38
There are so many ways to look at this, so many doors to enter into this conversation. And I feel like I just watched three people walk into this dinner party with three very, very different perspectives. Yet they compliment each other so well, it's really compelling to look at sort of the spiritual aspect of this, the ability for us to connect to our higher power, to not fall into the patterns of taking drugs
Mark Francis Rahaman
@MarkR · 2:16
With celebrities and painkiller addiction that people have everything at a disposal. And you think, how did that happen? But it could happen to anybody, right? I mean, if it could happen to them and they die and we know about it, how many people does it happen to that? We don't know about it. And I've been lucky that I haven't had any to have any painkillers or drugs or anything like that
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Ophelia Johnson
@LadyO · 3:41
But I've always thought it was a little suspect that they're recommending you take a bear if you're between a certain age to help with heart problems. Personally, I totally agree with harsh on this because I think that giving someone medicines for something instead of really trying to understand what's happening is very detrimental to any patient's well being. If I have a headache, I sit with myself and I say, okay, have I eaten? Maybe I haven't drank enough water
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:58
I also want to just kind of put out there another question in case people come to this, which is really how connected are we to that narrative of time versus true systemic change? Because when I have a headache. Guys, I do take an aspirin. And I know a lot of people like you said, Lady, I was like, you don't take an aspirin. You try to figure out what you need, is it water? Is it sleep? Is it food?
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:46
So it really puts a button on this conversation in some respects, saying that these guidelines are for real. They're trying to help us not pop these pills as if they're magic pills. They're not magic pills. And to Mark's point, there are things we need to think about to help our hearts be healthy. And popping pills probably isn't one of them