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[4] https://www.muhealth.org/our-stories/why-do-healthy-people-have-cardiac-arrests

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[] https://ourworldindata.org/cardiovascular-diseases-types-and-death-tolls - The chart shows how worldwide, weak hearts (cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, endocarditis, and rheumatic heart disease) is barely 4% of cardiovascular related deaths. MATH: (424160+363443)/(9050000+3560000+3410000+1380000+1030000+424160+363443) x 100 = 4.098%

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[] ACE Inhibitors use venom from Brazilian pit viper.

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[] https://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/human-diseases/high-blood-pressure#:~:text=Research%20into%20Brazilian%20pit%20viper,a%20wide%20array%20of%20medicines

[] Beta Blockers

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[] Calcium Channel Blockers

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[] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKrVxKJVh00

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[] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronary-angioplasty/what-happens/#:~:text=A%20stent%20is%20a%20short,the%20artery%20becoming%20blocked%20again

[] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/angioplasty-and-stent-placement-for-the-heart#:~:text=A%20stent%20is%20a%20tiny,the%20stent%20has%20been%20placed

[] 2 million stents https://idataresearch.com/stents-implanted-per-year-in-the-u-s/, 350,000 bypass surgeries https://www.uab.edu/news/health/item/12008-cardiac-bypass-surgeries-declined-in-2020-but-outcomes-show-the-procedures-were-done-safely-during-the-covid-19-pandemic, and 190,000 atherectomy https://idataresearch.com/over-190000-atherectomy-procedures-performed-in-the-united-states/. So, 2.35M/0.19 = 12

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[] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/nitric-oxide-foods

[] https://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389%2Fconf.fphys.2018.26.00036/event_abstract?t

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[] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23627788/

[] https://isagenixhealth.net/coq10-powers-athletic-performance/

[] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23627788/#&gid=article-figures&pid=figure-1-uid-0

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[] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8151454/?t

[] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8086660/ (9% vs 27%)

[] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27864103/ Control group: 64.1% After CoQ10: 89.8% Percentage increase: ((89.8 - 64.1) / 64.1) × 100 = 40.09%

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[] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2022.936233/full?t

[] Ibid. Same metastudy found that it can increase superoxide dismutase (or SOD) by 63%. SOD takes free radicals and “recycles” them into useful oxygen.

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