Aortic dissection is a tear in the aorta where blood rushes into the arterial wall, crushing the lumen and cutting off blood flow to arteries along the way; unlike aortic aneurysm (which predicts rupture), dissection cannot be detected or predicted, and while hypertension is a known risk factor, it can occur even in people with well-controlled blood pressure, with Dr. Drew observing a significant increase in cases since 2022.
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Lindsey Graham’s Medical Condition Rising Exponentially, Dr. Drew Explains
Added:So, what is going on? Is it the vaccine?
I don't know. Is it COVID? I don't know.
Is it both? But, you're not even allowed allowed to ask the question because the vaccine might be implicated. It's crazy.
>> [music] >> All right, lots of medical stuff now.
So, I want you guys to ask me lots and lots of questions if you have any. We'll start with the easy one, which is aortic dissection. That is what poor Lindsey Graham died of. Uh it is Dr. Oz did a wonderful demonstration using a roll of paper towels how a dissection works. If you think about a roll of paper towels, there's that inner cardboard. Imagine it sort of crushing on itself, and so blood starts rushing into the paper area where it doesn't belong, and it crushes the lumen and cuts off all the arteries along the way. So, a dissection is a tear in the aorta and the aorta. And we do not know how to detect that or predict it. So, all these people that are saying, "Oh, you should have been Oh, you should have checked. Should have." There's no checking for this one.
It's a weird one, and they are confusing it with aortic aneurysm, which is an enlargement of the aorta, which does not predict dissection. But, it predicts aortic rupture and other kinds of problems. So, people with aortas that go above 5 cm, you might replace the aorta.
And those people could dissect, but you they don't predict dissection how big the aorta becomes. So, it's a mess. And here's the really difficult thing that that I'm struggling with right now.
We know the spike protein damages the lining of arteries, whether it's from the vaccine or from COVID. We know that's part of its pathogenic mechanism.
I have seen very strange heart disease since COVID came around. Bad weird anatomy, aggressive heart disease.
Something is going on in lining of the arteries of the heart and the aorta.
So, the question is Adam Carolla calling me and calling me.
>> [laughter] >> So, so >> We could use a fourth friend right now, you know.
>> I know, we need something funny.
Uh so, so the Where was I?
God Adam.
>> The the the strange the strange things that you're seeing because of the spike protein.
>> right. So, we're seeing accelerated coronary disease. And and I had seen probably two aortic dissections in my entire career until about 2022 and now I've seen a dozen. And if you and if you look at the Cat Tims' dad died of an aortic dissection a month ago, just gone.
And if you look at the VAERS data, aortic dissection essentially zero and it's up thousandfold.
So, what is going on? Is it the vaccine?
I don't know. Is it COVID? I don't know.
Is it both? But you're not even allowed allowed to ask the question because the vaccine might be implicated. It's crazy.
It's so crazy. But we'll get there.
We're slowly getting to to all of these things but oh man, it's taking forever.
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>> Well, I I would the angle that I sort of wanted to hit this on cuz I can't obviously I can't speak to the the science the way you can and it is more just about sort of the nature of reality. Like when I heard that when I heard Donald Trump on an NBC interview say he was on the phone with him an hour before. And then you watch the video the day before where he's in Ukraine and he looks completely fine. And you see the last picture of him and he has a big smile on his face and that's all within hours. You just was more so making me think about just like the nature of life. That you could be completely fine.
And then I and then he Trump I guess said that he felt a little tired on the phone, but he was flying back from Ukraine that day. So, >> And he's 71 years old.
>> 71. When I came back from Australia, I I had jet lag for a week. So, just like the general sort of like nature of reality or the the tenuousness of life.
That any of us and as you're saying Drew, if this cannot be detected in any way.
And you're seeing now more of it. But that you could just drop like that. It's It's actually like impossible to wrap your brain around in some sense. Like not a disease. We can all accept you might get hit by a car or some you know, terrible thing could happen. But that something in your body would give you no signal. There's nothing you can do about it and then it's just over like that.
So, that's sort of where my head just kept thinking >> there's a lot of stuff in the brain that does that too. Aneurysms bleed, weak arteries, hypertensive bleeds, there's stuff like that and that can just boom, go. Uh mostly in older people, to be fair, but then your the dissections happen anywhere along the way.
Something's going on.
Something is going on with these the only thing that's been associated with it we think is hypertension, high blood pressure, but people get it that have well-controlled blood pressure. So, it's it's it's an odd condition.
>> Number one, it bothers me that there were so many people on the right going after a conspiracy theory with this with Lindsey Graham. And I think that unfortunately it makes us look bad and you go to levels that they do when we go well, somebody else must have killed him. Like who stop with that. Number two, myocarditis is something that we became very familiar with that term unfortunately when the vaccine was forced etc. So, my question for you Dr. Drew quickly is I know we can't prevent an aortic blah blah blah.
>> dissection >> Um and what precautions can we take if we believe if our kids, if we took the vaccine whether we wanted to or not and and now because we had do have evidence of what you're saying, some effects since COVID.
>> All right. So, here here's the things.
Blood pressure under control diligently.
Statins may have a role to reduce problems here. Exercise for sure.
There's something called nattokinase that can perhaps pull the spike protein out of the system. If you've been having some post-COVID symptoms or post uh vac symptoms, that is persistent spike. And nattokinase could be helpful there.
>> Okay. Thank you cuz I I got to say and with a son >> Yep.
>> um who had one dose of the vaccine. I mean and and especially in young men that's where we have been seeing it and I I'm scared to death.
>> Yep. I agree.
>> [music]
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