We Are Witnessing The End of Heart Attacks

Woah, check this out. People used to have these things called heart attacks. Heart attacks? What's that? It sounds pretty brutal. Yeah, apparently people used to have them all of the time. They'd feel this crushing chest pain, and then it would just be lights out. That's it. What, people would die from it? Yeah, or the heart muscle would be

super damaged afterwards. It just wouldn't pump properly. Unreal. But I'm assuming this is quite a rare thing cuz I've never heard of this. No, no, it used to happen all of the time. It was actually the leading cause of death worldwide. But why haven't I heard of it? Well, they figured out how to

prevent it. It's easier that the deaths from heart disease dropped by 72.6 percent from 1950 to 2019. But then after 2019, heart attacks just started rising again. Then they got control of it, and then heart attacks eventually vanished. So, what happened? Well, the public's understanding of this disease changed on September 23rd, 1955. The

president of the United States is playing golf in Denver when his stomach it starts to hurt, and he blames the hamburger that he'd had for lunch. But shortly after midnight, the pain is unmistakable, and that isn't a stomach. Dwight Eisenhower is having a heart attack. And here's what the best medical care on Earth could provide the most

powerful man alive at the time. An oxygen tent, morphine, and four other drugs. Then bed from September 24th until November the 11th, nearly 7 weeks. That was all the medical community could offer for heart attacks, let alone how to prevent one. The cardiologist they flew in from Boston was Dr. Paul Dudley White. And the next day he put out a