{"id":237587,"date":"2026-05-22T06:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/reversing-humanitys-1-killer"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T11:04:12","slug":"reversing-humanitys-1-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/reversing-humanitys-1-killer","title":{"rendered":"Reversing Humanity\u2019s #1 Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WtN-VT-Zd-c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Heart disease still kills nearly 20 MILLION people every year worldwide \u2014 roughly 1 person every 1.5 seconds. \u2014 But what if medicine could move beyond simply slowing plaque buildup\u2026and actually REMOVE toxic oxidized cholesterol from arteries? \u2014 Dr. Matthew \u201cOki\u201d O\u2019Connor, CEO and Co-Founder, Cyclarity Therapeutics.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the time it will take you watch this episode, over 2,000 people around the world will die from diseases driven by arterial plaque. But what if we could actually remove the toxic cholesterol already trapped inside arteries?<\/p>\n<p>Today we\u2019re diving into one of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine and aging: how do you actually remove arterial plaque instead of merely slowing its progression?<\/p>\n<p>Cardiovascular disease remains the world\u2019s leading killer, despite decades of statins, anti-inflammatory drugs, and newer RNA-based therapies. Most existing treatments help manage cholesterol and reduce risk, but very few directly target the toxic debris already embedded inside plaques.<\/p>\n<p>But what if we could literally extract some of the most dangerous oxidized cholesterol molecules from the body?<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/reversing-humanitys-1-killer\">Continue reading \u201cReversing Humanity\u2019s #1 Killer\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart disease still kills nearly 20 MILLION people every year worldwide \u2014 roughly 1 person every 1.5 seconds. \u2014 But what if medicine could move beyond simply slowing plaque buildup\u2026and actually REMOVE toxic oxidized cholesterol from arteries? \u2014 Dr. Matthew \u201cOki\u201d O\u2019Connor, CEO and Co-Founder, Cyclarity Therapeutics. In the time it will take you watch [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":400,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/400"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}