From Mark's Daily Apple:

Despite its obsessive focus on cholesterol levels as the ultimate arbiter of cardiovascular disease, most of the medical field agrees that plenty of other factors also contribute: tobacco usage, psychosocial stress, activity level, and genetic predispositions.

In short, a diverse set of lifestyle and genetic factors are consistently associated with cardiovascular disease. This is accepted in the ancestral health community, just as it's accepted in the mainstream medical community, but the question remains – why?

Why does stress contribute to heart disease? How does smoking tobacco increase the risk of heart disease? Why are both the sedentary and the overtrained at a higher risk for heart disease?

Well, as I'm (and others are) quite fond of saying, inflammation is most likely the ultimate cause of heart disease, and all those factors...

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