I Did Everything Right. Then I Read What Scientists Found Inside Artery Plaque.

Scientists found microplastics in the artery plaque of more than half the patients they studied, linked to a higher risk of heart attack and stroke. Here's what my healthy routine missed, and what I do about it now.

I'm 58, and for most of the last decade I've been the "healthy one" in my family. I swapped soda for water. I walk five mornings a week. I meal-prep on Sundays so I'm not tempted by takeout. My doctor tells me to keep doing what I'm doing.

So when a friend sent me a headline about plastic turning up inside people's arteries, I nearly scrolled past. Then I counted how much plastic touched my "healthy" routine in a single day. The water bottle on my walk. The containers I microwave my prepped lunches in. The shaker for my protein drink. The tea bags. The cutting board.

I'd spent ten years doing everything right, and I had never once thought about what my healthy food was stored in.

What researchers found inside the plaque

In March 2024, the New England Journal of Medicine published a study from a team in Naples, Italy. They followed patients who had surgery to remove plaque from the carotid artery in the neck, then tested that plaque for plastic.

Where the plastic hides in a "healthy" routine

Microplastics have been detected in drinking water, many foods, cosmetics and the air. A 2024 study from Columbia University counted an average of about 240,000 plastic particles per liter of bottled water, most of them too small to see. Here's where they were coming from in my day:

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  Bottled water on every walkThe habit I was proudest of was one of my biggest sources.
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  Microwaving meal-prep containersHeat makes plastic shed more particles into food.
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  Plastic shakers, tea bags and cutting boardsSmall exposures, repeated every day for years.

Why I started looking after the artery lining

Plaque doesn't float around in your blood. It builds up inside the artery wall, under a thin layer of cells called the endothelium. A healthy lining makes nitric oxide, a molecule that helps blood vessels relax and keeps blood moving.

I couldn't control every piece of plastic I'd ever been exposed to. The lining was something I could support every single day, and that's what led me to Get Jacked.

GetJacked uses what I call the Vascular Defense Response™ to support healthy vascular function and circulation.

How Get Jacked works

The key ingredient is capsaicin, the compound that makes cayenne pepper hot. Capsaicin acts on the TRPV1 receptor, and the discovery of TRPV1 was part of the work that won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

1. 1Capsaicin reaches TRPV1Receptors in the vessel lining respond to capsaicin.
2. 2The lining makes nitric oxideYour body's own signal for blood vessels to relax.
3. 3Blood flows more freelySupporting healthy circulation every day.

What's inside each serving

Get Jacked is a 12-in-1 botanical formula built around cayenne, with ingredients chosen to back up circulation and heart health:

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  Cayenne pepper3,000 mg equivalent per serving, the source of capsaicin.
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  BeetrootA natural source of dietary nitrates, which your body converts into nitric oxide.
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  Hawthorn and grape seedHawthorn berry has a long traditional use for heart health, and grape seed is rich in plant polyphenols.
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  Turmeric with black pepperBlack pepper helps your body absorb turmeric.
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  Korean ginseng and vitamin D3 + K2Ginseng is a traditional tonic herb, and vitamin K2 helps your body use calcium.

Cayenne Without the Burn

I'd tried adding cayenne to my food before and gave up after a week of heartburn. Get Jacked comes in a softgel, so it never touches your tongue. No burning mouth and no spicy aftertaste. I take three with breakfast, and that's it.

Get Jacked Cayenne Pepper Softgels

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• Cayenne pepper
• Grape seed
• Hawthorn
• Beetroot
• Turmeric
• Black pepper
• Korean ginseng
• Vitamin D3 + K2

3,000 mgcayenne equivalent per serving

3 softgels a daywith food, together or split

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