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title: 'Top Causes of Death in 2024'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=4k38a5QTZY4'
video_id: '4k38a5QTZY4'
date: 2026-08-12
duration_sec: 1095
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# Top Causes of Death in 2024

> Source: [Top Causes of Death in 2024](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4k38a5QTZY4)

## Summary

This video reviews the CDC's 2024 leading causes of mortality report, highlighting cardiovascular disease as the top killer for the fifth consecutive year, followed by cancer and other major causes. The host also discusses the rise of heart attacks in younger adults, linking it to ultra-processed foods and lifestyle factors, and answers viewer questions on related health topics.

### Key Points

- **CDC 2024 Mortality Report Review** [00:01] — The host begins a review of the CDC's leading causes of mortality for 2024, based on the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and invites viewers to guess the top causes.
- **Cardiovascular Disease Leading Cause** [02:11] — Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the US for the past 20 years, claiming 683,000 lives in 2024.
- **Cancer Deaths on the Rise** [02:42] — Cancer (malignant neoplasms) caused 619,000 deaths in 2024, and the number is rising.
- **Other Leading Causes** [03:13] — Other leading causes include accidents/unintentional injuries (including automobile accidents, stabbings, shootings), cerebrovascular disease (strokes), and when combined, cardiovascular disease and strokes account for nearly 800,000 deaths annually.
- **Microplastics in Glass Bottles** [04:16] — A study by France's food safety agency found that glass bottles contain more microplastics than plastic bottles, with about 100 microplastic particles per liter in soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea, and beer, likely from the paint on the caps.
- **Heart Attacks in Younger Adults** [06:50] — Heart attack rates are declining in older populations but rising among younger adults, with nearly half of all heart attack patients in recent years being under 54 years old.
- **Root Causes of Rising Heart Disease** [09:22] — The host speculates that ultra-processed foods, industrialized seed oils, and sedentary lifestyles are key drivers, causing gut dysfunction and inflammation, while animal fat consumption has declined and does not correlate with rising cardiovascular mortality.
- **Vaping and Other Risk Factors** [12:00] — Vaping is increasingly problematic and may contribute to heart disease risk in younger people.
- **Alzheimer's and Diabetes Deaths** [13:05] — Alzheimer's disease claimed 116,000 lives and diabetes nearly 100,000 lives in 2024, both on the rise.
- **Creatine Supplement Promotion** [14:16] — The host promotes his company's ultra-pure creatine, highlighting its importance for cellular energy production in muscles, heart, and other tissues.
- **Grain Recommendations** [15:11] — For those with gluten issues, the host recommends sourdough or fermented grains, such as Bluebird Grain Farms einkorn, and advises soaking, sprouting, or fermenting all grains before consumption.
- **Long Latency of Metabolic Diseases** [16:27] — Metabolic diseases have a long latency period, taking 10 to 20 years to manifest, which explains why current trends may not show immediate effects.
- **Actionable Advice** [16:55] — To reduce mortality risk, the host advises exercising, avoiding processed foods, industrialized seed oils, refined sugars, and sweetened beverages.

### Conclusion

The video underscores that cardiovascular disease remains the top cause of death in the US, with rising rates among younger adults, and emphasizes lifestyle changes—such as diet and exercise—as key preventive measures.

## Transcript

we're going to review the Center for Disease Control, leading causes of mortality during the year 2024. This is something that we do every year and I want to thank you for being here. Of course, any questions are fair game.
Metabolic health, nutrition, fitness, you know the story. So, we're going to dive into this new data set from the Centers for Disease Control from their morbidity mortality weekly report. This is
quite a long time. Uh, I want to just see how many folks can guess the leading causes of mortality for the year 2024. Before we actually start, is it cancer? Is it heart disease? Is it CO 19? Is it infectious diseases? Let me know, my
friends. Before we continue, uh, I want to just look and see what you're where enjoying the content, hit that like button. We're going to dive right into button. We're going to dive right into it. So, the CDC just posted this on
their website. The leading causes of mortality and morbidity during the year 2024. So, let's get into it. I'm going to make it more bold for uh, many of you do is I'm going to clear this layer and we're going to go down here and dive
into it. How is everyone doing today? Hopefully you're all doing quite well. Let's get into the the morbidity mortality weekly report. Tada!
morbidity mortality weekly report. Tada! Here we go. Okay, so I'm going to make myself a little bit smaller here. And off to the races we go. Okay, so this is
right from the horse's mouth, as they say, from the CDC's website. Now, why do we share this information? So that you can focus your health efforts on things that actually matter. Uh many people are eating Snickers and Kit Kat bars and
drinking soda pop and so forth. Yet we know that insulin resistance is a premature morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease which it turns out has been the leading cause of premature morbidity and mortality in the
US for the past 20 years really. So cardiovascular disease claims 683,000
Uh there's a lot of speculation as to why heart disease is on the rise. I'm can speculate on that. Let me know in the comments section. Uh sadly, if you know anyone who has a uh suffered from cardiovascular disease, we have cancer.
619,000 deaths, which is up by the way. Malignant neoplasms is the jargonistic phrase for uh speaking or and talking about uh cancer. And so we know that sadly cancer disease uh deaths are on
sadly cancer disease uh deaths are on the rise which is uh really unfortunate. the rise which is uh really unfortunate. So that is what is going on there. Um let's go on down the list here. Accidents and unintended.
So we're talking automobile accidents, stabbings, shootings, uh things like that, deaths of despair and so forth. Um, going on down the list, we have
cerebrovascular disease. So, when you clump uh cardiovascular disease and clump uh cardiovascular disease and strokes into one category, strokes into one category, uh we're talking about nearly 800,000
people dying every single year from these uh conditions and that is really unfortunate. So, strokes, carvascular disease uh is on the rise. Uh again, any
questions are fair game. Thank you for being here, Brent Matt. Um, being here, Brent Matt. Um, we have Eco Bra 169. Okay. Why are we have Eco Bra 169. Okay. Why are strokes and heart attacks on the rise?
If you're enjoying the content, hit that like button. We are diving into recent like button. We are diving into recent reports from the CDC. We have a comment here. I seen an article about a glass bottle drinks
having more microlastic than plastic bottles. Okay, microlastic. Let's dive into this. This is really interesting. Um, food packaging is interesting. Um, food packaging is obviously a problem. And so, uh, this is
really incredulous. So, glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles, article finds. This is really interesting. It has to do with really interesting. It has to do with the cap of the bottle. Uh, which I think
is is really counterintuitive because I always tell my clients to stop drinking out of plastic. But drinks including water, soda, beer, and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles. According
to a surprising study released by Franc's food safety uh food safety agency Friday, researchers have detected the tiny mostly invisible pieces of plastic throughout the world from the air we breathe to the food we eat as
well as riddled throughout human bodies. There is still no direct evidence that this preponderance of plastic is harmful to human health. Wrong. But a burgeoning field of research is aiming to measure its spread.
So, uh, the researchers found on average around 100 microplastic particles per liter in glass bottles of soft drinks, lemonade, iced tea, and beer. That was five to 50 times higher than the rate detected in plastic bottles or metal
cans. We expected the opposite results, the investigators say. We noticed that in the glass, the particles emerging from samples were the same shape, color, and polymer composition. So therefore, the same plastic as the paint on the
outside of the caps that seal the glass bottles. The paint on the caps also has eye, probably due to the friction between the caps and where they restore. The agency said in a statement, "These particles are released into the water.
stuff is everywhere. It's really, really sad. Uh so what are your thoughts there? I think you know for me what this means is we should just be drinking filtered water at home. There's a company called uh Cooligan Health uh Cooligan Water
Systems and they have different franchises and so forth. Um and so I use their system actually need to change out my filters. So important stuff. Uh let's questions. Any question is fair game.
again. Hit uh that like button if you're enjoying the content. And here we go. Okay, so we got Matt from Witchah, Kansas.
Has the age of heart attacks gone down? Yes, in fact. Uh and we can go back to this um page here. So, we are seeing younger and younger people uh getting
younger and younger people uh getting heart attacks and strokes. Okay. So, heart attacks and strokes. Okay. So, this is um
many of us know uh what that is, so I'm not going to uh get into that. Brett from Spokane uh says he cannot afford to get sick anymore. Yes, I am with you there. Okay.
Suzanne says, "My granddaughter eats and drinks from those things that you named, I sent this to her. I don't eat processed foods and just turned 79." That is awesome. Uh, so keep up the great work, Suzanne.
All right. Uh, getting back to the leading causes of mortality in the US, I want to get to this story right here. Why are young people having heart
attacks? There's many related stories to this. This is just one of many stories. Um the article goes on to say, "Hard attacks have traditionally been thought of as a concern for older adults. Not something that people under the age of
growing research shows quite the opposite. While heart attack rates are declining in older populations, they're rising among younger adults, those in just heart attacks. Heart related illnesses overall are becoming much more
decades past. Studies have found that carvascular related hospitalizations have significantly increased among adults under the age 45 and that nearly half of all heart attack patients in recent years were under 54 years of age
or younger. Dr. Ron Blankstein, a preventative cardiology specialist at professor at Harvard Medical School, joined GBH's All Things Considered host.
what we have seen nationally is the statistics that even though due to a lot of our efforts, the heart rate, the rate of heart attacks has gone down, the individuals has actually increased over time. My group has been very very
motivated by this statistic to try to figure out why that is. The quote here is these heart attacks are not happening out of the blue. Even young individuals of health until they had a heart attack. Okay, so let's really get into the
article and hear why I'm not sure um what his speculation uh is and I don't individual. So I think we we all kind of know uh
what's going on here and they do recommend a coronary artery calcium recommend a coronary artery calcium score uh or a CT angiogram. Um so that's interesting. Uh I can't help but wonder if it's because we're eating more
industrialized oils that were never made for human consumption along with uh of for human consumption along with uh of course ultra of course ultra plastic sorry of course ultrarocessed foods uh and the sedentary activities obviously
and the sedentary activities obviously uh a major problem and so we've shared the statistics here that we are eating much more sugar much more uh corn oil uh and uh the like and that is problematic and we're actually uh eating way less
red meat than we used to. Uh butter is on the decline. So what is the root cause of all of this? Well, it turns out that when we eat these ultrarocessed foods, they cause intermittent gastrointestinal dysfunction that leaks
uh inflammatory pathogens from our intestines uh into the ster what what should be sterile components of the body and trigger both metabolic and immune
mediated diseases and inflammation which is quite problematic. But you might think, well, it's the red meats and so forth. Well, it turns out that we are compared to years past. We're eating much more chicken, much more, uh, you
know, farm-raised fish and seafood and the like. And so, uh, that is obviously part of the problem, uh, is we're eating just, uh, a bunch of ultrarocessed junk and malarkey. And that is, uh, quite the issue here. But this is a great
screenshot for you noting that animal fat consumption is down significantly and that does not appear to have any temporal correlation with the rise in carvascular related mortality and deaths. So
deaths. So that is that. Let's get on to some of your questions. Sheila says, "My niece just turned 40 and had two aneurysms and a stroke. This is really sad. I will be 43 in about a month and I
couldn't imagine having aneurysms and a stroke at this age. Uh that's really really sad. Okay. Besides diet, I'd be curious if vaping has anything to do with this. Yes, of
course vaping is increasingly problematic. We do know uh about that. So what do you think friends? Any nutrition metabolic health related content, hit that like button. Thank you for showing up for this rather impromptu
live on a Thursday here. Uh we've been reviewing, for those of you just now tuning in, the uh information from our own CDC, finding that diseases from cardiovascular disease uh appear to be on the rise, claiming some 683,000
lives during the last calendar year. diseases from deaths from cancer are 619,000 lives. We have uh unintentional stabbings. Of course, they are increased because of lawlessness throughout the
United States. And cerebral vascular diseases, strokes uh and uh problems within the uh vasculature of the brain is on the rise as as well. It turns out that both diabetes and excuse me, Alzheimer's disease are also on the
rise. Alzheimer's disease claimed 116,000 lives last year. Diabetes claimed almost 100,000 lives last year. Yet, you still see people in grocery stores buying complete malarkey and filling up their grocery carts with crap
while they still wear facial coverings and gloves. I don't understand the cognitive dissonance, but some people seem to think that diet induced diseases seem to think that diet induced diseases um are not serious or not worthy of uh
being very intentional about the foods that they consume. Okay. Hyper novelty. Too many changes too fast. How how can epigenetics keep up? Yeah, that's it's really hard. Uh
obviously epigenetics and trans transgenerational epigenetics are uh be considering. Um what other questions do you have my friends? Questions, comments, let me
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would recommend would be sourdough or fermented grains. Um, bluebird air. So, fermented grains. Um, bluebird air. So, blue uh bird blue uh bird eorn.
affiliation with this company at all, but is grown right here in Washington state, my home state where I reside. Obviously, there's a lot of issues in Seattle recently, then you don't really know what I'm talking about. However, uh
outside of the Seattle area, there's a lot of fertile growing land, and when you ferment this flower, you have an amazing grain. And so, I'm uh a fan of the sourdough fermentation process. So, um yeah, that's what what I would
suggest. Um, of course, you know, any grain should be soaked and sprouted and or fermented prior to consumption. So, there's that. Not a fan of hemp. There's there's that. Not a fan of hemp. There's a lot of um things in there that in hemp
a lot of um things in there that in hemp that uh preclude uh digestion. The one who knows says downstream effects of poor functioning metabolism. It takes 10 to 20 years to manifest. Yeah, these diseases diseases have a
Yeah, these diseases diseases have a long latency period. So sadly that is long latency period. So sadly that is the case. So Scott, yeah, uh we have a lot of great videos with the one and only Bill Schindler coming out about
this as well. So yeah, uh friends, for those of you just tuning in, we've been diving into the CDC's recent report here finding for the fifth year in a row, cardiovascular disease remains the number one leading
cause of mortality. So what does that mean? Well, you should exercise. You should stop eating processed food, industrialized seed oil, sugars, refined sugars, sweetened sugar, sweetened beverages, and beyond.
Okay, what other questions do we have? Comments, questions. Let's let's chat. How's the weather really nice here in Seattle, which I quite like. Um,
so that's what we got, my friends. This is the table if you want to dive more into it. it. So
content, I would appreciate you giving this video a like, a share. You can share this with a friend. We're going to be doing more research into this uh down the road and we definitely want to unearth why are heart related diseases
and mortality on the rise. We'll dive into that more later friends. I very will catch you on a future live next week. Have an awesome evening. Hopefully you're going to get out and go to the gym and do some exercise. Uh and we will
catch you all later. Have a great day now. Bye.