The Best Heart Attack Predictor – Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score – Dr. Berg | DrEricBergDC

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hey guys in this video we’re gonna talk

about something very very very important

and very interesting it’s called the

coronary artery calcium score okay

first of all what is the coronary artery

well it’s the main artery that supplies

blood flow to the heart and muscle so

when you have a heart attack

it’s really that artery that becomes

obstructed that starves off oxygen and

blood flow to the heart muscle and it

cramps and you get a heart attack and

you die

and since heart attacks are the number

one leading cause of death worldwide it

might be a good idea to know more about

this test so you can predict if you’re

gonna have a problem so if we reverse

engineer a heart attack we take it one

step back we’re gonna get a cramp

okay the cramp of the heart why because

the artery is not free-flowing there’s

something obstructing it

there’s plaquing there could be a clot

composed of cholesterol calcium and a

certain type of protein called fibrin

and a couple other things okay so it’s

all just coming in there but everyone’s

so hyper focused on cholesterol they’re

trying to reduce cholesterol thinking

this is what’s causing this no this is

the effect of something earlier so we

put you on a statin drug and start

shutting down all the body’s ability to

produce cholesterol and then we create

all sorts of other problems so the

combination between this and this is

really a band-aid coming in to heal a

lesion or a damage the wall of the

arteries so you have inflammation

because there’s damage and the inside

lining of the vessel okay and the reason

why there’s damage is because there’s

high levels of insulin behind that so

high insulin is the culprit

I have tons and tons of videos on this

I’ll put a link down below to learn more

about this but if here if you have heart

problems okay if you want to prevent

heart problems and you want to take

certain vitamins and this and that well

you also better handle this because if

this is not handled nothing is going to

work this is at the root the bottom

level cause of this chain reaction that

occurs it eventually gives someone a

heart attack

so the coronary artery calcium

test is a direct measurement of the

amount of damage in the coronary artery

okay so it gives you insights of the

person’s past lifestyle of what they’ve

been eating what they’ve been doing it

predicts things a high score can occur

with normal cholesterol okay the test is

like a hundred dollars it takes two

seconds to do and you definitely need to

get it done you can have normal

cholesterol normal triglycerides normal

LDL normal blood sugars and still have a

lot of calcium in the arteries and 50%

of the time a person will die of a heart

attack without any symptoms at all so

you don’t want to just be surprised so

the emphasis should not be on the

cholesterol it should be on the calcium

as the most important predictor of heart

attacks so then the question is why

aren’t more medical doctors recommending

this test well there’s several

viewpoints one viewpoint is why even do

the tests when we don’t even know what

to do about it to actually correct it so

I’m like well that’s because you’re

using medical care to correct it because

you can’t correct this with a drug you

can’t correct this with vegetable oils

like from soy and corn you can’t correct

this with healthy grains okay now if you

have a score of a thousand that means

your risk from getting a heart attack is

10x okay that’s pretty high if your

score is zero your risk is extremely low

chances are you are not going to have a

heart attack you might die of getting

hit by a bus but not getting a heart

attack if your score is one to eighty

you should be concerned if your score is

81 to 400 it’s a pretty serious

situation and you better start changing

your lifestyle if your score is greater

than 400 it you better make sure you

have your will completely written out

and you better start studying how to

lower this really fast but you can

reverse it you can slow it down stop it

in reverse it okay and improve it

greatly what’s also interesting is that

this test can also predict risk from all

deaths not just heart attacks from

cancer from lung disease

from kidney disease so the next thing is

your doctor definitely request this test

to see where your baseline is thanks for

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