How to Read a Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score | DrEricBergDC

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All right, let’s talk about how to read

CAC score. What is

CAC? It stands for Coronary

Artery Calcification Score.

This is the amount of calcium,

and plaquing, that is

inside your arteries. When the

inside of the blood vessel becomes

irritated, through oxidative

stress or injury,

body comes in to repair it

with calcium and the cholesterol.

And the more calcium you have

in the arteries, the more you are at risk

for getting a Heart Attack. In fact 90% of

Men and 67% of

Women over the age of

70 has some amount of

calcium in their arteries, and

personally my opinion of why this is

because consuming

high amounts of carbohydrates in your diet

is like taking steel wool

and kind of sanding the

inside of your arteries. It creates a lot of

irritation, a lot of inflammation.

So, this scoring

system goes from zero,

it can go over thousand,

but ideally you want this

score to be zero and that will

tell you there’s no plaquing in the arteries

and the possibility of getting

heart disease is very very low.

In fact this test, the CAC test

is one of the best predictors of

mortality from

all types of deaths.

It just tells you what’s going on internally,

but it’s way better than the cholesterol test and

it’s not that expensive.

I got the test and thank goodness,

it was zero. All right, now if the

score is between 1 and 10,

the plaque is very minimal and

there’s a low chance of getting a heart

attack. If the score is between

11 and a 100, there’s mild

Atherosclerosis and your

probability of getting a heart attack is minimal,

but it tells you something

is brewing in the oven. Okay, So, if your

score is between 101 and

400, there’s a moderate amount of

Atherosclerosis and you have a moderate

risk or a probability

of getting a heart attack.

Now, if you are over 400,

okay, we have extensive

Atherosclerosis

and you have a high chance

of getting a heart attack.

So, I would recommend getting this test,

and find out where you are and

realize if it’s high, you can do

something about it. Okay, and then go get

retested, maybe three months later.

But, here’s what you need to do. You need to

go low carb, you need to do intermittent

fasting and periodic prolonged fasting.

I would highly recommend taking

Niacin, the type of niacin,

that gives you that flushing.

That is going to increase your

HDL, which is kind of like the

vacuum cleaner. It tends to take any

excess cholesterol and pull it out of the

body. And then the next one I would recommend

is Tocotrienols because that

is going to protect the inside of the arteries against

free radicals. It’s 50

times stronger than the Tocopherols.

Tocotrienols, it’s a

type of Vitamin E. So, that actually

will help you reduce inflammation.

All right and then I would take Vitamin K2.

Vitamin K2 helps to

mobilize calcium out of the arteries and

keeps it in the bone and

lastly, I would take a Chelator,

it’s called EDTA.

That can help remove

some of the calcium inside the arteries.

All right, that’s the plan and thanks

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