How to Read a Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Score

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all right let’s talk about how to read a 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 the body comes in to repair it with calcium and the cholesterol  and the more calcium you have in the arteries the more you’re at risk for getting a heart  attack in fact 90 of men and 67 percent 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 carbohydrate 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 you can go over a 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 death it just tells you what’s going on internally but it’s way better than  a 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 one and ten the plaque is very minimal and there’s a low chance  of getting a heart attack if the score is between 11 and 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’re 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 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  tocotrinols 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 key  later it’s called edta that can help remove some of the calcium inside the arteries all right  that’s the plan and thanks for watching so if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are  and you’re applying this knowledge to your health and you have a success i’d really appreciate you  sharing your success story so click the link down below to my website where you can upload your  success story so you can help inspire others