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

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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 watching hey if you enjoyed this video press subscribe and I will definitely keep you updated