Do I have heart disease? My heart scan results | Ft. Dr Thomas Dayspring, Md and Dr Dan Soffer, Md

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Simon Hill

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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After 10 years of great blood work on a plant-based diet, I took things further with a coronary calcium scan and CT angiogram to see what’s really happening inside my arteries. The results? I have early signs of plaque. In this episode, I break down my numbers and speak with cardiologists Dr. Thomas Dayspring and Dr. Dan Soffer about what they mean for my long-term risk and yours. What we cover: My CT angiogram and CAC results How much plaque I have and where What ApoB and lifetime cholesterol exposure reveal How diet tweaks impacted my blood lipids Whether I should add medication What this means for others with “good” blood tests but family history Want to support the show? The best way to support the show is to use the products and services offered by our sponsors. To check them out and enjoy great savings, visit theproof.com/friends. You can also support the show by leaving a review on the Apple Podcast app and sharing your favourite episodes with friends and family. This episode is brought to you by: 38TERA Consider 38TERA's DMN prebiotic supplement a daily multivitamin for your gut. Formulated by yours truly and gastroenterologist Dr Will Bulsiewicz. Use code THEPROOF for a discount at checkout. Bragg Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vinegar is raw, unfiltered, and naturally fermented with 100% organic apples, always with the live “Mother” in every bottle. Get 20% off your first order at bragg.com with promo code SIMON. IM8 With 92 nutrients, including Vitamin B12, Iodine, Selenium and Vitamin D, in highly absorbable forms, IM8 Daily Essentials is the perfect all-in-one daily multi-vitamin to ensure you meet your daily micronutrient needs. IM8 is offering an exclusive 10% off your first order with a free welcome kit when you enter the promo code SIMON at checkout on im8health.com WHOOP Whoop, the most advanced fitness and health wearable available. Your personalised fitness and health coach to recover faster, sleep better, and train smarter. Claim your first month free on join.whoop.com/simon. Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons) Creator of theproof.com Host of The Proof with Simon Hill Author of The Proof is in the Plants Subscribe & Connect: YouTube Apple Podcasts Spotify Instagram: @simonhill X: @theproof Facebook: The Proof with Simon Hill Nourish your gut with my Plant-Based Ferments Guide and download my Two-Week Meal Plan.

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0:00.0	What was your first reaction when you saw my CT angiogram results?
0:04.9	Can't say I was shocked. You just never know what to expect. I am comfortable saying you have.
0:12.9	Alrighty friends. This one is personal. After 10 years of pretty perfect blood tests on a plant-based diet,
0:20.6	I decided to find out
0:21.7	what is really going on inside my arteries.
0:25.6	Do I have heart disease despite doing everything quote unquote right?
0:31.0	In this episode, I share the results of my recent CT angiogram and coronary artery calcium
0:36.5	scan alongside my latest cardiovascular related blood
0:40.9	tests. Together we'll unpack what they mean for me and potentially for you too, especially if
0:46.1	heart disease runs in your family like me or you have other risk factors like high cholesterol
0:50.5	or elevated blood pressure. Now going into these scans, while I do like to tell myself
0:56.5	I'm invincible, in the back of my mind, I did suspect that I might have some plaque, or what's
1:02.0	known as subclinical atherosclerosis in people without symptoms or a history of cardiovascular
1:07.9	events. For the past decade, I've done everything by the book to lower my
1:12.5	risk, but I am also aware that for the first 29 years of my life, I wasn't managing my
1:17.6	modifiable risk factors anywhere near as well. So did I have plaque? And if so, how much? We'll get
1:25.7	to that shortly with expert commentary from Dr. Thomas Dayspring and Dr. Dan Sofer along the way.
1:33.2	If you're new here, I'm Simon Hill.
1:36.2	Nice to be with you.
1:37.4	I have a master's in nutrition science and my interest in heart health goes back to a very pivotal moment in my teens, watching my dad
1:46.0	experience a severe heart attack in his early 40s. Thankfully, he survived, but that experience
1:52.9	ended up changing the trajectory of my life. His father, my grandfather, also had his first heart
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