Welcome to the Dr. Berg healthy ketone intermittent fasting podcast now your host the man taking

your health to a whole new level Dr. Eric Berg.

You know what's really interesting is that heart disease starts when you're really young

like I'm talking seven years old it's incredible they have found lesions in the aorta in virtually

a hundred percent of children between the ages is seven and nine so when I do this video to increase

your awareness on how early this condition actually starts and also to understand the cascade

effect from very very early stages into later stages because you don't want to wait until you have

heart attack symptoms you want to understand the mechanism you don't want to wait till you have

calcium building up an artery or some type of clot to then make a change in your life there's a

test a very important test I highly recommend everyone get it it's called CAC test stands for

coronary artery calcification test and doesn't take that long it's not very expensive but it measures

calcium in your arteries and it's one of the best predictors or mortality so definitely get

that test I'll put a link down below for more information also in a video showing my test results

but you want the results to be zero you don't want any calcium in your arteries because that already

tells us that you've had inflammation you had oxidative stress you had breakdown of the smooth

muscle and that's been going on a long time so let's talk about the cascade effect and what happens

first second third and fourth the very start of heart disease starts with something called oxidative

stress and this is a situation where you have an imbalance of too much oxidation versus not enough

antioxidants to protect you from oxidation if that occurs if it's out of balance you have

oxidative stress and what oxidative stress does it's very similar to rusting out your car you're

starting to get a breakdown in the surface and that's what happens in the smooth muscle either on

the inner part of the artery or the next layer deep it's called necrosis okay you're getting a

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