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Alright, let's talk about how to read a CAC score.

This is the amount of calcium and plucking 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 cholesterol.

And the more calcium you have in the arteries, the more you're at risk for getting a heart

attack.

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 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 plucking 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.

It's not that expensive.

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