Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So, today we're going to talk about the problems with attempting to prevent a heart attack.

Now, the worst thing you want to run into is finding out the solution to your preventing a heart problem

is causing a heart problem.

Let me show you what I'm talking about.

Let's see if hypertension and you're on a diuretic.

Well, the side effect of diuretics is increasing insulin resistance, which actually could potentially increase your insulin and create more of a problem within your arteries.

Let's say, for example, you're on cholesterol medication, you're on a statin.

Statin increases the risk of calcification in your arteries, plus it shuts down the testosterone.

And it can decrease co-NZMQ-10, which is needed for the heart.

And here's another one.

Let's say you're on some anti-clotting medication to thin the blood, waferin, which blocks vitamin K.

The problem with that one is that it causes some side effects, one being increasing risk of calcification.

Not just in the arteries, but systemically, even in your trachea.

Because it blocks vitamin K, K1 and K2.

And just so you know, vitamin K2 is all about keeping the calcium out of the arteries, out of the soft tissues, and into the bone.

The longer you're on this medication, the greater the risk of the calcium clogging everything up on the arteries.

Now, out of all these problems, the most important thing to focus on is making sure you do not build up calcium plaque in the arteries.

Why? Because the amount of calcium in the arteries, specifically the coronary artery, is the biggest risk factor for mortality from heart attacks.

And this is why one of the most important tests that you can get, way more important than a cholesterol test, is a CAC test, hornary artery calcification test.

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