Andrew Huberman· PhD
so for example if a person has atrial fibrillation and a blood clot gets festering in the right atrium and they happen to have a hole in between the you know atria of their hearts called it Pon frame a valley and a clot goes from right to left it can make its way up into the uh arterial circulation and and and happen that way where you include blood flow the much more common way it occurs is the same way it occurs in the heart which is you have plaque build up and that plaque becomes unstable that plaque ruptures and the rupture of that plaque results in an immediate attempt by the body to fix problem but in doing so it walls off the artery meaning the blood flow distal to that point