Peter Attia· MD
what is the purpose of that to prevent what Peter and I talked about early on you don't want this plaque to rupture and if we can put it's like putting a heavy mounded dirt on a volcano I guess it's less likely to rupture if you can cover it ultimately the type of uh cyto kindes and chemokines that are being produced by these white blood cells some of them have bone forming ability and that's why much later in the disease calcium starts to get deposited in this cap plaque and that's maybe somewhat fortunate because being radio Opa that enables the type of Imaging studies we have now to say oh my goodness there's calcium in your artery wall which there's only one cause and that's atherosclerosis