Peter Attia· MD
the way I think of calcification is it tells you how many times you've been broken into and what kind of repair you've done I mean that's a gross approximation so a biomarker tells you how bad a neighborhood you live in [...] when you see a calcium score that's anything other than zero well that tells you you've already had an advanced lesion and that lesion had to be repaired because when you and I won't go through stories seven levels of atherosclerosis because it's it's it's really complicated and it's hard to do without pictures we should we had a white board last yeah so that's right we can't run in the show notes which is the the sort of different types of lesions of atherosclerosis but calcification is an incredibly late stage repair so when you have calcification in a coronary artery I mean you've had real damage and it's been repaired