Peter Attia· MD
There's a special subset of ultrasound that we do on the heart where did that idea come about who figured that idea again the value was like once you could actually find like a nice window that would actually allow you to miss the air in the lungs and actually kind of look at the heart you realize that boy you can actually start to see this two-dimensional plane and a heart quite well and as a result you can actually see where things were moving such as the valves in the heart or the walls of the heart and then as well you actually add something called Doppler which is basically the frequency bouncing off of blood vessel if it's going or coming the frequency is going to be different and so as a result you can actually now start to see how blood is moving and so that's what echo does and so it actually allows you to look at the heart and in detail with a very