Andrew Huberman· PhD
if people if women went away with one thing today it would be to do a coronary artery calcium score by age 45 and sooner if you've got premature heart disease
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if people if women went away with one thing today it would be to do a coronary artery calcium score by age 45 and sooner if you've got premature heart disease
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The CT coronary calcium scan is a great starting point for most people over the age of 40. Think of it almost as like a mammogram for the heart. Calcium is supposed to be in your bones and teeth. If calcium is building up in the artery walls, that indicates that you got plaque in the artery walls.
men over age 40 women over age 60 i call it like the mammogram for the heart i mean everybody should have one really because you can have a lot of risk factors for like say lung cancer but if we do a scan and see that you're growing a tumor that's a whole different deal and that's the way this is