Andrew Huberman· PhD
then you have to say that what we're doing in medicine today is very backwards because what we're doing in medicine today is the following we're saying I'm I'm coming at this in a long way but your question is so important that I want to answer it this way we're answering your question today as follows we're saying Andrew let's do a 10-year risk calculation of your risk of Mace mace stands for major adverse cardiac event it is the metric we use in medicine so major adverse cardiac event is a heart attack stroke you know or death basically resulting from these things so and we have calculators that are pretty good at predicting your 10year event risk they'll look at your cholesterol levels your blood pressure they'll ask if you smoke they'll ask some family history questions and they'll spit out a number now we should do yours after the fact um and I don't know if we did it for a person who's is you know you're in your mid-40s like it would probably spit out less than 5% risk for a major adverse cardiac event in the next 10 years in fact the models don't even work if age is below 40 so the first time I went to do one of these tests when I was in my mid-30s I couldn't do it like the the the algorithm breaks that's sort of like uh you know just doesn't work so the the implication there is if your uh if your mace risk is less than 5% the thinking is you do not need to treat LDL or apob