txdon
Super Star Member
The soft stuff causes sudden death the hard stuff causes slow death. Before the hard stuff there is always soft stuff that gradually gets hard. And accumulates. My brother took the test and his result were bad. He had several years that he could have tried to reverse his heart disease by diet and statins. He followed the advice of his cardiologist to eat less red meat, and that's about all he did. That cardiologist had not researched the available data and neither did my brother. About three years after he had a really bad score he was up to 95% blockage in three of his arteries. He complained of flue like symptoms and that was his last night.I guess I don't see the point in heart calcium testing then. Seems like it only detects hardened plaque, but it's the soft stuff you worry about? And is there a link between high blood pressure and arterial plaque? So confused...:confused2:
RNG if you use the data to give you incentive to go all the way to try to reverse your disease and stop growing soft plaque, let the soft plaque harden, and not accumulate you then have control over your disease. Otherwise stents and bypass are next. It is very hard for people to do because by eating cholesterol and fats that irritate the linning of your arteries you feel no pain while eating or after and eating that type of food is enjoyable. The calcium test detects the heart disease long before you fail a stress test and once you fail the stress test it's too late you will be given the scare talk by your cardiologist and will have stents or bypasses.
Heart disease is a food related disease. Is there anyone that does not believe this? Every person has hereditary differences and their body reacts to food differently. Kyle and I are on the extremes, of course I'm on the wrong end and must compensate by strict diet. Heart disease is the nations #1 killer so there are lots of people on the wrong end.
So our Surgeon General advises all people to carry WHAT!!!!!!
Surgeon general advises Americans to carry opioid OD antidote – Las Vegas Review-Journal
Ok off soapbox.