John Anderson does having stents in your arteries cause inaccurate calcium scores
scores 483 in July score went up to 3910 in June of 2020
I'm not an expert on that specific topic I will
tell you a couple of things though quite often we see
a major increase in calcium and it's associated with having an
events and it's often not a bad thing
and here's why you know I had this with another patient this week he said
Doc I had a calcium score of 300 I went on a low carb diet and then I
went completely carnivore I lost 50 pounds
my cardiologist told me I was killing myself
with my carnivore diet and I will tell you I don't I mean this was carnivore
with a little bit of dairy in there bottom line was again he lost 50 pounds
by dropping his carbs and I'm not concerned about it being carnivore
you know my perspective with him was you're not killing yourself
dropping those carbs and especially dropping that pound that's that body fat
it's huge improvement in your life you're not killing yourself you're
saving yourself and he said well here's the other thing
he said when I did that and I lost the 50 pounds my
calcium score went from 300 to 1,300 and I began to think
maybe my cardiologist was right now if you did many CIMTs and if your
cardiologist did a whole lot of CIMTs they would begin to understand
a process that you can google do a fact check on me you'll see it time and time
again again most docs are not aware of it the
reality is the risk is caused by soft
plaque inflamed plaque and when you take plaque and you reverse
that inflammation you can shrink the plaque
your cardiologists often don't believe that doctors often don't believe that
yes you can just look it up on something simple like
Harvard Health and you'll see it and we've got plenty of videos on that
but here's the key point that gets back to your question John
when you go from soft inflamed plaque to stabilized plaque
you increase your calcium score you can increase it dramatically
and that was clearly my point to this individual no
I don't think you increased your risk even though you went from 300 to 1,300
I see it all the time when people lose 30 40 50 pounds
instead of getting a significant decrease in calcium score
they often get a major increase and it was because
they stabilized all that plaque does that mean you can never
get a reverse in calcium score it doesn't mean that there's a fellow and
I'm blanking on his name he's the guy in LA I think that's
done a whole lot of work on calcium scores he did a couple of
articles about reversal of calcium scores I've got a couple of patients
that did videos on the reversal of calcium scores John
Lorscheider and Gerry Kurth both demonstrated
reversal of calcium score what does that mean they're getting worse now with both
of these individuals they were demonstrating
significant improvement in lifestyle 40 pound weight loss in one
20 or 30 pound weight loss and another significant
improvements in other components of lifestyle as well like carbs and things
like that things aren't always as they seem
continue to get great feedback regarding the webinars and here's why
you know on the Internet when you hear a webinar you expect for somebody to try
to sell you something we're not doing that we're trying to
tell you something people are coming in with their labs from Quest
inflammation panel OGTT insulin survey response
and then they're finding out do I have inflammation do I have
insulin resistance and where does that fit in terms of other folks
we're getting ready to start one for CIMT as well
so again people are really excited about finding out
their own status looking forward to seeing you there
thanks