American College of Cardiology

the expert panel, and also attending CME courses in cardio-oncology.

There are some specific ones, plus the GCOs or the Global Cardio-Oncology Summit, European Society of Cardio-Oncology, the American Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, Cardio-Oncology section.

They all have conferences or symposiums on cardio-oncology.

And, you know, cardio-oncology is growing.

It's a profound choice.

There is a quote from Dr. Kim Williams, a former president of the American College of Cardiology, that captures the essence of this perfectly.

When someone asked him why he chose to eat a strict plant-based diet, he simply said, I don't mind dying.

I just don't want it to be my own fault.

So Dr. Guzik, let's shift gears now.

Four major cardiac societies, ESC, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the World Heart Federation, have come together to develop and publish a new universal definition of myocardial infarction.

Now, I'm sure we could have an entire episode on just this, but I'd like to try to condense the highlights here for you.

Now, the previous universal definition of MI used a numerical system to categorize the different types of MI.

This is such an important question, and I think there's a really strong role for the professional societies in this work.

Places like the American College of Cardiology, the AHA, and others, and I think that there's been quite a foray into how do we translate what places that have resources are doing into what is the most pragmatic approach to ensuring safety and high quality AI augmented care.

And I will say that Stanford is different from a lot of these places in that we will build many of our own tools.

Most of these community hospitals are not investing in building their own tools.

In fact, the American Heart Association doesn't even recommend it.

The American College of Cardiology doesn't even mention it.

I mean, what's really bizarre to me is here we have this entire profession that is recommending something to help your heart with a side effect of breaking down the heart.

It just doesn't make sense to me.

I would recommend taking a very specific form of coenzyme Q10, the one that actually can get in your body and work instantly, and that's called ubiquinol.

I would recommend taking maybe 200 to 400 milligrams.

Why does the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology not recommend coenzyme Q10 when someone takes a statin? Now, you may hear from your doctor that the research is mixed.

Well, it's mainly because even though the research is there, it takes a long time before that gets into the general consensus.

KOSI 101.

She was awarded the 2022 American College of Cardiology Cardiologist of the Year and the 2024 American College of Cardiology Gifted Educator of the Year.

And we are lucky and fortunate to have her joining us.

Welcome, Pyle.

And that's what leads to cardiac disease.

It's not a popular opinion in the American College of Cardiology when I talk like this, but I think it's, it's inevitable, right? Like when, when you have this, so I'd love that that's what you're doing, you know, and, and, and that's what guides, that's what needs to guide us, right? As, as we have this antenna built in and, and we need to trust, trust it, right? Like

That's it.

Exactly.

We're seeing almost 70% of people with a nutritional deficiency at the level that the lab says is low, which is not what I would say is optimal.

We're seeing 54% with high ApoB, which is a lipid biomarker that that most doctors don't check that is more important than LDL or any other cholesterol biomarker based on the American College of Cardiology literature, and yet it's not checked.

So we are really going deep and looking at heavy metals or hormones, your nutritional status, your metabolic status, and it really gives people understanding what's happening.

You can even look for cancer through multi-cancer early detection testing, and there's newer tests emerging.