Endothelial dysfunction

And if you're 40 years old or above, there's better chances than not that you're gonna already start having some plaque building up in your arteries, and you may not have any symptoms for quite a while.

But that plaque is kind of like the boogeyman that's about to pop out at some point if you have a lot of inflammation, if you have a lot of endothelial dysfunction, which I'm sure we're gonna talk about going forward.

So the myth is an EKG and a stress test is enough to rule you out as being high risk.

The other big myth is it's all about cholesterol.

So when you were holding up, you know, the, the tennis ball, right? What you're talking about is essentially is that, let's say that there are these, uh, lipoproteins that are floating around the blood and, you know, they may have, you know, cholesterol inside of them, so damage, which can come in all sorts of different forms.

We're gonna go through a whole list of, like, what are the top things that damage those, those, that endothelial lining, and then you end up having, like, sort of like a, a little bit of a, a, um, a pothole, and then these cholesterols, you know, these lipoproteins get stuck there, right? And so that's what you're talking about in terms of, like, you know, you have had some damage, and now these lipoproteins that are floating around have gotten stuck in this little, this little divot.

Exactly right, and it starts with the endothelial dysfunction.

So maybe we'll backtrack there before we go fully into the calcium score because that's kind of a, like a late stage finding.