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Juan C. Jimenez

Juan C. Jimenez

Vascular surgeon and Clinical Professor of Surgery at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, and Assistant Dean for Faculty Initiatives.

Aug 10, 2026

32:37
Mm-hmm
32:38
... and they clog with plaque, sometimes it happens over decades, and sometimes people can have this developing in their arteries, and they don't feel any symptoms from it.
32:49
Just like a house that is built in the 1930s, right? And it can start developing rust in the pipes in the 1950s and '60s.
32:56
You don't know about it 'cause the pipes work.
32:58
But then, you know, as the house gets a little older, you start noticing when, when, when the pipes start clogging up.
33:03
So the oxygen requires, or the muscles require oxygen to work, right? Not necessarily to contract, but they, as you know, remembering from medical school, the, you know...
33:18
But, but, f- but they require mu- they require oxygen to relax.

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47:13
Yes.

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