Plaque is the stuff of coronary heart disease. It is CONTROLLABLE, it is STOPPABLE, it is REVERSIBLE.
But you must be equipped with the right information on diet, nutritional supplements, and hopefully the avoidance of medication.
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Jan clearly did not want to talk about her heart scan. Her score of 502 came as a shock to her. After all, she’d survived breast cancer just a year earlier, having been through dozens of radiation treatments, chemotherapy, not the mention the emotional upheaval.
Now I was telling Jan that she had a very high heart scan score with a heart attack risk of 5% per year. Then we got to her lipoprotein patterns: Jan had several striking abnormalities, including a misleading LDL cholesterol that underestimated her true LDL by nearly 100% (LDL particle number), small LDL, and the dreaded lipoprotein(a).
“I can’t handle this! Why did I get the stupid scan in the first place?!”
Giving her a chance to collect her emotions, I discussed how, even though this business can be frightening, it’s far–FAR–better than the alternative: heart attack at 3 am, rush to the hospital, stents, bypass surgery, etc. Or, death for the >30% of people who don’t make it to the hospital in time.
That’s why I often tell people that prevention of disease is bad news in bits and pieces. But it’s a lot more manageable this way. Coronary plaque is a controllable process. You don’t have much control in the midst of a heart attack.
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I find it curious why people don’t want to know or talk about their numbers … blood sugar, blood pressure, blood fats. My brain tells me it’s a form of denial, but choosing not to see it won’t make it go away. I know it’s not easy quitting smoking or starting an exercise program, but at least you’re alive.
That’s all, don’t mean to sound bleak