Dhru Purohit

You know, we've had, you can get your calcium score, but that looks at hard, that looks at calcified plaque, right?

Hard plaque.

But increasingly through the evidence, people understand for cardiovascular disease that even a bigger risk is this soft plaque buildup that's there.

Now there's some questions about, do soft plaque and hard plaque correlate together?

And so looking at hard plaque is good enough.

But now that there are more abilities to do CCTA and companies like Clearly, No Affiliation, that can use AI imaging to get a snapshot of your soft plaque,

I've gotten it done for myself.

I've heard from many of my friends and podcast listeners.

Listen, insurance is not covering it out of pocket.

It's like $1,600, $2,000.

It's not a cheap test that's there.

But for somebody like me who has a history of cardiovascular disease, South Asians, Indians are at the highest risk for any ethnic minority.

I actually want to know is the lifestyle that I'm doing at the age of 43, 44 years old, am I...

am I really going in the wrong direction?

Because I am a hyper reabsorber of cholesterol.

So untreated, my ApoB is probably around like 160, right?

And it's through taking things like Zetia and having like a high fiber diet and other stuff that I've been able to bring it down to more like 80.

which is still a little bit high, you know, it's a tiny bit high, but definitely back in the normal range.

So I'm feeling that a lot of people on my podcast are the people who feel like I want to know and I want to go on the journey to try to find the right resources.

But I do agree that it's not for everybody.