re: What age is a good age to start seeing a Cardiologist?

If your calcium score is up how do you bring it down?

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You are right. Bacon and red meat everyday is what keeps your blood pressure low and keeps your arteries from building up plaque. Bacon and beef every day is the best diet and never see a cardiologist that recommends a diet of any sort. That is witchcraft.

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You were actually closer to truth, in your first sentence, than your nuts and veggie nonsense. Then you just devolve into some fourth-grade absurdity. Tell me exactly how nuts and veggies diet works with respect to CVD prevention , please. Citing to the precise lipidology/inflammation pathways.

Also, show me the research on how saturated fat "clogs arteries" and causes hypertension.

Tia

Not necessarily

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Eat a clean, nutritionally excellent diet and a cardiologist will never be needed at all.

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I'm going to go out in a limb here and say you're definitely not a medical doctor of and kind.

Yep. Heart hospital in LR does those screenings for around $100.

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I'm going to go out in a limb here and say you're definitely not a medical doctor of and kind.

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Meh, the average medical doctor (even cardiologist) is so far behind the times when it comes to CVD causes and prevention, this is really not an insult.

That said, I have no idea what "eating clean" even means.

And, I think everyone (w family history and I'd say even without once you hit 40) should do a coronary calcium score test, read enough to understand the latest lipidology science, get a lipoprotein(a) test (proxy for apo-a: important for diagnosing genetic heart disease predisposition), know your LDL particle number (apo-B is proxy) and size, CR-P, insulin-sensitivity. Also what is your Trig burden? (ask your doctor a out that and watch the head scratch). VLDL remnants? Cholesterol synthesis? Cholesterol absorption? Defective LDL receptors (and the extreme familial hypercholesterolemia and PCSK9 inhibitor treatment)?

Most doctors will only look at the "trick" of the statin without understanding it. Just willy-nilly handing out the best marketed statin isn't ideal. They can be a tool of the right type, in the right dose, in the right patient.

Calcium scores also need to be used properly. The problem with relying on calcium score at a young age is, calcification is such a late phase of atherosclerosis. In other words, you can be in late forties and have a low score and still be at risk down the road.

As far as the type of blood test: Electrophoresis is even better than NMR for LDL particle number/size. But if your doctor isn't at least doing NMR then fire him/her immediately.

And then formulate a program to reduce your risk as much as possible (including through healthy metabolic regulation) , relative to negative side effect risk of statins and low LDL (which is neuroprotective). And there is a drug in phase iii testing that is promising for hereditary CVD via wiping out apo-a twice a year.

Formulate a program to increase HR variability (proxy for bad, chronic stress), sleep improvement, and cortisol control.

To see how much your doctor knows, remembers, or cares about this stuff, ask him/her about endothelial health and how hypertension and smoking affect it. How oxidation creates an unhealthy type of inflammatory response, which contributes to a lipoprotein depositing cholesterol in the arterial wall.

If your doctor refers to HDL as "good cholesterol," then I'd ask him or her to explain why (and then fire him/her when s/he can't explain it).

Or just downvote idiotically. That's easier.

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Bro, no doctor would ever tell you that as long as you eat healthy, there's no need to ever see a doctor.

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Right. Ok. So. What? My point obviously was, a) the eat clean statement was dumb and b) most doctors are equally dumb when it comes to CVD.