Skip Your Next Heart Attack: Day 1 Cardiac Clarity

Let's talk cardiac clarity because I think a lot of people need to get clear on just heart disease in general. But one of the things that you say that I love is that their evaluation is not inaccurate. It's just incomplete.
Most people that come to see us have not had a complete test panel or a complete evaluation to even know if they're headed for a heart attack or not. Most people have had their cholesterol, their blood pressure, maybe their body weight, possibly a stress test. However, you need to understand fully if you have plaque in the coronary arteries of the heart, you need to know if you have insulin and glucose related issues. You need to know if you have bacteria in your mouth. If your oxygen level is dropping day or night, and you need to know about inflammation, very specific blood tests telling us about inflammation in the arteries.
So, if you haven't had all 5 of those tests. It doesn't even matter if you've had your blood pressure checked. Yeah, that tells you you have a risk factor for a heart attack, but it doesn't tell you: are you headed for a heart attack or not? You can know, but you have to have a complete test evaluation, including at least those five tests I mentioned.
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Heart Attack: Are Your Hot or Not?
So, let's walk through the five tests. What are the five tests?
1) CT Coronary Angiogram
You need a specific CAT scan, a CT coronary angiogram with artificial intelligence analysis. As I would say, this is that ooey gooey plaque that's in the wall of your arteries.
2) Sleep Study
You need a sleep study, a home sleep study to start with. And I would say that's if you're being, find out if you're being strangled in the middle of the night, all night long.
3) Saliva Test
You need your saliva tested. You need to spit in a tube and send that to the lab. So, you need to find out, do you have bacteria and viruses lurking in your mouth?
4) Blood Test Evaluation
You need a thorough blood test evaluation, continuous glucose monitor, and a finger stick machine at home to thoroughly understand your metabolic health. How is your insulin and glucose communication? Do you have insulin resistance, prediabetes, full blown diabetes, and don't even know it? You're raging, starving, hungry, you need to eat, and then you're over there taking a nap? Or, as you say, Dr. Pritchard, a sugar burner or a fat burner.
5) Inflammatory Markers
You need a thorough blood test evaluation. Specifically, you need to understand inflammation. And there are inflammatory markers that can be tested in the blood, help us understand if you have arteries that are inflamed, which is what leads to a heart attack.
So, this is the truth serum. What's really going on inside? Are you hot or not?
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What Is a Heart Attack?
So, Dr Pritchard, let's talk about what a heart attack really is. How would you define a heart attack?
A heart attack is damage to the heart muscle. The muscle cells start to die. And why does that happen? It happens because there's a problem upstream in the blood vessels that give the blood supply to the heart muscle.
So, a heart attack doesn't originally start in the heart. It starts in your blood vessels, the coronary arteries, so to speak. That's why you have to know if you have plaque in your coronary arteries. Even a small amount of plaque matters.

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I'm Dr. Gina Pritchard. And I worked in the coronary critical care unit for many years and saw thousands of patients suffer and die from cardiovascular disease or suffer and leave the hospital to never be the same. And now I'm in private practice in Frisco, Texas, where my practice is solely focused on heart attack, stroke, diabetes and dementia prevention.

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