[ConservativeMind]

Do note CT scans best identify calcium plaques, which typically form over a ruptured soft plaque. Soft plaques are easier to identify with an MRI, but if you have calcium plaques, you have at least as many soft plaques.

I had an artery on my heart in which I was able to reverse the calcium plaque to nothing, at some point over three years. I also have been taking supplements and eating better to reduce or eliminate soft plaques, but can’t speak to that progress from current testing. A preventative MRI full body scan I plan in the near future may help with that, and I will report what I find.

[ConservativeMind]

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[ConservativeMind]

This is a post from an earlier thread in which I pulled some of these things together for Pollard:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044326/posts?page=40#40

[RatRipper]

Probably would have saved my father-in-law’s life. Catheter dislodge some calcium, lodged in a renal artery and killed one of his kidneys. Resulted in a cascade of complications that finally killed him late last summer.

[Sequoyah101]

Similarly, MRI with a 3T machine is much better at identifying prostate cancer than any other method including biopsy. Lots of urologists don’t want to hear that. You don’t even need a radiologist to read the scan, computer program does it.

Lot of lucrative cath labs will fight this like the plague. The cath lab is a gold mine for cardiologists just like sturgeons do well on colonoscopys.

[Romulus]

What supplements do you take?

[jerod]

When they can start inserting stints and doing bypasses with a CT scan, then it will be a good way to know if you have heart disease... There is nothing more efficient and more sure and certain than a catheter being inserted into your arm or thigh.

[beef]

“A preventative MRI full body scan I plan in the near future”

There is a company in the Raleigh are which offers a thoracic CT scan at a ridiculously low price, presumably to sell you on the much more expensive full body version. I ask the Dr, but he never heard of it. I wonder if this is really worth it.