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Friday September 25 2026 | Life After Heart Disease | Tips and Tricks for Managing Heart Health · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 2: one of us carries the load for the other. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to fly solo when we need to. But
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  Speaker 2: is the ability to say, you know what, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to go do personal stuff. Very personal. And over the years,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a great, there's an interesting drama behind doing
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  Speaker 2: I'm a talk show host who likes to share personal
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  Speaker 2: details on the show. Now, not everybody likes that. You know,
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  Speaker 2: for some managers in the talk radio world, for example,
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  Speaker 2: or the podcast space, for that matter, the people that
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  Speaker 2: dinner last night because, you know, you need to stick
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  Speaker 2: to the headlines. Now, I've always believed in the power
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  Speaker 2: of relatability. And if there's one bit of constructive praise
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  Speaker 2: that I get, And all the years I've been doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been having this a long time. Mark hasn't
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  Speaker 2: been quite there as many years as me, but he's
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  Speaker 2: been at it a long time too. But my first
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  Speaker 2: talk radio gig was in 1978. So you can do
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  Speaker 2: the math, right? We're coming on, what, 50 years? Which
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  Speaker 2: is a little bit insane, but it's true. Coming up
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  Speaker 2: on 50 years of broadcasting. My whole life, this is
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  Speaker 2: what I've done. And my instinct has been to share
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  Speaker 2: personal stories about my wife, my kids, my life, things
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  Speaker 2: that are happening at the supermarket. And managers that I've
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  Speaker 2: had over the years, and I've worked at a number
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  Speaker 2: of radio stations, some of them hate it. Some of
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  Speaker 2: them just don't like it at all. You got to
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  Speaker 2: kind of have... I guess, a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: taste for it. But the biggest compliment I receive when
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  Speaker 2: I meet people in person is thank you for sharing
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  Speaker 2: aspects of your personal life with us, Mike. We love
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  Speaker 2: that about you. We love it when you talk about
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  Speaker 2: a dental procedure or something you're up against or a
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  Speaker 2: health challenge. We love that. We love that about going
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  Speaker 2: through the journey that we were on with you and
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  Speaker 2: your wife when Denise got sick and eventually in June
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  Speaker 2: of 2008 died of endometrial cancer. Look, that's life, sometimes death, Highs, lows, ups, downs,
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  Speaker 2: we're in it together. There is a familial feeling to
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  Speaker 2: our world. I meet people all the time who say, Mike,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I know you. And I believe that
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  Speaker 2: the reason you feel like you know me is because
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  Speaker 2: I'm willing to share some things that maybe other hosts
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't share. I guess the word would be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of vulnerability. Many hosts are very private. When Denise
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  Speaker 2: got diagnosed with endometrial cancer, I told her, honey, we
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  Speaker 2: don't need to talk about this. I won't talk about
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  Speaker 2: it on the air if you want. We'll just keep
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  Speaker 2: it private. She said, no, share my journey because maybe
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  Speaker 2: we'll have a happy ending and we can inspire other people.
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  Speaker 2: To this day, I hear from people who were inspired
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  Speaker 2: by what I shared during that year and a half
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  Speaker 2: that Denise fought back against cancer. endometrial cancer. Obviously, she
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  Speaker 2: lost the battle to cancer. But every bit of that
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  Speaker 2: was chronicled on the Mike Gallagher show. And I'm grateful
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  Speaker 2: All right, so let's fast forward. going through the travails
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  Speaker 2: of my life with my wife, my kids. And I've
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  Speaker 2: shared those experiences with my kids too. When Trevor was
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  Speaker 2: in a terrible head-on car crash in Arlington, Texas, almost killed,
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  Speaker 2: broke a bunch of bones in his body, that poor kid. Look,
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  Speaker 2: that's what we're about. And so this podcast, I want
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  Speaker 2: it to be very personal. Well, let me share personal
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  Speaker 2: news with you. And I've alluded to it a little
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  Speaker 2: bit on the show, but we're going to dive into
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  Speaker 2: this headfirst today on this Friday episode of M &
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  Speaker 2: M Extra. I found out, thanks to a body scan,
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  Speaker 2: that I have stenosis. I've got plaque buildup in my
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  Speaker 2: heart arteries. And that is a very serious diagnosis. And
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  Speaker 2: let me rewind a little bit and unpack how I
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  Speaker 2: found this out. A number of years ago, I did
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  Speaker 2: a body scan. Mark Davis, Mark talks about body scans
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  Speaker 2: all the time from Viascan of Las Colinas, Texas. And
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  Speaker 2: Mark has been an endorser of theirs for a long,
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  Speaker 2: long time. Mark got a body scan from via scan
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  Speaker 2: of Los Colinas and they found a calcium plaque issue
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  Speaker 2: in his heart. He wound up getting the next level,
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  Speaker 2: which was a, uh, a, um, he got a CT
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  Speaker 2: or not. He did a CT scan and I believe
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  Speaker 2: he went and had a, um, I'm always drawing a blank,
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  Speaker 2: a catheterization. He had a heart catheterization and they found
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  Speaker 2: he had a 30% blockage. in his LAD, which is
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  Speaker 2: the widowmaker. That's the left anterior descending artery. That's the
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  Speaker 2: big one. That's the one you don't want to have
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  Speaker 2: a blockage. Well, just our luck, Mark and I both
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  Speaker 2: have blockages there. Mark is at 30%. When they went
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  Speaker 2: in and did the catheterization, they went in there, they
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  Speaker 2: took a good look, they said 30%, we don't need
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  Speaker 2: to do anything. They were ready, if needed, to add
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  Speaker 2: a stent to open up the blood flow of that LAD.
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  Speaker 2: But when they got in there, in Mark's case, they
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  Speaker 2: said 30%, no stent needed. That's invasive. We don't do
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  Speaker 2: it unless we need to. We're not going to do it.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to keep an eye on it. Mark, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to do diet, exercise, and live a long, healthy,
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  Speaker 2: happy life. When Lindsey Graham had a massive cardiac event
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  Speaker 2: in his home in Washington, D.C., I looked at that
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, you know what? I'm going to go
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  Speaker 2: do another scan. So I went over here to a
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  Speaker 2: place in, in, in, or over back in Florida, Tampa
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  Speaker 2: Bay called craft body scan, great operation, just pristine state-of-the-art technology.
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  Speaker 2: And they did one of those body scans and they
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  Speaker 2: found in me a concern for my arteries in my heart.
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  Speaker 2: So my doctor, um, elevated it and had me do
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  Speaker 2: a CT scan, a CT coronary bypass graft scan. That's
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  Speaker 2: where they do the CT scan with contrast, meaning they
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  Speaker 2: flush your arteries, I guess, with dye. And that gives
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  Speaker 2: the machine an opportunity to take a good, hard look
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  Speaker 2: at your arteries. And it turns out I have coronary
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  Speaker 2: artery disease. Now, this blew my mind when I'm realizing
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  Speaker 2: that I'm going to be in this path because I've
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  Speaker 2: always believed... in my heart that cancer was gonna get me.
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  Speaker 2: My mom died of bladder cancer, my dad died of
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  Speaker 2: cancer of the blood, which is leukemia, and my sister
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  Speaker 2: died of breast cancer. My whole immediate family has been
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  Speaker 2: lost to cancer. So it was my belief, kind of
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  Speaker 2: my morbid thought, that I'll probably get cancer someday. Never
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  Speaker 2: dreaming I'd have a heart issue. Well, here I am
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  Speaker 2: with coronary artery calcification. And I would not have found
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  Speaker 2: this out were it not for that body scan. So
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  Speaker 2: lesson number one today, I mean, the overall overreaching lesson
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  Speaker 2: is going to be you got to take care of yourself.
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  Speaker 2: You got to take the tools that the medical industry
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  Speaker 2: possesses and use them to your best advantage. You've got to,
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  Speaker 2: you've got, if you've got questions about, if there's a
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  Speaker 2: scan that's available to you, take it. If there's an x-ray,
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  Speaker 2: take it. If there's a diagnosis, go for it. Don't
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  Speaker 2: put this stuff off. And so after my CT scan,
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  Speaker 2: with contrast, they determined that my LAD, my left anterior
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  Speaker 2: descending artery, has a 52% plaque damage. Blockage. 52%. Now,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want intervention, meaning a stent or a bypass
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that, unless it's 70% or more. People
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  Speaker 2: who die, people who have the Widowmaker give out, as
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  Speaker 2: they call it, this LAD, they have a 90% or 100% blockage,
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  Speaker 2: and the whole thing shuts down. The scary part about
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  Speaker 2: a blockage in the Widowmaker... is if that thing goes out,
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  Speaker 2: I read last night, and I think this is true,
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  Speaker 2: there's a 90% fatality rate if that happens when you're
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  Speaker 2: not in a hospital. If you're in a hospital setting,
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  Speaker 2: you've got a fighting chance. If you're home, it probably
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  Speaker 2: lights out. So, I want to be on top of this. 52%,
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  Speaker 2: it's described as moderate, according to my doctor. It's not severe.
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  Speaker 2: It's not crisis level, but it's something I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: have to deal with. And I'm going to deal with it,
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  Speaker 2: in today's case, on this podcast quite publicly. And let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you how I'm going to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: Number one, and this is very, very important to me,
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  Speaker 2: that I share this sort of background, this backstory with you.
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  Speaker 2: I am grateful now that I know what I need
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  Speaker 2: to do to try to stay on top of this.
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  Speaker 2: to even get ahead of it. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go through all the ways that I'm going to treat
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  Speaker 2: this thing as I embark upon this new cardiology path.
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  Speaker 2: I've got the test in front of me from the
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  Speaker 2: Cardiology Imaging Center, okay? And I want to read some
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  Speaker 2: of it with you because, again, this is something that
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  Speaker 2: might concern anybody who's 50 or older. If you're 50
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  Speaker 2: or older, you may have this happening in your body
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  Speaker 2: and you don't even know it. Now, here's the best
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  Speaker 2: news of all. Look, I'm a hypochondriac. I want to
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  Speaker 2: live till I'm 100. I probably won't, but I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to try. And this really brought me, this laid me low.
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  Speaker 2: This brought me down. I've been very upset about this.
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  Speaker 2: I've been concerned. I've been worried. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have a heart attack. You know, I live alone. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to wake up on the floor one of
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  Speaker 2: these days and having terrible, terrible chest pain and die. Well,
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  Speaker 2: my doctor this week assured me, Mike, you're not on
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  Speaker 2: the verge of dying. The plaque that we're seeing right now,
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  Speaker 2: you've never had a test like this before, which is true.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us don't have a test like this. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have a CT scan for your arteries with contrast.
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  Speaker 2: So you have no idea. You might be walking around
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  Speaker 2: with a lot of plaque in your arteries and you
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  Speaker 2: don't know it. What my doctor said is this takes
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  Speaker 2: many years to before it gets to this point, he said,
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  Speaker 2: you're not in any danger of dropping over likely for
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  Speaker 2: the next 10 years or more. You can go another
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  Speaker 2: decade where you are right now and nothing, nothing will
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  Speaker 2: happen likely. Now there's no crystal ball. There's no guarantee,
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  Speaker 2: but that made me feel a lot better because it
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  Speaker 2: made me feel like, Oh my gosh, did I get 52%
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  Speaker 2: blockage in my LAD last week? And I'm about to
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  Speaker 2: drop dead.
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  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: The doctor laughed and said, no, Mike, not even close.
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  Speaker 2: So here's what the imaging report says. The left anterior
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  Speaker 2: descending artery, LAD, arises from the left main and is
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  Speaker 2: a large size caliber vessel that supplies blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 2: The proximal LAD, in my case, this is from the
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  Speaker 2: lab report. The proximal LAD has a moderate to severe
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  Speaker 2: partially calcified plaque structure. Now, I saw severe, and that
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  Speaker 2: kind of freaked me out, and the doctor said, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: He said, this cardiologist is calling it moderate to severe
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  Speaker 2: because the range for moderate to severe is 50% to 69%. Well,
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  Speaker 2: mine is 52%, so I'm on the moderate end of
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  Speaker 2: that scale. So even though it says moderate to severe,
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  Speaker 2: my doctor assured me it's not severe, it's moderate. It
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  Speaker 2: goes on to say the mid-LAD has a moderate, partially
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  Speaker 2: calcified plaque present. The diagonal artery is large and branching
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  Speaker 2: and has moderate stenosis, non-calcified plaque present at the ostium.
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  Speaker 2: So look, I've got places where I've got plaque, is
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  Speaker 2: the easiest way to put it. The worst is 52%
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  Speaker 2: in the LAD. The other places, 20%, 30%. all of that.
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  Speaker 2: My total calcium score, by the way, for people who've
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  Speaker 2: been asking me about the calcium score, is 124. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know what that means. I guess that's higher
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  Speaker 2: than it should be. I don't know what the average
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  Speaker 2: calcium score is. But the assessment is, number one, my
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  Speaker 2: total CAC score, which I'm pretty sure is calcium, is 124.
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  Speaker 2: And then it says, number two, moderate stage two burden
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  Speaker 2: of plaque with moderate to severely stenotic atherosclerotic coronary artery disease,
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  Speaker 2: as described above. Number three, non-calcified plaque. Number four, low
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  Speaker 2: attenuation plaque. And number five, blah, blah, blah. So that's
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  Speaker 2: my story, and I'm sticking to it. So now I've
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  Speaker 2: got to stick to a plan. And what do they
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  Speaker 2: want me to do? Now, one of the steps I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to take is to find a cardiologist. Because I've
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  Speaker 2: never had a cardiologist in my life. I'm 66 years old.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a cardiologist. And I've identified one that
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  Speaker 2: my doctor recommended. We're trying to work all that out.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get in to see him. Who knows
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  Speaker 2: how long that will take. But here's what they say.
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  Speaker 2: Because this cardiology clinic that does the advanced imaging for me,
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  Speaker 2: they have recommendations. And here's their recommendations. Recommend cardiology follow-up
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  Speaker 2: for risk factor optimization and longitudinal plaque surveillance. In patients
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  Speaker 2: with obstructive CAD, high-risk plaque features or high plaque burden,
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  Speaker 2: consider FFRCT or functional stress imaging to define significance. Revascularization
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  Speaker 2: should generally be reserved for limiting symptoms and or objective
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  Speaker 2: myocardial compromise. Initiate high-intensity statin therapy, and those statins... or
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  Speaker 2: just been doubled up for me, I'm taking statins, and
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  Speaker 2: when appropriate, GLP-1-based therapy, e.g. semaglutide or terzepatide. They recommend
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  Speaker 2: the GLP-1 drugs to get the weight off. With off-label use,
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  Speaker 2: individualized through shared decision making. Then they want my blood
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  Speaker 2: pressure within a certain range, lifestyle, reinforced smoking, cessation, well,
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  Speaker 2: I've never smoked in my life, Mediterranean or DASH-style nutrition,
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  Speaker 2: regular exercise, weight management, and sleep optimization. And they're recommending
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  Speaker 2: 81 milligrams of aspirin every day, like the aspirin from
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  Speaker 2: Bayer or St. Joseph, you could pop an aspirin every day.
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  Speaker 2: And then laboratory follow-up, imaging follow-up, And that's kind of
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  Speaker 2: the course of action I'm going to be on. So
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  Speaker 2: I say all of this to say to you, you
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  Speaker 2: could do the same thing if you've got the same
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  Speaker 2: concerns that have presented in the way that they presented
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  Speaker 2: for me. There's nothing wrong with being proactive. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: you ought to be proactive. And I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: everything that this report and my doctor have And I
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  Speaker 2: think my future cardiologist recommends. I want my weight to
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  Speaker 2: be at goal. In my case, I think I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to be very happy at around 180 to be 5'11.
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  Speaker 2: I started at 230 years ago, 240. In fact, at
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  Speaker 2: one point I got up to 240. I want to
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  Speaker 2: be at around 180 and keep it there. I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to show you how I did that in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be on the bike every single day
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  Speaker 2: of my life. Right now, I've made a commitment that
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  Speaker 2: every single day of my life, seven days a week,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to spend 30 minutes on an exercise bike.
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  Speaker 2: Treadmill's kind of hard on me. I like walking, but I,
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  Speaker 2: because of a hip replacement I had nine or 10
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  Speaker 2: years ago, they've always said, don't be careful about the pounding.
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  Speaker 2: And I think a treadmill is probably okay in my case,
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  Speaker 2: but I like the exercise bike. And the doctor said,
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  Speaker 2: that's good. I'm going to do 30 minutes a day
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  Speaker 2: on the exercise bike. I'm going to try to do
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  Speaker 2: 15 minutes a day on the elliptical. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: eat carefully. I'm going to swim where I can. Got
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  Speaker 2: a great pool where I live. I'm going to try
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  Speaker 2: to get a good eight hours of sleep every night.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm going to stay on top of this. Because that's,
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  Speaker 2: I think, what I should be doing. I should absolutely
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  Speaker 2: be doing this. And I've now got, God gave me
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  Speaker 2: the tools to try to take control of this health challenge.
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  Speaker 2: for indulging me a little bit today. I know it's
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  Speaker 2: very personal. I know it's a lot of medical jargon.
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  Speaker 2: But it dawned on me this week, hey, if you're
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  Speaker 2: over 50, you could very well be facing what I'm
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  Speaker 2: facing and you don't know it. And I want you
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: to know it. And I want you to be aware.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: You know, after Mark and I talked about these body scans,
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  Speaker 2: I'm told that the phones are blowing up over at
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  Speaker 2: in Florida, the body scan place that I went to,
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  Speaker 2: You don't want to... You are loved, your family, your friends,
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  Speaker 2: your coworkers. And I think you have an obligation to
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  Speaker 2: the people in your life to take care of yourself,
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: to be smart. And now with, hey, with artificial intelligence,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: don't you think I haven't fed all this crap into
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: ChatGPT and Grok and Muse? Muse is the new one now.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: My new buddy is Ziggy. because they let you name
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: your AI partner on Muse. And of course, what I
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: hate about it, I didn't realize until I signed up,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: that's from Zuckerberg. That's a Facebook, Google product. That's all
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  Speaker 2: I need. But with all of these AI tools that
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: are making the world a better place, and yes, we've
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: got to keep an eye on it, and yes, we've
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: got to be prepared for what could go wrong, but
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: those tools... I mean, it spit out all kinds of
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: analysis about me and what I should be doing and
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: what I'm going to be doing. And I am. And
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: I'm going to follow those plans. for the rest of
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: my days. So thanks for letting me share all that
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  Speaker 2: with you. Again, come out to Pasadena tomorrow if you're
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• 29:13
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