2952: Dr. Cabral Reveals the 7 Blood Markers That Predict Heart Disease Better Than Cholesterol

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Sal Di Stefano (3:00)

Dr. Braul, welcome back to the show.

Stephen Cabral (3:02)

Great to be here.

Sal Di Stefano (3:02)

Yeah, it's always fun to have you on. Okay, so today we're going to talk about some health markers that you say are far more important to look at than cholesterol. These are ones we should pay attention to because they can predict risk of things like heart disease and heart attack.

So let's talk about these. What are they and why are they important?

Stephen Cabral (3:24)

So there's seven markers that we've found to be just far more valuable for predicting the number one cause of death for both men and women, which is sudden cardiac death, heart attack, or heart disease. These are typically a slow burn, meaning they happen over decades, so men can start having real heart disease in their 50s. If you're predisposed, that's why. Genetics do matter, but all of genetics are able to be overcome with a lot of healthy lifestyle factors that we talked about in the previous podcast. But when we look at what causes the plaque to build up in the arteries, or those arteries to become more stiff, these markers are going to be better for that. The first one, and anyone has access to these now.

Five years ago, I wouldn't be able to say the same thing, but now anybody can run these markers for blood work.

Sal Di Stefano (4:10)

So you can go get tested for these?

Stephen Cabral (4:12)

You can do them at home, you can do them just blood work at a lab corp, a quest, wherever you want. So the first one is APO-B. It used to be called or sometimes referred to as APO-B 100