550: The Heart Scan That Sees What Useless Bloodwork Can't with Dr. John Osborne

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Heart disease is the number one killer of women. And most heart attacks come from plaque that never shows up on our cholesterol panel, our stress test, or our EKG. Traditional cardiology has been treating us blindly. In this episode, preventive cardiologist Dr. John Osborne walks us through why standard tests miss the disease, what soft plaque actually is (he calls it the lava), why menopause is a massive cardiovascular event, and the modern imaging that finally lets us SEE our arteries and reverse the disease decades before symptoms show up. This is the conversation every midlife woman needs to hear.

IN THIS EPISODE

•  What plaque actually is and why it starts in our teens

•  Soft plaque vs hard plaque. The killer plaque is the invisible plaque

•  Why cholesterol, stress tests, and calcium scores miss the real disease

•  How CCTA with AI changes everything

•  The ClearCardio white-glove process. Scan. Labs. Consult. 12 months of care

•  Menopause as a massive cardiovascular event

•  Why women get missed. Atypical symptoms nobody teaches us

•  Microvascular disease, Takotsubo, and SCAD

•  The ONE thing every midlife woman should do this week