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ABOUT DR. BREWER Dr. Brewer started as an Emergency Doctor. After seeing too many preventable heart attacks, he went to Johns Hopkins to learn Preventive Medicine. While there, he went on the run the post-graduate training program (residency) in Preventive Medicine. From there, he made a career of practicing and managing preventive medicine and primary care clinics. His later role in this area was Chief Medical Officer for Premise, which has close to 1,000 primary care/prevention clinics. He was also the Chief Medical Officer for MDLIVE, the second largest telemedicine company. More recently, he founded PrevMed, a heart attack, and stroke prevention clinic. At PrevMed, we focus on heart attack, stroke, and cognitive decline. We serve patients who have already experienced an event as well as those who have not developed a diagnosis or event. Dr. Brewer provides services via telemedicine or in person if you’re in the Lexington, KY area. We find a lot of undiagnosed Pre-Diabetes or Insulin Resistance. Treating unrecognized risk factors like Pre-Diabetes allows reduction of risk and prevention of disease. If you are interested in becoming a patient, please visit our website: https://prevmedheartrisk.com/ You can’t reverse arterial plaque; right? No, that’s not right. Please help us fight heart disease & stroke! Help us translate this video. http://www.youtube.com/timedtext_vide… ABOUT THIS VIDEO: I’ve focused on lifestyle, especially diet, most of my career. I started as an ER doc, but realized quickly that lifestyle, especially diet, is a major cause of most disease, disability & death. But in my late 50s, I ran into a problem. I found plaque in my arteries on a CIMT (Carotid Intima Media Thickness test) equivalent to a 73 yo man. My BMI has remained less than 25 my entire life, and mostly less than 23. So obesity was not the problem. Like many patients, I’d put off medications, including statins. After finding the plaque in my arteries, I decided to try the right statin, and Niacin. And I made a few more tweaks in my lifestyle. It worked. I reversed 20 years’ worth of plaque in my arteries. ( If you’re thinking this was a CIMT technical variation, I thought of that. I had several serial CIMTs over that two year period. They stayed on the same trend line; so this appeared to be true plaque regression.) So I did this video to “give the medication devil his due”. I continued to age into prediabetes, or Insulin Resistance (IR). (It could have been due to the statin. But that’s not likely; the statin was only 5mg of Crestor.) Over half of adults already have IR. Even minimal increases in blood sugar and insulin levels causes plaque and CV Inflammation. The major goal of this channel is to warn others to check for plaque and CV inflammation, usually due to prediabetes, or IR. Most of my patients come to me with it, and therefore with plaque. Unfortunately, the standard practice to screen for diabetes is test using FBG (Fasting Blood Glucose) and Hemaglobin A1c. These often miss mild prediabetes. But mild prediabetes does most of the damage, creating plaque and CV inflammation prior to the patient knowing there is any danger. Most people think they don’t have a problem. This vid from John on my channel can help you understand how prevalent this silent killer is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lshFa… Upon discovering my blood sugar problem, I returned my focus to lifestyle & diet. I went from a plant-based/pescatarian to low carb. I have tended to keep my carbs below 100gm/day. (I don’t worry about - in fact, I push- fiber carbs, like broccoli, cauliflower, and Brussels sprouts.) The science is clear that you can reverse plaque. This is especially true for plaque less than 3 years old. We have several videos covering the science in this area. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysifM… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkWIy… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqbac… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoZ4g… My arterial age steadily decreased over a 2 year period to those of a 52 year old. I’m feeling good. And I can show you how to decrease your arterial age.