Heart Disease is the #1 Killer: Why Most Cardiologist Visits Feel Like a Time Machine – And the AI Breakthrough Detecting Deadly Soft Plaque (Not the Hard Plaque Your CAC Score Shows) with Dr. John Osborne, M.D., Ph.D.

Heart Disease is the #1 Killer: Why Most Cardiologist Visits Feel Like a Time Machine – And the AI Breakthrough Detecting Deadly Soft Plaque (Not the Hard Plaque Your CAC Score Shows) with Dr. John Osborne, M.D., Ph.D.

May 5, 2026 · 1h 10m · Season 1 · Episode 307

About this episode

Dr. John Osborne discusses the outdated practices in cardiology and the breakthrough technology that can detect soft plaque, a major cause of heart attacks.

Walking into a cardiologist appointment is more often than not walking into a time machine. Not only the discussions about disproven risks but unfortunately the outdated tools and technology that have little to no predictive or preventative potential. The worst part is the technology exists that can identify to the microscopic level the type of plague actually causal to more than 80% of heart-attacks! That’s what Dr Osborne and ClearCardio are doing right now. Dr. John Osborne is a cardiologi...

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