Thank you for attending our first class. It was super great fun for me personally.

  I want to respond to Larry’s question, “Is atherosclerosis reversible?”
  What the lipid lowering drugs do is stabilize the existing plaque, thereby conferring less risk of forming a thrombus (a clot)  and mitigating the  risk of  a heart attack or stroke. The drugs also prevent additional cholesterol plaque build up .
 One day we will start lipid lowering much earlier in life , potentially by editing  a gene that blocks PCSK-9  (Verve Therapeutics) or by a daily pill that blocks PCSK-9 (Merck) , thereby eliminating  atherosclerosis altogether.

  Next week we are excited to welcome  Dr. Jennie Gubner who is presenting : Fostering Creative Ecosystems for Healthy Aging.
  She holds a PHD from the UCLA Dept of Ethnomusicology and is a Senior Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health. She is a socially engaged interdisciplinary scholar, violinist, and visual ethnographer.

  Thank you again for joining this journey with Kathie and me.

Best regards,
Jonathan and Kathie

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