Calcium Score: What my MRI showed

Ritesh Bawri

07 May 2025 — 2 min read

Thank you! So many of you reached out to enquire after me. Truly appreciate the love and warmth. To continue explaining what I did and why, let us start with a calcium score.

Your body contains slightly more than one kilogram of calcium, 99% of which is stored in your bones. Only 1% if found in your blood.

Naturally, the question we need to ask is why does my body release calcium in my blood?

Calcium serves a host of functions. For example, calcium ions signal the heart muscles to contract. It helps with clotting of your blood. It helps with the production of enzymes.

We are concerned, though, with calcium in the arteries.

Your body uses blood to transport fat from the liver to the rest of the body. Fat is vital to life. It is only where there is too much that we develop complications.

Excess fat would mean excess fat in the blood. There, some of it accumulates in nooks and crannies, becoming plaque.

When this happens, your body releases calcium to remove the plaque.

My MRI looked at how much calcium was in my arteries.

A score of 0 shows no calcium deposit. Up to 10, minimal calcification. It is at levels of 400 and above that you measure extensive calcification.

But you have to take these numbers with a pinch of salt. Not literally of course!

The thing is as you age, you will get higher levels of calcification and hardening of your arteries. It is normal, even inevitable.

You have to corelate your findings with other metrics. Your weight. Blood Sugar. Body fat. Sleep. Stress and so on.

It would not be prudent to look at the finding by itself.

My score was zero. But as I have been reporting for over a decade now, thankfully, I changed my lifestyle. I dropped my weight, started building muscles, started sleeping well and meditating. My cholesterol profile is well within range as are my other metrics.

Knowing is power. I strongly encourage all of you to find out as well.

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