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The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of ”breathing and practicing” cardiology to make his day to day job more about educating patients than simply just diagnosing and treating them. ”The only way modern medicine can cope with the ever increasing demand is by educating our patients on basic principles and then encourage every patient to become their own physician, guided by their doctors” These podcast publications are AI constructs created to broaden the audience in an attempt to explain quite complicated, yet important facts thus sharing advances in medical knowledge with more people, ideally even before they become our patients. Each podcast is designed to broadcast alongside a weekly blog article with multiple reels and posts on social media, all accessible for free and without any product advertising via https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/
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As we age — particularly if we have inherited genes that predispose us to metabolic disarray that accompanies modern diet and lifestyles, we start to gain weight as visceral fat increases, and muscle mass declines. This double effect worsens blood pressure, cholesterol triglycerides, and blood sugar — contributing to what is known as the metabolic syndrome. Fat cells that have reached their capacity to store extra energy as a healthy reserve start to cause havoc by releasing free fatty acids and in turn worsens insulin resistance, that steepens the decline in health.
However in many cases if we can reduce visceral fat, rebuild muscle, and reach a caloric deficit, we can reverse many of these effects.
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