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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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Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
As only 10% of patients with high blood pressure are 'salt sensitive' (meaning that the blood pressure fails to fall in 90% of hypertensives, when salt intake is greatly reduced), it seems plausible that consuming high levels of sodium from a young age can “programme” the cardiovascular system to maintain higher blood pressure later in life.
Listen to the podcast and/or read about it here https://www.scvc.co.uk/health-screening/lets-talk-about-salt/
Monday Oct 07, 2024
Monday Oct 07, 2024
In today's world, where the pursuit of a healthy as well as a long life is everyone's goal, the importance of managing your own blood pressure has become an increasingly obvious. With an upsurge in patients over 80 experiencing heart failure linked to poorly controlled blood pressure from midlife, it's crucial that individuals, particularly from the age of 40 upwards, pay greater attention to their blood pressure readings to foster a healthy aging process.
When blood pressure hovers at the borderline, many patients hesitate to start medication. This reluctance has spurred interest in non-pharmacological methods to lower blood pressure, aiming to delay the need for pharmaceutical intervention as much as possible for long-term benefits.
One challenge in advocating non-pharmacological approaches is the lack of robust data from randomised controlled trials. Unlike pharmacological studies, these methods don't involve drug patents, which often leads to less scientific scrutiny. However, this shouldn't discourage individuals from exploring lifestyle and dietary changes to see if they can manage their blood pressure more effectively without necessarily requiring more medication.
With the advent of accurate home blood pressure monitors, individuals can now undertake personal experiments to assess the impact of various interventions on their blood pressure. This "No of 1" experiment is gaining popularity, offering a personalised approach to managing blood pressure.
The approach and methodology is discussed in this podcast. Read more details from the blog article below.
https://www.scvc.co.uk/heart-health/measuring-your-blood-pressure-at-home-using-a-home-cuff-monitor/
Sunday Oct 06, 2024
Sunday Oct 06, 2024
In the first podcast in the series, the discussion revolves around cholesterol and the fact that while your blood LDL cholesterol determines the development of coronary plaque, your levels are more about your genetics than necessarily what you eat. In contrast, what happens to coronary plaque over your lifetime and whether it causes a heart attack is more about 'inflammation', what carbohydrates and UPF's you eat and your lifestyle.
To read more on this topic visit the blog https://www.scvc.co.uk/naked-heart/what-determines-ldl-bad-cholesterol/
The Naked Heart
In 2021, after 35 years as a front line NHS physician and 25 years as consultant interventional cardiologist, Dr Edward Leatham left the catheter lab and moved into prevention. The Internet is a source of confusing, unregulated and, at times, crackpot advice. In response to demand, he agreed to publish a series of weekly blogs, social media reels and posts to guide a non medical audience on genuine contemporary stories and lifestyle advice. The naked heart podcast is an additional resource that comprises two virtual presenters who talk around each blog story published. Due to constraints on time and limited resources the podcasts are, for now, entirely produced using an AI-guided processing of his original stories. The hope is that we can reach a wider audience and steer more people towards preventing cardiovascular disease, instead of fire fighting it once it presents.
Prevention is better than cure.