Heart Disease Prevention - #30

Heart disease in the U.S. remains the #1 leading cause of death for men and women. According to the CDC, 1 person dies every 36 seconds for cardiovascular disease. 1 in every 4 deaths is caused by heart disease and costs the US over $350B every year. By the time someone sees a cardiologist, they’ve already had a cardiac related event. Risk factors include high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, drinking too much alcohol, living a sedentary life, eating unhealthy foods and here’s a couple of risk factors that you may not be correlating to heart disease, poor sleep and menopause in women.

Now that I’m in peri-menopause at 54, I think about the stats on women who are transitioning through their menopausal years and how the risk of heart disease increases as our bodies estrogen hormone levels dip to almost nothing. Even with having a mother who had breast cancer, and survived, I worry more about heart disease for myself than breast cancer. In 2013 the NIH published a study confirming that between 2002-2011, approx. 50,000 women died as a result of dropping their hormone replacement therapy due to misguided results from the Women’s Health Initiative study in the 1990’s. Still, to this day, many women fear taking estrogen because they are stuck in an old medical paradigm that they will induce breast cancer. But, those 50,000 deaths were caused by heart disease, not breast cancer.

My guest today is a Dr. Michael Twyman MD, an integrative functional medicine cardiologist, and founder of Apollo Cardiology, who’s main focus is on the prevention and early detection of heart disease. It was during his years in medical school that he became passionate about how the heart functioned and what could be done to prevent heart attacks and strokes. Utilizing the best of conventional medicine, integrative/functional medicine, quantum medicine, and biohacking, Dr. Twyman works to get to the root cause of your cardiovascular issues and live your optimal life.

Dr. Twyman and I are going to talk about all things heart disease and prevention, including medical myths around cholesterol, labs and tests that should be included in your doctor visits, the relationship between menopausal women, hormones and heart health, lifestyle, including diet and exercise and some very cool red light therapy hacks that he is known for.

Where to find Dr. Twyman, MD:

website: www.drtwyman.com
Instagram: @drtwyman

email: apollocardiology@gmail.com

The book mentioned in the podcast is "Circadian Code" by Dr Panda

Dr. Twyman conducts live IG’s every Monday focusing on a specific topic related to heart health. Follow him and you will be notified through his stories about the topic and time. They are extremely helpful and educational. You can also submit questions.

 Medical disclaimer:

By listening to this podcast, you agree not to use this podcast as medical advice or for making any lifestyle changes to treat any medical condition in either yourself or others. Consult your own physician for any medical issues that you may be having.  This entire disclaimer also applies to any of my guests on my podcast.