#30 The Fresh Heart Project with Dr Zarrin Shaikh
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2019
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast I am speaking to Dr Zarrin Shaikh, a Consultant Cardiologist who specialised in Cardiac Imaging, specifically advanced echocardiography and cardiac MRI, following her PhD
in Sleep at Imperial College London and the Royal Brompton Hospital.
We’ll be talking about her exciting new project called Fresh Heart Project, which stands for food, relaxation, exercise, sleep and happiness and how these lifestyle features can help us overcome blood pressure issues, atherosclerosis and look after our hearts.
We’ll be talking about her personal experience of lifestyle medicine, the cardiologists from America who inspired her journey and a particular focus on Atrial fibrillation something that I personally suffered with and why we may be seeing more of it in clinic.
Some of the points that we talked about that I think are really important to consider are below - and don't forget to check out the show notes here too for the papers that Dr Zarrin discusses:
- Looking at the news in the morning and being aware of what impact that has on your stress levels
- The connection between happiness and cardiovascular disease
- I'll link to the studies that Dr Zarrin mentioned in the notes below
- The nutrition principles that Dr Zarrin stands by - whole grains, quality fats, largely whole and lots of plant based foods
- How lifestyle is an adjunct to therapy - something that we use alongside the current tools that we have
You’ll find the recipe video that I cooked for Dr Zarrin - Pear and Chocolate Overnight Oats with Fresh Berries - on the show on my youtube channel so you can see how delicious and easy it was to make .. even whilst recording a podcast!
And you can find all of this information and more at www.thedoctorskitchen.com
My social media links are:
Website: www.lifestylecardiology.com
Twitter: @freshheartdoc
Instagram: @freshheartdoc
LinkedIn: Zarrin Shaikh
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| 0:00.0 | Today's podcast is sponsored by Zoe and I'm pretty convinced that anyone listening to this |
| 0:04.7 | podcast right now has an invested interest in health. Maybe you've tried the recipes, |
| 0:09.6 | taken advice from guests, all like me you see food as medicine. But to any of you ever feel like |
| 0:15.4 | you're doing all the right stuff to live a healthy lifestyle but you still feel fatigued in the |
| 0:20.8 | afternoons. It could be because the advice that we give to most people simply isn't enough for |
| 0:27.1 | your unique body. And I'm a believer that personalized nutrition could be beneficial if you |
| 0:32.8 | find yourself in this pattern. And Zoe's groundbreaking science does what generic advice can't do. |
| 0:38.8 | They look at your blood fat and blood sugar control and your gut microbiome to help you understand |
| 0:44.5 | how different foods affect your body so you can feel your best. Nailing your own nutrition can |
| 0:49.9 | have huge benefits on long-term health as well as relieving more immediate problems like fatigue. |
| 0:55.2 | So magnesium supplements for example can help one person sleep better but they might have |
| 0:59.5 | little effect on someone else. And as Professor Tim said in our conversation personalized nutrition |
| 1:05.3 | takes away that trial and error and that very long process of trying to figure out what's going on |
| 1:10.4 | inside your body on your own. Zoe has been genuinely life-changing for its members who've |
| 1:16.4 | reported feeling less tired after lunch and that the energy levels are far more consistent. |
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| 1:38.7 | homeware. Getting older is in many ways a blessing. My society might like to portray getting |
| 1:44.0 | older as the autumn of life. I've actually found it to be highly gratifying and we've actually |
| 1:48.5 | discussed the many benefits of age and the misconceptions of aging with neuroscientists, |
| 1:54.9 | cognitive psychologists on the podcast where we talked about how happiness can actually |
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