Are Your Arteries Clogged? Warning Signs and Reversing Heart Disease | Dr. Neal Barnard Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 June 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Learn the warning signs that your arteries might be clogged and what you can do about it!
How will you know if you are in danger? Find out as Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™ podcast!
Dr. Barnard also reveals how long it might take to clear blocked arteries and the best foods for reversing heart disease!
Plus, he answers other questions from The Doctor's Mailbag:
- How can you lower chronically high cholesterol?
- Where does the iodine in iodized salt come from?
- Can eating too many berries be bad for your health?
- Is it dangerous to remain in ketosis for a long time?
- And many more!
This episode of The Exam Room™ Podcast is sponsored by The Gregory J. Reiter Memorial Fund, which supports organizations like the Physicians Committee that carry on Greg's passion and love for animals through rescue efforts, veganism, and wildlife conservation.
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm worried that I might miss the warning signs that I have clogged arteries. |
| 0:05.2 | Are there any? |
| 0:06.2 | There are some. |
| 0:07.4 | You may not have them, but there are some. |
| 0:09.6 | The classic ones, obviously, are the person might have chest pain, which you call angina. |
| 0:16.2 | And so the heart muscle is just not getting adequate oxygen. |
| 0:20.7 | And after walking a few blocks, the person gets chest pain. |
| 0:24.6 | And then there are equivalent ones where you can get leg pains because your legs aren't |
| 0:27.7 | getting adequate blood flow. |
| 0:29.6 | Surprisingly enough, lower back pain might be in the same category, but for a different |
| 0:35.2 | reason. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.0 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:52.8 | This is Episode 45 of Season 4, number 240 overall. |
| 0:58.8 | And I want to start today by saying hi to McKinley, who is listening, looking for a little |
| 1:03.9 | bit of encouragement. |
| 1:05.4 | So McKinley, we are going to do our best to give you just that as we grow healthier together |
| 1:11.6 | throughout the show. |
| 1:13.8 | So here we go. |
| 1:14.8 | Today's show is all about your questions and Dr. Neil Barnard's answers. |
| 1:20.5 | We will be opening up the doctor's mailbag and pulling out the questions that you have |
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