Cardiac Survivor: Near Death to Eating to Live | Tony and Rachel Schiera

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Carroll, Health & Fitness, Diabetes, Science, Nutrition, Vegan, Pcrm, Barnard, Weightloss, Food, Health, Recipes, Medicine, Diet

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Tony Schiera was more than 700 miles into a 1,000-mile-long bicycle ride from Indianapolis to Washington, D.C., with his wife Rachel when tragedy nearly struck. They clung to hope that he was just dehydrated, but that hope quickly faded when he was rushed to one of the premiere cardiac centers in the United States.

Despite being exceptionally physically fit, Tony had major blockages in at least five arteries. Doctors told him that he required lifesaving quintuple bypass surgery. It proved to be a success, but it was only the first step in a new life.

Although heart disease ran rampant in his family, he and his wife embarked on a mission to find out whether genetics were to blame for his brush with death. What they would learn would change both of their lives and Tony’s outlook for the future. He was no longer living on borrowed time. He was now destined to live to a ripe old age.

Together they have discovered that a new way of eating doesn’t mean depriving themselves of their favorite foods. Instead, it means discovering heart-healthy recipes to continue enjoying them, including one for mac and cheese!

The Schieras join “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll to share an unbelievable story of survival and rising from trauma to ride toward a brighter future.

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0:00.0	They put you in right away for angioplasty exploration. They said three things are going to happen. One, we're going to put some stands in two. We're going to find that your block is two great for stents or three year to die.
0:13.0	How differently are you feeling about the future?
0:15.5	I think the possibility of living my grandfather who died at Harvard at 64 and my dad at 67 is greatly improved.
0:24.0	I feel really good about where the home jet would be of my life because it was changing.
0:29.0	More so than I had prior to surgery. I kind of figured that before the event I would in my sixties you'd probably have a life ending harder.
0:37.0	It just by nature that it was going to happen.
0:39.0	Welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee.
0:52.0	Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in more than 150 countries.
1:01.0	Hi, everyone listening in Fontana, California, carried North Carolina and Naples, Italy, wherever you are we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
1:13.0	This is episode 21 of season six, number 417 overall.
1:19.0	Imagine that you are on a bike ride, one that is hundreds of miles long and you've already been going for days.
1:31.0	And then you wake up one morning and something just isn't right.
1:37.0	It's a wake up call that you don't want because it turns out that that something is something quite sinister.
1:46.0	It's your heart and now it's failing.
1:53.0	This was not a work of fiction for Tony Sharer. This was very much real life.
2:01.0	And this fateful day for him happened right in the middle of a bike ride from Indianapolis all the way to Washington, D.C.
2:13.0	It was just as if he had peddled until his heart gave out.
2:19.0	But while his heart was in danger, he was not about to throw in the towel and this near fatal experience has transformed Tony inside and out.
2:29.0	He now has a new way of living, a new way of eating, and his health evolution has trickled all the way down and touched his family.
2:41.0	And hopefully now it will also extend down to you and a lot of others today as well.
2:48.0	So Tony is here, along with his wife, to clueless in on how that dark day became the starting point for his brighter future.
2:59.0	But first, you've been hearing us talk about this for a while now.
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