Ep106 PART 1: Avoiding that Heart Attack, and Fixing Your Arteries!

The Fat Emperor Podcast

ivor cummins

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 766 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Title says it all - back to heart disease prevention today with my New Zealand pal Warren Matthews. He's a super-sharp successful businessman who has a compelling story about sever heart disease - the silent killer. Warren went from being the incredibly fit 70 year old you see in the photo - to flat on his back in the ICU at 72, after getting his ruined heart valve replaced. In spite of his health expertise, Warren was caught out by the invisible buildup of serious calcification. In part one we hear his story - in part two tomorrow we hear how he went about fixing his arteries!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast. I'm your host, Ivor Cummins. Hey guys, today we're going to cover an old topic, heart disease. We'll be away from the viral stuff. And I'm going to be talking to a pal in New Zealand, Warren. And he had an extraordinary experience, all too common, unfortunately, with severe heart disease, valve disease, etc.
0:24.2	And I know he's on the way to a meeting pretty quickly, but Warren, great to see again.
0:29.8	And hopefully we can have a quick chat about your experience.
0:32.5	Yeah, love to Ivan.
0:34.3	Great stuff.
0:35.5	And maybe first you give a very brief kind of intro of yourself in your background before we get into the heart stuff. And maybe first you give a very brief kind of intro of yourself in your
0:39.4	background before we get into the hard stuff. Okay. I'm 73 years of age and for the last 20 years
0:46.4	my whole life has been centered around health, you know, with supplements, mainly because
0:52.9	I have a manufacturing operation to do that
0:55.5	one of my interests was in fact and still is that of the ocean and yeah about seven
1:03.4	eight years ago I built a boat and New Zealand started off to Asia and I had enjoyed really good health because that's been my main focus.
1:15.6	I do extensive blood tests, you know, twice a year and everything was great.
1:22.6	And in fact, here's a photo of myself on the boat by I was 70 and but look what happened a year later
1:30.2	here I am in the ICU flat in the back you know because I've just had open heart surgery for
1:36.9	replacement aortic valve and I had no idea I had a problem all it happened was in 2018 started getting a little bit of puffiness when I was walking around exercising, but I had a period where I hadn't been doing a lot of exercise. I thought, oh, well, I've just haven't been doing enough. I need to do a bit more. But when I did did it actually got worse just just a bit of puffiness
2:02.7	no pain or anything like that at all and then when I had it checked out because I finally relented
2:09.5	and went to a doctor and they found that after doing some tests with the cardiologist that I had a calcified
2:17.3	aortic valve and the opening instead of being four and a half to five square centimeters was only a 0.9.
2:24.9	So the cardiologist says, hey, you're going to have to have surgery and have replaced your aortic valve.
2:33.7	And I said, oh, I said, no worries.
2:37.0	I said, I'll fix it myself.
2:39.0	And he said, you better do it quick.
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