Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Ivor Cummins.

We're back today on the heart disease topic.

As you probably well know, it's the biggest killer in the world.

And many people, many heart attacks, you don't get a second chance to even get treatment, you know, around a third of heart attacks result in death.

So we're going to be talking with Mark Feldstead, who's become a pal and he works in Germany,

though he's originally UK.

And he had a horrific experience with major heart disease a few years ago.

And we're going to talk through that.

We're going to talk through the solutions.

We're going to talk through the misunderstandings about prevention. And we're going to talk about the way forward to address this terrible disease. So great to see you again, Mark. Hi, I, Iva. It's always a pleasure to see you. Thanks so much. Oh, not at all. No, this conversation is so important. And as you know, I've been distracted away from some of the metabolic imperatives with the other big issue we're having the last year. But I want to curl around and get back to it. So maybe the best thing is to start off with if you just go through your experience at the time when you had your first major heart incident because it

certainly wasn't expected is my memory no that's right it was um well very unexpected in fact

i am not your typical cardiac arrest patient in fact um the day is very strong in my memory

i'm i've always done sport exerc, thought I was eating a healthy diet, didn't smoke, always

watch my weight.

And then one evening in August, I left my house to compete in a local duathlon in Berlin,

and I kissed my wife goodbye, and I kissed my daughter goodbye goodbye and I took my racing bike and I didn't

know then that that was very nearly the last time I was going to see them because the event

was quite tough but 200 meters before the finish line I collapsed with a sudden cardiac arrest

as in what you would call a widow maker there was a term I didn't know at the time, a widow maker.

And if it wasn't for the very fast action of two of my competitors who incredibly luckily

were also doctors, they kept me alive with CPR until the emergency services could arrive.

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