Welcome to the Fat Emperor podcast.

I'm your host, Iber Cummins.

Hey guys, back to metabolic health and cardiovascular disease prevention,

heart attack prevention this morning.

And we have Mark Feldstead back, who runs We Love Our Heart,

the group in Germany, but it's international, bringing together all of the people

who have heart attack histories and they want to really eliminate the chance of problems in the

future. So great to see you again, Mark. Hey, Ivor, it's always a pleasure, man. It's always a pleasure.

And yeah, your group is growing and it's great to see promoting calcification scanning, preventative diagnostics, and of course the diet lifestyle and everything else that will fix your problem or make sure it never arises.

But I thought we might start with a brief recap of your experience because it was quite traumatic and it's experienced by millions of people around the

world doesn't get too much news coverage unless a famous person has a heart attack.

Well, you're funny you should say that either because of course last Saturday, I don't know if

you're a big football fan, but Christian Erickson, there were some very horrible scenes on the TV

where he dropped, suddenly collapsed from

cardiac arrest, sudden cardiac arrest. And without being too emotional about the whole thing,

I was, I was, I was a wreck for half an hour because he brought back so many of the feelings

that I had, which obviously, to be honest, I haven't processed fully yet because

2018, I underwent a very

similar occasion okay I'm not in my late 20s but I was at the top of my game I was very

fit it was during a sporting event a duathlon that I collapsed 300 meters for the finish

with a sudden cardiac arrest and thank heavens. Two of my competitors

who turned out to be doctors, who were doctors, started the whole CPR process with me

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