Saving Your Heart with Martha Gulati, MD (Episode 94)

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Fitness, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.9 • 769 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

The only thing women tend to do better than men after having a heart attack is die. That’s a sobering mic drop. It’s also a fact and one that this week’s guest Dr. Martha Gulati is making her life’s work to change. We dive into the special heart disease risk factors women, especially menopausal women face, even if they’re active and fit, what you need to know about your cardiovascular health, and how to prioritize your heart health and cardiovascular care.

Dr. Gulati is the President of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the author of the best-seller, “Saving Women’s Hearts”. She is the principal investigator of the St. James Women Take Heart Project, a study examining cardiac risk factors in women, which set standards for women’s fitness levels and heart rate response to exercise in women. She also is a co-investigator on the Women Ischemic Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) and previously served as a co-investigator on the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI). She has published articles in peer-reviewed publications, including The New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, and Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She has also been featured on Oprah. Her practice is exclusively women, including many active women and she is a runner herself. You can learn more about her and her work at https://drmarthagulati.com/ You can find the MHT and cardiovascular research referenced in the intro here.

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0:00.0	You are listening to Hit Play, Not Pause, a feisty menopause podcast for active performance-minded women.
0:14.6	I am your host, Celine Yeager. Each week, I bring you advice from athletes, scientists, researchers, and other experts to help
0:21.2	you feel and perform you best, no matter what your hormones are doing. This show is a production
0:26.2	of Live Feisty Media.
0:31.4	Hello, strong, feisty women. Boy, I have a special show for you this week. Since I started this show, I have been
0:40.3	wanting to do a show on heart health for active menopausal women. And I did do a heart health
0:45.9	show early on with Dr. Tamana Singh. It was episode 24 and she was awesome. She's a sports
0:52.1	cardiologist with special interest in female athletes. So I
0:55.7	totally encourage you to go back and check that one out if you haven't. It focuses more broadly
1:00.4	on heart-healthy nutrition, such as plant-based eating and contains plenty of useful information.
1:06.8	Dr. Singh wasn't quite as steeped in what happens with active women during and after the menopause transition, however.
1:13.3	So since that time, I've been in search of an expert to speak to some of our needs specifically.
1:18.8	And I found one in Dr. Martha Gulotti.
1:21.8	Dr. Gulati is the president of the American Society for Preventive Cardiology and the author of the bestseller,
1:29.1	Saving Women's Hearts. Her practice is exclusively women, including many active women, and she is an
1:36.5	avid runner herself. She is also the principal investigator of the St. James Women Take Heart Project,
1:43.3	which is a study examining cardiac risk factors in
1:46.1	women, which set standards for women's fitness levels and heart rate response to exercise.
1:51.4	She also is the co-investigator on the women eschemic syndrome evaluation, otherwise known as Wise,
1:57.2	and previously served as a co-investigator on the women's health initiative.
2:02.8	She has published articles in peer review publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine,
2:08.3	circulation, and the Journal of the American Medical Association, also known as JAMA.
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