The Doctor Who Survived A Heart Attack And Changed His Life
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2019
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Neil Cooper always thought he would have a heart attack. And he ultimately did. But unlike his father he survived. Then he realized that genes were not his destiny and he had the power to control his fate.
Join "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll for one of the most inspirational episodes to date!
Dr. Cooper walks Chuck through his remarkable tale of survival and the 72 hours that changed his diet and his life forever. Now he's paying forward his good fortune and newfound knowledge with other doctors and patients so they can turn around their own health before it's too late!
Dr. Vanita Rahman then joins the show to answer your questions as we open The Exam Room mailbag for the first time!
Topics covered:
- The best time of day to eat fruit
- Surprising sources of salt in your diet
- What happens when you reintroduce meat to your diet
- A deep look at plant-based oils
- The link between gut health and depression
Dr. Rahman and Chuck will both be speaking at The Kickstart Intensive on January 10-11 in Washington, DC! Join them for the same event that changed Dr. Cooper's life!
Dr. Rahman is a board-certified internal medicine physician, certified nutritionist, and personal trainer. Visit here at the Barnard Medical Center.
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| 0:00.0 | Here I was at a very good hospital in town in the cardiac unit and my first meal was roast beef. |
| 0:06.5 | My wife took one look at the tray, she grabbed it, ran it out to the nurses station, I heard a bunch of commotion, |
| 0:13.5 | and about ten minutes later I had a whole different place with I think some rice and vegetables. |
| 0:20.5 | Well hello there and welcome to the exam room podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:33.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week or a view or a download, |
| 0:40.5 | wherever it is in the world that you are. We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:48.5 | And this my friend is the most nutrient dense podcast anywhere to be found on the web today. |
| 0:56.5 | And with that in mind we have a huge show coming your way. |
| 1:01.5 | What a story it is that you are about to hear. Dr. Neil Cooper, his is a story of survival. |
| 1:09.5 | It is about not giving into fate, it is about realizing that it is possible to change and then changing and paying it forward. |
| 1:19.5 | You see Dr. Cooper suffered a heart attack. He actually collapsed at his office, was rushed to the hospital, had emergency surgery, |
| 1:28.5 | he lived to tell the tale and then radically changed his life with the encouragement and in all honesty the insistence of his wife, |
| 1:39.5 | and then you are going to hear how everything he thought he knew about nutrition was erased over the course of just three days at one single event. |
| 1:51.5 | Like so many of us Dr. Cooper thought that he had been eating healthy and then over these three days his mind was just blown. |
| 2:01.5 | And suddenly he is looking at medicine and the food on his plate in a whole new light. |
| 2:09.5 | Such an amazing story coming your way in just a little bit. |
| 2:13.5 | And then today we are also going to hear from Dr. Faneet to Rahman. |
| 2:16.5 | She is going to be back on the show joining us to talk about salt and potassium in your diet. |
| 2:22.5 | What you need to know about sodium and heart health and she is also going to be sticking around to answer your questions. |
| 2:30.5 | As for the very first time we open up the mail bag on the exam room. |
| 2:36.5 | But before we go any further I have a very special announcement. |
| 2:41.5 | Super excited to announce that we have a very special live exam room broadcast coming your way at the fruitive here in Washington DC on December 18th. |
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