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Finding Your Sweet Spot: Heart Healthy Nutrition

Finding Your Sweet Spot: Heart Healthy Nutrition

Hear about her journey becoming a registered dietitian specializing in cardiac rehab and her passion for helping individuals find their sweet spot in nutrition. It’s a fun interview and involves chocolate and wine!

Fictional Cardiac Story – Egregious Fortune

Fictional Cardiac Story – Egregious Fortune

Today’s episode is going to be rather different; it’s a fictional story. It’s a story of someone that had a heart attack. It’s the first story that I have found that is fictional about having a cardiac event so it is rather novel (excuse the pun, or not 😊).

Pumphead; is that a thing? (Postperfusion syndrome)

Pumphead; is that a thing? (Postperfusion syndrome)

Pumphead, or Postperfusion Syndrome to give its scientific name, may or may not have been something you have heard of let alone experienced. Some of you may be thinking it sounds like part of a car! However, for many, the post-op brain fog is very real.  Doctors...

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder vs Post-Traumatic Growth

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder vs Post-Traumatic Growth

Having a heart condition, experiencing a heart attack, having heart surgery or going through a cardiac arrest is a life-changing event. There’s no denying that. It's not a walk in the park and may feel like one of the worst things that have happened to you. Some...

Who knew? The early months after a heart attack or heart surgery

Who knew? The early months after a heart attack or heart surgery

Something that I get asked quite often is “What happens and how will I feel in the first few weeks and months after leaving the hospital following heart surgery or a heart attack?” A question that most people will have running through their mind at some point after a...