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Interview with Ashley Reaver, Registered Dietician – Lowering your cholesterol one meal at a time
Click play to hear the full interview ⬇ Live a long, healthy life without feeling powerless by lowering your cholesterol one meal at a time. Ashley specialises in helping people with high cholesterol live a long, healthy life without feeling powerless to control their...
Interview with Angela Hartley, Cardiac Nurse & Exercise Coach – Rehabilitation exercise on your terms
Click play to hear the full interview ⬇ Angela is an exercise coach and a cardiac nurse. In the last seven years, she’s been specialising in cardiac rehabilitation exercise. She has quite a unique combination of skills. We chat about how in the UK cardiac rehab is...
Getting to know vasodilators (anti-angina) medicines
Vasodilators (anti-angina) medicines are used to ease chest pain, to treat and prevent angina. It helps as it relaxes and widens your blood vessels and decreases your blood pressure. A category of vasodilators called nitrates increases the supply of blood and oxygen...
Interview with Brian Simpson, the heart attack thriver, how having a heart attack changed his life for the better
How having a heart attack changed his life for the better. Brian suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 48. Prior to that he was exceptionally healthy and lived a very active life. His heart attack occurred during an Ice Hockey match and he spent 20-25 minutes...
Interview with Sara Bushnell – Having a heart attack at work far from home and an important discovery
She had been experiencing regular headaches and stress, at one point thought her blood pressure machine must have been broken. Who'd have thought about a heart attack. Constant headaches and stress Sara was fit, healthy and ate a good diet. She had been experiencing...
Interview with Steve Wrigley – Having a cardiac arrest at 30,000 feet and recovering from a heart attack in Singapore
Steve Wrigley was flying home when he had a cardiac arrest on a plane. Prior to this Steve was was fit and healthy, he loved adventure holidays that revolved around cycling. He went with friends he’d met on previous adventures on a trip to Bali. Steve shares his story...
Interview with Ray Bishop – Misdiagnosed more than once, having a forgiving heart and becoming the music man
Ray Bishop was born with Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome. This did not affect his quality of life until after he had developed coronary heart disease. This was after many misdiagnoses. He was lucky that as by this time, cardiac ablation could be carried out on him for...
Interview with Tena Kennedy, life with chronic illnesses
Just before her 50th birthday Tena was admitted to hospital with unstable angina, and this was just the beginning of her story. Tena lives with many cardiac and respiratory chronic illnesses and she shares with us her journey, and her coping mechanisms that helped her...
Interview with Eliza Bell, a transplant chat
In February 2019, Eliza had a successful heart transplant recipient at Papworth Hospital in Cambridgeshire, UK. It was a life-saving event that focussed her on fundraising and being a patient advocate. Eliza explains that she was born with congenital heart disease but...
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