Episode Details

This week's featured guest is Dr. Joel Kahn, a cardiologist and founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity. He's launched a campaign to prevent 1 million heart attacks through healthy living. Joel is the #1 bestselling author of The Whole Heart Solution and Dead Execs Don't Get Bonuses.

In this episode, we discuss:

• You can detect heart disease early on and reverse it
• We have so far to go before hospitals become health centres
• The gut-heart connection
• Probiotics have been shown to lower blood pressure & cholesterol
• How toxic food negatively effects your artery function
• The paleo diet vs. the low-fat vegan diet... how can both be healthy?
• The only diet that helps clean up your arteries is plant-based low-fat
• The 3 things Joel recommends to each of his patients
• The rate of heart disease has dropped over the last 30 years but has now plateaued
• Most people who have heart disease, don't know it
• Early detection of heart disease... 3 strategies
• Heart healthy foods are often red in colour
• TMAO causes a blockage in your arteries and messes with your HDL (good cholesterol)
• Is Splenda disrupting your gut microbiome?
• Splenda can be metabolized in your body into ammonia and formaldehyde... scary!

Related links:

Dr. Joel Kahn - The Whole Heart Solution (book)

Dr. Joel Kahn's website

Follow Dr. Joel Kahn on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

GreenSpace Café

Listen to Dr. Joel Kahn previously on TUHP (episode #018)

Seth Godin - The Dip (book)

Ban Hospital Food CarciNOgens Facebook Page

Listen to Vani Hari (Food Babe) previously on TUHP (episode #020)

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David Perlmutter - Grain Brain (book) & Brain Maker (book)

Dr. Daniel Amen (books)

Listen to Tana Amen previously on TUHP (episode #063)

Super Size Me (documentary)

Listen to Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episode #084 & episode #074)

Dr. Dean Ornish (books)

Dr. Neal Barnard (books)

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