{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"White Coat Black Sheep","title":"The Cardiologist Who Biohacks: Heart Health, HRV, Cold Plunge, and the Medicine Nobody Is Teaching","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2604,"description":"Dr. Rasham Sandhu is an interventional cardiologist in private practice in Bakersfield, California, and the founder and host of the Next Phase Human podcast. His practice focuses on delivering high-quality cardiovascular care with a growing interest in wellness, metabolic health, and the intersection of traditional and functional medicine. He is the founder of California Cardiovascular Institute.\nTopics Covered00:00 Opening and show intro\n00:23 Meet Dr. Rasham Sandhu\n01:00 A cardiologist's daily schedule: procedures, office, and evening training\n02:00 EAAs, taurine, and skipping traditional pre-workout\n03:00 Morning routine: Kriya Yoga, meditation, red light therapy, cold plunge, protein\n04:00 Cold plunge timing and why he keeps at least 12 hours between training and plunge\n05:00 11 minutes per week: the cold plunge sweet spot\n05:30 Lymphatic drainage, Hyperice boots, and Surya Namaskar\n06:00 Growing up in India, entering med school at 18, and the path to cardiology\n09:00 The CCU rotation that made everything click\n10:00 Functional medicine vs. traditional medicine: the false binary\n12:00 The biochemistry light bulb moment\n14:00 Thinking at the mechanism level: upstream vs. downstream disease\n15:00 Building CCI from scratch three years ago\n16:00 PET/CT: calcium scoring, stress testing, and myocardial blood flow in one scan\n17:00 When to start cardiovascular screening and why disease is moving younger\n18:00 How calcium builds up in your arteries explained simply\n19:00 Rotablator, shockwave lithotripsy, and the tools of interventional cardiology\n21:00 Vagal nerve stimulators: breathwork, Pulsetto, Sensate, and what works\n23:00 Dr. Sandhu's HRV in the 20s: what is driving it and what it means\n25:00 Why your body treats a hotel room as a threat\n27:00 Wind-down routines and why we are terrible at them\n28:00 The blue light iPad study and the effect that lasted days\n30:00 The guilt of being on call and putting the phone down\n32:00 Random questions from the bowl\n35:00...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r7Fg59MgUhATCba7AaSRKVP-0dmWKpcE4ZsKXb08Qjs/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mOGVl/NmI3Yzg5ZDdlOGIz/NDcyYTdmZjY4ZDIw/N2E3NC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}