{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Next Phase Human ","title":"Your Arteries Have Been Keeping Score Your Whole Life ","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3692,"description":"Dr. Ajay Patel returns to continue one of the most practical conversations in cardiology: how what you eat is either slowly building or silently threatening your cardiovascular health. Dr. Patel is an interventional cardiologist and structural heart specialist at Adventist Health and Dignity Health Bakersfield — and one of the highest-volume operators for high-risk cardiac interventions in patients with multi-vessel disease. In this episode, he and Dr. Sandhu move through the real science on nutrition, supplementation, fasting, and the diagnostic tools that can tell you what your standard bloodwork never will.\n\nTopics Covered\nSeed oils: red herring or real problem? What the population data actually shows\nSugar, cereal, and breakfast — why variety beats any single \"healthy\" routine\nKeto and carnivore: short-term wins, long-term question marks\nVisceral fat: what it is, why it's more dangerous than what you see, and how to measure it\nCalcium scoring, ApoB, and Lipo(a) — beyond standard cholesterol panels\nIntermittent fasting, autophagy, and what 72-hour fasts actually trigger in the body\nNew University of Texas research: flu and shingles vaccines linked to reduced dementia rates\nBeyond Meat vs. real meat: the one study that actually showed a benefit for ultra-processed food\nAlcohol and the heart: cardiomyopathy, dementia risk, and the wine myth cardiologists created\nMentioned in Episode\nOrnish Diet and reversal of heart disease\nTulane University study on meat consumption distribution (12% of Americans eat the majority of beef)\nUniversity of Texas — flu vaccine / shingles vaccine dementia study via propensity-matched cohort\nImpossible Burger / Beyond Meat industry-funded LDL study\nDEXA scan and FibroScan for visceral fat measurement\nPCSK9 inhibitors and plaque regression\nConnect\nDr. Rasham Sandhu — @nextphasehuman | cacvinst.com\nDr. Ajay Patel — California Cardiovascular Institute | cacvinst.com\nNext Phase Human — @nextphasehuman on Instagram\nCalifornia...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/8L-nuimlDDYZRLTRShB5TuOVQoW-K4IcHfnKlMch4gk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NWVm/YWIyNzUwNjcwNDJl/NzI1YzEwYzE0ODM2/MTlhNi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}