The Naked Heart

What if the heart works like a hybrid engine? Continuously switching between fatty acids, glucose, and ketones, it optimises fuel use for efficiency and demand. But in metabolic disease, this flexibility is lost. The result: poorer fuel, narrowed supply lines, and a strained engine — a new way to understand cardiovascular risk.

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Naked Heart Podcast series

What is The Naked Heart?

The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator.

The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible.

The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/

Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com

Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart