Prevent And Reverse Heart Disease Using Functional Medicine with Dr. Cindy Geyer

Prevent And Reverse Heart Disease Using Functional Medicine | This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and RupaHealthResearch shows that adhering to four simple behaviors can prevent 80% of heart disease. They are: not smoking, exercising 3.5 hours a week, eating a healthy diet, and maintaining a healthy weight. Unfortunately, fewer than 3% of Americans meet this criteria. And while traditional medicine relies mainly on medication to treat and prevent heart disease, we know that the way you eat, how much you exercise, how you manage stress, and minimizing your exposure to environmental toxins can all be much more effective levers for treating and reducing the risk of heart disease.In this episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Cindy Geyer to discuss the Functional Medicine approach to treating heart disease. They dive into the root causes of inflammation, the role of cholesterol, insulin, and gut health in driving heart disease, and much more.Dr. Cindy Geyer received her Bachelor of Science and her Doctor of Medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She joined The Ultrawellness Center in 2021 after practicing and serving as the medical director at Canyon Ranch for 23 years. She has served on the Board of Directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is a recently elected fellow of ACLM. Dr. Geyer has been a core faculty member at The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) for 20 years, teaching physicians and other healthcare professionals how to use food and lifestyle to address health concerns in their own lives and those of their patients. A clinician, educator, and avid hiker, she is passionate about collaborative approaches to health and wellness: from the integrative team model in working with individual patients, to community partnerships that together can affect healthy changes in the places people live and work.This episode is sponsored by ButcherBox and RupaHealth.When you sign up to ButcherBox, you’ll get 2 lbs of wild-caught Alaskan salmon free in your first box plus $10 off. Just go to butcherbox.com/farmacy to take advantage of this great offer. Rupa Health is a place for Functional Medicine practitioners to access more than 2,000 specialty lab tests from over 20 labs like DUTCH, Vibrant America, Genova, Great Plains, and more. You can check out a free live demo with a Q&A or create an account at RupaHealth.com. In this episode, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Geyer discuss:The four basic characteristics that predict low risk of heart diseaseWhat causes inflammation?Traditional vs. Functional Medicine approaches to testing for, diagnosing, and treating heart diseaseWhy the quality and size of cholesterol mattersThe relationship between poor metabolic health and heart diseaseThe role of insulin and gut microbiome health in driving cardiovascular diseaseHow environmental toxins drive heart diseasePatient cases that Drs. Hyman and Geyer have treatedSleep apnea and heart diseaseEating for heart healthAdditional Resources:Cholesterol Is Not The Cause Of Heart Diseasehttps://drhyman.com/blog/2020/10/02/podcast-hc26/The Cholesterol Test You Should Be Gettinghttps://drhyman.com/blog/2021/04/23/podcast-minisode76/How Sleep Apnea Drives Weight Gain, Memory Loss, High Blood Pressure, ADHD, And Morehttps://drhyman.com/blog/2021/06/25/podcast-minisode85/Treating The Underlying Causes Of High Blood Pressurehttps://drhyman.com/blog/2020/06/19/podcast-hc15/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.