Your Arteries Have Been Keeping Score Your Whole Life

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.Topics CoveredSeed oils: red herring or real problem? What the population data actually showsSugar, cereal, and breakfast — why variety beats any single "healthy" routineKeto and carnivore: short-term wins, long-term question marksVisceral fat: what it is, why it's more dangerous than what you see, and how to measure itCalcium scoring, ApoB, and Lipo(a) — beyond standard cholesterol panelsIntermittent fasting, autophagy, and what 72-hour fasts actually trigger in the bodyNew University of Texas research: flu and shingles vaccines linked to reduced dementia ratesBeyond Meat vs. real meat: the one study that actually showed a benefit for ultra-processed foodAlcohol and the heart: cardiomyopathy, dementia risk, and the wine myth cardiologists createdMentioned in EpisodeOrnish Diet and reversal of heart diseaseTulane University study on meat consumption distribution (12% of Americans eat the majority of beef)University of Texas — flu vaccine / shingles vaccine dementia study via propensity-matched cohortImpossible Burger / Beyond Meat industry-funded LDL studyDEXA scan and FibroScan for visceral fat measurementPCSK9 inhibitors and plaque regressionConnectDr. Rasham Sandhu — @nextphasehuman | cacvinst.com Dr. Ajay Patel — California Cardiovascular Institute | cacvinst.com Next Phase Human — @nextphasehuman on Instagram California Cardiovascular Institute — cacvinst.com | (661) 443-0088 | [email protected] | 8337 Brimhall Rd., Building 1200, Bakersfield, CA 93312 Guest intake: [email protected]