Name: Cardiologists Debunk 12 Heart Myths | Debunked | Science Insider
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it's only a heart attack if you have chest pain.

This one you can see by my face really, really angers me.

I'm Eugenia Jonah's the professor of cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine and director of Cardiovascular prevention at North Well health.

My goal is to keep people from having heart attacks from having strokes high.

I am an interventional cardiologist at the Grossman School of Medicine.

I open up blockages when people have heart attacks and try to save their lives in the moment.

And today we'll be debunking myths about the heart.

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but we don't really encourage people to start drinking to have better heart health.

Today there are good things about red wine.

There is reserve a trawl in red wine which can decrease inflammation and help the arteries relax.

However, the negative aspects, there's calories in wine and leads to weight gain and you get higher blood pressure.

Your heart can get stretched and you may have more irregular heart rhythms.

There could be liver problems down the line up to one glass a day of red wine could potentially be good for your heart.

Not not only have I had some heartbreaks personally, but unfortunately, I do end up treating a lot of patients in the cath lab who do come in with what we call broken heart syndrome.

The medical term is really a stress induced cardiomyopathy.

What happens is that there's an emotional stressor, something that allows a surge of cata cola means to release from your body that's toxic to your heart muscle and constricts down the vessels around your body so that the heart has to pump even harder to get the blood flow out there with all those stresses, the heart muscle definitely starts to fail.

The answer is, yes, luckily if you make it to the hospital in time and were able to treat you, the likelihood of actually dying from it is quite low at the end of the day, broken hearts are real and you have to manage your stressors in life.

This one, you can see that my face really, really angers me.

I can't tell you how much time I spend in my practice debunking the myth that the keto diet is good for you.

Yes, it's really good for weight loss because it's really low in carbs and then your body ends up being depleted of sugar.

So then it breaks down fat, but what are you eating if you're not eating carbohydrates, you're eating more protein and a lot of fat?

Most people who do this diet do it in a heavily animal based way.

When you eat animal products in general, there are some direct components that are bad for the heart, something called tri methyl amine that gets converted in the gut and that leads to heart disease.

There's also saturated fat in your animal products that is causing your cholesterol to go really, really high.

You're also getting very little fiber and fiber is what lowers your cholesterol.

And you and I actually worked together a few years ago looking at this a little bit more closely.

What we were sort of looking for was to change animal based protein for plant based protein.

And we saw that with the plant based protein, vegetables, fruit, whole grains, their cholesterols were lower, their inflammation levels were lower.

Plant based diet, that's probably better than this keto diet, eggs are bad for your heart, are they?

So when it comes to eggs, there's a lot of controversy, eggs are good in a lot of ways.

They have some protein and B 12 and bullied and omega three fatty acids, but they also do have a lot lot of that cholesterol, a little bit of saturated fat and animal products in general are associated with more heart disease?

If you're eating the eggs with cheese and bacon on a white process role?

So if you're going to have any component of the egg, then the egg white probably has the most protein at least fat.

Even that I would say still keep in moderation, but definitely a better part of the egg.

Heart attacks don't happen to healthy people, not true heart attacks really can happen to anyone.

So many people come to me and say I exercise a ton.

And I say, well unless you know your numbers, you do not know that you need to know what your cholesterol looks like.

You need to know what your blood sugars look like.

You need to know what your blood pressure look like because there is a genetic component.

And then the other thing I want, I want to talk about is what defines healthy skinny is not necessarily healthy.

What is going on in your bloodstream and your arteries in your entire body with your organs.

That's really the marker of your true health.

I think I probably thought this was the case when I was in college and I lived on things like frozen yogurt and pasta and pretzels, but all fats are not bad good fats.

Mono, unsaturated poly unsaturated fats in nuts and in avocados and in healthy fish such as salmon, cod, mackerel herring.

But the bad fats definitely to be avoided are the saturated ones.

And what we call trans fats, because trans fats are actually fats that are created synthetically and our bodies can't break them down when you exchange goods fats for bad fats in your diet, your heart disease risk goes down.

It does actually lower your cholesterol to some extent to it causes your arteries to relax better and they help plaque in the arteries?

Hell so my handful of almonds and my handful of walnuts, those are good choices.

So limit saturated fats, eliminate trans fats and get more good fats in your diet.

It's only a heart attack if you have chest pain.

And I say, oh, did you have chest pain patients?

And I say, well, did you have any pressure in your chest, any discomfort in your chest and your shoulder and your arm and your jaw?

And they're like, oh yeah, I had all of that.

It's like an elephant sitting on my chest.

Some people will also have symptoms of just feeling the sudden nausea or wanting to vomit.

There are a few cases of what we call silent heart attacks.

I think in actuality it's usually not silent, it was usually just a symptom that somebody missed along the way.

If you feel suddenly unwell and you're not quite sure why come in, get checked out.

Make sure you're not having a heart attack cholesterol is bad for your heart.

So there's both good and bad cholesterol in your bloodstream.

The good cholesterol actually helps to clear the bad cholesterol out of the bloodstream, which is really important.

The LDL is really the one that is most linked to people developing plaque in their arteries that make them end up in dr shaw's lab needing procedures so that bad cholesterol optimally in everybody should be less than 100 and in people who are at high risk less than 70 and some would argue that if we can keep our bad cholesterol even at the level of about 50 for our whole lives.

That's how we really prevent heart disease.

The most important way to get your cholesterol down and to keep it low is through diet full of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, low in saturated fat, processed foods, fried foods.

Trans fats focus on that lowering of your bad co cholesterol.

Then on raising your good and following a heart healthy lifestyle overall.

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