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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/
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- 3 days ago5 min
Are You Leucined Up? Why One Amino Acid Decides Whether Your Patient Holds On To Muscle After Sixty
After 60, muscle becomes deaf to protein signals. You need 3 grams of leucine per meal, not just daily totals, to flip your muscle-building switch. Same protein portions that worked at 40 barely register at 70. Threshold dosing with resistance training breaks this cycle.Read full article
- 3 days ago5 min
The Choice
Traditional weight loss approaches fail because they treat metabolism as fixed rather than dynamic. The Choice model combines weekly micro-decisions between lifestyle changes and medication adjustments, offering a flexible system that adapts to continuous metabolic changes and breaks the cycle of initial success followed by plateau and regain.https://www.vat-trap.com/post/metabolic-doom-loop-choice
- 2 weeks ago21 min
What's Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain
The four pillars of coronary prevention map directly onto dementia risk reduction through shared vascular mechanisms. Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife predict cognitive decline decades later, making optimal heart health our strongest defence against age-related cognitive impairment and dementia.Read Blog
- 2 weeks ago21 min
Measuring Your Blood Pressure At Home
Done well, a week of home readings is more informative than almost anything that can be measured in a single clinic visit. Here is the method I have used, refined over twenty years — and a free calculator that does the averaging for you.Read the full blog and link to a free blood pressure tool here
- 2 weeks ago19 min
The Elephant in the Room
Naked Heart is now hosted by Author Dr Leatham's cardiometabolic health channel launched 1st June 2026 www.vat-trap.com. What better topic than a look at recent ACC/AHA guidelines for cholesterol targets and no note that cardiovascular deaths fell 70–80% in sixty years — one of medicine's greatest triumphs. But progress is now slowing. Visceral fat, not LDL-C, is the upstream driver of the four real epidemic diseases: atrial fibrillation, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. The VAT-TRAP four-pillar framework addresses all four simultaneously.Read full article
- May 6, 202621 min
The Handgrip That Predicts Your Patient's Cardiac Future
Grip strength measurement reveals cardiovascular risk more accurately than traditional markers by reflecting muscle function as endocrine organ. Declining strength drives coronary disease through inflammatory pathways. Progressive resistance training provides powerful cardiovascular protection.
- Mar 27, 202623 min
When Your Blood Can’t Breathe: Iron, Anaemia, and the Breathless Heart
When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces oxygen delivery, forces the heart into a hyperdynamic state, and can even produce a murmur over a completely normal valve.Read blog
- Mar 24, 202622 min
The Heart: The Ultimate Fuel Omnivore
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.Read the full blogNaked Heart Podcast series
About 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/
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