Heart Health, Reimagined with Dr. Mona Shah, MD

📌 Learn more about Dr. Mona Shah: www.drmonashah.com Every week I see patients who passed their last physical with flying colors. When I run the seven tests I actually care about as a triple board-certified holistic cardiologist, something is wrong in almost every single case. Your doctor told you your labs look fine. What they did not tell you is that the standard lipid panel has not meaningfull...

If you’re a woman with a family history of heart disease, there is information your cardiology appointment was never designed to give you. You've been told your numbers look fine. But if you have a family history of heart disease, that answer might not mean what you think it means. Noting a family history and actually measuring what it points to are two completely different things. Most cardi...

You left cardiology with a clean stress test and a pat on the back. Something in you still didn't believe it. That feeling was right. You were asking a preventive question and getting a reactive answer. Most people have no idea that mismatch is even happening to them. In this episode, I'm going to walk you through what each type of cardiologist actually does, where each approach breaks d...

Your doctor ran your standard lipid panel and told you your cholesterol is fine. Somewhere online, someone told you cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease anyway. Both of them are pointing at the same wrong number, and because of it, most people have never had the two tests that would actually tell them their real cardiovascular risk. These tests are not experimental. They are available at m...

Your stress test came back normal. Your doctor said you're fine. Fifty percent of people who have their first heart attack had no idea they had heart disease, and many of them passed a stress test in the months before.  A stress test only tells you whether your most severe blockages are already restricting blood flow. It cannot find the softer, smaller deposits that are far more likely to rup...

You work out. You watch what you eat. Your last physical came back clean. And somewhere along the way, you stopped worrying about your heart. But a healthy lifestyle and healthy arteries are not the same thing.  For a specific group of patients doing everything right, plaque builds quietly inside the artery wall while every standard test says there is nothing to see. This episode is for those peop...