Own Your Heart Health with Dr. Regina Druz

Does lowering LDL cholesterol prevent your next heart attack? Three trials put that question into sharper focus this year — STAREE, AMUNDSEN and Lp(a)HORIZON — and the answer turns on one idea most patients never hear about: absolute risk reduction. In this remix episode, Dr. Regina Druz explains why a better lab number is not...

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Your cholesterol number can improve in twelve weeks while your actual risk of a heart attack barely moves. That gap is the subject of this episode. Dr. Regina Druz walks through three major cholesterol trials reported over the past year — STAREE, AMUNDSEN and VESALIUS-CV — covering both statins and Repatha (evolocumab), and uses a...

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Insulin resistance can quietly build for years — even decades — before conventional bloodwork tells the full story. Terry Tateossian learned that firsthand: after building a tech company with twelve offices, she hit burnout, gained 80 pounds, had panic attacks, and landed in the hospital twice for symptoms she feared were a heart attack —...

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Jaw pain that appeared only while climbing stairs. Blood pressure that looked normal at every office visit but rose at home. One woman had a 90% blockage in a major coronary artery; another had masked hypertension that may have contributed to a cardiomyopathy — and in both cases the warning signs were easy to miss....

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What if a handful of “keystone” gut microbes quietly set the pace at which your gut, brain, and heart age? In this episode, Dr. Regina Druz sits down with nutrition and microbiome researcher Dr. Oscar Coetzee to explore the strains of gut bacteria that behave less like passengers and more like an organ system of...

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What if our healthcare system isn’t broken — but is performing exactly as it was designed? In this episode, Dr. Regina Druz sits down with Dr. Yele Aluko, an interventional and structural-heart cardiologist who spent years opening blocked arteries and implanting heart valves before stepping back from the bedside to work “upstream” on health policy...

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What if you could vaccinate against the world’s number-one killer? In this episode, Dr. Regina Druz walks on the wild side with Dr. David Scieszka — an Army psyop specialist turned longevity scientist and the founder and CEO of Vertical Longevity Pharma — to explore a provocative idea: a ‘vaccine’ that trains the immune system...

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Naturopathic physician Dr. Artemis Morris reveals the untold secrets of the Mediterranean diet — wild edible plants, olive oil quality tiers, and why cultural eating patterns protect your heart.

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Dr. Druz and pharmacist Dr. Nayan Patel unpack glutathione, oxidative stress, and how topical delivery is reshaping longevity for adults over 30.

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Guest: Dr. Jennifer Roelands, MD — Integrative Gynecologist & Longevity Physician In this episode, Dr. Regina Druz is joined by Dr. Jennifer Roelands — a board-certified OB-GYN who practices integrative gynecology and longevity medicine — to reframe GLP-1 agonists (semaglutide and tirzepatide) as a form of hormonal replacement therapy rather than simple weight-loss drugs. They...

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