About this episode

Mike Dyson shares his unexpected journey with severe coronary artery disease and the impact of gratitude amidst grief following his heart surgery.

Send us Fan Mail Your body can do everything "right" and still betray your expectations. That's what makes Mike Dyson's story so gripping: he's a fitness business owner who trains consistently, watches his nutrition, tracks his labs, and still ends up blindsided by severe coronary artery disease and a life-saving open heart bypass surgery after doctors initially brush off his symptoms as "must be your exercise." We talk through the moment the angiogram changes everything, the shock of hearing...

Topics covered

• health
• grief
• fitness
• coronary artery disease
• heart surgery

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