Dr. Stephen Hussey: The Heart is Not a Pump – Debunking the Conventional Narratives of Heart Disease

Dr. Stephen Hussey: The Heart is Not a Pump – Debunking the Conventional Narratives of Heart Disease

May 22, 2026 · 1h 38m · Episode 68

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Dr. Stephen Hussey discusses the misconceptions surrounding heart disease and the heart's function.

Send us Fan Mail A 34-year-old, with “great numbers” and clean imaging, has a widowmaker heart attack, and then recovers without the usual long-term medication stack. That story alone forces us to question what we really know about the heart. I sat down with chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner Dr. Stephen Hussey, author of Understanding the Heart, to rebuild the heart disease conversation from first principles and from lived experience. We challenge the default plumbing narrati...

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