About this episode

Dr. Martha Gulati discusses women's heart disease, its unique risk factors, and the gaps in medical awareness regarding cardiovascular health.

Heart disease is not only a man's disease. It is the number one killer of women, responsible for ten times more deaths than breast cancer. And yet most women have never had a real conversation about their cardiovascular risk, because the medical system was not built to catch it in them. Dr. Martha Gulati is the Director of Preventive Cardiology and Associate Director of the Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai, Director of the Davis Women's Heart Center at Houston Methodist, and author of Saving Women's Hearts. Her own quote has become one of the most cited lines in women's cardiology: "Heart disease is the number one killer of women, but lack of awareness is a close second." This conversation goes into how the female heart develops disease differently, why women's symptoms get dismissed even when they use the words chest pain, and the pregnancy complications, hormonal history, and inflammatory conditions that quietly raise cardiovascular risk for decades before anything shows up on a standard panel. Join the most comprehensive *female-specific community for health and longevity optimization.* After over a decade dedicated to human performance and…

People in this episode

Host: Kayla Barnes-Lentz

Guest: Dr. Martha Gulati

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cedars-Sinai, Houston Methodist

Books & works: Saving Women's Hearts

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