About this episode

Leigh Ann and Dr. Melanie Icard discuss the overlooked root causes of heart disease and the importance of a holistic approach to heart health.

Leigh Ann welcomes Dr. Melanie Icard for a conversation on heart health, heart disease, metabolism, stress, and what conventional cardiac care often misses. Dr. Icard shares how losing her mother to breast cancer at a young age, becoming a mother herself, and later reversing her own pre-diabetes led her into naturopathic medicine and metabolic healing. She explains why cholesterol alone does not tell the full story of cardiovascular risk and why plaque, inflammation, insulin resistance, chronic stress, and lifestyle patterns all need to be addressed together. Leigh Ann and Dr. Icard discuss testing tools like comprehensive labs, continuous glucose monitors, Cleerly imaging, and carotid artery screening, along with practical interventions like intermittent fasting, circadian eating, movement after meals, herbal detoxing, gut support, and reducing seed oils. Dr. Icard also emphasizes that many heart patients are high-functioning doers who hold everything together, rarely ask for support, and may be living in chronic survival mode even if they appear healthy on the outside. Product Discount Codes + Links Hoolest: Website (Discount Code: THEACCRESCENT10) Froya Hair Care: Website…

People in this episode

Host: Leigh Ann Lindsey

Guest: Dr. Melanie Icard

Topics covered

• heart health
• heart disease
• metabolism
• naturopathic medicine
• lifestyle interventions

Keywords

• heart disease
• cholesterol

Sponsors

Hoolest, Froya Hair Care, Herbal Face Food

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