Dr. Tara Narula

And it's low impact.

It's good for your health, your joints.

So yeah, walking's totally adequate.

You just want to make sure, well, number one, any walking's adequate.

But if you are walking, you can try to do it at a pace where it's a little hard to carry on a conversation with someone.

That's a good marker of I'm walking fast enough.

How do you feel about weighted vests?

If I told you the number of patients I have who are triathletes or marathoners or extremely active who come into my office thinking they're not going to have any heart disease and then we send them for a calcium score and they do, you would be shocked.

And they are shocked because they say exactly that, which is I'm doing everything right.

I don't look like the picture of heart disease, but that's not the whole story.

So yes, you can be doing all those things right and still have cardiovascular disease.

Is that more genetic at that point?

In some cases it can be, you know, genetic family history of early heart disease or maybe you just have high cholesterol even though you exercise all the time and you're, you know, at a normal healthy weight.

um we addressed this one a little bit but maria i've been hearing a lot about ozempic and heart health is there actually a benefit just beyond weight loss or is that just hype there is there is for sure and as i mentioned the most recent research really does show that there are just isolated cardiac benefits that have nothing to do with weight loss so we know that the weight loss is obviously going to improve blood pressure and cholesterol just from losing weight but when we tell people well wow it does seem like these drugs are actually having separate effects

That's really where the interesting thing about these drugs.

And then we're learning more about these drugs in terms of potentially beneficial for dementias, for addiction, liver disease, sleep apnea, kidney.

I mean, it's like the list goes on and on of what they don't.

They're researching all of those things.

I mean, obviously the drugs have some FDA indication for liver disease and sleep apnea already and cardiovascular disease, but they're doing research into some of those other indications.

I've had a lot of patients tell me too that they don't want to drink alcohol anymore.