Tara Narula, M.D.

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The mindbodygreen Podcast · 634: A cardiologist’s guide to mind-body medicine | Tara Narula, M.D. · 25 Jan 2026 podcast

So we have those conversations and a lot of them will look at me and ask, why are you asking me this?

Because again, I think we haven't explained the connection between the brain and the mind and all the chemicals that get released and how damaging chronic stress can be.

And I think that is why the whole first part of the book, I really wanted to devote to just educating about the impact of stress

on our bodies, acute stress and chronic stress.

And then the second half is really much more about how we reverse that response because we can do that, right?

So the same way that stress can be damaging, we have the power to kind of flip that and that's where the change in outcomes comes in.

But I do wish that more cardiologists, more doctors asked about this

not just because it's part of prevention, but also because how can we get our patients to take the medicines that they need to take or exercise when they're mired with fear or anxiety or depression?

So we have to address those things in order to then get them to want to do the procedures that we want to send them for or to be able to.

So they're so interconnected, but we don't often talk about it.

And I think one...

big area where we don't talk about it, and this was really, again, another reason why I wanted to write the book, is when we give patients a diagnosis.

So when someone comes to me and I send them for a cardiac CTA and we discover that they have heart disease and I tell them that, that's a real moment of stress, of trauma for a lot of people when they learn they have heart disease and they thought they didn't.

Or when I tell them, you have to have a procedure done to fix a valve that's defective.

All of these diagnoses, these procedures that people undergo, that is a traumatic experience.

And we just don't talk about that in medicine in the same way that we talk about other forms of trauma.

And so many of my patients really would look at me and just say, when am I going to be myself again?

This has really upended my whole world.

And I think that's where...

you know, we need to do a better job in medicine at recognizing that this is an opportunity, this moment in time where we give someone a diagnosis when they've learned that something has happened that is going to change their life, to teach them the skills of resilience building, to arm them with the ability to say, despite the fact that this has happened, I am in control of where I'm going in the future.

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