Neuro Experience

This episode’s guest is Prakriti Gaba. She earned her medical degree from the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine and completed internal medicine training at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. She is a physician and senior cardiology fellow at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Her research interests involve investigating novel treatments for coronary artery disease as well as rethinking clinical trial design. In this episode, Dr Gaba and I discuss: - What causes heart disease. - Does your diet affect your cholesterol levels? - Which biomarkers should you be looking at, and the ideal ranges. - How to lower your risk of cardiovascular disease. 00:00:00 - High Risk LDL Cholesterol Levels 00:02:07 - The New York Experience Podcast 00:03:00 - Exploring Unanswered Questions in Cardiology 00:03:02 - Decreasing the Risk of Extreme Cardiovascular Problems 00:04:21 - The Mystery of Cardiology and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease 00:05:09 - Understanding Cardiovascular Disease