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Date created
2024/10/08
Latest episode
2026/09/17
Average duration
17 min.
Release period
15 days
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The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator. The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible. The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/ Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart Disclosure Dr Leatham is Director and Founder of the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic and, since 2019, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HeartScanDirect (https://www.heartscandirect.com/), one of the UK’s leading cardiac CT providers specialising in AI-processed scans and among the few cardiologist-led CT services in the country. Dr Leatham’s own private medical practice is based at the Surrey cardiovascular clinic and therefore has a major financial interest in the Surrey Cardiovascular clinic, the Virtual Cath Lab and Vat-Trap.com. He has no financial relationship with any pharma company or product. A full disclosure is available at https://www.vat-trap.com/disclosures.
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Ask the Evidence: How to Use AI to Get Real Answers From Our Cardiovascular Articles
2026/09/17
The Ask the Evidence tool allows readers to interrogate the evidence behind Naked Heart cardiovascular articles using an AI assistant, enabling specific personal questions rather than passive reading of prose.
- Every claim in the accompanying structured evidence file is graded by strength of evidence, so AI assistants cannot present an emerging hypothesis with the same confidence as an established finding — a distinction that is critical in cardiovascular decision-making.- The full reference list is embedded in the structured file, ensuring that any study cited by an AI assistant can be traced to a real, verifiable source rather than a generated or hallucinated citation.- The tool is educational, not clinical; its accompanying instruction set explicitly directs the AI to remind users that it does not replace professional medical assessment or consultation.- The tool is designed to be used in under two minutes, lowering the barrier for readers and families to engage meaningfully with complex cardiovascular evidence.
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The Thunderbolt Is Not the Storm
2026/08/31
A major cardiology trial called ZEUS tested a monthly injection that successfully reduced inflammation markers in high-risk heart patients. The drug worked exactly as designed. Cardiovascular deaths, heart attacks, and strokes were completely unchanged. The inflammatory hypothesis just got much harder to defend.
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Why You Should Trust Your Tape Measure Over Your Scales
2026/07/03
The bathroom scale has somehow become the judge of whether we're winning or losing at health. It's the wrong judge — and there's a humble £2 tool in your drawer that does the job far better.
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The Uncharted Universe Within
2026/07/03
One of my cardiology patients — under my care for poorly controlled blood pressure — loses close to a stone in six weeks on a dose below the licensed minimum, with almost no change to his diet. The honest answer to how is the most interesting thing about him, and the reason this series exists.
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Are You Leucined Up? Why One Amino Acid Decides Whether Your Patient Holds On To Muscle After Sixty
2026/06/13
After 60, muscle becomes deaf to protein signals. You need 3 grams of leucine per meal, not just daily totals, to flip your muscle-building switch. Same protein portions that worked at 40 barely register at 70. Threshold dosing with resistance training breaks this cycle.
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The Choice
2026/06/12
Traditional weight loss approaches fail because they treat metabolism as fixed rather than dynamic. The Choice model combines weekly micro-decisions between lifestyle changes and medication adjustments, offering a flexible system that adapts to continuous metabolic changes and breaks the cycle of initial success followed by plateau and regain.
https://www.vat-trap.com/post/metabolic-doom-loop-choice
What's Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain
2026/06/01
The four pillars of coronary prevention map directly onto dementia risk reduction through shared vascular mechanisms. Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife predict cognitive decline decades later, making optimal heart health our strongest defence against age-related cognitive impairment and dementia.
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Measuring Your Blood Pressure At Home
2026/06/01
Done well, a week of home readings is more informative than almost anything that can be measured in a single clinic visit. Here is the method I have used, refined over twenty years — and a free calculator that does the averaging for you.
Read the full blog and link to a free blood pressure tool here
The Elephant in the Room
2026/06/01
Naked Heart is now hosted by Author Dr Leatham's cardiometabolic health channel launched 1st June 2026 www.vat-trap.com. What better topic than a look at recent ACC/AHA guidelines for cholesterol targets and no note that cardiovascular deaths fell 70–80% in sixty years — one of medicine's greatest triumphs. But progress is now slowing. Visceral fat, not LDL-C, is the upstream driver of the four real epidemic diseases: atrial fibrillation, heart failure, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. The VAT-TRAP four-pillar framework addresses all four simultaneously.
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The Handgrip That Predicts Your Patient's Cardiac Future
2026/05/06
Grip strength measurement reveals cardiovascular risk more accurately than traditional markers by reflecting muscle function as endocrine organ. Declining strength drives coronary disease through inflammatory pathways. Progressive resistance training provides powerful cardiovascular protection.
When Your Blood Can’t Breathe: Iron, Anaemia, and the Breathless Heart
2026/03/27
When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces oxygen delivery, forces the heart into a hyperdynamic state, and can even produce a murmur over a completely normal valve.
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The Heart: The Ultimate Fuel Omnivore
2026/03/24
What if the heart works like a hybrid engine? Continuously switching between fatty acids, glucose, and ketones, it optimises fuel use for efficiency and demand. But in metabolic disease, this flexibility is lost. The result: poorer fuel, narrowed supply lines, and a strained engine — a new way to understand cardiovascular risk.
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Could Reducing Belly Fat Improve Erectile Function?
2026/02/27
This N-of-1 article explores a simple hypothesis: erectile dysfunction in many men may reflect reversible metabolic disruption driven by visceral fat rather than fixed arterial disease. By tracking waist reduction and symptoms over time, individuals can test whether improving metabolic health restores endothelial function, drug response, and erectile reliability.
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Can we use AI to predict cardiovascular death?
2026/02/27
Groundbreaking research from Oxford University reveals it is possible to detect and quantify ‘coronary inflammation’ – invisible to the human eye on conventional CT images, but detectable using artificial intelligence techniques.
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Your Roadmap to CHD Prevention: A 4-Step Guide
2026/02/26
Coronary heart disease often presents without warning, making early prevention essential. This article outlines a personalised approach to identifying individual risk, detecting underlying coronary inflammation and plaque, and implementing structured preventive strategies. Combining risk scoring, advanced imaging and holistic management, we help patients reduce the likelihood of future heart events.
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