Ben Greenfield visits Atelier Health in Beverly Hills for a comprehensive cardiovascular assessment led by Dr. Dandelaya, a preventative cardiologist. In this introductory segment they outline the planned battery of tests — blood work, ultrasound-based assessments, treadmill stress testing, coronary calcium scoring, and endothelial function testing — and direct viewers to show notes at BenGreenfieldFitness.com/HeartPodcast for details.
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All right, folks, well, this is it. You have asked me plenty of questions over the years about how you can actually assess your cardiovascular function, how you can actually know or have that peace of mind that your heart is working properly or perhaps even find out some things about it that might require you to address things from a diet or an exercise or a lifestyle standpoint. So, so what I've done is I've come to California, to Beverly Hills, to a place called Atelier Help. And what we're going to be doing is a suite, a battery of cardiovascular function tests which are going to allow us to look at what my own heart health actually appears to be. Now today, the person, the medical professional who's going to be walking us through all this is Dr. Dandelaya and he works here at Atelier. And are you, what's the actual style of physician you would describe yourself?
I'm a cardiologist.
Cardiologist.
I call myself a preventative cardiologist. So the intersection of lifestyle factors and testing and diet, all of that. So I think this is going to be a great interchange. So looking forward to it.
Fantastic. And to give people a preview, what are they going to get to see today?
Well, we're going to do a full cardiovascular assessment. We're going to do some blood work, we're going to do some ultrasound based assessments, get you on the treadmill as well, and then also get a calcium score done. So with these tools, we're going to get a good head to toe kind of assessment of your cardiovascular system. And we'll also do some endothelial function testing, which is very important because that's a very dynamic look and it's a dynamic cardiovascular risk factor.
Fantastic. And we'll explain to you guys what each of these tests do as we go through. But if you want to visit the show notes to learn more about anything that we do, you can find all the information on Dr. Dandelaia, on Atelier Health, on all the different tests that we do. And you can leave your own questions, comments or feedback if you just go to BenGreenfieldFitness.Com HeartPodcast. That's BenGreenfieldFitness.com HeartPodcast that's where all the show notes are going to be. And that all being said, let's do this.
