HEART15Healthy Heart Summit

Event Experts

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  Brenda Watson, CNC

  A Healthy Gut for a Healthy Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • How your gut health impacts heart health!
  • Preventing inflammation in your gut
  • Steps to improve both gut and heart health
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  Alan Christianson, NMD

  Adrenal and the Heart’s Connection to the Thyroid

  What You'll Learn +

  • How stress and thyroid health impact your heart and weight
  • Tips for lowering your stress and losing weight
  • Tips for better sleep
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  Sayer Ji

  Alternative Medicine and Heart Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Evidence to support alternative medicine for heart disease
  • What foods are best for heart health?
  • Natural alternatives to NSAIDs, calcium pills and statin medications
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  Trudy Scott, CN

  Anxiety, Depression and Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  Explore the role anxiety plays in heart disease and learn how to stay away from the foods that trigger anxiety and choose the foods that curb it! 
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  Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN, NP

  Balance Your Hormones and Protect Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • How hormones and menopause impact heart health
  • The impact of food on hormones and menopause
  • Safe hormones for menopause and your heart!
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  James Maskell

  Creating an Optimal Health Care System

  What You'll Learn +

  • Helping our current healthcare system change
  • Finding a doctor with a holistic, integrative practice
  • How to rebuild our healthcare system
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  Mark Hyman, MD

  Diabesity and Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is diabesity?
  • Important tests to assess heart disease risk
  • Finding heart-friendly food on a budget
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  Cynthia Pasquella-Garcia

  Diet and Lifestyle Changes to Help Prevent Cardiovascular Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • Building your self-esteem can help you eat better!
  • How to change what you eat to prevent cardiovascular disease
  • Favorite heart-friendly foods
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  Joel Kahn, MD, FACC

  Early Prevention and Detection of Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • Suggest testing for prevention of heart disease
  • Assessing arterial plaque growth
  • Is a vegan eating plan good for your heart?
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  Stephen Sinatra T, MD, FACC, FACN

  Energy Metabolism is Essential for Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • How do you test for heart health?
  • Best supplements to treat heart disease
  • What is metabolic cardiology?
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  Sara Gottfried, MD

  Hormones, Weight and Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • About hormone replacement therapy and cardiovascular disease
  • How gut flora impacts hormone balance
  • Balancing hormones to assist with weight loss
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  Dewitt Wilkerson, DMD

  How Dental Health and Sleep Apnea Impact Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • Dental issues can impact cardiovascular disease!
  • The sleep apnea connection to heart disease
  • Steps to lower inflammation and reverse sleep apnea
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  Tom O'Bryan, DC, CCN, DACBN

  How Does Gluten Sensitivity Cause Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • How gluten is connected to heart disease
  • The right way to test for gluten sensitivities
  • Tips for avoiding gluten (that you might not have known!)
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  David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM

  How Heart Health Impacts Your Brain

  What You'll Learn +

  What do the heart and brain have in common and how can you evaluate the health of both -- and heal them both -- simultaneously?
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  Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC

  How Holistic Health Can Prevent Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • Holistic heart evaluation, what is it?
  • Managing stress for the purpose of preventing cardiovascular disease
  • What foods are healthy for your heart?
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  Jennie Brand-Miller, PhD, FAIFST, FNSA

  How Low Glycemic Intake Prevents Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • What is the Glycemic Index and how does it impact your heart?
  • Why glycemic "load" is a better measure than glycemic "index"
  • Daily foods should to choose (and avoid!)
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  Editor in Chief for Holistic Primary Care Erik Goldman

  How to Find a Holistic Doctor

  What You'll Learn +

  • How healthcare has changed over 30 years
  • The difference between holistic and conventional medicine
  • Finding a holistic, functional medicine doctor
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  Yuri Elkaim

  How to Give Yourself Energy All Day!

  What You'll Learn +

  • Simple ways to improve your exercise routine
  • Tips for getting the most out of your exercising
  • Get the body you want and the energy you deserve!
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  Randy Hartnell

  Improving Your Heart Health with Seafood

  What You'll Learn +

  • The difference between wild and farmed seafood
  • Is mercury in seafood a concern?
  • How to choose the best seafood options!
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  Tom Malterre, MS, CN, CFMP

  Is an Elimination Diet Right for Your Heart?

  What You'll Learn +

  • Knowing the most allergenic foods!
  • How to follow an elimination diet
  • Hints for making an elimination diet easier
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  Susan Albers, PsyD

  Mindful Eating for Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • The importance of "mindful eating" for health
  • Tips for reducing stress
  • How often to eat chocolate, mandarin oranges and pistachios
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  Leanne Ely

  Prevent Heart Disease Through Home Cooking

  What You'll Learn +

  • Why ingredients matter--they’re what you eat!
  • Sample recipes that are good for your heart
  • Learn more about "Saving Dinner" Meals
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  Anna Cabeca, DO

  Sexual Function and Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • Sex is great for heart health!
  • Improved circulation is great for your sex life!
  • Tips to improving sexual function
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  JJ Virgin, CNS, BCHN, EP-C

  Sugar’s Contribution to Heart Disease

  What You'll Learn +

  • Where sugars hide in the foods you eat!
  • Understand the connection between sugar and heart disease
  • How to quickly lose weight and keep it off
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  Josh Axe, DNM, DC, CNS

  The Best Food and Activity for Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • How gut health impacts heart health
  • Exercises to help achieve optimal heart health
  • Best foods and supplements for your gut and heart
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  Deanna Minich, PhD, CNS, IFMCP

  The Detox-Heart Disease Connection

  What You'll Learn +

  • What nutrients are critical for the heart?
  • How do toxins in your food impact heart health?
  • Detoxing to remove toxins!
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  Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS

  The Great Cholesterol Myth

  What You'll Learn +

  • Top tips for successful weight loss!
  • Which "Smart Fats" will prevent heart disease
  • What is the "Great Cholesterol Myth?"
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  William Davis, MD, FACC

  The Impact of Wheat on Heart Disease and Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • Is wheat associated with heart disease?
  • How gut bacteria impacts cardiovascular risk
  • Do other grains affect heart health?
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  Steven Masley, MD, FAHA

  The Optimal Evaluation for Your Heart

  What You'll Learn +

  • How best to measure your heart health
  • What causes cardiovascular disease?
  • Lifestyle choices to help you to reverse heart disease!
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  Douglas Schocken, MD, FACC, FAHA

  Top Measures of Heart Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • How aerobic activity and strength training impacts heart health
  • Tips for preventing cardiovascular disease
  • Are statin medications right for you?
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  Past-President, American Heart Association Robert Eckell, MD

  What is a Heart Healthy Lifestyle?

  What You'll Learn +

  • How to measure GREAT heart health!
  • Determining the quality of the food we eat
  • What does a heart healthy lifestyle look like?
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  James Porcelli, MD

  What Testing to Have to Assess Heart Health

  What You'll Learn +

  • What should your medical history include?
  • What laboratory studies help to understand heart aging?
  • How to assess fitness and heart stamina?
  • How to measure arterial plaque?

Meet Your Host

Steven Masley, MD, FAHA

Steven Masley MD is a physician, nutritionist, trained-chef, author, and the creator of the #1 all-time health program for Public Television, 30 Days to a Younger Heart. He helps motivated people to tune up their brain, heart, and sexual performance. 

Dr. Masley is a fellow with three prestigious organizations: the American Heart Association, the American College of Nutrition, and the American Academy of Family Physicians, and is a Clinical Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. His research focuses on the impact of lifestyle choices on heart health, brain function, and aging. 

Dr. Masley’s passion is empowering people to achieve optimal health through comprehensive assessments and lifestyle changes. As a best-selling author, he has published several books: Ten Years Younger, The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up, Smart Fat, and his latest book, The Better Brain Solution, plus numerous scientific articles. His work has been viewed by millions on PBS, the Discovery Channel, the Today Show, and in over 500 media interviews. He continues to see patients and publish research from his medical clinic in St. Petersburg Florida, and he offers weekly blogs on his website, www.DrMasley.com.