Your Heart is In Your Hands: Part I

Drs. Brian Bilchik, Dara Lee Lewis and Alyson Kelley-Hedgepeth
March 17, 2021

The power to change your heart’s destiny is in your hands. Over 80% of heart disease and stroke is directly related to lifestyle. Join Lown cardiologists Drs. Brian Bilchik, Alyson Kelley-Hedegepth and Dara Lee-Lewis and learn how to optimize your cardiac health with the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine: nutrition, exercise, sleep and stress management. The emphasis shifts from treating symptoms with increased medications and procedures to identifying and eradicating the root cause of disease with simple but powerful, evidence-based lifestyle changes.
 
Moderated by former CNN producer, speaker and author Nadia Bilchik.


Check out part II:

https://www.lowngroup.org/prevention-roundtable-ii

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