If you are like me, you get inspired to make diner using a recipe that promises fun to eat, quick and easy to make and especially, not too expensive. All too often however, there are leftovers, or you get bored with the recipe and want to move on to something else. As a result, the overall costs are more than …
I feel these new extra heart beats
Q: Im 56 years old. 6 ft and weigh 180.In good health. Last checkup everything was fine. Perfect ekg heart checked out ok lungs clear. My question to you is recently I have been experiencing unusual skips in my heart.I am used to the normal skipped beats and had them all my life ,sometimes aware of them and sometimes not.But …
Cooking videos
Hi there, I am Chef Piet, If you go to Cooking with Piet, our new recipe category, you’ll find a number of cooking videos. While these are not exactly heart healthy, they are delicious, easy to make and inexpensive. Future productions will be done in cooperation with Angelina, our nutrition expert. We will apply the same principles to making your …
Severe Chestpains and fainting
Q: I am a 51 year old woman who is fit and healthy, low cholesterol, low fat diet, no food before bedtime, low to average BP and pulse. Grandfather died of heart attack at 53 the other at 73, father died early of trauma, grandmothers died of heart disease in 80s & 90s. Have Raynauds, GORD nexium 40mg daily. long …
Heart rate during exercise
Q: Hi, when I exercise my heart goes faster but it doesnt get much harder, I have recently noticed this, I am on a beta blocker 75 mg a day. I am not fat, but I havent really been active in 6 months. Its feels like my heart needs to beat harder, but it just stays fast.Could this be because …
How many PACs or PVCs are too many
Follow-up question: Dr T, I thank you for your time and greatly appreciate the advice. Reading back through my initial correspondence I believe it would be better to say that when I exercise I seem to notice 3 or 4 premature beats at separate times, not coming at once. I do not believe they are more prevalent during exercise, just …
What happens after treatment for WPW syndrome?
Follow-up question: Thanks alot that really helps. One question, I had an ablation for wpw and they said i had dual av node pathway, the doc said he modified it. Is it possible for the arrythmia to make my heart beat weird for days? Like a week? Even if my heart is beating at a normal rate? You are very …
I cannot feel my heart beat
Q: Hi, I have recently started gaining more pec muscle, but its like I cant feel my heart beat except for right below my pec. Is this normal? The doc said it sounded fine but he didnt feel it, if it sounds fine then does that mean that its beating normally. Is it normal for the heart to beat harder …
Those PVCs cannot have anything to do with coronary artery disease
Q: Are you telling me that PACs and PVCs are heart failure? I had a stress echo of my heart in April 2007, and an echo done September 2008 and was told everything was excellent; I had the stress test where I was injected with radio isotopes; my BMI is roughy 28% (using calipers and BMI measurements) as I am …
What do my cardiac ECHO results mean?
Q: Can you tell me in layman term the findings of my 2D echo result showed as follows: Concentric left ventricular hypertrophy with segmental wall hypokinesia Adequate overall systolic function Doppler evidence of decreased left ventricular compliance Mildly dilated left atrium Compared to the study done last January 2010, the current 2d echo now showed segmental wall hypokinesia. the reset …