Ken Chau is the owner of the Sun Bo Kong vegetarian Chinese restaurant in Vancouver, BC. This is one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in the world! (yes my Indian friends, it is better than “Indian Chinese”). Ken has quotes from famous vegetarians on the wall of his restaurant. Quotes from the web: “One farmer…
Author: Sameer Oza
plant based cardiologists in colorado
Andrew Freeman at National Jewish. Here are his slides from a recent talk at VegFest. Maria Anderson, currently in MN, back in CO next year. Nelson Trujillo – my partner at Boulder Heart, almost there. Srini Iyengar – my partner at Boulder Heart, vegetarian. Bryan Mahan – my partner at Boulder Heart, relapsed vegan, we…
hospital food
Hospitals made the decision to go smoke free when the data was overwhelming. The data on WFPBD (whole foods plant based diet) is now overwhelming and hospitals need to move on this! This will save countless lives. Here are the hospitals that have fast food restaurants on the hospital premises: I trained in one of…
senior nomads
Debbie and Michael Campbell A video about the couple from BBC. Their blog.
non-invasive ablation!
Non invasive ablation is where I think the whole field of electrophysiology is going to be in the next 25 years. Maybe, catheter based ablation will still maintain a niche role! Phillip Cuculich and colleagues at Wash U in St. Louis have pioneered this technique. Here is their article in NEJM. In simplistic terms, their…
pulsed field ablation
The most promising AFIB ablation technology this year at HRS meeting. The field of cardiac ablation started with DC ablation, this is a refinement of the technique! During pulsed field ablation (PFA), sub-second electric fields create microscopic pores in cell membranes – a process called electroporation. Among cell types, myocytes have among the lowest thresholds…
food advice
The Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans. The French eat a lot of fat and also suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans. The Japanese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than the British or the Americans. The…
food addiction
Nora Wolkow is the world’s foremost authority on addiction. In this talk she talks about food addiction. Neal Barnard did a great talk that started with “how to magnetize a baby?” Sugar addicts lose their cravings when they are exposed to naloxone, an opiate antagonist. This suggests that sugar addiction works along the same pathways…
excuses to drink coffee
For your heart Arrhythmia Coronary artery disease Has fiber especially coffee with chicory For your brain Alzheimer’s disease Parkinson’s disease Multiple Sclerosis Depression Diabetes Type 2 diabetes Cancer risk Cirrhosis and liver cancer Colorectal cancer Oropharyngeal cancer Melanoma Joints Gout Teeth Cavities – black coffee only Eyesight Retinal degeneration Death Death. Death! Note that soda…
low carb diet & AFIB – part 2
Here is another substudy of the ARIC study published last week. 13,385 patients were followed for 22.4 years. An increase of 9.4% in carbohydrate intake (corresponding to 1 standard deviation) was associated with an 18% lower rate of incident AF.