Conversation with Dr. Aseem Malhotra | Fat, Sugar, Heart and Medicine

Wellevate Life Podcast

Dr Aseem Malhotra is an NHS Consultant Cardiologist, and visiting Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine, Bahiana School of Medicine and Public Health, Salvador, Brazil. He is a world-renowned expert in the prevention, diagnosis and management of heart disease. He is an honorary council member of the Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic at Stanford University school of medicine California and is a Cardiology MSc examiner at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is a founding member of Action on Sugar and was the lead campaigner highlighting the harm caused by excess sugar consumption in the United Kingdom, particularly its role in type 2 diabetes and obesity. In 2015 he helped coordinate the Choosing Wisely campaign by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges as lead author in a BMJ paper to highlight the risks of overuse of medical treatments. In the same year, he became the youngest member to be appointed to the board of trustees of the UK health think tank, The King’s Fund that advises the government on health policy. Aseem is a frequent expert commentator in print and broadcast media and he has written scores of articles for a number of publications. He is the international guest editor of the journal of evidence-based healthcare. In 2016 he was named in the Sunday Times Debrett’s list as one of the most influential people in science and medicine in the UK in a list that included Professor Stephen Hawking. His first book co-authored with Donal O’ Neill, The Pioppi Diet, has become an international bestseller.

• Sneak-Peak into Dr. Aseem’s career
• Problems with the current Medical system and what is required to change it.
• Is Social Media a good guy or a bad guy in this fight against misinformation?
• How well do doctors examine the Relative risk factors for every medication that comes out?
• Impact of Environment on Health
• Impact of Smoking and Cardiovascular disease
• Importance of understanding Relative and absolute risks
• A few must have changes in the medical education system
• What is one of the biggest barriers to bringing in change in the system.
• The society we’re living in right now.
• Dr. Aseem’s Transformation from cardiology to Sugar and Fat activist.
• How sugar impacts the heart.
• Fundamental flaws in Nutrition and Dietary world.
• Following the physicist approach in the Medical systems.
• Why Dieting is better than exercising.
• Role bringing back natural body and bowel movements.
• Concerns around the plant based approach.
• Rapid Fiver
  • Sugar
  • Olive
  • Statins
  • Corona Virus
  • Supplements