The Naked Heart
by eleatham
Ask the Evidence: How to Use AI to Get Real Answers From Our…
About this podcast
The Naked Heart is a weekly series of blogs and social media publications from English cardiologist Dr Edward Leatham. His brief is to apply 50 years of breathing and practicing medicine to the series as part of a move from cardiologist and physician to educator.
The podcast publications that accompany each blog are AI constructs designed to broaden my audience and make quite complicated yet important knowledge more accessible.
The blog articles release each week provide additional information for readers https://www.scvc.co.uk/category/naked-heart/
Podcasts until Jan 2026 are located at https://Nakedheart.podbean.com
Podcasts after Jan 2026 are located at https://feeds.transistor.fm/the-naked-heart
Disclosure
Dr Leatham is Director and Founder of the Surrey Cardiovascular Clinic and, since 2019, Co-Founder and Managing Director of HeartScanDirect (https://www.heartscandirect.com/), one of the UK’s leading cardiac CT providers specialising in AI-processed scans and among the few cardiologist-led CT services in the country. Dr Leatham’s own private medical practice is based at the Surrey cardiovascular clinic and therefore has a major financial interest in the Surrey Cardiovascular clinic, the Virtual Cath Lab and Vat-Trap.com. He has no financial relationship with any pharma company or product.
A full disclosure is available at https://www.vat-trap.com/disclosures.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 52 episodes
- Ask the Evidence: How to Use AI to Get Real Answers From Our Cardiovascular Articles · 19 min · Episode 23The Ask the Evidence tool allows readers to interrogate the evidence behind Naked Heart cardiovascular articles using an AI assistant, enabling specific personal questions rather…
- The Thunderbolt Is Not the Storm · 20 min · Episode 22A major cardiology trial called ZEUS tested a monthly injection that successfully reduced inflammation markers in high-risk heart patients. The drug worked exactly as designed…
- Why You Should Trust Your Tape Measure Over Your Scales · 6 min · Episode 21The bathroom scale has somehow become the judge of whether we're winning or losing at health. It's the wrong judge — and there's a humble £2 tool in your drawer that does the job…
- The Uncharted Universe Within · 5 min · Episode 20One of my cardiology patients — under my care for poorly controlled blood pressure — loses close to a stone in six weeks on a dose below the licensed minimum, with almost no…
- Are You Leucined Up? Why One Amino Acid Decides Whether Your Patient Holds On To Muscle After Sixty · 6 min · Episode 19After 60, muscle becomes deaf to protein signals. You need 3 grams of leucine per meal, not just daily totals, to flip your muscle-building switch. Same protein portions that…
- The Choice · 5 min · Episode 18Traditional weight loss approaches fail because they treat metabolism as fixed rather than dynamic. The Choice model combines weekly micro-decisions between lifestyle changes and…
- What's Good for the Heart Is Good for the Brain · 22 min · Episode 17The four pillars of coronary prevention map directly onto dementia risk reduction through shared vascular mechanisms. Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife predict cognitive…
- Measuring Your Blood Pressure At Home · 21 min · Episode 16Done well, a week of home readings is more informative than almost anything that can be measured in a single clinic visit. Here is the method I have used, refined over twenty…
- The Elephant in the Room · 20 min · Episode 15Naked Heart is now hosted by Author Dr Leatham's cardiometabolic health channel launched 1st June 2026 www.vat-trap.com. What better topic than a look at recent ACC/AHA…
- The Handgrip That Predicts Your Patient's Cardiac Future · 21 min · Episode 14Grip strength measurement reveals cardiovascular risk more accurately than traditional markers by reflecting muscle function as endocrine organ. Declining strength drives…
- When Your Blood Can’t Breathe: Iron, Anaemia, and the Breathless Heart · 23 min · Episode 13When a patient arrives breathless and unable to climb a hill, the instinct is to blame the heart. Sometimes the answer lies in the blood itself. Iron deficiency anaemia reduces…
- The Heart: The Ultimate Fuel Omnivore · 23 min · Episode 12What if the heart works like a hybrid engine? Continuously switching between fatty acids, glucose, and ketones, it optimises fuel use for efficiency and demand. But in metabolic…
- Could Reducing Belly Fat Improve Erectile Function? · 21 min · Episode 11This N-of-1 article explores a simple hypothesis: erectile dysfunction in many men may reflect reversible metabolic disruption driven by visceral fat rather than fixed arterial…
- Can we use AI to predict cardiovascular death? · 20 min · Episode 10Groundbreaking research from Oxford University reveals it is possible to detect and quantify ‘coronary inflammation’ – invisible to the human eye on conventional CT images, but…
- Your Roadmap to CHD Prevention: A 4-Step Guide · 21 min · Episode 9Coronary heart disease often presents without warning, making early prevention essential. This article outlines a personalised approach to identifying individual risk, detecting…
- N-of-1: When You Become the Study · 20 min · Episode 8N-of-1 medicine shifts the focus from population averages to personal biology. This blog series explores how individuals with curiosity can run simple, safe self-experiments —…
- Why HIIT Gets Rid of Visceral Fat — The Science Behind Anaerobic Exercise · 16 min · Episode 36HIIT interrupts this cycle by dramatically improving insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake in skeletal muscle — particularly in the large lower-limb muscles of the thighs and…
- Mitochondria: The Tiny Engines Managing Your Energy — Until They Are Overloaded · 16 min · Episode 35Mitochondria are the power stations inside every cell, converting food into energy. But in modern life, with constant carbohydrate intake and low energy demand, they become…
- Troponin-Negative Chest Pain: A Dangerous Illusion · 15 min · Episode 34Troponin-negative chest pain presentations are often sent home without a timely work up or prompt imaging tests like a CT angiogram. A delay can be critical. As clinicians, we…
- Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO): A Hidden Link in Stroke, TIA, Migraine and More — When to Close the Hole in the Heart · 22 min · Episode 33Before birth, the foramen ovale is a vital foetal opening between the right and left atria, allowing oxygen-rich placental blood to bypass the inactive lungs. After the first…
