Welcome to my podcast. I am Doctor Warrick Bishop, and I want to help you to live as well as possible for as long as possible. I’m a practising cardiologist, best-selling author, keynote speaker, and the creator of The Healthy Heart Network. I have over 20 years as a specialist cardiologist and a private practice of over 10,000 patients.
In this podcast, Doctor Warrick Bishop discusses the importance of preventing heart attacks and improving general health on a global scale. He highlights the alarming statistics of heart attacks in Australia, with one occurring almost every 10 minutes and over 20 people dying from it daily.
Doctor Bishop also shares insights on sleep and how brief awakenings during the night may actually be beneficial for memory consolidation. Research from the University of Copenhagen suggests that the stress neurotransmitter noradrenaline wakes up the brain many times at night, leading to memory boosts.
The study found that the more awake you are during a micro-arousal, the better the memory boost. Doctor Bishop explains that noradrenaline is a hormone that increases during stress but also helps you stay focused. He notes that the brain wakes up roughly 100 plus times a night, mostly during non-dark hours REM sleep stage 2, the spindle-rich sleep stage.
Doctor Bishop concludes by encouraging listeners to join the Healthy Heart Network, which provides lifetime access to information and support for understanding and reducing the risk of heart attack.
- Heart attacks are a major health issue in Australia, with over 20 people dying from a heart attack every day.
- Strategies can be put in place to reduce the risk of heart attacks.
- Sleep is important for general well-being and memory consolidation.
- Brief awakenings during sleep may be a sign of good sleep quality.
- Micro-arousals during sleep are linked to memory consolidation and can help boost memory.
- Noradrenaline, a hormone that increases during stress, is active during sleep and helps with memory consolidation.
- Sleep spindles, short oscillatory bursts of brain activity, are linked to memory consolidation.
- Deep valleys during sleep are linked to more sleep spindles and better memory consolidation.
- Restless sleep is not good, but waking up briefly may be a natural part of memory-related sleep phases.
- More research is needed to fully understand the role of brief awakenings during sleep and the brain's cleaning up of waste products during sleep.
Australia, like the rest of the western world, has a heart problem.
Over 9 million people around the world die from heart disease every year.
Every 10 minutes, someone in Australia suffers a heart attack. And 21 lives are lost daily because of it.
The devastating fact in all of this is…
Almost every one of those cases could have been prevented.
This podcast is for anyone who wants to improve their health literacy and gain information to help them make the best decisions about their risk of heart attack, their cholesterol, blood pressure, risk of diabetes, weight loss and general health. Join me on my personal mission journey to prevent Heart Attack on a global scale. If you like this podcast, I would be honoured by a 5-star review and appreciate if you let your friends and family know about this podcast; you may even save the life of someone you love!
Are You at Risk of a Sudden Heart Attack? How Healthy is Your Heart? Really?
Heart disease is the #1 killer in the Western World. In Australia, someone dies every 28 minutes from heart disease. That’s 51 people a day. In the US, someone has a heart attack every 40 SECONDS! Fortunately, many heart attacks are preventable. However, regular exercise and eating healthy are no guarantee you won’t succumb to this silent killer.
- 94% of Australians have at least One Risk Factor for heart disease.
- 59% of Australians have been Touched by heart disease.
- Yet only 3% of Australians have had a Full Heart-Health Assessment in the past 12 months.
Do the free heart check today at www.virtualheartcheck.com.au
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The Healthy Heart Network is designed to help members:
- understand the present state of their heart’s health
- recognise their current level of risk of suffering a heart attack
- Learn the positive steps they can take to improve their situation
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