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Articles by Suzanne Steinbaum
The Overlooked Pandemic Heart Disease
Before 2019, we didn’t hear the word “pandemic” very often. But today, it is common in everyday conversation, referring to the COVID-19 outbreak that has radically changed all our lives over the last three years. Much of the world has lived in a state of anxiety, concerned about the possibility of contracting the novel coronavirus or even dying from it. And in fact, many people have died from it…just over a million in the US alone.
A Leading Cardiologist’s Exercise Formula for a Healthy Heart
Most people have been told by a doctor that regular exercise is good for their heart health. But what does “regular exercise” really mean? Working out for an hour twice a week? Or four days a week? Every single day? As a preventive cardiologist, I hear these questions a lot and here’s what I tell my patients: As a general rule, I believe that it’s more important to work out frequently than it is to work out for long durations of time.
When To Get a Heart Checkup
Stress has a huge impact on our heart health. The behaviors we use to deal with life’s pressures, interrupted sleep and inflammation all play a role. The last few years have been extremely stressful thanks to isolation, fear and financial concerns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the constant threat of possible sickness, plus strife over cultural and political differences in our own families and communities.
Experts: Women Need to Make Heart Health a Priority
Key Takeaways Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women, claiming more lives each year than all forms of cancer combined. Knowing your risk factors for cardiovascular disease and discussing them with your healthcare provider are two proactive steps you can take to protect your heart. Experts are calling for an increased focus on women's cardiovascular wellness in an effort to prevent the poor outcomes women often face when they develop heart disease.
How Telemedicine Is Changing the Health-Care System —Sarah Hiner Talks to Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum | Bottom Line Inc
Telemedicine is transforming the health-care system. It has been a lifesaver for both doctors and patients during the pandemic, and it will be one of the bright spots to come out of the quarantine as its many benefits make health care safer and more accessible. There are, however things you need to know about how best to use this new technology…what it’s limitations are…and how to get the most out of your time with the doctor.
COVID-19: Optimism Tempered by New Concerns for U.S. Frontline Treating Physicians
The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are uniquely understood by frontline treating physicians. In the fourth wave of a COVID-19 tracking report on U.S. frontline treating physicians, from real-time life sciences market insights provider InCrowd, this important clinical community shared newfound optimism around preparedness and the ability to “flatten the curve,” along with surprising new concerns.
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum
Suzanne Steinbaum Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is an attending cardiologist in private practice specializing in prevention and wellness using her unique, personalized strategy designed specifically for women called SRSHeart that empowers them to live heart-healthy lives. Previously, she was the director of Women’s Cardiovascular Prevention, Health and Wellness at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and director of Women’s Heart Health at Northwell Lenox Hill, also in New York City.
The Business of Medicine: A Doctor Speaks the Truth
As a country, we are at a crossroads. We are in the middle of trying to figure out a lot of things, from climate change to reproductive rights to health care. I’m certainly not an expert on everything, but I have lived through significant changes in the healthcare system, and I believe it’s important we all understand how we got here…and where “here” is. To put it all in perspective, I’d like to give you a peek into what healthcare used to look like. Perhaps you remember.
Leading Cardiologist Talks with Bottom Line President About How to Juggle A Busy Life – with Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum | Bottom Line Inc
Balancing a busy schedule is possible with the right approach, and to provide a blueprint, we brought in leading cardiologist, author, speaker and single mother Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum. Suzanne Steinbaum, DO, is a cardiologist who has devoted her career to the treatment of heart disease through early detection, education and prevention. She is an author, media spokesperson, public speaker…and a single mother.
Are You Ready to Transform? Join me!
As the new year approaches, I’ve been thinking a lot about transformation. What does it mean to “transform?” The definition of transformation is: “thorough or dramatic change in form or appearance.” This makes transformation sound like a complete and total metamorphosis, and maybe that’s part of it. But in my experience, this kind of transformation isn’t the best kind of transformation. It’s just too abrupt, too sudden, too…magical. When people change overnight, it doesn’t usually work.
To Stent or Not to Stent? Breakthrough Heart Study Results
I will never forget that meeting. I was in the middle of my cardiology fellowship, speaking to the physicians and the cardiologists in training about prevention—specifically, about the endothelium. This is the lining of the arteries that is supposed to protect us from developing plaque and atherosclerosis. I was excited, even reverent, about the exciting potential of focusing on the endothelium.
Find Your Happiness in the Face of Life's Challenges
Are you happy? It isn’t a question I ask too often. This may surprise you, but I think happiness is over rated. I think that the pursuit of happiness has become a craze that has made us believe every day should be filled with unblemished bliss. Being happy all the time is not real life. The idea that is even possible is fake news! What would those truly blissful times in your life be without struggle? Life would be flat.
Recovery, Restoration and Managing Stress
I’ve seen the stress response in action many times over the years and I typically illustrate it for my patients as the college student who crams for tests and then, when they are over, develops a bad cold. Or as what I saw when I interned one summer on Block Island (and what I came to call Block Island Syndrome, which I first wrote about in my book) where young multitasking women were coming in to the office on their vacations with chest pain and palpitations.
Start Where You Are: A How-To Guide for Changing Your Life
Doctors get a lot of flak in the media for not knowing enough about nutrition or not giving enough nutritional guidance. I can see why. We often tell a patient simply to “diet and exercise,” but how much harder would it be to provide a bit more structure, such as “to eat a Mediterranean diet” or to “try the DASH diet,” and provide some basic information about what those diets entail?
In the Wake of Violence, Where Do You Stand?
To be a doctor is to confront suffering, violence and death, and in order to handle such daily confrontations, we are all trained in medical school and beyond to suspend emotional involvement. This is a matter of survival in the medical profession. We have to separate ourselves a bit from the constant onslaught of trauma we encounter, or we would fall apart. We are taught to put emotions aside, to some extent. Emotions, according to medical training, get in the way of practical and logical thinking.
Creating Wellness through Healthy Communities
Last summer, I watched as the beautiful hills and valleys in California were ravaged by one of the largest wildfires in the history of the state. It was terrifying and horrific to see what was happening to the helpless communities and people in that area. In the initial aftermath, the Red Cross and other teams stepped in to help with disaster relief and aid, but I couldn’t help wondering what the aftermath of the aftermath would be.
Dr. Google vs. Your Doctor: Who Do You Trust the Most?
I find that people tend to fall into two camps: The “doctors should know everything” camp, and the “doctors don’t know anything” camp. The truth, of course, as it is with most things, is somewhere in the middle. Humans love to learn. None of us knows everything about everything, but most of us know a lot about a few things. The process of learning is part of what makes us better and helps us grow. But because we don’t all have specialized knowledge, we go to experts who do.
Heart Disease Starts Long Before the Diagnosis...So Stop Waiting
I will never forget the time when my son Spencer was five years old and I told him that I was going to work to take care of people’s hearts. His response—only a five-year-old could have put it so simply—was, “Why can’t the people take care of their own hearts?” As much as it made me laugh then, in the seven years since that time, I have not stopped thinking about it. Why can’t people take care of their own hearts?
Taking a Moment (or Several) for Life Balance
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERS FOR EXPERT ADVICE Every day, I think about the word “balance.” My goal is always to create a life of give and take, where all parts of the puzzle are in line and fit together with ease, but the reality is that the quest for balance leads to disappointment and disillusionment. It’s tough to find balance when there are so many different things pulling at us from every direction. When that happens, I believe that it is time to prioritize.
"I've Done Everything Right...Why Am I Having Heart Problems?"
Every so often, despite everything we advise, despite every preventive measure taken, despite the best of intentions, the unpredictable happens. We can tell patients what to eat and how to exercise, and they follow our advice to the letter, yet they get sick anyway, even diagnosed with the exact disease they’re fighting so hard to prevent. It’s frustrating, to say the least. This doesn’t happen often, but it sometimes does, and if it has happened to you, I want you to know you are not alone.
A Survive-and-Thrive Guide for the Holidays—and the New Year! | Bottom Line Inc
SUBSCRIBE TO OUR FREE NEWSLETTERS FOR EXPERT ADVICE Here we are, almost through the 2018 holiday season and on the cusp of the new year. For many of us, the holidays are not an easy time. There are so many stressors coming at us from so many different directions that it can feel overwhelming. There is the pressure of doing it all and getting it all right, being with family and managing all the expectations and personalities, the financial drain and the time constraints. Did I forget anything?
How to Protect Your Heart from Bad News
As a cardiologist in New York City who specializes in women’s heart health, I’ve noticed a distinctive uptick in patients with a very particular problem. I first noticed this new challenge to my practice in early November 2017. Maybe you can guess the cause. Before I go any further, I must say that this blog is not about politics.
Nobody Gets Healthy in a Vacuum: You Need Connection
Over the last weekend of September, I went to the Global Citizen Festival on the Great Lawn in Central Park in the heart of New York City. I was in the middle of more than 60,000 people, all passionate about universal equality for education, health care and human rights. There was a collective energy geared towards causes like protecting the environment and the need to vote. It was amazing to be a part of such a passionate community, whose voices together seemed like they could move the earth.
What World Heart Day Means to Me
As a cardiologist, I always look forward to World Heart Day which occurs every September 29th. This day provides me with a broader platform to broadcast my message that we must all take care of our hearts and make heart health a priority. But this year, the message is even more critical than usual. Despite all our medical advancements and increased knowledge, This accounts for a third of all deaths on the planet. Low and middle-income countries (and people) are at the greatest risk.
What Would Motivate You to Exercise More Often?
My birthday is this month. This month also marks the beginning of the school year and the changing of the seasons. It is a naturally contemplative time of year, but because my birthday coincides with the onset of autumn, I always take this time to reflect and contemplate how the year has been going. I don’t do this randomly or in some dreamy stream-of-consciousness way. No, I literally take out my calendar and flip through every month, starting from the September before.
Do Conflicting Health Headlines Leave You Confused?
Each day we are bombarded with news about our health – it’s in our inboxes and social media feeds and glares at us from the television. Headlines about health advice supposedly based on the latest research—the cutting edge, shocking, must-know, rock-your-world health advice du jour. Recently, I visited the TV show, The Doctors, to discuss the benefits of omega 3 fatty acid supplements. Humans have a basic nutritional need for omega-3 fatty acids (O3), but the body can’t create them on its own.
When Health Information Keeps Changing, What Should You Do?
Every day, the news is something different. It pops up in our inboxes and social media feeds and glares at us from the television. But no, I’m not talking about that news. I’m talking about health news and the health advice out there supposedly based on the latest study about this, the latest research about that—the brand new, cutting edge, shocking, must-know, rock-your-world health advice du jour. Recently, I spent several days in Los Angeles filming a segment on the TV show The Doctors.
My Balancing Act: How to Have It All
For the past week, I have been wracking my brain to answer the question that is often posed to me: “How do you do it all?” I think other working mothers are often asked this question, and maybe they too struggle with how to answer. I suppose I could show you my Instagram pictures, which suggest that I have a perfectly synchronous life, adeptly balancing being a cardiologist, a mother, a writer, a daughter, a friend, a mate, all while being fabulous in the process.
Q&A: Omega-3 fatty acid consumption inadequate despite awareness
A study published in Nutrients showed that blood levels of omega-3 fatty acids are significantly below the optimal range in 98% of the population, regardless of adequate knowledge about diet and the benefits of omega-3 fatty acids. The study, conducted by the Global Nutrition and Health Alliance (GNHA), showed that although omega-3 fatty acids are an essential part of a heart-healthy diet, people have lower levels compared with other vitamins due to not getting enough of them from foods.
It's Time to Lower Your Stress—The Not-So-Silent Killer | Bottom Line Inc
Usually during February, I spend many days discussing the heart. After all, February is Heart Month and as a spokesperson for “Go Red for Women” through the American Heart Association, it makes sense that this would be the topic in most demand. This year, however, things were a little different. I did speak quite a bit about the heart in general, women’s heart health in particular and lifestyle interventions that can impact heart disease risk, from diet and exercise to the role of supplements.
The Best Health Care is Self Care | Bottom Line Inc
Recently, I called Bottom Line Health with a simple request. I asked if I could expand the focus of my blog beyond menopause, to discuss and unpack the many, many aspects of women’s lives that may be affected by menopause, but are not directly related to menopause. Women’s lives today are impossibly complicated, and I wanted to be able to speak to that. Fortunately for me (and I hope for you), they agreed. I made this request, in part because of what was happening in my own life.
Finding Your Purpose: The Key to Less Stress, Better Health | Bottom Line Inc
It’s been quite a journey for me, spending these months with you talking about the ins and outs, surprises and expectations inherent in the hormone dance we call menopause. Perhaps you have found consolation in the fact that we all go through it. No matter how silently we bear it or how much we try to deny it, it will happen, or is happening, or has happened to all of us. We can choose to fight it with fitness, or Botox, or whatever the latest “menopause diet” might be.
Stress and Heart Health | Bottom Line Inc
Women are under a tremendous amount of stress every day. But they often ignore the symptoms of this stress, even as itnegatively affects their health. In this video, Suzanne Steinbaum, MD, author of Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum’s Heart Book: Every Woman’s Guide to a Heart Healthy Life and Bottom Line’s “At the Heart of It All” blog, explains that the hormones released during chronic stress can cause inflammation and plaque buildup in the heart and lining of the arteries.
Take Charge of Your Medical Records
It is important to assemble a team of doctors involved in all the various aspects of your medical care, but the challenge is getting these physicians to communicate with each other about these health issues.
Women and Heart Disease: It’s Time to Close the Gap
Heart disease is the number one killer of women—more than all cancers combined. This isn’t new information. In fact, since 1910, we saw this trend. More than that, since 1984, heart disease has killed more women than men. Yet, somehow, while we are seeing cardiovascular mortalities declining, death rate reduction in women has lagged behind men. For women younger than 55 years old who have been previously considered “low risk,” cardiovascular deaths have increased.
4 Critical Numbers All Women Need to Know for a Healthy Heart
Women can recite many numbers by heart, such as credit card numbers, addresses, telephone numbers, and pin numbers. But most women don’t know the critical numbers that can save their lives and help them to better understand their risk for cardiovascular diseases. Heart disease is the number 1 killer of women, taking more lives than all forms of cancer combined. So, it is imperative that women learn the warning signs and symptoms, see a doctor regularly, and learn their family history.
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