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I’m Dr. Regina Druz, Cornell- and Duke-trained cardiologist and a national leader in holistic, root-cause cardiology.
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When "You're Fine" Isn't a Full Story: Rethinking Longevity with Whole-Body MRI
You can pass a routine physical exam, hear “you’re fine,” and still have something serious going on. Dr. Pooja Singh lived that as a kid. Doctors attributed her symptoms to anxiety, and three cardiologists on three continents agreed. Then further imaging revealed the congenital heart disease she had carried since birth.
On Own Your Heart Health, Dr. Regina Druz talks with Dr. Singh, a physician at Prenuvo who likes to chase the rare diagnoses others miss. They look at what a whole-body MRI can add to preventive medicine and early disease detection. Dr. Singh explains why her team treats it as a supplemental health screening tool and how a color-coded scoring system sorts each finding by urgency.
She also shares the story of a mother who booked scans for her whole family and scheduled herself last. Dr. Regina ties that pattern to women’s heart health and the symptoms she still sees dismissed. Both doctors make the case for patient advocacy and for medical technology used as part of a real partnership with your care team.
Dr. Regina also asks why cardiology training still centers on heart attacks in people who might have benefited from cardiovascular prevention 20 or 30 years earlier. If longevity and health optimization matter to you, press play to hear how personalized medicine and a whole-body MRI may fit into a smarter plan for your health. This is education, not medical advice. Talk with your own healthcare provider before you book a scan or make changes.
Episode Breakdown:
00:00 Rethinking the Physical Exam for Longevity
01:36 Years of Being Told It Was Anxiety
08:25 Coarctation of the Aorta Explained
14:05 Why She Became a Doctor Who Chases Zebras
18:18 Why Cardiology Still Waits for Heart Attacks
22:58 How Whole-Body MRI Becomes the New Physical Exam
32:20 Why Women Schedule Their Own Scans Last
34:13 Women’s Heart Symptoms That Still Get Dismissed
39:28 How Findings Are Scored to Avoid False Alarms
42:08 Why Technology Still Needs a Human Partner
49:41 How to Get a Whole-Body MRI
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15 Oct 2026
The Hormone Whiplash
More than two decades ago, women were warned about the heart risks associated with hormone replacement therapy. Today, some hear the opposite. If you are trying to sort out hormone replacement therapy and heart disease, the mixed messages are real, and Dr. Regina Druz has lived through both sides of them.
This remix of Own Your Heart Health brings together conversations about the changing medical guidance on hormones and heart health. She recalls the day she was told to call every patient and stop their prescriptions. Dr. Lorraine Maita revisits the Prempro era and the fallout from the Women's Health Initiative. Longevity physician Dr. Amy Killen weighs in on timing, delivery route, and how the evidence has changed the conversation around hormone therapy's boxed warnings. Dr. Regina also discusses high blood pressure during perimenopause, why she pays attention to it in women in their 40s, and what the numbers reveal about cardiovascular risk.
Then preventive cardiologist Dr. Arash Bereliani takes on the question at the center of it all. Does hormone therapy protect the heart? Dr. Regina agrees with much of his answer, but one gap in the evidence keeps her from going further.
Press play to hear where she lands on hormone replacement therapy and heart disease, and what women in their 40s and 50s should discuss with their doctors. This episode is for education, so talk with your own healthcare provider before making any changes.
Episode Breakdown:
00:00 Same Medicine, Opposite Directions on Hormone Therapy
01:50 The Prempro Era When Hormones Were Standard Care
04:30 What the Women’s Health Initiative Really Found
10:50 A Cardiologist’s Warning That Hormones Were Malpractice
13:05 FDA Removes Certain Hormone Therapy Boxed Warnings
14:55 Why Menopause Changes Blood Pressure and Heart Risk
17:12 Perimenopause Blood Pressure and Stiffening Arteries
21:50 The Critical Window for Starting Hormone Therapy
24:30 Should Women Take Hormones to Protect the Heart
27:50 Outcome Trials and Where Dr. Regina Lands
Episodes and Resources Mentioned:
Episode 15 - 3 Myths of Hormone Replacement Therapy: Truth or Dare! (Apr 2025) Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Episode 38 - The Critical Window for Hormonal Therapy to Prevent Heart Disease—Are You Missing It? (Feb 2026) Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Episode 30 - The Hormone Whisperer: Unlocking Midlife Wellness for Heart Health (Oct 2025) Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Episode 47 - “Just a Little Heart Attack”: Why and How Heart Disease Affects Women and What You Should Do About It (Aug 2026) Listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Links:
Schedule a Discovery Call
Access Courses and Events
Get Heartwell Toolkits
Schedule a Business Meeting
Connect with Dr. Regina Druz:
Visit the Holistic Heart Centers website
Follow Holistic Heart Centers on Facebook
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Subscribe to Dr. Regina on YouTube
Follow Dr. Regina on Instagram
Follow Dr. Regina on TikTok
Podcast production and show notes provided by HiveCast.fm
1 Oct 2026
The Number Is Not the Outcome
Host Dr. Regina Druz, a cardiologist, interviews lipidologist Dr. Ernst Schaefer, cardiologist Dr. Kim Williams, and cardiologist Dr. Guy Mintz about absolute risk reduction to better understand heart health outcomes.
Inside a recent episode
"Keys to the Kingdom": How Microbes Shape Our Healthspan and Longevity
Published 23 Jul 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] She probably had wrinkles and she probably had gray hair and she didn't have all puffy. Yeah, she looked her age. She did look her age. Yeah, yeah. So the point that I'm trying to make is, you know, we keep working on this anti-aging thing from the outside and we're trying to do what we can to manipulate how many wrinkles we have. But at the end of the day, The only way that you can promote anti-aging is from the inside out, right? I mean you have to provide the body with the things that it can feel that it's young again. And this is the opportunity, okay? And I'll take another study for you. And this is an animal model originated, but we're going to learn more about this as we go along with these anaerobes. […]
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