VAT Trap

About VAT Trap

The VAT Trap book, blog and digital media series reveals how visceral fat — the hidden metabolic organ — drives heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. Drawing on 30 years of frontline cardiology and the latest in imaging, app-based tracking, and metabolic science, Dr Ed Leatham translates complex research into clear, actionable steps. Whether you want to avoid heart disease, stabilise your metabolism, or understand GLP-1 therapy, these four concise podcast seasons accompany a four book series that will help you see, track, and reverse the VAT trap. To join the mailing list click on the link below and add your email https://link.scvc.co.uk/vat-trap-join-newsletter 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.

Publisher

Dr Edward Leatham

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Oct 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

46 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Ask the Evidence: How to Use AI to Get Real Answers From Our Articles

   How to Use AI to Get Real Answers From Our Articles Read the full blog (https://www.vat-trap.com/post/ask-the-evidence-how-to-use-ai-to-get-real-answers-from-our-articles)

2. 

   3 Oct 2026

   HbA1c

   HbA1c is one of medicine's most widely used blood tests, yet most people misunderstand what it actually measures. This article explains how the test works, why a normal result isn't the same as a clean bill of health, and how to use it to track your metabolic future. Read full blog (https://www.vat-trap.com/post/hba1c-blood-test-metabolic)

3. 

   29 Sept 2026

   Doctors should be teachers

   We teach children to change a fuse. We teach them to check the oil, to put air in a tyre, to find the stopcock before the pipe bursts rather than after. Many of us learned to put out a chip pan fire and quite a few learned to restart a heart. The lighthouse series (https://www.vat-trap.com/post/doctors-should-be-teachers)teaches people about the 4 pillars that support healthspan.

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