{"id":162015,"date":"2025-11-27T06:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162015\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T06:35:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:35:03","slug":"real-health-the-heart-health-episode-with-cardiologist-professor-robert-byrne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/162015\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Health: The Heart Health episode with Cardiologist Professor Robert Byrne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">What are the signs and symptoms of a heart attack? How do we reduce stress for better heart health? And why are female heart issues under reported?<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Professor Robert Byrne is director of cardiology at the Mater Private Network, Professor of Cardiovascular Research at RCSI and one of Ireland\u2019s leading cardiologists, joins me on this week of the Real Health podcast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One of the topics that we talked about was the effect of coffee. The Cardiologist explained, \u201cCaffeinated beverages cause an acceleration of heart rate, they cause acceleration of blood pressure. That&#8217;s why if you\u2019re having your blood pressure checked, don&#8217;t drink caffeinated beverages. As there is an association with heart rhythm disorders and caffeinated beverages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I asked the heart expert about cold immersion therapy. He told me that, \u201cCertainly I think the benefits of cold immersion or sea swimming are well defined. You also can find doctors who have opinions against them, but I think on balance it&#8217;s felt that these therapies are thought to bring more good than do harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">You can listen to the full episode here or wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are the signs and symptoms of a heart attack? How do we reduce stress for better heart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-162015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}