How To Eat to prevent, or reverse, heart disease - Part 1

Nutritionist Heather Borders (former astronaut trainer) takes us into the nuts and bolts of how to eat when heart disease is a concern.  

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Nutritionist Heather Borders: we have our whole life ahead of us. I don't wanna be controlled by, the clinical world. I don't wanna have to be chained to a doctor. I don't wanna have to be chained to medication.

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Sagar: Welcome everybody today with me. We have a wonderfully interesting and knowledgeable guest. Her name is Heather Borders. She's a culinary dietician and the founder of Kylo Nutrition, a culinary nutrition practice in Florida. Her focus is on chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disease.

Sagar: She became a Food for Life instructor with P C R M, which is the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine and has a certificate in plant-based cooking from ru, and she's also done the plant-based Nutrition course from E Cornell. She's collaborated with Dr. Michael Clapper with the Moving Medicine Forward Initiative and starting in 2023.

Sagar: She's helping with building the nutrition curriculum for a new lifestyle medicine program in Texas called New Me Health. In addition to her degree in nutrition, she has degrees in aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and business. You have an unusual entry into healthcare. I see on your website there's a picture of you floating in an airplane in a zero G plane. Tell me how you made your way from the engineering world, even into the engineering world, and now are a plant-based nutritionist.

Nutritionist Heather Borders: Thank you again for having me. Basically fell in love with space science , I was really young. I, I remember the, the challenger accident. I was, watching it in school and I just, I lo I, it, it kind of perverse, but that really got me started. I really was very fascinated with the space shuttle program and. I went to space camp every year from seventh grade to 12th grade, and I

Nutritionist Heather Borders: program they had at Huntsville, Alabama. And I just knew, as soon as I understood what college was and how it worked, I knew I was gonna major in aerospace engineering and I had my eyes set on working for nasa.

Nutritionist Heather Borders: I didn't know what I was gonna do, but I knew that that was the direction so, I, I just loved it and I thought, I just think, I still think space science is the coolest thing ever I love watching video and footage from space and looking back at earth and and things like that. So I graduated from Auburn University with my degree in aerospace engineering and I made my way to Johnson Space Center in Houston. And I was just one of those incredibly fortunate souls to get a position in what they call Mission Operations Directorate. And I was part of the crew training team. And so that is NASA speak for astronaut trainers. So 22 year old engineering majors are training your astronauts and it is quite

Nutritionist Heather Borders: job ever.

Dr. Sagar: Yeah.

Nutritionist Heather Borders: and so I landed in. The and thermal, systems department. So that's what I trained and I was assigned to the International Space Station astronauts. At that time it was divided into shuttle and is s and so I was is S trainer specific to electrical and thermal systems. So you show up to the Johnson Space Center and they put you into NASA school and you learn what you're about to teach.

Nutritionist Heather Borders: So it's a train the trainer program and you learn about the systems on the space station and you, and then you get further training on what you need to know so that you can train the new astronauts coming in.

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