Strengthen your heart with the world's greatest cardiologist Dr. Henry Sadlo

My best friend Dr. Henry Sadlo offers sage advice on prolonging life by simple changes to improve heart health. Hey, it's Valentine's Day so let's get focused on making your heart stronger than it was in the 5th grade when you sent a handful of valentines to Mary Jane Cutie Pie.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But ladies and gentlemen, it is the day the hearts hines.
It's Valentine's Day, so we must talk to guess sorry,
that's right. This song is called Heart and Soul. The
world's greatest cardiologist, doctor Henry Sadlowe, is joining us now, Hank,

(00:20):
what's up?

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Brother man? Hey, hey Terry, can you hear me?

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Am?

Speaker 2 (00:23):
I talking loud enough? Of course you are good.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
I want to make sure, hey listen, thanks for having
me on. I had my Valentine's gift the nice people
at University Level Health. Your buddy Tom Miller, my friend.
Also the CEO had us all out to UL South
for a luncheon today, the Healthy Hearts Wear Red luncheon
and everybody was wearing redther three hundred and seventy people

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out in Shepherdsville, and the accounting executive Judge Jerry Summers,
was very welcoming, and the mayor Jose was there, Jose Caberro,
and then Dories Shelbourne is the CEO out there. So
that's our new hospital u of L Health South. But
we had a great crowd and guess what we talked
about her? Well, we had a lot of great speakers,

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but I talked about preventive cardiology, corner calcium skin.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
Let's remind people, yeah, what they need to do just
as you move on through the timeline of life to
protect that ticker, because once it stops ticking, the shows over.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
So what we're trying to do now is get the
word out there some tests that people over forty years
or so that have risk factors for heart disease and
family history. There's a test called a cornered calcium scan.
We've talked about it on your show. Your Morning show
has been great to promote it, and we're just trying
to get the word out and trying to reduce people
suddenly dropping over there with heart attacks.

Speaker 2 (01:47):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
And you you suggested it to me years ago. I've
done it two times and I think it's a great
relief factor to at least know where you stand.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
Yes, And that's that's why we do it. And my
little phrase is no and slow. So once you know
you have it, try to slow it from progressing to
where you're gonna need a stint or bypass surgery.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
So and you'd be proud, Jerry.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
One of my slides today was the picture of you
and me on Great Day Live about a decade ago
with Reagan Judd and Garth Peach. Great picture and then
your niece was highlighted. Addie Manners and Addie Miner's video
with Tony Vinetti talking about what not to do.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
They showed the whole video.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Well's been really good about that. He's you know, very
upfront about you know, what he's done. And then obviously
he was pretty close to the edge and you guys
got him the help he needed. Now he's he's loud
and proud again.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yeah, I'm glad we have several evangelists here in the area.
Doctor Bryant Stanford's been writing about this every Friday in
the Caur Journal. And then Tony Vannetti actually got his
skin because he heard you and me talking about it
on Valentine's Day four or five years ago. And Dwight,
Dwight and Tony in the morning they have me on
and we talk about it. Try to save people from

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having a heart attack.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Okay, so the people who are hearing us for the
first time, Now the coronary calcium scan shows what.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
So it's an inexpensive, but it's out of pocket right now,
we hope you get a covered ninety nine dollars test
all you do. There's no injections, no needles. You just
lay on a cat scan table and your head doesn't
go in. So if you're a claustrophobic you can still
have it. It just checks your chest. And what this
cat s then does as coronary artery disease, cholesterol plaque

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in the arteries progresses, it calcifies and that allows us
to see whether you've got a little, a moderate amount,
or a lot. And of course depending on what we find,
there are a lot of different things we can do
to help people out slow that progression, try to help
them avoid a heart attack, which is really important.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
Like you can put somebody on a statin, which is
a pill that does well absolutely.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
I've been on at to lower the cholesterol and reduce
inflammation for sixteen years now, and who knows, I might
not be here And that plus exercise. Some people need aspirin,
some people don't. If your calciding scores less than one
hundred and so a lot of things we can do,
but the main thing we could do is wake people
up that aren't doing the right things and say, hey,

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you've got plaque in your arteries. Let's exercise more. Let's
watch your dat better. Surely quit smoking if you're spoken,
you know, either plant based at or at least drift
towards that. I heard you talking about white castles there.
So maybe once a year, but that's right.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Really, that's about when it happens, Henry, and you and
I went to White Castle a few times when we
were kids, Henry.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Maybe more than a few.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
I did my annual check up in December and doctor
Shannon Lynn was great. Then you know, she gives me
all my numbers, tells me what's going on. She did
say to me, hey, Chick fil a boy, next time
you go, instead of the French fries, get the kale salad.
And I've been religiously doing that this the three or
four times have been and it's not a bad selling

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by the way.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
That's excellent.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
And my good friend and doctor personal doctor doctor Tom Murrow,
owner of Chex Cafe, wonderful human being. He said, Henry,
I know we're friends, but you've got to drop some weight.
So Tom motivated me, and I've got ten pounds down
and more to go.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
But thank you, doctor Tom. Checks Kevin.

Speaker 1 (05:22):
That's the whole idea. It's just some simple adjustments for me.
But the coronary calcium scan it is ninety nine dollars.
But it does give you a roadmap to clearly show
where there could be some issues, and so at least
you know and you can take action if necessary.

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Absolutely, And as a bonus, it tells you whether you've
got an aneurysm in your chest, and if you've got
an early lung cancer, it can pick that up. So
I call it a three for one. And as somebody
called into your station once and said, well, it's cheaper
than a premium oil change.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know, which that's probably true. It is true.

Speaker 1 (05:58):
But yeah, protect the heart. It's the most important driver
that's going on in your body, and obviously it's running
the whole engine. So oh that's important. And Henry, as always,
I tell you, I love you brother. You've been a
best friend since we were little kids, and we need
each other.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think we're going on fifty years anniversary. But I
love you too, man.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
That's a whole oh more than fifty. It was in
the early sixties. Sixty, Yeah, that's right, sixty, that's right.
We know each other. We were little kids.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
People don't know we were next door neighbors. That's right.
I was better in ap history than I was in math.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
We were next door neighbors as children, and Henry and
I met when we were five years old, and Terry's.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Had been with me as a friend, a brotherlike a
guy for sixty plus years.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Yeah, that's right, it's all good. So we just want
to remind people here on Valentine's Day, just one simple
test could change everything for you, and at least point
you toward help that you didn't realize things were going sideways,
because Henry, sometimes you don't really feel different, right, if
things are clogging up, you don't really know that until
maybe it's too late.

Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, that's the big problem.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Some people's first sign of heart disease because they don't
pay attention to and getting checked is a heart attack.
And even worse, some people's first side is sudden death.
So we surely hate when that happens. But I read
about it in the newspaper. Indeed, somebody died suddenly. You know,
they were healthy and died suddenly. We're trying to change that.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Very good, doctor, Sadlow, great talking to you.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Say hi to Karen, bless you all right, I will,
thanks very much, see you, brother man.

Speaker 1 (07:39):
That's doctor Henry said, little cardiologist to the stars. I mean,
he just hee's that. He just everybody in town knows him.
It doesn't matter where I go. Let's say I know
your buddy, Henry Sadlow. That's a pretty good way to be.
I'll tell you that he's been serving people, he's so
good for so many decades and saving a few lives,
more than a few. It's a pretty amazing career. All right,

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