Professor Robert Kelly Consultant Cardiologist and Lifestyle Medicine Specialist

The Sunday Show visited the Beacon Clinic this week to chat with Professor Robert Kelly, Consultant Cardiologist and Lifestyle Medicine Specialist.  Author, public speaker and Health Coach.

Professor Kelly believes that we can all live long healthy and happy lives by looking after ourselves. Having practiced as a Cardiologist for over 20 years he continues to encounter two main groups of patients: those with concerns for having heart disease and those who already have it. In both situations a comprehensive assessment includes both cardiology and lifestyle risks.

Treatments for some may include stents, surgery, medications and lifestyle interventions are provided to every case. Some patients need attention with eating, moving, stress, sleep, and smoking, others need one or two of these risks attended to.

Kelly strongly advocates lifestyle interventions based on a wealth of evidence based studies showing reversal of diabetes, improvements in BP control, management of lipids., stress reduction and sleep improvements that reduce heart attack, stroke  and cancer risks. Other trials have shown that lifestyle intervention can reverse coronary disease and some cancers. 80% of chronic diseases are lifestyle driven.  

 

On the show this evening Professor Kelly tells us how changing your lifestyle can save your life.