“The average person should know that the risk for their first heart attack is preventable. They can prevent it, just by taking care of themselves. It’s as simple as that.”
-Dr. Michael Farmer, Cardiologist, Founder of Corverix
On this week’s episode of the Eat Green Make Green Podcast I sit down with the one and only Dr. Michael Farmer. Dr. Farmer is a Boston-based Cardiologist and Founder of the virtual preventive cardiology platform, Corverix. He is also a Clinical Instructor at Harvard Medical School, a Fellow of the American College Of Cardiology and currently practices at Massachusetts General Hospital. We talk about how his frustration with reactively treating patients led him to preventative cardiology, the current landscape of heart disease in the US, how we can use wearables to help prevent heart disease and all about Corverix, the importance of knowing your current numbers (cholesterol, blood pressure, etc.), his 4 areas of focus for reducing your risk of heart disease, the incredible amount of data that wearables can provide us, how he personally copes with the life and death stakes of cardiology, the importance of educating both physicians and patients on the power of lifestyle changes, and why we need radical change away from our illness-based medical model to a preventive value-based model.
