Dr Alo Show

Heart Failure Is Not a Death Sentence: Symptoms, Types and 2026 Treatments

Dr. Alo breaks down what heart failure actually is, the critical difference between HFrEF and HFpEF, and the easy to miss symptoms that send people to the ER. He then wa

What Every Woman Should Know About Heart Attacks and Menopause

Dr. Alo breaks down preventive cardiologist Dr. Abeer Berry's complete guide to women and heart disease, covering symptoms that get dismissed as anxiety, pregnancy and m

The End of Heart Attacks: A Cardiologist Explains What Changed

A cardiologist breaks down the five measurable numbers that have driven a seventy percent drop in heart disease deaths since 1968, walking through the actual trial data b

Are Eggs Actually Bad For Your Heart? The Real Answer

Dr. Alo digs into why massive studies on eggs reach completely opposite conclusions, some linking them to higher death risk and others finding no connection at all. He u

Blood Pressure Pills Decoded: What Each Class Actually Does

Dr. Alo breaks down the major blood pressure medication classes, from diuretics and ACE inhibitors to ARBs, calcium channel blockers, and beta blockers, explaining exact

Ozempic and Your Heart: What the 2025 Data Really Shows

A board-certified cardiologist breaks down the 2025 data on GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, walking through the SELECT trial, the LEADER trial, and a massive meta-an

What To Do After a Stent or Heart Attack in Year One

A cardiologist breaks down exactly what should happen in the twelve months following a stent or heart attack, from medication rules to the one cholesterol number that act

Statins, Diabetes, and Dementia: What a New Danish Study Found

A Danish registry study of over 132,000 people with new type 2 diabetes found that starting a statin within the first year was linked to a 15 percent lower relative risk

The Right Way to Take Blood Pressure at Home

Dr. Alo explains why a single blood pressure reading in the doctor's office is nearly meaningless and what actually counts as reliable data. You'll learn exactly which d

Heart Disease in Women: The Signs Doctors Miss

Dr. Alo and Hannah break down why heart disease kills far more women than breast cancer, yet so often gets written off as anxiety or stress. Listeners get a rundown of w

Alone and Having a Heart Attack After 60: The First Minutes Matter

If you're over sixty and a heart attack hits while you're home alone, chest pain might not even show up. Dr. Alo breaks down two real research charts on how heart attack

Lowering Cholesterol Without Pills: What Actually Works

Dr. Alo cuts through the noise on natural cholesterol management, breaking down which lifestyle changes actually lower LDL and which are mostly wishful thinking. You'll

Statins Reimagined: From Two Boxes To Four Stages Of Prevention

Cardiologist Dr. Alo and Hannah break down the outdated two-box view of statin treatment and replace it with four stages of prevention, from primordial to tertiary, back

The AHA's New Coffee and Caffeine Statement, Explained

Dr. Alo breaks down the American Heart Association's new scientific statement on caffeine and cardiovascular disease, separating coffee myths from real data on blood pre

Finland's Heart Disease Turnaround: The North Karelia Story

Dr. Alo unpacks the North Karelia Project, the decades-long Finnish effort that took a region from the world's highest cardiovascular death rate to an 84 percent drop in

Normal Blood Pressure by Age: What the Numbers Really Mean

Dr. Alo explains why there is only one true definition of normal blood pressure for adults, no matter your age, and why those common age based average charts can actuall

Senator warns about bill banning private equity: a cardiologist's perspective.

Private practice cardiologist explains that 80% of American doctors now work for a corporation, up from sixty two percent in 2011, and Congress just introduced a bill to

How Cholesterol Actually Travels From Your Gut To Your Artery Wall

Dr. Alo walks Hannah through the full journey of cholesterol, from the food in your gut to the plaque in your arteries, explaining absorption, HDL and LDL biology, and w

Your Brain Makes Its Own Cholesterol, Statins Don't Starve It

Dr. Alo and Hannah break down why cholesterol in your blood and cholesterol inside your brain operate as two separate systems, walking through the blood brain barrier, d

Frank's Sign: The Earlobe Crease Cardiologists Argue About

Dr. Alo breaks down Frank's sign, the diagonal earlobe crease first described in 1973, and unpacks decades of studies linking it to coronary artery disease. You'll learn