We all know the things we need to do to live longer, healthier lives, but it can often be difficult to motivate ourselves to take the first step. We feel overwhelmed by advice and don’t know where to start.
Professor Robert Kelly runs a busy cardiology and lifestyle medicine practice, with the primary aim of preventing, treating and potentially reversing heart disease. He treats patients with a wide spectrum of heart-related problems, and has developed his Whole Heart Health Approach, which is more holistic and patient-centred. While medication and interventions such as stents and surgeries play a vital role in managing heart problems, Professor Kelly also uses lifestyle medicine to give patients the tools to really change their bad habits and become healthy, extending their life by years, and reducing the risk of future heart problems.
The Heart Book brings this approach to the reader, as Professor Kelly guides you from knowing to doing, helping you to overcome your inertia, and take positive steps to a healthier future. He educates the reader about heart health, lifestyle medicine and longevity, and then teaches you how to change your behaviours to prevent, treat and potentially reverse heart disease so you can live longer, happier, and healthier. Each chapter includes patient stories and tools for readers to use.
The Heart Book is essential reading for anyone looking to kickstart their new, healthier lifestyle and break their bad habits.
Professor Robert Kelly is a consultant cardiologist, lifestyle medicine physician and Health Habits coach, based in Beacon Hospital Dublin. He co-founded the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine, and is a board member of the European Society of Lifestyle Medicine.
Geraldine Comiskey –
I heard Dr Kelly’s chat with Pat Kenny on Newstalk late at night while I was suffering from anxiety. I try to keep healthy but have had a few scares. I would make a very bad patient as I am terrified of the idea of operations, general anaesthetic, drugs, heart-rate monitors, and basically anything that reminds me of how fragile the body is. I am also a hypochondriac (no, this is not as paradoxical as it sounds – worriers everywhere will agree with me). Having listened to the interview with Pat Kenny, I am sure this book will reassure readers that health is not way beyond our control – that we can substantially lower the risks of heart failure, that it is not inevitable that we will need drugs or surgery. I am ordering this book for my mother and myself, and would encourage everyone to read it, because prevention is better than cure. I know my GP will be glad I finally faced up to the need to take my health seriously; I have been taking it for granted for too long.