Taking Care of My Heart - Dr. Sandra Tsai
02.18.2011
Stanford Hospital & Clinics asked Sandra Tsai, MD, how she takes care of her heart. Her answer? Hiking and lots of salads. "When patients make their health a priority, it makes a huge difference," she says.
0:00 I love hiking
0:04 and I love hiking because I absolutely love being outdoors
0:07 I love to look at major it really makes me appreciate life in general
0:11 the great time for me just to release relax and not think about anything other
0:15 than a pretty major
0:16 I'm Sanders I am trained as an internist but I've done
0:20 at fellowship in cardiology and I've been working at Stamford for three years
0:24 in the preventive cardiology clinic
0:25 and the women's heart health like because I take care of patients I
0:28 counsel patients on
0:30 heart healthy things makes me actually wanna be healthier
0:33 because I realized that oftentimes my pitches last me what do you do
0:37 and i wanna be honest and how and I also want to understand how challenging is
0:41 for them
0:42 to do the things that I ask them to do I have seen a lot of women actually not
0:47 think the heart disease or cardiovascular disease as a risk for
0:50 them
0:50 and several other women I tried to really emphasize that their lifetime
0:54 risk for heart disease
0:55 is really high as a women women are so busy
0:59 10 hear their families their children their husband they also work
1:02 and often have they forget about themself that so I really stressed to
1:05 them that putting their
1:07 health as a priority is so important because they do you want ultimately take
1:11 care their families so my
1:14 your heart healthy food in is balance and the reason is that I find 1000 be
1:18 extremely divers some I just want something
1:22 like group and felonies and I think I can do that or it can be very bad thing
1:26 I love beets and chickpeas and tofu oftentimes I'm choosing a food my
1:31 patients will actually come into my brain
1:33 and I will really try to make healthier option
1:36 because I think to myself you know I told people to do this and I'd need to
1:40 live the same way my at worst habit as I
1:43 AFLCI have a soft spot for salty foods though I
1:47 love nachos and chips and so I really try
1:51 not to buy them and put them in my house because my do I will eat them
1:55 in general all that healthy be he retains that oftentimes we talk about
1:59 are so difficult to do but at the same time I see so many patients and I see
2:04 lives changed dramatically
2:06 because when patients actually put themselves as a priority
2:10 day make a huge about a different my
2:14 my
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