More women die from heart issues each year than all cancers combined!

We say: "do you have chest pain" to women and to men, but commonly in women it could felt as pressure in the chest or really any symptom from the waist on up including tooth pain and overwhelming fatigue. These are signs of a serious heart issue.

That is what bothers Dr Tracy Stevens the most, that in men and women, symptoms may be different.

Women still to this day don't recognize heart attack and stroke as their number one health threat. We've gone from one out of three deaths every year, one out of two deaths every year, being in women, being due to heart attack and stroke, compared to 1 in 39 from breast cancer.

This fascinating show features Dr. Tracy Stevens and Dr. Anna Grodzinski who both specialize in Women's Cardiovascular Disease & Cardiology at Saint Luke’s.

This is season 20 episode 27 of America's Healthcare Advocate.

To learn more visit: https://www.saintlukeskc.org/locations/saint-lukes-cardiovascular-consultants

And if you need help or have something to share, contact me Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate at https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-usAnd let me know what's on your mind, issues you are dealing with, or other health, healthcare, and health insurance questions and concerns.

I am pleased to offer our experts from JD Power Award Winning BlueKC (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City) to lay out their new, 2025 Medicare Supplement options and tell us more about why some companies are also withdrawing their Medicare Advantage plans in 2025.

Our Experts from BlueKC are: Barron Roberts, Manager of Small Group, Medicare and Individual Sales; Barb Bins, Broker Development and Engagement Manager, and Ryan Roth, Department Vice President of Sales.

Here we go into open enrollment for AEP and open enrollment for the individual plans in November for Obamacare, ACA and this team will tell us what we need to know. Small Group, Large Group is also discussed.

Even though the information presented in this episode is specific to the Kansas City Metro market, we will also run the episode nationally because the information presented can be used to inform and to compare offerings available in other areas.

To learn More, visit https://www.bluekc.com or call 1-800-867-9014

This is Season 20, Episode 28.

I'm Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate, and if you need help or have something to share, contact me Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate at https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us

And let me know what's on your mind, issues you are dealing with, or other health, healthcare, and health insurance questions and concerns

My guest Dr. Arden Andersen has experienced it himself and now his patients as well have life changing, life improving experiences to share.

With him, Dr. Emilio John suffered terribly for many years, and he also has experienced a return to a feeling of wellness.

To hear them tell their stories is both moving and exciting. But what are they talking about?

They work at a new facility in Lenexa Kansas called PainLab and they have brought together non-invasive state of the art tools that are bringing solutions for those needing neurological and mobility support. Hear is an excerpt from Dr. Andersen:

“And so we can tell just from that reading (a WAVi Brain Scan report from a 40 minute test given) whether or not a person has had a concussion, whether or not they've recovered from their concussion, as well as perhaps any other problem that may be associated with that brain, body interaction. Well, then, okay, that's nice. You can identify that. But now what are you going to do about it as far as getting it evaluated? Unfortunately, standard medicine is either looking at implanting electrodes in the brain, brain surgery of some other type or some other kind of drug, which has all kinds of side effects and may or may not work, but eventually doesn't work.

And so how do we actually regenerate the system? And so Neuro20 came on the scene. And that system is about stimulating what's called brain derived neurotrophic factor, which is a protein in the brain over time. But that is a substance in the brain that actually stimulates regeneration of brain cells and nerve cells. And it wasn't that long ago, 20 years ago for sure. We didn't even believe it could be done to regenerate nerve cells. Ten years ago, we didn't believe it was possible to regenerate brain cells. We free up brain cells. Nope. Now we know we can regenerate brain cells.”

Listen to this episode to hear about the latest on WAVi, Neuro20 and other new and revolutionary ways to give us humans help and rehab.

To learn more, click https://painlabkc.com/about/ or call 833-724-6522

And if you need help or have something to share, contact me Cary Hall, America's Healthcare Advocate at https://www.americashealthcareadvocate.com/contact-us

And let me know what's on your mind, issues you are dealing with, or other health, healthcare, and health insurance questions and concerns.