The Mel Robbins Podcast · 2025-07-07 · 74 min · 12,417 words

Don’t Learn This Too Late: 5 Things Top Heart Surgeon Says You Must Avoid to Live Longer

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Hey, it's your friend Mel, and welcome to the Mel Robbins Podcast. You know, there's something in your life that I bet you don't think about that often. And yet, this thing, it is constantly in the background. It is working as hard as it possibly can all day, every day it's there. In fact, a hundred thousand times a day, it shows up for you.

What am I talking about? Your heart. And today you and I are going to have a conversation about your heart. See, every second of every day, every week, every year of your life, your heart is there, just beating inside of you, doing its job. And it's so easy, isn't it, to take it for granted?

You know, come to think about it, I think about time the same way. See, there's this invisible clock that's always ticking in the background because time moves forward regardless of what you do. But your heart, your heart is deeply impacted by what you do. So today, a world-renowned cardiac surgeon is here to talk to you about what he's learned after operating on people for 25 years.

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