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Ted Talk #1: The single biggest health threat women face

In this TED Talk about heart disease, C Noel Bairey Merz, MD talks about how more women die of heart disease than men. This TED Talk was published in November 2011 and shows the statistics proving that women are more at risk of developing heart disease, but cardiovascular research has been focused on men for the past years. Dr. Noel also shares the drastically different symptoms that women can present during a heart attack, and why they are sometimes missed. Noel attended Harvard Medical School in 1981, she is seen as a pioneer in cardiology and received multiple awards for her world-changing research. She is the director of the Women’s Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, where she is also a professor of medicine. She also has a research lab in her name at the same institute.

Dr. Bairey Merz graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1981 and did her internship and residency at the University of California in San Francisco. She also had a fellowship at the Cedars-Sinai institute where she now has a research lab in her name. Her research at the Bairey Merz Research Lab focuses on heart disease in women, coronary pathophysiology and developing alternative medicine approaches to heart disease. She has won several awards as a pioneer in cardiology.

Ted Talk #2: How your emotions change the shape of your heart

What if I told you that the title of the movie "The Broken Hearts Gallery" could be taken quite literally. In this TED Talk Sandeep Jauhar explains how the term "heartbroken" exists for a reason. He explores how grief and various emotional responses have a big impact on our hearts. Our hearts can even change shapes in response to fear, grief, trauma and quite literally break due to emotional heartbreak, such as a big breakup. He explains how taking care of your mental health is more important than we thought because it could reflect badly on our most vital organ, the heart. After listening to Dr. Jauhar, you will understand how important it is to be able to care for our mental healths and that going to therapy and taking care of yourself shouldn't be so stigmatized. It's ok to take mental health days, if only we would've known it affects our hearts earlier, maybe there wouldn't be such stigma against depression and psychological disorders. Physical manifestations of illness shouldn't be the only valid reason to take a day off.

Dr. Sandeep Jauhar is a practicing cardiologist and a New York Times bestselling author. He has written three books about the medical field and the risks that doctors and patients go through everyday in this field. His second book was a New York Time bestseller and was named a New York Post best book of 2014. His first book was a national bestseller and got optioned by NBC to be a dramatic television series.