LISA ZAHAKOS, RPA-C · HEART RESERVE
Medicine you can understand.
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I want you to understand your health, know what to ask, and feel ready for the conversation. Find the podcast, tools, and stories here.
She Said Next · Guest article · October 17, 2026
Your Pregnancy Was Years Ago. Your Heart Still Remembers.
Lisa shares her own experience and offers practical ways to bring pregnancy history into a heart-health conversation, even decades later.
START LISTENING · LATEST EPISODE · 33:39
Is This Menopause? Why You Don’t Feel Like Yourself—and What Can Help
Still getting your period, but waking at night, losing words, or feeling your heart race? Understand symptoms, useful tests, treatment choices and follow-up in plain language, including how pregnancy history fits your heart-health conversation.
Narration uses Lisa’s authorized AI voice.
Explore all 12 episodes →01 YOUR HEALTH STORY
Feel ready for your next visit.
Your history, results, and questions in one summary for your next appointment. Free. No email needed.
Build my Heart Story02 FREE RESOURCES
Find the guide you need.
Start with your Heart Story, or read a guide about pregnancy, midlife or bloodwork.
Explore free resources03 HEART QUESTIONS
Make sense of the medical words.
Clear explanations of blood tests, symptoms, hormones, and heart health, with sources you can read for yourself.
Explore the questions04 THE NEWSLETTER
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Read the Letter05 ABOUT THE FOUNDER
A clinician. A patient. A mother.
How my clinical work and twin pregnancy shaped the work I do today.
Meet Lisa06 THE BOOK PROJECT
Love Your Heart.
A book about understanding your heart and caring for the life you want to live. Working title; publication details to come.
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