Second Opinion Consultation · Andrew Rudin, MD
Before You Accept the Ablation, the Stent, or Another Prescription, Get the Opinion Nobody Has Given You Yet.
You were told your heart rhythm is a malfunction. You were told your artery is a plumbing problem. You were told the answer is a drug, a procedure, or both, and you were told all of it in about eleven minutes.
Nobody asked what happened upstream. Nobody asked what you eat, how you sleep, what you were exposed to, what your gut is doing, what your minerals look like, or why a heart that worked fine for fifty years suddenly does not. Nobody looked at your medication list and asked whether every drug on it still earns its place.
That is the conversation you are buying here. A full 45 minutes with Andrew Rudin, MD, a cardiologist and electrophysiologist who trained inside the conventional system, practiced inside it, and now spends his time doing the thing that system has no time for: finding out why.
Your heart did not fail because it lacked a pharmaceutical. It responded to what you gave it and to what you did not.
What Dr. Rudin Specializes In
Dr. Rudin is trained in both general cardiology and electrophysiology, the subspecialty of the heart's electrical system. That combination is rare, and it matters. Most rhythm doctors do not think about arteries. Most artery doctors do not think about rhythm. He handles both, and he traces both back to root causes.
Heart Rhythm and Electrophysiology
Atrial fibrillation, including paroxysmal, persistent, and long-standing
Atrial flutter and supraventricular tachycardia
Palpitations, skipped beats, PVCs, and PACs
Ventricular arrhythmias and inherited rhythm conditions
Bradycardia, heart block, and slow heart rates
Pacemakers and defibrillators, including whether you actually need one
Ablation decisions, repeat ablation decisions, and rate versus rhythm strategy
Anticoagulation decisions and stroke risk in AFib
Syncope, near-fainting, POTS, and dysautonomia
Inappropriate sinus tachycardia and heart rate variability
Structural, Vascular, and Preventive Cardiology
Coronary artery disease and existing plaque
Chest pain, angina, and exertional symptoms
High blood pressure and its actual upstream drivers
Cholesterol, ApoB, particle number, particle size, and oxidation
Heart failure and reduced or preserved ejection fraction
Valve disease and mitral valve prolapse
Heart attack and stroke risk reduction
Insulin resistance, metabolic dysfunction, and the metabolic heart
Endothelial function, glycocalyx integrity, and nitric oxide
Family history, early disease, and the worried well who were told they are fine
What Actually Happens Before and During Your Call
This is not a fifteen-minute check-in where a doctor skims your chart in the hallway. Dr. Rudin reviews your case before you meet, and the session itself is built around three deep passes through your history.
One. The Full History Nobody Took
When symptoms started and what was happening in your life at that moment. Your food, sleep, light exposure, movement, stress, relationships, work, and environment. Water-damaged buildings and mold exposure. Dental history, including root canals and chronic oral infection. Toxin exposure, occupational and residential. Infections, illnesses, and surgeries that preceded the change. Family patterns and what they actually mean. This is where most root causes are found, and it is the part conventional cardiology skips entirely.
Two. Your Labs and Testing, Read Properly
Bring everything. Bloodwork, lipid panels, advanced lipid testing, inflammatory markers, metabolic and thyroid panels, nutrient and mineral levels, EKGs, Holter and event monitor reports, echocardiograms, stress tests, angiogram and catheterization reports, ablation reports, device interrogations, imaging, and any functional or specialty testing you have done. Dr. Rudin reads them as a connected picture rather than a list of numbers, tells you which results actually matter, which were misinterpreted, which were normal on paper and abnormal in reality, and where the meaningful gaps are.
Three. Your Medication History, Line by Line
Every drug you take, why it was started, what it was supposed to accomplish, and whether it accomplished it. Which medications are doing real work. Which are treating a side effect of another medication. Which are depleting nutrients your heart depends on. Which have interactions with each other and with the supplements you are taking. Which ones deserve a serious conversation with the physician who prescribed them. Any change to a prescription is made with your prescribing doctor. What Dr. Rudin gives you is the understanding and the questions to walk in with.
What You Walk Away With
Every second opinion ends with the same deliverable: you finally understand your own heart, and you know exactly what to do next.
Clarity on What Is Actually Wrong
Not the diagnosis code. The mechanism. Why your atria are firing the way they are. Why your pressure is elevated. Why plaque formed. What in your biology broke first and what it set off downstream.
A Straight Answer on the Procedure or Drug You Were Offered
Whether the ablation, the stent, the device, or the prescription is appropriate for your situation, what it can realistically accomplish, what it cannot, what the honest risks are, and whether there is meaningful reason to address root causes first.
A Corrected Read on Your Numbers
Which of your results were misread, which were dismissed, and which ones you should actually be watching. Abnormal labs are warning lights, not the disease itself.
Your Testing Roadmap
The specific tests worth running for your case, in what order, and what each result will change about your plan. Test, don't guess. Testing without a resulting action is wasted money.
A Customized 100 Year Heart Plan
Your personalized application of the 100 Year Heart Method across Eat Well, Live Well, Think Well, Test Don't Guess, evidence-based supplements, and biohacking strategies. Specific to your rhythm, your arteries, your labs, and your life.
A Rational Supplement Strategy
What to take, what to stop, what to prioritize, and what each one is actually doing. Foundational nutrition from real food first, targeted support second.
Your Questions Answered by a Cardiologist Who Is Not in a Hurry
Bring the list you have been carrying around. All of it. This is your time.
Who Should Book This Consultation
This call is built for people at a decision point and for people who have been told everything is fine when it clearly is not.
You have been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and were told ablation and blood thinners are your only path.
You have already had an ablation and the AFib came back, and the plan is another ablation.
You have palpitations, skipped beats, or racing episodes and were told they are benign and to stop worrying, but they are running your life.
You have been handed a stent, a bypass, or a device recommendation and want to know whether it is truly necessary right now.
You are on multiple cardiac medications, feel worse than before you started them, and no one will discuss it with you.
Your cholesterol or blood pressure numbers triggered a prescription and nobody explained why the numbers changed in the first place.
You have a strong family history of heart attack, stroke, or sudden cardiac death and want a real assessment before something happens.
You have unexplained symptoms, a stack of normal test results, and a cardiologist who has run out of ideas.
You have fainting, near-fainting, exercise intolerance, or POTS-type symptoms that have never been properly worked up.
You want a natural, root-cause path and need a cardiologist who will actually build one with you.
You are a current patient of another physician and want an independent expert read before you commit to anything.
Why This Is the Best Investment You Will Make in Your Health
Consider what the alternative path costs. A cardiac ablation runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, carries real procedural risk, and has a meaningful recurrence rate that lands many people back in the same room being offered the same procedure a second time. A stent is a comparable expense with its own risks and a lifetime of antiplatelet therapy attached. Decades of daily medication carry a cost that compounds year after year, in dollars and in side effects that generate their own prescriptions.
None of those interventions answer the question of why. They manage a downstream consequence while the upstream inputs continue unchanged. That is the entire reason people end up back where they started.
Forty-five minutes with an electrophysiologist who reads your full history, your complete testing, and your entire medication list, and then builds you a root-cause plan, is the least expensive decision on the table and the only one that addresses the cause. It can change what you agree to, what you decline, what you test, what you stop, and what you build from here.
Your heart has one job for the next several decades. Give it the right information now.
Real heart health is built, not prescribed. Pharma last, not first.
BOOK YOUR SECOND OPINION WITH DR. RUDIN
How to Schedule Your Time
After you purchase your session with Dr. Rudin, our office will call you within two business days to schedule your 45 minute Second Opinion meeting. You will meet online by Zoom or by telephone, whichever you prefer.
Our team will help you gather your supporting records and upload them to our system before the call, so Dr. Rudin arrives already familiar with your case and none of your 45 minutes is spent on catch-up.
Policies
You may reschedule your discussion with Dr. Rudin without penalty up to 24 hours in advance of your appointment. We do not offer refunds for missed appointments or cancellations less than 24 hours from your appointment time. Customer cancelled Second Opinion Consults are subject to a 4 percent processing fee that will be deducted from your refund.
This consultation is educational and advisory. It does not replace care from your treating physicians, and no medication should be started, stopped, or changed except with the physician who prescribes it. If you are experiencing new or worsening chest pain, fainting, severe shortness of breath, neurologic symptoms, or a sustained abnormal heart rhythm, seek urgent medical evaluation now.
Cheers to Your 100 Year Heart
Stop guessing. Get the expert read on your rhythm, your arteries, your labs, and your medications, and walk away with a plan built on root causes instead of prescriptions.
BOOK YOUR SECOND OPINION WITH DR. RUDIN