In October 2025, a feature profile of Dr. Andrew Rudin was distributed through EZ Newswire and published in the press-release section of Reuters.com. The piece, titled “Walking the Fine Line: How Dr. Andrew Rudin Is Redefining Heart Health and Wellness,” tells the story behind his root-cause approach to cardiology and why he positions himself between conventional medicine and the wellness movement rather than inside either camp.
Read the full feature on Reuters.com
The story behind the approach
The profile opens with Dr. Rudin’s own experience: years of workplace stress, weight gain, and the recognition that, as a cardiologist, he was living the pattern he saw in his patients. “I didn’t jump on medication. I didn’t schedule a surgery,” he says in the piece. “I got to the root cause. And that’s what saved me.” That experience became the foundation of how he practices today.
On unnecessary procedures
A cardiac electrophysiologist by training, Dr. Rudin spent years performing ablations and implanting devices. The feature quotes him on the overuse of elective stenting in stable coronary disease, a theme he has written about at length on this site: “We’ve had years of data showing elective stents don’t prevent heart attacks or extend life. Yet patients believe they’re lifesaving because that’s how the system is built.” Readers who want the trial data behind that statement can find it in Stents During a Heart Attack Save Lives. Elective Stents Are a Different Question.
Food, movement, and the foundations
The piece describes his emphasis on nutrition, movement, and lifestyle change as the first line of treatment: cutting sugar and processed food, focusing on real, nutrient-dense food, and treating exercise as medicine rather than a risk. One anecdote involves a patient who had been told to avoid pickleball because of exertion. “That does not make sense. There’s no science for it. Exercise helps almost everyone.”
Follow the data, not the dogma
The profile’s central idea is balance. Dr. Rudin is openly critical of pharmaceutical-driven research in which neutral or negative results get buried, and equally critical of a wellness industry in which anecdotes pass for evidence. “If a patient needs conventional meds, a pacemaker, or ablation, I’ll recommend it. But I’ll also push them to address the underlying drivers of disease.” That stance, following the data wherever it leads, is the thread that runs through every article on BestHeartBeat.com.
A note on the credential wording
The release describes Dr. Rudin as a board-certified interventional cardiologist-electrophysiologist. On this site he is described as a cardiologist and board-certified cardiac electrophysiologist, which is the wording he uses for his own profiles. His full training, board certification, and honors are listed on the credentials and awards page.
More press
Dr. Rudin has also been quoted as an expert source by Medscape and Men’s Journal, and was profiled in The Village Voice in December 2025. Links to each are on the andrewrudinmd.com hub.
Andrew Rudin, MD is a cardiologist and board-certified cardiac electrophysiologist who takes a natural, root-cause approach to heart health. He sees telehealth patients nationally and internationally through Natural Heart Doctor, and is licensed in Tennessee. More at andrewrudinmd.com.
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