How Stress Can Cause a Heart Attack (And How to Heal) | Dr. Tara Narula

Dr. Tara Narula, a board-certified cardiologist and ABC News chief medical correspondent, sits down with Lewis to explain how stress alone can trigger a real heart attack — even in perfectly healthy arteries — through what doctors call broken heart syndrome. She shares her own frightening health scare in medical school and the resilience tools that pulled her through, from acceptance and flexible thinking to purpose and social connection. Narula emphasizes that burnout is the final phase of chronic stress, and that a massive international study found chronically stressed people are twice as likely to have a heart attack, making daily resilience practices a medical necessity.