About Active Heart Health
Helping you understand your heart health
so you can live a healthier, more confident life
Hi, I’m Ian, and welcome to Active Heart Health.
I created this platform after spending many years working in cardiology and noticing a recurring problem: most people don’t get clear explanations about their heart health unless something is already wrong.
Even then, the information can feel rushed, technical, or difficult to relate to everyday life. That gap — between clinical knowledge and real understanding — is where Active Heart Health sits.
The aim here isn’t to alarm or overwhelm. It’s to explain, in plain language, how the heart works, what common heart-related terms and measurements usually mean, and how modern home health technology fits into the picture.
My background in cardiology — and why Active Heart Health exists
I spent 15 years working in frontline cardiology within the healthcare system, much of that time around diagnostic testing and cardiac assessment. Over the years, I became familiar with how heart conditions are investigated, how health-related data is interpreted, and how clinical decisions are often made behind the scenes.
What stayed with me, though, was how little of that understanding seems to reach the people it affects most.
Many people leave appointments with numbers, labels, or recommendations, but without a clear sense of what those details actually mean or how they fit into everyday life. Others may feel perfectly well and yet have risk factors — such as high blood pressure — developing quietly in the background, often without obvious symptoms.
After a family move abroad, I finally had the space to revisit an idea I’d been turning over for some time: creating a health education resource focused on translating complex heart health concepts into clear, accessible information that anyone can understand.
That idea became Active Heart Health.
What Active Heart Health offers
This website is an educational platform, created to make heart health easier to understand - nothing more, and nothing less.
Here, you’ll find information designed to help you:
Understand how the heart functions and what keeps it working well
Learn about common health risk factors, including conditions like high blood pressure that often develop without obvious symptoms
Make sense of heart-related measurements, readings, and reports that can otherwise feel abstract or confusing
Understand how home monitoring devices work, what they can be useful for, and where their limits are
Develop a more informed, realistic awareness of your own heart health over time
All content is written to be clear and practical, grounded in real-world understanding, without assuming prior medical knowledge.
Education, not medical advice
Active Heart Health provides educational information only.
It does not offer medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and it isn’t intended to replace care from qualified healthcare professionals. Health decisions are personal and often complex, and are usually best made with professional guidance that takes your full medical history into account.
What this site can do is help you feel better informed and more confident when thinking about your health or discussing it with a clinician.
In many cases, understanding the basics may change the questions you ask. That alone can be valuable.
Why understanding your heart health matters
As people get older, it’s common to become more aware of health and, at the same time, more unsure about what information to trust. Headlines can exaggerate risk. Devices can generate data without explanation. Advice often comes without context.
Heart health doesn’t need to feel mysterious, but it does benefit from careful explanation and a bit of restraint. Not every number is an emergency. Not every reading tells the full story.
Active Heart Health aims to sit in that middle ground: informed, cautious, and practical.
Our mission
“To support people in engaging with their heart-related health through clear education and responsible use of home health technology — so they can feel informed, confident, and better prepared for real-world decisions.”
Explore our heart health topics
Understanding how your heart works
Clear, easy-to-follow explanations of how the heart functions and why that understanding matters.
Silent Killers
Some health conditions can develop without causing noticeable symptoms for a long time. We explain what people often mean by “silent killers,” why they matter, and what to be aware of.
Health technology
We explain commonly used home health technology, what it may be useful for, and where its limits often lie.