Marking World Heart Day, Professor Jason Kovacic joined Gary Hardgrave on 4BC Mornings to highlight Australia’s ongoing cardiovascular disease crisis, which claims over 40,000 lives annually alongside soaring obesity rates.

He outlined simple daily lifestyle changes that reduce cardiac risk and revealed ground-breaking Australian research using Fraser Island funnel-web spider venom to protect heart tissues during severe cardiac events.

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