Your heart health in a heartbeat _ Episode 3

TRANSCRIPT:

Hello Everyone,

Today I’d like to talk about a topic that has nothing to do with heart disease, but one which I think should be of interest to athletes and to people who do intense exercise and sports.  The topic is “water intoxication.”

I bring that up because a young man came to Athletic Heart SF just the other day to be evaluated. He had had really bad symptoms during an intense workout, and there was a concern it might be his heart, but we figured out that the most likely cause of his symptoms was water intoxication.Read more