How to over come palpitation.

 

those people who are troubled with recurrent

palpitations and who have been to their

doctors and who have been investigated

and the doctor has said we have not

found anything so don't worry about them

and they'll go away

and the patient does not feel adequately

reassured and continues to get the

symptoms and when the symptoms happen

the patient gets very worried is my

heart going to stop am I going to die am

I going to have a heart attack what's

going to happen and then and 

if you have a

structurally normal heart if your

palpitations have been put down to take

topics which are thought to be benign

where your cardiologist has said well

these are just ectopic don't worry about

them they'll go

way the most important tip is to really

try and stop worrying about them nothing

bad is going to happen to you, you are

not going to drop down dead you are not

going to have a heart attack. These

are inconvenient but they are not

dangerous so stop worrying about them

why is it so important to stop worrying

about them one of the main reasons is

that anxiety precipitates them so what

happens is you notice um you get worried

the adrenaline the cortisol that you

release causes more palpitations and

then you get into this vicious cycle

where you worry more and more come on

so it's important just to try and take

stock and say look I've been told

they're not dangerous nothing bad is

going to happen to me and soon they will

go away number okay so tip number two

all right

cut out excessive alcohol particularly

binge drinking,

 binge drinking brings it Hmong and

wine in particular the sulfites in wine

can contribute significantly so for a

little while cut out alcohol altogether

if you can and that will help

undoubtedly similarly cut out any

excessive caffeine or carbonated drinks

or energy drinks that you may be taking

because these will all increase your

likelihood of having palpitations and

once you stop them for a few weeks you

will start noticing the benefit number

three tip number three stop smoking if

you're smoking you are inducing chronic

inflammation within your body and as

your body gets more inflamed from all

the toxins from the tobacco you will

find that your heart does get more

irritable so stop smoking if you can and

that'll make a huge difference tip

number four start doing some gentle

exercise the number of people I me to

worry about growing and exercising

because they think oh some work if

something happens you've been checked

out you have a structurally normal heart

stop worrying about

to go and do some gentle exercise no one

is suggesting that you go mad no one is

saying that go and you know do left 200

kilos above your head every day but just

going for a gentle walk on the treadmill

do 10 minutes of gentle walking on the

treadmill daily and build up from there

and you will find that this makes a huge

difference

why because exercise is an

anti-inflammatory it has an

anti-inflammatory role it reduces

inflammation we know that because for

example when we feel unwell when we feel

down when we have a little bit of the

flu if you go and do a little bit of

gentle exercise you come back and you

have this feeling of well-being you feel

feel refreshed you shake off your flu

and that is because of the beneficial

effects of exercise and similarly if you

do gentle exercise every day you will

find that your computations get less

frequent tip number five pay some

attention to your sleep levels  this

is so so important a lot of people who

get palpitations do so because they have

poor sleep hygiene the first thing to

say is that as people are getting older

and people are getting fatter there is a

higher prevalence of sleep apnea which

means that you're not breathing as well

when you're sleeping as you would be

during the daytime and this has this

results in people feeling tired and a

lack of sleep is a huge inflammatory has

a huge inflammatory effect on the body

we know that again because we know that

if we feel unwell if we feel like we

have the flu and we go and get a good

night's sleep we feel better for it and

this is the same with the palpitations

and the egg topics etc if you sleep well

you are less likely to get them a tip

number six try and reduce your stress

levels stress is inflammatory okay if

you're under a lot

stress this will bring on your

palpitations and if you want to get rid

of the stress if you want to get rid of

the palpitations one of the best tips I

can give you is take some time off work

go an holiday preferably to somewhere

which is sunny and that will make a huge

difference and you will notice a huge

difference in how you feel

tip number seven okay tip number seven

reduce the amount of processed food you

are having okay even though you may

think you're eating healthy the truth is

very little of what we eat is healthy

they've been so much and they're so much

there's been so much in the news

recently about food and how the food

industry is really controlling us and

compromisers made by the people who

regulate the food industry and the

people you know people who run the food

industry result in compromises within us

simple things if you if you are you know

if you're rearing hen in a space which

is meant for 10 hen but you choose to

rear a thousand hen in it then those hen

are not going to be healthy hens and

then when these hens are slaughtered

you're reaching them and in some ways we

are what we eat so if we're eating

something unhealthy if we're eating

something sick there's no doubt we're

going to not be as well and I am

confident that that is another reason

why there is so much of this kind of

thing in the population today a hundred

years ago there was nothing called

peanut allergy when I was a little boy I

hadn't heard of anything called peanut

allergy yet nowadays everyone's got it

why is that why is this happening it's

happening because people who regulate

the food industry control the food

industry use lots of preservatives

process the food in lots of ways and use

lots of chemicals on those chemicals we

ingest and they cause a small but

noticeable effects in our bodies um so

it's really important

it is well recognized that heavy

processing with food will destroy a lot

of important minerals and vitamins that

we need particularly magnesium levels so

it's really important to try and see if

you can eat healthier eat organic if you

can and that will make a difference okay

next and the other thing of course to

say with eating is that try and reduce

the portions you take okay so try and

eat try and eat smaller amounts because

if you stretch your stomach then that

can sometimes have the effect of

bringing on your palpitations all right

ah next thing a lot of people these days

suffer from reflux and again this is

something which is very very definitely

due to the modern lifestyle and the kind

of food we eat and the amount of food

read so if you do suffer from reflux

then it is very important you get that

treated making because reflux is hugely

inflammatory if you are chronically

inflamed in your esophagus you can

imagine how inflamed you are within your

body and your heart will become more

irritable

why because inflammation gets rid of

vital mineral ions and that will

increase the electrical irritability of

the heart okay so treat you get your

reflux treated and try and avoid those

things which bring on reflux for a lot

of people it's dairy products or

chocolate cheese that kind of thing can

bring on on the reflux try and avoid

taking those things try and minimize

you

to check your iron levels and your

ferritin levels because even you even

though you may not be anemic you may

still have early iron deficiency and

also ask him to check your thyroid

function tests okay just to ensure that

you're not developing hypothyroidism or

hyperthyroidism and that can cause your

palpitations

it's also worth getting them to check

your magnesium but bear in mind that the

magnesium that is measured is not

reflective of total bad body magnesium

so you may have a normal plasma

magnesium level but you may have be

actually magnesium deficient and one of

the most common reasons the magnesium

deficiency is processing heavy

processing of food and tip number 10 is

try some magnesium supplementation a lot

of people have asked me what kind of

magnesium supplements well the best

thing is to eat more leafy vegetables if

you can if not then you can ask your GP

to see if you could prescribe you some

magnesium citrate and that will help

alternatively you can also try using

something like amiloride which is a mild

diuretic which has the effect of

reducing excretion of magnesium so one

option is to take in more magnesium the

other option is to reduce the amount of

magnesium your excreting I would give

these ten tips a try and I'm sure that

you will find that you feel better and

your palpitations get less frequent.