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To: allendale

My very own real personal experience...was having chest pains after a good steak dinner or physical strain at age 57.

Took up walking 30 miles every week (5 rounds of 18 holes).
Now at age 79, I have zero issues with heart, no pains, no strokes, blood pressure under 125/80.

I have convinced myself, rigorous exercise beats anything a doctor can prescribe or perform any procedure, when it comes to heart problems.


50 posted on 11/16/2019 1:46:33 PM PST by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or for government price fixing. Can't be for both as convenient.)
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To: entropy12

Went into the hospital 4½ years ago at 64, with 5% heart function and a 193 bump heart rate. Left five days later wearing a defibrillator vest. Within a week I started walking 2+ miles per day against the advice of my heart failure specialist. As he said the vest doesn’t make you bullet proof. After 6 month my HR was steady at 70-80 bpm at rest, I was still walking daily and my heart function was back to over 50%. I fired the heart failure specialist. My regular cardiologist admitted he had never seen such a recovery. He said usually it takes a year or more to recover to that degree even if you do, and often something else goes wrong before the heart gets better. I now see him once every year and a half. Moral of the story you can sit around and wait to die or take matters into your own hands and let the chips fall where they may.


58 posted on 11/16/2019 6:29:38 PM PST by redangus
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