Posted on 09/21/2022 5:49:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Twenty-four-year-old surfing champion Kalani David reportedly died while surfing over the weekend in Costa Rica after sustaining a seizure stemming from a heart condition.
David, full name Kalani David Feeney Barrientos, stunned the surfing world since he was 14 years old with his impressive aerial maneuvers and competed in top skateboarding competitions.
“He was surfing when he apparently suffered some type of epileptic seizure and drowned,” Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigation Agency confirmed to the Associated Press.
“The death is still under investigation,” the agency added.
David had a congenital heart disease called Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which was diagnosed at age 18 when his heart stopped beating. The condition impacted his impressive sports career.
After the 2016 incident, the athlete underwent successful open-heart surgery after sustaining a six-hour seizure that landed him in a medically-induced coma for two days, according to Men’s Journal.
David opened up about his condition to his followers in June.
“With these seizures I keep having my neurologist said no driving and no surfing until I stop having them,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “I mean I could surf but, if I was to have one and don’t get saved in time, I’ll either die or become a vegetable because I don’t have enough air to my brain.”
“I keep getting lucky,” he continued, “I had a seizure driving and the other in the water within a couple months. The past couple years [I’ve] been having seizures sleeping and just Angels watching over me cause [I don’t know] how I keep getting so lucky and living [through] it all. Time to get this stuff in order so I can move ahead in life, at least I can skate and fish!”
“Been getting asked a lot about my situation, so wanted to let everyone know how it is for me right now,” he wrote. “I’ve been putting these health issues to the side because I couldn’t believe it, but doing that has made it worse. My life has completely changed and it’s not rejection, it’s redirection 😉 haha thanks everybody for the love just stoked to be alive and well. It’s not about what you want it’s about what you have and making the best out of it🙏🏼 #godisgood.”
Numerous tributes have been posted online since David’s passing, including the surfer’s brother, who posted about missing the “best brother” over the weekend.
Photographer Peter King expressed his condolences online, too.
“Oh man,” King said via Instagram. “Love you Kalani. Only God knows His timing. Life isn’t easy. Always battling. Always Learning. Heartbreaking News.”
He died doing what he loved.......................
Had an exchange student named Jose Luis Alvarez Gonzales or maybe it was Gonzales Alvarez), cant remeber which name was last) in our school once. Apparently,they take the father’s last name and also mother’s
If he had a good doctor, his congenital heart condition might’ve been considered too risky for COVID shots.
Yes, that is their custom and has been since before Spanish colonial times..............
My dad never had the ‘ablation’ although his cardiologist was talking about it. He had cardioversion a couple of times - the amount of time it lasted got shorter & shorter. The last time was one day. He’s been on blood thinner & ‘living with it’ for years. Last year, when checking his pacemaker, he was out of Afib & has been since! The doc doesn’t know why, but no one is complaining about it - his pacemaker did have to be adjusted.
He might have been low on potassium and magnesium in his diet.
I was in the hospital for 3 weeks following my quad bypass because the docs couldn’t get my heartbeat stable for very long. They wanted to put a pacemaker in me and I said no. They did blood tests and found I had very low potassium levels. Had to give me potassium intravenously just to get it up to normal. For some reason, probably genetic, my body doesn’t absorb potassium normally. Magnesium is necessary to help your body utilize the potassium, so I take both.
As long as I take potassium and magnesium supplements my heart stays in rhythm!......................
“Why are people with a known seizure condition allowed to drive vehicles?”
They aren’t legally. Usually must wait 6 months after latest seizure.
He came and went at the same time.
Was he vaccinated?
cyclotic wrote: “Apparently you followed longstanding Freeper tradition and didn’t read the article.”
There is another Freeper tradition, blame everything on the vaccines. If your neighbor gets vaccinated and then your dog becomes pregnant, it is obvious that the vaccination is the cause.
My dad is also on diuretics due to his congestive heart failure. He is on a “monster” potassium pill every day. We also have him on magnesium & Dr. Zelenko’s prophylactic protocol.
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Chris Kresser did an interview with Robb Wolf recently - here are some parts of the transcript you might be interested in:
Chris: And so the Linus Pauling Institute has a good article on their site where they quantify nutrient inadequacies. We talked about how that’s a better measure for most people because we’re interested in optimal health and longevity, not just not dying from nutrient deficiency. So I’ll give you some stats from there. 94% of people don’t get enough Vitamin D, so that’s not that surprise… Oh, I forgot about potassium. So 100% don’t get enough potassium.
That’s a pretty shocker, huh? I mean, in a way it is, in a way it isn’t, but our potassium intake in ancestral cultures was sometimes as high as 10 milligrams a day or… 10 grams, excuse me. Now, it’s below a gram for some people, so it’s like dramatically less. And of course, sodium intake has gone up. And I’m not a sodium-aphobe. I think a lot of people are unnecessarily scared of salt. And a lot of that early research on salt was…
Of salt. And a lot of that early research on salt was bogus, but the potassium sodium ratio is still important. And if you get way more sodium than potassium, that’s not going to work out well. And that is true for a lot of people. Next is vitamin D. That’s 94% don’t get enough. 92% don’t get enough choline. I think magnesium is probably in between 90 and 100%. Don’t get enough. I’ll come back to that because it’s a special case. 89% don’t get enough vitamin E. 67% don’t get enough vitamin K. 52% don’t get enough magnesium according to this. I think that’s wrong. And I’m going to explain why in a second. Selenium, it’s below that. It’s one of the few nutrients that the majority of Americans are getting enough of according to the research.
But another big one is body weight. Makes sense. The higher your weight is, the more of a nutrient that you’re going to need to support all of the metabolic processes. The RDA for magnesium was last published in 1997, and at that time the average body weight was 133 pounds for an adult woman and 166 pounds for an adult male. Well, in 2021 last year, a group of researchers were like, Wait a sec, weights are a lot higher now. Maybe we should go back and look at the RDA for magnesium and update it to reflect the increased average body weight in the US population. They did that and they recalculated the RDA according to the current average weights of male and female adults, which are, again, in 1997 it was 133 pounds for adult women. Today, it’s 169 pounds average for an adult female. There’s been a 30 plus pound increase in average body weight for adult women during that period. And for men, it was 166 pounds in 1997, and now the average weight is 196 pounds.
That’s a whole nother conversation. The RDA back in 1997 for women was 320 milligrams. And for men it was 420. When they updated the RDA based on these new body weights for women, it went from 320 to as high as 530 milligrams per day. And for men it went from 420 to as high as 650. That’s a massive increase in the amount of magnesium that we now understand is required for optimal health. And if we look at the average intake for US adults today is 340 milligrams for men and 255 milligrams for women. This means that the average American is now consuming between 200 and 300 milligrams per day less magnesium than they need according to these updated values. That’s not just true for magnesium. That’s true for a lot of other nutrients across the board, like selenium, et cetera.
Link: https://robbwolf.com/2022/09/09/all-things-nutrient-density-with-chris-kresser-salty-talk-044-thrr/
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Being very low carb/Keto, I need a lot of electrolytes. I drink about a quart of electrolytes daily - I make up my own. I also add 1/8 tsp salt to my first cup of coffee and 1/8 tsp potassium to my second cup. I salt my food to taste.
Did he die doing what he loved to do?
Did he go out at the top of his game?
Did he get to make his own decisions about his own body and his own life?
RIP
In addition to potassium and magnesium, I take D3 at 2000 IUs and a multivitamin....................
Yes...................
For the most part they are correct. Had covid just run it’s course, less would be dead.
The vax is a killer. But you’re a true believer n St. Fauci so feel free to ignore the truth
cyclotic wrote: “The vax is a killer. But you’re a true believer n St. Fauci so feel free to ignore the truth.
You must be a true believer in Saint Malone or Steve Hirsch the Most Wonderful.
BTW, most experts believe the vaccines have saved over a million lives. The current COVID death rate is approximately 500 per day.
You’re still young.
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