Wow; it's refreshing to hear other stories about cardiovascular events in athletes. Do you have any references or information about athletes and Ventricular Tachycardia? All the testing (echo, CT, labs) are all showing a healthy heart.....but for some reason NSVT shows up occasionally and without symptoms.
For evidence based information about cardiovascular problems in elite endurance athletes do read Exercised by Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, plenty of eye-opening information on this particular issue.
Definitely the cold iced water after the race literally dilutes the electrolytes in your body (even more than what was lost in sweat and urine from that much movement (ATP energy process breaks the bonds of glycogen and water and releases water as energy is “burned” from movement). It was/is most likely symptoms of dilutional hyponatremia.
… They call it SIADH, but it’s perfectly appropriate because the body is doing its best to hold onto sodium from excess hypotonic fluid intake. You essentially needed salty potato chips, not water 😉. 🫶
Wow; it's refreshing to hear other stories about cardiovascular events in athletes. Do you have any references or information about athletes and Ventricular Tachycardia? All the testing (echo, CT, labs) are all showing a healthy heart.....but for some reason NSVT shows up occasionally and without symptoms.
Unfortunately I’m less up to date on VT!
Did you get a contrasted CT Angiogram? That's the best way to actually see plaque in your arteries...
For evidence based information about cardiovascular problems in elite endurance athletes do read Exercised by Daniel Z. Lieberman MD, plenty of eye-opening information on this particular issue.
Not something I’ve done yet!
Definitely the cold iced water after the race literally dilutes the electrolytes in your body (even more than what was lost in sweat and urine from that much movement (ATP energy process breaks the bonds of glycogen and water and releases water as energy is “burned” from movement). It was/is most likely symptoms of dilutional hyponatremia.
… They call it SIADH, but it’s perfectly appropriate because the body is doing its best to hold onto sodium from excess hypotonic fluid intake. You essentially needed salty potato chips, not water 😉. 🫶