Why do well conditioned adults drop dead during or shortly after exercise?

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Why do well conditioned adults drop dead during or shortly after exercise?

 

Work out, run, sweat, then rehydrate after a long physical workout with plain

bottled water and you may end up grabbing your chest as your heart flutters out

of control. Bottled water can't be held responsible for something it doesn't

supply, an essential mineral that could eliminate or minimize the risk for

sudden death heart attack.

 

It's ironic that while lack of physical exercise may be a leading risk factor

for coronary heart disease, on occasion well-trained athletes die suddenly

during or immediately after exercise.

 

Just this past December the Baltimore Sun published a report about " six

vigorous, middle-aged professionals, four of them doctors, who exercised for all

the right reasons, to relieve stress, reduce blood pressure, and condition their

hearts and lungs, " but died suddenly during or shortly after workouts.

 

Three law enforcement officers in a Tustin California Police Department running

club have also died suddenly, without explanation. People still talk about Jim

Fixx, the author of a best-selling book on the health benefits of running, who

ironically died of a.heart attack at the age of 52 years while running.

 

Some of these deaths are blamed on low sodium levels, dehydration, others on

blood vessel and coronary artery disease. But a major unreported cause is a

likely magnesium deficiency. A recent report confirms that magnesium is often

depleted by physical exercise. [Critical Review food Science Nutrition 42:

533-63, 2002] Irregular heart beat is related to a shortage of magnesium.

[Journal Internal Medicine 247: 78-86, 2000]

 

Sports drinks supply energy and replace salts, but not magnesium

 

Sports drinks often supply sugar as energy for endurance athletes, and

replacement sodium and potassium to prevent dehydration, but very little if any

magnesium.

 

Bottled water is usually low in minerals if an American brand, and much higher

in minerals if bottled in Europe. Right after a workout many athletes will reach

for an available bottled water which is typically low in minerals (sometimes

called dissolved solids), in particular low in magnesium.

 

The electrolyte minerals in the blood circulation are further diluted, and bang,

the heart muscles start to spasm. What the heart needs is magnesium, and it

needs it immediately after physical exercise. Magnesium in drinking water is not

only more easily absorbed than from foods, but it immediately enters the blood

circulation.

 

 

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