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Atrial fibrillation (A fib) is a common heart rhythm that occurs in people as they age and/or have heart conditions such as coronary disease, valvular heart disease, or cardiomyopathies. Once it develops, it can be a major hassle, as well as a health threat. Hospitalization is often necessary with multiple medications introduced: drugs to slow the heart rate that is typically 150-200 beats per minute and causes breathlessness, lightheadedness, even heart failure; medications to thin the blood to prevent stroke, which can be catastrophic; medications to convert the rhythm back to normal. And, because the imperfect ablation procedure to reduce/eliminate A fib pays electrophysiologists very well, ablation is frequently offered.
There are a number of simple strategies you can follow to prevent having atrial fibrillation and even reduce the frequency and duration of intermittent recurrences. Unfortunately, once the rhythm becomes frequent or persistent, the damage to your heart’s conduction system has been done and the rhythm cannot be suppressed without a procedure such as ablation or to simply live with the rhythm with lifelong need for drugs to control heart rate and blood thinners to prevent stroke.
The key is to therefore undertake these strategies as early in life as possible, as once A fib begins, it becomes harder and harder to suppress, bouts become longer and longer and more frequent, and eventually 24-hours-per-day persistent.
Efforts that reduce A fib potential include:
For anyone wanting to take their efforts even further, see the more detailed Undoctored Protocol for Atrial Fibrillation in our membership Undoctored Inner Circle.