If you eat crap, and then think this crap will serve you as fuel for your workouts, you're in for a big surprise. Eat to serve your body and to fuel your workouts with whole foods, preferably plant exclusive; you will marvel at your recovery time. Great video Dr. Hashmi! Thank you!🏃♀🏋♀🧘♀🙏
This is such a complex problem to study, because there’s just so many variables and so much variance among individual athletes. While endurance athletes are more likely to have higher CAC scores it’s well established that those CAC scores don’t quite translate into same risk as for non-athletes. It’s likely that some athletes are more prone (genetically) to build plaque and high intensity endurance exercise disturbs the blood flow in a way that’s damaging to the inner wall of coronary vessels, but it’s also been shown that 8+ hours / week of cardiovascular exercise can significantly improve collateral blood flow as well as diameter of vessels - there are all these healthy adaptations (calcification of plaque included) that seems to be protective for many masters runners. Still, I think that taking pre-race aspirin to reduce a risk of transiently elevated risk of cardiac arrest (usually in the final miles of marathon) is a good idea for middle aged runners who are at intermediate to high risk. Also, some people may benefit from statin or other therapies…
If you eat crap, and then think this crap will serve you as fuel for your workouts, you're in for a big surprise. Eat to serve your body and to fuel your workouts with whole foods, preferably plant exclusive; you will marvel at your recovery time. Great video Dr. Hashmi! Thank you!🏃♀🏋♀🧘♀🙏
This is such a complex problem to study, because there’s just so many variables and so much variance among individual athletes. While endurance athletes are more likely to have higher CAC scores it’s well established that those CAC scores don’t quite translate into same risk as for non-athletes. It’s likely that some athletes are more prone (genetically) to build plaque and high intensity endurance exercise disturbs the blood flow in a way that’s damaging to the inner wall of coronary vessels, but it’s also been shown that 8+ hours / week of cardiovascular exercise can significantly improve collateral blood flow as well as diameter of vessels - there are all these healthy adaptations (calcification of plaque included) that seems to be protective for many masters runners. Still, I think that taking pre-race aspirin to reduce a risk of transiently elevated risk of cardiac arrest (usually in the final miles of marathon) is a good idea for middle aged runners who are at intermediate to high risk. Also, some people may benefit from statin or other therapies…
Joe Rogan needs to have you on his show.
I love that :)
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