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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Exercise and therapy can mend a broken heart study suggests - What They Never Told You

An illustration of a cracked, blue heart. — Broken heart syndrome affects hundreds of thousands of people worldwide, and is usually brought on by severe emotional or physical stress. Illustration: Antonistock/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Doctors may have discovered the secret to mending a broken heart in a world-first clinical trial.

Hundreds of thousands of people worldwide are living with takotsubo cardiomyopathy, known as broken heart syndrome, which causes the heart muscle to change shape and suddenly weaken. It is usually triggered by severe emotional or physical stress, such as losing a loved one.

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