INSANE: 10 - The Real Truth

Doctors Kept Testing Their Hearts and Lungs, but the Blue Skin Traced to One Swapped Amino Acid

Some patients appear permanently blue despite having healthy hearts and lungs. The cause is a hemoglobin variant that pulse oximeters cannot read.

Medical Daily · Aug 27

Their Stents Looked Fine, but the Chest Pain Was Real, and Nearly Half Had Artery Spasm

Chest pain returning after a stent is often blamed on restenosis. In one study, nearly half of these patients had coronary artery spasm.

Medical Daily · Aug 27

5 Everyday Lifestyle Habits That Silently Damage Your Heart Rate Variability and Stress Recovery

Sleeping Late Even When You Get Eight HoursTotal sleep duration gets all the attention. Timing gets almost none. HRV is governed largely by the autonomic nervous system, which runs its deepest parasympathetic recovery between roughly 10 pm and 2 am. A 2017 review by Shaffer and Ginsberg published in Frontiers…

Times Life · Aug 27

A Coronary Artery Ballooned to 15 Centimeters and Started Crushing the Heart It Was Supposed to Feed

A woman with no cardiac risk factors had chest pain and bulging chest veins. Scans found a coronary artery ballooned to 15.6 centimeters.

Medical Daily · Aug 26

‘USA is a bad bad bad place’: Her insurance denied coverage for a procedure to close a hole in heart. Then the hospital bill reaches $75,000

The insurance's reasoning left everyone stunned.

We Got This Covered · Aug 26

NHS shingles jab could lower risk of stroke and heart attacks, study finds

Shingles is caused by the herpes zoster virus flaring up again in people who previously had chicken pox

The Independent UK · Aug 26

Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds

Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication

The Guardian - UK · Aug 26

Heart Rate Variability Explained: What HRV Means for Fitness and Recovery in India

What HRV actually measuresYour heart does not beat like a metronome. Even at rest, the gap between one beat and the next shifts by milliseconds, widening when you exhale, narrowing when you inhale. Heart rate variability is the measure of that fluctuation. A higher variability generally means your autonomic nervous…

Times Life · Aug 26

San Diego woman missing her arms and legs after going in for emergency heart surgery

Now her husband is asking for help.

We Got This Covered · Aug 25

Forget counting hours of sleep - this underrated fitness tracker feature helped me develop better rest habits

Looking at the heart rate variability (HRV) feature on your watch or smart ring can tell you more about the habits impacting recovery than most other metrics

Woman & Home · Aug 25