Atrial Fibrillation: ALCOHOL, CAFFEINE, APPLE WATCHES

I take Magnesium Taurate and my Afib is greatly improved.

I’m a healthy 40-year-old randomly experiencing symptoms like a double heartbeat and brief breathlessness (1 second), smart watch showing Afib .
I believe it’s linked to receiving 4 Covid vaccine doses (3 Pfizer, 1 Moderna booster).
My cardiologist is investigating with a 5-day ECG test and prescribed Flecainide pills.
Afib occurs randomly, 1-2 times weekly. Heart issues can arise from Covid itself and vaccine reactions.

Thank you for such a thorough and informative video, I wanted to ask whether a health and fitness lifestyle has any impact in reducing the knock on impacts of being in permanent AF (so effectively on the CURE side of your equation) ?. I have had a mild stroke episode and have started on Apixaban to prevent clots. I haven't drunk alcohol in over 20 years and don't smoke and weight train extensively. I am though concerned about aerobic training as if i wear a smart watch whilst walking briskly my heartrate varies a lot.

So interesting when you listen to someone who REALLY knows their subject! I've come down this route as I have had palpitations and my watch has also measured Afib once or twice ... but not again. I just wanted to understand what the common thoughts were regarding this subject. I was lucky enough to stumble across this.

Thanks to Dr Marcus for discussing this and making it so easy to understand!

Dear Doctor, many thanks for this amazing vlog! I just had my second Afib surgery and not recovering very well. More places ablated than first time 13 yrs ago. I see my surgeon Monday, nearly three weeks later????? Hoping for answers and started PT. It is discouraging to feel WORSE than before you went in.
Anyway as a non clinician this actually was in English even I could understand with only a teachers mind. So many many thanks. I will listen to it again! That is how informative this has been. I’m so very impressed as I’ve listened to other talks, and my eyes crossed from confusion.
You are the best! Thank you for sharing your experience just wonderful!!!

enjoy your coffee ... best news ever :D

If you got real sick real bad one time and got afib and a blood clot and put back inhythm and no problems for7years and have been on blood thinners for 7 years and with in four months bleed so bad had a hard time to stop the blooding and i never 😅😅had any of the signs that you said that would make me have afib and the blood thinners are what is going to do me in never had heart problems

Terrific explanation. We needed this kind of conversation when my mom went into the hospital with pleural effusions. We had a cardio consult while she was there and he said she now had baseline afib. But she never felt the afib. The reason we were at the hospital was because of the effusions. No one mentioned a nexus. The effusions became more frequent and it was two years before her pulmonologist suggested that the pleural effusions were likely caused by the afib. She would have tried the ablation or the drugs even the cardioversion if it would have stopped the effusions, too.

very cold ice cream that results in what we called "Brain Freeze" has immediately caused Afib in me lasting approximately 24 hours. This has occurred more than a few times.

Pacemakers have changed they now get put inside the ventricle don’t let them flog you the old type ,they must have shed loads

Is atrial flutter worse or better than a fib?

Terrific information. My interest in afib is due to my fibrillation, often misdiagnosed as afib. I have an irregular rhythm- not chaotic- but really weird! Is this worrisome, in your opinion?

Superb presentation. Thank you so very much!🕊

Doctor, very well said and detailed explanations. Kudos to you. 😊

Very informative. I have had Paramoxl Afib since I was 21 (59 now) and have just switched from Sotalol and Flecainide. I am hopeful this will reduce the number of episodes I have and am in the process of getting an ablation. I knew a fair bit about the condition, but you broadened my knowledge and explained the various options much better than I had known before. Thank you.

so I was diagnosed a couple years ago when I came back from China in 2019 that I had a fib and also I had a flutter and also a slow heart rate we took care of the heart rate with the pacemaker. We took care of the flutter with an ablation. I assume go in for a ablation for the AP. My question to you is would it be worthwhile for me to own an Apple Watch or something like that? That could possibly detect a fib in the future I'm really confused about it. Thanks for any response.

Everything is going to automation, AI. It was my Apple watch that detected my first AFIB. It's all about automation. Doctors and nurses are so busy.

So, the watches do not pick up PVCs? I need to monitor heart rate as I had many PVCs on my EKG and I am considering a watch or other device, however I think I am hearing that it will not pick up PVCs.

You missed the adverse effects of the mRNA "vaccine" ref Dr Asseem Molhatra

I regularly exercise and experience heart rates as high as 155 -160 regularly. Does that mean the Apple Watch is going to say I have Afib when I have a high heart rate?

3 ablations later and I'm still in afib. Starting Dofetilide next week.

Everyone here talking about a-fib….. a-fib is non-life threatening in the immediate time frame and will self correct. I had a v-fib heart attack and died within 15 minutes with 100% blockage of the left anterior descending artery on the heart…. The widowmaker.
There’s a huge difference between a-fib and v-fib.
If the cardiologist wasn’t already in the ER when I arrived I would not be here now. He brought me back.

Thank you so much for this explanatory video. I am recently home from Hospital after suffering from A-fib here in Australia. I underwent successful heart rhythm correction and found this information a timely addition to my knowledge base.

Great information!

Very helpful pi😢 😅

After an ASD repair using silicone patch 25 years ago, are there any concerns about treating afib at age 80 plus?

Hello ! Dr. Are you related to Dr George Marcus, M.D. wife Dorothy? From Glendale, CA. George and Dorothy were friends of my parents. Dr. Innis who lived in Newhall, CA ?
Carolyn Innis

Great presentation and information. Due to needing a knee replacement procedure I stopped running 5 - 6 years ago, and within a couple of months I was suddenly diagnosed with A-Fib at age 74. I had been running from age 13, an had done many road races, and long distance runs...even competed in 1964 Olympic trials.

I have been on 5 mg (2X/day) of Apixaban and 25 mg (2X/day) of Metoprolol. Have changed eating habits and holding at under 190 weight, 6 feet tall. Had a heat stroke 18 months ago due to officiating five high school ball games on a 114 degree day in Arizona. Don't perform these stupid mistakes any more.

Just sent my smart watch back today before listening. I have a shadow beat and the watch was giving me a very low bpm and high. My heart Dr said its accuracy couldn’t be relied on as true. Now i am taking pulse regularly myself to get true beats. Not convenient but the other was causing anxiety and wonder. Thank you for support. I have heart failure and a low ejection fraction, hoping to improve with drugs and slow exercise but this was all very interesting. Thanks for coffee bit!

Should you take a blood thinner if you went to the emergency room with atrial fibrillation with RVR and was shocked back to rhythm with electrical cardio version BUT scored 0 on the CHA2DSVASc score. Please reply as I am not sure if I should take blood thinners yet because of all the side effects and the fact that if you stop them then your risk goes way up for a clot. Please reply soon!

Hi thank you is the AF separate from the stent I have in the LED help thanks

So you are not in favor of the Apple watch ?

What an excellent presentation. Thank you very much. I learned a lot.

This man, with the beard, is a descendant of the Luden cough drop company.

My spouse drank and smoked his whole life and was diagnosed with AFIB. Now on 6 prescriptions. Mighty expensive too.

Thank you for an understanding of EKG watches, their advantages and disadvantages. I also understand the medications I have been prescribed and how they act on my system.

should you take blood thinners when you have very low platlets

Great presentation. One issue of concern to me (as an experienced AFib patient) is: Except for alcohol and coffee, what are other possible triggers for AFib? My experience is that foods/snacks containing liquorice may play a role in these episodes. Is there any research on other foods that might play a role in AFib episodes?
The presentation does not address other conditions that might cause AFib. For example, would a high calcium score be a contributory factor?

Down with statins!!

good quality pulse oximeters actually have 2 LED's, a red one and an infra-red one and the difference between the is used because this is more stable a measurement than absorption at one wavelength. Note also that the better ones have the LED(s) on one side (say the top) and the light detectors on the opposite side. The simpler one sided designs are sensitive to the amount of pressure on the finger giving inconsistent readings.

I had a CABG4 operation and on the second post op day I had an atrial fibrillation event and the gave me a shot of potassium and then started me on a daily potassium supplement for the time I was on Furosemide (about 3 months). Touch wood I haven't had an event since.

Brilliant, clear and engaging, cogent presentation, bravo zulu!!

Diagnosed 11 yrs ago, I asked my cardio doc, what about ablation? He said no. I don’t know why. Fatigue is a biggy. But I never can tell if in or out. I am tired of taking all these drugs, I’m 67 and I am in chronic a fib. So far I’ve lost 100 lbs so far, I’ve quit drinking. So far my a fib is still present. Didn’t like metropolol so I am on verapamil, digoxin, xarelto, and an anti acid script as a preventative for the blood thinner, oh yes can’t forget iron, for some reason I am anemic. I am so tired of it all. The drugs are what gets me Xarelto $500 - 600, then down to $85, with insurance and the card. The digoxin, has been around as digitalis since the 1790s, look it up. That costs about $45 with insurance etc., over 200 years old. and quite frankly, I’m just tired of making the pharmaceutical companies rich, because so long as we have the pharmaceutical companies making a lot of money we won’t have any cures for disease.

You guys rock…

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Fantastic video! Best informative video I’ve ever watched! Thank you so much for sharing this information 🙏

Excellent and informative presentation. I first found that I had AF when I was forty. I have been a heavy drinker and had a stroke earlier this year aged 81. As usual knowing the problem and understanding the treatment always helps . Thank you sir.

Dealing with periodic afib for 7 years now triggers are alcohol caffeine salt especially salt
The meds they tried gave me Barrett’s so not using any meds for Rhythm control just a blood thinner

I m 71 years old good shape exercise and no alcohol caffeine in any form and reduce salt

I know everyone is different but the two things that reduce the frequency and duration is magnesium and Taurine supplements.