I noticed when I was hydrated enough, I more easily controlled my ectopic heart beats or prevented them. When I felt like a palpitation was forthcoming, I just drank a glass of tap water to preempt it. It worked lots of times. Moreover, my medical heart doctor suggested I try drinking cold water during heart palpitations. I tried it many times and it worked, too. Water is life.
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Here's how I kicked out palpitations from my life and now enjoy total freedom from it. It includes my struggles and experiences with palpitation and what I did to manage it and reduce its effects, if not stopped it. Click here for more.
Once, I was in a public restroom in Munoz market when palpitations happened without warning. I walked to Walter Mart to rest hoping it would go away, but it didn't. So I called up my wife on the phone and told her my situation. She came at once from the school she worked in (she used to be a school teacher) with a tall glass of ice-cold water. While drinking it straight, the palpitations stopped. It often worked like that. Then I was able to proceed to my appointment after that.
Water is Often the Key to Health
Thank God I was just a few minutes away from her school that time. If I was somewhere far I'd be in big trouble. There'd be no way she could come to my aid quickly. I would've taken a cab back home and rested there all day and spoiled my appointment. Instead, after a few minutes of resting, I proceeded to my client meeting in Pasig and finished the interview for a magazine article. I thanked God that everything still went well.
Several times, cold water did it. Countless times when I woke up with palpitations at night or dawn, cold water did the trick. But I learned something more. If I kept myself well hydrated through the day, there were lesser chances of palpitation. Well, I'm not surprised because water is a known health promoter, a powerful heartoholic calmer. And the body is about 70 percent water, so I see a connection there.
Thank God I was just a few minutes away from her school that time. If I was somewhere far I'd be in big trouble. There'd be no way she could come to my aid quickly. I would've taken a cab back home and rested there all day and spoiled my appointment. Instead, after a few minutes of resting, I proceeded to my client meeting in Pasig and finished the interview for a magazine article. I thanked God that everything still went well.
Several times, cold water did it. Countless times when I woke up with palpitations at night or dawn, cold water did the trick. But I learned something more. If I kept myself well hydrated through the day, there were lesser chances of palpitation. Well, I'm not surprised because water is a known health promoter, a powerful heartoholic calmer. And the body is about 70 percent water, so I see a connection there.
And water is often the remedy for any small illnesses.
I researched online and found scarce studies on water and heart health. But medical science doesn't know everything. In fact, a lot of things patients complain about cannot be explained by some doctors. I've had a lot of heart doctors before who could not figure out what my problem was. And when I asked my present heart doctor about some organic health supplements, he merely said that anything I think would help was good. But generally, he said water was good for the health.
I researched online and found scarce studies on water and heart health. But medical science doesn't know everything. In fact, a lot of things patients complain about cannot be explained by some doctors. I've had a lot of heart doctors before who could not figure out what my problem was. And when I asked my present heart doctor about some organic health supplements, he merely said that anything I think would help was good. But generally, he said water was good for the health.
Water and Heart Health
The site WebMD says severe lack of water can affect blood supply to the organs. To me, that clarifies everything. It's easy to see why lack of water affects the heartbeat, especially during hot days. Moreover, the same medical site says water is a good stress reliever. And don't we heart optopics know that stress is a big factor in atrial fibrillation (FB or afib)?
My palpitations are solely due to gas in the tummy. So I try to keep my acid reflux at bay. I do this by drinking enough water each day. Water can arrest too much stomach acidity, and it works for me. But stress sometimes contribute to gas. Too much stress can stir the acids and produce gas that goes up and tap something in your heart somewhere and trigger palpitations. They say it's the vagus nerve.
When I feel dead tired, I mentally control stress by telling my body my tiredness has nothing to do with gas. "Gas, you shut up. There's no reason why you should act up!" I tell it. And it helps, especially when I do it while drinking cool water and relaxing and thinking of nice things. It works. I have proved to myself several times that a lot about health is water and mind over body--that is, if you keep a healthy lifestyle as well.
Don't practice mind over body and then abuse your body with unhealthy lifestyles. And anyway, your mind wouldn't be able to control your body if you are unhealthy.
My palpitations are solely due to gas in the tummy. So I try to keep my acid reflux at bay. I do this by drinking enough water each day. Water can arrest too much stomach acidity, and it works for me. But stress sometimes contribute to gas. Too much stress can stir the acids and produce gas that goes up and tap something in your heart somewhere and trigger palpitations. They say it's the vagus nerve.
When I feel dead tired, I mentally control stress by telling my body my tiredness has nothing to do with gas. "Gas, you shut up. There's no reason why you should act up!" I tell it. And it helps, especially when I do it while drinking cool water and relaxing and thinking of nice things. It works. I have proved to myself several times that a lot about health is water and mind over body--that is, if you keep a healthy lifestyle as well.
Don't practice mind over body and then abuse your body with unhealthy lifestyles. And anyway, your mind wouldn't be able to control your body if you are unhealthy.
Don'ts with Water
However, here are some dos and don'ts. Don't drink water while eating. This disrupts the work of your digestive acids and enzymes so that food in your intestines get digested slower and makes food stay longer there, sometimes even rot. That invites more bad bacteria to the area and worsens your stomach gas. That may make you more susceptible to palpitations and then you wonder what's happening.
Drink water an hour after meals. That gives enough time for your digestive system to do its work completely. But another warning here---after an hour, make sure to drink enough water. If not, it could again build up gas and trigger palpitation. Your body always needs enough water.
However, here are some dos and don'ts. Don't drink water while eating. This disrupts the work of your digestive acids and enzymes so that food in your intestines get digested slower and makes food stay longer there, sometimes even rot. That invites more bad bacteria to the area and worsens your stomach gas. That may make you more susceptible to palpitations and then you wonder what's happening.
Drink water an hour after meals. That gives enough time for your digestive system to do its work completely. But another warning here---after an hour, make sure to drink enough water. If not, it could again build up gas and trigger palpitation. Your body always needs enough water.
Enough Water
But how much water is "enough water"?
But how much water is "enough water"?
It depends on your body size, weight and physical activity. Ask your heart doctor or professional dietitian or nutritionist about it. In general, it's 8 glasses a day with 330 ml of water each glass. Active and sweaty folks may need more. To me 8 are enough. I just have mild exercises daily---walking, push-ups, some weights, isometrics and martial arts shadow boxing.
Drink Fresh
Finally, avoid drinking from bottled water. Water there is stale, kept for a long time on the shelves or storage. Worse, if you drink water left in the bottle a long time and which you have already drank from. The saliva you deposited into the bottle the first time you drank from it will cause bacteria to breed and contaminate the water. That, again, is added acid.
Or, the bottled water may have been exposed to the sun's UV rays (left in the car where sunlight reaches it) and made more dangerously acidic.
As much as possible, drink fresh water taken fresh from the faucet or water dispenser. Drinking alkaline water now and then is also good. But remember, your body also needs healthy amounts of acid to digest food. Too much alkalinity is also unhealthy. Often, tap water is enough. Stay away from distilled water.
Finally, avoid drinking from bottled water. Water there is stale, kept for a long time on the shelves or storage. Worse, if you drink water left in the bottle a long time and which you have already drank from. The saliva you deposited into the bottle the first time you drank from it will cause bacteria to breed and contaminate the water. That, again, is added acid.
Or, the bottled water may have been exposed to the sun's UV rays (left in the car where sunlight reaches it) and made more dangerously acidic.
As much as possible, drink fresh water taken fresh from the faucet or water dispenser. Drinking alkaline water now and then is also good. But remember, your body also needs healthy amounts of acid to digest food. Too much alkalinity is also unhealthy. Often, tap water is enough. Stay away from distilled water.
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