(02-04-11) The Exercise Mistake Proven to Damage Your Heart

Not long ago, researchers studied the heart health of a group of very fit
older athletes -- men who had been part of a national or Olympic team in
distance running or rowing, and runners who had completed at least a hundred
marathons. The results were unsettling -- half of these lifelong athletes
showed evidence of heart muscle scarring.

The affected men were invariably the ones who had gone through the longest,
hardest training. And now a new study, this time in laboratory rats, provides
solid evidence of a direct link between certain kinds of prolonged exercise and
heart damage -- scarring and structural changes, similar to those seen in the
human endurance athletes.

The research effectively shows that years of strenuous cardiovascular exercise
can damage your heart.

According to the New York Times:

"Unfortunately, it remains impossible, at the moment, to predict just what
that threshold is for any given person, and which athletes might be most
vulnerable to heart problems as a result of excessive exercise".

Sources:

New York Times March 9, 2011

The Journal of Applied Physiology February 17, 2011 [Epub Ahead of Print]

Circulation 2011;123:13-22

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