Something's off...

Me and my wife always follow the trends for following a healthy lifestyle. Green smoothies with kale and almond milk. Chia pudding with oats, and so on.

We lived, became older, and a period followed, marked by confusion and uncertainty. As an active and vibrant individual, I couldn't understand why I suddenly felt exhausted all the time, experienced unexplained fevers, and had heart palpitations. 

As a long time smoker, I decided (for a third time) that I would quit smoking as this was most probably causing all of what's wrong with me. I succeeded. Unfortunately the heart rithm disturbances did still occur once in a while.

I started to investigate what causes those palps by myself initially, came across dr Berg on YouTube (not an MD, but physicist) which helped me figure out my lack of Potassium and Magnesium. I started to take supplements for it with reasonable success. Reasonable, because the issues became less frequent, but were not entirely gone.

Even worse, episodes became more frequent as time passed, and I decided to visit my doctor. She did her best analysing, but did not have a clue what exactly was going on, but due to the palpitations, sent me to a cardiologist. Arriving at there, we had a conversation in which she (the cardiologist) concluded there were two possible solutions. Either swallow a daily dose of beta blockers or have a cardiac ablation, which is a form of blocking the nerve-knot responsible for generating heart beats to be no longer interfered with. I understand this solution to be temporary in most cases. In essence she said that if I do not want either of those solutions, I would have to 'learn to live with it' 

We decided she would give me a so called 'Pill in the Pocket' for emergency cases. A beta blocker to regulate the hearth rithm. In my eyes more fighting the  

It is important to point out that the true cause for all of this lies in the gut. When your  gut biome gets so out of whack, digesting certain foods becomes impossible. For this reason the gut collects lectins in its 'filter barrier' which makes it start to leak. On calls this "leaky gut", which means food leaks into the bloodstream before it gets digested. The body does not recognise these to be part of the body, and starts its fight.

Those hormones or T-cells running through the body triggers the Vagus Nerve to be influenced, which in turn causes palpitations.