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I've heard of some professional cyclists years ago who turned their bodies into such efficient biking machines from training + drugs that when they when to slee
by ausbah 8y ago
I've heard of some professional cyclists years ago who turned their bodies into such efficient biking machines from training + drugs that when they when to sleep, there was a change of them dying in their sleep because their heart rate was so slow. They'd have to get up in the middle of the night and bike just to stay alive. Only anecdotal, but worth considering.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT8GZlBBv5k
- trymas 8y agoI understand it's anecdata, but I still do not completely get how you can die from slow heart rate? Why heart shouldn't get a signal to beat more frequently if body starts to lack oxygen during sleep? Is it just because the blood is so thick and moving so slow it will clog and may produce a sudden heart attack? Thus you need to "manually" keep up the heart rate?