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Understanding High Heart Rate: Causes and Concerns
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Understanding High Heart Rate: Causes and Concerns

A high heart rate, medically known as tachycardia, can be alarming and may be caused by various factors. It typically refers to a resting heart rate over 100 beats per minute. It's crucial to understand the causes and potential health concerns associated with high heart rates before engaging in any exercise regimen, including kettlebell workouts.

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Vitamin D Pinnacles and Pitfalls
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Vitamin D Pinnacles and Pitfalls

Vitamin D is known to modulate the immune system, enhancing innate immunity by promoting the production of antimicrobial peptides. It also modulates adaptive immunity by inhibiting the production of proinflammatory cytokines. This immune-balancing act may help the body to respond more effectively to infections, including the SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for COVID-19

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Long Covid and Adverse HRV
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Long Covid and Adverse HRV

We don’t yet understand much about the incoming perils with Long Covid. It appears there is growing evidence that Long Covid is already adversely affecting people’s lungs, and hearts, and the need for urgent emergency transplantation — and we have to be cautious, and careful, about moving forward in a safe way that leads to longevity and conservative recovery!

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HRV Revolution
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HRV Revolution

Don’t compare your HRV with anyone else’s — that is a problem many of us have, we want to know how we add up to others in our community, or age group — well, with HRV, we only compare ourselves to our own readings over time. That’s why it’s important to record our HRV in a reliable way for memory and reference.

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Covid Related Athlete Deaths
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Covid Related Athlete Deaths

As Monkeypox takes over health headlines from Covid-19, the long term aftereffects of Covid on the body — and the body politic! — are still lurking among us, and within us, and athletes appear to be at higher cardiac risk of future Covid damage to the heart than the rest of the population.

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Smart Wearables Beating Your Heart
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Smart Wearables Beating Your Heart

I am a big fan of wearables that give you delicate insights into the complicated status of your heart health. As we age, we become slower, and fatter, and more unsubstantial in what we are able to accomplish. If our wearables can help track us, and get us up, and moving — then, just perhaps, we will be able to enhance our lives with the help of some amazing technology.

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Kettlebell Comorbidities by Gender: Aging, Heart Disease and Depression
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Kettlebell Comorbidities by Gender: Aging, Heart Disease and Depression

We know aging, and cardiovascular disease, are comorbidities in deadly combination — but what about depression? Is depression also considered a comorbidity? Well, the answer has been clear for quite some time that depression is, indeed, a comorbidity for people with other health risks, and now there’s a fascinating new heart study published in the last week — Gender-based depression trajectories following heart disease onset: significant predictors and health outcomes

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