Jami Dulaney Md Plant Based Wellness

Welcome! and Thank you for listening.  The American Heart Association minimal weekly cardiovascular exercise suggestion is 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous exercise.  The funny part is that most of those committee members probably don't meet the goal and cannot define what moderate to vigorous exercise might look like.  Thirty minutes three times a week of walking is really setting the bar pretty low.  I guess they figure something is better than nothing at all.  That recommendation exists despite good data showing an increased risk of heart disease if you sit the rest of the day.   Fifty years ago patients were put to bed for 2 weeks after their heart attack.  We now know that bedrest does nothing for the heart and certainly makes the the skeletal muscles much worse.   What about atrial fibrillation?  How much exercise is good or good enough?  I have some good news about that in the podcast today.  I also have my race recap from the Odyssey SwimRun Austin.  It was a test of swimming, running, and rock cli