hi doctor my name is William a few years ago I had a stroke due to atrial fibrillation because
of that I was put on blood thinners and that's when my Ed started I can get up but not like
before can you give me some advice and some tips please so I think one thing to keep in mind about
atrial fibrillation so when you're talking about atrial fibrillation he's all actually talking
about the fact that his heart was kind of doing this one of the chambers of his heart instead of
all the way doing the contraction and pumping and so because it's quivering what can happen is blood
can pull into the the heart and it can start to clot because it just kind of sits there and
then when you pump it out the clot can travel and ultimately cause a stroke something like that so
then they put them on blood thinners and he's been on them for a while and and two things with this
with blood thinners I think you always want to ask your doctor when can I come off of these blood
thinners right is there another solution for me with these blood thinners can we stop the atrial
fibrillation you know have we tried everything to stop it and I think this is a really great time
to kind of introduce to you this concept of a lot of times we don't get to the to the root cause of
the issue and as a result of it we you know stay on medication for forever when if we had a drilled
down to what's causing the atrial fibrillation or fixed what's causing the April atrial fibrillation
then you don't necessarily have to be a medication every day for the rest of your life now it's easy
to be scared because you did have a stroke into thinking oh my God I got to be on blood thinners
for the rest of my life but most doctors now are a little more Progressive than that and will help
you come up with a strategy so that you don't have to be on blood thinners every day for the
rest of your life now there's a lot of money in you being on blood thinners for the rest of your
life right pharmaceutical gets paid the doctor gets paid because they got to check up on the
blood thinners but what if you focused on trying to fix the problem that caused it in the first
place and so I saw this interview earlier this week and so it's interesting that this video
comes that this question comes up so I'm going to play this video and this is Big Sean talking
about when he actually was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation and I think it's an important video
because here he was he was diagnosed with this at the the age of 19 I believe he said and just
to kind of talk a little bit about his journey I want to remind you that this could very well
be your journey too and it got so bad that I couldn't walk from one side of the room to the
other side of the room without being short breath my heart your heart runs on electric currents
mine was like beating like this weird right anyway I passed out in the shower went to the hospital
they were like man we're gonna have to put a we're gonna have to put him what's the thing what is
this shot basement Pace we're gonna have to put a pacemaker in your heart or we can cut half of your
heart open scarred in the electric currents will run through the scars now I went to this doctor
who was actually my doctor now in Michigan one of the best doctors in the world Dr Brownstone he
gave me magnesium and a couple other things where he's like make sure you take this magnesium I go
back a week later or like a week and a half later to get prepped for the surgery that we couldn't
afford they test my heart and they're like oh my God your heart's fine you know they diagnosed me
with the whole disease they diagnosed me and said my heart I had a diseased heart and then
when I got tested again they were like oh your heart's really healthy you have a strong heart and
I couldn't believe how different I told him like all I did was take this you know I told them like
I took the magnesium and they were like no no way that's that's impossible but it's like people got
to open their minds up a little bit more right and it's not impossible magnesium deficiency
able to atrial fibrillation right so so I wanted to show you some more clinical data
on that listen because it's very important to me people are like what well Dr Rachel why do
you put Dr Rachel MD PhD there well Dr Rachel why do you show so many clinical studies why why why
listen because otherwise people would think I was up here making stuff up right I get asked every
day are you a real doctor are you just making this up I am a real doctor and so I wear it on
the shirt so you can see that I wear the scrubs just to remind you and I show you clinical data
so you can know that I'm not making this up so that when you go talk to your doctor you say
listen I was watching this nice doctor on YouTube she seemed so nice she's so pretty she's so kind
she gives it anyway I was listening to her and she said X Y and Z and by the way here's the
study what do you think about it doctor and that's ultimately why I do so much with the studies right
um because I think at the end of the day you can talk this this and talk this but if you show up
in your doctor's office with clinical studies and and informed with this type of information
they can't deny you the space to at least listen to you right so this one the role of hypomagnesium
magnesiumia in cardiac arrhythmias and this is a clinical perspective and it basically talks
about how low magnesium which two-thirds of us have that's it let me be clear about that
two-thirds of us have it and how it can impact the rhythm of your heart right so this is a great
article that you can show and then the role of magnesium and management of atrial fibrillation
right here it is a whole article just on what I said like maybe maybe even increasing magnesium
oral magnesium adding it on board maybe that can help the atrial fib roll away so that you don't
necessarily have to just be on a blood thinner because listen with that heart quivering like
that if that atrial fibrilla Nation isn't controlled it's going to create a whole
other set of issues for you besides needing to be on a blood thinner so that rate and Rhythm
needs to be controlled and so that needs to be the conversation you have with your doctor now
once you can get that rate and Rhythm controlled now the blood flow it can increase and and improve
to where it needs to go and then you could start to experience better erections so besides being
on the blood thinner and the fact that that atrial fibrillation is still keeping blood
flow from getting where it needs to go those are two problems simultaneously so you need to go back
to the beginning to the source and kind of start there right I hope that helps great questions