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Heart Stopping: Sudden Death in Young Athletes

Cycling

Every four years, the Olympics comes around to remind us all of how lazy we really are. We watch the athletes run, jump, swim and do air kicks, thinking to ourselves that we should get out more and live healthier lives. But even the fit do fall, especially athletes suffering from a genetic disease of the heart called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Laugh: It’ll Incapacitate You

He looks like you!

Have you ever been laughing, and then laughed so much that you’ve forgotten why you were laughing in the first place, yet continued laughing, because you were laughing? Imagine this happening to one thousand people over the course of 6 months! This is exactly what happened in 1963 in the Bukoba district of Tanganyika.