ExclusiveWhy Are Male Athletes Collapsing on the Field? Son of Lebron James the Latest Victim of Heart Failure｜Vital Signs

It was once rare to hear of athletes suffering heart failure and even dying on the field. Now, it seems commonplace.

At the time of publishing this video, the son of the the LA Lakers’ Lebron James is among the latest to suffer a cardiac arrest while playing professional sport. Just weeks prior, a Dominican pro basketball player died of an apparent heart attack during a stress test—he had collapsed during a game in December 2021—and earlier this year the Buffalo Bills’ Damar Hamlin collapsed from a cardiac arrest during an NFL game.

Why is this phenomenon occurring more often in recent years than it did before? And why are men more likely to be affected than women?

On VitalSigns, biochemical researcher Dayan Goodenowe joins host Brendon Fallon to pinpoint the factor protecting women’s hearts and those factors escalating heart-failure overall.

Why are heart failures occurring among professional athletes, when they are the ones intensively screened for heart problems?

If this is happening to the fittest and healthiest among us, it certainly signals danger to the wider population. Which ‘silver-bullet’ nutrient that shores up cell-membranes can curtail that danger?

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