How can I stop heart palpitations?

Palpitations 0:35 min watch Published 4 December 2024 Dr Ravi Assomull, Consultant Cardiologist

Palpitations often settle with simple lifestyle changes such as reducing caffeine, alcohol, and stress. In this video, Dr Ravi Assomull explains how identifying triggers can help symptoms resolve.

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Transcript

Often heart palpitations will respond to relatively simple lifestyle modifications. You may even be aware about things you've done differently that have been associated with the onset of palpitations. So things like perhaps drinking more coffee or alcohol than you usually do or being under more stress than you've been before.

Another possible factor with palpitations is lack of sleep. So addressing all of these lifestyle factors, you may actually find that your palpitations completely resolve.

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