Welcome to the Give Fit Guys quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up. My name is Ben

Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy and in today's episode, you're going to learn everything you need to know

about how to stay fit while partying. So in last week's episode, I told you how to stay fit and healthy while

parenting. But let's face it, you might not be interested in being a parent, or perhaps you're

actually more interested in partying. Or perhaps you occasionally need a break from being a parent or a student

or a CEO or an athlete to throw down the occasional bout of hedonism. Work hard, play hard, right? Well, the problem is that

partying, especially when alcohol is involved, is pretty hard on their body. For example,

alcohol can cause a variety of different effects on your heart, including creating abnormalities

and heart rates called arrhythmias, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism,

and I'll link to that and everything else I talk about in today's show,

just go to Quick and Dirty Tips.com and look for this episode, episode number 326.

Anyways, they explain there's two different types of alcohol-induced arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation and ventricular tachycardia.

Atrial fibrillation happens when the upper chambers of your heart shudder but they're unable to fully contract and that can cause blood to build up and clot in your upper chambers and if those clots travel from the heart to the brain you can have a stroke if the clots travel to other organs an embolism or blood vessel blockage can occur. In the meantime, ventricular tachycardia affects the lower chambers of your heart.

The electrical impulses that keep blood pumping through your heart get altered

so that they circle through the heart's ventricles too many times.

And that causes the ventricles to contract excessively, the heart to beat too quickly,

and not enough blood to fill up in the heart to beat too quickly, and not enough

blood to fill up in the heart.

Because of this, the rest of the body doesn't get supplied with enough blood, and that

causes things like dizziness, lightheadedness, unconsciousness, cardiac arrest, and sometimes

sudden death.

And then there's your immune system.

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