Reddit reviews The Doctor's Heart Cure: Beyond the Modern Myths of Diet and Exercise: The Clinically-Proven Plan of Breakthrough Health Secr
We found 1 Reddit comments about The Doctor's Heart Cure: Beyond the Modern Myths of Diet and Exercise: The Clinically-Proven Plan of Breakthrough Health Secr. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
Joking aside, long endurance exercises aren't that good for your circulatory system. HIIT (or Tabata cardio) is much more effective to strengthen your heart. I think Al Sears was the first guy to popularize this in his The Doctor's Heart Cure (or at least it was the first I heard of it), and if I'm not mistaken it's now the general consensus.
(And Mr. Fixx stopped smoking and lost weight 17 years before he died of a heart attack. Whether his heart was congenitally enlarged is open to question. His diet has been suggested as the big problem--he had the idea that since he exercised so much he could eat anything, and he was an inveterate carbohydrate hog--donuts, pies, cakes, etc.)