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Podcast: Inside Exercise
Episode: Can extreme exercise damage the heart? With Dr Benjamin Levine
Description: Dr Glenn McConell chats with Professor Benjamin Levine who has the best global research track record in Sports cardiology/cardiovascular physiology and exercise. He is the founder and Director of the Institute for Exercise and Environmental Medicine at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology and Distinguished Professor of Exercise Sciences at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He has published over 400 journal articles with a very high H-index of 109.
We enjoyed a broad ranging discussion including:
- how the main determinant to be an endurance athlete/ to have a high VO2...