QuestionDear Dr.Aukerman,
For the past 8 months I have been having missed beats that have a fluttery feeling ,I have been having them every 4th beat and although I have had an ecg that says everything is o.k. I am so scared by them. could you give me some idea of what causes these missed beats and are they harmful?
Sometimes I wake up with them and other times they dont come until I eat,they scare me as the ecg says everything is normal and o.k. What cause these things? Please help I would appreciate any information you can give me,
Thank you so much.
AnswerThey are usually from too much gluten, sugar, caffeine and omega 6 in your diet and too little omega 3 and magnesium oxide. My patients take 3000mg of omega 3 and 500mg of magnesium oxide twice a day and stop all the above permanently but you need to see if that is OK with your doctors.
See: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003081.htm