When my heart started to stumble for the first time 10 years ago, I went into a state of psychological shock. Due to an “unfortunate” statement from a doctor, my anxiety increased so much at the beginning that I hardly left my homes and practically stopped doing any sport. As a result, the heart palpitations occurred even more frequently (or at least I noticed them more often).  Today, 10 years later – and after reading many, many studies – I have a good idea of how extrasystoles can be reduced and what helps against anxiety, at least in my case. I hope this video helps some people who suffer as well. 🙂

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Studies (just a small selection):  Alijaniha, F., Naseri, M., Afsharypuor, S., Fallahi, F., Noorbala, A., Mosaddegh, M., … & Sadrai, S. (2015). Heart palpitation relief with Melissa officinalis leaf extract: double blind, randomized, placebo controlled trial of efficacy and safety. Journal of ethnopharmacology, 164, 378-384.

EDÉLL-GUSTAFSSON, U. M. (2002). Sleep quality and responses to insufficient sleep in women on different work shifts. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 11(2), 280-288.

Lown, BERNARD, TYKOCINSKI, M., GARFEIN, A., & BROOKS, P. (1973). Sleep and ventricular premature beats. Circulation, 48(4), 691-701.

Monahan, K., Storfer-Isser, A., Mehra, R., Shahar, E., Mittleman, M., Rottman, J., … & Redline, S. (2009). Triggering of nocturnal arrhythmias by sleep-disordered breathing events. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 54(19), 1797-1804.

Pickering, T. G., Johnston, J., & Honour, A. J. (1978). Comparison of the effects of sleep, exercise and autonomic drugs on ventricular extrasystoles, using ambulatory monitoring of electrocardiogram and electroencephalogram. The American journal of medicine,  65(4), 575-583.