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There's a phenomenon in wildlife medicine called capture myopathy.
Wild animals can literally die from heart failure from stressors like fear. A direct mind-body connection,
This an excerpt about it from Capture Myopathy that discusses it and mentions susceptibility to the syndrome.
Susceptibility is key and is determined the physical and energetic individuality of the animal.
Susceptible wild animals can die just from being stared at!
This same dis-ease exists in people!
It's called takotsubo cardiomyopathy or "broken heart syndrome".
Emotional stressors like losing a loved one can trigger it.
Trigger, not cause. The cause is the damage to the myocytes (heart cells) resulting in dysfunction and cardiomyopathy.
Myopathy is a non-specific term and just refers to physiologic changes in a muscle.
In this case especially worrisome because the muscle is the heart muscle.
And some animals can be scared to death!
Cardiac abnormalities are reflected by biomarkers like enzymes which show problems with the muscle cells.
Sometimes these are measurable whenever the heart muscle isn't working correctly.
Such as in cardiomyopathy associated with taurine deficiency.
Which is partially a dis-ease of deficiency but mainly a susceptibility of the individual pet.
There's lots of other awe-some examples in the very readable book "Zoobiquity" co-written by an MD cardiologist.
Wild animals can literally die from heart failure from stressors like fear. A direct mind-body connection,
This an excerpt about it from Capture Myopathy that discusses it and mentions susceptibility to the syndrome.
Susceptibility is key and is determined the physical and energetic individuality of the animal.
Susceptible wild animals can die just from being stared at!
This same dis-ease exists in people!
It's called takotsubo cardiomyopathy or "broken heart syndrome".
Emotional stressors like losing a loved one can trigger it.
Trigger, not cause. The cause is the damage to the myocytes (heart cells) resulting in dysfunction and cardiomyopathy.
Myopathy is a non-specific term and just refers to physiologic changes in a muscle.
In this case especially worrisome because the muscle is the heart muscle.
And some animals can be scared to death!
Cardiac abnormalities are reflected by biomarkers like enzymes which show problems with the muscle cells.
Sometimes these are measurable whenever the heart muscle isn't working correctly.
Such as in cardiomyopathy associated with taurine deficiency.
Which is partially a dis-ease of deficiency but mainly a susceptibility of the individual pet.
There's lots of other awe-some examples in the very readable book "Zoobiquity" co-written by an MD cardiologist.
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