Thank you for your concern! I strongly believe that what we put into us influences the condition of our body and health. As a chemist trained in research, after first fibrillation episodes in 2012 i established the procedure of checking, one by one, all products that I used to consume. Of course I took out immediately all processed foods, all caffeine/theobromine containing products (except for yerba mate, which brings more benefits (like elemental iron, magnesium etc.) than disadvantages), high caloric products etc. I started taking magnesium bisglycinate+ potassium citrate on a daily basis (+ calcium citrate at other time of the day) and have been taking these ever since then. I also considered removing all products causing histamine response, but I still consume some of them (including yerba mate) because without them I would be left with almost nothing to put in me at all. As a result these are the things I consume (no normal humans would accept this I know, my sister thinks I am killing me this way, but it is a powerful tool to minimize not only heart problems but many others too): 1.) turkey meat (only fresh unprocessed), pork (having doubts, currently suspended), 2.) fresh greens (except for high oxalate products i.e. just exactly the same greens I buy for my pet rabbit), 3.) codfish (only fresh, non-processed, I just love it and I don’t like any other fish types), 4.) olive oil, pumpkin seed oil (helps me with my swallowing difficulties, i know i need to discuss it with neurologist), 5.) rice, 6.) buckwheat, 7.) sunflower seeds (but no other nuts or seeds), 8.) dried mango (because of its enzyme it helps reduce tachycardia, which often leads to arrhythmia) or dried pineapple when mango is unattainable, 9.) some other dry fruit very occasionally (because most of them contain sulfur-containing additives and often cause bad cough in me, but I love dry fruit and just sometimes can’t help), 10.) broccoli & cauliflower (occasionally, i often forget to buy them), 11.) beef protein from Bulk (UK based supplier, the product contains only protein and no additives whatsoever) an important component of my diet - i take it when I can’t sleep because of hunger, 12.) all types of shrooms, and that is basically it! Need to say, i love my diet because i know how to cook/prepare all of them in the most delicious way.
Earlier I used to have dairy products (only lactose-free fresh cottage cheese and few cheese types, which is a shame because Spain has an enormous range of excellent cheeses) but they generate mucus and I can’t have it in my system, because any cough fit causes fibrillation now. Also dairy products seem to cause urticarias, which I have been having lately – I attribute them to carvedilol – and they alleviated with gradual reduction and even more after final weaning off this drug.
Hope it was interesting to read:)