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How Bad Is Cocaine For The Heart?

Andrew Hall
5 min readDec 11, 2019

Dr. Sanjay Gupta (no relation to the neurologist who is a contributor for CNN) is a heart specialist who practices medicine in York, England. He runs the YouTube channel York Cardiology that has 128,000 subscribers and over 8 million views.

Here is how he describes his YouTube channel:

I am Dr. Sanjay Gupta. I am a Consultant heart specialist in York, UK, and I believe that high quality, reliable jargon-free information about health should be available at no cost to everyone in the world.

Through my Youtube channel, I want to engage, educate and empower patients to take control of their health by addressing their lifestyles and preventing disease from happening in the first instance.

Most of all, I want people to stop being fearful and anxious about their health by getting them to focus on improving their quality of life and living fearlessly.

Dr. Gupta has over 20 years of experience. He was a guest on the Naked Diner Podcast (epsiode #168). We covered many topics. Fans of the show wrote questions for him. One of them was “How bad is cocaine for the heart?”

Here is his response.

I think cocaine is really dangerous for the heart. There are many things with cocaine. Number one, it causes an intense increase in the heart rate. So, it…

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Andrew Hall
Andrew Hall

Written by Andrew Hall

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