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Episode #220: Answering the Internet (April 2023)

Barbell Medicine Podcast

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The Physiology of Syncope

The medical term being syncope relates to when there is, for whatever reason, a brief decrease in blood flow to the brain. That can happen either due to a decrease in how much blood your heart is able to pump out or a decrease in the vascular resistance. The vast majority of people who are experiencing this in our audience likely to include the person who's asking this question are not experiencing any serious medical kind of issues.

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