
The Sporting Heart
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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What's the Smart in Syndrome?
Morphine syndrome is a connective tissue disorder usually in very tall sort of linky looking individuals with wide arms bands. The most high profile son and death in an athlete related to morphine syndrome, you know, decades ago. But even though basketball players are tall, they're not necessarily the ones that are having more fans than the cause of sudden death. That's a good example of like a red herring because yeah, I'd literally seen it written in studies,. You know, attributing the prevalence to that.
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