Zwibel Quoted in Well+Good

Insight from Hallie Zwibel, D.O., associate dean of clinical operations and director of the Center for Sports Medicine, is featured prominently in a Well+Good article about exercise intolerance. Zwibel explains that exercise intolerance is the inability to engage in physical activity that would be typical for an individual’s age and that many conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome and heart disease, as well as COPD, asthma, and other respiratory diseases, can cause exercise intolerance. “Oxygen-rich blood is needed throughout the body to maintain all bodily functions. Respiratory conditions can negatively impact the blood being oxygenated, ” says Zwibel.