Digoxin and Exercise: It Slows the Heart at Rest, Not on the Move - and the Blood Level Is Everything

Digoxin is one of medicine's oldest drugs, extracted from foxglove and still prescribed for heart failure and atrial fibrillation. For someone who exercises, it has a peculiar property: it does its rate-controlling work through the same nervous pathway that exercise switches off. Understanding that - together with its narrow safe blood level and a decade-long argument about whether it shortens life - is what an active patient on digoxin needs.

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