More than two weeks ago, the animator Leo Caprile caused concern by revealing that had suffered a cerebral infarction.
As detailed by the renowned 64-year-old driver, after finishing an event, He lost strength in his arm and his mustache fell asleep.. Given this, he decided to go immediately to a healthcare center, where they confirmed that it was a Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA).
In a conversation with MONthe communicator revealed that “I don’t have any consequences, I did have to make some changes in my daily life. For example, quit smoking”.
Caprile said that before facing the complex situation, “He smoked a small pack a day, that is, 20 cigarettes.”. However, this changed after the emergency. “Fortunately I don’t even have a desire to smoke, it was a stupid idea to do so”he explained.
“I smell a cigarette and it doesn’t make me want to smoke. I think that smoking is within our manual habits. Before, I would have a coffee accompanied by a cigarette, I would get in the car and I would have to smoke,” the entertainer explained.
“It happened to me because of the pressure”
But that was not the only change that Leo Caprile made after suffering a stroke. The communicator made changes to his eating habits and also to physical activity.
“It’s not that they have told me to eat chia with papaya every day, but that I have to give up red meat a little and eat more lean or white meats and more vegetables.”he explained.
The entertainer assured that he was not a “big eater” nor a “big drinker,” but he explained that “All this is with the purpose of stopping our main enemy, which is cholesterol, triglycerides, and cigarettes. Once you lower those things, the risks go down”.
In turn, he said that he was taking medication for blood pressure and cholesterol, but confessed that before he was “very disordered.” “I thought nothing was happening, because I was fine,” he said.
Regarding the urgency he faced, the entertainer pointed out that “more than what he ate, you have to take care of it, basically it happened to me because of the pressure. It went up a lot and I am hypertensive. Many things came together, I also had my father living with me, a large dining room I built burned down, my sweet dog died.”
“I was gathering pressure, negative things. Another thing that also influences is sleep apnea, plus I put carbon dioxide into it with the cigarette,” he added.
Finally, Leo Caprile revealed that “What I would like is to have a powerful campaign because, with all due respect, there are other diseases that give you time, but not a stroke, it just comes. The symptoms are out of the ordinary and it is a matter of time for it to take effect,” he stated.
