Heart Attacks and Stress
Are you worried about your heart? Do you think you might be having a heart attack, or headed that direction? If you are fifty or older if is possible, but don’t be mislead, heart attacks can happen much younger!
Heart attacks are the leading cause of death in Americans. Are you stressed out at work? Worried about finances?
Family problems? Not sleeping good? All the stress adds up to trouble if not managed!
STRESS that is out of control and constant, can set you up for a fatal heart attack! This is not a rumor. This is factual.
Hundreds of websites are dedicated to helping you recognize signs that an attack is a probability, likely to happen sometime in your future. One sign might be heavy breathing. Often this symptom is NOT recognized as a pre-warning symptom; for many people there are no recognizable signs until the attack.
Simply put, you need to learn everything you can about what slows the progress of cardiovascular disease. And then do everything that’s known to modern medicine to reduce your heart attack risk factors.
Your heart health can’t wait – it depends on what you do today, and from this moment forward.
A simple prevention tip is to take a low-dose aspirin every day.
Remember aspirin can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, so take aspirin with caution. Though this is recommended for men, it can also prevent heart attacks in women – and possibly a stroke. It is a good idea to consult with a physician before starting aspirin therapy. (A single baby aspirin is often the aspirin of choice).
Another way to help prevent a heart attack is to keep your blood pressure under control. Unmanaged stress can elevate your blood pressure and accelerate your heart rate to unhealthy numbers.
When you feel flushed, excited, or recognize that stress level reaching unacceptable levels, take a breath. Slowly. When your blood pressure is rising, if you THINK and be mindful of your oxygen intake, you can slow your heart rate and keep your blood pressure from skyrocketing.
This technique is so easy many people don’t really the value of simply “controlling” your breathing.
YOU ARE AN OXYGEN MACHINE AND WITHOUT ENOUGH OXYGEN YOUR HEART WILL DIE!
Stress causes humans to only take in shallow breaths, which in turn, doesn’t allow the brain to get enough oxygen to think rationally instead of flying off the handle.
Lower your cholesterol. There are several ways to do this. Exercise (which will help you drop weight, and in turn drop pounds), improve your nutrition, and for your entire body and brain health and functioning – quit smoking.
If any of these things make you think, “I can’t do it” – and you begin to stress out – use your oxygen. When you are thinking optimally, decide what you want in this one life you have to live.
There are hundreds of websites to help you, programs like weight watchers, stress management classes (which will help you manage EVERYTHING), articles to read, yoga classes, adult community classes, even senior centers for those who qualify.
But nothing will be accomplished if you don’t make a decision and stick to it. If you think your family genes have doomed you to obesity, heart problems, cancer, diabetes, and so forth,
THINK AGAIN!
Genes account for one one-third of what happens to your body! The other two-thirds depends on the lifestyle you choose for yourself! HONESTLY….so take a breath and start this very moment to avert a heart attack and so many other illnesses’ that are self-induced.
YOU CAN DO IT!